"Huh?!"
When Mu Jinyu said that, Wen Rou was initially stunned. Then, after understanding his meaning, her cheeks, which were already as red as apples, turned even redder.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Wen Rou reacted, her little heart thumping wildly as if a little deer were crashing around her chest. She gave Mu Jinyu a white look, chiding him with a blush on her face.
Mu Jinyu realized he had gone too far, let out a chuckle, and said with a smile, "It was just a joke, don't take it so seriously. After all, these things were meant as an apology to you. How would it look if I took them? Besides, I don't have a girlfriend, so taking them would be useless."
Wen Rou hung her head low and mumbled, "But if I accept them, that would mean... that would mean..."
She stumbled over her words, feeling too shy and embarrassed to continue.
Mu Jinyu, however, understood what she meant. She wanted to say that after all he had said, if she accepted them, wouldn't it mean she was his girlfriend? So she couldn't accept them.
If that group of thugs knew that this was Wen Rou's attitude towards Mu Jinyu, they would probably vomit blood.
After all, those things were gifts from them!
When we gave them to you, you accepted them readily, but when it came to returning them to Mu Jinyu, and Mu Jinyu offered them back to you, you became hesitant, feeling like accepting them would make you his girlfriend.
That was just ridiculous.
That was utterly inhumane!
Mu Jinyu waved his hand and said, "I told you, it was just a joke, why are you taking it so seriously? Are you really that afraid I'm going to eat you up?"
He paused. Seeing Wen Rou still wanted to refuse, Mu Jinyu added, "If you really want me to take them away, I'll probably find them too heavy and useless soon after, and just throw them away, or maybe give them to some random woman."
"No, you can't just throw them away!" Wen Rou heard Mu Jinyu say this and looked up in alarm, shaking her head quickly to dissuade him.
"There you have it, just accept them honestly." Mu Jinyu said, adding another line, "Even if you accept them, it won't make you my girlfriend, don't worry."
Wen Rou's face turned a bit red again, wanting to refuse, but then she thought about the possibility of Mu Jinyu really giving those things to another woman...
She felt even less able to accept that.
'Better them than someone else,' she hypnotized herself, then looking down at the tips of her shoes, she stammered, "Then... thanks."
"No need to be polite." Mu Jinyu said with a smile.
In his heart, he added, 'It's not like I'm the one paying.'
Seeing that Wen Rou finally stopped hesitating, Mu Jinyu thought he could finally leave. He intended to check on his few apartments, and so he said, "All right. I'm off. You carry on with your work. When you have more free time later on, you can look for me at those addresses."
"Wait a moment." Wen Rou called out to him again.
"What now?" Mu Jinyu turned back, looking at her with a resigned expression.
If it were an ordinary woman, he would have stopped bothering a long time ago. Even if she were a bit ugly, he might even have cursed, 'Why do you have so many nonsense things to say?'
But who told Wen Rou to be pretty and gentle?
Beautiful women, even when they do something wrong, always get more leniency.
Just as a handsome man like Mu Jinyu is always more likely to receive the favor of many beautiful women.
Wen Rou said, "If you're moving into a new house, you'll always need someone to help you tidy up, right? I'll accompany you over there and help you sort things out."
"This..." Mu Jinyu hesitated, saying, "Are you not doing business anymore?"
With a tranquil smile, Wen Rou explained, "I thought today would be another slow day, so I didn't even purchase much food. You saw what happened earlier with the aunties and uncles, didn't you? There were many dishes I couldn't serve you, so there's nothing for me to do here now. It's the perfect time to go with you and help you clean up a bit, consider it a start on repaying the favor."
After thinking it over, Mu Jinyu finally nodded under Wen Rou's expectant gaze, saying, "Alright, but just to be clear, I'm not paying you for this."
Wen Rou couldn't help but laugh and cry, "Of course you don't need to pay me. After all the help you've given me, do you think I'd really haggle over this with you? Besides, you just treated me to lunch."
Mu Jinyu waved off the comment, "You barely ate anything."
"What about breakfast then? Isn't it you who treated me?"
"That was for the lodging fee," Mu Jinyu said firmly, with an underlying implication, "I don't let anyone take advantage of me, nor do I take advantage of others lightly."
Wen Rou looked at Mu Jinyu and always felt that his words were not aligned with his thoughts. Behind what he said seemed to be a story, but after her lips quivered for a moment, she decided not to say more.
The two quickly shut down the small diner and then left the alley.
Mu Jinyu hailed a taxi and took Wen Rou to the King of the Building at Seaview Garden.
The reason for going there first was partly to show off, and also because he himself was very much looking forward to the billion-dollar mansion.
He wanted to see for himself what a mansion worth a billion looked like, to broaden his horizons.
Soon, they arrived at Seaview Garden.
Mu Jinyu paid the taxi fare and, with Wen Rou in tow, walked toward the villa complex only to be stopped by the security at the gate asking for their entry permits.
Not knowing what an entry permit was, Mu Jinyu then took out the King of the Building's key and the property deed to show them, asking if that would suffice?
Of course, it wasn't likely that he would immediately pull out the property deed and keys for Seaview Garden, so he kept digging, digging...
Seeing this, the security guards couldn't help but twitch their mouths at the sight of those bright red booklets, and when Mu Jinyu found the property deed for Seaview Garden, they quickly nodded and respectfully said, "That will do, please go on in..."
Mu Jinyu took back the property deed and walked inside with the amused Wen Rou.
Behind them, the security guards were discussing:
"Wasn't that property deed he showed just now for... Seaview No.1? King of the Building?!"
"Seems like it, right? But isn't the King of the Building Director Wang's place from Xueyin Group? How did it end up with this young man? Could the property deed be fake?"
"It shouldn't be..."
After a few words, they started to doubt whether Mu Jinyu's property deed was real or fake.
Then one of them suddenly said, "I remember the manager mentioned just now that Director Wang's King of the Building has been transferred to someone else and told us to be more vigilant in the future to avoid making a mistake, or we'll be in big trouble."
"So..." the head security guard hesitated, "Was that guy just now Director Wang's friend, or someone trying to slip through unnoticed?"
Another security guard said, "Who knows? It's also possible that he purposely created several fake property deeds to fool us, just wanting to get in for a look."
The head security guard pondered for a moment and said, "No, we can't afford any mistakes. You guys stay here; I'll take a few people to check. If he's just muddying the waters, we need to drive them out immediately."