No Bounds for the CEO’s Spoiling

Qin Muxuan still chose to forgive Gu Zijin. After all, she didn’t have the right to blame him anyway. After she had slept for so long, she got a bit hungry and wanted to make some millet porridge downstairs to eat. Gu Zijin went to the study to handle official business. When Qin Muxuan walked downstairs, she saw the light was on in the living room. Elderly Lady Gu was discussing something with Mrs. Gu with a sullen face.

Seeing Qin Muxuan coming downstairs, Elderly Lady Gu showed a gloomy look and sneered,

“So you do know how to walk downstairs! You think you can do anything you want under Zijin’s protection?! Qin Muxuan, you can act recklessly as you want, but don’t bring my great-grandson into this!”

Qin Muxuan didn’t know what was on the Internet now, so she asked confusedly,

“Elderly Lady Gu, what do you mean?”

“What do I mean? Stop putting on an innocent look in front of me!”

Elderly Lady Gu threw the magazine to Qin Muxuan’s face right away. Qin Muxuan picked up the magazine and took a look, finding her photo as well as the word ‘Shameless’ on the cover. This was just an unpopular magazine, but the comments on Qin Muxuan in the magazine were quite hostile.NôvelDrama.Org: text © owner.

Qin Muxuan, face turning pale, clenched her fists right away. As she opened the magazine, she saw the photos of her having lunch with Qin Xiaobai and Yin Youting. She looked closely at those photos and felt bitterly disappointed, because some of them were shot from the outside but some were from Yin Youting’s angle. Then she couldn’t help but wonder if Yin Youting had asked her out with his own purpose.

As she thought of that, the look on her face turned depressed. She didn’t want to regard Yin Youting as someone who would play tricks on others. However, she and Yin Youting were the only ones who knew about the place where they had lunch together. Also, only Yin Youting was able to take the photos from that angle.

Elderly Lady Gu who had restrained her anger for a day finally couldn’t bear it any time. She stood up while holding her walking stick with a cold face and said,

“Miss Qin, I know you have lots of ways to let Zijin protect you, but he can not protect you forever! We’ll see!”

Qin Muxuan felt a bit cold. Then she walked into the kitchen to cook the millet porridge. Mrs. Gu didn’t know what to say since the photos showed clearly that Qin Muxuan brought Xiaobai to eat lunch with a man who used to be her ex lover. Although Mrs. Gu wanted to trust Qin Muxuan, she still couldn’t help but get a bit suspicious.

Qin Muxuan stood in the kitchen while cooking the porridge with a ladle in a trance. The steam of the porridge rose to her eyes, which made her eyes a bit sore. Then she, without noticing the tall figure behind her, put down the ladle and squatted on the ground while crying. No one had ever trusted her for no reason, and the people who had hurt her were always the ones she trusted most. It happened five years ago, and it was still happening now.

Overwhelmed by sorrow and grief, she bit her hand to prevent herself from crying out loud. Gu Zijin stared at her with a caring look in his eyes and then walked to the porridge. The millet porridge was already burnt and there was almost no water in the pot. Gu Zijin, having poured out the porridge and cleaned the pot, rolled up his sleeves and started to cut the vegetables, washed the rice and cooked porridge for Qin Muxuan.

Hearing the sound beside her, Qin Muxuan wiped her tears hastily and raised her head,

“When did you come in?”

“Just now. Those magazines were obviously bought over by someone, otherwise they wouldn’t have published those abusive articles. Don’t worry, I’ll make sure those magazines will all be closed down in three days.”

Hearing his words, Qin Muxuan felt a lump coming into her throat. After half an hour, Gu Zijin finished cooking the porridge. After that, he bent down and held Qin Muxuan in his arms. Qin Muxuan couldn’t help but gasp. She had squatted on the ground for too long, so her legs were already numb. After Gu Zijin put Qin Muxuan on the couch, he put her legs on his own legs and started to massage her legs gently with his long and slender fingers. During the whole time, Qin Muxuan only bit her lips. Seeing Gu Zijin still remaining silent, she lowered her head and thought, ‘If you do this to me, I’ll get the wrong idea. I’ll think you love me. Five years ago, I helped them set you up. Now, I become your burden.’

“I’ll fetch a bowl of porridge for you when it gets cooler. You can lean on my shoulder if you want to cry. Qin Muxuan, this time I’ve been too careless and not considered the consequence. I’ll be responsible to you.”

His simple words touched Qin Muxuan. Mrs. Gu was also touched when seeing how the couple got along with each other from upstairs. When Gu Heng chased after Mrs. Gu, he had also worn a cold face all the time but actually had a warm heart just like Gu Zijin. Mrs. Gu hoped that Qin Muxuan would be sincere to Gu Zijin. But if those reports were true, Mrs. Gu, no matter how much she liked Qin Muxuan, would still tell the latter to stay away from her son.

After Qin Muxuan had the porridge, she felt her body much warmer. Then she reached out her hand to get her phone. However, Gu Zijin had already grabbed her phone ahead of her silently and then said,

“Don’t read any news these days, understand?”

Qin Muxuan was already aware that the news must be about her. However, Gu Zijin didn’t allow her to check her phone and she was not strong enough to get her phone back. As she recalled the look on Elderly Lady Gu’s face, she realized that the whole thing must have gone viral on the Internet and she must have been condemned by the public. As a result, she decided to ignore all of those things and force herself to go upstairs and sleep.

The next day, Qin Feng called her. Qin Muxuan picked up the phone in a daze,

“Hi.”

“You can rest at home these days. I’ll send you the the customer’s requirements on revision, you can work at home.”

Qin Muxuan was surprised and asked him why subconsciously. Qin Feng took a look at the paparazzi who had hid in the dark in order to take photos secretly outside the firm while thinking of the news about Qin Muxuan which still kept spreading like mad. Then he pondered for a while and said,

“Well, something happened in our firm lately. We need some maintenance men here. Also, there are snakes in the firm right now. I only ask you not to come for the sake of your safety.”

Qin Muxuan nodded. After Qin Feng had hung up the phone, Qin Muxuan compressed her lips. She found his lie just like the one she made when she told him that her dog got sick. Then she realized that she was even not able to get out of the house because of the news on the Internet. Meanwhile, after Gu Zijin saw Qin Muxuan finish speaking on the phone, he reached out his hand to imply that she should give her phone to him. Qin Muxuan bit her lips and said,

“Gu Zijin, I can handle this alone. You don’t need to hide anything from me, it’ll only make me more anxious.”

Hearing that, Gu Zijin took back his hand without saying anything. At last he still agreed with her. Qin Muxuan then finally started to check her phone. It didn’t take her a long time to search, because her name was on the top trending searches right now. Her identity as the lady of the Qin family had been found out. Lots of people were making rumors about her and the tons of comments under her personal account were really intolerable to see. Qin Muxuan even felt a stabbing pain in her eyes.