The Billionaire's New Wife in Chief-Chapter 873 - 293: Or, I’ll Offer Myself to Repay Your Life-Saving Grace

Lu Jingchen’s face grew even more sullen; his thin lips pressed tight, especially the pen held in his hand, which seemed to be slightly deformed from the pressure. It was faintly visible that the veins on the back of his clenched fist were bulging, while his deep-set eyes seemed to be suppressing some emotion that had yet to be released.

Assistant Xue, seeing his boss in such a state, couldn’t help but feel a jolt of fear, with a sudden urge to flee the office at once.

He wondered what would happen if his boss couldn’t control his anger and decided to kill him to silence him.

After a long moment, Lu Jingchen seemed to have barely suppressed the fury inside him. He stood up, picked up the suit jacket on the table, and spoke with almost no emotional fluctuation in his voice, "Cancel all today’s arrangements, call the driver, and head to the Mu Mansion."

Assistant Xue was stunned at first but quickly understood his boss’s intention and nodded, "Okay."

However, just as he walked out of the office, he saw Murong Rui coming out of the elevator and heading towards them. When Murong Rui saw Lu Jingchen, her eyes immediately lit up. She briskly walked over to him, wrapped her small hands around his arm, and smiled brightly, "Jingchen brother, where are you going? I haven’t had lunch yet, can you join me?"

Seeing Murong Rui, Lu Jingchen couldn’t help but frown. The events that occurred at the wedding still lingered vividly in his mind. He couldn’t help but blame Murong Rui for exposing those things at the wedding. After all, if it weren’t for her, things between him and Song Qiao wouldn’t have reached this point.

To say the least, he himself didn’t know when exactly he had fallen in love with Song Qiao. Especially today, when Song Qiao directly said she wanted a divorce, it felt like a huge chunk of his heart was being slashed away with a knife.

Without a trace of a smile on his face, he maintained a calm demeanor, withdrew his arm from her hands, and spoke in a flat tone, "I have something to do. If you want to eat, let Assistant Xue accompany you." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Saying this, his long legs wrapped in the suit began to stride towards the executive elevator, exuding an aura that clearly warned others to keep their distance.

Assistant Xue was instantly stunned, crying out internally, ’Boss, please spare me, I don’t want to have lunch with Miss Murong. I’d rather you give me more work to do, even if it means working overtime.’

Murong Rui didn’t even glance at Assistant Xue as she watched Lu Jingchen’s departing back. Once she snapped back to reality, she immediately followed him, her high heels clicking on the floor. Just as the elevator arrived, she stepped in alongside Lu Jingchen and quickly spoke, "Jingchen brother, I’ve been back for over a week now, and you haven’t had a meal with me. Did I do something to upset you?"

Lu Jingchen’s expression remained unchanged, but his gaze towards Murong Rui darkened. His voice took on a cold tone, "Shouldn’t your studies be unfinished? Staying here so long will affect them. I’ll have Assistant Xue book a ticket for you to return to England tomorrow."

Murong Rui’s face turned pale as she stared numbly at him. She had intended to reach out and wrap her arms around his again, but his words left her frozen in mid-action. After a while, she seemed on the verge of tears, and her voice was filled with endless grievance, "Jingchen brother, do you really not want to see me? I haven’t seen you in over three years, and in England, it’s always been just me alone. Don’t you know how lonely I am there?"

As if recalling something particularly sad, tears that hadn’t fallen earlier suddenly cascaded from her eyes, and she really began to cry. Her voice carried a sobbing tone, "My mom and dad have abandoned me. Are you planning to abandon me too? If that’s the case, you might as well let me die. At least then, I might be with them again. What’s the point of living alone in this world?"

The girl cried so sorrowfully, like pearls from a broken string, her tears wouldn’t stop flowing, rolling down her cheeks, and pooling on the gleaming floor of the elevator. Perhaps thinking her crying was too unbecoming, Murong Rui sat down on the floor, burying her head in her knees, crying incessantly.

Lu Jingchen heard Murong Rui’s words and instinctively clenched his fists, as if trying to suppress some emotion. In his mind, he recalled Song Qiao’s heart-wrenching tears from yesterday, as if her world had collapsed.

The elevator unknowingly reached the underground parking level, and the man finally softened and bent down to pick her up. His handsome face still wore a grim expression, but his voice no longer carried its previous iciness, "Weren’t we supposed to eat? If you keep crying, I’ll send you back to the mansion."

Hearing this, Murong Rui dared not continue crying aloud, but her sobs and hiccups made her appear pitiful, as she tightly clutched his shirt.

Lu Jingchen looked down at Murong Rui in his arms. When her parents died, Murong Rui was not even ten, and she cried as if the sky were collapsing.

At that time, he held her sideways like this, but now Murong Rui was already a big girl, no longer the little girl she used to be, and he felt somewhat awkward holding her like this.

There weren’t many people in the parking lot at this moment, at most some employees who were out negotiating contracts or conducting business. Everyone who saw Lu Jingchen carrying Murong Rui out of the elevator was so shocked that they stopped in their tracks, not daring to move.

A question simultaneously popped up in everyone’s mind... what’s going on here?

Lu Jingchen’s exclusive parking spot was somewhat far away, and a lot of people saw him along the way.

...

Song Qiao went back to her room, changed into casual homewear, and wanted to go into the kitchen to help Aunt Zhang prepare dinner. Mu Shinian had just come back from school, and surprisingly, Lu Yulin was with him.

Perhaps because Lu Yulin was too mature and understood everything clearly, when he saw another man like Chu Munan, who didn’t seem any less capable than Lu Jingchen, in the Mu Mansion, he instantly sounded the alarm, immediately seeing Chu Munan as a potential rival in vying for his second uncle’s wife, so his eyes towards Chu Munan were filled with hostility.

Aunt Zhang naturally didn’t want Song Qiao to do things herself, so she directly took out watermelon and some other fruits, letting Song Qiao cut two fruit platters to take out, and then closed the kitchen door to prepare dinner with another servant skilled in cooking.

Seeing the closed kitchen door that blocked her, Song Qiao was speechless for a moment but didn’t say much and directly carried the fruit platters towards the living room.

Both Elder Mu and Elder Chu were playing chess on the side, while Mu Shinian, Lu Yulin, and Chu Munan were watching a popular Western sci-fi movie. As if sensing something, Chu Munan turned his head to look at Song Qiao even before she approached, noticing her carrying the fruit platters, and quickly stood up to walk over. His deep voice carried a hint of a gentle smile, "Let me help you take one over to your grandfather and my grandfather."

Feeling a bit tired from carrying them, Song Qiao naturally didn’t refuse and slightly curled the corners of her mouth, "Thank you."

Chu Munan looked at her, sighed silently, and began, "You’re saying thank you just for helping carry a fruit platter? We shouldn’t be so distant, right? If we’re going to be so distant, then for that time you saved my life, should I give my life back to you?"

At this point, he seemed to think of something, and a fox-like smile suddenly appeared on his face. He leaned nearer to her with his handsome face and directly said, "Otherwise, how about I offer myself as repayment for saving my life?"

The sudden closeness startled Song Qiao, causing her to take a step back, especially after hearing what he said last. She widened her eyes in shock, "Chu... Chu Munan, do you have a fever? I am a married woman..."

Chu Munan stood straight, maintaining that faint smile, although the smile in his eyes deepened a bit, "I know you are a married woman. Didn’t I know that the first time I saw you?"

Song Qiao tightly held the fruit platter, her rosy lips moved, and finally, she voiced the question she had always wanted to ask, "Do you have a grudge against Lu Jingchen?"

He was taken aback, "Why do you ask?"

Song Qiao scrutinized him up and down and calmly continued, "Otherwise, why are you always competing with him for women? If I remember correctly, Zuo Yuqing used to be Lu Jingchen’s woman, right? And now I’m holding a marriage certificate with him, also considered his woman... If it’s not the case, why would you approach me and Zuo Yuqing twice in a row?"

She and Chu Munan had only met twice before, and this was only the third time. Hearing what Chu Munan just said, it was impossible for her not to be suspicious.