Chapter 119

Anything else... miscellaneous? Nie Xiaoqian's face turned blue and red, "This is my engagement banquet, we don't welcome uninvited wild men! Please get out immediately!"

Mu Wei raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, glanced at Nie Xiaoqian perfunctorily, and draped the suit jacket on his left arm over He Lele's shoulders.

A few waiters brought up a chaise longue, and Mu Wei hugged He Lele and sat down.

"You!" Nie Xiaoqian was so angry that her beautiful eyebrows stood up. Seeing the hotel manager trot over, she immediately complained, "Manager, please call security, someone is making trouble at my engagement banquet!"

"Sorry, sorry, please wait a moment!" The hotel manager didn't even stop and ran directly to Mu Wei, "Mr. Mu, everything is ready, shall we serve the 'dishes' now?"

"Manager!" Nie Xiaoqian screamed, and Nie's father also glared at the hotel manager, "Call your boss over, what kind of attitude is this!"

"..." The hotel manager looked at the Nie family father and daughter in a dilemma and moved behind Mu Wei to secretly signal the Nie family father and daughter. Who knew they couldn't see it at all, so he had to speak, "Sorry Mr. Nie, Boss Wang just transferred the hotel to this Mr. Mu, and Mr. Mu has already ordered to stop business for renovation immediately, so your engagement banquet... don't worry, we will return double the deposit!"

The movement on the small stage spread through the banquet hall via the microphones on and off the stage. The change, like a melodramatic TV series, left the guests in the hall dumbfounded.

"Serve the 'dishes'." Mu Wei ordered faintly.

"Yes."

The hotel manager waved at the door, and pairs of waiters filed in, placing a metal round-covered plate and a yellow carnation in front of the guests at thirty tables...

"...He Huan! What do you mean!" Nie Xiaoqian was furious. Chen Chen, beside her, tried to steady himself, "He Huan, as for the past, since you are willing to apologize, I will persuade Xiaoqian to let it go. You... you should go, don't stir up trouble here."

So cold... He Lele lowered her head and wrapped herself in the suit jacket, but still couldn't stop trembling.

Mu Wei hugged her body tighter with some worry and patted her shoulder gently, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

He... was here.

He Lele closed her eyes, desperately suppressing her body's physiological tension, and found her voice. After a moment, she looked at the man—the first man in this city besides her father to hug her and give her warmth, "Let's go."

Mu Wei shook his head, "Some things, you can endure, but I can't."

"You, you knew everything?"

"I knew some, but far less than one ten-thousandth of what you have endured."

"You... believe me?" He Lele looked at Mu Wei's amorous eyes with surprise, expectation, and fear.

Mu Wei smiled faintly, the softness in his eyes enough to melt a person's heart, "Although it's easy to become stupid in front of you, please don't insult my IQ. Those rumors, you can't believe them unless you're stupid to a certain extent."

"Heh..." He Lele couldn't help but laugh, but her eyes instantly moistened, "Thank you..."

"No need to thank me, just give yourself to me." As soon as the words were out, Mu Wei realized he had spoken out of turn and stared nervously at He Lele's reaction. Who knew she would actually smile and reply—

"Okay."

Rumors or insults, for her who had long buried her self-esteem, any more harm was just throwing stones into an abyss. But... thank him, thank this man, in this city full of absurd rumors, for being willing to believe her. For this alone, she was willing to give herself to him.

Her heart was leaping in an unimaginable way. The strange emotion made Mu Wei, who was experienced in love, unable to recover for a while, and he could only stare blankly at her angelic, tear-stained smile.

"He Huan! If you want to sell yourself, go sell yourself, don't dirty everyone's ears here!" Looking at He Lele's smile, Chen Chen didn't know what was wrong with him. Unprovoked anger filled his chest, making him roar impulsively.

Chen Chen's irrational roar finally calmed Mu Wei's mood temporarily. Mu Wei was about to get angry, but He Lele spoke slowly.

"Please..."

Mu Wei looked at He Lele in confusion, but saw her staring coldly at Chen Chen. "I've been trying very hard to endure, so... please, don't speak again."

She endured, she apologized, not to humbly smooth things over, nor to cowardly trample on her own dignity. All her concessions were just because... Xiaoqian had been good to her once. Since Xiaoqian loved him and was now going to marry him, since the dirty water had already been splashed on her, and since she was indifferent to insults, she would accept it, she would endure it!

But he shouldn't speak... shouldn't speak to reveal his shamelessness, meanness, and cowardice, because if he did, she would be afraid that her concessions would mean Xiaoqian had entrusted herself to the wrong person!

He Lele's cold reminder made Chen Chen shiver, and he looked at Nie Xiaoqian in a panic, subconsciously taking half a step back.

"What do you mean?" Nie Xiaoqian looked back and forth between Chen Chen and He Lele vigilantly, and finally stared at Chen Chen, "Are you hiding something from me?"

"Heh... of course he has to hide it from you. Are you sure you've really learned to keep your eyes open?" Mu Wei mocked, raised his hand and clapped twice. The waiters in the hall uncovered the metal round covers in front of the guests, revealing the true face of the "dishes."

Gasps arose everywhere.

In the plates in front of everyone, 200,000 in cash was stacked red and bright. One or two would be fine, but when such a stack was placed in front of the guests at all the tables... a full 60 million!

The spectacular scene left the entire banquet hall silent. The adults were too shocked to speak, and the children were too scared by the adults' expressions to speak.

There were a few people present with assets over 100 million, but... that was net worth! If they were really asked to take out 60 million in cash, who could? Who was this Mr. Mu? And that He Huan...

"Sorry, this dish is a bit thin. The cash reserves of the banks in your city seem to have some problems." Mu Wei said lightly.

No one dared to answer.

"Yellow carnations, the flower language is insult and slander, and the name of this dish is Honest Man's Candy." Mu Wei turned his head to look at He Lele beside him and said softly, "Truth, this kind of thing, can be covered up, can be distorted, and can even disappear. But to get the truth, sometimes it's not difficult."

The hotel manager stood up and shouted to the guests, "As long as you tell the truth about any rumors regarding Miss He, you can take away the 200,000 in the plate. There is a bank next to the hotel, you can deposit it immediately after taking it."