Chapter 63: Chapter 63: Get My Face Done Just Like Hers!
At the stairs behind her.
Ji Muye’s tall and upright figure stood silently by the railing.
His black shirt was slightly wrinkled, a few buttons undone at the collar revealing a large expanse of fair skin, and his sleeves were casually rolled up to his forearms, his powerful arms lazily draped over the railing.
The chilly and noble temperament, coupled with an unignorable strong presence, was even more resplendent under the warm amber wall lights of the corridor.
He didn’t say anything. His mere presence was enough to secure victory.
Song Henian’s silence triggered a conditioned reflex in Lu Xining. She turned her head and immediately scowled upon seeing the man standing at the top of the second-floor stairs.
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This man was doing it on purpose!
She turned back towards the entrance and said to Song Henian, “He’s here to see the two kids. What brings you here so late?”
Song Henian withdrew his gaze and nodded at her, “My legs have regained sensation.”
Lu Xining was happy for him; she still remembered the first time she met him at the college’s freshman sports meeting.
The young man ran freely across the field, the wind lifting the hair on his forehead, his fair and handsome features making him a focal point throughout A University.
He broke the record for the long-distance running champion, finishing in first place.
“Tomorrow, I’d like to increase the intensity of my training, is that okay?”
She nodded, “Tomorrow morning I will have someone conduct a new examination for you. If the data looks good, we can move on to the second phase of training.”
Song Henian, cold and distant, could create a sense of separation, but once he smiled, he was strikingly beautiful like ice and snow thawing.
He curved his lips at her, “Good, I’ll wait for you.”
Lu Xining was taken aback, feeling there was a hidden meaning in his words.
His gaze fell on his own legs, reaching out to touch the blanket that covered them. Recovering sooner meant he could leave the wheelchair behind earlier.
Now that Lu Xining was single, he still had a chance.
Ji Muye saw through the emotions in Song Henian’s eyes at a glance—this man’s feelings for Lu Xining had never changed.
Even his sudden return to the Song Family…
With that thought, the chill in his body intensified.
After seeing off Song Henian, Lu Xining, bristling with irritation, returned to the second floor, taking care not to wake the children and grabbing his collar to pull him back into the study.
Anger tinged her cheeks with a flush, her bright and dazzling eyes reflecting his image, carrying accusation and questioning.
“Ji Muye, I told you not to come out. Are you deaf?”
He replied earnestly, “I remember, so I didn’t go beyond the front door.”
Lu Xining: “…” Did she mean the main door?
Ji Muye’s gaze drifted down to just below her collarbone, “Wearing this outfit to meet a strange man so late at night?”
Lu Xining retorted sharply, “Yes, what’s it to you?”
Indeed, Ji Muye had no right to control her now, a lump of emotion stuck in his throat, unable to be expelled.
And just at this moment, Liu Xixi called him.
The woman’s soft voice, filled with a crying tone, clearly transmitted to Lu Xining’s ears through the quiet of the night and the phone’s speaker.
“Aye, I’m so scared, I dreamt that Lu Xi slashed my face with a knife.”
“My wound hurts so much, even painkillers are useless.”
“Can you come back, please come back and stay with me?”
Liu Xixi wept as if it were a matter of life and death, as if she’d die on the spot if he didn’t return.
But Ji Muye’s thoughts at that moment were not on Liu Xixi’s call, his penetrating gaze fixed on the mocking look on Lu Xining’s face.
“There are bodyguards outside the hospital room, no one can hurt you.”
“If your wound hurts, you can seek a doctor. I can’t help you.”
What he said was true, but to Liu Xixi’s ears, it sounded like he was unwilling to return, perhaps even staying by another woman’s side.
Liu Xixi felt a strong sense of unease in her heart and couldn’t stop sifting through all the women around Ji Muye in her mind.
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“Aye, can you really not come back?”
The woman’s voice was pleading, and any typical man would have already succumbed to her tears and grievances. Yet Ji Muye was no ordinary man.
“Mm, take good care of your wounds.”
His voice, cool and detached, did not sound like he was comforting a woman he liked. There was even a hint of impatience between his brows.
Lu Xining couldn’t help but reflect inwardly.
When she had called him to come back and dine with her, was there impatience beneath his calm words as well?
The drowsiness that had eluded her earlier now came crashing over her, loaded with fatigue.
She turned and walked toward the bedroom, her silhouette betraying her exhaustion and weariness, ignoring the man behind her.
Ji Muye stood at the doorway of the study, watching her leave, while on the other side, Liu Xixi continued to cry out her grievances.
He glanced at the private message from Yan Dong on his phone and slightly curled his lips, puncturing the illusions in Liu Xixi’s words.
“If you want to pour out your feelings, you can find a friend. If you’re in pain, seek a doctor. I’m not your painkiller.”
After a moment’s thought, he still reminded her, “Liu Xixi, I’ll remind you one last time: I’ve helped you these years because you once saved Xiao Ze, so at most, we are childhood neighbors and benefactors, understand?”
His words were like a colossal blade, splitting the mountain of romantic fantasies in Liu Xixi’s heart, making her realize she had no place in his heart.
She had grown up with him, from kindergarten to university, pursuing his footsteps every step of the way, never daring to slack.
She was clearly the most suitable partner for him! It was all Lu Xining’s fault!
Had she not suddenly appeared to fulfill their marriage agreement, Ji Chao and Ji Ze might well have been hers and Ji Muye’s children.
Yes, children, it was all because of the Ji Family’s bloodline!
As long as she bore Ji Muye’s child, that would be enough, given how responsible he was, his deep love for family and children!
Determined, Liu Xixi began to plot her next move.
The sun rose slowly from the sea level, grand and undulating, weaving a tapestry of ripples that heralded the finest sight of the day.
Liu Xixi found her plastic surgeon, pulled out a photo of Lu Xining from her phone, her eyes filled with a fierce resolve to have Ji Muye.
She resolutely said, “My face, make it look like hers!”
Little did Lu Xining know that Liu Xixi, who saw her as a lifelong enemy, would choose her as the only model for her plastic surgery.
At the moment, she was dressing her daughter.
Ji Chao and Ji Ze had already dressed themselves and taken the initiative to wash up in the bathroom.
The previous day, Lu Xining had mentioned taking them to the car theme park, and the two sons had been so excited it took them a long time to fall asleep.
Although Lu Nuonuo didn’t understand what made a car theme park different from a regular amusement area, her “brother brain” was infected by her brothers’ happiness, and her eyes twinkled with excitement early in the morning.
Once dressed, she couldn’t wait to run to the bathroom.
Lu Nuonuo: “Brother, brush your teeth.”
Ji Chao proficiently squeezed toothpaste for her.
After she finished brushing, Ji Ze had already handed her a small towel.
The two brothers thoroughly enjoyed taking care of their sister.
The three of them held hands as they walked out of the bathroom.
Lu Xining had just changed clothes and stepped out of the walk-in closet.
She said gently to them, “Nuonuo, take your brothers to have breakfast, mommy will join you in a moment.”
However, by the time Lu Xining arrived at the dining room, she saw two men confronting each other, one cold, one hot, one ice, one fire, the atmosphere primed to explode!
The three little ones, one holding a milk bottle and the two clutching their milk, their eyes darted back and forth between the men, their synchronized movements soft and endearing.