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.”

answer from Fu Lingye. It was just like his usual style, being

a video conference after work. It will take about

that, she returned home in 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 was not going to pick it up soon. “My car is still parked at the Peninsula Hotel. I will head there after work, then drive straight to

.......

she drove to the cinema. She bought a

the kind to consume carbonated

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

the waiting area of the cinema and waited for about twenty minutes. By the time

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

she able to match up to

continued to wait listlessly

almost 18:20 when an announcement

Couple at 18:30, please proceed to the

minutes' time. Mu

“Where are you?”

no response even after

phone

he was still in the

It is

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

dear. She actually bumped into Qi Yanli and Ye Guo at the

she was holding onto two movie tickets and pretended to be angry with her, “Mu Tongrui, I asked you

“No one,

that you do not really keep in touch with your female classmates! You said I was the only one. Are you lying to me now? You even

I am not. You do not know this high school

Guo looked around, “Where is

already 18:25. It seemed that Fu Lingye was not going to make it for their date. She felt moody, “I am being stood up. He is preoccupied with matters so he is unable to come. Please go ahead and watch the movie. I will

her, “Since you have already bought the tickets, then how