Chapter 225 There is always a reason to want to see you
Mengrong's hand trembled violently in his daughter's palm. His rough thumb stroked the back of his daughter's hand, where there was a scar so faint that it was almost invisible.
When Meng Anran was seven years old, she was locked in a room by Lu Yi and accidentally broke a vase and got cut.
Su Wanman suddenly sobbed softly. She remembered that when Meng Rong brought her daughter back from the Lu family, the girl in the haute couture dress had an official smile on her face, and her tone was indifferent and tough, which did not belong to her age.
Now, An Ran has truly accepted this family from the bottom of her heart.
"An Ran, I'm not rejecting your help." Meng Rong wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, "I just want to prove that the Meng family is worthy of your return."
These words clicked like a key, unlocking a certain shackle.
Meng Anran suddenly remembered what Qin Mu had said to her a long time ago: "You learned how to win in the Lu family, but in the Meng family, you can learn how to live."
You can try to let go of your edge and do what you are interested in. You don’t have to push yourself too hard and you don’t have to be afraid of wandering after falling from the top of the mountain.
You have me, and you have a home.
A sense of sourness inexplicably rose in the tip of her nose, and her eyes were so dry that she felt like crying. Meng Anran was shocked by her own feelings.
She was calm, composed, and emotionally stable, but the moment she saw her family's tearful eyes, cracks appeared on her mask.
"Dad." She took a deep breath, and the perfect expression trained by the Lu family finally collapsed. "Leave the Hot Wheels matter to me. I won't let the brand you worked so hard to build be destroyed."
It's not an order, it's not a transaction, it's a daughter's protection of her father's hard work.
Meng Rong hugged her daughter in her arms with red eyes and smelled the faint scent of perfume in her hair. It was the same perfume used by the girl who was brought back with wounds all over her body.
"Okay." His voice choked. "With An Ran here, Dad is relieved."
That night, the lights in Meng's living room were on until very late.
Meng Anran finally returned to her bedroom which she had not seen for a long time. She immediately took her pajamas and went into the bathroom to take a shower.
After drying her hair, she sat on the bed, leaning against the headboard, and made a video call to Qin Mu.
It was quickly opened, and what came into view was Qin Mu's well-defined abdominal muscles and the mermaid line that penetrated into his waistband.
Meng Anran tilted her head in confusion, "What are you doing?"
Qin Mu bent down and put his face into the screen, holding a towel in both hands and wiping his hair, "Baby, wait a minute, I'll blow dry my hair first."
"Okay." Meng Anran bent her legs, placed the phone on her knees, and quietly watched Qin Mu working with his bare chest.
Sometimes he put the towels into the bathroom, sometimes he looked for a hair dryer.
As I watched, I felt something was not right.
He reminded her, "It's autumn now, why aren't you wearing any clothes?"
Qin Mu put away the hair dryer, opened the wardrobe, pulled out a long-sleeved shirt and put it on, then walked over quickly.
He picked up his phone and smiled playfully at the camera: "I wanted to seduce you, but failed again. An Xiaoran, am I so unattractive? Why don't you covet my body?"
I didn't expect him to wander around naked for half an hour just for this. Meng Anran felt helpless and amused, "Are you childish? I've seen you grow up, what's there to be greedy about?"
When they were in kindergarten, there was no awareness of the difference between boys and girls. Boys would change their clothes on the spot. Meng Anran had seen this many times.
Elementary school is a time when children grow taller and are more likely to have fevers. One time, Qin Mu had a high fever and she happened to go to visit him when the servant was wiping his body.
Qin Mu taught her to swim in junior high school. She was a little older now, but Qin Mu was still very thin and as strong as a rock at that time.
In high school, Qin Mu accompanied her to practice martial arts. He was so hot and sweaty that he tore off his clothes in front of her.
Maybe because they grew up together, she never thought it was surprising that Qin Mu was shirtless in front of her. If she hadn't known for a long time that Qin Mu thought of her as a person of the opposite sex, perhaps they would be more like siblings.
Qin Mu was unhappy. He sat at the desk with his chin in his hand. "I'm so sad. It's really not easy to make the young lady think about me more."
Meng Anran laughed, imitating him by holding her cheek, her peach blossom eyes full of water, her cold voice as soft as honey: "Brother Mu."
One name, three words, made Qin Mu's face turn red visibly. He was hooked into a black carp in an instant, and he was not unhappy at all.
The corners of his mouth were harder to suppress than AK, his eyes flickered, and his lips moved for a long time before he organized his words: "An Xiaoran, are you so good at flirting that you're risking your life?"
Meng Anran laughed so hard that her whole body was shaking. "It's obviously because you have very poor self-control."
"How can I have any self-control towards you?" Qin Mu said confidently, picking up his phone with one hand and the car keys with the other. "I can't control myself anymore, so I'm here to find you."
Seeing that he was really about to go out, Meng Anran quickly stopped him: "Stop it, it's so late."
Qin Mu had already reached the entrance. He stopped and raised his eyebrows at the camera: "Why, are you afraid that I'll come and you won't leave?"
His voice was low and ambiguous, with a hint of teasing.
Meng Anran glared at him with feigned resentment, "You have to go to work tomorrow, and I still have the Hot Wheels issue to deal with."
Hearing the serious business, Qin Mu's expression became a little more serious, but he still lowered his head to change his shoes. "I'll pick you up for supper and we'll talk when we meet."
"How long has it been since dinner? Are you having another midnight snack?" Meng Anran glanced at the time. It had only been four hours since they had the hot pot, and her stomach was still bloated.
"I always have a reason to see you." Qin Mu curled his lips, lowered himself into the car, and put his phone on the holder. "Change your clothes. We'll be at your house in half an hour."
Meng Anran sighed secretly, realizing that Qin Mu had become more and more clingy recently. "Okay, drive safely, I'll wait for you at home."
After the video call ended, Meng Anran got out of bed, found a comfortable and casual set of long-sleeved trousers in the closet, flipped through her phone's address book, dialed Situ Huajian, and turned on the hands-free mode.
Changing clothes while talking on the phone.
"Situ, can you do me a favor?"
Situ Huajian's light, low laugh came from the receiver, "I haven't paid back the favor I owe you today, and now you're going to owe it again?"
Meng Anran didn't argue with him and said directly: "You know more about auto parts. Try to help me find out the specific details of the accident and the cause of the tire blowout."
"How are you going to repay me?" What he meant was that he could help, but with conditions.
"You raise it."
"There's a cocktail party in Country A next week. Please accompany me."
"Okay." Meng Anran agreed readily. It just so happened that she also had to go to an art exhibition next week, so she could just repay the favor.
After hanging up the phone, Meng Anran called Lin Rencheng again.
"Lawyer Lin, you've seen the news about my dad's company today, right? If you're free soon, could you please take over this case? I'm planning to sue Dingfeng Group."
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