"Actually, that’s all true! But I’m more often just a free man, so, Xiaomei, if you ever get bored and have nothing to do, feel free to call me for a free ride and flower guard service!"
Zhao Huai said this as he pulled a business card out of the box in front of him, looked up at her with squinted eyes, smiled, and handed her the card.
Xiaomei lowered her arms, which had been resting on the car, took the business card, glanced at it, and then said with a smile, "Then thanks, goodbye for now!"
Zhao Huai bid her goodbye and then happily sipped his coffee.
It had to be said that this was worlds apart from the instant coffee at his home; there really was no comparison.
When Wang Mingyu received a call from home, he only glanced at his phone once, and then threw it back onto the passenger seat. He didn’t know a thing about the family’s affairs. All he knew was that Qin Mu had left his room that morning. If they indeed had relations, why did he still feel that something was off?
Wang Mingyu wanted to find the answer. Wang Huanyu and Qin Mingzhu insisted that it was Qin Mu who had slept with him that night; thus, he was somewhat agitated.
If he really had relations with Qin Mu, could Mu Yichen ever accept Qin Mu? How could Qin Mu remain so composed up until now?
And his own brother scheming against him, heh!
Wang Mingyu still started his car; he wanted to ask Qin Mu if she felt unwell that morning. If they had been intimate, especially while he was drugged, the woman should’ve been in bad shape, exhausted.
No! Actually, he would rather she was.
Zhao Huai had only taken two sips of his coffee when he saw the man coming out of the car behind him, so he immediately set his coffee aside and got out of his car as well.
"Mingyu, don’t make it difficult for your brother!"
Zhao Huai walked out and stopped him.
"You’re here watching over her for Mu Yichen!"
Wang Mingyu asked with furrowed brows, unafraid of Zhao Huai.
"Watching over her? Yichen just asked me to take good care of our Xiaomu, that’s all. I just wanted to remind Mingyu that this isn’t the place for you."
"I need to talk to her!"
Wang Mingyu said earnestly and looked towards the second floor.
The window was empty, but this made him even more anxious to see her.
"You might have a lot to say to her, but she’s now a married woman. It really isn’t appropriate for you to meet with her under these circumstances, being a stranger."
"Mingyu, being the smart man you are, should know what I mean, right?"
Zhao Huai looked at Wang Mingyu’s expression, asked again, and smiled.
"You’re saying they are married? How is that possible?"
Wang Mingyu couldn’t believe it.
"You know, ’hidden marriages’ are popular these days; that’s what they are in."
Zhao Huai inserted his hands into his pockets, squinting against the sunlight, and yet he smiled casually.
"So I can’t see her? Who will be the one to stay by her side till the end is still uncertain!"
"No other men in her life, not in this one!"
Zhao Huai shot back directly.
"Zhao Huai, do you not know how tough I can be?"
Wang Mingyu stepped forward impulsively and grabbed Zhao Huai by the collar, to which Zhao Huai immediately raised his hands in a surrender gesture, "I can’t beat you, — but —"
Zhao Huai suddenly looked behind him as another car stopped and Wang Huanyu got out.
Wang Mingyu, hearing the sound of the car door closing, turned his head, and then, reluctantly, he released Zhao Huai. Zhao Huai actually breathed a sigh of relief and then watched as Wang Mingyu turned to walk towards his brother.
"Ignoring phone calls and here fighting over a woman?"
Wang Huanyu asked disapprovingly.
"I’ve said it before, you deal with the mess you make; I want no part in this mess."
Wang Mingyu replied coldly.
"You want no part? You never put in an ounce of effort for the Wang Family’s empire, but you’ve basked in the Wang Family’s honor for many years. You tell me you don’t want to participate? Do you think you have that right?"
Wang Huanyu yanked up Wang Mingyu’s collar, his aggressive demeanor much stronger than Wang Mingyu’s.
Zhao Huai retreated back to his car, fetched his coffee again, and now, no longer hot, it tasted just perfect.
"It’s not like I got to choose the family I was born into; otherwise, I’d have preferred not to be a part of the Wang Family."
"You little punk, say that one more time!"
Wang Huanyu, infuriated, punched him in the face.
Zhao Huai dramatically widened his eyes from a distance and almost burst out laughing.
"I’ll say it ten more times, the same thing. Do you think the Wang Family brought me honor? To me, it’s been nothing but a burden. Just because my surname is Wang, no one sees the effort I put in; everyone credits my achievements to the family. Am I wrong?"
Wang Mingyu almost fell to the ground with the punch but stood up, strode towards Wang Huanyu, grabbed him by the collar, and punched him back. When Wang Huanyu fell to the ground, Wang Mingyu straddled his waist and struck another hard punch: "Right now, aside from the woman inside, I don’t care about anyone else!"
Zhao Huai chuckled to himself from a distance, thinking, is this lad so passionately in love?
If Yichen heard this, he’d probably cripple him!
"You care about her? What if I told you the woman who slept with you that night wasn’t her?"
Wang Huanyu suddenly asked, managing to turn the tables after being momentarily stunned by his brother’s words, then pressed his brother to the ground and grabbed his collar, ready to punch. But looking at Wang Mingyu’s stunned expression, he ultimately didn’t follow through.