"Daughter, your Grandpa Mu is asking you, why haven't you posted any photos of Xiaoyun these past few days?"
"Um, Dad, Xiaoyun, he went on a trip a couple of days ago."
In the president's office of the Chu Family Group, Chu Yaqin looked dejected as she answered Chu Tianxing's questions on her phone.
"He went on a trip? No, honey, how could you let him go out alone? Didn't you keep an eye on him?!"
"He's not my toy, how can I control him all the time!"
Chu Yaqin's voice suddenly became louder, but she quickly realized that she was getting a little emotional, so she said, "I have to go now, I'll hang up," and then hung up the phone.
Slumped in her chair, Chu Yaqin looked utterly exhausted. Hearing her father's words, she suddenly understood what Mu Liuyun meant.
"Did I really treat Xiaoyun like a toy?"
Although Mu Liuyun had only been gone for a day, the fog in Chu Yaqin's head seemed to have suddenly disappeared.
She knew she didn't really treat Mu Liuyun as her toy, but even putting that aside, was her feeling for Mu Liuyun truly love?
Thinking back to what she had told Mu Lixiong, "I'm lusting after his body," Chu Yaqin felt that this pure desire couldn't be called liking at all.
"You just lust after her body, you're despicable!"
I am despicable.
Remembering that classic line from a TV drama, Chu Yaqin felt lost. She knew Mu Liuyun had gone to the Northeast, but she was afraid to go looking for her.
"That's it, just like that?"
"no."
Her body wouldn't allow it, nor would her mind. That single day felt like an eternity to Chu Yaqin; she barely ate a few bites of food.
"Food? It's time to eat something."
Chu Yaqin sighed and walked out of her office.
"Ring ring ring".
Before she even stepped out of the office, Chu Yaqin's phone rang again. Reluctantly, she answered, her voice weary, "Hello, Dad, is there anything else?"
"Chu girl?"
Upon hearing Mu Lixiong's voice from the other end, Chu Yaqin became serious: "Grandpa Mu, is there something you need?"
"What could be wrong with me? It's you and Xiaoyun who have something going on."
Chu Yaqin hesitated for a moment. She absolutely could not tell Grandpa Mu about Mu Liuyun being kidnapped by Liu Kun, but what about her relationship with Mu Liuyun?
After thinking it over, Chu Yaqin gritted her teeth and said, "Grandpa, I think I hurt Xiaoyun."
"Oh? What happened?"
Then, Chu Yaqin told Mu Lixiong what she had said out of shyness, as well as what Mu Liuyun had said, "What I want is the real thing."
"Is that all you're struggling with? Chu girl, your moral standards are too high when it comes to relationships."
"ah?"
"I'm asking you, do you really treat Mu Liuyun like a toy?"
"No, I was just shy at the time. What I actually wanted to say was that he was my girlfriend/boyfriend."
"Then let me ask you again, Xiaoyun said he wanted the 'real thing,' and you said you were lusting after his body, isn't that true?"
"It's true."
"That's settled then! I told you long ago, just go for it. How can lusting after his body not count as having feelings?"
"Just because you're attracted to his body, doesn't that count as feelings?"
Mu Lixiong's words exploded in Chu Yaqin's mind like a firework.
Yes, how can this not be considered affection? Isn't this the purest form of affection?
What's so despicable about this? Those who lust after every woman they see are the ones who are despicable; what she's doing is pure love!
Chu Yaqin's mood instantly improved: "I understand, Grandpa Mu, thank you."
"Hey, why are you thanking me? Do you know what you should be doing now?"
"I'm going to find Xiaoyun right now, then strip her naked and throw her on the bed!"
"Um, yeah...right, then let's do it that way."
Chu Yaqin ignored the sudden hesitation in Mu Lixiong's words and directly called Li Guang: "Uncle Guang, I need to go out for a while. My father and I will be away recently, so I'm leaving the company in your care!"
After saying that, she changed her high heels into flats and walked out of the office with a proud and confident stride, leaving Li Guang completely dumbfounded.
"Me? In charge of managing the company?"
Meanwhile, in a sanatorium in the United States, on the other side of the ocean, Mu Lixiong, who had just hung up the phone, looked at his phone with a complicated expression.
"I think I've created an incredible monster?"
Although Chu Yaqin's words and actions suited his taste, he always felt that she was being a little too hasty.
"Forget it, why think so much?"
"Brother Mu, what do you mean?"
Mu Lixiong pondered for a moment: "I need to make two more phone calls. Can you help me find the phone number of a girl named Shen Lanxin?"
After saying that, Mu Lixiong dialed Mu Xiaoxi's number again.
"I have to treat everyone fairly; this family will fall apart sooner or later without me."
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"Haha, Xiaoyun, look at you, you've scattered the ashes on the kang again."
Wearing an apron, Sister Wang pointed at Mu Liuyun, who was shoveling ash into the kang (a heated brick bed), and laughed so hard she almost fell over.
Mu Liuyun was wearing a mask, and her small face was covered in dust, so you couldn't tell what she looked like. You could only see her big eyes rolling around.
"Sister Wang, you're still laughing! You haven't stopped at all!"
Mu Liuyun was furious. If this wasn't Sister Wang's house, he would have turned around and left!
"Haha, you're so cute!"
As she spoke, Sister Wang took a tissue and began wiping Mu Liuyun's face. Every time she wiped a spot, a patch of fair and tender skin was revealed.
"I'm so envious of you, sister. Your skin is so good."
Looking at Mu Liuyun's face, which appeared even whiter and more delicate against the backdrop of the ash from the heated brick bed, Sister Wang's face revealed a genuine look of envy.
"I'm naturally beautiful!"
Mu Liuyun smugly made a peace sign and responded triumphantly.
For some reason, ever since she found out that everyone was treating her as a substitute, Mu Liuyun has lost her inferiority complex about her appearance.
"Xiaoyun, why don't you recognize me as your older sister from now on?"
Sister Wang suddenly said with a serious expression.
This surprised Mu Liuyun, who then smiled sweetly, "Sister~"
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