Falling For The Contract Bride

Falling For The Contract Bride Chapter 178

Chapter 178 Mr Xie, When Are You Coming to City A?

The man stood with his back straight during the phone call. The corners of his sleeves were whipping elegantly in the breeze, depicting him as an aloof figure.

“Mr. Xie Xiu, when are you coming to City A? I’m waiting for you.” He scrunched his brows while listening to Xiao Qingqing’s voice from the phone.

And then replied with a frown, “I’ll find you when I’m in town.”

“Please come as early as you can.”

Just as she intended to have a conversation with the man, he cut her off listlessly, “I have some business to take care of, talk soon.”

Finished what he had to say, he hung up the phone right away.

Xie Xiu then returned to Mu Zhi, who raised her head to meet his gaze. It just struck her that it was strange that they had not introduced each other despite having had a chat.

Thus, she introduced herself to the man, “I’m Mu Zhi, how do I address you?”

“Xie Xiu.”

Mu Zhi nodded when she heard the name.

She suspected that the man had a lineage from Nation Z based on his features. This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“We were cut off by the call, let me carry on with my story.”

Mu Zhi did not say anything in response. She was listening to him attentively.

Xie Xiu threw his gaze at the scenery afar and suddenly turned to Mu Zhi, asking out of the blue, “Do you think I look like a cold-blooded murderer?”

Mu Zhi looked at Xie Xiu. There was a lonely ambiance that clung onto him. He did not look like a murderer at all.

Murderers tended to look cold and had an arrogant air hovering around them.

Thus, Mu Zhi shook her head.

Xie Xiu chuckled in embarrassment. He turned his face away and continued with his unfinished story, “So, I failed that mission. After failing that mission, I learned that he forced a woman to do what she didn’t want to do. He raised her up since she was a little girl, and sold her off when she was of age. The girl ended up selling off her body and used the money she got to hire me to kill the man.”

“And on my second attempt, I did not hesitate before taking his life. I brought his body to the girl, she looked at me with a contented smile, there were tears of joy. I offered to return the money to her but she did not accept it.”

Xie Xiu paused, glanced at Mu Zhi, and laughed lightly, “The girl told me that the money was useless to her because she can’t spend it in the next world anyway. Following that, she committed suicide.”

Listening to this, Mu Zhi could no longer put up a nonchalant front.

Because… Judging from his story and background, Xie Xiu must have been indifferent towards life and death. But contrary to his supposed nature, he only met Mu Zhi because one of his friends was dying. He admitted himself to the hospital because he was worried about his friend.

How could a man that was indifferent towards human lives, or perhaps contemptuous of lives, treasure his time with someone who was on the verge of dying?

He must be incredibly rational and resilient to be able to distinguish between his comrade and the victims of his crimes.

“Did I scare you?”

Mu Zhi instantly reverted to his usual poise and looked at Xie Xiu. He was staring back at her with compassionate eyes.

Shaking her head, she said, “Nah, I just take it as an interesting story.”

Following that, she glanced at the time and added, “There’s something I need to handle, I gotta go.”

Xie Xiu fixed his eyes at her and gently nodded.

On her way to the ground floor, Mu Zhi could feel less melancholy compared to when she first got to the rooftop. Perhaps, it was due to Xie Xiu’s story regarding life and death. Although it did not have any impact on her, there was an indescribable sense of relief after hearing the story.

After getting to the ground floor, she made a beeline towards her hotel. Words of comfort were at the tip of Jian Xiaoning’s tongue, yearning to leave her lips when she saw Mu Zhi. But Mu Zhi’s expression told Jian Xiaoning that she did not need consoling.

Then, Mu Zhi rationally took the same flight with Jian Xiaoning and Lu Junnian back to the country, then rationally dealt with the funeral.

At this stage, she did not even realize if her phone was out of battery as she did not turn it on in the first place.

She ran all errands like a machine. But after witnessing the burial of her mother, she returned home to Jian Xiaoning’s place.

And wailed in lamentation.

And when she was done, she went to bed.

Mu Zhi wanted to force herself to forget what needed to be forgotten. But the more she tried, the more she was reminded. Thus, she started job hunting.

She married Lu Jinye years ago for money to foot the medical bill of her mother’s treatment. Everything she did was for her mother. Her mother’s departure left a void in her life.

She decided to look for a job to keep herself occupied.

At that thought, she turned on her phone.

As soon as she did, notifications started rushing into her phone like the gush of a violent river.

The repetitive buzzing and dinging brought a headache to Mu Zhi. Most of them came from Lu Jinye and others were mostly junk text messages. Lu Junnian’s messages were sandwiched in between the junk messages.

Mu Zhi disregarded Lu Junnian’s messages and made a call to Lu Jinye.

Lu Jinye was furiously rebuking his director in his office!

The Lu Family remained in a slump in the past days. Lu Jinye had been spending his nights at work.

He was too occupied to learn of what happened to Mu Zhi recently. He thought Mu Zhi was giving him the cold shoulders due to their conflicts at the hospital earlier.

Just as he told his director to scram, his phone rang.

Lu Jinye drummed his fingers on the desk, glanced at the name on the screen, and hurriedly answered it.

“Hello? You finally bother calling me now?”

He was concerned for her, but the words somehow sounded cold and distant as soon as they left his lips.

After a distressing day, Mu Zhi could not bother lashing out at Lu Jinye’s questioning. She said listlessly, “Is there anything you need from me?”

“What have you been doing these few days?”

“Handling some personal matters.”

What Mu Zhi went through those few days was heart-wrenching.

But Lu Jinye was ignorant of it, which made her even more dejected.

Perhaps she was just an insignificant figure in Lu Jinye’s eyes.

She was the only one who felt like it was the end of the world.

Since Lu Jinye did not take it to heart, she did not bother explaining.

Meanwhile, Lu Jinye’s tone was indifferent as always. There was no sound of thoughtfulness or emotions in his voice.

“Then, why did you only return my call now?”

The way he sounded made Mu Zhi feel like she was taken for granted.

She became even more upset.

Thus, with eyes full of gloominess, she uttered, “I’m worried that I’d disturb the sweet time with your loved one, that’s why I was hesitant to make the call, Mr. Lu.”

It was clear that Mu Zhi’s patience was running thin.

On the other hand, Lu Jinye was also peeved by her frustrations.

He loosened his tie irately. The accumulated vexation through consecutive days of working late hours had pushed him close to his limits.

In an annoyed tone, he growled at Mu Zhi, “Let’s get dinner, I need to see Mu Xiaomu.”