Chapter 61: Chapter 61 Why did you cheat?
Another secretary?
Lu Xining remained skeptical about this “secretary”.
But one thing was beyond doubt—between the secretary and herself, Ji Muye trusted the secretary more, even though she had presented the evidence right before him.
Lu Xining sniffed.
He had the scent of jasmine perfume on him.
She realized in her heart, “A female secretary?”
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The man’s silence was the best response.
His suit was permeated with the strong scent of jasmine perfume, indicating a proximity that perhaps only they knew.
Lu Xining spoke coldly, “Let go.”
Her bodyguard immediately stepped forward, followed closely by the Ji family bodyguards. Yan Dong watched them tensely, fearing the situation might become strained.
“Let’s talk this out calmly, please.”
Disregarding the potential injury to herself, she forcefully pulled away from Ji Muye’s grasp and said coolly, “President Ji’s illness can’t be treated here.”
Ji Muye took two steps forward, “Lu Xining, what are you being stubborn about?”
She denied, “I’m not.”
His gaze was confident, “You are.”
Lu Xining, “…Think what you want.”
A sudden realization seemed to flash through the man’s mind, “Are you bothered by the perfume scent on me?”
Her steps halted, her thoughts exposed.
Lu Xining hastened her steps toward the car, and just as her hand grasped the car door handle, she heard the sound of something dropping behind her.
A deep, magnetic voice rang out.
Ji Muye asked her, “Is it okay now?”
Lu Xining turned around, her eyes flickering slightly.
The man stood before her like a deity, with his sharply defined eyebrows, high nose bridge, and captivatingly thin lips, forming a stunning presence in the world.
His high-end suit had been discarded on the ground, leaving him in only a black shirt.
His impeccable physique seemed tailor-made for clothes.
Standing there, he was destined to be the center of attention.
His hand rested on the button of his shirt collar, his eyes slightly lifted, looking at her with deep significance.
“…Should we continue?”
His husky voice brushed past her ears, stirring her quickened heartbeat like an alluring whisper in the depths of a misty forest.
Her eyes naturally met his, deep and chilling.
“Ji Muye, what are you doing?”
“Aren’t you put off by the perfume scent on me? Now it’s gone.”
The closer he got to her,
the greater her scent affected him.
Ji Muye even felt a slight sleepiness, as he opened the opposite car door and sat down.
Lu Xining: “…”
This man had gotten cheekier.
Yan Dong was not surprised by his boss’s behavior; as long as it helped him get close to his wife and have a good sleep, even sleeping outdoors would do.
On the ride back to the lab.
Lu Xining wanted to clear things up, but as she turned her head, she found that the man had already fallen asleep, his long breaths steady and rhythmic.
Is this what he meant by not being able to sleep?
It hasn’t even been five minutes since we got in the car!
A man’s mouth is full of lies.
Even someone like Ji Muye was no exception.
Back at the resting place.
Lu Xining got out of the car first. Before she could close the door, she heard his voice, somewhat hoarse and tired.
She replied irritably, “Go back and rest!”
Silence lingered behind her.
Lu Xining walked a few steps but couldn’t help turning back.
He still sat in the back seat of the car, clear and elegant, like a noble prince out of an oil painting.
Ji Muye half-closed his eyes and met her gaze through her car door that was not fully closed, the intense darkness in his eyes made her heart tremble.
Watching her briskly walk away.
He slowly got out of the car.
The brief sleep he had in the car had slightly relaxed his tense nerves from the past few days, and his rationality began to regroup.
He followed Lu Xining back to her room, where Ji Chao, Ji Ze, and Little Dumpling were all present and smiled upon seeing him.
The twins immediately ran over and hugged his legs.
“Daddy, we’ve missed you so much!”
He rubbed the heads of the two children, “Daddy has missed you too.”
“You guys play with your sister, Daddy needs to talk to Mommy.”
The three children played in the living room, under the watch of a professionally hired childcare expert, and Lu Xining took him to a small study next door.
“Ji Muye, what tricks are you playing now?”
“The self-suffering trick won’t work on me.”
The man sat on a single-seater sofa in the study, his throat tightened, and he began to speak with some self-mockery.
“Lu Xining, do you really hate me this much now?”
“I believe that, during those five years of our marriage, I was sufficiently responsible towards you and our family. So, why did you have to… cheat?”
“Prominent family background, financial freedom, mutual respect in marriage, which of these have I not fulfilled for you? Why would you betray me and the kids?”
“That man outside, is he that important to you? Important enough that you’d abandon your husband and child to be with him.”
Ji Muye was usually a cold person who saw through many things but never spoke thoroughly, always leaving room in everything.
But it was only with Lu Xining…
Upon finishing, the man plunged into a sorrowful mood he couldn’t pull himself out of.
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Lu Xining felt a blaze from her heart rushing to her brain, and the rational thread in her snapped!
She cheated?!
This was really the most laughable joke she had heard over the years!
She directly grabbed the man’s tie, trapping him on the single-seater sofa, her angry emotions dispelling the distance between them.
“Ji Muye, who exactly cheated?”
“It was clearly you, who, for the sake of your first love, repeatedly left me behind. The real betrayer of our family has always been you; what does it have to do with me!”
Sensing the intense fluctuation in her emotions, Ji Muye slightly dimmed the sharpness in his eyes, a tiny crack forming in the mysteries within his heart.
He continued to follow her train of thought.
“The second year after Ji Chao and Ji Ze were born, Valentine’s Day, where did you go, whom did you meet, what happened…”
Just as Lu Xining was about to answer his question, she suddenly realized she was being lured into a trap.
Upon careful reflection, Ji Muye, from the moment he entered the study till now, every move, every look, even every word he said, was exactly like his demeanor at the negotiation table.
Progressively appealing to emotions, making one unwittingly step into the trap he set, becoming prey at his mercy.
He loosened his tie and straightened up, pulling back the distance between them, and reevaluated all his actions since appearing today.
Both were clever people.
From their conversation, they immediately understood the crux of the issue.
They both suspected the other of infidelity!
Lu Xining suspected his relationship with Liu Xixi—first, second, third, fourth leg; so who did Ji Muye think she cheated with?
The second year after the children’s birth…
Valentine’s Day…
A blurry memory flashed through her mind.
Like an electric shock, her thoughts trembled, and she recalled that unspeakable past from her distant memory.
Her voice stuck like a jammed tape recorder, she heard the man asking her why she wasn’t speaking, but she couldn’t tell him about it.
“This involves someone else’s life; I can’t talk about it.”
“But I haven’t betrayed our marriage or you, nor have I abandoned my husband and child. What you are saying is baseless.”
Lu Xining’s words dropped like heavy stones into the man’s heart lake.
His body tensed slightly, through his close-fitting shirt one could vaguely see the contours of his abs and the veins popping on his arms.
“What about Song Henian?”
“That night of his birthday… you went to see him, didn’t you?”