When Love Turns the Tables: The Mysterious Husband's Chase-Chapter 695: Mu Ke, Let’s Give It a Try (5)

Leaving the hot pot place in silence, the cold weather outside was a stark contrast to the atmosphere inside the restaurant.

"I’ll take you back."

Mu Ke spoke up, and Sheng Jiayu nodded: "Thank you, I appreciate it."

The two walked towards the hospital, and Sheng Jiayu didn’t know what was wrong with herself today. She had come to see Mu Ke with something to say, but after unintentionally overhearing gossip at the hospital, she suddenly felt too pretentious to say anything.

Mu Ke was extremely popular at the hospital, with many people’s eyes on him.

This was actually a very normal thing, but Sheng Jiayu suddenly realized that she had never really confronted this problem before.

Mu Ke was so excellent, and what about her?

A faded flower, what right did she have to possess a man regarded as a favored son of heaven?

She wasn’t being unduly self-effacing; she was just being very rational in her judgment.

That’s why the meal was so oppressive, and why along the way, she didn’t know what to say.

Mu Ke saw her to the apartment building downstairs. After a moment of silence, Sheng Jiayu managed a slight smile: "I’m going up, take care on the road, goodbye."

Mu Ke, noticing her distant attitude, didn’t say much, just nodded: "Goodnight."

"Goodnight."

As before, Mu Ke waited until Sheng Jiayu went upstairs and the light turned on before he slowly started the car and left.

After driving a stretch, Mu Ke suddenly turned the steering wheel, stopped by the roadside, leaned back in the car seat, his eyes complicated as if deep in thought. After a while, he fished out his phone from his pocket: "Where are you?"

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Sheng Jiayu returned home, slowly walking to the sofa and sitting down, holding her forehead. What was wrong with her? She had finally summoned the courage to give things a try, so why did she suddenly shrink back?

She had noticed the faint excitement in Mu Ke’s eyes today, but suddenly felt a bit at a loss, maybe he thought she was just toying with him.

After sitting on the sofa for a while, Sheng Jiayu got up and went to take a shower. The warm water splashed on her skin, which was smooth and fair, without any visible pores. Sheng Jiayu had always been confident about her appearance, today she must have lost her mind.

After finishing her shower, Sheng Jiayu uncharacteristically put on a face mask. Since the divorce, she hadn’t touched anything like a "face mask" for a long time.

Meticulously completing her skincare routine, Sheng Jiayu picked up her phone, hesitated for a moment, and sent Mu Ke a message of explanation: [Sorry, not feeling well tonight.]

Send.

The message went unanswered for a long time, and Sheng Jiayu suddenly felt a bit anxious. She rarely contacted Mu Ke, but usually when she did, he would respond immediately, with only two exceptions when he was in surgery.

Could it be that there’s a surgery this late?

At that moment, Mu Ke was sitting in a noisy bar corner, his coat laid aside, with a bottle of tequila in front of him. On his right sat a man who appeared to be about his age, but clearly more easygoing.

Seeing Mu Ke raise his glass to drink again, the man couldn’t take it and reached out to stop him: "Hey, hey, you called me out to drink away your sorrows? Tell me, what happened?"

Mu Ke glanced at him sideways, didn’t make a sound, just pulled his hand free from the man’s grip and continued drinking.

"Not talking? Let me guess then, the person you asked me to investigate, they have quite a background, right? The eldest daughter of Shengshi Group?"