Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 182 Sleeping in Lu Jinye’s Embrace

Lu Jinye’s raised his wide, captivating eyes, observing Mu Zhi’s facial expression.

Meanwhile, Mu Zhi could not help but frown. She returned the file to Lu Jinye and pouted her lips, “He isn’t my partner.”

Lu Jinye then replied with a smirk, “If he isn’t your partner, why would you refuse my invitation for dinner and end up having the time to get lunch with him?”

With his domineering temperament, the sound of Lu Jinye’s words felt suffocating to Mu Zhi.

She glared at Lu Jinye right away, “Because I don’t feel like having dinner with you.”

“Mr. Lu, I suppose you’re after the custody of Mu Xiaomu and I don’t believe that’s good news to me. So, I don’t want to see you. I just want to escape from you. Mr. Lu, can you empathize with me?”

Lu Jinye said nothing in response.

In silence, he stared at her with his deep-set and enigmatic gaze, which made her… Terrified.

Mu Zhi turned her back towards him and ignored Lu Jinye while leaning against the back of the couch.

A long moment later, Lu Jinye clenched his fists and said, “Stay away from Xie Xiu.”

His tone was rather gentle.

And comparatively much more tender than seconds ago.

While Mu Zhi was giving him the cold shoulders, Lu Jinye managed to instantly melt her heart with his warmth. She was dumbfounded by the sudden gush of affection.

She bit her lower lip and nodded at him, “Fine, got it.”

“Thank you.”

her gratitude

glared

her ‘thank

out of time to carry on with their conversation. Linda had reluctantly knocked

Jinye glanced at Mu Zhi, “Wait here, I have more to discuss with you after the

expect me to sit around and

words were at the tip of Mu Zhi’s tongue, but Lu Jinye had burst out of the

she could

held tended to be short and succinct. Understanding that, Mu Zhi was prepared to make

boredom came over her, Mu Zhi got up to browse

asleep. The slightest sound in the middle of the night would startle her awake, and she would wake

She would pretend to be an ordinary

Xiaoning for looking after Mu Xiaomu all

Xiaoning would not hesitate to make time for Mu Xiaomu if Mu Zhi had run into personal

Mu Zhi insisted to bring Mu Xiaomu to school every day

to be as productive as she could during her

the positive energy would ultimately disperse every night. The darkness of the night would tell her that sleep

of the day, she had lost

Jinye’s office, Mu Zhi was focused on the book to pass her time. But for reasons unknown to her, she had hardly read a

a whole hour, concluding the meeting in an hour and

how Lu

team welcomed

Lu Jinye headed straight towards his office while Linda was following closely behind. In the half-an-hour break, she needed to bring these documents to his office for him to go

door open, he was greeted by a curled-up Mu Zhi soundly sleeping on the couch. She had a book on her

his footsteps. He pointed at this desk, beckoning

obliged and sidled out of Lu

facial complexion was paler than usual. She looked even more unwell than his staff who were

at the question of what the woman had been