Falling For The Contract Bride

Falling For The Contract Bride Chapter 176

Chapter 176 A Verified Scumbag Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

After settling Xiao Qingqing into his car, Lu Jinye set off towards her home.

Amid drunken stupor, Xiao Qingqing cast her groggy eyes out the car window. When the scenery outside became increasingly familiar, she uttered an exasperated snort, “Why are you in such a hurry to send me home? I don’t want to go home.”

Lu Jinye glanced at her and kept driving without saying a word.

Xiao Qingqing slumped against the side of the car, appearing to be heavily drunk but she was running her gaze around Lu Jinye.

Lu Jinye came to a halt at the entrance of her suburb. Without turning off the engine, he stepped off the car and headed into a 24-hour drugstore. Not long after, he left with a bag of medicine, hopped back into the car, and made headway into the suburb.

He opened the car door and reached in to help Xiao Qingqing off the car. However, she had barely taken two steps when she turned back with a scowl, hummed in discomfort, “Ouch.”

Lu Jinye stared at her with furrowed brows. Upon twitching his scrunched forehead, he decided to walk towards Xiao Qingqing, bent forward, and lifted her off the ground once again.

He brought Xiao Qingqing into the elevator in his arms, then carried her into her house.

He placed her on the couch and handed a bottle of disinfectant as well as a band-aid to her, gesturing for her to dress the wounds on her feet.

Xiao Qingqing raised her dazed eyes. Despite her drunken stupor, she managed to grab the bottle of disinfectant.

She was barely conscious enough to dress her wounds but coerced herself to do it anyway.

Lu Jinye was about to leave. But he turned back to look at Xiao Qingqing, he could see her squinting her eyes to see what was before her. Under the influence of alcohol, her body was continuously swirling around. In several attempts to apply the disinfectant, she would miss every time.

That was also the case with the band-aid.

Lu Jinye felt a twinge of remorse. He slowly moved towards Xiao Qingqing, bent forward, and started meticulously applying disinfectants for her with a frown.

Xiao Qingqing’s eyes were glittering under the dim lights as she stared at Lu Jinye fixedly.

When Lu Jinye was done dressing her wounds, she scrambled to stand up and hurled herself at him, hugging him firmly.

She buried her head into his neck. Her long, silky hair was draped over both sides of her face, drenched in the tears that yearned to flow all this while.

“Jinye, you still love me, right?”

Xiao Qingqing asked softly.

Lu Jinye said nothing. He pursed his lips tightly.

He could feel Xiao Qingqing shaking as she leaned on his chest.

However… He merely put a hand on her shoulder.

…

Meanwhile, in the hotel room in the States.

Mu Zhi had a look at the time and squeezed a stiff smile as she looked at Lu Junnian. “Thank you for visiting me, I’m fine now.”

In between her words, she stood up and headed to the bathroom to wash her face.

Lu Junnian sat in the wheelchair, gazing at Mu Zhi caringly. His gaze followed Mu Zhi all the way into the bathroom.

He had no intention to leave.

Mu Zhi thought her words were subtle enough. After washing up, she was surprised to see Lu Junnian still around, sitting on the same spot.

Mu Zhi put on a coat and gave Jian Xiaoning a call to inform her of the latest development in the States. She had texted Jian Xiaoning the night prior.

She asked Jian Xiaoning what time she would arrive.

And Jian Xiaoning responded through the phone, “I’m downstairs, heading up now.”

Mu Zhi hung up the call, steadied herself, and handed Mu Xiaomu to her when she came to the door.

Following the arrangement, she noticed that Lu Junnian still had his eyes on her.

Mu Zhi unintentionally brushed her eyes across him only to find his concerned gaze staring back at her. Her heart skipped a beat as she forced herself to look away.

“I need to set off to the hospital. Thank for you today. If you don’t feel like going home, feel free to stay here.” Said Mu Zhi listlessly.

Following that, Mu Zhi grabbed a coat and headed out the door.

Lu Junnian’s eyes were grim the moment Mu Zhi shut the door on him. He told the butler to wheel him out of the room.

The butler looked at him curiously.

While he uttered, “To the hospital.”

Mu Zhi was just putting up an unwavering front at this moment. Deep down, she was meek and sensitive.

He had missed all the opportunities to stay by Mu Zhi’s side during her challenges in the past… And he was determined to not let anyone cut him off to be the one for her!

The butler looked at Lu Junnian with a troubled expression, “Young master, your condition…”

“I’m ok.”

Lu Junnian responded insouciantly.

Mu Zhi was walking at an exceptionally slow pace on the way to the hospital. She lifted her phone to search for the required arrangements and regulations revolving around the death of an immediate family member in the States.

However, a news article popped up when she tapped on her web browser.

The caption was eye-catching and suggestive, attached with a clear picture depicting Lu Jinye carrying Xiao Qingqing into his car in the middle of the night.

The article was expressed evocatively.

‘Miss Xiao was expecting the chairman, Lu Jinye, before his car at midnight. They first embraced each other intimately in public before Lu Jinye suddenly lifted Miss Xiao off the ground and headed into his car. The pair then set off into the blackness of the night…’

The writing style was as cringe as any other article on the internet.

Mu Zhi wanted to read further, but there was no second page.

What happens after?

Why is the rest of the article locked?!

Mu Zhi gritted her teeth furiously. She was seething at how she was left hanging by the article, similar to how she would in a web-novel.

However, she did not need to read the rest of the article before discontentment had overwhelmed her!

Lu Jinye was just telling her that he wanted to talk to her the prior night. What was there to talk about? To tell her that he was tangled up with another woman and that he had lingering love for her?

At that thought, Mu Zhi became even more infuriated.

In the heat of the moment, she commented on the article, losing her usual poise, ‘A verified scumbag!’

Then, Mu Zhi went back to carry on with her search.

When she arrived at the hospital, she drew a deep breath to cheer herself up.

She thought she could deal with the situation calmly… But when she got to the floor where her mother was, it dawned on her that… The truth was hard to swallow!