Chapter 62: The Muddled Mu Si Yao

  "You can't joke around like this, I'm a widow"

  Although she was shocked by his words at first, she still didn't ignore the sinister smile he had just flashed. Shen Huan gave him a white eye and looked at the mess in front of her with a dark face. As for those pastries, Shen Huan silently stared at the culprit with a pursed mouth.

  "So what?"

  "What's the big deal, don't you know there's a saying 'many disputes in front of a widow's door'? You're still a popular person, if someone with ulterior motives hears this and spreads rumors about me, I won't be able to take it"

  Regarding Mu Siyao's completely indifferent attitude, the anger at the tip of Shen Huan's heart was all twisted into a tangled mess. What's wrong with this young master that he can't just play with his own stuff and leave her alone? Lately, there have been enough troubles already, and now that things have finally calmed down, he still wants to come and stir up trouble - does he really think everyone is as idle as him?

  "Hmm? Can you really bear with the rumors about your uncle?"

  Mu Ziyao's lips flashed a faint, inexplicable smile, which gave Shen Han a momentary chill. She didn't understand how the topic that made her chest ache had suddenly shifted to her younger uncle. As soon as she thought of Zhao Xiuzhuo, Shen Han felt strange in her heart. She naturally didn't have such thoughts about Zhao Xiuzhuo, but...she also couldn't understand why he inexplicably harbored such feelings for her.

  Isn't it that feelings take time to develop? She has been in the Zhao family for so long, but she hardly ever talks to him, and even when they do talk, it's always with his mother around. Shen Huan doesn't think her charm is enough to conquer everything at once.

  "What's the relationship between you and my little uncle?"

  "Haven't you guys' recent affair already been made public?"

  "What's going on with us? I've made it clear with my little uncle, as clear as a vegetable and tofu dish. Don't randomly add crimes to me."

  "You're so clever, I thought you'd seen through it already"

  He smiled faintly again, his smile was inexplicably annoying, as if he had seen through everything about you, and yet he still smiled like a salesgirl who had been trained in a boutique, making it impossible to tell whether what he said was praise or sarcasm.

  But at this moment, Mu Siyao's expression made Shen Huan feel that he was hinting.

  He has already seen that his younger brother's feelings towards him

  "What's going on?"

  "Deeply hidden..."

  "What's up"

  She was not in a good mood, and Mu Siyao didn't care. Normally, someone else would have shouted for help by now, but she didn't. Instead, after finding out his identity, she became calm and even dared to speak rudely to him. From this, Mu Siyao knew that she was different from other women. Whether he owed her a beating or a scolding, in short, he found it very interesting to meet a woman who had no intentions towards him and would rather push him away...

  "Don't pretend anymore, and if you have to pretend, don't do it in front of me."

  At these words, Shen Han involuntarily felt a chill run down his spine. Wasn't he openly provoking him?

  "What's going on? How dare I bluff in front of you?"

  Mo Siyao suddenly stood up, leaned forward to look at Shen Huan, and slowly pressed his body down. At the same time as he stood up, Shen Huan involuntarily lifted her head to meet his gaze. At this moment, with his movement, the distance between the two people was getting closer and closer, almost to the point where they were about to be eye to eye, nose to nose, mouth to mouth...

  That sudden drop in air pressure made Shen Huan want to escape his range, but she couldn't move her gaze or body away from him. She could only be forced to continue staring at him with great courage and dignity. Mu Siyao stopped just as they were about to touch each other, and they could feel each other's breathing. The ambiguous heat spread across Shen Huan's face, causing her to blush uselessly.

  The man who created the situation just snorted coldly and said in a cold tone: "Zhao Xiuzhuo likes you, are you telling me that you didn't know?"

  A sentence awakened Shen Huan, she immediately drew back and leaned against the chair back, away from Mu Siyao this bastard, her heartbeat accelerated inexplicably, feeling her burning cheeks, Shen Huan knew she must have lost face.

  "Mu Siyao, if you speak nonsense again, I really..."

  "How is it really?"

  "Damn it, I really can't do anything to you"

  Shen Han cursed loudly, causing Mu Siyao to slightly furrow her brow, but she couldn't help but laugh the next instant: "Although you're a widow, you still need to pay attention to your image, it's better if you don't say such things often."

  "I don't have a good image, so what? It's not for you, Lord Mu, to interfere. You summoned me, a commoner's wife, shouldn't it be to discuss the follow-up issues of the case? If Your Lordship thinks there's no problem, we can negotiate, and I'll take my leave first."

  After finishing, Shen Huan was about to get up and leave, but she still didn't forget to grab a piece of pastry and put it in her mouth. Anyway, it had already been stained with her saliva, and she believed that Mu Siyao wouldn't be so unhygienic as to continue eating it. She didn't have to be polite about it either; if possible, she would even like to take some back home to savor slowly. Having lived a poor life for too long, she couldn't help but have some wild thoughts about these good things. Anyway, since he wouldn't get to eat them, why not?

  "Deeply Hidden"

  "Is there anything else you'd like to instruct me, Master Mu?"

  "Although you married into the Zhao family and lost your husband, however..."

  Seeing Mo Siyao's hesitant expression, Shen Huan's heart sank. She couldn't help but feel curious about this man she had never met, yet her family never mentioned him. She thought he might be a short-lived ghost, already dead.

  But every time she heard Li mention it occasionally, the tone of speech didn't seem like he had passed away, as if complaining. When she returned to her parents' home, she also sensed that this husband should not have died, otherwise her father would not be so ruthless as to let her perish in this bottomless pit.

  Is there something inside? And what does Mu Siyao's expression mean? What does he know?

  "What do you want to say?"

  There was a moment of silence, and Shen Huan's heart rose and fell, losing patience. To her, this old husband had been dead from the start. Having spent so long at home, it didn't matter whether he was there or not. There was no need to waste her own time on him, continuing to drag things out with Mu Siyao here.

  "I'm leaving if you don't say anything."

  "Anyway... you'd better keep a distance from your little uncle, sometimes you're innocent but the other party may not be, recently the rumors about you two have been spreading like wildfire, although there's no basis for them, but where there's smoke, there's fire..."

  "Just say what you want to say, don't be so hesitant, be a man"

  Mu Siyao's face sank, he was always relatively quiet in front of people, usually only exchanging a few words with the crown prince and his siblings Qianfan and Qianshui. Now that he had kindly reminded her, she responded like this, leaving Mu Siyao feeling somewhat displeased. Anyway, he had already warned her, whether or not she listened was her own business.

  "What I wanted to say has been said, how you understand it is your business"