Falling For The Contract Bride

Falling For The Contract Bride Chapter 229

Chapter 229 The Rubik’s Cube and a Photo

When she turned around to steal a glance at Lu Jinye, she found him staring at her contently and affectionately. As a result, her heart rate immediately started picking up.

She said to Lu Jinye in a flurry, “It’s late, let me check out on Mu Xiaomu.”

Without saying another word, she bolted towards the house.

Staring at Mu Zhi scurried away made Lu Jinye smiled with satisfaction. The woman was adorable to him, regardless of what she was doing.

He gradually headed towards his car, turned the engine over, and waited for Mu Zhi.

After finding Mu Xiaomu, Mu Zhi tacitly and spontaneously brought her to the car where Lu Jinye was. She got into the car with Mu Xiaomu, sitting in the back row. Using the rearview mirror, Lu Jinye ensured that the two of them had fastened their seatbelts before steadily set off.

Mu Zhi had just experienced what felt like hot yoga – her cheeks were still blushed and her heart thumping rapidly. Thus, she was still a little shy to face Lu Jinye.

On the other hand, Mu Xiaomu had not noticed anything odd with her parents at all. She had put all her focus on her tiny bag.

She brought a Mickey Mouse bag to school today. The bag was usually used to store snacks, and she would normally wolf down everything before school finished. However, Mu Xiaomu’s bag was still bulging in this instance. She turned it upside down only to see snacks pouring out of it.

The snacks were not what Mu Zhi usually packed for Mu Xiaomu. It was evident that someone else gave her those.

Mu Zhi watched Mu Xiaomu satisfyingly going through all the snacks that came from the bag before meticulously putting them back one after another, like precious treasures.

Then, Mu Xiaomu moved on to her toys.

“Where did you get the snacks from?”

Mu Zhi asked gently, gaze fixed at Mu Xiaomu.

“Grandpa gave them to me.”

Mu Xiaomu answered obediently, fiddling with the Rubik’s cube in her hands. The Rubik’s cube came in a delicate embroidered bag. By the looks of it, it was tens of years old.

“Where did you get this Rubik’s cube from then?”

“From grandpa too,” Mu Xiaomu was diligently solving the Rubik’s cube as she explained.

The surrounding was dark, and the light was scarce in the car. Mu Zhi did not bother taking a close look at the Rubik’s cube, allowing Mu Xiaomu to play with it.

After twisting and turning for a while, Mu Xiaomu did not manage to solve a single side. She dozed off quietly, shutting her eyelids to let her long eyelashes met like a shameplant. It looked like her brain power had been depleted.

Mu Zhi laughed at her little girl helplessly. What a silly girl. She thought to herself, gathering Mu Xiaomu in her embrace throughout the journey.

They had arrived at their villa. Lu Jinye parked the car steadily before coming to the back seat to open their door.

“Let me carry Xiaomu. You’re tired.”

True enough, she was exhausted.

Mu Zhi’s wrists were sore. She could no longer bother being modest, handing Mu Xiaomu into Lu Jinye’s arms.

Then, she waggled both hands to alleviate the soreness.

After bending over to collect Mu Xiaomu into his embrace, the Rubik’s cube slipped through her little hand and landed on the grass field by Lu Jinye’s foot.

It plunged into the grass and did not roll away. NôvelDrama.Org owns this.

The lights in the yard were bright enough to show him where the cube was.

Lu Jinye paused his footsteps with Mu Xiaomu in his arms and peered down at the Rubik’s cube with a frown.

Mu Zhi retrieved the embroidered bag of the Rubik’s cube and Mu Xiaomu’s Mickey Mouse bag off the car, then headed toward them.

She noticed the frown on Lu Jinye’s face.

“What is it?”

Mu Zhi closed into him and asked.

“Rubik’s cube.”

The two words were all Lu Jinye said.

Mu Zhi bent over to pick up the Rubik’s cube. She patted off the dirt on its surface while saying, “Xiaomu said it’s from grandpa.”

“The Rubik’s cube belonged to me when I was little.”

It was clear that Lu Jinye’s tone became strange at this point.

Mu Zhi sensed the abnormally in his tone. “I’ll ask the little girl to put it away and stop playing with it.”

“Never mind, I’m glad Xiaomu has it.”

The dejected and nostalgic air that was hovering over Lu Jinye instantly vanished. He returned to his usual poise as nothing had occurred and headed into the house carrying Mu Xiaomu.

Lu Jinye did not break it to Mu Zhi that the Rubik’s cube was a gift from his late mother.

Moreover, he was playing with that Rubik’s cube at the time of her mother’s suicide.

He stopped playing with it since mom had left him, despite being a prodigy at it.

Mu Zhi had no clue of what the Rubik’s cube meant to Lu Jinye. She followed behind him and entered the house with the cube in her hand. When they were inside the house, Mu Zhi started unpacking Mu Xiaomu’s belongings and opened the embroidered bag, preparing to slip in the cube.

However, when she opened the bag, Tiffany blue in color, she suddenly felt a piece of an object inside.

Mu Zhi pulled it out of the bag and realized that it was a photo.

The woman in the ID photo was her late mother when she was younger.

Mu Zhi’s mother did not have any photos when she was younger. All she had was portrait photos for her ID card. Mu Zhi kept a few of her mother’s photos, and this was one of them.

Mu Zhi inspected the photo for a long moment. It was intriguing to her.

When did Mu Xiaomu learn to search her drawers? Mu Zhi only stored mother’s photos in the deepest end of the drawer.

She took a longer look before putting it back to the drawer, but she did not slide it into the farthest end this time.

After tucking Mu Xiaomu in hand, Lu Jinye headed back into the bedroom to find Mu Zhi. Mu Zhi had just shut the drawer by the time he walked in.

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Meanwhile, after recovering from his arm injury, Xie Xiu did not inform Mu Zhi.

After expressing his feelings on a slip of the tongue during the last time they met, he had stopped reaching out for her.

On the other hand, after being punished by Xie Xiu, the secretary no longer dared to go against Xie Xiu’s wishes at work, despite feeling discontented.

She could not comprehend Xie Xiu’s passiveness amid news of Mu Zhi and Lu Jinye’s wedding taking the city by storm.

In the end, she could not resist asking, “Do we sabotage their wedding? Why do I feel like you have feelings for Mu Zhi, but remain passive nonetheless?”