Chapter 139

Other... things? Nie Xiaoqian's face was a mix of green and red. "This is my engagement banquet, and I don't welcome uninvited wild men! Please get out immediately!"

Hearing this, Mu Wei raised his eyebrows slightly, 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 lounge, and Mu Wei embraced He Lele and sat down.

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

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please wait a moment!" The hotel manager didn't stop and ran straight to Mu Wei. "Mr. Mu, it's 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 up, "I'm sorry, Mr. Nie, Boss Wang just transferred the hotel to this Mr. Mu, and Mr. Mu has already ordered an immediate suspension of business for renovation. So your engagement banquet... Don't worry, we will return the deposit double!"

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

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

"Yes."

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

"... He Huan! What do you mean!" Nie Xiaoqian was furious. Chen Chen, who was 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 she 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."

There... was him.

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

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

"You, you knew all along?"

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

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

Mu Wei smiled, the softness in his eyebrows making one's heart almost melt. "Although it's easy to become stupid in front of you, please don't insult my IQ. Those rumors, if you're not stupid to a certain extent, you can't possibly believe them."

"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 already buried her self-esteem, no amount of harm was more than throwing stones into the abyss. But... thank him, thank this man. In this city full of absurd rumors, he was willing to believe her. Just for this point, 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. Mu Wei was just about to get angry, but He Lele spoke slowly.

"Please..."

Mu Wei looked at He Lele in confusion, but saw her staring at Chen Chen coldly. "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 at the bottom of the earth. All her concessions were just because... Xiaoqian had once been good to her. 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, despicable nature, and cowardice, because if he did, she would be afraid that her concession would let Xiaoqian entrust her life to the wrong person!

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

"What do you mean?" Nie Xiaoqian vigilantly looked back and forth between Chen Chen and He Lele, 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 sneered, raised his hand and clapped twice. The waiters in the hall opened the metal lids 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 the full hall... a full 60 million!

The spectacular scene left the entire banquet hall in silence. 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 of over 100 million, but... that was net worth! If you really wanted them to take out 60 million in cash, who could take it out? Who exactly 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 called the Honest Man's Candy." Mu Wei turned his head to look at He Lele beside him and said softly, "Truth, this kind of thing, will be covered up, will be distorted, and will even disappear. But to get the truth, sometimes it's not difficult."

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