Chapter 40: A Quarrel
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Shui Anluo entered the lobby. She shook the water from her umbrella and turned back towards the tightly-shut elevator. She still had to wait!
Shui Anluo stared at the property office’s tightly shut doors. Even though she wanted to go in, it was likely that they would not listen to her because her name had been blacklisted.
Vroom…
The sound of a car screeching against wet tarmac grated on her ears.
Shui Anluo could not resist from turning to look. However, before she could get a good look at the person who had just arrived, she was pulled into the elevator.
Shui Anluo was pressed against the elevator wall 1 after being pulled inside. She suddenly felt a hot, searing pain in her back which caused her to knit her brows.
“Director Chu, are you rus.h.i.+ng to go home so that you can use the washroom?” Shui Anluo asked as she stared at the gloomy face before her. The man’s body was still stained with water droplets. It was likely that he had run inside after stepping out of the car. Furthermore, based on his forcefulness, she could not think of any other reason aside from the fact that he had been holding in his urge to pee and needed to relieve himself.
Chu Ningyi heard Shui Anluo’s question and his expression immediately sunk to a blacker degree.
“Who was the person who had sent you home?” Chu Ningyi’s questioned in a deep voice. He was clearly suppressing his fiery rage.
“My senior brother.” Shui Anluo replied innocently. “Director Chu, a high ranking person like you is very busy. I still needed to come home, you know.”
Shui Anluo turned away as she spoke. It was almost as if she wanted to hide the grief in her eyes.
To her, there was no need for her to care if she has no feelings for him. If she did not care, she would not feel grief. Therefore, she wanted to control her grievance now. The person before her was not her husband nor her relative so there was no need for her to even feel aggrieved.
‘Senior Brother?’
That was the only man in her contact list on that phone. “The Princeling of the Mo group?”
Shui Anluo pushed him away. This kind of distance was a sign of danger to her.
“Yes,” Shui Anluo said and watched as the elevator slowly moved up.
Chu Ningyi lowered his head. His eyes drifted towards her arm which was wrapped around some books. A row of numbers looked particularly clear on her arm and was so clear that it pierced his eyes.
Once the elevator reached their floor, Shui Anluo immediately rushed out first. However, she had just stepped out from the elevator when Chu Ningyi grabbed her wrist. Shui Anluo turned around and looked at him in confusion.
“Director Chu, aren’t you rus.h.i.+ng to the washroom? Why aren’t you going in?” Shui Anluo still a.s.sumed that he needed to rush to the toilet.
Chu Ningyi dragged her inside before releasing her.
Shui Anluo stared at him foolishly but she was shocked when she lowered her head. Where had the phone number on her arm gone?
What on earth was this black smudge?
Chu Ningyi went into the toilet to wash his hand. When he reemerged, he scooped the gurgling little darling up from his cot. Now, the first thing he was eager to go home to was to hold this little thing. This baby was clearly such a tiny person yet he felt peaceful when he held him.
“Chu Ningyi.” Shui Anluo was enraged, Chu Ningyi had definitely done that on purpose. It was fine that he had flaked out on her but he had even wiped the phone number off. “Give me my phone number back.” It had been so difficult for her to obtain her senior brother’s number. How could she have the nerve to ask for it a second time?
Chu Ningyi carried the little fellow and sat on the couch. “Shui Anluo, are you certain that you want to fight with me over another man’s phone number?”
Shui Anluo took several large strides toward him. She did not care for his icy tone and placed her hands on her waist. “Chu Ningyi, why’s it any of your business if I want someone else’s number? Are we even in a relations.h.i.+p? Who’s fighting with you? Apologize to me right now.”
“Me, apologize?” Chu Ningyi raised his head as his gaze turned even colder. He then slowly inched toward her. “Shui Anluo, you’re standing in my territory. The bed you’ve slept in is my bed. You’ve given birth to my son. What sort of relations.h.i.+p do you think we’ve got?”
Shui Anluo was once again backed against a wall. This time, she was nimble enough to slide out from being confined. She stuck her neck out and retorted, “At the very most, our relations.h.i.+p stops at being ex-husband and ex-wife. This is your territory so let me go!”
“Shui Anluo, I never noticed this in the past but when have you become so good at talking back?” Chu Ningyi carried the little darling as he looked at the person who had escaped and scoffed coldly.
“Mm hmm…” The little baby followed his daddy’s tone and hummed along even though he did not know what was going on.
Shui Anluo stared at her son with black lines along her face. ‘ Mmhmm’ your own d.a.m.ned head. I’m still your biological mother!’
Unfortunately, ever since her son arrived here, he had begun to turn traitor. He was much nicer to his daddy more than this biological mother of his.
“There’s so much that you don’t know, Director Chu. Whatever it is, I want an apology from you today.” Shui Anluo continued to stick her neck out as she spoke. If she did not make him apologize today, it was likely that this person might continue to bully her this way.
“Apologize?” Chu Ningyi carried the little darling and approached her again. “Shui Anluo, I had asked you to go home immediately after you’ve finished work. Had you turned a deaf ear to that?”
“I say, Director Chu, there’s no meaning in us talking like this. Who was the one who had made me wait? Eh? You missed our appointment and now you’re going to blame me?” Shui Anluo sa.s.sily raised her head and stared at him. She refused to lose. She simply must not lose.
Chu Ningyi paused. He looked at her but she did not look like she was lying at all. Chu Ningyi frowned and replied, “I called you but you didn’t pick up so I sent you a text message to tell you that I had something on tonight.”
‘What?’
Shui Anluo could not help but blink. She certainly never received a call, what more a text message.
However, Shui Anluo also knows Chu Ningyi’s personality. He would never lower his standards to lie.
Shui Anluo quickly rushed to the table and pulled out her phone to charge it. She then turned the phone on and looked through her missed call notifications eight hundred times before looking at Chu Ningyi again.
“Who’re you trying to fool? I think that you’ve remembered the wrong number, Director Chu.”
Chu Ningyi had guessed as much based on her irritated reaction. Once Shui Anluo had spoken, he managed to confirm his theory.
Therefore, the mighty Director Chu took his phone out and showed the evidence on his phone that the number was correct.
“You didn’t receive it?” Chu Ningyi frowned.
“See for yourself. If I had received it, why would I have waited for more than an hour? I nearly froze into a popsicle!” Shui Anluo rolled her eyes and threw her phone at Chu Ningyi.
Chu Ningyi caught it and lowered his head to look at her phone.
He definitely dialed her number and sent the message. It had clearly gone through from his end so it was impossible for her not to receive it.
Also, it had been raining so heavily yet this girl had actually waited an hour for him at the hospital’s entrance?
“If you can’t wait, you should’ve come home on your own.” Chu Ningyi replied gruffly. This had been his mistake. He had turned his phone off after calling her one more time. However, when he called home and was informed that she had not yet returned, he had hurriedly wished Lin Qianchen ‘happy birthday’ and left.
He never thought that he would see her smile and walk into someone else’s car like a silly old woman as soon as he arrived at the hospital.
“Please, Big Brother. One, I have no money and two, my phone ran out of battery. Did you expect me to run home?” Shui Anluo said. Suddenly, she felt as if fighting with him was futile so she simply waved her hand. “Forget it, I don’t feel like quarreling with you.”