"In a few days, you’re coming to Paris with me."
Jian Yan said to her seriously.
"A client specifically requested you."
Upon hearing it was about work, Qin Mu did not dare to slack off and immediately put away her child-like teasing.
Xiaomei, cradling some documents, stepped forward to find them and immediately volunteered eagerly, "I want to go back as well."
Jian Yan glanced up at her, "Do we need you everywhere we go?"
Xiaomei immediately looked downtrodden, hanging her head without speaking, but she was seething inside.
"Can’t we take Xiaomei?" Qin Mu asked out of curiosity; she was quite used to having Xiaomei around.
"This time, you are assisting me, you don’t need assistance."
Upon hearing this, Qin Mu could only nod: "Alright, then!"
"So you just don’t want to take me, right? Then—then Qinqin, could you bring my cactus over from my place?"
Though unhappy, Xiaomei didn’t dare to lose her temper with Jian Yan and had to ask Qin Mu instead.
The master and disciple both looked at her with disbelief, while Xiaomei just turned and walked away.
"Why not leave it in my master’s office for him to take care of?"
Remembering her affection, Qin Mu immediately called out to the departing Xiaomei, who then couldn’t help but giggle quietly.
"All this fuss over a pot of cactus." Jian Yan shook his head helplessly.
"Then you should take care of it. After all, cacti can shield against radiation. It can just sit next to your computer."
Jian Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, and resignedly agreed.
Qin Mu knew by looking at Jian Yan’s expression that he was unaware of Xiaomei’s feelings for him, but if Xiaomei did not like him, why would she willingly stay here to be his assistant?
At noon, Helian Hao came looking for her in her office. Seeing her drawing at her desk, he immediately ran over and hugged her from behind: "Mumu, I’m sorry!"
Qin Mu startled, then set down her pen and turned to look at her: "What are you doing?"
"It was all because I insisted on taking you shopping yesterday that you ended up in such trouble."
Qin Mu had to stand up, looking at the woman with dark circles under her eyes, she gently caressed half of her face with her hand: "Are you silly? It was just a coincidence."
"Coincidence? But if it wasn’t for me taking you, you wouldn’t have encountered this, right?"
"You should think positively. If it wasn’t yesterday, it could have been the day after tomorrow, or two days after that; could I have faced something even worse?"
Qin Mu smiled faintly, gently stroked Helian Hao’s hair, and said, "I have something even more important to tell you."
"Huh? There’s something even more important?"
"This morning, Mu Yichen announced to the Mu Family that we’ve registered our marriage!"
Helian Hao bent over in shock, her eyes nearly popping out.
"And as of today, the entire Mu Family already knows about it."
Successfully diverting Helian Hao’s attention, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"When you noticed Mu Yi and I were wearing matching rings, we were actually already married."
"To be precise, I registered with him the first time I returned to the country."
After speaking, Qin Mu finally looked up at her, finding the whole thing as unbelievable as Helian Hao.
Helian Hao opened and closed her mouth several times, wanting to ask something, but after much thought, she simply let go of Qin Mu’s hand, walked to the side, and after pondering for a while, turned back to ask her, "So now, exactly how many people know you two are married?"
"Apart from the Mu Family, only you!"
Helian Hao felt her breath growing faint, incredulous that this woman had been married for over half a year while keeping it a secret.
"Now you must tell me the whole story," Helian insisted, filled with disbelief, pressing Qin Mu to recount the entire process. So the two ordered takeout and chatted while eating in the studio until nearly one o’clock.
Later, Helian Hao still found it surreal but had come to accept it. Then she remembered Huanhuan, "Then does Huanhuan know?"
"He probably doesn’t know yet."
Talking about this, Qin Mu couldn’t help but sigh helplessly as she sat on the sofa, remembering the last time he came to pick up falsified documents for Huanhuan and finding it funny—how could he be so foolish about this?
"Qin Mu, oh Qin Mu, you really are a woman who quietly achieves big things," Helian Hao said with a resigned laugh, shaking her head, still in disbelief.
How could she have imagined that a girl who dared not date, who feared marriage, had quietly completed it all already?
"All of this was completely unexpected," Qin Mu said, leaning back against the sofa, looking up at the ceiling, a bittersweet smile on her face.