Chapter 05
The interviewer stammered for a long time, hesitating thoroughly before finally blurring out a few words: “The Mu Group.”
Was it Mu Ze?
Yun Chu returned to the Mu Residence carrying a stomach full of rage. At this hour, aside from the busy nannies, only Mu Ze was at home.
Bam!
She pushed the door open violently, causing the doorknob to slam heavily against the wall.
Yun Chu stepped into the room and saw Mu Ze sitting in his wheelchair. His aloof, noble silhouette was framed against the window, his back turned to her.
“Mu Ze, do you find this amusing?” she questioned bluntly, showing no politeness whatsoever.
Mu Ze acted as if he hadn’t heard a thing, remaining completely motionless.
Thinking he was just afraid of someone discovering he was faking his disability and was intentionally refusing to respond, Yun Chu turned around and locked the door behind her.
“Can you speak now? I’m asking you a question!”
In a space meant for two, it had turned into a one-woman monologue. Sensing that something was wrong with the man, Yun Chu approached cautiously. “Hey! Don’t play dead with me!”
She poked Mu Zeâs back, but he remained as still as a mannequin. “What’s wrong with you?”
Don’t tell me he’s actually dead. Though she had been to prison, she didn’t want to get mixed up in a suspicious death right after gaining her freedom and end up back inside. She carefully circled around to face him, and her expression instantly turned frantic.
Mu Zeâs face was completely covered in cold sweat. The hair at his forehead and temples was thoroughly drenched, his brows were tightly knit, and his complexion was frighteningly pale. It looked unnatural at first glance.
She grabbed Mu Zeâs shoulders. “Hey! Uncle, wake up!”
“Leave, quickly!” Mu Ze squeezed out two words with immense effort. He could barely open his eyelids, looking as if he were locked in a grueling agony.
Leave? If she left now, he really wouldn’t be far from death.
“Consider it luck that your ancestral graves are smoking with good fortune today to have crossed paths with me.”
Yun Chu bent down, grasped his wrist, and carefully checked his pulse. If she hadn’t bowed to several masters while in prison and picked up some medical knowledge, he would probably be left to fend for himself in this room right now.
Mu Zeâs pulse was chaotic and incredibly turbulent. It felt a bit like… aphrodisiacs taking over without a release. No, if it were just a standard drug, it wouldn’t be this aggressive. Could there be something else triggering its onset? This man was already pretending to be a cripple, yet someone still resorted to such underhanded tactics against him? How sinister…
“Do you have needles in the house?”
Mu Ze remained half-dead and unmoving; asking him was entirely useless. Yun Chu looked around, trying to find something that could substitute for silver acupuncture needles. But where on earth was she going to find something long and thin?
Just as she was at her wit’s end, Mu Ze spoke slowly, “You’re the one who chose not to leave.” His voice was faint and quiet, rendering his words completely inaudible to Yun Chu.
“What did you sayâ”
In the next split second, Yun Chu was pulled firmly into Mu Zeâs embrace. A dominant, fierce kiss rained down upon her. She pounded her fists against his chest, but she could not resist a man whose mind was completely consumed by fire.
In the secluded room, the man and woman embraced tightly before the window.
Yun Chu felt her body grow weak under his sudden, intense kiss, and a soft, delicate hum escaped her lips. Mu Zeâs consciousness gradually aligned back on track. Holding her waist, he lifted his head and helped smooth her disheveled hair. Right now, the beast inside him was roaring, just a fraction away from completely overriding his sanity.
Mu Ze gritted his teeth, enduring the agonizing restraint. “Is it okay? I want you.”
Yun Chuâs heart was racing so fast it felt like it would leap out of her chest. Her face was flushed crimson, her lips glistening from the passionate kiss. She didn’t know how to respond.
Help him? But was he worth giving herself to? Or refuse to help, and let the drug run its course until his racing heart gave out? But she did owe him… The first time, he forced a kiss in the car. The second time, he defended her in front of Mu Yantao. And today, at the Yun house, he backed her up. At this moment, Yun Chu seemed to face a dead end, with no choice left to make.
The turbulence Mu Ze had been fiercely suppressing reached both its physical and psychological limits the moment she drew close. “Since you aren’t rejecting me, I’ll take that as a yes.”
Once again…
Mu Zeâs overwhelming, dense kisses swept over her, their breaths entangling with raw, savage force. Yun Chu was like an antidote, and driven by survival instincts, he claimed her relentlessly. Being completely inexperienced in these matters, she was entirely defenseless against his fierce assault. Her whole body turned to jelly; if she weren’t sitting on his lap, she would have collapsed straight to the floor.
Taking advantage of the moment, Mu Ze carried her to the bed. His tall frame pressed over her, his searingly hot hands gripping the back of her thighs and pulling them around his waist…
Their low, lingering murmurs echoed through the room continuously.
It turned out that a union with negative distance truly hurt.
Before the two could finish their passion, Yun Chuâs eyes suddenly widened in shock. The man above her looked equally stunned, his expression shifting into utter embarrassment.
“…Uncle, are you seriously no good?!”
The male leads in novels always lasted for hours, yet he only managed a few minutes. He really stalled halfway through…
Please! This was her very first time, yet it felt like an itch being lightly scratched, ending before it even properly began.
Mu Zeâs face darkened with intense awkwardness, his spirit visibly deflating. “It’s my first time, I lack experience… Let’s go again.”
The two rolled around for an unknown amount of time before it finally ended. The man demanded her for longer and grew more practiced and fierce with each round, like a tireless, perpetual motion machine. Turning non-stop, drilling non-stop!
It was hard to tell whether his pride was driving him to redeem himself, or if the older man had simply developed a taste for it and lost all restraint…
After satisfying his hunger, Mu Ze lay contentedly against the headboard. He picked up the cigarette pack from the nightstand, shook one out, and held it between his lips. Amidst the swirling smoke, he cast his gaze downward onto Yun Chuâs back. Her skin was delicate and smooth; no matter how much he held or kissed her, it never felt like enough. Was this woman raised on some kind of aphrodisiac? How could she be this alluring?
After finishing his cigarette, Mu Ze carried her into the bathroom.
Yun Chu complained directionless in her daze, “I don’t want to… it hurts.”
“I won’t touch you, I’m just washing you.”
The person in his arms seemed to understand his words and stopped fussing, becoming quiet and still.
By the time he finished cleaning her up, it was already the dead of night. The phone on the nightstand suddenly vibrated. Mu Ze opened it to find the background report on Yun Chu that he had ordered his people to investigate.
He opened the digital file and scrolled through it bit by bit. “You were much more obedient in kindergarten than you are now, like a little rabbit.”
He kept scrolling down until he saw Yun Chuâs middle school records. She was standing on the presenter’s stage with a high ponytail, wearing a red princess dress as she hosted an evening gala. Under the lights, she was dazzling and radiant.
Mu Ze froze for a moment, his breathing turning shallow. “You’re actually that little girl from back then.”
The person he had been searching for years without success was actually lying right beside his pillow now. What was this? Destiny?
As he looked further into her recent records, Mu Zeâs face grew increasingly somber. His breathing became heavy with a suppressed rage.
Throughout the night, Yun Chu had a dreamless, deep, and peaceful sleep.
The next morning, the sky was fully bright. The summer sun shone directly onto her face, baking hot.
Opening her eyes with a body exhausted in both mind and spirit, she noted that her bones didn’t actually ache as much as she had anticipated. It seemed the uncle really was lacking… As expected of someone older, he couldn’t compare to younger guys.
Mu Ze was sitting in his wheelchair at the foot of the bed, completely unaware of the little thoughts running through her mind. “Get up if you’re awake, sleeping like a lazy pig.”
He had spent ages massaging Yun Chu’s legs last night just to prevent her from feeling sore today. He, the one who did all the hard labor, was already up, yet she slept like a log.
Yun Chu propped herself up against the headboard and glared at him. “Explain what happened yesterday.”
In the Mu Residence, given his status, who would dare touch him? This man harbored too many secrets; she shouldn’t have provoked him in the first place.
Mu Ze knew she would ask and had no intention of hiding it. “It happens once every month, and it has been going on for about half a year. I’ve had checkups before, but they couldn’t find the issue.”
It flares up every month? How could that be… Judging by the state of his pulse during the flare-up, it was a straightforward drug taking effect, amplified by other unknown factors. However, this man was brutal enough to himself; considering the severity of his condition, anyone else would have been screaming for a partner during the very first instance, let alone enduring it for half a year.
Yun Chu’s gaze shifted toward his lower abdomen. Recalling his performance, she couldn’t help but knit her brows. “No wonder…” He probably felt too embarrassed to bring someone in.
“What are you muttering about?” Mu Ze frowned, sensing a distinct trace of disdain in her eyes.
Yun Chu pursed her lips and guiltily looked out the window, shifting the topic. “Didn’t you want me to cooperate and act with you? I can agree, but on one condition: you have to help me find a job, preferably something in design.”
Following yesterday’s interviews, she realized that academic qualifications truly were a stepping stone. With her current resume, she couldn’t even get past the threshold for many jobs. But if Mu Ze, the heir of the Mu family, stepped in, the situation would be entirely different.
Mu Ze said casually, “Sure. I’ll arrange for you to enter the Mu Group.” She was now the wife of the Mu Group’s heir; no one within the corporation would dare offend her. He just needed to put some thought into handling his father.
Yun Chu was startled for a moment, but it quickly turned to delight. “That’s even better.” Anyway, she was only staying for two and a half months. Working anywhere was still working; she might as well go somewhere with a strong backing.
Since Yun Chu agreed so readily when he thought she would angrily refuse, he added, “I’ll have my assistant, Gao Sheng, look for you tomorrow.”
Having completed their deal, the two went about their own business, ignoring each other.
In the afternoon, Mu Ze had business to attend to and left with Assistant Gao. Yun Chu was left alone in the room wearing her pajamas, lying on the bed with her legs crossed while playing games on her phone, thoroughly enjoying her leisure.
However, she was called out by her good friend, Xia Zhiruo, who insisted on throwing her a welcome-back gathering.
As soon as she walked into the private room, she saw two fair-skinned male masseurs waiting by the side. Sitting on the massage bed and facing the young man who looked even younger than her, Yun Chu instantly felt completely out of place. She felt an absurd sense of guilt, like an old cow eating young grass.
Xia Zhiruo nudged her with a finger and gave her a meaningful look. “Babe, see how good I am to you? I picked the handsomest one for you.”
“…”
Can I decline? Yun Chu leaned into Xia Zhiruo’s ear and whispered, “Let’s change to someone else.” She couldn’t handle this blessing, mostly because she had never experienced this kind of treatment before.
Xia Zhiruo rolled her eyes at her in annoyance. “With me here, what are you chicken out for! Hey, little brother, take good care of your big sister here, and I’ll tip you later.”
Yun Chu: “…”
The masseur said in a very professional tone, “Don’t worry, if you’re not satisfied, sister, a refund is entirely fine.”
Yun Chu: “…” She suddenly felt like a fish on a chopping board, completely at their mercy.
The two lay on the massage beds, chatting idly. Xia Zhiruo inquired, “Little Yun Chu, have you tried it out with that uncle yet? How did it feel?” She was always a gossip, and when she spoke without filter, Yun Chu couldn’t stop her.
Yun Chu knew exactly what she was asking. Thinking about the hours of intense activity yesterday, her small face instantly flushed. What could she say? Say that she almost drifted off to a heavenly bliss and ended up completely unconscious? It was too scandalous to utter…
After deliberating for a long while, she spoke slowly, “He’s… not great in that department. The first time lasted only a few minutes.”
“Huh?!”
Along with Xia Zhiruo’s startled exclamation, the movements of the two male masseurs froze mid-air. Xia Zhiruo immediately sat up and patted her shoulder, appearing even more bothered than Yun Chu herself. “Ditch that man! Babe, for the sake of your lifelong happiness, listen to me.”
Women are made of water and need nourishment. Without it, wouldn’t that just be living like a widow?
Knock, knock, knock!
Just as she finished speaking, a rushed knocking sound echoed from the door, causing everyone in the room to hold their breath.
