Chapter Five: The Proposal, Fu Hengzhi's Answer
"Marry you? Do I even know you?"
Fu Hengzhi's cold sneer sent a chill through Su Muci, instantly freezing the smile on her face.
Caught off guard, her face gradually stiffened, and her words became hesitant and stammering: "Hengzhi, I...I...I am Su Muchi..."
"Whoosh—"
A piercing gust of wind accompanied by a violent force struck, and Su Mu, along with the flowers, was shoved to the ground by the bodyguards who rushed up.
"Go mad somewhere else! Don't you know who you are? How dare you try to scam our CEO, Mr. Fu!"
The bodyguard shouted angrily, and the crowd instantly erupted in uproar.
Su Muci was also caught off guard by this sudden turn of events.
"President Fu?"
Her knees slammed against the hard cement floor, sending a sharp pain through her, but she ignored the pain and stared blankly at the man she loved most.
My mind went completely blank.
How did a three-year relationship turn into her staging an accident? How did her impoverished deliveryman boyfriend become... President Fu?
Just then, a cry of surprise rang out from the crowd: "I knew he looked familiar! He's Fu Hengzhi, the new CEO of the Fu Group and the heir of the Fu family!"
"His marriage announcement broke last week, and the Fu Group's official Weibo account even issued a statement!"
Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze towards Su Muci instantly shifted from curiosity to disdain and anger.
"That woman is so shameless, proposing to a man who's already taken?"
"Is she trying to marry into a wealthy family and become a mistress? Take pictures of her! Dox her!"
The flash of the camera instantly blinded Su Muci.
CEO of the Fu Group? The heir of the Fu family?
She shielded her eyes from the glaring lights with her arm and hurriedly explained, "No...you've got it wrong. My boyfriend isn't that CEO Fu, and I'm not the mistress you're talking about...we're just dating normally! Hengzhi! Hengzhi, say something!"
Su Muci looked at Fu Hengzhi's tall figure with a disheveled and pleading gaze.
All her confidence froze at Fu Hengzhi's cold response: "Next time there's a shameless woman like this, kick her out immediately!"
His words were as cold as ice, sending a shiver down Su Muci's spine.
For a moment, Su Muci felt like she was dreaming, yet the feeling of heartache was so real.
She also had doubts, wondering if she had mistaken the person for someone else.
But the man before her, with his features and physique, was so clear that she couldn't deny it—he really was Hengzhi, the man she spent every day with.
Why did it suddenly turn out like this?
Before the proposal, she considered that he might accept, but she also considered that he might refuse due to practical reasons.
Su Muci had prepared herself mentally before coming, but she never expected this outcome!
Tears suddenly welled up, blurring her vision.
Her trembling sobs were filled with confusion and disbelief: "Why are you pretending not to know me? Why?"
Fu Hengzhi felt annoyed by Su Muci's accusations.
He turned to the crowd and media to distance himself from the situation, saying, "This woman somehow got my contact information, impersonated my fiancée to contact me, and even proposed to me in public."
"I, Fu Hengzhi, hereby declare that my love for my fiancée is unwavering and steadfast for the rest of my life! Anyone who dares to stage an accident and cause my fiancée to misunderstand will face my legal team's wrath without mercy!"
This strong and devoted statement shattered the last warmth on Su Muci's face.
But it won applause from the entire audience.
The moment Fu Hengzhi coldly left, the crowd surged towards Su Muci:
"Miss, where do you get the confidence to think that the president of the Fu Group would abandon his wealthy heiress fiancée and fall in love with a Cinderella like you, whose clothes cost no more than 200 yuan? Are you delusional?"
"Maybe they want to become internet celebrities, generate buzz, and then do live-streaming e-commerce—it's an old trick."
"Look at how pale she is. I think she's either sick or dreaming!"
The sounds of insults and suspicion enveloped Su Muci.
"No...this isn't a dream..."
Tears welled up in Su Muci's eyes. She took out her phone and searched through it, trying to find their chat history and call records, to find evidence that they had loved each other, to prove that their love over the past three years was not a dream!
However, when the call was made, all that was received was an electronic reply saying "number not in service".
As for the chat history?
As soon as she logged into her account, she saw a message: "Your account has been frozen due to security issues."
"Disappeared..."
"All the records are gone..."
After three years of passionate love, she thought she had finally found a unique kind of love. She thought she was being cherished and pampered by the man she loved. But reality told her that it was all a lie.
She was never loved, never had a boyfriend, never...
Su Muci lost all her strength and collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down her face like broken beads, letting the merciless light shine on her disheveled and pale face.
Suddenly, a woman in business attire rushed into the crowd, pulled Su Muci up from the ground, and angrily shouted at the crowd:
"I am lawyer Huo Junjun! If anyone makes any more personal attacks, I will sue you all and make sure you all go to court!"
"Mu Ci, let's go!"
Huo Junjun led Su Muci through the crowd and left the central square of Jiangcheng.
In the park, Su Muci sat on a bench by the roadside, her eyes red and swollen from crying, her hair disheveled like a beggar's...
Huo Junjun looked on with a mixture of anger and heartache: "I thought that guy surnamed Fu just shared the same name as the heir of the Fu Group. It's my fault for not investigating that man properly! I just didn't expect there to be such a scoundrel, pretending to be a deliveryman to mess with you!"
The word "play" sent a metallic taste through Su Muchi's throat.
No wonder his fingernails are always spotless and his palms are never calloused, even after delivering packages for so many years...
No wonder Fu Hengzhi's electric bike remained spotless for three years.
He was toying with her the whole time.
This game of manipulation was full of flaws, and she was so engrossed in the deception that she was kept in the dark.
Su Muci's lips trembled, her eyes broken and lifeless.
After the pain subsided, she couldn't help but wonder what she had done to offend that important figure in the Fu Group.
She actually made him abandon his status as a wealthy heir to appear before her on a snowy winter night, live a life of poverty with her in a rented apartment, and go to great lengths to disguise himself as a deliveryman, riding an electric scooter, for three whole years...
What is he after?
Just as Su Muci was racking her brains trying to figure it out, a stranger walked past her and forcibly stuffed a note into her hand.
The note contained only two lines of text:
Want to know the truth? Come to the rooftop of the Zhou Group building, and I'll tell you! — Fu.
Huo Junjun leaned closer to look at the note, her pupils contracting.
"That bastard! He just humiliated you like that, what good could come of calling you there now? You absolutely mustn't go!"
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