Mr. Mu Proposed Again Today
Chapter 690 - 689 Is it a punishment for his greed?_1

Chapter 690: Chapter 689 Is it a punishment for his greed?_1

With a loud crash, Mu Ziqing felt as if she heard the sound of the sky falling and the earth splitting!

A fiancée?

The one he chose himself...

The words of the old Duke struck Mu Ziqing like lightning, and she stood frozen, unable to move, as if her legs were filled with lead, too heavy to lift...

"I..." Huo En sighed heavily, and as he was about to speak, the door of the study was slowly pushed open.

He immediately stopped, his brows furrowed as he lifted his gaze, but when he saw the petite figure standing at the doorway, a flicker of panic suddenly shot through the amber depths of his eyes...

Panic like that of a secret being discovered...

Mu Ziqing’s round eyes reddened, she hadn’t expected that after a night of intimacy, what he had given her was another fiancée he had already chosen...

Laughable, isn’t it...

She also found it laughable, she found herself laughable!

"Liar... you big liar!!"

Mu Ziqing suddenly lost control and yelled at Huo En, then turned and ran downstairs!

The old Duke looked around in confusion at Huo En, whose face had darkened, and flicked his sleeve lightly, "I’d like to see how you clean this up!"

Huo En, as if he hadn’t heard his cold words, abruptly stood up and chased after her.

The tears in Mu Ziqing’s eyes fell unstoppable like a dam breaking!

She was an idiot, a fool!

To have believed his words and followed him all the way here!

She lost her heart, her body, all for a lie he wove for her!

All the servants looked in shock at Mu Ziqing running downstairs, what happened? She was fine when she went up just a moment ago, so how did she become like this in such a short time?

Then, they saw their own great Duke running out urgently...

Everyone finally understood, oh~~ so the young couple had a quarrel...

"Qiqi..."

"Qiqi!!"

Huo En hurried after Mu Ziqing with large strides, calling her name anxiously.

Mu Ziqing, hearing the voice from behind, ran even faster!

That liar!

She wanted to leave this place, never to see him again for the rest of her life!

"Qiqi!!" Huo En caught up to Mu Ziqing with a quick start and pulled her into his arms!

Mu Ziqing’s emotions immediately became agitated!

It was as if Huo En’s body was covered in thorns, and she struggled fiercely to break free.

"Let go of me! Don’t touch me!"

"Liar! Jerk! Get away from me!"

To Mu Ziqing’s punches and kicks, Huo En didn’t even frown, for him, it was almost like being tickled.

"Qiqi... it’s not what you think, can you listen to my explanation first, please?"

Mu Ziqing couldn’t possibly absorb his words now, all that reverberated in her mind was the old Duke’s statement: The one he chose himself!

The one he chose himself!

That Isabella was his choice!

What was there to explain?

Maybe, he had been with that woman all these years!

And she had actually believed what he said...

"I won’t listen! I won’t listen! You want me to hear how you deceived me? To hear how you’ve been with her?"

Mu Ziqing looked at Huo En with a face full of mockery. She had said it: over the years, his care for her had diminished, growing colder and less frequent!

So, it was just as she had thought before!

Huo En’s brows furrowed tighter, his face a mask of helplessness.

Mu Ziqing snorted sarcastically and raised her left hand to remove the ring on her right!

What symbol of the Duchess; it was all lies!

Huo En watched her movements, his eyes suddenly narrowing. Without another word, he hoisted the emotionally charged Mu Ziqing onto his shoulder and strode off in a certain direction!

Mu Ziqing struggled disobediently!

But Huo En, ignoring her fierce resistance and with a stern face, carried her over his shoulder straight to their bedroom.

Along the way, all the servants dared not look more, each bowing their heads, fearing that one more glance might displease their Duke.

The door slammed shut with a bang!

The sound so loud it seemed nearly capable of bringing down the entire building!

"Put me down! You cheating bastard!"

Mu Ziqing, hanging upside down on Huo En’s shoulder, continued to struggle and curse angrily!

Although exhausted, she still refused to simply submit!

Huo En arrived at the bedside and gently placed the struggling Mu Ziqing on the bed!

Mu Ziqing immediately sat up from the bed, gasping for air, about to get off.

"I have nothing to do with her!" Huo En raised his voice somewhat as he pressed down on Mu Ziqing’s shoulders.

Mu Ziqing, already feeling aggrieved and sad, felt her eyes redden even more fiercely as tears cascaded down like beads off a broken string when he shouted at her.

Indeed, she was right!

He had taken her for granted once he got her!

He had deceived her feelings, and now he was even yelling at her in return!

After speaking, Huo En seemed to suddenly realize he had been too loud. He raised a hand to his forehead, not meaning to shout at her. He was just confounded by his father’s infuriating actions!

"Sorry, Qiqi... I didn’t mean to yell at you. I’m just angry at my father..."

Huo En hadn’t finished speaking when Mu Ziqing interrupted him with a choking voice.

"You’re mad at your father for spilling the secret you kept from me, aren’t you? If it weren’t for your father, how would I know about your other woman! All this time, you’ve been deceiving me! All along, you’ve been together with her!"

"Qiqi, I don’t have another woman. She is just..." Huo En began, but his words trailed off momentarily.

Mu Ziqing looked at Huo En through tear-blurred eyes...

Huo En, with a look of resignation, rubbed his forehead again and added, "She’s just a pawn connecting the two families, a lubricant..."

Upon hearing this, Mu Ziqing mocked with a laugh, "So, she is your appointed wife, someone you have to marry for the sake of family interests. But you love me, don’t you? Is that what you’re trying to say?"

Faced with Mu Ziqing’s questioning, Huo En fell silent.

For the first time in his life, he felt utterly powerless.

Before meeting her, love and marriage were nothing more than a transaction to him, a grand transaction.

And Isabella was the marriage partner he had chosen for himself from another family.

But politics are as ruthless as the battlefield. Both families had a silent understanding, not flaunting it openly, just waiting for the right moment to announce it officially.

He had always planned it this way, but unexpectedly, he encountered someone named Mu Ziqing along the way.

Her arrival disrupted all his plans—

And he finally understood what it meant to lose control of his emotions.

So, from that moment on, Isabella lost all significance as an object of trade to him.

Yet the two families had already reached a covert agreement; it wasn’t as simple as just pulling out. Over the years, he had to guard against those harboring ill-intentions, while also dealing with agreements with the Crichton Family. But before he could resolve these issues, her declaration of breaking up arrived.

That declaration of breakup made him disregard everything, as he resolutely headed to C City and took her into his care.

He had intended to resolve matters quietly, but who could have expected his father’s return to meddle so directly, and so coincidentally in front of his obstinate Qiqi. Was fate punishing him for being too greedy?