Drunk on Marriage, Billionaire's Overindulgent Love-Chapter 145 - 123. The ends of the earth, the netherworld and the heavens.
After glancing back at the person on the sofa, that feeling grew even stronger.
Lu Li also heard the knocking; at first, he thought it might be Nan Wan’s neighbor, but seeing her just standing there without moving, he seemed to realize something.
Leaning lazily on the sofa, he raised his chin slightly, signaling her it was okay to open the door.
Nan Wan scratched her scalp and walked towards the entrance.
When the door opened, Mu Jin Huan didn’t smell the aroma of food, nor the unique fragrance on her.
Instead, it was a faint scent of alcohol.
His face darkened slightly, "You better tell me it was because you accidentally broke a bottle of wine."
Nan Wan looked at the person standing at the door, suddenly inexplicably nervous, her tongue somewhat tied, "Why...why are you here?"
Mu Jin Huan glanced at her hand gripping the door frame, his dark eyes carrying a hint of a smile, "Not inviting me in?"
Nan Wan stepped aside, fully opening the door, "...No, I’m not." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
Something was off about her.
Mu Jin Huan put away his faint smile, his sharply contoured handsome face devoid of extra expressions, striding his long legs, and walked into the apartment.
When he saw the person on the sofa, his deep eyes showed no ripple.
Their eyes met.
It was only for an instant, then Mu Jin Huan looked away, saying to Nan Wan, "I haven’t had dinner yet, make me a bowl of noodles."
His gaze and voice were too calm.
The inexplicable nervousness Nan Wan felt earlier suddenly dissipated, "I didn’t buy groceries, maybe there’s only scallions and eggs in the fridge."
Mu Jin Huan took off his coat and handed it over naturally, "That’s fine."
Nan Wan reached out to take it, glanced at Lu Li who was still sitting on the sofa, walked to the coat rack, hung up his coat, and then went into the kitchen.
Lu Li absorbed the scene of the two as if they were an old married couple entirely, then stood up from the sofa after Nan Wan closed the kitchen door, and extended his hand towards the man, "Lu Li."
There was no need for him to explain because the other party simply didn’t care.
Mu Jin Huan strode his long legs, stopping a step away from Lu Li.
A gentlemanly handshake.
"President Mu, I don’t know how much you know about Nan Wan’s past, nor what your presence means to her."
Mu Jin Huan walked to the side of the sofa, his peripheral vision swept over the box of colorful candy without any reaction.
With his slender fingers, he unbuttoned the suit and sat down gracefully, "You don’t need to know."
Lu Li remained at that position, facing the direction of the kitchen, "She’s not someone who clings to the past and refuses to let go. If you’re sincere, she’ll be more sincere than you."
Because the window was half-open, the lingering smell of alcohol in the air was very faint. If someone wasn’t particularly sensitive to alcohol, they wouldn’t smell it.
Mu Jin Huan sat with legs crossed, his dark eyes half-lowered, his slender, defined fingers tapping gently and slowly on his knee.
His voice was calm and steady, "If you consider her a friend, you wouldn’t repeatedly let her shield you from all the slander, nor would you come to disrupt her life when she wants to return to peace."
After speaking, the living room fell back into silence.
A strong wind blew, hitting the glass with a dull sound.
Lu Li’s gaze fell on the closed kitchen door, and after a long while, he spoke again, "What I owe her, I will repay."
He began to walk towards the door.
Before opening it, he left this sentence, "Embrace her strongly, and she’ll show you the softest side of a hedgehog."
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The water in the pot boiled, with white bubbles rising; the steam climbed to the air, merging slowly into it.
Not until the scalding droplets splashed onto her hand did Nan Wan snap back to reality, instinctively bringing her hand to her lips, using the coolness of her lips to soothe the burned area.
After the brief pain subsided, she put the noodles into the pot and started to stir them slowly with chopsticks.
Why, there was no sound at all outside...
When Nan Wan walked out of the kitchen, there was not a shadow in the living room. She placed the cooked noodles on the table in the dining room.
She vaguely heard sounds coming from the bathroom.
Just as she walked up to the bathroom door, it opened from the inside.
The man was bare-chested with only a white towel wrapped around him, his short black hair still dripping with water, the droplets tracing down his lean chest, past his well-defined abs, down to the hinted V-line...
A clean and fresh scent of body wash filled the air.
Nan Wan awkwardly averted her gaze, taking a step back, "Are you sleeping here? It’s an hour’s drive to your company, it’s inconvenient."
