Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 230 The Appearance of Her Birth Father

Based on her knowledge of Xie Xiu, he was not someone to sit around waiting for opportunities to come.

Xie Xiu did not seem nervous at all. He was insouciantly touching up his ink painting while saying to Secretary Rao, “Did you know? I love how you used to handle everything for me with poise. Unlike now, where you seem to be constantly overstepping your boundary.”

Upon hearing what Xie Xiu had to say, Secretary Rao immediately hung her head.

However, she tried to defend herself, seemingly upset with his remark.

After suppressing her emotions for a couple of seconds, she blurted out disgruntledly, “Mr. Xie, you act differently from before this time. You’ve never treated women like this in the past.”

Xie Xiu held the brush in the air. Without completing the elegant phoenix drawing, he raised his eyes to look at Secretary Rao, “Are you saying that I’ve lost myself in front of a woman?”

“Not really.”

Secretary Rao immediately kept mum.

“Enough, I’m tired, prepare the bath.”

Xie Xiu made it clear that he didn’t want to speak of it any longer.

Secretary Rao seemed to have more to say, but the words did not ultimately leave her tongue.

After getting his bath prepared, Xie Xiu suddenly ordered her to search for a man who had the slightest resemblance to Mu Zhi’s facial features and bring him to Xiao Qingqing.

Secretary Rao complied, not knowing what Xie Xiu’s intentions were. However, when Xiao Qingqing received the man who had a dash of Mu Zhi’s resemblance, she seemed over the moon and expressed her gratitude to Mr. Xie.

On the way back to Xie Xiu’s place, Secretary Rao suddenly remembered something that made everything fall in place for her.

Mr. Xie Xiu was not passive. He was a master at utilizing his pieces on the chessboard.

He knew from the beginning that Mu Zhi and Lu Jinye were not going to get married.

…

The photo from Mu Xiaomu’s embroidered bag

wondered whether her mother’s death was man-made or it was purely a medical accident, which was common in the medical world. She

an hour since she slept before the morning sunlight pierced through the window. The car engine’s vrooming sound made the day’s first noise, followed

the bed, put on a jacket, and headed downstairs only to see a maid from

explained, “Master wishes to see Xiaomu, so he hopes to bring Xiaomu to

was distracted by Lu

matter,

looked at the woman and

Jinye thought for a few minutes before saying, “Why don’t we ask

Lu Jinye grabbed a jacket and hastily set off for the

waited until Mu Xiaomu was awake in the bedroom and asked if she wanted to

to her room and grabbed the bag full of snacks, then skipped towards Mu Zhi and said,

could not

Zhi was

option, she

perfect opportunity to spend some quality time with

Mu Xiaomu had left with Madam Liu, Mu Zhi headed

arrived at the fashion designer’s doorstep, a Mercedes-Benz MPV

did not catch Mu Zhi’s attention. She was about to reach out for the doorknob when a man with a tuft of grey hair left the MPV. The

photo next to her as a comparison, as though trying to confirm his

should be young

a glimpse of the chauffeur’s

his words were

strode towards Mu Zhi

was shuddering, and he could barely

Zhi was flummoxed. She stared at the

photo from his pocket. It was Mu Zhi when she was