Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 285

Chapter 285 I Just Want You to Stay by My Side

It was embarrassing to speak of that question, but Linda still forced herself to tell Lu Jinye. Lu Jinye raised a brow and asked, “Is there anything else?”

“Nothing else.” Linda sighed, “The psychologist was very professional. She would not reveal anything. This was all we could get out of her after persistent questioning.”

“Noted.” He hung up after that. He got up and paced around the study twice.

At last, he sat down at his desk again. He tapped his elegant fingers on the desk lightly while organizing the information from the investigation in his head.

According to Yan Shu’s description, the woman’s appearance definitely resemble Mu Zhi’s. However, her behavior was unlike her.

If Mu Zhi was alive, why did she not come to him?

Furthermore, this Mu Zhi had a husband, but they are incompatible in that aspect?

In short, there were too many unanswered questions.

Thinking of them made Lu Jinye feel uncertain.

He had always been a decisive person but faced with these questions concerning Mu Zhi, he had suddenly become indecisive!

No, this will not do.

Lu Jinye took out his phone and called Yan Shu. He told her to message him the time which she would be meeting Mu Zhi. He needed to be there to see her.

After arranging all that, Lu Jinye still could not calm down and continued to pace around his study.

He found it hard to believe that a person like him could be this flustered.

He could not allow himself to be so flustered by just a voice and a physical description.

His time was valuable, and here he was wasting his time searching for someone that was most likely not her!

It still felt impossible when he thought of them!

However, even if the probability was only one in a thousand, one in a ten thousand, or even one in a billion, he was willing to try for Mu Zhi’s sake.

After he had ended the call to Yan Shu, a video call popped up on his screen. Lu Jinye accepted it immediately. A cute little girl appeared on his screen and she was practicing her lines for a play.

The senior butler quickly explained to Lu Jinye, “This is young lady’s first time taking part in an international level performance. She is a little nervous, but I think that her performance is outstanding so I called you to have a look.”

“Mr. Zhang!”

Mu Xiaomu’s voice called out after the senior butler had finished explaining to Lu Jinye. When she saw that Zhang Bo was speaking to Lu Jinye, she ran in his direction, took the phone from Mr. Zhang, and said, “Daddy, I am about to perform. I am very nervous. What should I do? I am scared!”

Mu Xiaomu was the youngest member of the cast. Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

She was very talented at acting.

“Why are you scared?”

Lu Jinye asked Mu Xiaomu gently. There was a rare smile on his face.

Mu Xiaomu bit her lip before saying, “All the other actors are very experienced while this is my first performance on such a grand stage. Furthermore, I am the youngest among the cast.”

“Being the youngest is a strong proof of your talent.”

Lu Jinye smiled at her gently.

Mu Xiaomu was initially very nervous, but after speaking to Lu Jinye, she was suddenly relaxed. She looked behind her and saw that everyone was rehearsing for the final time. So Mu Xiaomu quickly informed Lu Jinye, “Daddy, I need to rush off to prepare.”

Then she ended the call.

After the call had ended, Lu Jinye continued to look for traces of Mu Zhi.

…

Late night at Xie Residence.

Xie Xiu was lying on his side on the bed, watching Mu Zhi beside him calmly.

Mu Zhi had yet to sleep. She was using her phone to surf the internet to create an itinerary for touring City A.

Both of them were clothed in their pajamas. They did not bare themselves to each other.

Mu Zhi couldn’t even overcome the fear of undressing before Xie Xiu.

They had tried many times in the past, but she still could not understand why she couldn’t. Even if both of them were talking amiably and Xie Xiu had shown that he loved her. Still, whenever Xie Xiu

approached her to undress her, she instinctively pushed him away as though jolted by electricity.

Then she would behave as if she had lost her mind.

If he did not touch her, everything would be normal.

Xie Xiu glanced at the time and said, “It is late. There is no need to make an itinerary. I will ask my secretary to bring you around the city tomorrow.”

“But… I want to go by myself.”

Mu Zhi turned to Xie Xiu and said, “You have arranged so many things for me. It is not good for my independence.”

“Furthermore, if you planned everything for me, from the scenery I see to the people I meet, then I would become boring to you.”

Xie Xiu attempted to move closer to Mu Zhi and said, “That is not true. You will never be boring to me.”

His arm automatically circled Mu Zhi with the intent to envelop her into his embrace.

However, at this gesture, Mu Zhi who was initially relaxed, had suddenly jumped up as though shocked and had nearly fallen off the bed.

“Do not touch me!”

She shouted at Xie Xiu.

“Mu Zhi, alright… I won’t touch you. Please calm down.”

Xie Xiu immediately said to Mu Zhi.

He kept his hands at where she could see to let her know that he would not touch her.

Instantly, Mu Zhi seemed to have calmed down a little.

She gradually turned her gaze on Xie Xiu and looked at him earnestly for a long while. Then she released the breath she had been holding and said, “I am sorry.”

She had now returned to her normal self and remembered how she had lost control a moment ago.

She did not want to lose control, but she really could not help herself.

“I… I have tried my all.”

As she said, she felt that she had failed miserably.

“It is alright.”

Xie Xiu stood up from the bed and went to stand before Mu Zhi. He said to her, “You know that all I want is for you to stay by my side. I won’t force you to do anything else.”

“But I hope to be a true wife for you.”

“It is fine.”

Xie Xiu said again.

At this moment, Eric knocked lightly on the door. “Mommy, are you asleep? I need to ask you about something.”

Mu Zhi was alerted by Eric’s voice. She quickly said to Xie Xiu, “I should go to him.”

Xie Xiu did not stop her but went out of the room with Mu Zhi. He went in the direction of his study while Mu Zhi turned towards Eric’s room. When she had entered his room, Eric closed the door before saying, “Mommy, was your phone switched off? I received a call from our tour guide telling us to gather at the hotel entrance for the tour at nine o’clock tomorrow.”

“Sure, you can reply to her.”

As Mu Zhi spoke, she searched through her phone quickly and discovered an unknown number had called her many times.

She hesitated on whether to call back at this hour.