Chapter 133 She Seemed… Even More Adorable
The reporter asked, “Miss Gu, what are your thoughts about the person-in-charge, Miss Su?” Gu Hanyan ruminated on this for a bit before saying, “She’s a pretty woman, and she’s careful in her work.”
Her tone was serious, and she even laughed once she was done speaking, looking very gentle and warm. The reporter asked her again. “Judging from your words, it’s clear that you don’t know about Miss Su’s past. Do you know that she…”
The rest of the reporter’s spiel was about Su Ziyue’s father’s imprisonment, her bad grades, her abortion, her home-wrecking and the like.
A look of surprise flashed across Gu Hanyan’s face, followed quickly by a look of understanding with some disappointment mixed in. She looked reluctant to continue speaking. “I’m sorry, but can we leave this interview here today? I’m a little tired…”
She looked at the reporter as she spoke in an apologetic tone, looking weary as though she never thought that Su Ziyue would be that kind of person. She looked somewhat helpless.
While she never said anything bad about Su Ziyue or agreed with the reporter’s words, her response was enough to answer several questions.
This interview was from the previous day, and the reporter must have had an ulterior motive if he decided to release this video on this morning before reporting about that incident from years ago and disrupting the whole press conference.
Gu Hanyan was an easy person to figure out. She definitely didn’t want Su Ziyue to get her own way. That was undeniable.
However, Su Ziyue didn’t know whether it was a coincidence that Gu Hanyan accepted the interview earlier and Su Yuanming got someone to report those incidents, or whether it was…
The sound of knocking suddenly rang out. Su Ziyue whipped her head up to see Qin Muchen opening the door and stepping in.
“You can eat now.” Qin Muchen’s tone was even. His sleeves were rolled up, and despite the fact that it was the middle of autumn, there was a fine sheen of sweat on his forehead. Su Ziyue hastily switched the computer off and approached him.
Upon seeing the fine beads of sweat lining his forehead, Su Ziyue reached out to wipe them for him. “Is it that hot?”
Qin Muchen didn’t speak. He caught her hand, his gaze landing on her face, as though he was ascertaining whether she had been affected by the day’s events. After observing her for a few seconds, he pulled her outside while saying nonchalantly, “Jingshu and the others have come.”
The others?
Su Ziyue pressed her lips together into a smile. Gu Hanyan must have come as well.
She followed Qin Muchen down to the dining hall. As expected. she saw Gu Hanyan and Bai Jingshu sitting by the dining table.
On this day, Gu Hanyan wore a white one-piece dress. Her head was still wrapped in bandages, and her complexion was ghastly pale. She looked unusually weak.
Upon seeing Su Ziyue descend from the stairs, she immediately got up and called, “Ziyue.”
“Miss Gu, are you alright? Why are you out of hospital? Didn’t the doctors say that you have to stay there one more week for observation?” Su Ziyue looked up to stare at Gu Hanyan, condescension flashing across her crystalline eyes.
Gu Hanyan was the kind of person who could behave as though things had nothing to do with her even after she clearly misled the reporters.
Indeed, she hadn’t said anything. All those slanderous words and guesses came from the mouths of others. It was all reported by the media.
“Ziyue, you don’t have to have to worry about me. I’m alright, but you on the other hand…” She trailed off there, her expression shifting to something secretive, as though she was holding her tongue on something that she couldn’t speak about.
Su Ziyue laughed coldly on the inside, but she didn’t show it externally. Qin Muchen pulled out a chair for her, and she slid onto the seat naturally, her movements graceful. “What about me?” she asked back, her expression natural, making Gu Hanyan’s actions look a little more obvious as posturing.
Gu Hanyan pulled the corners of her lips up into a forced smile. Bai Jingshu immediately cut in to diffuse the tension, “Come, come, let’s all eat up first. Muchen made quite a spread today.”
Su Ziyue turned to glance at Bai Jingshu before averting her gaze and beginning to dig in. Throughout the whole meal, Qin Muchen never spared Gu Hanyan an extra glance, his attention fixed on the meal itself. From time to time, he would pass some food to Su Ziyue. This cheered Su Ziyue up a lot.
What kind of woman wouldn’t be secretly delighted when she saw her husband ignore other women, especially when the other woman in question was a stunning one?
While Su Ziyue was focused on her meal, she kept an eye on Gu Hanyan’s actions.
Once she finished, she noticed that Gu Hanyan was about to stand up. Before Gu Hanyan could actually get up, Su Ziyue stood up with a ‘whoosh’ before slowly beginning to gather up the dishes. As she did so, she said, “You all can chat first. I’ll be back with some fruits.”
With that, she pressed her lips into a smile and brought the dishes back to the kitchen. She looked so gentle and virtuous doing that.
Qin Muchen looked back to glance at her. He balled his fists discreetly, a smile fighting for a place on his lips as he held back the joy coming from his heart. He had never seen his wife acting so responsibly before.
Yes, my wife seemed… even more adorable when she’s jealous.
Gu Hanyan accurately picked up on Qin Muchen’s feelings. Her hands under the table were now clenched tightly together, her long, pretty manicured nails digging into the soft flesh of her palm until the skin broke. However, it was like she didn’t feel any of the pain at all, her face maintaining a look of indifference all this while.
Su Ziyue brought the dishes into the kitchen and placed them into the dishwasher. As she set the dishwasher, she kept an ear out for the dining room, but she didn’t hear anything at all. All Su Ziyue could do was hurriedly do the dishes and then bring out a plate of cut fruits while putting on an act. When she exited the kitchen, the dining room was already empty. She walked further, but all she could see was Beef chasing its own tail in the living room.
When she got to the door, she finally heard the sound of talking.
She knowingly made her footsteps lighter as she approached them.
“Muchen, can you please wake up a little? No family with any dignity will accept a woman such as her!” Gu Hanyan’s tone was pitiful and pained.
“You do not have to worry about this. Please go. Don’t let Jingshu wait for too long.” Qin Muchen’s voice was as clear and pleasing as ever, but Su Ziyue could still pick up on the irritation in his tone.
Gu Hanyan’s voice was reluctant. “Muchen!”
Qin Muchen’s tone chilled a few notches. “This is my own business. And, if you wish to carve a path for yourself in this country, you best behave yourself.”
While the first half of his reply was said emotionlessly, the threat in the second half was clear.
Su Ziyue could practically imagine Gu Hanyan’s expression right now, but her emotions were still somber.
No family with dignity will accept her!
Su Ziyue was certain that the ‘her’ that Gu Hanyan was referring to was Su Ziyue herself. Su Ziyue was very self-aware about this.
A family with dignity… Could that be referring to Qin Muchen’s family?
Gu Hanyan continued to blather on a bit, flustered, but Su Ziyue couldn’t be bothered to continue listening, so she carefully retreated to the dining room. She sat by the dining table, toying with a piece of fruit on the platter. Her mind kept replaying Gu Hanyan’s words while she wondered just how much Qin Muchen’s family focused on dignity.
