“I will protect you until I find out who the mastermind is.”
Han Muzi suddenly paused when she was washing the dishes as she suddenly thought of something. She stopped whatever she was doing and looked at Ye Moxuan. “Are you saying that you want to live in my house?”
Ye Moxuan approached Han Muzi with his personal scent overpowering her. “If you’re okay with that…”
“No way.” Han Muzi rejected him without hesitation. “You have also seen it yourself—I am not living alone now. It will be very inconvenient.”
Ye Moxuan looked for loopholes in her reply. “Do you mean to say that if you are living alone, then I can stay with you?”
Han Muzi paused before saying, “Stop trying to find the loopholes in my words. Now that you have had your dinner, and it’s not early anymore, you should go back quickly.”
Seeing him standing silently, Han Muzi added, “Don’t make me hate you even more.”
This sentence had probably touched Ye Moxuan’s soft spot. He stood beside her in silence for a long time before slowly speaking, “I will leave after helping you with the dishes.”
“Be sure to keep your word.”
This time, Ye Moxuan had really honored his promise. After Han Muzi finished doing the dishes, she sent him directly to the door, and he did not pester her to stay anymore.
However, before leaving, Ye Moxuan saw the children’s shoes again when he opened the shoe cabinet. A surprised look flitted across his dark eyes before he glanced inside the house again.
“Hurry up,” Han Muzi urged. “What are you doing, taking your own sweet time?”
Hearing that, Ye Moxuan put on his shoes. When he walked to the door, his gaze fell on her face. He looked like he wanted to speak, but he hesitated.
Han Muzi interrupted him just in time. “Be careful when you go back.” Then, she slammed the door directly.
After closing the door, Han Muzi leaned with her back against the door. Her gaze slowly became distant as she lowered her eyes, no one knew what she was thinking.
After some time, she walked to the shoe cabinet and opened the door to take all of Little Bean’s shoes. Then, she took them upstairs and put them in his room. After she came out, she locked the door of his room as well.
When she was about to go back to her room, she stumbled upon Yan who was leaning against the door. “He knows where you live now.”
Han Muzi stood still and did not reply to Yan’s words.
Yan continued, “In my opinion, the truth will be out one day.”
“Well, if I can hide it for an extra day, it would be worth it.” At this moment, Han Muzi was rather calm.
Probably, she had long known that after she met Ye Moxuan when she returned to the country and saw that he was very determined that he would be able to win her back, she knew that eventually Little Bean would be discovered by him.
Once Little Bean was exposed to Ye Moxuan, his background would be revealed as well.
Thinking of this, Han Muzi smiled slightly and said in a low voice, “Anyway, I will try my best to protect him one day at a time. Even if the truth will be revealed one day, I won’t let the situation go out of control.”
Hearing that, Yan was slightly surprised. Her lips moved, and finally she couldn’t help asking, “Are you saying that even if they meet, you will not admit that they are father and son?”
Han Muzi didn’t nod, but her silence had already indicated she indeed thought so. Yan pouted and commented, “I think based on President Ye’s character, he will not give up easily.”
“You also think that he will take the child away from me?”
“No!” Yan shook her head and stared at Han Muzi seriously.
Han Muzi was a little surprised to hear that. “No?”
“I mean—not just the child, but also you.”
Han Muzi remained silent upon hearing that.
“The one he is bound to get is you. If he finds out about Little Bean, then he will include him along with you.”
Hearing that, Han Muzi was stunned. Her pink lips were slightly opened, but she couldn’t say a word. Why does Yan see the situation even clearer than I do? Is it because I’m the one involved in this relationship?
She had always been worried that after Ye Moxuan found out about Little Bean, the Ye Family would come to take him away. Little Bean was the only person she could rely on right now. If he was taken away by the Ye Family, she had no reason to stay alive anymore.
However, what Yan said to her tonight had made her sober up abruptly. She always thought that Ye Moxuan would only take away the child. However, Yan knew clearly that Ye Moxuan wanted her.
“Apart from that, based on his character, I guess that he will rather want you than the kid,” Yan added, for fear that Han Muzi could not understand her.
Han Muzi was completely speechless at this point, and her thoughts were in a mess. Honestly speaking, she had never thought about it.
“So, you should think about it carefully.” Yan tried to convince her. “I know you still have feelings for him, and I know all the things you did abroad. Muzi, as your friend, although I should take your side, in my opinion, what Ye Moxuan has done for you now, admittedly, is not a lot, but it is definitely not little as well. He puts himself at a very inferior position in front of you now, just like how I behave in front of your brother. Can you understand what I mean?”
Since when do I take Yan’s advice on relationships? Obviously, she has never experienced anything.
Slightly angered, Han Muzi said annoyingly, “Are you pitying him just because of all the things that he has done? Or do you think I have treated him too harshly?”
“No, I don’t think you are too harsh. After all, based on what he did five years ago, even if he gives you his life, I don’t think that it is too much. But… I can’t bear to see you torturing yourself, Muzi. Do you think I told you this for his sake? It’s for you.”
Yan stepped forward to her rather agitatedly. “I know you still like him. Over the past five years, you seem to have forgotten this person on the surface, but I know that deep down in your heart—”
“Enough.” Han Muzi interrupted her coldly and turned her back to Yan. She raised her eyes to look ahead with her red lips pressed tightly.
“Muzi, I’m serious!”
“I said—enough!” With that, Muzi no longer paid attention to Yan. Instead, she started walking to her room.
Yan looked at her back as she left with her head drooped, looking somewhat discouraged. Her entire being looked dejected. She didn’t want to pair Ye Moxuan with Han Muzi either, but she couldn’t bear seeing her best friend torturing herself like this.
As long as… As long as Muzi can leave all the past behind and be with Ye Moxuan now, along with Little Bean, the three of them can have a blissful life together. Wouldn’t that be nice?
However, Han Muzi’s vengeance ran too deep. Yan wondered how hard Ye Moxuan would have to work to settle all of those. She knew that Han Muzi’s stance was already softened when Ye Moxuan blocked the sulfuric acid attack for her, but in the end, there was still no progress. This showed how deep her resentment was.
After Han Muzi returned to her room, she took off her clothes and went to take a shower. She turned the shower on and stood under it, allowing the warm water to wash down from her head.
Yan’s words kept playing back in her mind, but the fire within her heart raged on.
How can I forget the harm he has done to me five years ago? How can I?
