Quite awkward

At noon, the cook arrived on time, prepared four dishes and a soup, placed them on the table, and then left quietly.

Mu Chenan didn't go downstairs.

Qi Yu stood at the stairs and looked up, deciding not to disturb the man's sleep.

Sitting alone at the dining table, she held the rice bowl with one hand and saw the delicious dishes in front of her. She realized that she was still enjoying the comfort brought by wealth, which was also due to the help of Mu Chenan, the second young master of the Mu family.

She ate the meal very slowly and put the dishes into the sink after finishing.

When she returned to the restaurant, she found Mu Chenan with his hands on the back of the chair. He glanced at the dishes on the table, raised his eyelids and gave her instructions.

"Go and help me get a bowl of rice."

Qi Yu quietly did as he was told and placed the steaming rice and clean chopsticks in front of him.

"Brother, please eat."

She spoke very slowly and with a respectful and cautious attitude.

When Mu Chenan took the chopsticks, he looked at her again with his deep eyes.

He was dressed neatly in an off-white cardigan and blue jeans.

With light makeup on her face and nude lipstick on her lips, she looked better than in the morning.

My eyes are just red and slightly swollen, and even makeup can't cover it up.

Maybe he had a good cry.

He shifted his gaze to the dishes and picked up his chopsticks to eat.

Qi Yu stood beside him and didn't leave, as if she had something to say.

“Second brother.”

"Sit down and talk. Do you want me to look up at you?" he said coldly.

Then, Qi Yu sat next to him, with one hand on the table and facing him sideways.

"Second brother, if it weren't for you and your friends, Jiang Yuhuai wouldn't have been caught so quickly. I'm especially grateful that you helped me regardless of past grudges." Her tone was sincere and her words were thoughtful.

"Hmm." He dismissed her with one word.

For him, it was just a matter of a few phone calls. Lai Yao was very efficient, so it was done so quickly.

Qi Yu added, "I'm sorry about that night. I had a few drinks and shouldn't have yelled at you, let alone said those unpleasant things."

Mu Chenan glanced at her sideways, remembering the lingering anger in his heart that night. He now deliberately tapped the back of her hand with the tip of his chopsticks.

The force was not light, he intended to punish her for her rudeness.

Qi Yu rubbed the place where he was hit and accepted the defeat in his heart.

Now let’s get to the point.

"Second brother, I'm going back to North City this afternoon. Thank you for your kindness in taking me in."

Mu Chenan discovered that the woman who had been so bold and unruly in front of him before suddenly became sensible after experiencing setbacks.

Instead, he felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

"You're welcome. I'll take you to the airport this afternoon."

Mu Chenan has to meet a friend in the afternoon, so it’s okay for him to give her a ride.

Qi Yu smiled awkwardly, hooked her fingers together, and said sheepishly, "I'm taking the train back to North City. I'll just take the subway to the train station later."

There is a subway station with little traffic near Greentown Peony Garden. Qi Yu checked the route in advance and can reach Linjiang Railway Station by transferring to two subway lines.

"Are you taking a regular train? Not a high-speed train?" he confirmed carefully.

"Yeah, that's right." She struggled to speak, then quietly explained, "Airplane tickets were too expensive, and high-speed rail tickets were hard to come by, so I took the regular train back."

Mu Chenan guessed that she was really out of money, and she was living in a friend's house, eating other people's food and using other people's things, which made her feel uncomfortable.

"Are you going back to North City to film?"

Now that their relationship has eased, Qi Yu is no longer as wary of him as before and simply expresses her thoughts.

"I don't think I'm cut out to be an actor, so I'm planning on not filming anymore."

"If you're not filming, what are you doing?" Mu Chen Anke remembered that she had studied at the film academy for four years, and it was all in vain.

At that time, she wanted to learn acting. The girl was seventeen or eighteen years old. She was young and had her own ideas. She even had a fight with her eldest brother for a while, but in the end, her eldest brother compromised.

Qi Yu shook his head and sighed: "It's not clear yet."