Belated Romance (Mu Tongrui)

Mu Tongrui fumed in anger when Fu Lingye bombarded her with so many questions. She scolded, “Did you even care to ask me
where was I last night? I shouldn't leave Sweetheart alone, but where were you? Didn't you leave her behind too?”
The man stared at her as if he would eat her up. He held her wrist so hard that her bones could break anytime. She screamed in
pain, “Fu Lingye, let me go!”
“Let you go to see you band together with Qi Yanli?”
Mu Tongrui trembled and stared at him unbelievably, “Fu Lingye, are you stalking me?”
The way he humiliated her resembled a knife piercing directly in her heart. It really hurt a lot.
“Am I a silly head to do that?”
Mu Tongrui was startled and scoffed. It made sense too, he's busy with the person in Lanwan Villa. Would he be so free to send
someone to stalk me?
She couldn't believe that she was still thinking of herself as somebody!
Mu Tongrui continued, “Since you already knew where was I, then what's the point of asking? I stayed with Qi Yanli for the entire
night yesterday!”
“MU TONGRUI!!!”
Fu Lingye burst with anger and squeezed her neck hard.
Mu Tongrui's face reddened. She couldn't stop coughing as she almost choked to death!
Fu Lingye's hand tightened inch by inch. Mu Tongrui heard the crackling of her neck. If Fu Lingye exerts some more strength,
Tongrui might die!
The man resembled a furious leopard; his eyes were cold and emotionless. He finally let her go when Mu Tongrui closed her
eyes and stopped fighting back.
Mu Tongrui fell aside as she no longer had any strength to stand. She was coughing and gasping for air because her neck hurt
very much, but it was nothing compared to the pain in her heart.

She stood up and laughed coldly, “Fu Lingye, I'm not sure if you remember, the last time you almost choked me to death was for
Xiang Nanqian's sake. This time you did the same again! Don't tell me that because you love me too deeply, or that you are
jealous. The reason you're doing this is simply that you cannot accept the fact that I betrayed you!”
Fu Lingye saw her pale look and wanted to grab hold of her, “Rui...”
Mu Tongrui pushed his hand away and shouted, “Don't touch me! Fu Lingye, I'm telling you that from now on we're going
separate ways.”
She wanted to leave but Fu Lingye pulled her back. He pushed her against the wall then continued, “You're not in control of
starting and ending this game. Mu Tongrui, if I don't call it an end, you're not going anywhere!”
She thought that she could start a game and end it when she felt like it. But if she wants to end the game, would he agree to call
it the end?
From now on, he was going to make her pay for what she had done.
“What do you want?”
Mu Tongrui looked at him in fear. Fu Lingye held her hand tight and scoffed, “What more can we do? To stop Sweetheart from
knowing that we quarreled, of course, we're sending her off to school!”
Before Mu Tongrui could react, she was already shoved in the car. “Fu Lingye, you...”
Sweetheart ran out with her little school bag and looked at Fu Lingye and Mu Tongrui in a weird way. She asked, “Daddy and
Mu'mu, were you guys quarreling just now?”
Fu Lingye kept his emotions and smiled, “No, of course not. Now hop in the car and we're off to school.”
Sweetheart continued looking at the two adults suspiciously. She sat behind with Mu Tongrui and saw the red marks on her neck
then asked, “Mu'mu, what happened to your neck?”
Mu Tongrui froze. She touched her neck and continued, “Oh, it's nothing. I didn't sleep well last night and my neck is really stiff
now.”
Stiff neck?
“Oh, what's that?”

Mu Tongrui explained casually, “A stiff neck means I twisted my neck.”
Sweetheart believed in her explanation and reminded her, “Then Mu'mu shall not twist her neck again tonight, if not it will really
hurt!”
Mu Tongrui answered absent-mindedly and stroked Sweetheart's head.
After dropping Sweetheart off at the kindergarten, there was only Fu Lingye and Mu Tongrui in the car.
Mu Tongrui initially thought that Fu Lingye will not let her work in Ya Hua again. She was shocked to see that he sent her right in
front of Ya Hua.
Before she stepped out of the car, Fu Lingye looked at her through the rearview mirror. He said, “I will pick you up tonight, don't
you dare try running away!”
Mu Tongrui clenched her palms. She couldn't understand what Fu Lingye was thinking.
He is too unpredictable. Since he knew I was with Qi Yanli last night, why did he keep me here?
Fu Lingye didn't know what the deal between Mu Tongrui and Qi Yanli was; he was mad purely because she spent the night
outside.
But Mu Tongrui couldn't understand his thoughts, hence she just answered casually, “Okay, I'll be waiting for you.”
Fu Lingye was more suspicious of her now. The challenging task was to gain his trust again. Mu Tongrui stepped out and walked
towards Ya Hua absentmindedly.
She went to the washroom to cover her bruises in the neck before entering the office.
The scar was too obvious. It cannot be covered fully; even the concealer and make-up couldn't do it. She looked at herself
through the mirror and was totally defeated.
Why did I mess everything up?
She said she wanted to gain Fu Lingye's trust and take revenge for her father. But she fell for Fu Lingye.
Her mind was filled with the images of Fu Lingye and the woman hugging intimately in Lanwan Villa last night.

She took a deep breath and settled her emotions in the washroom before heading to the design department.
In the afternoon, Qi Yanli asked her to go to his office.
Qi Yanli immediately saw the red mark on her neck and frowned, “Fu Lingye beat you this morning when you went home?”
Mu Tongrui denied, “No, but he is furious because he knew that I stayed the night.”
Qi Yanli walked closer and wanted to touch her marks on the neck. Mu Tongrui reversed subconsciously, “Mr. Qi?”
“I just want to take a look at the marks on your neck, don't get so nervous.”