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.

…

photo from Mu Xiaomu’s embroidered bag

common in the medical world. She replayed the whole

before the morning sunlight pierced through the window. The car engine’s vrooming sound made the day’s first noise, followed by footsteps of someone

a jacket, and headed downstairs

Zhi and explained, “Master wishes to see Xiaomu, so he hopes to bring Xiaomu to stay over at the manor for a few days.

a frown, and she was distracted by Lu Jinye, who just headed out of the

matter,

at the

said to her. Lu Jinye thought for a few minutes before saying, “Why don’t we ask Xiaomu? We’ll let her go if she feels like it. I grew up under Madam Liu’s

what he had to say, Lu Jinye grabbed a jacket and hastily set off for the

until Mu Xiaomu was awake in the bedroom and

She scurried back to her room and grabbed the bag full of snacks,

could not

Mu Zhi

any other option, she could

was a perfect opportunity to spend some

Mu Zhi headed out

as she arrived at the fashion designer’s doorstep,

Zhi’s attention. She 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 in his fifties, but his temperament

as though trying

this should be

Zhi caught a glimpse of

his words were astounded

strode towards Mu Zhi and

he could

She stared at the

man took out a photo from his pocket. It was Mu Zhi when she was a little

Mu Zhi’s intuition told her that the

can I help

found you!” The

Zhi immediately

know who

after taking

to her eagerly, “I-I am your father! Look at me, don’t you see the

share some similar features with her, especially his brows and

showed Mu Zhi

portrayed the man carrying a little girl in his arms. The girl was smiling jovially, and Mu Zhi could

these few days from the internet. As soon as he

had no memory

had of her

about her father’s looks. But mom chose

not show himself during

because mom was reluctant to discuss

having a

see someone calling himself

point, Mu Zhi was flustered and did not know what to