Mr. Mu Proposed Again Today
Chapter 178: No Matter Who It Is, He Slams Them! _1

Chapter 178: Chapter 178: No Matter Who It Is, He Slams Them! _1

Images of the photograph Jesse sent today slowly resurfaced in her mind. Who could that person be?

Unconsciously, she succumbed to sleepiness and her eyes gradually closed. Something cold suddenly brushed past her face, startling her awake.

She turned her head to see that it was the apple Mu Yingchen had given her. She let out a sigh of relief, pushed it aside near her pillow, and then closed her eyes and drifted back to sleep.

When she woke up in the morning, it was already past eight. She stretched lazily in bed before getting up to wash up.

Just as she reached downstairs, her mother said to her, "Xiaxia, breakfast is being kept warm in the kitchen."

"Mm, I know, Mom."

Su Wanxia replied and hurried into the kitchen to serve herself breakfast.

"Mom, have you all eaten already?"

"Yes, we finished a long time ago."

"Hehe~~" Su Wanxia smiled sheepishly. At home, she was the one who got up the latest, but there was nothing she could do; she just couldn’t wake up early.

After spending the whole morning with her mother, she wished her a Merry Christmas at two in the afternoon before happily leaving the house.

She remembered that Mu Yingchen had asked her to meet him in the afternoon. If she was late, he would definitely greet her with a stern face, and she didn’t want to see his poker face, so she decided to be a little more proactive.

She drove to the parking lot of Mu Group and parked her car next to Mu Yingchen’s usual spot before getting out of the car.

She had only taken a few steps when she heard someone calling her from behind, "Hey? Wanxia?"

She turned around and saw it was Ji Hua and Mu Chuyang.

"What are you guys doing outside and not at work at this hour? Slacking off again?" she raised an eyebrow at the two.

"Cut it out. Do you think we can be as carefree as you? We’ve been out investigating the market all day!" Ji Hua retorted unevenly.

"Yo~ Market investigation, huh? Tough work~"

"How about it? Did you like the gift my big brother gave you yesterday?" Ji Hua said with a teasing tone.

Su Wanxia raised an eyebrow; Ji Hua seemed a bit upset today...

"How did you know he gave me a gift yesterday? Did you help him pick it out?"

"It was more than just picking..." Mu Chuyang couldn’t help but interject with a laugh.

"How so?" Su Wanxia became curious. If it wasn’t Chuyang who helped Mu Yingchen choose the gift, could it be that Yingchen took something of Chuyang’s?

"Hmph."

"Wanxia, let me tell you~~"

The three of them talked as they walked, with Su Wanxia following the two of them to Ji Hua’s office. Mu Chuyang, with a look of schadenfreude, kept talking non-stop to Su Wanxia.

After chatting for another twenty minutes or so, he finally laughed and slammed the table, "That’s just how it is."

Su Wanxia was already laughing so hard she couldn’t straighten her back---

Turns out the ruby apple Mu Yingchen had given her was actually commissioned by that guy Ji Hua from a jewelry company half a month in advance, his intention being to give it to Gong Yining to win her affection.

Who knew, at the end of work and feeling overly confident, he went to ask Mu Yingchen if he had prepared a gift. Mu Yingchen, clueless, naturally asked why he had prepared a gift, to which he said that it was Christmas Eve and he could give gifts to loved ones, friends, or family. It would allow them to make a wish and also wish them good health and safety.

He even told Mu Yingchen he had ordered the gift half a month ago and asked if he wanted to pick something out with him for her as well.

Upon hearing this, Mu Yingchen immediately agreed.

But who would have thought---

When the designer presented the uniquely custom-designed ruby apple—Mu Yingchen, who had been silently watching, suddenly said to the designer, "Thank you, please wrap it up for me."

Ji Hua was dumbfounded on the spot and said to the calmly poised Mu Yingchen with extreme pain in his voice, "Brother, I believe that was my order..."

Mu Yingchen gave him a look and very calmly replied, "You ordered, I pay, so it’s mine. I’ll transfer the deposit to your bank account—I won’t owe you anything."

In the end, Mu Yingchen left with a smile, holding what was supposed to be his gift for Gong Yining—

And Ji Hua, wiping away his bitter tears, angrily bought two of the biggest and reddest apples from the fruit store and went to spend Christmas Eve with his Gong Yining.

He said it was one apple for each person.

"Haha, Hua, how was it? Were the apples from last night exceptionally delicious?" Su Wanxia asked Ji Hua, who had a displeased look on his face, feigning concern.

"Delicious it was—I almost got sore cheeks from eating them," Ji Hua sounded off indignantly.

"Haha..."

Su Wanxia and Mu Chuyang burst into laughter once again. Who made him so pretentious and eager to show off? Had he not told Mu Yingchen, had he not brought Mu Yingchen along, wouldn’t all of this trouble have been avoided?

"However, those apples really were beautiful. Your thinking is not bad—"

Hearing Su Wanxia’s words, Ji Hua felt an urge to die. Thankfully his Xiaoning was empathetic. Seeing him arrive with two apples, she wasn’t the least bit upset. Instead, she even helped him wash the apples. Tell me, who could be more tender and kind-hearted than his Xiaoning—

Looking at Ji Hua’s almost tearful expression, Su Wanxia stifled her laughter and said, "Alright, Hua, some other day I’ll treat you and Yining to dinner. If she blames you, I’ll apologize to her on your behalf, okay?" She laughed, but she really felt embarrassed about Mu Yingchen snatching away the gift Ji Hua had intended for Yining. She had said it before, that man is cunning—no matter who it is, he darkens their day!

She remembered the time he had asked his mother for a betrothal gift for her, and his mother’s expression had been quite a spectacle.

"It doesn’t count if you’re the one treating—my big brother should treat."

"Fine, if your big brother treats, then he treats."

Su Wanxia chatted for a while longer with the two of them in Ji Hua’s office before she left to find Mu Yingchen.

At the door to the president’s office, she distinctly felt someone from the secretarial office not far away staring at her.

She coldly tugged at the corner of her mouth and without any hesitation, pushed the door open and walked in.

There was no need to look—it was Bai Yudie, because she had caught a glimpse of her in passing.

To her surprise, Mu Feng was also there—

Mu Yingchen and he were sitting on the sofa, with a tea set placed on the table.

She raised an eyebrow in astonishment. Ji Hua and Mu Chuyang were out investigating the market, and here he was leisurely having tea and chatting with Mu Feng?

No wonder Mu Chuyang always complained bitterly about his hard life. He was always involved in everything.

"You’re here—" Mu Yingchen looked up at her.

"Hmm, you two are in high spirits, studying tea, huh?" She walked over and commented on the tea set on the table.

"Hehe, what’s there to study? I came to discuss something with big brother," Mu Feng said as he poured a cup and placed it in Su Wanxia’s direction.

Su Wanxia sat down and without saying a word, picked up the cup from the table and took a sip.

"Hmm~ it’s so fragrant~~" She exclaimed in amazement.

"Did you even smell it?" Mu Yingchen asked her, looking helpless.

Mu Feng also had a smile on his face.

Su Wanxia paused and then laughed dryly: "Hehehe, I smelled it incidentally while I was drinking."