Gu Xiyan hurried along with Yu Linglong to this franchise store on Donghua Street, and upon spotting Mu Jinyu, her eyes lit up with surprise, and she was about to go grab him—
when she heard Li Shuyue crying out for her to make a decision on her behalf?!
Gu Xiyan paused, retracted her gaze from Mu Jinyu, and turned to face Li Shuyue, who had blocked her way.
At that glance, she was immediately startled.
Damn, who is this fatso with a swollen, bruised face?!
Shocked, Gu Xiyan blurted out, "Who are you?"
After saying that, she looked around at the people present and noticed that all the customers in the store, including the manager who was in charge, had a red slap mark on their faces.
Clearly, if the swollen-faced fatso hadn't lied, this must have been Mu Jinyu's doing.
Gu Xiyan immediately felt a tingling in her scalp, sensing that the situation was not easy to handle.
When she had come, she only knew that Mu Jinyu had stolen clothes to return them, but she hadn't known about Mu Jinyu hitting people.
Yu Linglong also felt the situation was tricky, and her gaze towards the evasive Mu Jinyu became unfriendly.
Upon hearing Gu Xiyan ask who she was, Li Shuyue knew she must have been unrecognizable due to her disfigured face, making her feel incredibly wronged.
She wept bitterly as she complained, "General Gu, I'm Li Shuyue, my husband is Zhao Yi from Tianyi Textile, the one who has always supplied you with fabrics..."
"Oh, so it's you." Gu Xiyan looked Li Shuyue up and down, nodding silently to herself, Yeah, that figure, definitely Zhao Yi's wife all right.
Seeing that it was the small company that supplied them with fabrics, Gu Xiyan's unease also subsided a bit.
Ignoring Li Shuyue's complaints, she sternly walked toward the evasive Mu Jinyu.
She was about to question him, what exactly happened, why couldn't he wait for her to come and handle it, and had to go as far as hitting someone?
Mu Jinyu stood there, watching Gu Xiyan approach with an unfriendly look in her eyes, and his original indignation and frustration suddenly vanished.
He now felt a tingling scalp, having acted recklessly out of anger just now; the anger had subsided, but the trouble he had caused for Gu Xiyan was probably substantial.
Originally, he had thought he wouldn't care even if Gu Xiyan came, since he owed her nothing, but now that she was actually here, he felt inexplicably nervous.
Probably because yesterday he had impersonated Soldier King Lin Feng and taken advantage of her quite a bit, and today he had sneaked in to return clothes...
"Tap, tap, tap!"
Gu Xiyan's high heels tapped against the floor as she approached Mu Jinyu, just about to speak—
Seeing a flash of panic in Mu Jinyu's eyes, he then gritted his teeth, lunged at her, and hugged her tightly.
"Wow, wifey, you finally came. You don't know, they were just wronging me so terribly, wuwuwu..."
Mu Jinyu clung to the bewildered Gu Xiyan, his cries full of grievance.
He desperately held onto Gu Xiyan, his head resting in her comforting embrace, hoping her endless tenderness would heal his wounded soul.
"Wuuwuu, they bullied me, first saying that this shirt was stolen, then when I asked them to call you to prove my innocence, they brought in this damn fat woman, who is utterly disgusting, saying out of nowhere that I was her kept boytoy, wuuwuu, and even tried to walk away with the clothes you gave me. I just couldn't stand it then, and I hit her... wuuwuu..."
Mu Jinyu wept melodramatically as she complained to Gu Xiyan.
Of course, the crying was all an act, designed to evoke pity so that Gu Xiyan would sympathize with her and subsequently forget to settle accounts for last night's deception.
"Wuu wuu wuu…" After Mu Jinyu finished her sobbing narrative, her nostrils still flared continuously. Of course, she shed neither tears nor snot, her nostrils flared simply because…
The scent was so enchanting.
It made her unable to resist taking a few more whiffs.
Gu Xiyan, suddenly embraced tightly by Mu Jinyu, tensed up her body immediately, her eyes bewildered.
But she quickly came to her senses, initially furious and ready to push Mu Jinyu away and vigorously slap him.
However, hearing Mu Jinyu's extremely aggrieved lamentation touched a soft spot in her heart.
She couldn't bring herself to push Mu Jinyu away at that moment, just stiffly enduring the discomfort, letting Mu Jinyu hold her.
After listening to Mu Jinyu's lament, she turned her head to look at the store manager beside her, whose expression was peculiarly strange.
The manager looked at Gu Xiyan as one would watch a horror movie, unable to believe that her boss was indeed the girlfriend of this unassuming young man.
Noticing Gu Xiyan looking her way, the manager immediately nodded, affirming that Mu Jinyu hadn't lied, an apologetic expression surfacing in her eyes.
That apology was for her misjudgment, which led to the current situation.
Gu Xiyan, quite astute, saw the manager's nod and recalling Mu Jinyu's complaints, quickly pieced together the sequence of events.
It must have been Mu Jinyu, dressed in his tattered clothes, coming to the store to return some clothing and becoming too nervous, which made the cautious manager suspect him. Then, not wanting her to know, he hesitated a lot. Eventually, he had no choice but to contact her, but his earlier hesitation led the manager to misjudge him as being kept by Li Shuyue, who had bought the same suit, thus she notified Li Shuyue.
Li Shuyue, guessing some of it and always looking for a bargain, came over promptly hoping to benefit from the situation. She thought Mu Jinyu was a "kept man," and by intervening, she would just take his clothes. He certainly wouldn't dissent, but Mu Jinyu wasn't a "kept man" at all and erupted in anger.
This led to the current troublesome situation.
With a slight sigh of resignation, Gu Xiyan gently patted Mu Jinyu's back, softly saying, "It's alright now, I'll take care of everything for you."
She hadn't expected Mu Jinyu to be so fragile and found herself unable to push him away.
"General Gu, you must decide for us…" Li Shuyue, after embellishing Mu Jinyu's complaint to Yu Linglong, utterly oblivious to the weird atmosphere in the place, turned around and was about to call Gu Xiyan to take a stand for her.
But then she saw Mu Jinyu and Gu Xiyan hugging each other, Gu Xiyan comforting him, and the words she was about to utter suddenly stuck in her throat.
Li Shuyue's eyes widened in shock. What… what was this situation?!
Why were the two of them holding each other?
Why? Why was this happening?!
Li Shuyue felt as if the sky were falling.
Gu Xiyan, while soothing Mu Jinyu, heard Li Shuyue's exclamation and immediately snapped out of it. She first gently soothed Mu Jinyu, then pushed him away and turned to gaze coldly at the stupefied Li Shuyue, speaking calmly,
"From today onwards, your company doesn't need to deliver fabrics to Face of Jade anymore, our cooperation is canceled!"