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.

…

when Mu Zhi reached home. The photo from Mu Xiaomu’s embroidered bag was trapped in

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

hour since she slept before the morning sunlight pierced through the window. The car engine’s vrooming

Zhi got off the bed, put on a jacket, and headed downstairs

Xiaomu, so he hopes to bring Xiaomu to stay over at the manor for a few days.

lady with a frown, and she was distracted by

the matter, Madam

at the woman

reiterated what Madam Liu just said to her. Lu Jinye thought for a few minutes before saying, “Why don’t we ask Xiaomu? We’ll let her go if she feels like it. I grew up under

he had to say, Lu Jinye grabbed a jacket and hastily set off

in the bedroom and asked if

hear the news. She scurried back to her room and grabbed the bag full of snacks, then skipped towards Mu Zhi and said, “Bye

not be

Mu Zhi

any other option, she could

perfect opportunity to spend some

had left with Madam Liu, Mu Zhi headed out to shop for the wedding gown,

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

for the doorknob when a man with a tuft of grey hair left the MPV. The man looked to be in his fifties, but his temperament

as though trying to confirm

this should be young

Zhi caught a glimpse of the

were

that, the man strode towards Mu Zhi and

and he could barely

flummoxed. She

pocket. It was Mu Zhi when she