Published at 9th of November 2020 10:29:52 AM
Chapter 79
The police officer, having completed the questioning, nodded at Mu Rulan and turned to leave .
Mu Rulan and Shu Min sat still without any intention of provoking a mother who was having a difficult time processing her daughter’s situation .
Hua Fang turned and said viciously, eyes still red and a vein popping out of her forehead, “You again! How come whenever our Yaya is near you something bad happens?! What sort of deep hatred do you have with our family, always giving us trouble?! What do you want from us for you to leave us alone?!”
“Mom!” Zhou Sulun did not expect that Hua Fang would turn to scold Mu Rulan . He let out a surprised shout and pulled at her .
Shu Min stretched out an arm to protect Mu Rulan, face cold and tone sarcastic as she said, “You don’t have the right to discipline others when you’re the one who failed to discipline your own child! Your daughter wanted to commit murder and yet you expected the president to stand there quietly and let her do it?”
“My Yaya is only fifteen! She’s fifteen and knows nothing . Can’t you people give her another chance?” Hua Fang cried desperately, unable to accept it at all . The fact that her own daughter was disabled was too much for her . None of this would have happened if not for Mu Rulan . It was all her fault!
Mu Rulan sat in her seat, staring calmly at Hua Fang, not even uttering a word in response, face expressionless .
Shu Min was amused by Hua Fang’s ridiculous statements . “Fifteen years is young? If that’s still young, our president is only sixteen . How shameless can you be!”
Hua Fang was shocked, glancing at Mu Rulan . Translated by The Novelst
That was right . This girl was only sixteen, it was just her achievements and reputation that were annoyingly dazzling, so much so that she couldn’t help but overlook her age and treat her like an adult…
Even so, after that comparison was brought to light, Hua Fang was even more annoyed . Why was this girl so beloved at her age, but her baby girl was bullied so harshly? Why did she keep her limbs, but her baby girl was disabled now?
By what right? All her Yaya did was act a little wayward and cocky, but had never caused large amounts of trouble . Only after she met this girl was it that roadblock after roadblock appeared! It was because Mu Rulan was a bad omen .
Hua Fang became angrier the more she thought, vessels in her forehead swelling as though they were going to pop . Her expression began to distort before a calming voice came indifferently into her ears .
“Minors between the ages of fourteen and sixteen who deliberately commit murder, cause intentional serious injuries to the point of death, rape, robbery, drug trafficking, arson, bombing and poisoning should be dealt with the full force of the law . Zhou Yaya repeatedly committed crimes again and again and refused to change . The police have filed and requested a public prosecution of Yaya in court . ”
The man who was slowly walking over to them was wearing a simple shirt as usual, calm gaez filled with indifference piercing through the atmosphere .
Mu Rulan looked at him and a soft and warm smile filled her face . She called him gently, “Qianren . ”
“What did you say?!” Hua Fang shouted furiously at Mo Qianren .
She was shocked, angry and doubtful . “Sue my daughter? What right do they have to do that? My daughter is still lying inside and was just declared disabled, but you want to sue her? Where’s your conscience? By what right?!” With Mayor Zhou’s imprisonment, the company’s looming bankruptcy and now this happening to her daughter, she couldn’t hold it in .
Zhou Sulun did not expect that the law would become involved . He looked at Mo Qianren with surprise, struggling to form words, “You’re… you’re kidding, right?”
Mo Qianren looked over at him and said calmly, “Do I look like I’m joking?” His expression and tone conveyed it clearly: Do I look like I would joke with stupid monkeys like you guys?
Feeling the mockery, Zhou Sulun’s expression changed . He looked at Mo Qianren once and then looked away, not daring to speak further .
“And by what right?” Mo Qianren glanced over to Hua Fang, who was a mess, and said expressionlessly, “Maybe you should thank Mu Rulan . If not for her, Zhou Yaya would already have been destroyed in court alongside Jin Biaohu . ”
The crimes that Jin Biaohu and Zhou Yaya could be considered legitimate cases . If it wasn’t for Mu Rulan cancelling the lawsuit, they would not have been released so easily .
But Zhou Yaya still didn’t learn her lesson and tried to kill Mu Rulan again . If she was released again, that would not be the right thing to do .
Though Hua Fang was desperately shouting, tearful, and causing trouble, refusing to agree to send Zhou Yaya to the juvenile detention center, the result would not change in the end .
Several people left the hospital . Shu Min glanced at Mo Qianren and let Mu Rulan know she would be returning to school first to deal with the fallout of this incident and left .
Mu Rulan watched as Shu Min’s car faded from view, then looked at the man beside her . Her lashes curled into the shape of a crescent moon and said, “Were you thinking about me again, Qianren?”
As he was about to say something, he ended up staring at her instead .
The man’s pale hands left his pocket and grabbed the naughty strands of hair sticking on his shirt . But the static electricity stuck stubbornly to his chest, making his ears turn a bit red .
Mu Rulan blinked innocently, peeking at the strands in his hand, then shifted her eyes to look at his glowing ears . She smirked, “Qianren? Are you thinking dirty thoughts?”
A psycho was truly shameless! Translated by The Novelst
“Messy,” Mo Qianren said, placing the strands in Mu Rulan’s hands . He didn’t know if he was talking about the hair or his own heart .
“Is it better to tie my hair up after all?” Mu Rulan combed her hair back .
Considering her extremely long hair, it would fly around casually and might fly onto strangers who might have bacteria and such on them . Mo Qianren nodded, “It’s better to tie it up . ”
“Is that so?” Mu Rulan grabbed her hair to keep it still in the wind . “But it’s very troublesome . Maybe it’s better that I just cut it short . ”
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“No . ” Mo Qianren’s reaction was unexpectedly fast . Looking at her surprised expression, he expressed calmly, “Your long hair at least makes up for your shortage in intelligence . ”
Looking at his glowing ears, Mu Rulan smiled, a hint of helplessness in her gaze . “Geez, can’t you just say that my hair looks pretty and to cut it short would be a waste?”
Mo Qianren stepped forward a little, pretending not to hear .
“You’re not being very honest, huh . Mr . Mo Qianren,” Mu Rulan teased, walking after him .
“…” He really didn’t feel like talking to someone so shameless .
“Is it really okay for your ears to be glowing so red?” Mu Rulan was tempted to touch his ears, but resisted the urge to do something so impolite .
“So, did talking nonsense make you any smarter?” He couldn’t hold back and mocked her .
He knew her type well: a psycho who knew no shame . There were several female perverts in his prison as well, and they were even shameless enough to undress themselves to make all sorts of gestures and poses .
“Oh no, I’m already way past the age of brain development . What do I do?” Mu Rulan was worried about her own intelligence, especially when compared to Mo Qianren . Translated by The Novelst
“A pig can help you with that . After all, they’re smarter than you . ”
“…”
The two of them strolled slowly to a popular street . They matched their paces, like they had a tacit understanding between them . It all seemed so natural, whether it was the conversation or the way they got along .
They walked into a boutique store with all sorts of beautiful accessories . It was a girl’s heaven .
The shop itself wasn’t very small . There were pink couches available for customers to take a rest on, and a few girls were spread out, looking around .
The moment they stepped into the shop, they immediately attracted a lot of attention . The two were already used to it, and acted like nothing had happened .
Mu Rulan began to look for a hair tie that would suit her taste, while Mo Qianren followed her around, hands in his pockets . His expression was indifferent, looking completely uninterested in this kind of thing .
Of course, he wouldn’t be interested in this kind of stuff . He was only interested in psychos .
Her snowy white fingers stopped on a simple black band, before fluttering to another black band with a few twists . Interested, Mu Rulan untwisted the band to take it down, and it was large enough to fit her whole head .
Her eyes sparkled brightly and she stretched her hand out to Mo Qianren like she had discovered a treasure and couldn’t wait to share it with him . “Look, this one has great elasticity and it has some weight to it . It could be used as a hidden weapon, ya . ”
If she kept it in her hair, she could take advantage of a dangerous opponent or unwitting victim not realizing she had a weapon and simply pull out the band to strangle their neck to finish them off ya!
Mo Qianren looked at the string and then looked at Mu Rulan’s eyes sparkling at him . He took the band silently away from her and put it back where it came from .
She looked at him askance and stretched her hand out to take it back down .
He looked at her silently .
She stared silently back .
“Um… Do you… need any assistance?” One of the shopkeepers came to help . She tried her best to keep from smiling at the cute scene .
Mu Rulan asked her, “Can you help me tie my hair?”
The shopkeeper gave a friendly smile . “Yes, of course . Please follow me . ”
Mu Rulan followed her further into the shop, Mo Qianren trailing behind her .
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“You can sit here,” she said, pointing at the tall chair before a dressing table attached to a mirror . Several different cosmetics were arranged nicely on the tabletop . It seemed like the shop also provided services to assist customers with hair or makeup .
“What kind of hairstyle do you want?” The shopkeeper asked, touching Mu Rulan’s hair .
“Mn, just a simple ponytail will do . Use this,” she said, passing the band to the shopkeeper .
“Alright . ”
Mo Qianren stood behind Mu Rulan, staring at the shopkeeper’s hand touching Mu Rulan’s hair . After that, he saw her grab a comb on the table, but noticed that someone’s hair was stuck to it . She pulled it out and was preparing to comb Mu Rulan’s hair . Mo Qianren frowned and stepped in . “Stop . ”
She looked at Mo Qianren in confusion, while Mu Rulan listed a brow .
“Change to a new one,” he said, looking down at the comb . His tone was light, but still gave her a feeling of not being able to refuse .
So many people had used this before . How could they know how many germs were on there?
After being taken aback due to surprise, she nodded and went to get a new comb .
By the time Mo Qianren realized what he was doing, he had already taken the comb from the shopkeeper and pushed her to the side, standing behind Mu Rulan .
She looked at him through the mirror .
“Qianren?” she called out, curious . Translated by The Novelst
Mo Qianren lowered his head, expression indifferent and face pale, but his ears blazed with the truth: “Too slow . ”
The shopkeeper felt wronged . Just now she had nearly finished typing a ponytail for the customer . It was that man who had pushed her to the side, making her lose her grip on the hair! How could he then call her slow? A man in love was truly too unreasonable!
A pair of hands combed through the hair slowly, the cold sensation of her hair, like silk ribbon, falling through his fingertips . He was completely focused on her hair .
Though the man showed little to no emotion on his face, his movements were so gentle .
This pair looked perfect together, like they were meant to be .
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“You should help me tie my hair too!” The girls who passed by said enviously to their boyfriends .
“Huh? I don’t know how…”
“You can learn, just look at them!” Translated by The Novelst
After just a bit, Mo Qianren finished tying her hair into a ponytail and was satisfied with the result .
Mu Rulan shook her head, causing the tied hair to follow her movements . The corners of her lips curved up and she looked at him, “Thank you, Qianren . ”
Mo Qianren stayed silent as he went to grab his wallet to pay for the tie . Mu Rulan spotted something and pulled him along, causing him to nearly drop his wallet .
She pulled him to the other end of the shop, looking at the winter scarves and hats . She touched her neck, finding it a little chilly now that she had tied her hair up .
Mu Rulan took a fancy to the red wool scarf at the uppermost part of the wall . She wasn’t tall enough and couldn’t reach it even on her tiptoes . She pulled softly on the man’s clothes behind her . “Help me grab that one . ”
Mo Qianren stretched his hand out to take it down easily for her .
“We also have that for men . ” The shopkeeper approached them again and continued with a smile, “It’s a couple’s set . ”
“Is that so?” Mu Rulan couldn’t hide her smile as she looked at him . “Look, it looks good . Let me buy this for you, hm? Let’s match, Qianren . Can we?”
Mo Qianren didn’t feel like answering this shameless psychopath .
Mu Rulan blinked a few times without an answer . She persistently continued calling out his name . “Qianren?”
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He felt that his silence was enough to answer her question, but despite having acquiesced, it was too bad that this girl didn’t seem to be aware of his embarrassment .
She tugged at his clothes again . “Qianren? What do you think?”
“Mn,” he responded softly . His heart skipped a beat every time she called his name .
“Mn? Qianren?” Mu Rulan didn’t hear him clearly . She called him again .
“…Alright . ”
The shopkeeper was blushing as she turned away, silently screaming in her heart: This couple was so cute! They looked so good together and the way they get along is so lovely! Ahhh she couldn’t take it anymore; it was too moe!
The things were wrapped nicely in the end and Mo Qianren paid for everything . The person carrying everything was also Mo Qianren .
Mu Rulan was in a great mood . Even her ponytail was shaking joyfully in sync with her footsteps .
She looked at Mo Qianren and decided to dominate the arrangement of his remaining free time . “Let’s go out and buy some clothes for you . ”
She felt that though the simple black and white clothing suited Mo Qianren, wearing only a suit in winter had to be very cold . Last time she brought it up, everything went in one ear and out the other . Really, not only was he picky with his food, he also didn’t listen to others . This man was really hard to raise .
Mo Qianren felt very wronged . He had listened to her words last time, it was just that the clothes Lu Zimeng had bought him were not washed clean and there was still a bit of smell to them, so he didn’t want to wear them . After that he had hung the clothes in his closet and forgotten all about them .
Just as she took care of her little brothers, Mu Rulan dragged him along to each and every clothing store to pick out different outfits to see which would suit him . Most of the time Mo Qianren stood there, watching her move busily among the rows of clothing, then obediently try the clothes on with only a look of disgust . After a few stores, more shopping bags weighed down Mo Qianren’s hands .
After shopping, they went to Mu Rulan’s favorite restaurant to eat: Loulan Court .
Since it wasn’t the first time they had gone to eat together, the staff were not surprised to see them again . They only thought that Mo Qianren and Mu Rulan must be dating for real . Judging by the bags in his hands, they must have gone on a date .
As they passed by an aisle, they met Lu Zimeng, who was there dining with a beauty . When Lu Zimeng saw them, he immediately shooed away the beauty and shamelessly squeezed between the two to be a third wheel .
Once Mo Qianren went to the bathroom, Lu Zimeng immediately drew near to Mu Rulan, raising his guard .
Mu Rulan smiled as she looked at him, waiting to see what he was going to do . She didn’t know when it had begun, but she noticed that his gaze was somewhat strange sometimes when he would look at her .
“What’s up?” Seeing him stare for a while without a sound, she kindly gave the first word .
“Rulan, let’s play a brain teaser,” he said, sounding mysterious .
She nodded, “Alright . ” Translated by The Novelst
“Here’s a situation: a girl is attending her mother’s funeral and meets a handsome man and falls in love with him at first sight . She believes he’s her soulmate . However, she forgot to ask for his number and once the funeral is over she can’t find him any longer . A few days later, she kills her own sister . Why?” Lu Zimeng stared closely at Mu Rulan, not wanting to miss even a moment of her reaction .
He had seen this question in a book . Usually people would wonder why she killed her sister . Jealousy? Perhaps she realized her sister was with this man? It all seemed possible, but they were not the correct answers . Obviously, this kind of test was just to check whether the person’s way of thinking was normal .
Mu Rulan tilted her head to the side, answering, “Because she thinks the man will appear again at her sister’s funeral?”
Lu Zimeng’s expression changed immediately, subconsciously shrinking back from her . That was right . That was the correct answer!
The book did tell him that these kinds of questions weren’t very accurate in judging whether a person was normal or not, but the question itself had already shocked him . Seeing Mu Rulan give an answer so easily, he couldn’t keep his composure .
She blinked innocently . “Is there some sort of problem? Somehow I feel that Mr . Lu seems to be afraid of me . ”
“Ehehehe… Me? When? You must have noticed it wrong…” Lu Zimeng forced a hollow laugh .
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Mu Rulan sat across from him silently . After a while Lu Zimeng found it a little awkward, and so stopped laughing .
After floundering desperately for a bit, he latched on to a new topic: looking at the bags beside her seat, he asked, “You two went on a date? Did you buy clothes for Qianren?”
“Mn,” she nodded .
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He smirked in a very evil way all of a sudden . “Did you pick them out for him?”
“Mn,” she responded again . Why was his sudden smile so… creepy?
“Then that’s good! I’m so sick of watching him wear the same clothes every day!” Lu Zimeng said happily, scooting closer to her . “Did you also buy him underwear?”
“…” Mu Rulan went silent . Translated by The Novelst
“Hm? You didn’t?” Lu Zimeng slapped his leg, “That’s too bad! You don’t know yet, but his underwear is all that same black color—”
Suddenly his neck prickled as he felt a gaze on him . He stiffly turned his neck to look sheepishly at Mo Qianren . “Aha… ahaha… Qianren ah, when did you return?”
“When you were being more of a busybody than a woman, talking about my clothes,” he said, looking frostily at his friend, causing Lu Zimeng to tremble in his seat .
Inside he bathed in tears . This jerk was too much, what a waste of effort it was to try and care about him, damn it!
Mu Rulan chuckled softly . It seemed these two had a very close relationship .
……
Manager’s Room of Loulan Court .
Ke Wanqing was in a black suit, hair tied neatly behind her . She seemed a little domineering when facing the manager of Loulan Court .
“Madam Mu, could you repeat that?” The manager asked .
Ke Wanqing frowned slightly . She hated having to repeat herself the most . If this person had been working under her, she would have fired him ages ago .
“I said take out the accounts book and let me take a look . My daughter is still young and she’s just a student . This shop is so big with so many customers, who knows how you keep the accounts? As her mother, of course I need to help her manage a little,” Ke Wanqing spoke with confidence .
The smile on the manager’s face vanished . Face serious, he said, “What Madam Mu is implying is that we have taken the money to feather our own nest?”
“Hmph . You’re the one who said it, not me,” Ke Wanqing said, smirking like she was the owner of the house .
“This shop has been in my daughter’s possession for nearly two years . I’m the one who gives her pocket money, but even as her mother I don’t know if you have given the profits to my daughter or not . How can I be rest assured? And my daughter is busy studying every single day . She might even forget to collect it . I am her guardian . Isn’t it natural that I help her manage the shop?”
Ever since Ke Wanqing had hit a wall in failing to obtain Loulan Court from Mu Rulan the last time, she still had not given up in her desire to turn Loulan Court into her very own . She even had been brainstorming about a way to get past the legal protections set in place by Grandpa Ke in order to get her hands on Loulan Court .
In Ke Wanqing’s head, Mu Rulan belonged to her, so everything that belonged to Mu Rulan also belonged to her .
Initially she had been thinking that Lan Binglin had ways to gobble up the company owned by Hua Fang and the Jin Family, which help the Mu Corporation pull through .
However, Lan Binglin needed an upfront investment from her before they could execute the takeover . Though it sounded a little strange, she believed that Lan Binglin wouldn’t dare scam her . So for the sake of money, she couldn’t help but come to Loulan Court .
The manager heard her words and sneered . “Madam Mu, aren’t you a little too forgetful? I believe you were able to take a look at the legal documents before Grandpa Ke gifted Loulan Court to the miss . Before she turns eighteen, she had no right to sell or transfer ownership of Loulan Court to anybody else .
“The management of Loulan Court and any problems regarding the accounts book are fully handled by myself . If miss would like to check the accounts, of course she can . But Madam Mu, I’m sorry, you do not have the right to look at it . ”
Ke Wanqing had a heart loftier than the sky . The moment she heard this employee speak to her like that, she was fired up . She slapped the desk in front of her and stood up . “I dare you to say that again!”
“No matter how many times I repeat myself nothing will change . If there’s nothing else, please leave now . We have work to do,” he said firmly . The manager had been chosen personally by Grandpa Ke to serve Mu Rulan, so he was naturally unafraid when threatened by Ke Wanqing .
That year when Ke Wanqing had so foolishly left the Ke Family, she had looked so happy as though she had won a great victory . As someone who served the Ke Family, he remembered that day clearly . Ke Wanqing still thought she was a princess of the Ke Family, yet she didn’t know that ever since she had left the family for a man, she had already become a joke in the upper-class society of Hong Kong .
“Fine!” Ke Wanqing’s face was flushed red . “I see you take yourself as the owner of this Loulan Court, huh? You’re not even paying respects to me, how can I expect that my daughter can control you? You better tell me the truth . Where did you hide the profits of the last two years?! Did you give it to my daughter?!”
The final sentence was her true interest . Translated by The Novelst
Of course Ke Wanqing was aware that this was someone from Grandpa Ke’s side . He had always had a good eye for people, so naturally he wasn’t someone who would betray his master so easily . But then where had the money gone?
Ke Wanqing had checked Mu Rulan’s bank account, which she had created herself to transfer her daughter some pocket money easily . There were only tens of thousands in it . But she knew that Loulan Court had always been a good business, definitely earning over ten million a year, but where had the money gone? Had Mu Rulan squirreled it away?
The moment Ke Wanqing thought this, she couldn’t help but clench her fist . She couldn’t imagine such an obedient girl like her daughter would save money like that in secret . She would definitely not allow Mu Rulan to act outside her control . That was why she had come today, to confirm that for herself!
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