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.

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reached home. The photo from Mu Xiaomu’s embroidered bag was trapped

death was man-made or it was purely a medical accident, which was common in the medical world. She replayed the

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

Zhi got off the bed, put on a jacket, and headed downstairs only to see a maid from

to bring Xiaomu to stay over at the manor for a few days. I will be

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

the matter,

looked at the woman

few minutes before saying, “Why don’t we ask Xiaomu? We’ll let her go if she feels like it. I grew up under

grabbed a jacket and hastily set off for the company to deal

and asked

Mu Xiaomu was exhilarated to hear the news. She scurried back to her room and

not

Zhi was left

any other option, she

was a perfect opportunity to spend some

Madam Liu, Mu Zhi headed out to shop

arrived at the fashion designer’s doorstep, a Mercedes-Benz MPV came to

Mu 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 was younger than his peers due to his well-groomed appearance to

comparison, as though trying to confirm his suspicion. Then, the chauffeur turned

should

glimpse of the chauffeur’s

were

that, the man strode towards Mu Zhi and said, “Mu

he

flummoxed. She stared

pocket. It was Mu Zhi when

man’s trembling hands, Mu Zhi’s intuition told her that the man was

can I help

you? I finally found you!” The man

Zhi immediately

know who

after taking two

her eagerly, “I-I am your father! Look

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

showed Mu Zhi another

girl in his arms. The girl was smiling jovially, and Mu Zhi could tell that it was her

the news of your wedding these few days from the internet. As soon as he saw your photo, he

no memory of her father

memory she had of her parents was limited

little, she used to ask mom about her father’s looks.

father did not show himself during all these

because mom was

a

calling

this point, Mu Zhi was flustered and did not