Fortunately, although in a half-asleep state, Su Qingluan still retained her most basic physical instincts, so she subconsciously used her hands to support the ground, and finally avoided the situation of falling to the ground.

She turned around suddenly, only to find Mu Xingzhi sitting in a wheelchair. He had not yet retracted his right hand that had just "done evil", and his expression was one of rare surprise.

"What are you doing?" Su Qingluan glared at him unhappily, "Why did you push me so suddenly?"

Originally, Su Qingluan thought that this guy would feel guilty after being caught in the act, but she didn't expect that she still underestimated how shameless Mu Xingzhi was.

Not only was he not panicking, he even looked at me innocently: "I just didn't know what you were doing squatting here, Qingluan, so I wanted to ask you to stand up, but you suddenly fell forward."

Su Qingluan stared at Mu Xingzhi's innocent face suspiciously, but after a moment she still couldn't see any clues.

After such a sudden shock, any sleepiness had long since vanished. She clapped her hands to cleanse the palms that had been resting on the ground, then stood up and looked at Mu Xingzhi: "Why are you here? Have those people gone back?"

"Your friend is here to see you." Mu Xingzhi pointed in the direction of the front hall outside. "It's the girl from the Tian family."

Su Qingluan thought about it and knew it was Tian Xing'er. She probably heard from others that she was decocting medicine in the kitchen in the backyard?

Su Qingluan had originally thought that Tian Xing'er was waiting in the front hall like everyone else, but now she saw her standing at the kitchen door, looking at her with a dazed look in her eyes. But as she looked over, the dazed look disappeared, replaced by an evasive look.

Then Su Qingluan realized belatedly that this dodge was not directed at herself, but at Mu Xingzhi.

"Hey, Xing'er, you're here?" Su Qingluan looked at Tian Xing'er, "Do you want to go back together?"

On their way back from Mu Xing's home, Su Qingluan and Tian Xing'er walked together for a distance.

Tian Xing'er nodded to Su Qingluan first, then looked at Mu Xingzhi and explained in a low and anxious voice: "Mu...Mr. Mu, I, I just saw that you haven't come back for a long time, and I'm a little worried..."

Her cheeks were flushed red, her head was lowered, and she hardly dared to look up at Mu Xingzhi. Looking at her posture, she wished she could hide her entire face.

Mu Xingzhi looked at Tian Xing'er steadily and smiled slightly. Su Qingluan felt that this smile was different from the ones she had seen before. It was not a gentle and polite smile, nor a malicious smile, but... a little bit sharp and a little bit sarcastic.

...Maybe it was just her illusion? Frankly speaking, Su Qingluan didn't think Mu Xingzhi was such a stingy person.

After all, in this house, at least on the surface, there is no area where people are "afraid of entering or leaving".

And to be frank, based on Su Qingluan's understanding of Mu Xingzhi, if Tian Xing'er or anyone else really heard or saw something they shouldn't know, then instead of showing displeasure on his face, Mu Xingzhi's first reaction would definitely be to kill them to silence them and eliminate the root of the problem.

After all, she had seen people being "dealt with" before - although it wasn't her.

As expected, Mu Xingzhi spoke in the same gentle and elegant tone: "It's okay, I kept Madam Tian waiting for a long time." He turned to look at Su Qingluan, "Madam Su has worked hard too."

Su Qingluan understood that in front of all the outsiders except those who knew the truth, Mu Xingzhi would not call her by her name directly as he did in private, so she nodded and said, "I have been bothering you for a long time. Goodbye."

But in my heart, I was thinking about settling the score with this guy for his "irresponsible behavior" someday.

Mu Xingzhi watched the two girls leave, slowly restrained the polite smile on his lips, and looked down at the hand that he had just pressed on Su Qingluan's head.

In fact, he was not telling the truth - he did it on purpose.

At that time, he just asked Tian Xing'er, who came to ask Su Qingluan to go back together, to wait in the front hall, while he went to the kitchen to find Su Qingluan - as for Song Bo, he was responsible for seeing the guest off.

Walking up the specially designed ramp to the kitchen, Mu Xingzhi saw Su Qingluan squatting in a corner of the kitchen, curled up into a small ball.

The setting sun shone through the paper window, gilding Su Qingluan's features. Her hair was tied into two fluffy buns, and as she curled up into a ball, she looked like some kind of furry little animal.

In addition, she must have been extremely tired at this time, and her little head fell down little by little. Finally, she seemed to have found a good place for her head that always wanted to fall down - her own knees.

So Mu Xingzhi watched Su Qingluan using her knees as a pillow and falling asleep while squatting like that.

For some reason, Mu Xingzhi suddenly wanted to touch the girl's furry hair, which was coated with a layer of gold by the sunset. There was no reason at all - in fact, when he made such a move, he didn't even realize that it was what he was going to do.

It was only when Su Qingluan was suddenly frightened and fell forward that he realized what childish and unreasonable behavior he had done.

It was precisely because this action was completely out of his plan that Mu Xingzhi was caught for not retracting his hand in time when Su Qingluan turned around. What made him even more unhappy was that his unreasonable action distracted his mind and made him unaware that someone had followed him to the kitchen.

Of course, the kitchen is not a "shameful" place. Mu Xingzhi could not have made such a low-level mistake, otherwise he would have died eight hundred times.

However, for Mu Xingzhi, the fact that someone was following him without his knowledge was an unforgivable mistake, even if the other party had no ill intentions. For this reason, he even took his anger out on Tian Xing'er.

Of course, the so-called "venting anger" was just an unfriendly smile, and even that hint of unkindness was fleeting, and judging from Tian Xing'er's reaction, she herself didn't even notice it.

However, this still made Mu Xingzhi feel that something had quietly slipped out of his control...

Su Qingluan had no idea what Mu Xingzhi was thinking. She was walking home with Tian Xing'er.

I don’t know if it’s because she was frightened, but Tian Xing’er was quieter today than usual, as if she had something on her mind.

If it were under normal circumstances, Su Qingluan wouldn't mind asking, and if possible, she could still enlighten the little girl.

But today, she was really too tired. Even though she was suddenly startled awake by Mu Xingzhi, the feeling of fatigue did not disappear. Now she was only supported by her willpower, otherwise she might fall down and fall asleep immediately.

Finally, they came to a fork in the road where they parted ways. Su Qingluan wanted to say goodbye to Tian Xing'er, but unexpectedly, Tian Xing'er looked over first, her expression full of trepidation: "Qingluan, I have a question for you."