His Beloved Treasure

If Qin Mu’s stubbornness couldn’t move him, then it must have been her edgy work, along with Mu Yichen’s confidence, that compelled him to reluctantly take on Qin Mu as his disciple. He thought that it might also be time for her to know about those past events.

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Mu Family, evening!

After dinner, three young people sat on the sofa together, watching a show, which was really just keeping each other company. Mu Yichen had been looking at his phone by their side the whole time.

Mu Qingxin was watching the show intently while Qin Mu, seated directly opposite Mu Yichen, couldn’t help but lift her eyes to look at him now and then.

He seemed to have forgotten the events of the afternoon.

Mu Qingxin felt the living room was too quiet; perhaps it was because of the high ceiling? She even found the chill in this summer air headache-inducing: ”What’s with you two?”

Only then did Qin Mu and Mu Yichen look at her before turning back to their respective phones and the television.

Mu Qingxin curiously scrutinized them: ”Don’t you two always sit together? Aren’t you always hugging and cuddling me as if I’m invisible? What’s going on tonight?”

Qin Mu didn’t answer, just looked at the person opposite her.

Mu Yichen, feeling uneasy under Qin Mu’s gaze, confessed, ”I admit, I did go looking for Jian Yan back then.”

Qin Mu still didn’t speak, just gazed at him straightforwardly.

Mu Yichen found it a bit hard to breathe. He glanced at an empty spot on one side and then said reluctantly, ”Let’s talk in the room.”

”No way! I’m curious too!”

Mu Qingxin immediately stopped the two from retreating to their room.

But Qin Mu stood up, ready to go to the room to talk. As long as they talked, that would be enough.

Qin Mu was too stubborn, her expression somewhat solemn.

Mu Qingxin watched her leave and then immediately turned her head to her brother on the other side, but he also got up. Clearly, he had no interest in dealing with her and treated her as if she were invisible.

Mu Qingxin pouted, hurt. The two of them went back to their room one after the other. After Qin Mu entered, she wrapped her arms around herself and looked at him.

Only after Mu Yichen closed the door and turned around did he meet her insistent gaze and heave a sigh: ”Hasn’t Jian Yan told you anything after I left?”

”What he says is his business, what you say is yours.”

Qin Mu looked at him intently, a considerable assessment.

Mu Yichen nodded, ”Then I’ll tell my story.”

He said, stepping aside to allow her to pass, and Qin Mu turned and walked towards the window.

Mu Yichen walked up to stand next to her, hands in his pockets: ”Remember the night it rained in Paris when I came to find you?”

”Mhm!”

Qin Mu looked away and muttered an acknowledgment.

The air suddenly became still, and Mu Yichen’s voice deepened.

”You were soaked through from the rain; I scolded you, you said you went to apprentice and that getting a little wet from the rain was nothing as long as he would take you on as a disciple. You’ve always thought rainwater was dirty, never allowing even a drop on you.”

He reminded her of some of her past quirks.

Qin Mu didn’t speak, her gaze drooping.

”I went to see him the next day.”

Mu Yichen continued, his eyes meeting Qin Mu’s across the way.

Qin Mu lifted her eyes again.

”He was quite reluctant to take you on as a pupil because you’re too stubborn, have too much of your own personality, and are too obsessive. So I gave him a design you had made before, the one you designed for your father’s birthday and then threw away.”

Qin Mu’s heart trembled fiercely.

She remembered, that year she inexplicably sketched out that men’s suit, although it was an unfinished work.

”You hadn’t finished the cuffs, but I showed it to him, and I also promised him funding to support his show. He said he’d consider it, and then you got a call from him, right?”

Mu Yichen asked her, and she knew the rest of the story.

Qin Mu’s eyes, which had been cast down, flickered slightly, and then she smiled wryly, ”I thought it was because I pestered him shamelessly that he agreed to me reluctantly.”

”Perhaps that’s also a reason.”

She smiled again.

”So I think, I only played a supporting role, it was still your work that moved him.”

Qin Mu looked up at him, and it was a long time before she moved closer, ”Mu Yichen, why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

”Silly girl, some things don’t need to be explained!”

He looked at her intently as he spoke.

”But if you don’t tell me, how would I know what you’ve done? How would I know you’ve been making sacrifices all along?”

Qin Mu asked him seriously, now she’s a little irrational.

”I don’t need you to know all the things, you just need to know that the man in front of you has been loving you, and loving you even more.”

He held her face, smiled faintly, then rested his forehead against hers.

Qin Mu felt her heart was like it was drunk.

”Mumu! You just need to know I love you, okay?”

”Okay! But I still really want to know, what other silly things have you done for me?”

Qin Mu agreed with her head down, feeling the warmth of his forehead while not forgetting to tease him.

”Silly things? There’s a lot! ”

He laughed too.

”Then tell me bit by bit, I love to hear it.”

Qin Mu looked up slightly.

Later, as they browsed Weibo together, they saw that ’Li Yu Prince’ ranked third in the hot search. Mu Yichen bit her shoulder.

”My wife is indeed capable, turning a boy-next-door into a noble prince.”

”Of course, I can’t disappoint you!”

”Really? If that man dares to trouble you, I’ll make him go from a prince to a beggar, believe it or not?”

Mu Yichen said.

Xiaomei told her that Li Yu even sent a bouquet of starry flowers to the office. Although he hadn’t sent other things, Mu Yichen, thinking of Jian Yan, couldn’t help but topple the vinegar jar again, finding any excuse to threaten Qin Mu.

”I believe you! But nobody would be interested in a woman with a big belly like that, why are you overthinking?”

Qin Mu asked him, after opening the hot search and looking at Li Yu’s photos from over the years, it had to be said, he indeed had a good appearance.

”So handsome!”

Qin Mu couldn’t help but exclaim.

”What?”

Mu Yichen lifted his head slightly, looking down at her.

Qin Mu’s eyes flickered, and the next moment she laughed and said to him, ”But no man can compare to my husband, it’s still my husband who’s the most handsome!”

”Silly woman, still daring to praise other men’s looks.”