Chapter 324: Chapter 324 I Know I Was Wrong
When Jiang Yan got back home, he saw Wan Muqi was there too.
At first, he was a bit puzzled, wondering what he was doing at his place.
But when he caught sight of his younger sister-in-law, he instantly understood.
Jiang Yan went upstairs to change into some home clothes before coming down.
“When did you also turn into clingy candy?”
Jiang Yan asked casually, without much emotion.
Wan Muqi: “It’s your son who invited me over to visit your place. Facing a child’s sincere invitation, it’s hard for me to refuse.”
Jiang Yan let out a chuckle: “Is that so? I think if An Mi wasn’t here, no matter who invited you, you wouldn’t have come, right?”
Some people choose to turn a blind eye, but he had to call it out even if he saw through it.
Wan Muqi looked at him and frowned slightly, with the air of someone about to complain.
“If it weren’t for your sister’s bad idea, I wouldn’t have had to chase all the way here.”
Jiang Yan’s eyes lifted slightly, with a hint of confusion: “What does that have to do with Jiang You, that girl?”
Wan Muqi recounted the bad idea Jiang You had given him.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yan said, “And you still have the nerve to call yourself the king of legal professionals? You actually believed Jiang You, with that level of intelligence? Your brain isn’t much better, you deserve it!”
Wan Muqi: “…”
“So, from your experience, what should I do now?” He looked at the man and asked for advice.
Jiang Yan: “I don’t have any suggestions. After all, Su He’s personality is different from An Mi’s, so naturally, the methods are different too. You’ll have to figure it out yourself.”
Wan Muqi: “But didn’t you also use Tang Sirou to catch your sister-in-law’s attention before?”
This guy really knew how to bring up the most awkward subjects!
Indeed, he did get close to Tang Sirou with that intention back in the day.
Jiang Yan glanced at him: “But my situation is different from yours. Su He and I are already married, while you two have no relationship at all, at best just ordinary friends.”
“…”
That night, after dinner.
Wan Muqi thought An Mi would return to the An Family, so he planned to take her back.
But when Su He asked her, she said: “Sis, I’m not going back tonight, I want to stay over here.”
Su He didn’t think much of it.
There was already a room for her in Moon Gift Villa.
“Auntie, can I sleep with you tonight?” Su Baobao asked.
During the previous winter break, Su Baobao would occasionally go sleep with her.
Su Yuxuan, holding An Mi, also said she wanted to sleep with her.
An hour before, Su Yuxuan had Su He call Sang Luo, saying she wouldn’t go home tonight and wanted to stay over.
Sang Luo didn’t have any objections, but Su Zhimian couldn’t accept it, however, he couldn’t stand up against his daughter’s coquetry, so he reluctantly agreed.
An Mi pinched Xuanxuan’s little cheek: “Okay, we’ll all sleep together tonight.”
Looking at this scene, Wan Muqi suddenly felt a bit of sourness in his teeth.
Jiang Yan glanced at Wan Muqi and said: “Are you not leaving yet? Do you actually want to spend the night at my place?”
Wan Muqi: “Is that possible?”
Jiang Yan: “No, it’s not. Hurry up and go back to your place, it’s getting late.”
“…”
–
Monday.
School cafeteria.
An Mi, Chen Jin, and Zhuzhu had just taken their seats.
A man took the empty seat next to Zhuzhu.
Zhuzhu turned her head to look and got a bit of a shock.
“Professor Wan, what is this…”
And right across from Wan Muqi was none other than An Mi.
An Mi hadn’t expected him to sit down here, either.
As soon as he sat down, he immediately attracted a lot of attention.
The three of them immediately felt like they were being roasted on a fire.
“Mr. Wan, do you need something?” An Mi asked with feigned composure.
Wan Muqi said very directly: “The words you said the other day, I don’t quite agree with them.”
Chen and Zhuzhu were both observant people; hearing Wan Muqi’s tone, they knew these two had something to discuss.
Both of them had the impulse to flee the scene.
Thus, simultaneously, they both thought of standing up to leave this place of dispute.
But An Mi quickly took Chen Jin’s hand and looking at Zhuzhu, said: “You two sit down, let’s eat.”
An Mi had always seemed quite gentle and obedient in their eyes, but at this moment, they actually felt a sense of oppression from her gaze and tone.
Of course, An Mi couldn’t let them leave. Once they were gone, rumors about her and Wan Muqi would definitely start flying around.
She did not want to become the talk of the gossip mongers.
Chen Jin and Zhuzhu had no choice but to sit down.
But both of them also tacitly kept their heads down and focused on eating.
An Mi looked at the man sitting across from her and said, “Mr. Wan, there really isn’t much to discuss about this matter.”
“An Mi, I know I was wrong.”
The man suddenly dropped such a sentence, not only did An Mi herself freeze, but Chen Jin and Zhuzhu both looked up at An Mi.
Their eyes seemed to ask: “Is there something going on between you two?”
Wan Muqi’s apology sounded just like a boyfriend admitting his mistake after angering his girlfriend.
An Mi: “…”
“Mr. Wan, you don’t need to apologize to me, you didn’t do anything wrong.”
“But you’re ignoring me, so I must be in the wrong.”
Chen Jin covered her mouth with her hand and exclaimed “Wow”.
Isn’t that outright coquetry?
An Mi had no way to continue the conversation.
…
“Mimi, tell me the truth, what’s the situation between you and Mr. Wan?”
“And Professor Wan took the initiative to admit his mistake to you; this has gone beyond the relationship of ordinary friends.”
On the way back to the dormitory, Chen Jin and Zhuzhu sandwiched An Mi with their questions from both sides.
An Mi: “…”
She felt wronged!
“No, really, Mr. Wan and I are not together, we have nothing between us. I don’t know why he would say those things, I’m also very confused.”
With the scene Wan Muqi stirred, no matter how An Mi tried to explain, it felt like she couldn’t clear it up satisfactorily.
…
In the following days, An Mi really encountered him everywhere she went.
The man seemed to have installed a GPS tracking system on her; he could always pinpoint her location with great accuracy!
Library.
“Mr. Wan, there are a lot of other seats available, can you not sit here?”
An Mi turned her head and whispered to the man sitting beside her, “This spot is for Jinjin when she comes later.”
Wan Muqi remained unmoved and even spoke with a sense of righteousness: “She hasn’t arrived yet, I’ll just sit here for a while, that’s not illegal, right?”
An Mi: “…”
Indeed, it’s not illegal.
Fine, if he won’t move, can’t she move instead!
Immediately, she packed up her things and moved to sit at the table in front.
But no sooner had she settled down than the man took the seat next to her again.
“…”
She got up again, this time finding a spot where there were people sitting on both sides and across from her.
This time, he surely wouldn’t follow, would he?
Now she could settle down and continue reading in peace.
Yet soon, she heard the man talking to the female classmate sitting next to her, and before long, that classmate packed up her stuff and left.
An Mi stared at him incredulously: “…”
She sighed inwardly, her lips quivering slightly, but in the end, she said nothing.
She could only force herself to ignore his presence.
Let him be.
After all, she had no right to restrict anyone’s behavior.
She didn’t understand why suddenly he seemed to be doggedly persistent.
…
Cafeteria.
Chen Jin was the first to spot Wan Muqi, nudging An Mi, who was earnestly eating next to her, with her elbow.
“Mimi, Mr. Wan is here again.”
An Mi glanced up and saw the man carrying his tray towards their table.
An Mi quickly ate a few more bites, then said, “I’m full, let’s go.”
After speaking, she got up with her tray and left.
Chen Jin: “…”
Wait, she hasn’t finished eating yet…
Chen Jin had no choice but to pick up her tray and follow An Mi, eating as she went.
An Mi was fleeing as if there was a tiger chasing her from behind.
Wan Muqi saw her escaping figure from a distance.
He felt it wasn’t appropriate to chase her down at that moment.
“Seriously, Mimi, Mr. Wan is human, not a ghost, why are you running?”
Chen Jin really didn’t understand her behavior.
An Mi: “Jinjin, you wouldn’t understand.”
Chen Jin: “How could I not understand? Explain it to me.”
An Mi: “…”
She simply chose not to speak.
“Mimi, what exactly are you struggling with?” Chen Jin asked curiously.
An Mi lay on her desk, shaking her head.
She herself didn’t know what she was struggling with.
Anyway, she was currently unable to respond to Wan Muqi’s feelings for her.
And him, no matter what she said, he seemed to take it as a joke, in one ear and out the other.
This led to her not knowing how to face him, who kept pestering her.
“I don’t know what I’m struggling with either, but I’m very clear that I currently don’t want to respond to his feelings for me,” An Mi said.
Chen Jin: “Why not?”
An Mi: “There’s no specific reason; I just can’t articulate one.”
“…”
Chen Jin let out a sigh, “It seems like the CP I shipped is about to fall apart.”
An Mi: “…”
“I had a premonition before that Lawyer Wan chasing you would be like Tang Seng’s journey to the West, facing eighty-one difficulties,” Chen Jin sighed: “But now it seems, it’s perhaps even harder than the eighty-one difficulties.”
An Mi: “There’s nothing I can do about it.”
This kind of thing wasn’t something she could control.
“I’m a bit puzzled,” An Mi suddenly said.
Chen Jin continued the conversation: “What about?”
An Mi turned her head and stared at her with a puzzled look. “Why can he always find me so precisely whenever I’m there?”
Upon hearing this, Chen Jin instantly felt guilty.
Her gaze flitted about, “Perhaps it’s fate.”
An Mi didn’t believe in this so-called fate; some fates are man-made.
Once or twice could be considered a coincidence, but so many times, anyone would think it’s intentional.
Moreover, that man could pinpoint her exact location, which cannot be simply explained by fate.
An Mi narrowed her eyes, unblinkingly staring at Chen Jin before her.
“Jinjin, be honest with me, did you leak my whereabouts?”
After all, wherever she went, Chen Jin knew about it.
So, it was hard not to suspect that Chen Jin was the one who leaked her whereabouts to Wan Muqi.
Faced with An Mi’s questioning, Chen Jin chose silence.
“Jinjin,” An Mi called her again.
Chen Jin bit her lip, saying: “Mimi, please forgive me. I was forced to; after all, I’m just an ordinary citizen.”
An Mi: “…”
She knew it.
But she didn’t blame her.
After all, in this society, power and wealth are symbols of status.
And Wan Muqi had both, so it was normal for Chen Jin to be afraid of him.
In the evening, Chen Jin once again received a text from Wan Muqi, which was about An Mi as usual.
By chance, An Mi was right beside her and also happened to see the message.
“How should I reply to this?” Chen Jin asked her.
What Wan Muqi asked was: “Chen, what is An Mi doing right now?”
An Mi didn’t expect him to ask Chen Jin even about what she was doing.
An Mi asked: “How do you usually reply to him?”
Chen Jin honestly answered: “I just tell him the truth.”
An Mi glanced at the time; it was exactly 7 o’clock, neither too early nor too late.
“Then tell him that I’m about to go for a run on the track field.”
“Are you really going to go for a run?”
“Do you think that’s likely?”
“…”
Chen Jin understood.
She dared not argue and just replied to Wan Muqi with An Mi’s exact words.
After sending the message, Chen Jin said: “Mimi, you’ve turned bad, you weren’t like this before. You have learned to play tricks on others; you’re no longer the little bunny, you’ve evolved into a little fox.”
An Mi: “…Alright, enough, go play your game, I’m going to read.”
“As you wish, Your Majesty.”
An Mi was instantly amused by her remark.
Half an hour later.
An Mi received a call from Wan Muqi.
She didn’t want to answer it initially, but deliberately ignoring it seemed impolite.
So, she picked up.
“Hello, Mr. Wan, is there something you need?”
At this time, Wan Muqi was standing on the school’s sports field.
He had looked around and hadn’t spotted An Mi.
“Where are you?”
“Oh, I’m in the dorm reading a book, what’s up?”
An Mi asked knowingly.
Wan Muqi’s eyebrows knitted slightly but then relaxed immediately.
He chuckled softly.
An Mi just quietly listened to his laugh.
Wan Muqi suddenly realized that the current An Mi was a bit different from the one he knew before.
At least, she now knew how to refuse him and how to toy with him.
“Are you doing this on purpose?” he asked with a laugh.
An Mi feigned ignorance: “Doing what on purpose? I don’t understand what you’re talking about, Mr. Wan. If there’s nothing else, let’s leave it here. I need to read and don’t have time for small talk.”
Hearing that, she was about to hang up the phone.
“Wait a second,” Wan Muqi said. “An Mi, I’ve noticed you’re becoming more interesting.”
An Mi didn’t respond, just paused for a moment, and then hung up the phone on her own accord.
After ending the call, she pondered his last remark for a moment. What did he mean by her becoming more interesting?
Honestly, up to now, she had no clue what exactly Wan Muqi liked about her.
–
The following day at noon.
An Mi received a call from Mrs. Wan.
“Mimi, are you free this afternoon?”
Listening to Mrs. Wan’s gentle voice, An Mi couldn’t bring herself to lie.
“Aunt Ling, I’m available after five o’clock. Is there something you need from me?”
Mrs. Wan cheerfully said: “Perfect, Aunt Ling will pick you up in the afternoon for a meal together.”
An Mi didn’t immediately agree, but after some thought, she asked: “Will it just be the two of us?”
Mrs. Wan replied: “Yes, just the two of us.”
“…”
At five-ten in the afternoon, An Mi got into Mrs. Wan’s car.
“Come here, give Aunt Ling a hug. Haven’t seen you in a while and you’ve become even more beautiful.” Mrs. Wan caressed her face, speaking affectionately and kindly.
Actually, it had not been that long; it was just a bit over a week since their last meeting.
“Aunt Ling, don’t flatter me too much, or I’ll get conceited,” An Mi said jokingly with a laugh.
Right now, she felt more at ease with Mrs. Wan than she did when with Wan Muqi.
Half an hour later, the two entered a barbecue restaurant.
Whenever Mrs. Wan invited her out, they’d go for barbecue.
They had just finished ordering.
Then Mrs. Wan’s phone rang.
Mrs. Wan glanced at it; it was her son calling.
She casually looked over at An Mi across the table before answering.
Mrs. Wan: “If it’s important, speak; if not, I’m hanging up.”
Wan Muqi: “…”
He hadn’t even begun to speak…
“Are you out with An Mi?” Wan Muqi asked.
“Yes, what about it?”
“Where are you?”
“I don’t really want to tell you.”
“I’m seriously starting to doubt whether you’re actually my mother.”
Mrs. Wan chuckled: “Sadly for you, I really am.”
Wan Muqi: “Mom, if you want a daughter-in-law soon, just tell me where you are.”
Mrs. Wan wasn’t as anxious as before, but now she wasn’t in any rush.
“It’s not me getting married, so I’m not in a hurry. Take your time searching. If there isn’t anything important, then that’s it for now, I’m hanging up.”
“…”
Wan Muqi looked at his disconnected call, falling into silence, his brows furrowed tightly, a helpless expression on his face.