novelraw Chapter 528 - 242._4
Chapter 528 - 242._4
At first, Mu Jin Huan thought that just like on the night of the incident, as soon as she closed her eyes, those terrifying and glaring scenes would appear in her dreams, waking her from sleep in less than half an hour.Until, she said this sentence.
Only then did he realize that ultimately, the source of the nightmares and the vague anxiety was him.
The man’s tone was very flat, without even a hint of fluctuations.
The light, calming scent of lilies lingered around the nose, as Nan Wan leaned in his arms, feeling the strong and steady heartbeat, gradually forgetting the sight of the bright red blood.
A deep voice sounded in her ear, "For the rest of my life, it’s only you."
Along with these words came a series of tender kisses.
It tickled a bit, and Nan Wan shrank back slightly, looking up at him with a faint smile on her face, "Don’t think you can just sweet-talk me like that."
Her voice was soft and gentle, without a hint of menace.
The collarbone and swan-like neck exposed in the air still bore deep and shallow marks, evidence of what he had done a few hours ago on the big bed in the bedroom.
Mu Jin Huan’s slender fingers pinched the woman’s chin, his gaze lingering on the enticing scenery faintly visible beneath her neckline,
"Can you handle it?" Nan Wan squinted at him, "I’m a thirty-year-old woman with common sense, not a naive girl swooning over male idols all day long."
Quite vengeful indeed...
"I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll broaden your horizons," Mu Jin Huan lifted the woman in his arms, a bewitching smile forming between his brows, "After all, we are family, so your husband won’t charge you tuition."
Nan Wan gave a half-hearted smile, "Thank you so much."
"No need to thank me."
"..."
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Apart from mealtime, Nan Wan spent her time curled up on the sofa, resting her chin in her hand, watching the two kids playing with toys in the living room.
Pea never resisted Nan Wan’s closeness; after a few days, when she was hungry, she called for ’mama’ instead of ’papa’, and she was easy to soothe to sleep at night. As long as Nan Wan carried her around the backyard a couple of times, she could lay her in bed for a good night’s sleep till morning.
However, Jiu Jiu’s attitude remained indifferent. Although he didn’t dislike Nan Wan’s closeness, it wasn’t fondness either.
Like now, Nan Wan and Aunt Zhou each held a bottle of milk, one for Pea and one for Jiu Jiu, indistinguishable except for their names etched on the bottle bottoms.
Yet Jiu Jiu walked towards Aunt Zhou.
Nan Wan was a bit disappointed. She didn’t deliberately hide it, so Aunt Zhou noticed, "Madam, don’t be upset. Kids are very adaptable; in a few days, it will get much better."
Over these nine months, it was Aunt Zhou who spent the most time with the two children.
Even more than Mr. Mu.
"I’m not upset," Nan Wan exchanged the bottle in her hand with the one Aunt Zhou was holding and, looking at Pea who was crawling over, smiled, "I’m just jealous."
Her brows and eyes were filled with a gentle smile, so the latter part of her sentence was said half-jokingly.
Aunt Zhou, being a mother herself, understood the sense of loss in Nan Wan’s heart and was just about to comfort her when Mu Jin Huan’s voice echoed as he walked down from the study, "Jealous of what?"
Jiu Jiu could hold his bottle himself, so Aunt Zhou went to the kitchen because she knew that whatever she said, even a thousand words couldn’t compare to one word from him.
Pea was lying on Nan Wan’s lap drinking her milk; to her, nothing was more tiring than that. She had just started, and already her breathing was getting heavier.
Even so, she wouldn’t let go of the nipple to catch her breath, leaving Nan Wan feeling a bit helpless.
Her palm gently stroked Pea’s back in case she choked; she didn’t even look back, calmly saying, "Nothing, you heard wrong."
Although Mrs. Mu lied without blushing or skipping a beat, Mu Jin Huan had guessed more or less. He walked to the sofa and sat down beside her, "Apart from An Ge, Jiu Jiu is like this with everyone. He’s still so young, if you’re angry with him, you might as well be sad until you’re eighty."
Oh, the other day she had told him not to sweet-talk her, and today he just got straight to the point with practical actions.
"Other people are other people," Nan Wan shrugged off the man’s hand resting on her shoulder, looking indignantly at Mr. Jiu Jiu drinking his milk nonchalantly, "I, I’m his mother. Treating me the same as everyone else is a big insult to me."
Those nine months ultimately did lose something that could never be found again.
Like, the growth of the two children.
"According to that logic, my situation is even worse than yours," having already been shrugged off once by Mrs. Mu didn’t bother Mu Jin Huan at all; he still firmly pulled her back into his embrace, his voice warm with a smile, "Let Aunt Zhou feed An Ge, and you come with me to the study."
"What for?" Mrs. Mu was still in a low mood, not in the mood to argue with him, "You’re working while I just sit idle?"
"To show you something."
"Not interested."
Mu Jin Huan held her little face with an ambiguous smile, "Then don’t regret it."
If he were to say something else, Nan Wan would probably still be in a ’don’t bother me, I don’t want to see’ kind of mood, but what he said was filled with tantalizing ambiguity.
Really breaking the rules.
Nan Wan turned her head to look at him, "You... you’re so mysterious, it makes me a bit nervous."
This incorrigible curiosity.
It turned out, her curiosity this time didn’t kill any cats.
What Mr. Mu showed her was a video recording every change in Jiu Jiu and Pea’s lives over the nine months she missed.
From Jiu Jiu’s first soft call of ’mama’ to his toddling, swaying adorably as he learned to walk.
From Pea’s relentless crawling all over the place to standing up and slowly moving while holding onto the sofa.
From the first second of the video, accompanied by Pea’s clear laughter, and occasionally Jiu Jiu’s babbling sounds.
The nine months she missed were all in this video.
Nan Wan leaned on the man’s shoulder, her gentle gaze watching the video now playing for the third time, softly saying, "Mu Huan, thank you."