"There is nothing in the entire Yishui City that I cannot find out." Qiao Lubai was not exaggerating. In Yishui City, as long as he wanted to know something, there would be someone to help him find it immediately.
Mu Qiao believed him and immediately asked, "Then can Deputy Captain Qiao help me check Wen Shaoyang?"
Mu Qiao's sudden request surprised Qiao Lubai, "Why do you want to check Wen Shaoyang?"
"I think he might be investigating you and trying to discredit you through past events." Mu Qiao's insight was really not to be underestimated. Qiao Lubai really wanted to praise her: "You really protect your husband!"
Qiao Lubai suppressed the joy in his heart and asked calmly, "Why do you think so?"
"When I invited Wen Shaoyang to dinner at noon, Wen Cheng suddenly came up and talked about your past. I think this was arranged." Mu Qiao expressed his suspicion.
Qiao Lubai praised her wit in his heart, but said, "It should be just a coincidence, right?"
"It's not a coincidence!" Mu Qiao said confidently, "I think it was Wen Shaoyang who asked Wen Cheng to appear. He wanted me to know about your past so that I would give up on you."
"If that's the case, will you give up on me?" Qiao Lubai felt a little regretful after asking this question.
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"No." Mu Qiao answered confidently, "You are the only one who can make me give up on you!"
Qiao Lubai was slightly startled, and he suddenly remembered what they said when they separated at noon.
"I said: We are not suitable, so you are going to give up?" He didn't want to avoid this question and had to be frank.
Mu Qiao nodded very seriously, "Yes!"
Qiao Lubai slammed on the brakes. Fortunately, there were not many people on this road at night, otherwise it would have been a tragedy.
"Then are we still getting married?" Qiao Lubai turned to Mu Qiao and asked tentatively.
Mu Qiao looked him straight in the face. "How can you get married if you are not suitable? Isn't that asking for trouble?"
"Have you thought it through?" Qiao Lubai was a little frustrated.
Mu Qiao felt depressed, always feeling that their beginning was not right, so they were never on the same page. Every time they talked about this matter, they would hurt each other.
The so-called wrong start actually meant that Qiao Lubai had not expressed his opinion.
"I've thought it through." Mu Qiao nodded, withdrew his gaze, and looked a little sad.
Qiao Lubai restarted the car, his handsome face looking frighteningly gloomy.
He didn't know why he was angry. He felt so upset that he couldn't say some words. He was very conflicted.
Mu Qiao was also very aggrieved. She had always openly said that she liked him, wanted to date him, and even marry him, but in the end, it was just a false alarm.
After returning home, Mu Qiao talked to his mother, "Mom, let the driver return all the gifts from the Qiao family tomorrow. I won't get married."
"Why did you suddenly decide not to get married?" Mu's mother asked worriedly, "Did the Qiao family regret the marriage?"
"No." Mu Qiao shook his head tiredly, gave his mother a few words and went back to his room to rest.
Mu's father soon found out about this. He knocked on Mu Qiao's door early the next morning and warned him loudly, "Mu Qiao, your parents have the final say on marriage matters. You have no right to say no."
Mu Qiao opened the door from the inside and said, "Dad, do you want me to be the second Mulan?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Mu's father angrily corrected Mu Qiao's words, "How can Chen Shoucheng be compared with Lu Bai? They are incomparable."
"That's not what my dad said back then." Mu Qiao imitated what his father had said when he forced Mulan to get married. "Chen Shoucheng is the best among the wealthy families in Yishui City. Marrying him is like marrying into the wealthy Chen family. That's the greatest honor, the kind that would make you smile even in your dreams."
Father Mu was slapped in the face, and his face turned red with anger, but he said very skillfully, "Mu Qiao, if you don't get married, Qiao Lubai's grandfather will die with hatred. As long as you have a clear conscience, you don't have to get married."
Dad's words hit Mu Qiao's heart hard. She actually forgot that this marriage was not for love, but for a dying old man.
She was too emotional, but she was not wrong. Marriage is a lifelong thing. If she got married just for her own conscience, what if she didn't live happily after marriage?
In particular, she couldn't bear to see the person she liked being depressed every day.
While she was struggling, a WeChat message rang on her phone. When she opened it, it turned out to be Deputy Captain Qiao.
"Mu Qiao, come to the hospital quickly, grandpa wants to see you."
This was what Mu Qiao least wanted to face at the moment, but she had to face it. Her conscience suffered a critical hit of 10,000 points.
Entering ward 8066, Mu Qiao's face instantly changed into a smile. When facing grandpa Qiao Lubai, she tried her best to relax herself and not think about those trivial things.
"Niece-in-law, this is for you!" When Mu Qiao was the only one in the ward, grandpa took out a black card and stuffed it into her hand, "To be the granddaughter-in-law of our Ouyang family, you must have endless money."
"Grandpa, I can't take it." Mu Qiao refused to accept such an expensive black card no matter what. The old man got angry and kept coughing. Mu Qiao could only accept it temporarily before the old man calmed down.
The old man was so good to her that Mu Qiao felt guilty.
She came out of the ward and stood alone in the corridor, looking at the blue sky outside the window, feeling very unhappy.
"Why, are you moved by grandpa?" A man's deep and magnetic voice came from behind.
Mu Qiao didn't turn around, he looked up at the sky and sighed, "I'm very confused now."
"Don't be easily moved." Qiao Lubai walked to Mu Qiao's side and imitated her posture of looking up at the sky. "To sympathize with others is to abuse yourself."
"But he is not someone else, he is your grandpa. I can't just ignore him." Mu Qiao is a person with conscience, but her shield has always been pointed at Qiao Lubai, but Qiao Lubai has always ignored it.
"Kindness is good, but it comes with a score." Qiao Lubai didn't want Mu Qiao to be bound to him by sympathy rather than love.
It is indeed inappropriate for them to get married without any real relationship or emotional foundation.
Because of this matter, Qiao Lubai had already argued with his mother, and as a result he was kicked out of the house.
Seeing his grandfather becoming increasingly thinner, he hesitated.
Mu Qiao turned her head and saw that Qiao Lubai looked hesitant. She probably knew something.
"This card is for you. Help me return it to your grandfather." Mu Qiao stuffed the black card into Qiao Lubai's hand.
Qiao Lubai stuffed it back into Mu Qiao's hand and said, "This is what your grandfather gave you. You should return it yourself if you want."
This card was actually given to Mu Qiao by Qiao Lubai, he just used his grandfather's help.
"I can't pay it back." Mu Qiao was very distressed. "Grandpa is so sick. If I pay him back, I'll be really worried about him..."
Mu Qiao didn't dare to say anything further.
Qiao Lubai took the opportunity to say, "Since you know it's impossible to pay back the card, then don't pay it back, just take it."
"But this is a black card!" Mu Qiao emphasized.
"It's just a black card, nothing special." Qiao Lubai said it nonchalantly.
Mu Qiao wanted to say something, but Qiao Lubai turned and left.
Looking at the black card in his hand, Mu Qiao dialed a number.
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