Falling For The Contract Bride

Falling For The Contract Bride Chapter 148

Chapter 148 Am I That Unattractive

When Lu Jinye finally managed to free himself from the pack of thirsty women, he noticed that Mu Zhi had gone missing. He hurriedly scanned the ball venue but failed to pinpoint Mu Xiaomu. Thus, he deduced that Mu Zhi was no longer around.

He promptly wheeled around and strode towards the elevator.

When he came to the elevator, he caught glimpse of the elevator doors closing. Mu Xiaomu was left behind, weeping sorrowfully alone while Mu Zhi was carried into the elevator by a man.

Lu Jinye leaped forward to stop the elevator from shutting completely. He glared at the man with a pair of cold, apathetic eyes. The man was stunned, as though frozen from head to toe, and started trembling in response.

However, he picked up the remaining courage that was left in him, and warned Lu Jinye, “You better leave right now, mind your own business!”

Lu Jinye rooted his feet into the ground, standing by the elevator door, and would not let it close. He curled his lips into a faint smile. Without uttering a word, he launched a punch at the man.

The man did not react in time. He was knocked several steps backward, and almost stumbled to the ground. Mu Zhi slipped from his arms.

Lu Jinye swiftly caught Mu Zhi before she landed on the floor.

Mu Zhi’s face was oddly flushed all over. She fought to crack her eyes open to see at Lu Jinye before immediately letting her eyelids close.

She was powerless.

The contact between Lu Jinye’s arms and Mu Zhi’s body told him that something was not right with her. She was scorching hot!

At that thought, he reverted his gaze to the man. Before he could react, Lu Jinye aimed a hefty kick right on top of his belly.

Then, with Mu Zhi in his arms, Lu Jinye stepped out of the elevator.

The man was amid staggered to his balance when the elevator door shut on him and started heading downwards.

Seeing that Mu Zhi was rescued by Lu Jinye, Mu Xiaomu immediately stopped wailing. She sobbed dolefully, looked at Lu Jinye, face dappled with tear marks, and shouted, “Papa, mama hot.”

Lu Jinye did not pause for a moment. He brought Mu Zhi into the next elevator, and held Mu Xiaomu’s hand, returning to Mu Zhi’s room.

He scrambled to retrieve Mu Zhi’s room card from her purse, then brought Mu Xiaomu and her into their room.

However, he was trying to put Mu Zhi down on the bed when she relentlessly clung onto his neck. She buried into Lu Jinye’s embrace ceaselessly, like a needy little kitten desiring to be petted.

But… With Mu Xiaomu around… Lu Jinye did not go with her flow.

It was clear that Mu Zhi was incapable to take care of Mu Xiaomu at this stage. Lu Jinye lowered his head to glance at Mu Zhi, then turned his attention to Mu Xiaomu, saying, “Your mama is asleep. Let me bring her to another room, then papa will be back to tell you a bedtime story, alright? So our story doesn’t wake mama up.”

“Ok.”

Mu Xiaomu complied obsequiously.

Lu Jinye hurriedly seized his room card, brought Mu Zhi to his room, and tucked her into his bed. He stared down at her as she unremittingly tossed and turned in the bed.

Sighing helplessly, he leaned in to say to Mu Zhi softly with an enticing tone, “I understand that you feel uncomfortable right now, but I need to put Xiaomu to sleep.”

By the looks of it, Mu Zhi might lose control anytime!

Lu Jinye must make use of the little amount of time he was given.

Mu Zhi could only feel emptiness and bleakness within her. What is Lu Jinye doing here?

The question continued to echo in her head. Besides that, all she wanted was to feel Lu Jinye.

When she reached out to hook her arms around Lu Jinye, she caught nothing but air. The next thing she realized was Lu Jinye had left the room, shutting the door behind him?!

Am I that unattractive?

Why is Lu Jinye running away from me?

Mu Zhi was burning inside.

She stood up, poured herself a glass of water, gulped it down but it did not quench her thirst at all. She was blazing. It was uncomfortably hot.

When she recollected about Lu Jinye leaving, she could sense blood surging into her brain.

She even followed her intuition to send Lu Jinye a text message, questioning him, ‘Am I that unattractive? Why did you run away?’

Lu Jinye had just entered Mu Zhi’s room to accompany Mu Xiaomu when the phone in his pocket went off. But he did not check it.

He peered at Mu Xiaomu, pondering. He never had any experience with babysitting…

Moreover, when he tried to recall his personal experience of being coaxed to sleep by his mother, it seemed to be non-existent. He had been sleeping independently.

However, the running clock on the wall felt like a ticking time-bomb, urging Lu Jinye to pick up his pace.

Lu Jinye ultimately asked Mu Xiaomu, “How does your mother usually put you to sleep?”

“Mama will read the book, a bedtime story.” Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“Bedtime story…”

It instantly dawned on Lu Jinye.

He swiftly put Mu Xiaomu onto the bed.

Bedtime story… Lu Jinye brainstormed briefly. What story should I tell her?

Lu Jinye did not know any children’s tales like ‘the Tortoise and the Hare’, ‘the Ugly Duckling’ or ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.

After all, Lu Jinye had never been into these tales when he was little.

He tried to recall the stories he used to read when he was Mu Xiaomu’s age, and it immediately struck him that there was a story that suited Mu Xiaomu.

Fortunately, he could remember the story vividly without having to look through the net.

Let’s go with the Currency Wars.

“The year was 1964 when the England Bank was founded. Within the span of three hundred years, the world evolved in a way such that every country had been impacted by the power of financial capital… The history of finance is littered with the conspiracy of mankind.”

Mu Xiaomu stared at Lu Jinye solemnly. She was trying her best to process the gibberish that was leaving Lu Jinye’s lips.

Despite recognizing most words that Lu Jinye had said, the combination of words made no sense to Mu Xiaomu at all.

What is a conspiracy?

And who is finance?

However, Mu Xiaomu was too desperate for a father. Even though she could not comprehend him, she was diligently trying to make sense of the story, listening to every word Lu Jinye had to say.

It was also Lu Jinye’s first time coaxing a child to bed. Seeing that Mu Xiaomu was staring back at him with her expressive eyes, he thought she was enjoying his story.

But it did not take long before Mu Xiaomu collapsed into his chest and fell asleep.

Lu Jinye was startled to see Mu Xiaomu sound asleep. He had barely gone on for ten minutes.

Was that raw talent of putting a child to sleep?

But knowing that he had no time to spare, he came back to his senses, rose to his feet, and hurried back into his room to check up on Mu Zhi.

As soon as he opened the door, he was shocked by what was presented to him…

He understood that some drugs were powerful and worked wonders. But Lu Jinye did not expect Mu Zhi to strip herself naked, sitting on the bed, and staring at him with a stern face.

“Why don’t you like me?”

The first words that escaped her tongue were confrontational.