Belated Romance (Mu Tongrui)

Fu Corporation building was bathed in the warm morning sunlight. The entire city had just woken up, busy with traffic on the roads.

Mu Tongrui busied herself with Ya Hua's animation draft ever since she reported to work at 9:30 a.m.

The draft to be submitted to Ya Hua was due by the end of the day. She needed to finish drawing the characters before leaving work. She had already thought of the appearance of the characters, so there would not be any problem drawing them. It was just a time-consuming process.

When she was about to end work for the day, Mu Tongrui printed out the draft and entered Xiang Nanqian's office.

“Ms. Xiang, this is the animation draft for Ya Hua. I have completed it.”

Xiang Nanqian glanced at her draft and sneered, “I thought you were really competent. Are you thinking of winning me by submitting such a draft?”

“It is not up to me to decide if I can win you or not. Neither is it up to you. We can only wait and see the final results of the competition.”

“Let me tell you this, Mu Tongrui. You have no chance of winning!”

Xiang Nanqian was unhappy with her. She also could not be bothered to argue with her. “Let's wait and see then!”

After Mu Tongrui handed in her draft, she sat at her desk and looked at the time on her phone.

She had thirty more minutes to go before work ended for the day. The thought of watching a movie with Fu Lingye made her heart jump wildly with excitement.

She was preoccupied with her date with Fu Lingye tonight, so she sent him a message to ask——

“What shall we have for dinner later?”

His reply came very quickly. “You decide.”

Mu Tongrui felt that his lukewarm response did not show much enthusiasm. “The movie begins at 18:30. Let's buy some snacks and have them in the cinema then head to a restaurant to have dinner after the movie. How does that sound?”

“Alright.”

just like his usual style, being efficient and

need to hold a video

Fu Lingye's car, so she had left her car at the hotel's carpark. She figured that the parking fees might have cost a few hundred and a lot more if she

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to the Peninsula Hotel to retrieve her car. After that, she drove to the cinema. She bought a

Fu Lingye did not seem like the kind to consume carbonated drinks or even eat popcorn.

herself sitting in the theatre beside him, eating popcorn while watching the movie. The

of the cinema and waited for about twenty minutes. By the time she looked

video conference had ended, so she wanted to send him a message. However, she was also afraid of interrupting his work. After all, he was taking away precious time from work to accompany her to a movie. She felt that it was a trivial

was she able to match up to those intelligent

she continued to

almost 18:20 when an

audience members watching Contract Couple at 18:30,

begin in about ten minutes' time. Mu Tongrui could

“Where are you?”

no response even after

but the phone kept ringing

it be that he was still in the midst

is really you,

her with a box of popcorn in her hands. She pulled Qi Yanli along and walked over towards

bumped into Qi Yanli and Ye Guo at

with her, “Mu Tongrui, I asked

Tongrui grew anxious and said, “No

You said I was the only one. Are you lying to me now? You even bought two cups of Cola and so many snacks! You are obviously out on a date

not know this high school classmate

around, “Where is she

it for their date. She felt moody, “I am being stood up. He

Yanli extended a polite invitation to her, “Since you have already bought the