Marry Me Quick novel Chapter 320

Chapter 320

Although Bai Jingshu had always been regarded as a playboy, he was actually a very loyal and protective person.

He was disappointed with Gu Hanyan, but he still felt that Qin Muchen’s punishment for her was too severe.

Looking at Qin Muchen, whose expression had obviously darkened, he asked, “Muchen, wh-what are you saying? What child?”

A trace of longing appeared in Qin Muchen’s eyes as he murmured, “My child.”

Bai Jingshu wanted to continue asking him questions, but Nan Chuan quickly pushed him out.

After pushing him out of the room, Nan Chuan carefully closed the door and then said to Bai Jingshu, “Stop asking him about it. Can’t you see how strange he’s acting?”

Bai Jingshu frowned and said, “He’s been acting strange since yesterday. He refuses to tell me anything, so of course I have to ask him about it. I’m sure that you know as well that he likes to bottle everything up.”

Nan Chuan had been helping Qin Muchen with many things. Although Qin Muchen didn’t clearly tell him, he had deduced the whole story based on Qin Muchen’s reaction and Gu Hanyan’s words.

After all, he had been helping Qin Muchen to investigate the incident two years ago, so he knew a lot.

He briefly told Bai Jingshu the whole story.

After listening to Bai Jingshu, he fell silent for a long time before he said, “How could this be?”

“Mr. Qin will face an emotional breakdown sooner or later if he continues bottling up his feelings like this.” Nan Chuan shook his head.

“But he didn’t do anything wrong. He didn’t even know that Su Ziyue was pregnant...”

Thinking of this, Bai Jingshu pushed Nan Chuan away. “I'll go in and talk to him.”

“Sigh…“

Nan Chuan actually wanted to tell him that Qin Muchen would not be like this now if he could be so easily persuaded.

……

When Bai Jingshu entered the room, Qin Muchen was smoking again.

He glanced at the ashtray. He had only been gone for a while, but Qin Muchen had smoked so much that he had filled up the entire ashtray.

Bai Jingshu stretched out his hand and took the cigarette from his hand. “Stop smoking. You will kill yourself sooner or later if you continue smoking!”

Qin Muchen ignored him, took out another cigarette and lit it.

Bai Jingshu glanced at his face, not daring to snatch his cigarette away again.

He then sat down in front of Qin Muchen and said earnestly, “Muchen, Nan Chuan told me everything. Why don’t you just talk it out with Su Ziyue?”

Qin Muchen said in a hoarse voice, “It’s not that simple.”

How could he explain himself about killing their child?

Even if Su Ziyue could forgive him, he could never forgive himself.

Bai Jingshu tried to persuade him for a long time but to no avail, and he was at his wit’s end.

Then, Qin Muchen just smoked in the office all afternoon.

When it was time for Su Ziyue to get off work, he washed off the smell of smoke from his body before getting up and walking out.

He had promised to pick up Su Ziyue from work.

……

Su Ziyue came out of the company and immediately saw Qin Muchen waiting for her at the door.

The employees passing by were chattering quietly among themselves.

Su Ziyue could hear them saying things like ‘I’m so envious’, ‘He’s so handsome’, and so on from time to time.

Then, Su Ziyue walked over and took him to the side. “I already said that you don’t need to come fetch me.”

“I have lots of free time anyway.” Qin Muchen looked down at her with a bright smile on his face.

Speechless, Su Ziyue had no choice but to drag him to the car.

……

In the middle of the night, Su Ziyue woke up from thirst.

The area of the bed next to her was empty again.

She then turned on the bedside lamp and opened the door to go out.

She left on only a dim yellow wall lamp at the door before she went to the study. However, no one was there.

She turned around and walked to the top of the stairs before looking down. In the middle of the dark hall, a flash of light flickered.

She called out tentatively, “Qin Muchen?”

The light suddenly went out, and the next moment, Qin Muchen’s slightly hoarse voice sounded. “Why are you awake? Are you thirsty?”

“Yeah,” Su Ziyue said. “Please help me turn on the light. I’m coming down to pour myself a glass of water.”

“Go back to the room first. I will bring it to you right away.”

With that, footsteps sounded in the dark hall.

Su Ziyue stayed there for a while, then turned to go back to the bedroom.

……

Qin Muchen soon came upstairs with a glass of water.

Su Ziyue took a sip and found that the water was warm.

“Why were you in the living room? It’s late and you should be sleeping,” Su Ziyue asked him while drinking water.

Qin Muchen coughed dryly and said, “I got up to drink some water. My nicotine addiction is acting up again, so I smoked a cigarette.”

There was a heavy scent of cigarette smoke emanating from his body. It was obvious that he had smoked more than just one cigarette.

However, Su Ziyue didn’t expose him.

She was already certain that Qin Muchen was bothered by something.

Plus, the thing that was bothering him was probably very important.

She was no longer the meek Su Ziyue who could be easily fooled two years ago.

She had matured and had become more cautious.

……

On the weekend, Su Ziyue invited An Xia to have some tea with her.

At the end of their tea session, she asked An Xia, “Do you have Nan Chuan’s phone number? Can you give it to me?”

“Of course. Why do you need his number?” An Xia said while taking out her mobile phone and scrolled through her contacts.

Su Ziyue smiled and said, “Qin Muchen asked me to get something from him. I forgot to save his number, and since you’re already here, I decided to just ask you for his number so that I don’t have to call Qin Muchen and cause him more trouble.”

Hearing this, An Xia did not doubt her at all and directly gave Nan Chuan’s number to Su Ziyue. “Here, this is his number. He hasn’t changed his number in the past two years.”

After saving the number in her phone, Su Ziyue said to her, “Thanks. I will go look for Nan Chuan first, and I will go shopping with you another day.”

After watching An Xia leave, Su Ziyue called Nan Chuan.

She said straightforwardly, “Nan Chuan, are you free to meet now?”

“Miss...” Nan Chuan was about to habitually call her ‘Miss Su’, but he quickly stopped himself. “Mrs. Qin.”

“If you’re free, let’s meet up now. I have something to ask you.”

Nan Chuan knew that Su Ziyue must have something important to talk to him about since she had specifically called him, so he agreed readily.

……

After half an hour, Su Ziyue and Nan Chuan sat down in the cafe.

Su Ziyue spoke first, “You must be busy these days, huh?”

“Not really.” Of course I am!

Mr. Qin has not been in the mood to work recently, so I have to deal with everything in his stead. I have been so busy that I barely have time for himself.

Su Ziyue put on a faint smile as she slowly said, “I’ll cut straight to the chase then. Nan Chuan, what happened to Qin Muchen? He is acting very strange recently.”

“Mr. Qin… Nothing has happened recently...” Nan Chuan hesitated, but still chose not to tell her.

After all, this was Mr. Qin’s personal matters, so he dared not intervene at will.

Su Ziyue already knew that Nan Chuan wouldn’t tell her so easily.

She thought for a while and said, “Nan Chuan, do you know that he has been up smoking in the middle of the night every night? I don’t know what happened to make him so restless until he can’t even sleep well. If this continues, he will fall ill sooner or later. I know you are worried about intervening in his personal matters, but I am his wife, so his personal matters are mine as well. You don’t need to hide anything from me.”

She wouldn’t be worried if it had just happened once or twice. However, Qin Muchen had been acting strange for almost a week.

He didn’t tell her anything, but she could feel his anxiety and dejection, which was obviously a symptom of emotional breakdown.

She knew because she had gone through it before.