Chapter 121
As soon as Jiang Chenyin finished speaking, the place seemed to grow even quieter, with only the rustling of the bamboo leaves.
The emotion in Old Master Jiang’s eyes was unreadable. He was silent for a long while before he said in a deep voice, “Is this Xiaoyu’s idea? Where is she?”
Jiang Chenyin looked straight at him. “It’s my idea.”
Old Master Jiang frowned, then quickly relaxed, sighing with a laugh. “Liu’er, you’re too sensitive. You know very well what I’m thinking. I would never force the children to be with someone they don’t like. I don’t want Xiaoyu and Yixuan to have to be together. Do you understand what I mean?”
“I know,” Jiang Chenyin said, her expression still serious. “But I also don’t want a situation like just now to happen.”
Old Master Jiang tapped the ground with his cane and shook his head with a smile. “What if Xiaoyu and Yixuan have a chance? That child, Xiaoyu, is very good. I really like her very much.”
Although Old Master Jiang put the children’s wishes first, the hope in his expression at this moment was also so obvious. He really hoped that Bo Muyu and Jiang Yixuan could get a little closer. He didn’t care about the small age gap between the two, since it was only three years.
“Dad, I hope she can be truly free,” Jiang Chenyin said, a light in her eyes, her words sincere and heartfelt.
Old Master Jiang gazed at her, unable to speak for a long time. Only after a long while did he slowly nod, shake his cane, and turn to leave, sighing leisurely, “Forget it. Let’s go back. Let’s go back…”
Jiang Chenyin watched as Old Master Jiang got into the car. Everyone had left, and she was the last to get her car.
The reading light in the car was on. Bo Muyu was sitting in the driver’s seat. She smiled faintly and got into the passenger seat. As soon as she got in, a warm hand slipped into her left palm. She subconsciously squeezed it and met Bo Muyu’s concerned face.
“Auntie Yin, you just went to see Grandpa Jiang,” Bo Muyu suddenly said.
“You heard?” Jiang Chenyin was surprised. She wasn’t sure if Bo Muyu had heard the content of their conversation.
“No,” Bo Muyu pressed her lips together and shook her head, her expression grave. “Are you going to tell me?”
She had only seen Jiang Chenyin go to see Old Master Jiang from a distance, and not Jiang Yingzong. She hadn’t gotten close, and she had just said that just now. She had no other thoughts. But Jiang Chenyin’s question back at her made her more mindful. She must have said something when she went to see him.
They shouldn’t have any secrets between them. Jiang Chenyin thought of this, closed her eyes, and let out a soft sigh. When she opened them again, she held the hand that Bo Muyu had extended with both of hers. “I just went to tell my dad not to get you and Yixuan involved anymore. He agreed.”
Bo Muyu was a little nervous. “Grandpa Jiang wasn’t angry?”
Jiang Chenyin thought for a moment and shook her head. “He probably wasn’t.”
The hand in Jiang Chenyin’s palm moved, and then she lowered her eyes, not knowing what she was thinking. She bit her lip gently and said in a low voice, “This kind of thing might happen again in the future, not just with Grandpa Jiang, but maybe with Grandma Jiang too, and also with Eldest Auntie and Little Auntie. And on my side, there’s still my parents…”
Jiang Chenyin’s experience was much greater than hers, and she had already passed this stage. No one would be chasing her to get married. But she was different. She did not have such a thrilling and desperate past. Her life path was as ordinary as anyone else’s in everyone’s eyes.
An ordinary person should walk an ordinary path, the simplest and most common one. And she was now standing at the crossroads of that path.
Everyone hoped that she would take this so-called ordinary path, except for Jiang Chenyin.
“Don’t think about these things,” Jiang Chenyin said, squeezing her hand, her gaze deep, her words powerful. “I never intended for you to be wronged. Leave all these things to me.”
Even with her head down, she could feel Jiang Chenyin’s focused gaze. Bo Muyu had to look up and saw that there was no hesitation or confusion in her eyes, as if a decision had already been made in her heart.
“Auntie Yin, have you thought it through…” Bo Muyu couldn’t help but curve her eyes, but because of the guess in her heart, her voice was a little hoarse.
Jiang Chenyin let out a soft, shallow laugh, leaned over, and kissed her forehead, and in the quiet space, she whispered to her, “Don’t worry. Let me handle it.”
Her forehead was warm. Bo Muyu couldn’t help but smile, and she looked up and held Jiang Chenyin’s face. “Is there anything you need me for? If you need me to do anything with you, you have to tell me.”
“There is,” Jiang Chenyin said, rubbing her nose against hers with a smile and saying softly, “Finishing your food every night is your task.”
Bo Muyu’s heart was soft, and also a little sour. Even though she had said that they were equals, Jiang Chenyin always took on many of the responsibilities between them. She wanted to protect her, to give her the happiness she had never had, but when it really came to dealing with problems, it was still her who was protecting her.
But now, she was protecting their relationship. This was something that made her heart sweet whenever she thought of it.
The next day, Saturday, Jiang Chenyin and Bo Muyu packed their luggage, locked up the house where Bo Muyu had lived for nearly a year, and the two of them went back to Jiang Chenyin’s small villa together.
Jiang Chenyin told Lan Yuxin the news, and as a result, her date with Bo Muyu that night was canceled again.
For some reason, Lan Yuxin insisted on having dinner at Jiang Chenyin’s house, and she even brought cooked food, and as soon as she entered, she was looking for Bo Muyu with an eager look on her face. Jiang Chenyin thought she was going to talk about those large-scale knowledge and stopped her in the living room, telling her that Bo Muyu was too tired from packing today and had not yet woken up from her nap.
Lan Yuxin temporarily shifted her attention to Jiang Chenyin’s neck. It was smooth and bare. She gritted her teeth and cursed her, “You pig teammate.”
When Bo Muyu woke up, Jiang Chenyin had just come into the room to call her for dinner.
“It’s so late. I’ve slept all afternoon…” Bo Muyu said, squinting at her phone. Jiang Chenyin smiled and helped her up, letting her lean against her embrace.
She got up lazily, hugged Jiang Chenyin’s body, and still wanted to continue sleeping. The shoulder strap of her nightdress slipped down as she rubbed against her, and the lace on her chest, which faintly revealed an alluring view, slid down a little, the full and soft curves becoming clearer. Jiang Chenyin’s gaze darkened, and she let her rub against her face, her gaze still lowered.
“Hurry up and get up. It’s time to eat,” Jiang Chenyin’s voice was gentle and hoarse.
“Mmm…” Bo Muyu rested her head on Jiang Chenyin’s shoulder, and only after blinking a few times did she become a little more awake, the corners of her lips lifting. “We’re going to see a movie tonight, so we have to eat quickly.”
Hearing this, Jiang Chenyin smiled helplessly. “We might not be able to see the movie tonight.”
“Why?” Bo Muyu was taken aback for a moment, and when she looked up, she met Jiang Chenyin’s gaze, which was filled with a hint of a fire, and the end of her gaze was not her eyes, but…
Bo Muyu quickly looked down, and with a flushed face, she pulled up the shoulder strap and covered her chest, which had been almost half-exposed, with both hands. She suddenly felt that she had made a wrong decision. She had clearly changed into a nightdress so that her legs would not be so exposed, but now her upper body was more easily exposed.
And it was only now that she deeply realized that this feeling was much more shameful than having both her legs exposed.
Jiang Chenyin affectionately touched her face and put on an innocent expression, chuckling softly. “I was just about to remind you. I wasn’t deliberately peeking.”
Bo Muyu bit her lip and murmured, “You said just now that we can’t see the movie tonight. What’s wrong?”
Jiang Chenyin sighed with a laugh. “Yuxin is here. She brought a lot of cooked food to have dinner with us, and she’s also looking for you.” She paused, her smile fading a little. “I think it might be about Miss Su.”
As soon as Bo Muyu heard Su Man’s name, her face changed, and a hint of guilt and concern appeared in her eyes. She nodded. “Mmm, then I’ll change and go out.”
“Then I’ll go out first, otherwise I’m afraid she’ll be too anxious and rush in,” Jiang Chenyin said, stroking her head with a smile and watching her leave her embrace to find clothes to change in the wardrobe.
Jiang Chenyin did not ignore the emotion in Bo Muyu’s eyes just now. She suddenly felt a heavy feeling in her heart and could only shake her head to suppress it and leave the room first.
When Bo Muyu came to the dining room, Lan Yuxin quickly waved at her and also poured her a glass of fruit juice. “Little block of wood, come, come, your big sister has missed you so much!”
Jiang Chenyin filled a bowl with soup for Bo Muyu, and the two of them sat together, opposite Lan Yuxin.
“Corn and pork rib soup…” Bo Muyu licked her lips, scooped up a piece of pork rib with her spoon, and asked, “When did you buy the pork ribs? I saw you buying corn today and thought you were going to boil it.”
“I bought it when you were picking out snacks,” Jiang Chenyin smiled and put two more pieces of pork ribs in her bowl. “You were so serious about picking out snacks that you didn’t even see the meat.”
Bo Muyu wrinkled her face in embarrassment and silently drank her soup.
“Hey, hey, hey, look at me, okay?” Lan Yuxin tapped her empty bowl with her chopsticks, a look of dissatisfaction on her face. “What are you showing off your love for? If it weren’t for me, you two would have said goodbye long ago, understand?”
These two in front of her were driving her crazy now. Jiang Chenyin was really a disgrace to her at least a decade of abs. She was like a bottom, not at all domineering…
Because of her direct gaze, Bo Muyu lowered her head even more shyly, and after finishing her soup, she started to eat the pork ribs and corn.
Jiang Chenyin tucked the hair that had fallen down behind her ear, her gaze gentle. “Eat slowly.” Then she looked at Lan Yuxin. “Didn’t you just say you have something to see Muyu about? You can say it now.”
“Oh right, right!” As soon as she was reminded, Lan Yuxin didn’t even want to fill her bowl with rice. Her previously lazy posture suddenly straightened up, and she sat up straight and looked at Bo Muyu. “Um… I want to pursue your boss. See if there’s anything you can help your big sister with. If you help, your big sister will definitely repay you!”
“Ahem…”
A piece of corn got stuck in Bo Muyu’s throat. She covered her mouth and turned away to cough. Jiang Chenyin quickly put down her chopsticks and patted her back, glaring at Lan Yuxin.
Bo Muyu gave Jiang Chenyin a reassuring look, and when she turned back, her face was red from coughing. She asked with difficulty, “You want to pursue my senior… are you sure?”
“Of course I’m sure!” Lan Yuxin’s expression was very serious, and also a little nervous.
Bo Muyu frowned and observed her expression. She really couldn’t see any hint of a joke, but she still said in a deep tone, “Then what do you like about her?”
Jiang Chenyin’s brow furrowed almost imperceptibly on the side, and she said nothing.
Lan Yuxin rested her chin on her hand and thought, her gaze distant, and she murmured, “That should be that she doesn’t have a strong smell of money on her. She seems to have a lot of principles. And I think she’s very sentimental. It’s so hard to find a sentimental person these days. Look how long she’s been thinking of you… and you know, I quite like it…”
As she spoke, she felt that the atmosphere was a little strange. She quickly blinked and looked.
Jiang Chenyin did not speak, her eyes lowered, not knowing what she was thinking.
She swallowed, and her gaze shifted. Bo Muyu’s face was cold, and there was a sternness in her brow that she had never seen before.
