When Love Turns the Tables: The Mysterious Husband's Chase-Chapter 791: New Year’s Gift (1)
Mu Ke tapped his fingers on his phone a few times, then put the phone back in his pocket, just as he heard Ms. Wang from the front row speak: "Mu Ke, Shanshan has finally come back, why aren’t you saying anything?"
Mu Ke leaned his head against the car seat, his gaze light: "I’m listening."
He has always been cold by nature; giving such a response already showed he was giving Yang Yushan face. Ms. Wang, knowing her son’s personality, still felt somewhat dissatisfied.
Yang Yushan smiled to ease the situation: "Ah Nan must be tired from catching a flight this morning; let him rest."
Su Chen glanced at his friend, amusement deep in his eyes, tired from not sleeping well?
Even if he didn’t sleep well, it definitely wasn’t the flight’s fault. Last night, he stayed over at his future mother-in-law’s house, with a soft beauty in his arms.
Mu Ke didn’t speak, taking Yang Yushan’s cue, and simply closed his eyes.
Su Chen continued chatting with Mu Xin and Yang Yushan in the front row, but he keenly observed that, although Yang Yushan was talking with them, seemingly very happy, her peripheral vision kept drifting towards Mu Ke.
There’s no mistake that the Mu Family and Yang Family are on good terms, but their generation’s relationships are fairly similar; in fact, Yang Yushan and Mu Ke aren’t necessarily more familiar with each other than Yang Yushan and him. Something felt off to Su Chen from earlier.
For example, she calls him Su Chen, which is his full name, but calls him Ah Nan, his nickname — it’s a bit subtle.
Su Chen is quite perceptive, especially when it comes to gossip. He discreetly pulled out his phone to send Mu Ke a little message. When the person next to him felt his phone vibrate, Su Chen maintained an ordinary expression holding his phone, as if he wasn’t sending a message but genuinely attending to something.
With his eyes closed resting, Mu Ke felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, thinking it was a message from Sheng Jiayu. He hurriedly opened his eyes, took it out, and saw the sender — surprised, he opened it: [Come clean, is there something clandestine going on between you and our Sister Yang?]
Mu Ke ignored Su Chen, turned off his phone, put it back in his pocket, and continued to rest with closed eyes.
The Mu Family was located in an upscale villa area in S City; the car stopped at the entrance, and everyone got out. Ms. Wang invited Su Chen to stay for lunch, and the originally empty villa instantly turned lively with their arrival.
Mu Ke returned to his room to put away his things and took a quick shower. Wrapping a towel around himself casually, he grabbed his phone to call Sheng Jiayu.
In truth, the two hadn’t been apart for long, but Mu Ke felt as if it had been ages. Perhaps he shouldn’t have been so considerate of her; maybe he should be a bit selfish and bring that woman over to spend the New Year together. Then she’d be right in front of him now, rather than having only a phone call to keep in touch.
Of course, thinking is all, Mu Ke wouldn’t actually do that, leaving Xu Qingru alone in B City would make Sheng Jiayu worried, and he couldn’t bear to make her worry.
The phone connected quickly, Sheng Jiayu was lazily lying on the couch reading a book, Xu Qingru had gone for a nap, the old house was quiet, with only the sound of her answering the phone.
Having just called, what else was there to say? Mu Ke just wanted to hear her voice, chatted briefly, and hung up.
Mu Ke changed his clothes and went downstairs, lunch was ready, just waiting for him.
Mu Xin leaned close to Mu Ke and gestured between their heights, frowning: "Brother, did you grow taller again?"
