After grabbing the phone, Ye Moxuan quickly checked it. “What are you afraid of? I was just saving my number on your phone. Listen.” Duanmu Xue made a call and Ye Moxuan’s phone started to ring. “It was just saving a phone number. That is not too much, is it?
The next second, Ye Moxuan directly deleted the phone number from the incoming call on his phone. Seeing that, Duanmu Xue was a little confused. “What’s going on? It doesn’t hurt to have my number saved on your phone. You…” She stood up and started walking toward Ye Moxuan, who turned away from her with a cold look. He then yelled indifferently, “Get out!”
Embarrassment flashed across Duanmu Xue’s exquisite face. She was still trying hard to put on a smile. “Please don’t do this to me, Ye Moxuan. It took me quite some effort to get in here.”
Those words annoyed Ye Moxuan. “Give me the room key.” Duanmu Xue shook her head. “If you save my phone number, I will return your room key and leave.”
Being threatened, a wave of fury and coldness emerged underneath Ye Moxuan’s black eyes. He let out a cold laugh. “I reckon the Duanmu Family no longer wants to collaborate.”
“This has nothing to do with my brother. It’s my issue that I like you. My brother… will continue to work with you. Moxuan, please don’t take it out on him.”
Ye Moxuan started to get upset. The next moment he walked to the bed, picked up a blanket and wrapped it around Duanmu Xue.
Before Duanmu Xue could react, she was already wrapped in a blanket. After this, she was thrown out of the hotel room together with the blanket.
Bam! It made a loud noise, and Duanmu Xue’s arm was bumped against the wall, which caused her to shout in pain.
The two servants standing at the room door quickly came up to her to help her out. “Miss Xue, are you okay?”
When Duanmu Xue stuck her head out from the blanket, Ye Moxuan had already heartlessly closed the door and locked it.
“Miss Xue?”
“Miss Xue, your arm is hurt.”
Duanmu Xue looked down and noticed that the arm that was bumped had a bruise on it. Her face quickly changed but she did not get upset. She gently rubbed the bruise and said, “What an unappreciative man.”
“Of course, Miss Xue, Ye Moxuan does not know how to appreciate you. Why don’t…”
At the end of that sentence, Duanmu Xue’s eyes were filled with displeasure. “‘Why don’t’ what? I dare you to make another useless suggestion. Also, don’t say anything to my brother; otherwise, he will find out that I have used him to get Ye Moxuan’s room key. At that point… I don’t know how he would punish me.”
Hearing this, the servants could only nod embarrassingly. “Understood, Miss Xue. So, what should we do now?”
“Hmph. As long as he has my number, I have achieved what I wanted.” Thinking about the number that Duanmu Xue had deleted earlier, she had this feeling that… she had declined an important call.
“Let’s just head back for today.” Duanmu Xue stood up and dusted herself off. Looking at the door in front of her, she muttered, “There will be plenty of chances in the future for us to see each other again.”
…
After closing the room door, Ye Moxuan searched through the phone, again and again. The appearance of Duanmu Xue had worried him a little.
At the moment, the room had an overpowering smell of her perfume all around. Ye Moxuan frowned and quickly opened all the windows. He then called room service to come, before getting some fresh air at the balcony.
The hotel was at a wonderful location—right in downtown of the city—and the balcony had the entire view of the city skyline.
How good it would be if someone was next to him. Ye Moxuan opened his WeChat application and pulled up the chat with Han Muzi. The last message was sent a long time ago as he had no recent conversations with her these past couple of days. The reason was…
Ye Moxuan knew well. It was because of what Mr. Potbelly unintentionally told him at the store the other day. At that time, Mr. Potbelly shared with him some of his past experiences. Ye Moxuan thought he did not need them, and he even told him off—asking him to stop talking.
However, Mr. Potbelly had again continued to ramble after that. He said that Ye Moxuan was holding on too tightly and that would only suffocate the other person and leave no room for her to personally consider things.
The best way was to give some space to her so that she would start feeling empty. After interacting for so long, should he suddenly disappear, she would start missing him.
Initially, Ye Moxuan did not seem to care about these words, but in the past couple of days, he had started to realize that what Mr. Potbelly said did kind of… make sense. Because he had been thinking of Muzi every day, and he almost went crazy.
But what about her? He had not appeared in front of her for so many days, did she miss him too? Looking at the empty call log, the answer seemed to be self-evident. Not a text on WeChat, nor a phone call. That woman… probably wishes I would never pester her again?
At this point, Ye Moxuan flashed a self-deprecating smile on his face. Oh, Ye Moxuan, who knew I could never employ these tricks on her. What was I even thinking?
She needed to be won over resolutely. He had to completely take over her so that she would never have an opportunity to think about another person.
Soon enough, room service came. According to Ye Moxuan’s requests, the cleaners disinfected every item in the hotel room and changed the linens and pillows. Since Ye Moxuan was their hotel’s VIP, all of his requests would be provided for by the hotel.
…
Han Muzi had lost sleep again. Waking up to two huge dark circles around her eyes, she stood in front of the mirror and saw how pale she looked. This made her want to slap herself in the face to wake herself up.
It was only a phone call; it was only a female voice. She had lost sleep because of this.
This was terrifying. After all, this indicated that she had started paying particular attention to Ye Moxuan’s behavior and the people around him.
At this point, Han Muzi seemed slightly deranged. She was vigorously pulling her hair and after messing with it she went back to being calm again. She then listlessly freshened up, put on her make-up, and got changed.
Forget it. He’s just another man, and I don’t lack admirers. Why do I need to start imagining things for the sake of this man? Since he did not preserve himself for her, she also did not need to stay single anymore.
Han Muzi headed downstairs and got ready to send Little Bean to school. Yet, she found that Little Bean was standing in front of the couch, curiously staring at the person lying on it. “Mommy, why is Aunt Yan sleeping here?”
Han Muzi was puzzled. She walked over and noticed that Yan was still wearing what she wore yesterday. She was sleeping soundly on the couch. What is going on?
Han Muzi moved forward and woke her up. “Yan?”
“I am so tired. Let me sleep for a little while more.” Yan turned around and immediately fell from the couch. Her eyes widened in pain, and then she saw Han Muzi and Little Bean standing there staring at her with curious eyes.
