Chapter 68

Qiao Muting saw the video of the potent medicine.

In the video, Shu Xia interacted with the man naturally and casually, even more clearly than what he had seen in the photos.

Qiao Muting's brows furrowed slightly, and he replied with three words: "Are you very idle?"

When Zhang Tezhu saw the words "Are you very idle," his heart trembled violently in fear.

Not idle! He was not idle!

He had figured it out; the boss probably did not like Ms. Shu.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to remain indifferent.

He suddenly had the feeling that he was about to be exiled to the frontier; he must absolutely never test the boss again in the future.

However, did Ms. Shu also not really care whether the boss liked her or not?

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Qiao Muting yanked his tie open.

A button on his shirt also fell off because of his tugging.

He glanced at the button that had fallen to the floor.

He bent down and picked it up.

In his palm, the precision-crafted button shimmered under the light.

His fingertips slowly rubbed against it.

His cold eyes swept over his wristwatch: eight-ten in the evening.

The eyes, which already lacked much emotion, grew three parts colder.

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After leaving the night market, Shu Xia and Shu Xuan were about to go their separate ways.

Just as Shu Xia said goodbye, Shu Xuan sat directly into the car, "I'll take you back to your rental apartment first, then I'll go back to the company dormitory."

"It's almost eight o'clock, I should take Big Brother back to the dormitory first," Shu Xia said with her eyes lowered, just as she prepared to start the car.

Shu Xuan's expression darkened, and he looked at Shu Xia very seriously, "I spent the most time raising you when you were little; I can tell when you have something on your mind. Xia Xia, have you encountered something?"

Today, it was just the two siblings.

Whether Xia Xia had something on her mind, he could tell.

During this period, Xia Xia seemed to have suddenly become a different person; the aura of sadness and desolation that she inadvertently revealed made him feel suffocated—the kind of suffocating feeling that the younger sister he had raised with such care had been bullied by someone when he didn't know about it.

Shu Xia knew that Shu Xuan was worried about her.

She gripped the steering wheel with both hands, wanting to tell him the news of her flash marriage, but then she thought of the Hidden Marriage Agreement with Qiao Muting.

She hesitated for a few minutes, "I got married."

"Married?!" Shu Xuan was shocked.

Hadn't she just broken up with Fu Chenyan? How did she get married to someone in the blink of an eye?

What on earth had Xia Xia experienced during this time? She had never been such an impulsive person.

"Who did you marry? How old is he? What does he do for a living? How did you two meet?" Shu Xuan asked a series of questions; he was afraid that Xia Xia had been hurt by Fu Chenyan, was acting out of desperation, and had been deceived by some man with ulterior motives.

Shu Xia said earnestly, "He is someone introduced by Qiao Nainai. We got together after careful consideration, but because of some reasons, I can't bring him to meet you all."

"He has a stable job and is five years older than me. Although it was a flash marriage, he treats me quite well."

"So that's a marriage first and love later? Xia Xia, have you been reading too many novels? Do you really believe in this 'marriage first, love later' stuff?" Shu Xuan's handsome face turned completely black.

He really wanted to meet that man and see what kind of love potion he had fed Xia Xia to make her disregard everything and enter a flash marriage!

"I haven't thought about 'marriage first, love later.' Novels are novels after all, and I am not the heroine in a novel. We are just... living together to get by, it doesn't involve that much. Don't worry, Big Brother, after experiencing so many things, I know what I should do." After Shu Xia finished speaking, she started the car.