Chapter 90: Gone Too Far
After Qin Muxuan had finished telling the story, she looked at Gu Zijin subconsciously. The latter nodded with a sullen look in his eyes and stood up without saying anything.
Qin Muxuan pulled Gu Zijin’s hand and said in a low voice,
“You don’t believe that Elderly Lady Gu has sent me to the hospital, right? She is your grandmother after all.”
“Qin Muxuan, I never said I don’t trust you.”
Hearing that, Qin Muxuan gave a wry smile and let go of his hand. Gu Zijin compressed his thin lips and said,
“When I figure out the truth, I’ll give you an explanation to your satisfaction. Qin Muxuan, don’t overthink.”This is property © of NôvelDrama.Org.
Qin Muxuan didn’t say anything and walked upstairs with a stack of books in her arms. Meanwhile, Gu Zijin raised his head to look at her slim figure.
Five years ago, Qin Muxuan had sex with him, but the Qin family still didn’t receive the financial aid from the Gu family and went bankrupt at that time. After that, Qin Muxuan wandered outside for five years with a child.
Therefore, Qin Muxuan should be hostile to the Gu family and had a motive for harming Gu Heng in the hospital. That was a reasonable guess.
Gu Zijin frowned. Sometimes, the truth might seem clear, but the deeper truth might be another thing.
If the one who had done that wasn’t Qin Muxuan, then someone must have targeted the Gu’s family secretly. What was more, that person also wanted Qin Muxuan to take the blame and plotted something.
“Daddy, where’s Dabai?”
A tender voice came from behind him. It was from Qin Xiaobai who was blinking his eyes and looking at Gu Zijin right now. Then, Gu Zijin held the little chubby boy up right away, saying,
“Dabai is reading upstairs right now. Don’t disturb her.”
“Oh, that’s fine. I want to show Dabai the gifts my fans gave to me.”
“What gifts?”
Qin Xiaobai grabbed his backpack at once. As he unzipped the backpack, there appeared a few delicate gift boxes. In the meantime, Qin Xiaobai beamed,
“My assistant has sorted those things out and gave them to me today.”
Gu Zijin watched the joyful boy opening the boxes. At first, he didn’t feel anything strange. However, he suddenly noticed one special gift.
It was a crystal ball. Although it was just a little object inside which were a man and a woman model in bridal wear and seemed nothing special, it was labeled with three words ‘The Yin Group.’
If Gu Zijin didn’t guess it wrong, this crystal ball had been made specially for the children by the Yin Group on Children’s Day. However, the Children’s Day passed long ago. Who would send that gift to Xiaobai purposely?
Would that be Yin Youting?
Thinking of that name, Gu Zijin showed a sullen look immediately. That man was like a hangnail to Gu Zijin. No matter how hard Gu Zijin tried, he couldn’t ignore the truth that Yin Youting and Qin Muxuan were childhood sweethearts.
Even thinking of how intimate Qin Muxuan and Yin Youting had been in the past would drive Gu Zijin crazy out of jealousy.
At seven o’clock in the evening.
The weather was so changeable now. In no time, the cold wind blew and the cold rain fell. The autumn had come. Gu Zijin waited in the bedroom for a long time and Qin Muxuan still hadn’t shown up. Then he walked downstairs to pour a glass of water.
Meanwhile, he glimpsed at Qin Muxuan out of the corner of his eye, finding the latter reading books attentively and not noticing his presence.
Her fair and tender face looked very charming in the light, which made Gu Zijin walk over to her subconsciously. Then, Qin Muxuan, having seen the shadow cast on her book, frowned and said,
“Gu Zijin, you hindered my reading.”
“Is your book more attractive than me?”
What a strange question!
Qin Muxuan glared at Gu Zijin. However, the latter bent over and held her up straightly. Then Qin Muxuan grumbled,
“Gu Zijin, put me down!”
“Staying up late is bad for your skin. You have to go upstairs to sleep now, in order to please the eye.”
“Gu Zijin, you…”
Qin Muxuan got a bit annoyed, but couldn’t utter a word since it was useless reasoning things out with Gu Zijin. After they had entered the bedroom, Qin Muxuan bit her lips gently and said,
“You have always stayed up late for work. You skin has also got worse and can’t please the eye!”
Gu Zijin, with a meaningful look in his eyes, pondered for a while and put Qin Muxuan’s hand on his face. The moment Qin Muxuan touched his face, her ears were as red as roast shrimp. Seeing that, Gu Zijin gave a smile,
“Does my skin get worse?”
Qin Muxuan only felt her brain buzzing, thinking, ‘How can I resist such an enchanting man! When he’s with others, he’s that distant and indifferent president. Why is he like a proud wolf when he’s with me?!’
Having seen Qin Muxuan’s bashful look, Gu Zijin stopped teasing her and held her in his arms,
“You don’t need to think about what has happened to my father anymore. I know you have nothing to do with that. Don’t get suspicious or oversensitive. Don’t worry, I’ll find out the truth very soon.”
Qin Muxuan, eyelashes fluttering, hesitated for a while and still mentioned,
“I don’t know how much Elderly Lady Gu is involved in this, but she is certainly related. Otherwise she wouldn’t have told me to go to the hospital that night. Also, she also told me the room number of your father’s ward.”
Gu Zijin nodded gently with a meaningful look and his eyes darkened.
Qin Xiaobai suddenly knocked on the door while saying in an innocent voice,
“Dabai, I cut the fruit for you, do you want to have some?”
Qin Muxuan was still in Gu Zijin’s arms. When she heard Qin Xiaobai’s voice, she pushed Gu Zijin away in a hurry to open the door. As Qin Xiaobai saw her face, he hugged her right away,
“Dabai, can you sleep with me tonight? Daddy has to deal with his business affairs every day, you don’t have to keep him company.”
Qin Muxuan took Xiaobai up and coaxed him in a soft voice,
“Fine, I’ll read stories to you, OK?”
“Perfect!”
The mother and son walked out of the room. Suddenly, Gu Zijin heard a buzzing sound coming from the bedside table. As he turned around, he found the sound was from Qin Muxuan’s phone which she had left in the room. He took the phone with a frown. After he had seen the name on the screen, he showed a cold look at once and answered the call,
“Xuan, can we meet each other this weekend? I need to tell you something. If you are not available… maybe we can make it next time.”
Gu Zijin gave a sarcastic smile,
“Mr. Yin, Qin Muxuan has a husband. Isn’t it appropriate for you to ask her out from time to time?”
After Yin Youting had heard Gu Zijin’s voice, the look on his face went stiff instantly. After a long while, he came back to his sense,
“Why do you answer the call? Where’s Xuan?”
“Huh, since when did you have the right to ask about my woman? Mr. Yin, you have gone too far. This is the final warning. If you do this again, don’t blame me for showing no mercy to you. I heard that you have made a pledge in front of the directors of your company that you would hand over your family business to others if you couldn’t make any achievement in three months.”
After saying that, Gu Zijin hung up the phone straightly.