Mu Xingfeng glanced towards the bathroom, "I’m afraid I can’t make it tomorrow. I don’t have time these two days."
His little girl was sick, and he wanted to stay with her for two days, so she could slowly get used to the climate of the Imperial City.
"What could you possibly be busy with?" Gu Haoyu didn’t expect Mu Xingfeng to reject him; this was the first time.
"Accompany my wife." Those three simple words unexpectedly warmed Mu Xingfeng’s heart as he said them. Wife, what a beautiful word, especially when used to describe his little girl.
But the person on the other end of the phone didn’t sentiment. Those two words were like a steel needle piercing his chest.
"Wife? Xingfeng, I never knew you could be so impulsive. How long have you known that girl? How long could you actually have interacted? Two days? Two weeks? Two months? And you can already call her ’wife’? Xingfeng, your act is a bit too unrealistic."
"Brother, I don’t understand what you’re saying." Mu Xingfeng genuinely did not understand Gu Haoyu’s words. Act? Was he, Mu Xingfeng, the kind of person who would act for someone else? Of course, except for his little girl.
"You understand. A girl who can’t even handle a kiss, and you call her ’wife’? You think I’ll believe you? Ruonan has loved you for nearly twenty years, don’t you think treating her is too cruel?" Gu Haoyu’s heart ached at the thought of Lin Ruonan being heartbroken upon learning that Mu Xingfeng brought back a girlfriend.
"Brother, I think I made it very clear last time. There’s nothing between Ruonan and me. Please don’t interfere with my private feelings again."
If it weren’t for all those years of brotherhood, and if he didn’t understand Gu Haoyu’s feelings, Mu Xingfeng’s patience would have worn thin long ago.
"Xingfeng, I’m not interfering with your feelings. I just can’t bear to see you make a wrong decision. I know she is very pitiful right now, even homeless. If she is willing, you can recognize her as a sister, or we could all recognize her as a sister, to give her a stable life. You don’t need to sacrifice your feelings to repay her..."
"That’s enough, Brother. My woman doesn’t need anyone’s pity, nor does she need anything from anyone. In her life, there’s only me, and can only be me. I love her, and it has nothing to do with repaying a favor. That’s it, I have things to do."
Without waiting for a response, Mu Xingfeng directly hung up the phone.
Turning around, he saw the little girl at the bathroom door. All the anger disappeared from his face, and a slight smile appeared on his lips as he walked to the dining table and called her over, "Come eat."
An Ran responded and walked over, secretly observing Mu Xingfeng’s expression.
Just coming out of the bathroom, she saw him still on the phone, seemingly having an argument with someone from the other end. She felt the tension and hostility from him, which made her hesitate to move forward, but she didn’t really understand why he was angry.
After he hung up, the sudden change in Mu Xingfeng’s demeanor made her wonder if she had just seen it wrong.
Mu Xingfeng served the soup while watching the little girl’s expression, raising an eyebrow, "What’s wrong?"
An Ran took the soup he handed over and tried to ask, "Instructor Mu, do you have something going on? If you do, you don’t need to worry about me, I’m already feeling better."
She increasingly felt like she was causing trouble, especially when she was with Instructor Mu, always unintentionally bringing trouble to him. She thought the two of them must be star-crossed.