Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 90 To Be the Gentlest Father
Mu Zhi looked at the numbers on the invoice over and over before she managed to count the zeroes.
Her jaw almost dropped to the ground when it hit her how many zeroes there were.
“Who paid for this?”
Who was the wealthy man...?
Just a few days ago when she was surfing a medical website, she found an article outlining the success of the technique on the
market. But she did not dare to let her mother try.
Because it was too costly!
The doctor noticed that Mu Zhi was dumbfounded and recollected everything that occurred earlier. Listening to the doctor’s
recollection, Mu Zhi became even more thunderstruck.
So! It was Lu Jinye who paid for the bill!
“Ok, got it, thanks.”
Mu Zhi promptly grabbed the invoice and left in a rush. She thought about giving Lu Jinye a call to clarify the situation.
There was no question that she could not afford the large sum of money.
But she had hardly stepped out of the hospital when she received a call from Jian Xiaoning, who sent her an address and told
her to hurriedly make her way there.
Mu Zhi stared at the address in confusion. Thinking that something urgent had come up for Jian Xiaoning, she decided to delay
the call to Lu Jinye for the moment and headed to the address Jian Xiaoning gave. In the end! She was even more staggered
when she arrived at the place.
It was Jian Xiaoning who answered the door.
The apartment was boasted with a delicate and sumptuous interior fit-out. The dazzling reflection of the marbled floor could not
escape her eyes. And was that a children’s play area?

“Did you become someone else’s mistress?”
It was the first thing Mu Zhi’s intuition told her. Otherwise! How on earth did she get to stay in such a luxurious apartment?
Jian Xiaoning instantly gave Mu Zhi a friendly eye-roll, “You’re the real mistress here. This is from Lu Jinye, I’m purely riding on
your coattails.”
“Ahh!” Mu Zhi was flabbergasted. She burst into the apartment and paced the area. It had such generous living space... Despite
comparatively smaller than Lu Jinye’s place, the apartment was worth at least over 100 million.
Upon thinking that she was stepping on top of millions of cash notes, Mu Zhi could feel the strength draining away from her legs.
She did not bother exchanging another word with Jian Xiaoning, turned around, and walked out the door.
Half an hour later, Mu Zhi showed up at Lu Jinye’s office building and rapidly went upstairs.
She came to a halt at his office door.
Because... Lu Jinye’s door was not fully shut. There was a tiny gap where she could peep through.
The tiny gap was merely big enough to show Xiao Qingqing in the middle of a conversation with Lu Jinye.
Xiao Qingqing had her arms around Lu Jinye in this instance. Lu Jinye was facing away from the door, so Mu Zhi could not catch
glimpse of his expression.
All she could hear was Xiao Qingqing’s soft voice laced with distress, “If you don’t like the baby, I can abort it.”
“We went through too many adversities to get together. I could sense that the baby came so we could bring our relationship
further, giving us a chance to be better.”
Mu Zhi started clenching her fists without her realizing it.
Xiao Qingqing had dropped the news of her pregnancy to Mu Zhi earlier at the hospital.
Now... Mu Zhi’s existence... Suddenly felt a little redundant.
Why did she come here?!
Just to thank Lu Jinye.

The pair that was currently inside the room belonged to each other. She was not needed at all.
Mu Zhi squeezed her fingers one last time before gradually relaxing them. In the end, she reluctantly turned around and left.
Just as she left, Lu Jinye took Xiao Qingqing’s arms off him. He turned around to face Xiao Qingqing with a solemn expression.
“I’ll handle everything.”
Finishing that, he promptly picked up the phone receiver and called Linda to see Xiao Qingqing off.
Xiao Qingqing did not pursue further despite... The hatred that was currently brewing in her heart.
....
Mu Zhi scurried away from Lu Jinye’s office. Her footsteps were disarrayed. It almost looked like she was fleeing a scene.
Standing on the center of the road, she had no idea what she was supposed to think.
In this instance, a car suddenly came to a halt before her. Its window was wound down to reveal a man’s face.
The man was staring at Mu Zhi with a dash of a faint smile, “What is it, pretty lady? Scamming for a ride?”
Mu Zhi then came back to her senses and glanced at the person who spoke to her only to find a great-looking man who rocked
an alluring demeanor that was not frequently seen among men.
However, Mu Zhi could not be bothered by him. She waved at the cab coming at her from afar, got in, and took off.
Mu Zhi took a long detour before getting off at a place near where she lived. She did not feel like going straight home.
She needed to walk a distance to clear her mind and sort out what she was after.
She thought she had concluded. But when she got off the cab and was heading towards her suburb, she espied a woman trying
out a wedding gown inside a bridal shop located not far away. The woman’s figure reminded her of Xiao Qingqing. At that
thought, she found her emotions crumbling once again.
Thus, Mu Zhi brushed the thoughts of going upstairs.
She started wandering around at the park for a long while. The sun had sunk lower in the sky when she found herself in a calmer
state and the ripples in her mind had finally subsided. That was when she was ready to go home.

However, as she came before her apartment entrance, she found Lu Jinye standing by her doorway!
Mu Zhi stared at him suspiciously. She could not believe her eyes.
“Get in the car.”
Lu Jinye did not elaborate on himself. He ordered Mu Zhi right away.
Mu Zhi obliged. She followed him into the car without saying a word. Lu Jinye turned the engine over when both of them had got
in.
Mu Zhi wore her seatbelt. She let Lu Jinye take her on a casual stroll around the city area.
There was no exchange of words. The journey lasted for a while before the light of the day had gradually drained away. Mu Zhi
finally turned to face Lu Jinye.
“Thank you for footing my mother’s medical bill, I’ll find a way to compensate you.”
Mu Zhi broke the silence.
Lu Jinye turned to face her too. He stared at her silently and parked the car by the road before saying, “Don’t worry about it.”
Mu Zhi did not know what to say in response.
Because... It was the first time they spoke like that. Like a pair of strangers who were familiar with each other.
It was at this moment when Lu Jinye’s phone rang. Mu Zhi noticed his eyes when he looked at the screen. They were rather
tender.
He answered the call with a completely different temperament.
He was incredibly gentle.
“Take a good rest, I’ll hire a nutritionist to go to your place tomorrow and plan a meal for you.”
His words made it easy to guess who the person on the phone was. It must be Xiao Qingqing.
After all... When Lu Jinye said that he did not like children, he meant that he did not like children who belonged to someone else,
someone whom he did not love.

If his loved one had conceived a baby for him, he would step down from his distinguished throne to be the gentlest father.