Falling for the Contract Bride

Chapter 230 The Appearance of Her Birth Father

Based on her knowledge of Xie Xiu, he was not someone to sit around waiting for opportunities to come.

Xie Xiu did not seem nervous at all. He was insouciantly touching up his ink painting while saying to Secretary Rao, “Did you know? I love how you used to handle everything for me with poise. Unlike now, where you seem to be constantly overstepping your boundary.”

Upon hearing what Xie Xiu had to say, Secretary Rao immediately hung her head.

However, she tried to defend herself, seemingly upset with his remark.

After suppressing her emotions for a couple of seconds, she blurted out disgruntledly, “Mr. Xie, you act differently from before this time. You’ve never treated women like this in the past.”

Xie Xiu held the brush in the air. Without completing the elegant phoenix drawing, he raised his eyes to look at Secretary Rao, “Are you saying that I’ve lost myself in front of a woman?”

“Not really.”

Secretary Rao immediately kept mum.

“Enough, I’m tired, prepare the bath.”

Xie Xiu made it clear that he didn’t want to speak of it any longer.

Secretary Rao seemed to have more to say, but the words did not ultimately leave her tongue.

After getting his bath prepared, Xie Xiu suddenly ordered her to search for a man who had the slightest resemblance to Mu Zhi’s facial features and bring him to Xiao Qingqing.

Secretary Rao complied, not knowing what Xie Xiu’s intentions were. However, when Xiao Qingqing received the man who had a dash of Mu Zhi’s resemblance, she seemed over the moon and expressed her gratitude to Mr. Xie.

On the way back to Xie Xiu’s place, Secretary Rao suddenly remembered something that made everything fall in place for her.

Mr. Xie Xiu was not passive. He was a master at utilizing his pieces on the chessboard.

He knew from the beginning that Mu Zhi and Lu Jinye were not going to get married.

…

from Mu Xiaomu’s embroidered bag was trapped in her head, and she could not sleep

wondered whether her mother’s death was man-made or it was purely a medical accident, which was common in the medical world. She replayed the whole incident

slept before the morning sunlight pierced through the window. The car engine’s vrooming sound

and headed downstairs only to see a maid

so he hopes to bring Xiaomu to stay over at

frown, and she was distracted by Lu

matter,

at the

minutes before saying, “Why don’t we ask Xiaomu? We’ll let

say, Lu Jinye grabbed a jacket and hastily set off

and asked if she wanted to go

surprise, Mu Xiaomu was exhilarated to hear the news. She scurried back to her room and grabbed the bag full of snacks, then skipped towards Mu Zhi

could not be

Zhi

option, she could only

a perfect opportunity to spend some quality time

Mu Zhi headed out to shop for the

at the fashion designer’s doorstep,

was about to reach out for the doorknob when a man with a tuft of grey hair left the MPV. The man looked to be

up a photo next to her as a comparison, as though trying

Mu, this should

caught a glimpse of the

words were astounded

man strode towards Mu Zhi

he could barely hide

flummoxed. She

out a photo from his pocket. It was Mu Zhi

intuition told her that the man

I help

you!” The

immediately

know who

taking

your father! Look at me, don’t you see

a closer look, he did share some similar features with her, especially his brows and the lines of his

showed

photo portrayed the man carrying a little girl in his arms. The girl was smiling jovially, and Mu Zhi could tell that it was her when she was

Mu learned the news of your wedding these few days from the internet. As soon as he saw your photo, he scrambled to look for

had no memory of

her parents was limited

mom about her father’s looks.

father did not show

Zhi stopped bringing up about dad because mom was reluctant to

of having a father

see someone calling himself her

was flustered and