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Chapter 16: She Found That Mo Xigu Was Staring At Chi Huan’s Face Fixedly
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
Before Chi Huan answered Mo Shiqian, her phone vibrated in her bag.
She reached into her bag and took out her phone, the screen was lit up and the name that showed on the screen was ‘Xigu’s mother’.
Chi Huan answered the phone without hesitation and her tone became sweet.
“Aunt Mo.”
“Huanhuan, are you free tonight?”
“What’s the matter, Aunt Mo?”
“Nothing important. It’s just that I suddenly had a spark of interest and motivation today and wanted to cook. If you don’t have any appointments later tonight, why don’t you come over to the house and have a simple dinner with me, okay?”
Although Chi Huan couldn’t say that she knew Mo Xigu’s mother very well, she was quite aware that even though Mo Xigu’s mother looked like a gentle and soft woman, she was in fact an extremely capable person. The reason why she invited Chi Huan over to have dinner tonight was probably for the matter of Su Yabing.
Chi Huan smiled and said, “Okay, I’ll be right over.”
By the time she hung up the phone, Mo Shiqian had already turned the steering wheel and turned the car around.
Chi Huan put her phone back into her bag and said to him, “Take a detour to the mall, I need to buy some presents to bring with me.”
…
The car stopped in front of the gate of the Mo Family house. The milky white villa looked beautiful and dreamlike under the orange glow of the sunset.
When Chi Huan walked into the living room, as she expected to see, Mo Xigu was at home, but what surprised her was that…
Su Yabing was also there.
It was late autumn and Su Yabing was only wearing a light purple sweater. Her long black hair fell softly over her shoulders. She kept her head down which seemed to be bandaged with white gauze wrapping around it. With her white fingers crossing over each other, she looked very nervous and embarrassed.
Mo Xigu saw Chi Huan appear inside his home and immediately frowned. “Why are you here?”
Chi Huan was still holding the gift in her hands. She withdrew her gaze from Su Yabing and answered Mo Xigu casually, “Your mother asked me to come over for dinner.”
Hearing Chi Huan’s voice, Su Yabing suddenly awakened from her personal bubble and looked up at her, greeting her gently. “Miss Chi.”
Chi Huan was also startled when Su Yabing looked up at her.
The last time when she saw Su Yabing, although Su Yabing’s face was bruised, the injury was not serious. Su Yabing even looked particularly pitiful with that injured face. But now… with a badly beaten appearance, the corners of Su Yabing’s eyes had turned deep blue, and the corners of her lips, her forehead, and her face were also scratched.
Chi Huan frowned. She was a little scared to see such injuries on Su Yabing’s face. It must be even more harrowing for Mo Xigu. Chi Huan could imagine that Mo Xigu doesn’t have the heart to look at Su Yabing’s face.
Su Yabing then said to Chi Huan with a bitter and apologetic expression, “Miss Chi, I’m really sorry about what happened last night.”
Chi Huan put the gift onto the tea table and said calmly, “You are not your husband and you’re different from him. Unless you told your husband to do that, what happened last night has nothing to do with you and you don’t need to apologize to me. ”
Su Yabing looked at her and seemed to want to say something more, but she stopped and bowed her head again instead.
Mo Xigu sat alone on the single seat sofa and stared at Chi Huan silently.
Chi Huan took the tea handed over to her by the servant and sat down on the sofa that was behind her casually. She lowered her head and blew on the tea gently, however the tea was still too hot, so she put it down.
Leaning backwards, she then raised her eyes and smiled at the man opposite her. “Why are you looking at me like that? Do you think I asked your mother to invite Miss Su here?”
Mo Xigu looked at her bright smile, and a cold sneer appeared on his handsome face. “Are you trying to tell me that you didn’t?”
“I didn’t, because I don’t think things are getting to the point where your mother needs to step in. And the scandal between you and Miss Su, it has nothing to do with me either—”
After a pause, Chi Huan looked into the man’s eyes frankly with her own sharply contrasting, black and white eyes.
She continued speaking, “I admit that I have a previous conviction, it’s understandable that you suspect me. But everything should be proved by evidence, you can’t just state that I have done bad things only because you suspect me. I feel so wronged!”
The cold stiffness that was present on Mo Xigu’s handsome face relaxed a little and the expression in his eyes became complicated. He asked slowly in a deep voice, “You didn’t leak any information to the media?”
Chi Huan looked at him with her eyes wide open. “You can investigate it, I believe… that finding a whistleblower shouldn’t be hard for the Mo’s Group Young Master, right?”
Su Yabing sat on the sofa quietly as if she were not present. When hearing this, she was stunned and looked up at Chi Huan. Chi Huan’s white and delicate face was so bright and eye-catching.
Su Yabing clenched her fingers slowly that were resting on her knees. Then, she looked at Mo Xigu.
But she found that Mo Xigu was staring at Chi Huan’s face fixedly, with a cold and gloomy expression.
The servant came over. “Young Master, Miss Chi and Miss Su, Madam told me to come and invite you over to have dinner.”
In the dining room, Mrs. Mo wore an at home dress, looking elegant and graceful. She also looked at them amicably with a slight smile. “Come and sit down kids, please, feel at home.”
Among the three ‘kids’, Chi Huan was the most sweet and natural, Mo Xigu was consistently indifferent with his frowning eyebrows, and Su Yabing was obviously very uneasy and nervous.
After sitting down, Mrs. Mo personally filled a bowl of soup and handed it to Chi Huan. “Come, Huanhuan, I made this soup especially for you, it’s good for improving a girls’ complexion.”
Chi Huan bowed her head and took a sip to taste; she immediately praised the soup. “It’s so delicious and smells very good too. Aunt Mo, your cooking skill is really getting better and better.”
“You are such a sweet-talker.” Mrs. Mo smiled happily. “Xigu said you had your exams today, did it go well?”
Chi Huan rolled her eyes up to the ceiling. “Well… if the professor won’t make it difficult for me, it should just about be fine. I have been cramming for the exams recently.”
Hearing this, Mo Xigu glanced up at her and sneered. “Cramming for the exams? Were you cramming in your dream?”
The night before yesterday, she booked a room at the Wenhai Hotel and wanted to ask him out. Last night, she had a party with her friends at the Nineteen Ninety Nine. And previously to the past few days, she was also doing everything else except revising for the exams. She didn’t even remember that she had exams to take.
Chi Huan: “…”
Was it necessary for him to pull her down and embarrass her in front of the elders?
Mrs. Mo laughed and glanced at her son. “Huanhuan is still young, and it’s very normal for her to be too fond of playing. As her fiancé, you didn’t urge her and now you’re even mocking her by saying sarcastic remarks. Besides, the exams of the acting department are not that important. Huan’er is an actress, she’s good at acting. What else do you expect of her?”
Su Yabing’s fingers held the chopsticks tightly and she responded to Mrs. Mo gently, “Yes, I have also seen the movies Miss Chi has starred in. She’s very beautiful and her acting skills are also very good. She has a very promising future.”
Anyone could tell that she was extremely nervous now and her forced smile was very stiff.
Although the hostess Mrs. Mo was smiling gently in her seat, she still caused great pressure to Su Yabing.
Mo Xigu looked sideways at Su Yabing and said calmly with his beautiful eyebrows knitted, “Yabing, don’t be so nervous, my mother just had a misunderstanding because of the recent scandal. She won’t do anything to you. Come, have more food, you’re too thin.”
Su Yabing looked so scared that she almost trembled.
A hint of coldness flashed across Mrs. Mo’s eyes, but she still put on a smile. “That’s right, those media companies have really lost more and more of their professional integrity. Xigu is going to get married soon but they still slandered him by saying he was cheating on Huanhua. Those media companies have been acting willfully for too long, so much so that they really think that no one above them can punish them.”
After a pause, Mrs. Mo suddenly changed the topic and asked Su Yabing with a faint smile, “Oh, right, I read in the newspaper that Miss Su married an American overseas Chinese man. I was wondering, will you go back to the country soon, or attend Xigu’s wedding as his friend?”