Chapter 379 – Your family’s plum blossom is lost again (55)
This kind of thing was not unheard of for Yan Luzheng. Parents favoring one child to the point of obsession, even harming their other child, was something he had seen before.
But he had never expected the Mu family to be one of those cases.
And Mu Li was suffering from organ failure? The Mu family had hidden it well, even he hadn’t noticed a thing.
At that thought, Yan Luzheng frowned slightly.
Mu Ci naturally knew what Yan Luzheng was suspecting. After all, that laboratory was involved, and while Yan Luzheng was a force in the business world, the laboratory’s dealings were far more complex. He was in the process of uprooting it bit by bit.
This plan had been in motion for so long that they had only now dared to act. It was no surprise that Yan Luzheng had found nothing in his investigations.
“So this is why you despise the Mu family,” Yan Luzheng said with a trace of a sigh in his eyes.
Having watched Mu Ci grow up, knowing what he had been through, Yan Luzheng couldn’t help but feel complicated emotions. Of course, what weighed on him even more was his own little princess.
The Mu family itself didn’t concern Mu Ci much. Compared to that laboratory, they were merely pawns. Taking down the Mu family held little appeal for him. Though these were his thoughts, Mu Ci said nothing—letting Yan Luzheng imagine whatever he pleased.
In fact, Yan Luzheng even speculated that Mu Ci refused the Mu family’s shares because he found them tainted or because he wanted to carve out his own future without relying on them. His gaze toward Mu Ci softened at the thought.
Mu Ci noticed his look and couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his lips. In the end, he remained silent, simply watching Yan Luzheng.
Yan Luzheng had already acknowledged Mu Ci in his heart. It was just that, in the past, he couldn’t stand the relationship between these two children. Now that he understood, he no longer acted as frivolous or indifferent as before.
He had no objections—only one condition: if Mu Ci wanted to be with his little princess, he had to handle his own affairs first.
And if he ever dared to betray her, he should pack up and leave immediately, without delaying her chance to find someone better.
Mu Ci’s face darkened when he heard the last part.
But the matter was settled for now.
Until the night before Yan Luo’s seventeenth birthday.
Mu Ci, now quite practiced, took a box of milk from the fridge, warmed it slightly in hot water, poured it into a cup, and handed it to the ‘still angry’ Yan Luo.
The girl opened the door, saw the milk in his hand, and took it with a slight frown of distaste.
“Why is the milk always warm lately?”
“The weather is getting colder. And don’t forget, your period is coming soon.”
Seeing the girl take the cup only to turn and shut the door in his face, Mu Ci leaned against the doorframe to block it. And as if that wasn’t enough, he had to endure her look of disdain.
He raised an eyebrow, amusement flickering in his eyes.
Then, shamelessly squeezing inside, he watched as Yan Luo, though puffing her cheeks in frustration, didn’t actually stop him. That was enough for him to settle in beside her without guilt.
At that moment, Yan Luo took a sip from the cup. A tiny bit of milk foam clung to her lips.
Mu Ci’s gaze darkened slightly. He leaned in and swiftly licked the foam away.
He watched as the girl froze, staring up at him in shock, her face blank with disbelief.
She blinked, then instinctively stepped back.