Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 345 Hopeful About the New Relationship
Their surroundings burst into a low buzz of murmuring as soon as Xie Xiu had finished his words. “Who is this man?”
“Who cares? He is a work of art...” “By the sound of it, it looks like he is here to protect Ann. Did Ann double-cross Lu Jinye and
hooked up with another man?”
“So envious... I want someone who would defend me overbearingly like this hottie too...”
“Quit dreaming.”
“It seems like the show has just started...”
Xie Xiu had his eyes locked on Mu Zhi while she was resenting the fact that he had caught her working behind his back. The
both of them could not be bothered by the mumbling of the insignificant characters around them.
However, Xie Xiu could hear some of the words. He wheeled around and swept his gaze across the colleagues, then shook his
head disappointingly.
“You could’ve done a better job at choosing your workplace. The quality of this company and its staff might’ve been a little
underwhelming.”
Everyone exchanged glances at his remark and was red in the face.
Under Xie Xiu’s overwhelming temperament, nobody dared utter a sound.
Finishing what he had to say, Xie Xiu took out his phone and gave his Accounting Team a call, telling them the name of the
company before demanding, “Value this company at once and tell the Accounting Team to make their way here.”
After he was done with the call, Mu Zhi asked nervously, “What are you doing?”
“Acquiring the company.”
Xie Xiu put on an affectionate smile before casting a sideways glance at everyone.
He had heard everything they said at the door earlier. Thus, he had taken the most succinct approach to take care of the
business, like he was accustomed to!

Mu Zhi was astonished. She woke up from her daze and promptly stopped Xie Xiu, “Don’t. I just want to make an honest living
here. How am I supposed to stay here if you do that?”
“This will be your company soon, you can do whatever you wish with it.”
“I’m not...”
Xie Xiu cut her off and said, “Sorry, Ann, I can’t bear to watch you suffer like this. This company doesn’t deserve you, and these
guys aren’t even good enough to polish your shoes. Besides, they slander your name because of some baseless rumors...”
Xie Xiu added, “If you insist on working, you could work at your own company. I will send a team to scale this company’s
operation up and restructure its staff, then make you the director. It doesn’t matter if you make a loss. I just want you to be
happy.”
Mu Zhi started to refuse when three people showed up at the door. They were Xie Xiu’s Accounting Team and had brought
dozens of documents with them.
Coming before Xie Xiu, the team lead reported, “Mr. Xie, this is the valuation of this company.” Amid his words, he handed a
document into Xie Xiu’s hands.
“A preliminary evaluation tells us that the company’s profit-making ability is below average. The management team is disarrayed,
and the accounts are disordered. It isn’t worth acquiring.” A member of the Accounting Team elaborated.
Xie Xiu did not spare a glance at the report before tossing it back to them, “See to it. It doesn’t matter if it makes money. I want
Ann to be happy, and I don’t want to see her being a target of bullies again.”
Mu Zhi leaned into Xie Xiu and whispered, “Don’t.”
In this instance, she was left speechless, without an idea of how she should ease Xie Xiu’s strong personality! But Xie Xiu would
not relent.
He lowered his voice and snapped at the Accounting Team, “Haven’t I made myself clear? Go!”
Every poor soul in the room stood rooted to the ground. None of them even dared to breathe aloud as they exchanged glances
anxiously, waiting for Xie Xiu’s next instruction.
The Accounting Team was about to act when Mu Zhi stopped them. “Go back to work, leave this for now.”

With that, the Accounting Team froze, not knowing what to do.
Mu Zhi looked at Xie Xiu helplessly, mustered her courage, and grabbed her belongings before dashing out of the company.
Xie Xiu hastily followed suit.
When he caught up to her, Xie Xiu brought her into his car and explained, “I’m doing all these for your own good.”
“I know that. You love me and couldn’t bear to see me hurt. But love should be a mutual relationship. I love you too. I went to
look for a job behind your back because I’d like to experience how it feels like to go to work and understand you a little better as
a result.”
“I appreciate you doing these for me. If you want to have work experience, you should’ve come straight to my company. There’s
no need to experience work at a useless company. Besides, it is littered with hopeless colleagues...”
Mu Zhi held up a hand saying, “Fine, enough. You’ve treated me very well, and you’re overdoing it. I will never work at your
company. I promise not to go to work anymore, happy?”
Xie Xiu let out an affectionate smile like he usually did, “Even better that you’ve given up on the idea of working.”
He checked the time and then said, “I can’t stay here any longer. I must return to the States, I have a meeting over there.”
“You flew all the way here just to stop me from working?” Mu Zhi frowned curiously.
Xie Xiu glanced at Mu Zhi and elaborated his intentions, “Of course not, I’m just worried that something would happen to you, I
just want to protect you.”
“Then hurry up and go for your meeting.”
The Mu Zhi now had no idea what she could do anymore. Her rhythm had been completely disrupted by Xie Xiu.
After watching him leave, Mu Zhi could only take a cab home dejectedly.
On the other hand, after he had left, Xie Xiu’s secretary asked in the car, “Instead of coming here just to protect madam and
leave, why didn’t you try talking her out of the job?”
Xie Xiu turned to face the secretary with a grin, “Because... I don’t like forcing someone to do what they don’t want to do.”

Then, he stopped explaining further.
Or rather, he couldn’t explain it himself too.
He was not someone who would frequently express his affectionate feelings. But he had done many things even he could not
comprehend for Mu Zhi by now, including the acquisition of the company.
He knew better that there was no need to fly into the country, but he did recklessly. Moreover, he also used the most reckless
method to protect Mu Zhi.
In his head, he had struggled to work out why he’d done all these too.
Xie Xiu rubbed his temples to alleviate his headache, then heaved a sorrowful sigh. By the looks of it, instead of protecting Mu
Zhi, he should just observe her.
For some reason, that made him more hopeful of their relationship.
Meanwhile, after bidding Xie Xiu farewell, Mu Zhi headed straight home.
The sudden loss of job caught Mu Zhi off guard. She knew that her hopes to get a job had been crushed by Xie Xiu.
Even though Xie Xiu might have relented from forcefully acquiring the company since her departure... She became perturbed at
the thought of these troublesome interferences.
Xie Xiu was busy with meeting after meetings those few days. It must be for something significant.
Their calls had reduced to simple greetings for each other before Xie Xiu plunged back into work. They didn’t have the time to
discuss her previous job.
Mu Zhi had settled for a few days, but while she was jobless, her urge to work had gradually reignited.