Chapter 45 (1/2)

Chapter 45

After she finished her meal, Qiao Mu stood up and mumbled, “I’m going home now.”

Li Yan glanced at Qiao Mu. He got up and picked his coat up. “I’ll send you home.”

“You don’t have to send me home. It’s just next door, I can go back on my own.” Qiao Mu waved her hand. He was acting as if nothing had happened in the bedroom just now.

Li Yan ignored her rejection as he walked over to hold her hand and walk out, “Qiao Mu, do you know that there are a lot of rag pickers who sleep nearby the wealthy suburb at night? I don’t want to wake up tomorrow morning and find you abducted by someone else.”

“Oh,” Qiao Mu answered tamely. She really did not know about that.

Li Yan sounded resigned. “You’re really getting dumber as you’re getting older.”

Qiao Mu grimaced and muttered with a low voice, “You’re really becoming fierce.”

“What did you say?”

His sharp gaze swept over to Qiao Mu as she stopped her big eyes from blinking blankly. She snapped her jaw shut!

After both of them left the mansion, the butler behind them shook his head in resignation. The security around the mansions were extremely strict. How would any rag pickers appear around here?

Miss Qiao actually believed in the young master’s off-handed lie. They still acted no differently from their childhoods.

When they close to the gate of the Qiao family’s mansion, Qiao Mu stopped in her tracks as she was worried that someone might spot them, “Uncle, I’ve reached home. You can go back now.”

“Not till you pass through the doorway. I’ll watch.”

Qiao Mu nodded and waved at him, “Goodbye, uncle.” After she said that, she ran away as quickly as she could.

Li Yan’s lips curled into a smile. This little thing had slipped into her habit of calling him “uncle”.

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