Disheartened, I Fled from the CEO with Our Babies
Chapter 260: Coaxing and Beguiling

Chapter 260: Chapter 260: Coaxing and Beguiling

Young Master Huo threw out this sentence, then released An Muxin’s neck.

He straightened up, staring down at her, and enunciated his verdict to her, "Don’t think that just because you have a good background and a strong family, you can do as you please. Sometimes, it’s ignorant juniors like you, who have yet to make any real progress, that lead the entire family to ruin. As the old saying goes, nine out of ten officials are evil, so finding a weak spot in the An Family is far too easy. Behave yourself and don’t dig your own grave and bring disaster upon your entire family."

Young Master Huo said this, then turned around and left without looking back.

An Muxin watched his retreating figure, shaking with anger.

Gu Changfeng took in her reaction and said, "Young Miss, although President Huo spoke harshly, some of what he said is indeed right. The tragic annihilation of the Qin family back in the day is a living example. Back then, the Qin family had its power extended to the Central Bureau, and even His Excellency the President was wary of Qin Lao. Yet, weren’t they still wiped out overnight..."

An Muxin couldn’t listen to any advice at all. Young Master Huo’s words had stirred up her rage and her desire for revenge.

She was, after all, the much-envied eldest miss of the An Family in the Imperial City, the high-born daughter many men wished to marry. Why should she suffer such humiliation from Young Master Huo?

Unable to bear Gu Changfeng’s words, An Muxin swung her arm and slapped him hard, shouting angrily, "Listen up! You’re just a dog I raised. Whatever your master tells you to do, you do it. It’s not your place to comment on your master’s affairs."

Gu Changfeng squinted his eyes, suppressed everything, and remained silent.

An Muxin continued, "I refuse to believe that there’s a single bitch I, An Muxin, can’t conquer in this world. Even if I die, I’ll drag that bitch An Ge down with me and make Young Master Huo despair!"

She paused for a moment.

"No, I can’t die. I need to turn the two of them against each other, watch them tear at each other until one of them dies. That would be truly satisfying."

Gu Changfeng squinted his eyes again, a dark, cold color flashing through them.

...

On the other side, after leaving An Muxin’s hospital room, Young Master Huo did not leave Jingcheng Hospital.

This was because Fu Rou, who was taking care of Huo Huaisang in the room, had called him, saying that Huo Huaisang had fainted again.

Huo Huaisang was in critical condition due to severe bleeding. In the end, a blood transfusion was required, forcing Young Master Huo to seek out An Muxin.

An Muxin was worried about not having a way to mend her precarious relationship with Young Master Huo, so when he found her, she didn’t add fuel to the fire.

She generously donated nearly five hundred milliliters of blood for Huo Huaisang at once.

After the transfusion, an extremely weak An Muxin looked at Young Master Huo and said, "Given our current relationship, I can’t continue to donate blood to your son unconditionally..."

Young Master Huo looked at her pale face caused by the blood transfusion and asked, "So, what do you want?"

An Muxin curled her lips into a bitter smile and said, "The position of Mrs. Huo that I want, you won’t give me. So, I’ll take a step back. While I’m healing my leg injury, could I stay at your place?"

Young Master Huo looked at her and said, "Huaisang’s life was saved by you. You are his lifesaver, and your request is not excessive."

After his words fell, An Muxin asked, "Do you think Ms. An Ge will be upset with you over this?"

Young Master Huo said impassively, "She won’t."

An Muxin chuckled lightly, "Oh, you’re so sure?"

Young Master Huo was certain because he understood more than anyone that An Ge currently had almost no affection for him.

Even if she could throw herself into his arms, she had no true feelings for him.

She still accompanied him to bed simply to gain the benefits she wanted from him.

Since there were no feelings, how could she possibly care about his involvement with another woman?

"Rest well."

Young Master Huo looked at An Muxin and said, "I will instruct someone to prepare a room in the East Garden of the Huo Mansion according to your preferences."

An Muxin smiled and replied, "Okay."

Then she paused, with a tone filled with implications.

"Because I orchestrated this whole act of self-sacrifice, An Ge should have quite a bit of resentment towards you now, right? I’m a woman; I know women. The feeling of being misunderstood and not trusted by a man is the most heart-wrenching. If you wish to reconcile with her and successfully remarry, you better go to her to make peace. Otherwise, this remarriage will be hard to accomplish."

Young Master Huo hadn’t expected that An Muxin would say something like this.

He raised his eyes, giving An Muxin a deep look, and hesitantly asked, "Have you thought it through this quickly?"

Due to having donated five hundred milliliters of blood and her leg injury, An Muxin looked like a frail little white flower at the moment. She said weakly, "What else can I do? Back then, I went to the extent of committing suicide to secure this marriage. Now, you have found a woman you wish to marry, and we are broken off. It’s pointless to cling to you for reconciliation, as the old saying goes, ’A forced melon is never sweet; letting go is also a form of relief.’"

Young Master Huo stared at her in silence for quite a while, with an aggressively intense gaze.

An Muxin braced herself and met his eyes, "You don’t believe me?"

Young Master Huo looked at her and said, "I just didn’t expect you could truly think like this."

An Muxin put on a sorrowful expression, speaking in a languid tone, "I just think that we can’t let our personal issues genuinely cause a rift between the An Family in the Imperial City and your Huo Family. Our An Family is involved in politics. Your Huo Family is a wealthy and noble family. Our An Family relies on your financial power and military resources to maintain its position. Thus, letting emotional entanglements sever a hundred-year friendship between the two families is truly meaningless."

An Muxin’s words were very objective.

Young Master Huo was forced to see her in a new light, saying, "It’s good you can let go."

After a pause, he continued, "You are Xiaoqi’s cousin and have saved Huaisang multiple times. Just based on these, as long as you no longer act immaturely or provoke An Ge like before, I’ll never treat you unfairly."

An Muxin looked at him and smiled, "Alright, brother."

As soon as Young Master Huo left An Muxin’s hospital room, An Muxin’s face turned cold. She felt that her strategy of retreating to advance was the right move.

As the saying goes, the pavilion closest to the water enjoys the moonlight first. As long as she could live under the same roof with Young Master Huo, she’d find a way to cause complete estrangement between Young Master Huo and An Ge.

With this in mind, An Muxin made a call to An Baoying, who was recuperating at the Huo Mansion.

...

In the meantime, An Ge, who had already gone to sleep, was awakened by a call from Anna.

An Ge turned on the nightlight and, leaning against the headboard, answered Anna’s call, "What’s up?"

Anna said, "I just finished an emergency surgery. After it was over, I heard something."

"Oh?"

Anna recounted the incident of Huo Huaisang’s illness and rescue to An Ge, then added:

"You’d previously asked me to investigate Young Master Huo’s strange illness. Judging from his symptoms now, this illness seems a bit like it’s caused by radiation."

Upon hearing this, An Ge’s mind suddenly became a bit clearer, "Radiation?"

Anna suggested to An Ge:

"Is there a possibility that Young Master Huo’s illness is man-made? For example, An Baoying and Bai Meilan could be secretly subjecting Young Master Huo to many radiation-related abuses?"

An Ge got out of bed after lifting the covers.

She tried to calm herself for a while before asking Anna, "Has Bai Meilan not woken up yet?"

Since Bai Meilan fell off the building and was rescued, although she had been transferred from the ICU to a regular ward, she remained in a coma.

Anna had been keeping an eye on Bai Meilan’s whereabouts.

So she said to An Ge, "No, she hasn’t."

An Ge thought for a moment, then inquired, "Has anyone from the Bai Family come to see her?"

Anna replied, "Yes. But the Bai Family only sent a butler named Lee Dahai to take care of her. None of the others have appeared for fear of getting into trouble."

An Ge thought for a moment and continued,

"I always feel that An Baoying is just pretending to be crazy and foolish. That Lee Dahai is An Baoying’s biological father. Could you keep a close watch on Lee Dahai recently to see if he secretly contacts An Baoying?"

She paused, a tone full of implication,

"If my son’s blood disorder was indeed caused by radiation, Bai Meilan and An Baoying couldn’t have done it alone. There must be others backing them."

Anna agreed, "Okay." Pause. "Would you like to visit Young Master Huo at the hospital?"

An Ge wanted to go, but at times like this, Young Master Huo would surely be at the hospital too. So she said, "I can’t find a proper reason..."

Anna said, "Actually, finding a reason isn’t the issue; the hard part is convincing President Huo."

After ending the call with Anna, An Ge thought for a long time and decided to call Young Master Huo.

Young Master Huo was currently in the hospital room, accompanying the still unconscious Huo Huaisang. He was quite surprised to receive a call from An Ge so late at night.

After a few seconds’ hesitation, he got up and went to the balcony to take An Ge’s call.

Soon, his tired yet deep voice crossed the airwaves and reached An Ge’s ear, "Why haven’t you rested yet?"

Feigning a pitiful tone, An Ge said, "I couldn’t sleep because you upset me."

Looking at the quiet city night outside the window, for some reason, her words unexpectedly smoothed out the knot in Young Master Huo’s heart.

At that moment, his exhausted heart and body relaxed a little.

He softly admitted, "About tonight, it was my fault, I made you feel wronged."

An Ge, hearing his exhausted tone, obviously knowing he was at the hospital, still asked,

"Where are you? Why aren’t you sleeping either? Are you with An Muxin?"

Young Master Huo opened a window, allowing a fresh breeze to blow in, "I’m at the hospital." Pause. "Huaisang is ill, I’m with him."

Feigning nonchalance, An Ge replied, "Oh, I can’t sleep."

Young Master Huo raised an eyebrow; his voice, somewhat hoarse, low, and gentle, sounded both beguiling and enticing.

He said, "Then why not come and find me?"