His Beloved Treasure

”Never expected it?”

At seventeen, a girl pursued him, but she told others he was gay, and claimed herself to be the same, scaring that foreign girl away, never again daring to approach them.

That year, he was rumored to be gay, so he was viewed with strange looks all year long.

But she was happier than before.

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As a child, Qin Mu seemed autistic, yet everything he did was eye-opening.

What could he not expect?

She dared to take a golf club and smash Zhuo Wen’s face, why wouldn’t she dare to scare Zhuo Wen into wetting the bed?

Although, it wasn’t actually urine.

She still had the ability, as long as she wanted to do it, a whisper would be enough to make that person tremble and wet themselves with fear.

”Xiaomu’s capabilities, you’ll get to experience them slowly in the future.”

Mu Yichen placed his hands behind his head and gave Jiang Zhiyuan a heads up.

”What? Me, I don’t want to experience that, she’s not my woman, why should I be scared half to death by her?”

Jiang Zhiyuan spoke nervously, his words a bit scrambled.

Yet Mu Yichen just chuckled softly.

”But aren’t you afraid the Zhuo Family will come after you? Even if you don’t let Zhuo Wen call Australia, her absence over the New Year will surely raise suspicions, right?”

”Someone from the Zhuo Family should already be on their way here.”

Mu Yichen responded to him, but he didn’t feel burdened.

Now, he felt quite relieved.

If Qin Mu went to settle the score with Zhuo Wen, it meant Qin Mu still wanted to continue with him.

Even though she said he disgusted her.

”What about your grandfather?”

Jiang Zhiyuan nodded at Mu Yichen’s words, then curiously asked.

”The old man knows everything already, he feels very guilty, and because he doesn’t want to make things difficult for us, he’s staying in the countryside until we have dealt with Zhuo Wen’s matter; then he’ll come back.”

Mu Yichen continued, recalling the conversation he had with the old man that night; he also felt very sorry.

How could he blame the elderly?

It was clearly his own lack of attentiveness.

Just as Qin Mu said, it was all his fault.

If he had cared about Qin Mu more, he should’ve made that woman leave their house in the beginning, or they as a couple should’ve moved back into the apartment.

Now—

He knew he was reaping what he sowed.

But lying there in the apartment today, he felt comfortable.

He was atoning for his sins.

Jiang Zhiyuan grew serious and after a sigh asked him, ”What’s the plan now?”

”Just wait and see!”

Mu Yichen raised his eyebrows slightly, his voice light.

Jiang Zhiyuan...

He didn’t want to wait and see, he wanted to know the answer immediately.

But it seemed that Mu Yichen had no intention of disclosing it, and he was helpless.

Having seen Jing Qing’s example in the past, and now Zhuo Wen, he thought Mu Yichen must have already thought of a strategy.

”However, the people of the Zhuo Family all hold positions overseas, you still need to be careful.”

Jiang Zhiyuan reminded him.

”Hmm! Since when are you so thoughtful?”

Mu Yichen agreed, looking up at Jiang Zhiyuan.

Jiang Zhiyuan felt a sudden shiver at that gaze, and then hugged himself, ”Don’t look at me with those eyes.”

”Qin Mu said she hates me the most right now; she thinks I’m disgusting.”

Mu Yichen looked up at the ceiling, reminded by Jiang Zhiyuan’s words of what Qin Mu had said to him in the study.

Jiang Zhiyuan...

”She’s right, it was my negligence, my arrogance, Zhiyuan, I only realized recently that I’m truly an idiot.”

Mu Yi calling himself an idiot?

Jiang Zhiyuan thought he must have misheard.

”Are you okay? It’s one thing for Xiaomu to be shaken up, but why are you like this?”

Jiang Zhiyuan asked him, concerned.

”I’ve been shaken too!”

As he uttered those words, Mu Yichen indeed felt aggrieved, but he just smiled lightly.

”Are you really okay? I can’t leave tonight if you’re like this.”

Jiang Zhiyuan placed his hands in his pockets, leaning forward, looking at Mu Yichen.

”Then don’t go. Otherwise, I’d be here by myself.”

Jiang Zhiyuan...

When he’s settled all matters and if she is satisfied, would she forgive him?

”This way, could you forgive me?” Mu Yichen fantasized about that moment, he didn’t know how Qin Mu would respond to him.

”By then I’ll be in jail, and you can find another man who will cherish you, not someone selfish and authoritarian like me.” Or maybe directly tell that woman to drop dead, and before being caught, return to ask Qin Mu if that would move her?