Quite awkward

Chapter 145 Did I dream about Mu Chenan last night?

11pm.

Xu Yan seldom played cards, but he finally won the round by becoming the landlord. He clapped the table excitedly and looked towards the sofa, wanting to share his joy with Qi Yu. He saw her lying quietly on the armrest of the sofa, as if she was asleep.

He asked Xiao He to go over and check on Qi Yu.

Xiao He hurriedly put down the cards, stood up and walked over, gently patted Qi Yu's thin arm, and called her name several times, but got no response.

She smelled a faint scent of alcohol again and glanced at the empty cocktail glass. Xiao He guessed that she might feel tired after drinking, so under the hypnosis of alcohol, she fell into a deep sleep unknowingly.

Then Xiao He took the brown coat beside her and covered Qi Yu with it.

One is to keep her warm, and the other is to prevent her from accidentally exposing herself.

"Are you sure everything's okay?" Yan Shen walked over with his hands on his hips and took a look.

When asked this question suddenly, Xiao He was undecided, so she decided to run next door to find her boss.

Zhang Pei was waving his hands and telling Muchenan about his dashing demeanor during his last business negotiation when he suddenly noticed a knock on the door. He turned around and saw Xiaohe, and beckoned her in with his finger.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Pei asked

Mu Chenan lazily propped his head on one side and looked at the person who came.

"Mr. Zhang, Mr. Mu, Qi Yu seems to be asleep, or drunk."

As soon as Xiao He finished speaking, Mu Chenan put down his legs and sat up straight, and asked seriously: "Are she and those two men the only ones in the box now?"

“Um…yeah, yeah.”

Xiao He paused when answering, not because of anything else, but because she suddenly felt Mu Chenan's strong and imposing aura, and was worried that she would make mistakes by being careless.

Zhang Pei propped himself up and stood up. After thinking for a while, he made an arrangement: "Then let's ask Xu Yan and Yan Shen to go back first, and then get a room in the five-star hotel next door for Qi Yu to sleep over for the night."

After saying that, he turned to look at Mu Chenan, raised his eyebrows and asked for his opinion.

Mu Chenan pulled his lip and nodded, agreeing to his arrangement.

After receiving the order, Xiao He quickly ran back to the original box and said to the two men, "Thank you for coming to Qi Yu's birthday party. It's getting late now, so why don't you go? I will take good care of her."

Xu Yan held up his coat and asked gently, "Do you need any help?"

Xiao He waved her hand and refused: "No, no, I'm here, don't worry."

Yan Shen said, "Then you must keep an eye on her. Don't let her be taken away by anyone suddenly."

He was still frightened by what happened last time when Qi Yu was drunk, so it would be good to remind him a little more.

Xiao He nodded and gestured OK, and then Xu Yan and Yan Shen left together.

Zhang Pei came back, took a quick look at Qi Yu's condition, and waved to Mu Chenan who was standing at the door.

"Someone has to hold her. Xiao He doesn't have that much strength. Why don't you do it, brother?"

Mu Chenan walked slowly into the box and finally saw Qi Yu, who was celebrating her birthday today.

Based on his understanding of her, he judged that she was now in a deep sleep, because he vaguely heard a slight snoring sound, which was not the case when she slept in his arms before.

He did not respond to Zhang Pei's words. He walked to the sofa, leaned over slightly, hooked her legs, and picked her up horizontally.

She had been blocking it with her body just now, but now the sofa was empty, and it turned out that the blue box containing the diamond crown was still hidden behind her.

"Zhang Pei, you stay here to clean up and keep these things for Qi Yu. I'll take her to her hotel room to sleep first."

Zhang Pei agreed, glanced at Xiao He, and said, "Then you can open an extra room so that my female employee can rest immediately after taking care of Qi Yu."

"no problem."

After dividing the work, several people took action on their own.

Mu Chenan opened his coat, just enough to cover Qi Yu's head, ensuring that she would not be recognized by others.

After leaving the club, he held Qi Yu in his arms and strode towards the five-star hotel next door. Xiao He followed behind, almost unable to catch up with him.

Walking into the magnificent hotel lobby, Mu Chenan called the manager, gave his name, and asked him for two rooms.

There was no other reason for doing so except that Mu's family had some shares in this hotel and was considered a shareholder with some say, so asking for two rooms for one night was not a big deal.

The middle-aged male manager nodded and bowed in response, arranged the rooms for them, and then personally escorted the three people upstairs.

Xiao He had two room cards in her hand. She swiped one of them and opened the door first.

Mu Chenan carried Qi Yu into the room and took her straight to the soft big bed. Then he stood up straight, turned to Xiao He and said, "Then I will leave first. I will trouble you with the rest of the matter."

Xiao He nodded and watched Mu Chenan walk out the door.

The manager had been waiting at the door of the room, and was instructed by his superiors to provide good service to this shareholder from Mu Group.

"Mr. Mu, if you have any needs, you can contact me directly. My last name is Li."

Mu Chenan looked back into the room, reached out to close the door, and made two requests to Manager Li.

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More than ten minutes later, Mu Chenan received a message from Manager Li in the presidential suite on the top floor. In the message, he said that Xiao He had left Qi Yu's room and went to rest next door.

He turned the room card in his hand and chuckled.

After a moment, he stood up and left the presidential suite, taking the elevator back to the floor he had just been on.

Mu Chenan stood in front of Qi Yu's door. The door was suddenly opened, and what came into view was a pitch-black space.

He entered the room, gently closed the door behind him, and walked slowly to the big bed and stopped.

This side was close to the window, and the neon light outside just happened to shine into the room, allowing him to clearly see Qi Yu's soft and peaceful sleeping face.

Suddenly he felt a cold wind blowing from behind him. He turned around and found that the windows of the room were wide open as expected, which meant that the female assistant had not noticed this problem.

If he hadn't come back, Qi Yu would have been blown by the cold winter wind all night and would have definitely fallen seriously ill again.

Mu Chenan closed the window and returned to the bed. A brown coat covered the white quilt. Qi Yu's smooth white shoulders were exposed. Seeing two suspenders, he realized that she was still wearing the tight waisted long skirt.

I don’t know if she would feel uncomfortable sleeping in a skirt.

The next second, Qi Yu kicked the quilt with her feet, and then her legs began to move violently.

Her brows were slightly furrowed, as if she felt uncomfortable somewhere.

Mu Chenan was puzzled.

I wondered if she wanted to tear off her breast stickers again.

He had no plans to stay here for too long, he just wanted to find a time when no one was around to be alone with her.

Qi Yu looked like she was not sleeping well, so he pulled back the quilt, took a look at her, and quickly discovered the problem.

The white gauze on the hem of her skirt rubbed against Qi Yu's slender white calves. Perhaps this kind of fabric would cause a tingling and itchy feeling when it came into contact with the skin, so she had an uncomfortable expression in her sleep.

Do you want to help her take off her skirt?

But it seems that this is not appropriate.

If she woke up tomorrow and found that her skirt had been touched, she would be even more frightened.

The hem of this skirt was made of several layers of different fabrics. Mu Chenan knelt on the bed with one leg, bent down, lifted the top layer of gauze and brought it to her waist, then pulled the quilt to cover her.

He actually wanted to serve Qi Yu, change her into comfortable pajamas, and let her have a good sleep.

However, his presence in this room now had violated his previous promise, so he just had to look at her quietly.

From the time he entered the house to the time he was ready to leave, it took no more than five or six minutes in total.

As he walked towards the door, he casually glanced at his watch and noticed that the time was the last minute before midnight.

He paused and hesitated for only two seconds before suddenly turning around and returning to the bed. He leaned over, pressed his thin lips against the side of Qi Yu's face, and his soft and hoarse voice just flowed into her ears.

"Bao, I wish you a happy birthday. I hope you will be happy every day in the future."

The two have known each other for nearly eighteen years. This is the first time that Mu Chenan said happy birthday to Qi Yu. Although she might not be able to hear it, he was afraid that this would be the last time, so he didn't want to miss the opportunity.

Qi Yu lay flat on the bed, and seemed to consciously tilt her head towards Mu Chenan, and her thin lips touched the tip of her nose.

He raised his head and kept a little distance, then slowly lowered his eyes and gently stroked her beautiful and moist lips with his fingers. At the critical moment, he restrained his inner impulse and ultimately did nothing.

He covered her with the quilt again and this time left the room decisively.

-

The winter sky in Linjiang is occasionally gray. Qi Yu rubbed her eyes and sat up from the bed, lifting the quilt. She was still wearing the white dress she had worn to celebrate her birthday yesterday.

Her last consciousness last night was after drinking that cocktail. She soon felt her eyelids heavy. Looking at the three people playing cards enthusiastically over there, she decided to lie down and rest for a while.

As a result, I slept until the next morning.

Qi Yu was still in a daze lying on the bed when she suddenly heard a knock on the door. She got out of bed and ran to the door to open it.

Xiao He breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her.

"I just called you, but your phone must have run out of battery and turned off."

“Maybe. I just woke up too.”

Qi Yu let Xiao He in first, and she went to the bathroom to wash up.

After a while, Qi Yu and Xiao He were eating breakfast face to face at the small round table by the window.

Xiao He took the initiative to talk about what happened last night: "After we found you asleep last night, the birthday party was over. Mr. Zhang and I didn't know where your home was, so we took you to the hotel to sleep. I was next door."

Qi Yu glanced at Xiao He's thin and frail figure, and she felt a little curious: "How did I get to the hotel?"

Xiao He took a bite of the meat bun and said very smoothly, "Oh, it was Mr. Zhang who asked Mr. Mu to bring you here."

Qi Yu held the cup of hot soy milk in both hands, lowered his eyes and looked dazed.

It was really Muchenan. She did feel that he appeared beside her.

“And then what?”

Xiao He reported one by one: "Mr. Mu carried you into the room and put you on the bed. He told me to take good care of you, and then he left."

Qi Yu frowned slightly.

"Xiao He, are you sure he just left like that? Why do I feel like someone is talking to me while I'm sleeping?"

She vaguely remembered that she and Mu Chenan had been alone together for some time, and he had whispered something in her ear, as if wishing her a happy birthday.

Xiao He felt a little strange. She saw President Mu leave the room with her own eyes. When she finished taking care of Qi Yu and was about to go to the next room to rest, there was no one else in the room.

"You were dreaming and confused, right? Mr. Mu should have gone straight home after that."

Qi Yu scratched his face and said slowly: "Maybe."

Did I dream about Muchenan last night?

She didn't want to dream about him.

-

in the afternoon.

A scene of Tangwan.

Zhang Pei personally delivered the gifts and valuables that Qi Yu had placed in the box last night.

Qi Yu ordered coffee to entertain the guests, and she sat on a small stool to open the gifts.

Zhang Pei stood on the balcony and looked at the river view for a while, then returned to the living room and casually expressed his concern to Qi Yu.

The iced coffee in his hand was almost empty. He heard that she already knew that it was Muchen'an who carried her into the hotel room last night. He felt that there was no need to hide it for his friend anymore, so he asked curiously, "Did you have a fight with your second brother?"

"It's just a small conflict." Qi Yu answered perfunctorily and casually. It was impossible for her to tell the truth in front of him.

"Since it's just a minor conflict, then make up as soon as possible. Your second brother treats you very well and even gave you such a beautiful crown."

Qi Yutuan stuffed the wrapping paper in his hand into the trash can without responding to him. Talking too much would only lead to mistakes and easily arouse other people's suspicion.

Zhang Pei wanted to persuade the two to reconcile, but suddenly changed his mind and began to analyze casually: "Chen An was recently dumped by his girlfriend, and he's having a conflict with you. Why can't he get along with women? There must be something wrong with him as a person."

Qi Yu lowered her head and smiled, then calmly placed the crystal ball she had just taken apart next to the TV cabinet as a decoration.

"Brother Zhang Pei, do you want to stay for dinner?"

Zhang Pei's train of thought was interrupted by her and he shook his head: "No, the food has been delivered and I've finished my coffee. I'll leave first."

“Oh, okay, I’ll take you there.”

-

After his birthday, Qi Yu ended his rest and resumed work.

She first auditioned for a TV series and then took on two commercials. By the end of the year, her schedule was packed and she was very busy.

She returned to Linjiang from a city in the south where the temperature was suitable. On this day, snow began to fall from the sky in Linjiang, and after a night all the snow settled on the ground.

The company asked its artists to share photos of their business operations on snowy days on social media platforms.

Xiao He found a good view by the river in advance and took a group of snow scene photos for Qi Yu with her SLR camera.

On that day, Qi Yu wore a beige coat, a blue thick wool scarf around her neck, and specially styled her hair into wool curls. The overall look was very vivid.

She stood in the snow, playing, running and laughing.

A dead tree is covered with snow. There are trees and people in the picture, creating a fresh and natural beauty.

The composition is beautiful, the characters are bright and charming, and the combination of light and shadow and emotion is appropriate.

After uploading it to Weibo, it received a warm response and was even linked to the hot search term "snow in Linjiang", and she became popular on the Internet again.

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