Even After My Death
Chapter 245 - 165 Mu Mingxuan: Break Off the Engagement

Chapter 245: Chapter 165 Mu Mingxuan: Break Off the Engagement

Huo Li, as the eldest son of the Huo Family, had been the apple of Huo Song’s eye from a young age and received an elite education. After graduating from college, he entered the company, and both in mentality and capacity, he had perfectly inherited Huo Song’s traits, even surpassing him.

Even Mother Huo, who faced this cold and severe eldest son, did not dare to put on airs before him.

Once Huo Li spoke, Mother Huo immediately didn’t dare say anything else.

She glared fiercely at Huo Miao and turned to walk toward the villa.

Huo Kaiping and Huo Kaian were in a rush, comforting Huo Miao on either side of her.

Huo Miao, with her swollen face covered, was extremely aggrieved. She subconsciously looked toward Huo Li, only to see his handsome brows were indifferent, not looking at her at all.

The group entered the villa’s main hall.

On the way back, Huo Miao was most afraid of encountering Huo Ziheng.

Because at the time, after all, it was she who had pushed Huo Ziheng down, and she had also concealed the truth... Thinking of this, Huo Miao couldn’t stop feeling remorseful. If only she had known it was a virtual reality show, if only she had known it was being broadcast live, she would have willingly followed Huo Ziheng and jumped down too!

Alternatively, she could have agreed to Mu Mingxuan’s suggestion the next day to go back to the forest and see the situation. That would have been better than her doing nothing.

Huo Miao regretted to death, thinking all the way and not coming up with a good excuse.

As a result, after she followed them into the living room, she didn’t see Huo Ziheng but noticed Mother Huo’s attitude had changed from the previous warmth, staring at her menacingly as if she were an enemy.

If it weren’t for Huo Li’s presence, Mother Huo might have driven Huo Miao out right then and there.

Huo Miao didn’t know how to dissipate Mother Huo’s hostility toward her and could only sit in a corner of the sofa, miserably apologizing to Mother Huo,

"Mom, I really didn’t mean to do it, I was just too scared at that time. Actually, after second brother fell, I felt so guilty that I could die, crying every night... I don’t know how to explain it to you."

"Wuu wuu wuu, hit me, you can hit me however you like... Please forgive me, I was really too scared..."

Huo Miao knelt in front of Mother Huo, weeping bitterly.

Mother Huo pushed Huo Miao away, saying coldly, "Get away from me, don’t touch me."

She really wanted to drive Huo Miao out, but since these few foolish sons all disagreed, Mother Huo could only pin her hopes on Huo Song now.

After decades of marriage, Mother Huo knew Huo Song very well. Even though the Huo Family had raised Huo Miao for over a decade, whether it was Huo Miao’s actions on the show or the negative impact she had brought to Huo Corporation lately, it was all enough for Huo Song to kick her out of the family a thousand times over.

No matter how much her sons tried to defend Huo Miao, they couldn’t possibly disobey their father.

Huo Miao grasped the underlying meaning in Mother Huo’s words. She lowered her head, biting her lip, a storm of emotions hidden in her eyes.

On the other side, after Mu Mingxuan arrived home, he discovered that both his parents were not there, only the butler and a few servants were present.

No matter how well the butler and servants hid it, Mu Mingxuan still noticed there was something odd about the way they looked at him.

Mu Mingxuan clenched his teeth in secret, knowing it must be because they had seen the live broadcast by the program team and knew of his disheveled life on the desolate island recently.

He suppressed the anger in his heart and rushed upstairs, while ordering the butler to prepare some food to bring up.

Mu Mingxuan quickly returned to his own room, pulled out a spare phone, took the damaged phone Huo Miao had smashed and removed the SIM card, placing it in the spare phone.

The spare phone successfully powered on, and Mu Mingxuan ignored all the unread messages that popped up, searching the internet for information related to the program team’s live broadcast.

The popularity of "Survive for 30 Days" was so immense that Mu Mingxuan hardly needed to search for it intentionally; the hot search keywords related to the program were glaringly displayed on the browser’s trending lists.

Mu Mingxuan clicked in and saw the fan-edited videos that netizens had cut together, and before long, his expression turned ashen.

Once Madam Mu returned, the first thing Mu Mingxuan said was, "Mom, I want to break off the engagement with the Huo Family!"

Mu Mingxuan didn’t even want to think about how the other wealthy second generations in the circle were laughing at him behind his back!

He had never been toyed with and deceived like this in his life!

Now, whenever Mu Mingxuan thought of Huo Miao, there wasn’t a shred of warmth in his heart, only full-blown disgust.

As for the donation incident mentioned by the netizens, Mu Mingxuan glanced at it and then looked away.

He remembered that the second time they wanted to buy Jiang Ning’s bunny, both he and Huo Ziheng said that buying just one was enough, given that it cost forty million each. It was Huo Miao who suggested she had a way to handle the donation matter, reassuring them not to worry, which led to the purchase of the remaining bunnies.

A liquid fund of more than a hundred million, not to speak of Mu Mingxuan, even the Mu Family couldn’t produce that immediately.

Mu Mingxuan pretended not to see the trending search about Jian Tiantian’s donation. After all, Huo Miao had said she would handle this matter, so it had nothing to do with him.

...

After browsing on her phone for a while, Jiang Ning returned to her room to rest, only to be woken by the sound of her ringing phone.

She picked up and saw that it was a call from Zhang Lang.

Zhang Lang was calling her?

Jiang Ning’s eyes were sleepy, and her thoughts hadn’t fully cleared yet.

The most interaction she’d had with Zhang Lang was during the last few times they had caught criminals, always calling Zhang Lang to take the culprits away.

Those cases were over, weren’t they?

Jiang Ning swiped her finger across the screen and answered the call, "Hello?"

Zhang Lang, hearing this sleep-tinged voice, paused, "Are you sleeping? Did I disturb your rest?"

"No, I was just taking a quick nap." Jiang Ning sat up, now fully awake: "Officer Zhang, is there something you need?"

"Ahem, it’s nothing much." Zhang Lang sounded somewhat embarrassed.

He was one of the few who knew about Jiang Ning’s identity as Miss Terminal Illness, and he hadn’t missed her live streams lately, even speaking up for Jiang Ning several times in the comments.

Watching Jiang Ning slowly clear her name, Zhang Lang felt inexplicably happy. He had been in frequent contact with Jiang Ning recently and considered her a friend in his heart.

Knowing that Jiang Ning had left the program, he had called specifically to check on her.

"I just saw that you’re trending again online. The Bianzhou Public Security Bureau is currently confirming your identity," Zhang Lang’s voice was clear: "If you don’t respond soon, the netizens are going to get anxious."

In this short span of less than two months, Jiang Ning had caught so many criminals.

Before the program, Jiang Ning was either catching criminals or on her way to catch criminals, and right after the program, she immediately caught a matricide suspect—her performance was commendable, even surpassing those on active duty!

If they said Jiang Ning wasn’t a fellow undercover cop, who would believe it?

Zhang Lang lowered his voice, speaking mysteriously to Jiang Ning: "The audience has sharp eyes. Your appearance on the show left a great impression on them. I’ve seen a lot of speculation online about your two identities, what do you think? Do you want to take the opportunity to come clean?"