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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home. The photo from Mu Xiaomu’s embroidered bag was trapped in 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 in her mind throughout the night

hour since she slept before the morning sunlight pierced through the window. The car engine’s vrooming sound made the day’s first noise,

bed, put on a jacket, and headed downstairs only to see a

maid smiled at Mu Zhi and explained, “Master wishes to see Xiaomu, so he hopes to bring Xiaomu to stay over at the manor for a few days. I will be in charge of sending her to

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

matter, Madam

Jinye looked at the woman

reiterated what Madam Liu just 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

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

awake in the bedroom and asked if

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

could not be

Zhi

option, she could only

opportunity to

Liu, Mu Zhi headed out to shop for the wedding gown, following Lu Jinye’s

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

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

a comparison, as though trying to

should be

Zhi caught a glimpse of the

his words were

strode towards Mu Zhi and

was shuddering, and he could barely hide his

Zhi was flummoxed. She stared

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

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

I help

found you!” The man held both of Mu Zhi’s

immediately shook him

I know

asked after taking two

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

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

chauffeur showed Mu

in his arms. The girl was smiling jovially,

learned the news of your wedding these few days from the internet. As soon

had no memory of her father

memory she had of her parents

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

did not show himself during all

stopped bringing up about dad because mom was reluctant to

having a father

to see someone calling himself her

was flustered and did not know