Chapter 370: Chapter 370: A Shotgun Wedding Tomorrow
Xiao Si saw that Wan Muqi mercilessly hung up the phone and clicked his tongue, saying, “Huh, I thought you would never get anxious in your life.”
It wasn’t even five minutes before he saw someone rushing out of the elevator in a panic.
He glanced over and then turned to leave.
He had wanted to stay and watch the drama, but considering his own safety, he decided against it.
This fellow is not an easy one to provoke either!
After running out, Wan Muqi looked around in some disarray.
Then, he saw a small figure squatting on the edge of the path.
She hugged her thighs with both hands, burying her head into her legs, and her thin as cicadas’ wing back shivering.
Wan Muqi walked over and stood in front of her.
An Mi, hearing footsteps, hurriedly lifted her head.
Those crystal-clear, tearful eyes instantly collided with the man’s gaze.
Wan Muqi felt a jolt in his heart.
Followed by a surge of heartache.
At this moment, her eyes were a bit red, like an abandoned kitten, pitifully endearing.
The innocence and grievance in her expression elicited sympathy in others.
Even for a moment, Wan Muqi felt guilt as if he owed the entire world.
An Mi, upon seeing him, was stunned as well.
She hadn’t expected him to suddenly show up here.
“You… why did you come?” An Mi asked somewhat frantically.
Following that, a tear spilled from the corner of her eye, and she then realized she had just been crying.
She did not want him to see her in such a disheveled state.
So, she quickly lowered her head and wiped away the tears with the back of her hand.
Her frantic actions pricked Wan Muqi’s heart like a needle.
The next second, An Mi was pulled forcefully and immediately stood up.
Then, she found herself in the warm, broad, and familiar embrace of a chest.
“Since you’re here, why didn’t you come up?”
An Mi laid on his chest and mumbled in reply, “You said you weren’t at home.”
Wan Muqi wrapped one hand around her slender waist and laid the other hand on the back of her head, gently rubbing it.
“I’m sorry, it’s my fault that I made you cry.”
The man’s low voice carried a tinge of heartache and self-reproach.
He hadn’t known that she would come directly here.
Upon hearing these words, An Mi’s nose felt sour, and the tears in her eyes surged even more.
She tried hard not to let the tears fall, but she couldn’t control it.
Wan Muqi, hearing the girl’s sobbing in his arms, felt as if his heart would break.
He embraced her tightly and kissed her hair, repeatedly saying “I’m sorry.”
Then, An Mi’s voice with a sobbing tone rang out: “Do you want to break up with me?”
At these words, Wan Muqi’s heart tightened, “No.”
He had never thought of giving her up.
An Mi lifted her head from his embrace.
She pursed her lips, her watery big eyes looking at him, her eyelids slightly red, her delicate and pale face full of grievance and a sense of breakage, eliciting immense pity.
“Then why have you been avoiding me for three days?”
“I have been convincing myself that you were really busy, not that you were truly ignoring me. But when I called you, knowing you were at home, you lied to me saying you were working at the law firm, it hurt me. I wanted to go straight up to see you, but I was afraid, afraid that you really didn’t want me anymore.”
The man covered her small face with his palm, gently wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes with his fingertips.
“Be good, don’t cry anymore, it’s my fault, and I was wrong in how I handled it. I can give up the whole world, but I can never give up on you.”
An Mi sniffled and said, “If you really don’t want to be with me one day, you can tell me directly, but please don’t ignore me.”
Wan Muqi patted her head, letting her rest on his chest, and said, “That day will never come.”
An Mi’s emotions gradually soothed as well.
She said, “I know, it was my dad who looked for you; my sister told me already.”
Wan Muqi spoke softly, “Uncle An didn’t say anything excessive to me; his worry for you is normal, after all, you’re his daughter. Any father would be angry to learn that their daughter ran off with someone, and I’d be mad too in his shoes.”
Wan Muqi had no intention to kick someone while they’re down, nor to cause a rift and speak ill of An Chengyuan.
An Mi wasn’t angry with her father either.
“Actually, you can tell me directly if there’s something, there’s no need to hide it from me,” An Mi said.
She really didn’t like having these kinds of misunderstanding barriers.
Wan Muqi touched her hair, and said, “Alright, I didn’t think this through properly this time.”
At that moment, An Mi’s stomach embarrassingly growled.
Both of them paused.
“I’m hungry, I really didn’t have dinner.”
Releasing her, Wan Muqi looked at her helplessly yet affectionately, “Then let’s go home, I’ll cook for you.”
An Mi revealed a bright new smile, “Okay.”
Half an hour later.
A plate of spaghetti with tomato meat sauce and two steaks, sizzling and nicely sliced, appeared before An Mi.
“Go ahead and eat, if it’s not enough, I’ll fry you another steak later,” he said.
An Mi nodded, “This is plenty.”
She picked up a fork and twirled a mouthful of pasta.
“This is really delicious.”
She was telling the truth.
She didn’t expect his cooking skills to be so good.
Wan Muqi raised his hand to pat her head again, “Eat slowly, don’t rush, it’s bad for digestion.”
Then, he turned to pour a glass of her favorite orange pulp juice.
While she was eating, he sat by her side with his laptop, checking emails, keeping her company.
Suddenly, Wan Muqi’s phone rang, a call from Xiao Si.
Glancing at it, he hesitated for a moment before answering.
“Hello, what’s up?”
His tone was devoid of any warmth.
Upon hearing his icy tone, Xiao Si immediately felt annoyed.
“Old Wan, I am the guardian of your love, after all. Can’t you be a bit nicer and more gentle with me? If it weren’t for me, your An Mi might have been fed to the mosquitoes all night downstairs, and you would nearly have lost this adorable girlfriend,” Xiao Si ranted.
Wan Muqi certainly didn’t indulge him—after all, the more you indulge this guy, the more energetic he gets.
“Get to the point, or I’m hanging up!” he replied.
Xiao Si rolled his eyes, grumbling: “Have you guys returned? If so, just give me a shout. I want to head home too, this godforsaken neighborhood is swarming with mosquitoes!”
To avoid disturbing them, he had been sitting alone in the gazebo of the neighborhood, waiting.
Wan Muqi teased, “What’s the matter? Are you so poor now that this is your only house?”
Xiao Si: “…”
“Whose call was that?”
An Mi couldn’t help but ask.
Hearing An Mi’s voice, Xiao Si shouted, “Sister An Mi, it’s your Brother Xiao Si here.”
The living room was quiet, and even though Wan Muqi didn’t put the call on speaker, An Mi could still hear Xiao Si’s voice.
An Mi: “…”
Wan Muqi, looking at her, said, “Don’t mind him, just keep eating your food.”
An Mi murmured an “Oh,” and continued to eat her steak.
After speaking to her, the man on the phone added two words, “Hanging up.”
Xiao Si, having been unceremoniously hung up on once again, clicked his tongue in annoyance.
After that, he mentioned a few of them in a chat group of five, “Come out tonight for some fun, brothers.”
Gu Beiyan was the first to reply: “On a filming date with my wife, no time!”
Then came Lu Zhiyang: “Spending time with the wife and kids, no time!”
Next was Jiang Yan: “Putting the wife to bed, no time!”
Wan Muqi also responded: “Dining with my girlfriend, you go have fun yourself, wishing you a romantic encounter tonight!”
“…”
After reading his friends’ replies, Xiao Si felt absolutely wrecked.
He complained to the night air: “So what if you have a girlfriend, so what if you have a wife and kids? Seriously, a bunch of heartless dudes, always putting romance before bros!”
The night breeze blew gently, and Xiao Si sat in the pavilion like a lonely old man.
He stood up cursing and muttering, heading back.
Feeling he shouldn’t sulk alone, he opened the WeChat group and repeated that same phrase, this time sending it as a voice message into the group.
Then he added another line: “I’ll just go and have a shotgun wedding tomorrow, that will shock you all!”
…
Ye Jiuqing, the uninvited guest, came uninvited, much to Jiang Yan’s annoyance.
From the start, he had taken an instant dislike to this man.
After all, no one would like a man who is eyeing his wife!
Similarly, Ye Jiuqing had always harbored ill feelings towards Jiang Yan.
In short, they mutually found each other disagreeable.
Su He worried that if she wasn’t there one day, the two would end up fighting.
That noontime.
Ye Jiuqing brazenly came to the main building of Moon Gift Villa to mooch a meal.
He was living at Moon Gift Villa but was arranged by Su He to stay in a side courtyard.
He didn’t pick and choose and obediently settled in.
Jiang Yan looked at him and let out a cold laugh.
Ye Jiuqing, upon hearing it, glanced over, “What are you laughing at?”
The man’s thin lips curved slightly, “Someone is really making something of himself, hiding from a woman in someone else’s house, you’ve really got a thick face.”
Ye Jiuqing, who had a quick temper, especially when facing Jiang Yan, easily got riled up.
“Jiang, who are you calling shameless?”
He didn’t show any signs of relying on others, instead, he acted more like the master of the house.
Ah Gui, standing nearby, quietly wiped sweat in his mind, thinking: My Young Master Jiuqing, can’t you rein in your temper a bit? Be careful you might get kicked out later.
Compared to his fiery and easily-triggered temper, Jiang Yan was unusually calm.
Jiang Yan said with a sneer that didn’t reach his eyes, “Young Master Ye should really not take it personally, after all, I didn’t name anyone specifically, no need for Young Master Ye to get so worked up.”
Ye Jiuqing: “…”
Ah Gui thought: In this first round, it’s clear that President Jiang’s side won.
And our Young Master Jiuqing wins because he really does have a thick face.
In this aspect, President Jiang wasn’t wrong at all.
In the following days, whenever these two men met, they started talking in sarcastic and strange ways.
Su He squarely ignored it, thinking it was quite childish, but she said nothing.
A week later.
Ella eventually came over.
But she didn’t go to Ye Jiuqing directly; instead, she looked for Su He.
The two sat in a café.
Su He looked at her: “You came a bit later than I expected, it doesn’t quite fit your style.”
Ella took a sip from her cup, her brows and eyes curving in a smile, “I call this keeping a sense of measure, advancing and retreating with ease.”
Su He smiled, “Good use of idioms.”
However, she remembered what Ye Jiuqing had said the other day, and she was indeed a little curious.
Although she always knew that Ella liked Ye Jiuqing.
She had never thought that one day, she would be so bold.
Her eyes slightly lifted with curiosity, she asked, “So tell me, how did you come up with the idea of striking first by taking a bite out of him?”
Ella frowns slightly, “You know about it?”
Su He nodded and responded affirmatively, “He told me himself.”
Ella immediately laughed out of exasperation, “Heh, he sure knows how to spin things around.”
Hearing this, Su He immediately sensed that there might be something she didn’t know about.
“Oh? Is there some insider story I’m not privy to?” Su He’s eyes gleamed with a gossip-hungry grin: “I’m all ears.”
Ella gazed at her, “Since when did you become such a gossip?”
Su He smiled playfully, “I’m not interested in other people’s business, but yours, I find quite intriguing.”
After speaking, she leaned back, readying herself with an “I’m all set, spill it” attitude.
Ella: “…”
Five minutes later, Su He had heard it all.
She summarized: Ye Jiuqing was set up, and just happened to run into Ella. Ella wanted to take him to the hospital, but he adamantly refused, and instead clung to her as an antidote.
“If it weren’t for his painful look, do you think I would give a damn about getting with him! His skills are terribly lacking; it took me days to recover!”
Ella cursed, “And then he has the nerve to ditch me after having his fill!”
Su He: “…”
Luckily, the café wasn’t busy at this time.
She certainly didn’t want to be watched like a monkey on display.
Su He cleared her throat and tried to calm her down, “Take it easy.”
Ella: “If I were any less calm, I would have had him chopped up the next day!”
“…”
These two have been like joyous enemies since they met.
Although Ella likes Ye Jiuqing, she has never pampered him and always speaks her mind bluntly.
Since that doesn’t affect her affection for him.
“So what are you planning to do now?” Su He asked.
Ella was silent for a moment.
She said, “Of course I’m going to make him take responsibility, does he think he can just eat and run?!”
Meanwhile, someone at Moon Gift Villa was leisurely sitting in a rocking chair outside the courtyard, soaking up the sunshine.
A week had passed by now; she probably wouldn’t come looking for him anymore.
This was Ye Jiuqing’s summary for the day.
Otherwise, judging by that woman’s temperament, she would have come after him with a machete by now.
“Ah Gui, go check if that woman has left F country,” said Ye Jiuqing as he lay in the rocking chair with his eyes closed.
Ah Gui, upon hearing this, obediently responded, “Understood, Young Master Jiuqing.”
Then, Ah Gui took out his phone and made a call.
Soon, he received some news.
“Young Master Jiuqing, they say Ella is still in F country.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, sure.”
Ye Jiuqing chuckled to himself, feeling instantly relieved.
“Looks like this woman has some taste after all, not to hassle me relentlessly to take responsibility.”
Ah Gui was aware of what had happened between Ye Jiuqing and Ella.
After hearing his master’s words, he cursed inwardly: What a dog, what a scumbag!
No wonder Miss Su didn’t fancy his master from the start; she had her reasons.
Of course, these thoughts, he wouldn’t dare to voice them out loud, only grumble to himself a little.