novelraw Chapter 369 - 191. Nan Huaiyu stood 5 meters away, looking at Nan Wan. His eyes were no longer filled with mischief but were instead filled with boundless coldness.
Chapter 369 - 191. Nan Huaiyu stood 5 meters away, looking at Nan Wan. His eyes were no longer filled with mischief but were instead filled with boundless coldness.
She adjusted to a comfortable position before replying, "That’s too uncomfortable." She was alone at the Mu Family, and Mu Jin Huan knew she would be unaccustomed; if there were a better way, he wouldn’t let her nurture her pregnancy in such an environment."I won’t hang up, you sleep." Those five short words, when heard by Nan Wan, made her heart fill with a warm, sweet feeling.
She responded softly and placed the phone beside her pillow, but just as she closed her eyes, there was a knock on the door.
After Mu Jinqian opened the door, he stepped aside two steps, and Mu Qingqing held onto the door frame, poking only her head inside.
Blinking her eyes, she asked, "Aunt, can I sleep with you?"
Dad said the baby in Aunt’s belly might be scared, and she had to come and protect it.
When the door was opened, Nan Wan was just sitting up and hadn’t had time to lift the covers.
Seeing it was a cute, soft little dumpling, she smiled gently and waved her hand, "Come in."
Mu Qingqing, wearing pink pajamas, ran into the room, and Mu Jinqian closed the door from the outside. The little dumpling didn’t need Nan Wan to hold her; she climbed onto the bed herself and lay obediently beside Nan Wan.
Supporting her head with one hand and shaking the doll in her hand with the other, she said, "Aunt, do you know, after eating full, brushing teeth, feeling so tired but unable to sleep tossing and turning, what is this mood called?"
Though she was just a five-year-old child, she showed a serious adult-like demeanor, which was very cute.
Nan Wan’s exquisite eyes had a gentle smile, and she cooperatively shook her head, "I don’t know, why don’t you tell me?"
"It’s called missing," Mu Qingqing’s strong desire to explain was satisfied, and she added, "You miss Uncle, that’s why you can’t sleep."
Nan Wan made a suddenly enlightened expression, "Is that so..."
The phone by the pillow was still in call, and on the other end, Mu Jin Huan, wearing headphones, clearly heard the conversation between the two.
Because of Ji Wanxia’s matter, his tense features softened with a gentle warmth in the depths of his dark eyes.
He seemed to be able to imagine when the child in her belly was born, a year or two later, there would also be such a presence at home, pestering him with a hundred thousand questions every day, or constantly making all sorts of noises...
An hour later, the car stopped outside Gu Shaozhi’s villa. Mu Jin Huan didn’t get out immediately but softly called, "Wanwan?"
There was no sound on the other end of the phone, very quiet.
She should be asleep...
He hung up the phone, and the sharp and distinct features returned to a stern resoluteness, with a thin layer of fierce coldness in his dark eyes.
He got out of the car, and each step he took was firm and resolute.
When he saw Ji Wanxia opening the door, Mu Jin Huan’s thin lips pressed into a straight line, and his deep eyes gradually gathered a dark undercurrent.
The last time they met was at his wedding. In just eight months, how did she become so thin! Her complexion was pale, and her gaze was hollow.
"Brother..."
As soon as she spoke one word, tears rolled from her eyes, as if she had been holding back for a long, long time and finally found someone she could lean on to show her vulnerability. The tears flowed in succession, forming a line.
Drop by drop fell from her chin, as if they were hitting Mu Jin Huan’s heart, and he could hear the ’drip, drip’ sound.
He didn’t enter the house but just pulled her into his arms, his voice deep as if the next second it would seep into boundless darkness, "Don’t cry, whatever it is, I’ll bear it."
What exactly did Gu Shaozhi do!
"Xu Qiubai got into a car accident and became a vegetable. Her girlfriend was pregnant, three months, raped, and jumped from the 47th floor this afternoon."
When Ji Wanxia spoke, there was no trace of crying in her voice, and her usually bright eyes lacked focus, as if she were merely stating the most ordinary thing.
"The Ji Family Villa is gone, Grandpa and Grandma’s letters, photos, and our castle, all turned to ashes..."
At this point, she finally let her voice go, choked and indistinct, "It was Shen Weiyi who did it, but he doesn’t believe me and even said I’m too heartbroken and confused."
Her voice grew lower and lower, barely audible.
The hand hanging at her side began to wrap around Mu Jin Huan’s waist, tightening more and more.
Like someone who doesn’t know how to swim pushed into the bottomless Dead Sea, surrounded by darkness, her body continuously sinking, only to be pulled out of the water just before suffocating.
To breathe, she could only instinctively cling tightly to this lifeline.
Xu Qiubai, Shen Weiyi, these names were not unfamiliar to Mu Jin Huan.