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Chapter 154: Normal Love, Peaceful Breakup

Mu Chenan rubbed his cheek irritably, with complicated emotions surging in his heart. He really couldn't figure out which man would appear next to Qi Yu?

"Have you found out who did it?"

“I doubt it’s you.”

“Absolutely not me, I wouldn’t…”

Because Qi Yu needed to show up in public often, he would not deliberately leave kisses on her neck, except for the time when he was exposed to the cold wind downstairs in the middle of the night.

Mu Yanqing stared at him steadily, watching the high wall of defense he had built slowly collapse.

"Is there a way I can find out who this man is?"

"Who?" Mu Chenan almost lost the ability to think, and wished he could find that man and beat him up.

Time passes in relative silence.

“You’ve been exposed, you know that?”

Mu Chenan froze and quickly denied: "I didn't."

“Now I have it.”

The atmosphere was somewhat condensed.

Mu Yanqing has concluded that the relationship between Mu Chenan and Qi Yu is not simple, and it has even reached a level that he cannot bear.

"Chen An, are you going to continue hiding this?"

Mu Chenan felt so angry that he could hardly control himself.

He was caught in a huge puzzle, unable to tell which of his brother's words were true, which were false, which were tests, and which were interrogations.

"What have I been hiding from you? What's the truth? If I'd been with Qi Yu, would I have bothered pursuing her?"

"Because you broke up and you wanted to get back together, but Yu didn't want to."

Mu Chenan thought to himself that he and Qi Yu hadn't even broken up, but his elder brother was still half right.

He wanted to get over the matter with silence.

Mu Yanqing took out his cell phone and pretended to call Qi Yu.

Muchenan was so flustered that he walked over and snatched the phone away, shouting angrily, "Don't ask her. I'll admit it, okay? Will you be happy if I admit it?"

The coldness in Mu Yanqing's eyes was icy, and his heart felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead. He thought he would take action, but his remaining rationality controlled his impulse.

“When did it start?”

“Last year, at the end of spring.”

“Why are you together?”

"Isn't it okay for two people to be in love?"

Mu Yanqing laughed contemptuously: "I don't believe it."

“Believe it or not.”

“What have you done?”

“Everything that needs to be done has been done.”

For some reason, Muchen'an's arrogance increased because everything he said was true.

Mu Yanqing's expression gradually became depressed, and suddenly a picture flashed through his mind. He was standing on the first floor of Mu Chenan's villa, and heard a woman's humming voice on the phone. He raised his head and looked upstairs in confusion.

At this moment, he asked with difficulty and bitterness: "That morning, the woman in your bed..."

He was only halfway through his words when Mu Chenan intercepted him and gave him a quick death.

"Yes, Qi Yu was in my bed at the time."

After hearing this, Mu Yanqing became a little unsteady and fell backwards. He subconsciously held onto the back of the chair and barely managed to steady himself.

The truth he got after setting a trap with great effort made him feel extremely miserable.

Since he returned to China, he has actually discovered many suspicious points, but he is more inclined to believe that it is just his own suspicion.

What he could not have imagined the most was that the two people closest to him had actually been together. He did not feel any pleasure at all, only unacceptable pain.

“How did you get together?”

"It was a normal relationship, with little time together and much time apart. We broke up peacefully. I regretted it, but she didn't want to get back together."

Their previous relationship of support was pathological and unequal, so he chose to continue to conceal it, trying to beautify the time they spent together into a normal relationship.

Mu Yanqing looked at him silently, not quite believing that Qi Yu would fall in love with him.

Mu Chenan looked back and guessed what his elder brother was struggling with.

He took out his cell phone and went into the photo album to look for pictures. There were many photos of Qi Yu alone. After flipping through them for a long time, he finally found a photo of him and Qi Yu on a day trip to Denmark.

The two sat in the carriage, Mu Chenan put his arm around Qi Yu's shoulders, and the two leaned against each other tightly to enjoy the scenery. The sunset and grassland behind them were beautiful, and there were a few elks running in the corner.

This photo was taken by the photographer at the scenic spot. The overall picture is beautiful and romantic. It is also the only photo of them together during the time they were together.

"This is the proof that Qi Yu and I were in love. Don't we look quite a good match?"

Mu Yanqing glanced at the photo and remained silent. He only felt that it was very annoying. He turned his head away and didn't want to look at it anymore.

Mu Chenan gradually regained his confidence in front of him. He slowly put away his phone and began to seriously fabricate the story of his love affair with Qi Yu.

"Brother, do you know? Qi Yu and I started to develop feelings for each other during the Qingming Tomb-Sweeping Day. You assigned me to drive her there, but on the way back, we encountered heavy rain and lightning. We also encountered a mudslide on the way. Later, we had no choice but to stay in a village and live in an old lady's house. But there was only one bed, so we slept together that night. Although nothing happened that day, when a man and a woman have a little intimacy, feelings will naturally change."

Mu Yanqing took a few steps, sat down on the sofa, unscrewed the bottle of mineral water, and drank half of it, but it did not dispel the regret and anxiety in his heart at all.

Mu Chenan came over, sat down on the sofa, crossed his legs and asked, "Do you want to hear more?"

"Go on." Mu Yanqing really wanted to know how Qi Yu was deceived by him step by step.

Mu Chenan lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, organizing his words before speaking leisurely, "Later, Qi Yu wanted to film a kissing scene. She had never been in a relationship before, so she didn't know how to kiss. She was quite distressed. At that time, our relationship wasn't as bad as before, so she came to ask me for advice. How else could I teach her? Of course, I taught her in person."

At the end of his words, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

"Shameless." Mu Yanqing cursed him angrily.

"I was definitely shameless, but we gradually fell in love with each other, and then we just naturally started dating. Isn't that sweet?"

“It’s still a split.”

Mu Chenan suddenly froze, his face turned ugly, and he was hit by reality again.

Today, the two brothers really hurt each other.

He adjusted his mood and pressed on to win.

"Brother, I have never had another woman. For so many years, there has only been one woman, Qi Yu. You shouldn't stop me, but you should help me and bring Qi Yu and I together."

"How do you want me to help you?" Mu Yanqing asked calmly, but not in a very kind tone.

"You're helping me by staying away from Qi Yu. Don't contact her all the time. Just ignore her and ignore her."

“I’m sorry, I can’t do that.”

Mu Chenan was very unhappy to hear such a blunt rejection.

He knew that Qi Yu still liked her elder brother, and as long as they were in contact, she would never stop thinking about him.

"What are your feelings towards Qi Yu now?"

Mu Yanqing paused for a moment, without giving a direct answer, and simply said calmly, "I will always treat her like a younger sister."

"You mean what you say?" Mu Chenan put down his legs, his eyes eagerly hoping for a positive answer.

Mu Yanqing pursed her lips, feeling that there was no need for her to make promises to him. What the future would be like would always exceed her expectations.

"I believe everything you said is true for now, but Ah Yu obviously doesn't want to get back together with you now, which means you're not that good to her anymore. So, please take care of yourself and don't harass her."

Can't do it.

Mu Chenan did not choose to confront him, but only answered in his heart.

Everything seemed to have been revealed, but the only uncertainty was Qi Yu.

"Brother, I beg you for a favor. Qi Yu has always not wanted you to know that she and I had a past. Can you pretend that you don't know? Otherwise, she will be embarrassed. Please be considerate of her." Mu Chenan lost his momentum and begged cautiously.

If Qi Yu knew that he couldn't bear the pressure and admitted what happened between them in front of his elder brother, then their relationship would fall into an irretrievable situation again, and he might never have a chance to turn things around.

Mu Yanqing's dark eyebrows and eyes were gloomy and deep, and it was impossible to tell his joy or anger or his expression, but his mind was confused and he was in great pain.

He couldn't change what had happened, he just hoped that Qi Yu's original intention of being safe and happy would not change, and he didn't want her to alienate him again.

“Okay, I won’t tell you.”

He raised his hand and pressed his forehead hard, wanting to escape from this suffocating environment and be alone. He stood up and prepared to leave without saying anything.

Mu Chenan suddenly called out to him hurriedly.

"Brother, regarding Qi Yu's kiss mark..."

"I'm kidding, idiot!"

At this moment, Mu Yanqing had to vent some of his resentment, because he had just tried his best to restrain his urge to beat someone up. There were so many relatives and friends downstairs, and if brothers started fighting, it would be a disgrace to the Mu family. He hated this inappropriate rationality.

Mu Chenan didn't pay attention to the curse words. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief and murmured to himself, "It's good that it's not true."

Even though Qi Yu is very popular with the opposite sex, he doesn't believe that she will have other men.

He suddenly felt in a good mood, having finally untied a long-standing knot in his heart.

Maybe it was because the eldest brother had the upper hand in the past many days. He was ridiculed, mocked, mocked and provoked.

But this time, he finally got back on track.

-

Downstairs, the servants were busy working, and several dining tables were filled with guests of different ages.

In the past few years, Mu Luowen and Shen Shuang had been spending the New Year abroad, and their home was relatively quiet. They knew so many people in Linjiang, and when they finally got the chance to return home, they all rushed into the Mu family.

Mu Chenan is not a hospitable person, he came down just to help his parents reduce the burden of entertaining guests.

Shen Shuang pulled him to a quiet place aside.

"I heard your brother is back? Why don't you ask him to come down for dinner?"

"He's not feeling well, let him rest for a while." Mu Chenan knew that his elder brother must be in a bad mood right now, but it was his own fault, and he didn't have the time to comfort him.

Shen Shuang said "oh" and then went back to work.

-

The door was closed tightly, the curtains were drawn tightly, and there was no sound or light in the entire space.

Mu Yanqing leaned on the sofa in the room, recalling the things that happened after he returned to China, and gradually realized that he had been kept in the dark by those two people.

It was obvious that they didn't like each other before, so how come now they have become what Muchenan calls a mutual affection?

Or is it that Qi Yu's admiration for him has not been completely gone, so she suddenly got carried away and deliberately found his brother as a substitute?

Doubts piled up one after another, and for Qi Yu's self-esteem, he might never have the chance to know the real answer.

Mu Yanqing regards his younger brother as the person he trusts the most, so he repeatedly hopes that Mu Chenan can help take care of Qi Yu. However, who knew that it was he who created such an embarrassing and irreversible situation. He felt deeply guilty and regretful.

Xu Nianhan sent him a message on WeChat on his mobile phone. He didn't click on it to read it. Qi Yu shared with him on the top post that she made some wontons at home today. This time he was not in the mood to reply.

-

Ten p.m.

Xu Nianhan stared at the phone and waited for a long time. Time passed by minute by minute, but she still did not receive a reply from Mu Yanqing.

Before he left in the afternoon, she keenly noticed that his face was gloomy and he seemed to be worried about something.

All the messages she sent afterwards fell on deaf ears and she received no reply.

This is totally unlike his character of doing things in a proper manner.

Xu Nianhan couldn't help but worry whether something had happened to Mu Yanqing, so he decided to contact Mu Chenan to find out what happened.

Mu Chenan hadn't slept yet, so he quickly answered the phone.

"Is your elder brother home?"

"Yes, what's going on?" There was an indescribable coldness and alienation in his tone.

Xu Nianhan's worry deepened, and she asked cautiously: "Did something happen?"

"What do you think?"

Xu Nianhan was a little at a loss for words. She had been particularly emotional recently and had said something inadvertently in front of Mu Yanqing in the afternoon, which might have aroused his suspicion.

"Chen An, I'm sorry, but I didn't mean it."

"I don't blame you."

"Yan Qing said that it's impossible for him and I to be together."

"You were living well in the US after your divorce, but how come you suddenly changed when you saw my brother? This shows that you two are not suitable for each other, so you should stop thinking about him."

Xu Nianhan said in a low voice: "I'm just a little sad. It turns out that he really doesn't love me anymore."

Mu Chenan listened indifferently, without stirring up any fluctuations in his heart.

Before getting married, she was positive, sunny and full of energy, but life after marriage made her extremely sensitive and she often fell into depression.

But this is the life she chose herself, and she doesn't deserve his pity.

But out of kindness, he still comforted her in a gentle voice.

"Take care of yourself. You have a long time to go. Take care of yourself and your family."

The moment she hung up the phone, Xu Nianhan covered her face with her hands and shed tears silently.

It seemed that there was no possibility for her and Mu Yanqing to reconcile.

Why did such a romantic beginning turn into such a sad ending?

In their previous marriage, Mu Yanqing always indulged her, gave her a lot of encouragement and tolerance, but she often provoked conflicts and quarrels for no reason, which made him gradually feel exhausted.

Perhaps from the very beginning, she was not a woman who was good at managing a marriage, and the current situation was ultimately the result of her own actions.