Mu Zhiyuan: "..."

He turned and went into the kitchen.

The mother is the head of the family.

"Mom, I'm telling the truth."

Mu Zhiyuan followed his mother around and said anxiously, "Why don't you believe me?"

Zhang Guifeng instructed her son: "The leeks haven't been washed yet. Go and help me wash and chop them for the scrambled eggs."

Mu Zhiyuan looked at the leeks in the basket, quickly took it under the faucet, put a basin of water in it, and began to wash the leeks.

He continued as he washed, "Mom, everything I said is true. It's absolutely true. Mom, do you still remember my classmate Ye Junbo from B University? He and I had a junior in common, Chu Yi, who works at the Civil Affairs Bureau. It was Chu Yi who told me about it."

"Chu Yi said Ye Junbo was married. I was curious and called Ye Junbo to confirm it. But guess what? My sister answered the phone. Mu Qing told me in person that she was the one who got the marriage certificate with Ye Junbo."

"I was so scared that I even stopped working. I flew back right away to tell you."

Zhang Guifeng acted as if she didn't hear anything and continued to busy herself.

Mu Zhiyuan washed the leeks, cut them, put the cut leeks in a dish and handed it to his mother.

"Mom, are you listening?"

"I'm listening."

"You have no reaction at all?"

"Words are not enough. Unless Mu Qing can bring your classmate home and show me her marriage certificate, I will believe that she is really married."

Mu Zhiyuan: "...They will definitely be back tomorrow. Junbo said he wanted to meet his parents."

Her son spoke in a serious tone. Zhang Guifeng had just finished cooking a dish. After turning off the gas, she asked her son, "Is what you said true?"

"Mom, can I be kidding? This is my sister's lifelong event."

Mu Zhiyuan repeatedly assured that what he said was true.

"I even put down my work and rushed back. If it wasn't true, why would I rush back in such a hurry?"

Zhang Guifeng was skeptical. "After Mu Qing broke up with Su Ye, she was sad for a long time and never started a new relationship. She knew your classmate, but I haven't heard of them dating. How could they get married?"

"It's all because of Mom's constant urging for marriage. Mu Qing got so tired of you urging her to get married that she just found a random man to marry."

Mu Zhiyuan's words and deeds showed his dissatisfaction with his mother's urging him to get married.

If his sister gets married, his mother's pressure to get married will shift back to him.

Mu Zhiyuan: Holy shit! To keep his ears to himself, he decided to apply to the company for permission to go on a business trip to the farthest place, the kind that wouldn't allow him to come back for a year or two.

Zhang Guifeng picked up the spatula and was about to hit him, but Mu Zhiyuan quickly jumped back.

"Mom, I'm telling you about my sister. When Mu Qing comes back, tell her to stay away from Ye Junbo and go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce on Monday."

Ye Junbo's worries were not unnecessary.

His elder brother-in-law and college classmate actually spoke ill of him in front of his mother-in-law.

"Why?"

"Ye Junbo is not well?"

Zhang Guifeng always urges her daughter to get married and arranges blind dates. One reason is that her daughter is of marriageable age, and the other is that she hopes that her daughter can forget the hurt caused by Su Ye, the scumbag who climbed up the social ladder, through a new relationship.

However, she would not allow her daughter to marry a man whose background she did not know.

"Ye Junbo is very cunning. He appears to be gentle and refined, and his smile is refreshing, but in reality he is a smiling tiger who can easily kill people with just a few words."

Mu Zhiyuan told his understanding of Ye Junbo, "When he was in school, he never interacted with women, but he wasn't much better with his own sex either. The girls chasing him could line up from our house to the Chengxi Market, and he didn't like any of them."

"Mom, I seriously doubt that Ye Junbo is inhumane."

Zhang Guifeng thought of that gentle and elegant young man. Every time he saw them, he would greet them with a smile. He was tall and handsome, and looked healthy. Could it be as her son said?

"She's focused on her studies and doesn't want to fall in love, yet you call her inhumane. Mu Zhiyuan, is there anyone who would slander a classmate like you?"

"Mom, I'm not slandering him. It's my classmates who are discussing it behind his back. How could a normal man remain indifferent in the face of so many suitors? He must have a physical problem, or a mental one."

Mu Zhiyuan was telling the truth.

When I was in college, my classmates talked about how aloof Guo Yejunbo was behind my back. But in fact, he was not really aloof, but had a problem.

When Mu Zhiyuan was in high school, he secretly fell in love, but the campus romance could not be maintained and they broke up after college.

Just because he doesn't have a formal girlfriend now doesn't mean he was well-behaved during college.

All the classmates around him were like that, with the exception of Ye Junbo.

"It's normal for some people to be slow to develop feelings."

Zhang Guifeng didn't quite believe that Ye Junbo had any health problems.

"Junior Chu Yi said that Junbo had a childhood sweetheart. They knew each other since they were young and grew up together. They had always had a good relationship. But ten years ago, his childhood sweetheart suddenly went abroad. Since then, Ye Junbo has become the aloof person we see today."

"I suspect his childhood sweetheart wanted to have sex with him, but she realized Ye Junbo was useless, so she left the country in sadness. And because of his own problems, Ye Junbo appears to be aloof but actually has low self-esteem. So, in college, he never interacted with women, and no matter who took the initiative to pursue him, they couldn't win him over."

Zhang Guifeng: “…”

"Mom, Mu Qing is jumping into a fire pit by marrying Junbo. She must be scared of you urging her to get married, so she just wants to find a random man to marry so that you don't have to worry about her marriage anymore."

Zhang Guifeng said in disbelief, "Marriage is no joke. Mu Qing isn't someone who's willing to compromise. If she was willing to compromise, why would she have to go on so many blind dates? You said she got married and got the marriage certificate, but she didn't even come back to get her household registration booklet. How could she get the certificate?"

"They went to the police station to get a certificate."

"With our junior brother Chu Yi there, getting the marriage certificate went very smoothly."

Zhang Guifeng: “…”

"Mom, why don't you call Mu Qing right now and ask her to come back immediately and bring Ye Junbo back so we can interrogate them both at night!"

After a moment's silence, Zhang Guifeng actually took out her cell phone and called her daughter.

Mu Qing was currently sitting with Ye Junbo in a private room at Jun's Hotel, preparing to order food.

Ye Junbo said he wanted to celebrate and treat her to a meal. She thought he would just find a fast food restaurant, order a few dishes, have some drinks, and call it a day.

Unexpectedly, he brought her to Jun's Hotel.

As a native of City A, even from a small place like a township, Mu Qing knew about the existence of Jun's Hotel.

This is a hotel under the Fengchen Group, one of the most luxurious and high-end hotels in City A.

Because of the high cost, Mu Qing never set foot in Jun's Hotel.

She is still heavily in debt.