Chapter 172

Mu Yu grabbed the shopping cart.

He stared at Shu Xia with his peach-blossom eyes as if he were staring at prey.

"Let me take you."

"Brother Mu..." The beautiful woman's expression changed when she saw Mu Yu pestering Shu Xia and fawning over her.

The man who had promised to accompany her for the entire day now had eyes only for another woman.

She felt a strong sense of crisis.

This woman named Shu Xia was even more beautiful than she was.

Mu Yu only glanced at the beautiful woman with his peripheral vision, "You go shop first."

His attitude was incredibly perfunctory.

Of the few people Shu Xia had met at the club that day, Mu Yu was the one she disliked the most.

Already lecherous and lustful, plus the added influence of the thumb ring on his hand, Mu Yu would sooner or later die because of a woman.

She suddenly grabbed Mu Yu's arm.

Her fingertips pressed down with force.

"I said, I can do it myself."

After she finished speaking, Mu Yu acted as if he had been electrocuted, his whole body jumping up, "Ah!"

He had restrained this scream, otherwise, it would have startled many people.

But this jump had already startled the beautiful woman.

"Brother Mu?"

What was going on? Why did Brother Mu suddenly act like he was performing a shamanistic dance, leaping up so high!

Shu Xia had already taken the opportunity to push the shopping cart into the elevator to the parking garage.

It was as if she weren't the one who had just pressed on an acupoint to make Mu Yu jump around.

By the time Mu Yu reacted, it was too late, and he could only watch helplessly as Shu Xia got into the elevator.

His handsome face was dark and gloomy.

"One day I will get my hands on you! Do you really think your value has gone up just because you've latched onto Qiao Muting?" Mu Yu said through gritted teeth.

Any woman he set his sights on, if he wanted to get her, he would absolutely be able to get his hands on her.

The beautiful woman heard Mu Yu's words and felt incredibly aggrieved, "Brother Mu... don't you like me anymore? Didn't you promise me today that we would have a good time shopping? Didn't you say we were going to go to the mall after the supermarket?"

Knowing that Mu Yu had many women around him, the beautiful woman didn't mind.

She just felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.

"Shop for what? Get lost!"

——

After leaving the supermarket, Shu Xia went to the hospital first to visit Gu Cheng.

Gu Cheng looked at the giant lollipop in his hand, unable to laugh or cry: "I'm not a child anymore."

In her eyes, was he really just a child? His heart suddenly felt bitter to the extreme.

The words he originally wanted to ask—whether she liked him or not—stuck directly in his throat, and he couldn't ask them; he was afraid she would say she treated him like a child, a little brother.

Shu Xia smiled and said: "In my eyes, you are. I picked it out specially; look, it's even a motorcycle-shaped lollipop."

Gu Cheng was unable to laugh or cry, "Shu Xia, I really am not a child. There are still a bunch of girls right now who want to be my girlfriend."

"Alright, alright, you're the patient, so you're the boss. The doctor probably won't let you eat a lollipop right now, so keep it safe and eat it after you're discharged." Shu Xia coaxed him in a tone used for children.

Gu Cheng felt that the road to pursuing his girlfriend was likely going to be a very long one!

His uncle said that it was impossible for him and Shu Xia, but he would make his uncle know what "possible" meant; he would definitely win Shu Xia over!

——

After leaving the hospital, Shu Xia drove straight back to Xinghai Villa.

It was two o'clock in the afternoon when she arrived at Xinghai Villa.

She began to prepare ingredients in the kitchen.

Time passed quietly.

In between, she took a call from Shu Chen, hearing Shu Chen say that the housekeeper at the manor didn't know how he had messed up, letting him stay at the villa last night, and today the film crew's director was fawning over him, letting him enjoy the feeling of being flattered.

And he also saw Lin Xu looking like he had eaten excrement, wanting to kill him, which made him feel great.

"But I'm worried that once the housekeeper realizes he made a mistake, my good days will be over."

She couldn't tell Shu Chen the specific details, so she just told Shu Chen that it was his good luck.

Then she told him not to worry.

Perhaps it was because he often did good deeds, and someone just happened to want to take the opportunity to repay him.

Since he was little, Shu Chen had always been warm-hearted, often helping old grandfathers and grandmothers.