Chapter 671

What kind of ill-fated connection is this?

Qiao Muting frowned slightly.

Shu Chen truly could not say another word; he only wanted to leave as quickly as possible, turning and walking away with long strides.

It was as if he were fleeing from some flood or wild beast.

It was even faster than when he had left the elevator earlier.

Qiao Muting's cold eyes darkened; logically speaking, Shu Xuan was very bold, and when he first met him, there wasn't the slightest hint of surprise, as if he were meeting a very ordinary person. How could Shu Chen and Shu Xuan be so different?

Shu Xia walked out of the restroom and, seeing Qiao Muting's eyes slightly narrowed and his brows lightly furrowed, couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"Just saw your second brother," Qiao Muting replied directly.

Shu Xia looked around, "Shu Chen?"

"Yes, your second brother has always been lukewarm in the entertainment industry; is it because he is too timid?" Qiao Muting asked.

Hearing Qiao Muting use the words "too timid" to describe Shu Chen, Shu Xia said in disbelief, "Where did you see that my second brother is timid? My second brother has always been very bold."

Since he was a child, her second brother had climbed mountains, waded through rivers, climbed trees to raid bird nests, and poked hornet nests; he had done all sorts of unbelievable things.

In school, he was a little tyrant.

Although he wasn't a school bully who picked on others, no one dared to bully him.

His boldness was astonishing.

It was likely that her second brother himself would never imagine that someone would use the words "too timid" to describe him.

Qiao Muting wanted to say something more, but thinking that Shu Chen was Shu Xia's second brother, and in Shu Xia's eyes, her own brother couldn't possibly be timid, he reined in his line of thought.

"Let's go."

Shu Xia didn't ask further, though she sighed inwardly; it was fortunate she hadn't run into Shu Chen, otherwise she would have had to explain her relationship with Qiao Muting to him.

She felt it was necessary to tell her family about this during this period.

Qiao Nainai had also mentioned earlier that the two families should meet.

Even if she and Qiao Muting found they were incompatible and divorced in three years, she wouldn't be able to hide it from them for three years.

They would eventually run into each other.

It would be better to confess it herself in advance.

The two left the hot pot restaurant.

Shortly after, when Shu Chen returned to the private room, he downed several large gulps of alcohol to calm himself.

"What did you go do? Didn't you go to the restroom? Did you see a ghost?" a buddy on the side asked.

Shu Chen's mouth twitched violently, "You guessed right, it was just about the same as seeing a ghost!"

That Qiao Muting is very wrong!

Very unusual!

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Xinghai Villa.

The two sets of "sunset deer" style loungewear laid out before them exuded a thick air of cuteness.

The look of anticipation that had been in Qiao Muting's eyes a second ago was frozen in this second.

Seeing this, Shu Xia held back her laughter and pretended not to notice that he had been shocked, "Go try them on? See if they fit? If they are too big or too small, we can still go exchange the sizes; if they are just right, I can wash them and then they can be worn."

She currently couldn't even imagine what Qiao Muting would look like wearing this outfit.

This style of loungewear was something even an eighteen-year-old Qiao Muting probably wouldn't challenge.

Qiao Muting raised an eyebrow and looked at Shu Xia, "Let's try them together."

"Alright," Shu Xia readily agreed.

Watching Shu Xia hold back her laughter, Qiao Muting curled his lips and looked down at her, "You gave me several surprises in a row for my birthday today; I have to give a return gift somehow."

Shu Xia suddenly felt a bit embarrassed, "If you don't like it, don't force yourself; now that I think about it, it's indeed not your usual style."

"I'm going to try it."

In the end, both of them changed into the clothes.

However, before the two of them could walk out of the walk-in closet, Qiao Muting lifted her hands and pressed them against the wall, then extremely forcefully pressed his lips onto hers.