His Beloved Treasure

Chapter 1681: Chapter 469: The Beginning and the End (15)

”Don’t move!”

Qin Mu had just glanced up at him when he gave a curt order, then he dipped a cotton swab into antiseptic, looking at her wound, and gently applied it to disinfect her injury.

”Don’t move!”

Qin Mu raised her hand in pain, but before she could touch the wound, Mu Yichen barked again, this time his tone was evidently much harsher.

”Can’t you be a little more gentle?”

Qin Mu, irritated by the pain, asked him.

”I’m not gentle? If you disobey, I’ll have to beat you until you comply, that’s what’s not gentle, but I still have to explain the situation with Jing Qing, it wasn’t intentional that I ran into her!”

Mu Yichen helped her apply a band-aid, his voice cold, but it was indeed an explanation.

”Why are you telling me this? I didn’t even ask you!”

Qin Mu shot him a glance.

Later, Mu Yichen lay down, just within her sight when she turned, but Qin Mu pretended to be asleep with her eyes closed, even though she could feel him beside her, she remained unmoved.

Mu Yichen did look at her for a moment, unwilling to see her hurt. Despite it being the New Year, he still wished for her to stay safe and healthy.

His hand lightly touched the area next to her forehead injury.

”No wonder so many directors want you for movies, your acting skills are indeed something else!”

”All our friends are condemning me, don’t you want to offer a few words of comfort?”

”Why should I comfort you? I also want to condemn you!”

”You want to condemn me too? Aren’t you condemning me all the time? From your expression to your breathing, from your actions to every single detail.”

But she was never the kind of woman who could adapt easily.

Maybe her inflexibility could be traced back many years to when she first arrived in Paris; her personality grew more aloof, like a glacier, impossible for anyone to warm.

He thought, perhaps many of her classmates back then tried to change her, but they hardly succeeded.

Since Qin Haiming sent her to Paris, she changed into a completely different person, no longer the bright and warm girl she was in Rongcheng as a child.

Fortunately, their daughter didn’t turn out like her childhood self, Huanhuan’s laughter was like the energy that lights up the world.

Mu Yichen habitually placed his hand on her head, and after finishing his cigarette, he embraced her and fell asleep.

This glacier, he vowed to warm her up.

She dreamed of standing at the door of her childhood home, a place not yet sold, where the little her and little him spent nights in that house, under the dim light, with him patiently explaining things she didn’t understand, so focused, so earnest.

In a shift of the dream, it was after she turned twenty, shortly after she discovered she was pregnant.

Just when she found out, he appeared near her small apartment, and on her way back from a hospital check-up, there he was, smoking, leaning against a tree, so wild, so indifferent, keeping everyone at arm’s length, until their eyes met.

He seemed to flinch, as if wanting to stand straight, yet in the end, he only leaned against the tree, watching her slowly, step by step, approach.

”Where have you been?”

It was a weekend, after the New Year, and the weather wasn’t good.

”Just wandering around!”

She responded indifferently, then continued walking toward her apartment.

Mu Yichen turned and followed, smoking, his steps slightly larger than hers until he caught up, maintaining a half-step distance.

”Why do you look unwell?”

As Qin Mu opened the door, he stood by, deep eyes staring at her as he asked.

But Qin Mu kept her eyes on the keyhole, not daring to utter a word.

At that time, she found herself powerless to tell him she was pregnant.

She opened the door and as soon as she stepped in, Mu Yichen followed.

”Why did you come?”

Just before entering, she glanced back at him, with all the courage she could muster back then, at a time when rumors of him and Jing Qing were swirling around the world.

”On a business trip!”

Mu Yichen replied coldly, yet his dark eyes never left her for a moment.

Qin Mu didn’t ask further, after all, he was on a business trip and just happened to pass by, to see her?

Qin Mu doubted whether she should thank him, for here, no one else would come visit her.

”What do you want to do after graduation? I’m working on a project here, you might be interested in trying it out?”

Mu Yichen asked her, following slowly behind her, even deliberately slowing his voice.

”Forget it, I just want to focus on my own things!”