Marry Me Quick novel Chapter 360

Chapter 360

Su Ziyue knew that Qin Muchen was busy with this issue and that he didn’t return home on purpose. After they came home together that day, he headed straight into the study room and instructed his staff to take care of matters. Then, he left again after telling her, “I’m going out.” And with that, he was gone for four days, while the news of Gong Shuzhe’s public apology was ongoing the whole time.

Everyone in Yunzhou City must be enjoying the series of exciting news during this time. First, it was the exposure of Qin Muchen’s biological father. Then, the murder case from more than a decade ago was re-opened.

Su Ziyue glanced at the direction of the door. It seemed like another day when Qin Muchen wouldn’t return home again, and she could almost guess the reason why. Since he was not coming back, then she would have to go and look for him.

…

For the past few days, Qin Muchen had been staying at Lumiere Jade House. After taking care of the loose ends with Gong Shuzhe’s incident, he had been spending time at the office or Lumiere Jade House. He hadn’t been home for four days now.

“President Qin?”

Qin Muchen recollected his thoughts at the sound of this slightly raised voice, and he turned to look at the source. Giving the senior management a nod, he retracted his arm on the conference table and leaned back with an impatient face, “Yes, go on.”

The senior management acknowledged with a nod and replied, “Yes.” In fact, he had already repeated twice what he had said earlier. However, he thought to himself, It was only understandable that Qin Muchen was absent-minded like this. After the exposure of Gong Shuzhe as Qin Muchen’s biological father, subsequently it even turned out that Gong Shuzhe was involved with the case from more than a decade ago. On top of that, he was actually the killer himself. Moreover, it was said that he made a scapegoat out of the father of Mrs. Qin…

Without waiting for the senior management to continue, Qin Muchen stood up suddenly and announced, “Forget it. This meeting is dismissed.” Then, he marched outside. Before he reached the doorway of his office, he saw his secretary was about to enter with a cup of tea in her hands. Qin Muchen asked, “Who’s here?”

His secretary turned around and answered respectfully, “Mrs. Qin is here.”

Su Ziyue is here? Stunned, his gaze fell on the tray she was holding and he instructed, “Serve her something else. She shouldn’t be taking tea for these couple of days.” Turning around in the opposite direction, he fished out a cigarette and lighted it while he sauntered away.

The surprised secretary whirled around and made a cup of warm milk tea for Su Ziyue instead. Although Qin Muchen didn’t say much, she could guess what he meant, because she was also a woman, and was a little taken aback by his attentiveness.

Su Ziyue was still waiting on the couch when the secretary went in with the warm milk tea. Placing it in front of her, she offered, "Here you go, Mrs. Qin."

"Thank you. Is President Qin still in the meeting?" she asked, raising her head.

Just a while ago, the secretary had ran into Qin Muchen at the doorway, but he didn't come in immediately. Usually, he would rush over to see Su Ziyue whenever she came over, regardless of how urgent the meeting was. But the secretary didn't want to jump to any conclusions and merely answered, "President Qin is still busy. Please wait for a little while. He'll probably be done soon."

"Okay." Su Ziyue watched as the secretary left the room before a crestfallen look appeared on her face.

Outside the door, as soon as the secretary turned around after closing it, she was startled by Qin Muchen, who stood behind her without her realizing it. Dressed completely in black with a solemn face, he looked as though he was attending a funeral. Hiding her jitteriness, she greeted him, “President Qin.”

“What did you get her instead?” he asked, expressionless.

Hurriedly, she replied, “Milk tea.”

“Okay.”

“I’ll get going, then.” The secretary spun around and left when she saw that he had no other things to say.

After staring at the door for a few seconds, Qin Muchen finally pushed through it and went in. Su Ziyue hastily placed down the milk tea in her hands and stood up when she saw him. With a beaming smile, she asked, “Are you done?”

“What are you doing here?” Sticking his hands into his pockets, he stared at her with somber eyes.

“I’m here to look for you...” Although she should have said those words confidently, they came out meek and weak when he stared at her like that.

“What’s the matter?” he asked as he took one glance at her and paced toward the seat behind the desk.

Following behind his tracks, she explained, “You haven’t returned home for a few days, so I’m here to take a look at you.”

Seated on the chair, he casually flipped open a document and started reading the contents. “So can you leave now that you’ve seen me?” he asked without raising his head.

“Are you coming home today?”

“I don’t know.” Qin Muchen quickly added, “Maybe I won’t make it back. Don’t wait for me.”

“Alright.” She scrutinized him and saw that his complexion looked much worse now after she hadn’t seen him for a few days. “Are you smoking again?”

His hands froze at her question and he threw the document across the room, shouting at her, “You’re annoying, you know that?!”

“I—” Tongue-tied, this was the first time he raised his voice at her.

Something flashed in his eyes as if he had something to say, but the only words which came out were, “Go home.”

Pursing her lips, she tried to suppress the sinking feeling in her heart as she said in a steady voice, “I’ll leave after saying my piece. I just want to tell you that my father was an upright and kind person his whole life, and even his death must be cleared up. Now that the truth has come to light, he can now rest in peace. But that’s enough. The people who are alive now are the most important.”

If Gong Shuzhe had truly repented, she didn’t intend for him to pay it with his life, either. Su Yizi and Qin Li had both passed away. The one alive now was Gong Shuzhe, who happened to be Qin Muchen’s biological father. Nobody’s heart was made of stone. Qin Muchen might be able to send Gong Shuzhe to jail, but he didn’t want to see him receive the mandatory sentence either. At the end of the day, he was still his father. The more aloof a person was, the more he cared about emotions.

Su Ziyue felt that he acted out of the norm and didn’t return home precisely because of this issue. Nobody knew how much she hated Gong Shuzhe for ruining not just her childhood, but also her father and all of her years growing up. But all these didn’t matter anymore after she met Qin Muchen. So, she really didn’t want to pursue it any further, as she believed that her father in heaven would have done the same. That was because her father was a tolerant and contented person.

Qin Muchen stared at her with a stony face. “Now that you’ve finished speaking, you can leave.”

His words made her a little angry. Pressing her lips together, her eyes lingered on him for a moment as she said, “Don’t smoke, drink or sleep late. I’m leaving now.” With that, she left in a huff and slammed the door loudly behind her.

Paralyzed in his seat for a long while, Qin Muchen sprang up all of a sudden and swept everything off the desk and onto the floor. The secretary happened to come in with a document when she heard the ruckus in the office. “President Qin?”

Qin Muchen roared in anger, “Get out!”