She Lost Memory Before the Divorce

Chapter 91: Chapter 091: A Dog Can’t Spit Out Ivory
 

Huo Tingxiao took his time eating breakfast, comporting himself with elegance.

By contrast, Mu Lan kept her head down, sneaking glances occasionally with a guilty expression.

Seeing no sign that he was planning to leave for work soon, Mu Lan started to feel anxious.

What did this mean? Could it be that he wasn’t going to the company today?

Humph, if he wasn’t going, she could still leave on her own!

Mu Lan stood up, went into the living room, and nested herself on the sofa to place an order for local delivery. She found a store and bought a bunch of art supplies—she needed to focus all her time on important matters now.

Less than an hour passed before a delivery guy brought a large cardboard box.

Before Huo Tingxiao could act, Yun Xi, quick to notice, directly took the box and Mu Lan, purposely ignoring Huo Tingxiao, led the way for Yun Xi.

“Put it in the large storage room on the first floor, on the left.”

Watching the two leave one after the other, Huo Tingxiao truly didn’t expect to find himself in this situation. Was she really planning to give him the silent treatment to the end?

“Young Master, did you have a fight with the Young Mistress?”

Huo Tingxiao didn’t speak, neither acknowledging nor denying it.

Aunt Li couldn’t help but offer some well-intentioned advice:

“Women are all soft-hearted. The Young Mistress has a good temperament—just say a few kind words, and this will pass.”

A good temperament? Huo Tingxiao didn’t know how to explain to Aunt Li that the current Mu Lan was far from good-tempered. She appeared tame like a docile cat, never knowing when she would stretch out her little claws to scratch someone.

“It’s just a small tiff.”

Aunt Li observed Huo Tingxiao’s facial expressions closely and, seeing a gentle look in his eyes, felt relieved.

Huo Tingxiao went upstairs to change his clothes and left the villa. Mu Lan arranged the easel in the storage room, placed all her drawing tools in order, and then looked at her fingers with satisfaction.

By the time she came out, Huo Tingxiao had already disappeared without a trace.

“Aunt Li, where’s Huo Tingxiao?”

“The Young Master has gone out, but he didn’t say whether he was going to the office or not. Should I make a call and ask?”

Mu Lan immediately shook her head upon hearing this.

“No, no, no, I was just asking casually. Please don’t tell him I asked, okay?”

This reaction nearly made Aunt Li laugh out loud.

“Alright, I won’t say anything.”

Mu Lan pouted, thinking that Huo Tingxiao was really something, having left without making a sound.

So it’s a standoff, huh?

Well done, let’s see who will be the first to give in!

Changing into comfortable loungewear, Mu Lan went into the storage room and sat in front of the easel, starting to sharpen pencils to prepare her draft.

But Mu Lan couldn’t focus, and carelessly, the carving knife slipped and cut her finger, which startled her. She quickly put the wound in her mouth.

After the bleeding stopped, she couldn’t help scolding herself for being so feeble, crawling into someone’s bed in the middle of the night and now being so distracted she had drawn blood.

“Get a grip, get a grip. You deserve it for not taking Gu Xiaoman’s words to heart. What’s there to think about with that old man? Focus, focus. Think about how to draw the draft—that’s the real deal.”

The pencil scratched across the paper, quickly sketching out the elegant outline of a woman. Mu Lan concentrated on her drawing, but no matter how she drew, it just didn’t feel right.

Huo Tingxiao was calling Yunzhan, who was sleeping soundly with a beauty in his arms.

Woken up by the ringtone, he was in a terrible mood.

“Which blind man is calling me at this hour?”

He fumbled to answer the phone,

“Looking for an early death, disturbing my sleep?”

There was a pause of two seconds on the other end of the line, and then Huo Tingxiao’s indifferent voice came through.

“I’m outside, open the door.”

Yunzhan suddenly sat up, the beauty at his side coiling around him like a water snake, only to be pushed aside with a shove.

“Are you f*cking insane? Knowing how uncomfortable I am if I don’t wake up naturally, you still have to disturb me. Are you sick in the head?”

He cursed as he got out of bed, smoothing his bothersome hair to the back and hanging up the phone.

“Hurry up and get dressed, then get out.”

The beauty puckered her lips, got dressed, and left, but as soon as she opened the door and saw Huo Tingxiao standing there, she froze, surprise filling her eyes. Quickly pretending to have seen nothing, she hurried off. What on earth was the status of the man in this VIP suite? How come she ran into Huo Tingxiao so early in the morning!

Huo Tingxiao strode in with long steps. Yunzhan lethargically leaned on the couch in the living room, his robe loose and obviously not yet tidied up.

“You’re here so early just to annoy me? Are you jealous I’ve got chicks?”

“If you keep spitting out nothing but dogcrap, I don’t recommend loosening up your muscles to help you wake up.”

Saying so, Huo Tingxiao cracked his knuckles with a “snap,” making Yunzhan quickly put on a smile. Fighting with Huo Tingxiao, he never came out on top, only an idiot wouldn’t back down.

“We’re all civilized people here, getting physical would be bad.”

“I brought you here to help me investigate, but look at you, thinking you’re in Shen City? Don’t overdo it, or you’ll have me cleaning up your mess.”

Yunzhan curled his lips, finding Huo Tingxiao a truly boring man, nothing like a normal one.

“Look at you, were you a monk in your past life or what? This life you can’t even stand leaving the lantern alone. If you want to remain chaste for your family, that’s fine by me, but why are you preaching at me?

With a body like mine, not to go out and flirt, what a waste, huh? I call this contributing to society, got it?”

Seeing Huo Tingxiao’s expression darken, Yunzhan quickly dropped his shameless demeanor.

“Alright, alright, back to business. If it really does involve that person, what are you gonna do?”

“Pretend it never happened.”

Huo Tingxiao didn’t hesitate, his reply making Yunzhan furrow his brows.

“Are you insane? You’re going to let him go?”

“Isn’t it still uncertain now?”

Yunzhan rolled his eyes.

“Those guys all have criminal records and aren’t afraid of jail. To hire that kind of person to come after you—don’t you know what that implies?”

Huo Tingxiao fell silent, of course he knew, but what to do? It was he who owed the other man.

“Let this matter rest, there’s no more need to investigate.”

No more investigation? Yunzhan was stunned, his gaze filled with incomprehension.

“Huo Tingxiao, it wasn’t your fault what happened back then. Why do you have to protect that person so much? It’s been so many years with no word from him, and just when he shows his face, he stirs up such a big fuss.

Clearly, he’s signaling he’s got trouble for you.”

Huo Tingxiao looked at Yunzhan.

“Azhan, you don’t understand. This is all because I owe him. Whatever he wants, I’ll fulfill.”

“What if he wants your life? Will you give it to him?”

Without a moment’s hesitation, Huo Tingxiao answered decisively:

“Yes.”

Yunzhan felt Huo Tingxiao had truly lost his mind.

“You’re really insane, you’re nuts! Huo Tingxiao, I really think you’ve lost your mind.

But I don’t care, whatever grudges you guys have, all I know is you’re my brother, Yunzhan. If he dares to touch you, I’ll kill him!”

Huo Tingxiao really thought Yunzhan was wasting his two years in the military with talk of killing at the drop of a hat.

“Stay out of this, or we won’t even be brothers anymore.”