Zhou Rui was stunned to see He Muchen standing there indifferently. He Muchen didn't even glance at him, but walked straight to the empty seat, pulled out the chair, and sat down.
Zhou Yuzhi glanced at him, but didn't say much. She pulled up the seat next to He Muchen and sat down, while Song Anqi sat next to Zhou Yuzhi.
Xu Meng pulled the stunned Zhou Rui aside and whispered in his ear, "Rui Rui, are you crazy? How can you call He Muchen 'husband' like that?"
"You're on the verge of being laid off before you even start working!"
Zhou Rui snapped out of his daze and saw He Muchen sitting there with a sour face. Did he not recognize me? We had dinner and slept together last night, how did he become like this after waking up?
Does he not want me anymore? Or was our relationship just a dream, and now that we've woken up, everything has gone back to square one?
But I'm still here, inside this body.
Xu Meng pulled the dazed Zhou Rui to sit next to her, while Zhou Rui kept staring at He Muchen sitting opposite them.
The scene now is just like when I first entered this body—the same place, the same people, only He Muchen has become very indifferent and no longer looks at me.
Xu Meng nudged Zhou Rui, who was still in a daze, with her elbow. "Rui Rui, Zhou Rui, Sister Hong is calling you."
Zhou Rui turned to look at Sister Hong, who said, "Zhou Rui, from now on, you will be in charge of Bright Stars' daily life. Move into their apartment today and live with them."
Zhou Rui stood up in surprise and exclaimed, "What?"
What does that mean? Did he start all over again? Did he start from the very first day he arrived here?
"No way, I must be dreaming," he said, pulling Xu Meng beside him and asking her to slap him.
Xu Meng really slapped him. He cried and covered his face. He was certain that this was not a dream, but reality, so real that it made him sad. He Muchen was no longer the husband who clung to him and loved him.
He didn't know what to do. Everyone was telling him that He Muchen was no longer his husband, and even He Muchen himself was telling him that they were just strangers.
Zhou Rui stood there crying loudly. He Muchen, seeing Zhou Rui crying, couldn't hold back any longer and immediately walked to his side, glaring fiercely at Xu Meng.
Xu Meng stammered, "Didn't you say you wanted to restore everything from before?"
"You can't hit my wife that hard!"
"Is it my fault? Your wife told me to hit him."
Zhou Rui was crying so hard that he didn't hear what He Muchen and Xu Meng were saying to each other.
He Muchen hugged Zhou Rui and wiped away her tears. "Wife, I'm sorry, I was wrong. Please don't cry."
Zhou Rui sobbed, "What did you call me?"
"My wife! You're my wife!"
Zhou Rui cried, "When you saw me just now, I called you husband, and you asked me who I was? And you looked at me with such a cold expression."
"What am I doing..."
Just as he was about to explain, Song Anqi walked over with his arm around Zhou Yuzhi's waist and patted He Muchen's shoulder, saying:
“I told you this kind of proposal was no good, but you didn’t believe me.”
"Good luck to you."
Song Anqi put his arm around Zhou Yuzhi's waist and said, "Wife, let's go."
Zhou Yuzhi pouted. With so many people around, didn't he have any shame?
He retorted angrily, "Who's your wife? I'm your husband."
Song Anqi smiled and rubbed his head, "Okay, you're the boss at home, whatever you say goes."
Zhou Yuzhi looked at him helplessly. He felt that when you're out in the world, your identity is something you give yourself, and he didn't want to admit that he was someone else's wife.
After Zhou Yuzhi and Song Anqi left, Sister Hong came over and patted He Muchen on the shoulder, saying, "Muchen, I performed according to your plan, but you ruined it yourself, so don't blame me."
After Hongjie finished speaking, she left the meeting room. Xu Meng didn't say anything and just slipped away, afraid that He Muchen would come after him.
Only He Muchen and Zhou Rui, who was still crying, remained in the conference room.
He Muchen wiped away the tears on Zhou Rui's cheeks, knelt down on one knee, took his hand, and took out the ring that Zhou Rui had warmed in his pocket.
"Wife, will you marry me?"
Zhou Rui, still shedding tears, watched as He Muchen knelt before her and proposed to her.
For a moment, I couldn't tell whether the tears I was shedding were from the sadness I felt earlier or from the joy of my dream coming true.
So much so that she forgot that He Muchen and others had just been deceiving her.
"Okay, okay..."
He Muchen put the warm ring on his finger and leaned down to kiss Zhou Rui.
He Xiaoze staggered up to them, tugging at Zhou Rui's clothes, "Brother, hug me...kiss me..."
Zhou Rui was startled awake by a childish voice. He pushed He Muchen away, bent down and picked up He Xiaoze, "Why are you here too?"
He Muchen looked coldly at He Xiaoze, that brat, who really knew how to ruin the atmosphere. He was so angry that he pinched Xiaoze's cheek as a warning.
"Kid, hurry up and go to your aunt's."
He Xiaoze burst into tears, clinging tightly to Zhou Rui's neck with one arm and pointing at He Muchen with the other, complaining, "He's mean, he pinched me so hard it hurts!"
"Brother, don't get along with him~"
He Muchen's eyes widened in anger, and he reached out to snatch He Xiaoze from Zhou Rui's hands and beat him until his buttocks were bruised and battered.
Zhou Rui glared at He Muchen, "Honey, can you please stop arguing so much with a child?"
He Muchen said aggrievedly, "Wife, I didn't do anything to him! I didn't hold it against him. I just wanted to take him back to my sister's place."
"Really? You spanked her little bottom last time, didn't you want to spank her little bottom just now?"
When his wife saw through his act, He Muchen immediately pretended to be aggrieved, pouting and looking wronged.
"Honey, I didn't. How could you think that about me?"
My little heart is crying!
Zhou Rui held He Xiaoze and played with him, then said to He Muchen, "Your little heart should cry for a while, I'll comfort this little guy first."
He Muchen hugged Zhou Rui jealously, "No, I also want my wife to hug and comfort me. Let my sister comfort him."
"It's okay, you can cry for a while. You scared me to tears just now. You can comfort yourself." Zhou Rui carried He Xiaoze out of the conference room.
He Muchen followed behind, anxiously asking Zhou Rui, "Wife, you wouldn't be backing out of my proposal, would you?"
"A marriage proposal is a marriage proposal, but making me cry is making me cry. You should also experience what it means to be sad."
"You'd better not talk to me for the next two hours, or I might change my mind."
He Muchen shut his mouth in grievance and followed Zhou Rui. When Zhou Yuzhi saw the two of them carrying the little kid over, he went up to say something, but Zhou Rui ignored him and walked past him with He Xiaozhe in his arms.
Zhou Yuzhi pulled He Muchen aside and asked, "Brother Chen, what's your wife doing? She's ignoring people and acting like someone owes her money."
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