Chapter 196 [Is this why you contacted me today? ]
Mu Jia hesitated for a moment, but ultimately didn't bring up the incident of being surrounded by reporters at the door. Instead, he made a voice call and asked softly after the call was connected, "I heard from the driver that you went to Nanshi. Are you busy with the project? Did...something happen?"
On the other end of the phone, Xie Siyan slowly rubbed his eyebrows.
This kind of busy life, without distinction between day and night, has lasted for nearly half a month.
Although the original "troublemaker" has long returned to Beijing and no longer interferes with this project, the mess left behind still needs someone to clean up.
To put it bluntly, what they are doing now is to "clean up other people's butts" and sort out the mess.
In the past, Xie Siyan would definitely not have needed to personally intervene in such matters.
But this time the situation was unusual - it not only involved his father's illegitimate son who had never been made public, but also involved the interests of many senior executives within the group.
The power struggles and calculations behind the scenes were far beyond the imagination of outsiders. The complicated situation also forced Xie Siyan, who had always put the southern market aside and not cared about it, to come here personally to deal with the follow-up and finish it.
The meeting between the two last night can be said to have ended in a bad mood.
This time Mu Jia asked about it herself, and Xie Siyan chatted with her for a few more words. His voice sounded a little tired on the phone, and he only said that he was indeed very busy recently. After she went to bed last night, he was still in a meeting until two in the morning.
Mu Jia had no impression of this.
I only vaguely remember that he was tossing and turning himself almost out of control in bed. When I heard these words suddenly, my ears felt slightly hot.
The topic was unknowingly changed, and she no longer mentioned the incident in which she and Zheng Pingzhou were misunderstood by reporters.
When he hung up the phone, Zhou Xu's parents just walked in.
They had obviously visited the baby and were chatting with Song Mingxi with a smile.
When Mu Jia approached, he vaguely heard the second half of the conversation - in addition to being concerned about Song Mingxi's physical recovery, the two elders also tactfully brought up the topic of "second child".
She suddenly felt that the word "enlightened" might often only exist in parents in romance novels.
Even family members who seem easygoing and tolerant, especially the older generation, still have some expectation of having both a son and a daughter in their hearts.
Mu Jia didn't know what he was thinking about, and for a moment, he felt a little depressed.
Song Mingxi himself accepted this well.
After Zhou Xu's parents left, she took the initiative to explain to Mu Jia that the two elders had only made a subtle suggestion—after all, Zhou Xu himself wasn't an only child, so the Zhou family naturally wanted more children. But she then made it clear that she definitely wouldn't have any more children.
Mu Jia nodded, expressing his understanding of her decision.
Although Mu Jia had not been in the country before, she heard about the entire process of Song Mingxi's pregnancy from Zhou Xu and other friends: poor sleep in the early stages, severe morning sickness in the later stages, and before the delivery, because it was Song Mingxi's first time giving birth, she read a lot of books, which made her extremely anxious.
There are countless kinds of hardships.
Song Mingxi smiled, her tone relaxed. "They probably don't know yet that I'm not really their daughter-in-law yet. Zhou Xu and I... are still in the negotiation stage."
Mu Jia's eyes widened immediately: "He hasn't caught up with you yet?"
Song Mingxi shook his head: "He didn't chase me."
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After visiting the baby, they both confirmed with the nurse that the current situation did not require any other measures before preparing to leave.
Since Song Mingxi didn't drive today, he naturally took Zheng Pingzhou's car back.
But Mu Jia is completely different.
The scene of being surrounded by reporters when she came appeared in her mind. She was still scared, afraid that she would be photographed again. Even if she was photographed and no one cared, she was too afraid to deal with the reporters.
She suggested that she could take a taxi and leave alone.
Song Mingxi was slightly surprised by this, and then he persuaded, "Jia Jia, his car is already here, you can just take a taxi. Not to mention that there are no reporters downstairs now, what if you bump into someone when you take a taxi later..."
Mu Jia stood there awkwardly.
She had never considered this possibility.
Finally, Mu Jia got in the car after being persuaded by Song Mingxi.
The return journey was smooth and unobstructed, but Mu Jia never expected that she and Zheng Pingzhou would become the hot search that night.
Mu Jia originally thought that Zheng Pingzhou was just an ordinary businessman, and at the very least, he wouldn't receive as much media attention as Zhou Xu. However, the facts seemed to be just the opposite.
When Mu Jia saw the trending search, she was stunned and she immediately called Song Mingxi.
Song Mingxi spoke calmly on the other end of the phone, "I forgot to tell you, Zheng Pingzhou's mother is a famous Peking Opera actress, and he himself is a semi-public figure, so it's normal for him to be targeted by the media."
The call with Song Mingxi hasn't been hung up yet.
On Mu Jia's phone, Xie Siyan's message popped up: [Is this why you took the initiative to contact me today? ]
Below this question, which was full of implications, an additional photo was attached.
In the picture, Mu Jia and Zheng Pingzhou got out of the car side by side, very close to each other, and looked quite intimate.
She thought carefully and realized that this should be the scene that was photographed under the hospital building in the morning.
Mu Jia held the phone and hesitated for a moment.
After all, the two of them are still in a relationship, and it was she who nodded and signed the contract. Now... even if it is not to Xie Siyan, just out of respect for the contract, from a legal and moral point of view, she should give Xie Siyan an explanation.
So she thought it over again and again, and decided to organize what happened in the shortest possible language and send an explanation.
But she didn't expect that this would be the last time she could contact Xie Siyan.
It was not until the next afternoon, when Mu Jia was sitting in the office and finished his work, that he opened the dialog box and realized that the message he had sent had completely fallen into the sea and there was no response from the other end.
As for Xie Siyan himself, he did not even respond to Zhou Xu's message @ him on WeChat Moments last night.
Mu Jia leaned back in his chair, rubbed his swollen temples, and tried to sort out the series of events in front of him.
She even had some doubts as to whether the two of them should go to the temple to pray, otherwise, why was their relationship always so bumpy.
After half a month of inner struggle, she finally mustered up the courage to take a step forward, which led to her current situation.
Xie Siyan's loss of contact lasted for three full days.
Three days later, the driver called her and said that a burglary had occurred in Xie Siyan's villa on Huai'an South Road.
The reason turned out to be that the last time they watched the stars together, they did not close the doors and windows properly before leaving. When the nanny went to check, she found the room in a mess.
Mu Jia was very shocked when he received the call.
In her impression, burglary only exists in her childhood memories. In the past twenty years, with the improvement of public security, it has rarely been heard of.
What's more, Xie Siyan's villa...
There should be tight security, right?
Mu Jia simply agreed and went to the villa in person that afternoon. After he arrived, he found that the doors and windows were indeed not closed tightly.
Mu Jia vaguely remembered that after they finished doing it that night, they did open the window for ventilation and did not close it afterwards.
The cleaning lady of this villa only comes once a week.
The last time I came was the night before Xie Siyan returned to Beijing, exactly three days later.
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