Chapter 64

Qiao Muting was rendered speechless by what was said.

In the end, he could only say to his grandmother: "I will ask her; if she is also too busy to find the time, then we will go next week instead."

"You ask her. Xia Xia seems to have a lot on her mind lately and needs to go relax. As her husband, you need to take better care of her, do you understand?" Qiao Nainai urged him, feeling uneasy.

"Mm," Qiao Muting responded simply.

After ending the call with his grandmother, Qiao Muting first took a look at the news about Shu Xia online.

After confirming that Zhang Tezhu and the others had handled things without any oversights, he called Shu Xia.

Call in progress...

Qiao Muting put down his phone.

A few minutes later, Shu Xia called him back.

"Mr. Qiao, you called me just now, didn't you?"

"Grandmother has a few friends to meet at the hospital today, and then she arranged for us to go to the hot springs. If you don't have anything going on tonight, I will come to pick you up."

Qiao Muting's naturally cool voice came through the phone.

From Qiao Muting's voice, Shu Xia vaguely detected a hint of reluctance.

It must have been that Grandmother forced Qiao Muting to call and invite her; going to the hot springs is something one does either with one's best friends or one's most intimate lover, so it was no wonder Qiao Muting was reluctant.

"Someone already invited me just now, and I have already agreed to him. I am truly sorry," Shu Xia replied.

This was the truth.

When Qiao Muting called just now, she was on the phone with Shu Xuan.

He had invited her to have dinner together tonight, saying that the two siblings hadn't talked in a long time. Now that the matter of Fu Chenyan and Lin Miao had reached a conclusion, with the evidence present, Lin Miao and the others couldn't pull any more tricks, so it was a good time for the two siblings to get together and talk.

Hearing the woman's reason for refusal over the phone, Qiao Muting merely frowned, "Fine, I will tell Grandmother."

"Sorry for the trouble, Mr. Qiao."

"No need for formalities."

Qiao Muting lowered his head to look at the phone that had been hung up, his eyes darkening.

She didn't want to go to the hot springs with him?

A layer of gloom suddenly clouded his heart.

He tugged at his tie, then tossed the phone aside and picked up a project proposal stacked to the side to read.

Not going to the hot springs to waste time suited him just fine.

At this moment, the Lin Family was in complete chaos.

Although Lin Guanda and Lin Bin were not there, both Lin Qi and Lin Xu had returned home.

They were holding their phones and questioning Lin Miao.

Chen Xiuyue, who was slumped on the sofa, had been sitting there in a daze for an hour.

Lin Miao's eyes were filled with tears as she looked at her two brothers, as if she had been greatly wronged.

"I really was framed. I don't know any of these people, and the person in this video isn't me."

In the photos, most of what the various exposés claimed was true.

It captured her and Fu Chenyan going to a hotel, but it didn't capture her and Fu Chenyan in bed.

As long as it wasn't in bed, it couldn't truly prove that she and Fu Chenyan had slept together.

"Is it really not you, Miaomiao?" Chen Xiuyue had been repeatedly looking for photos and videos online, and the more she looked, the colder her heart grew.

"Mom, it really isn't me. They must have tampered with it and used AI face-swapping. Mom, I think Shu Xia planned this all along. She had long planned to break up with Fu Chenyan, and then planned how to deal with me. She had already found people to do it," Lin Miao had her reason ready.