Su Jishi felt that these people were really sick. This was a cemetery. If they played ghost tricks here, weren’t they afraid of ‘people’ jumping at their bedside in the middle of the night?
She was now in the most depressed mood, but these people hit her muzzle. She naturally refused to let go of the opportunity to antagonize them.
Su Jishi raised her eyebrows, took out the rigorous energy of a newborn, and asked, “I’ll give you one last chance. Who is looking for me?”
The two bodyguards were tall and strong, and thought it would be easy to intimidate such a delicate actress like her, but she did not show any fear. On the contrary, she stood in front of them with he head held high, like a proud leopard cat playing with a stupid watchdog.
The two men looked at each other. Remembering their master’s…no, their Boss’s orders, they hesitated for a while and backed off.
“Miss Su, our boss’s surname is Mu.”
Su Jishi: “…” She asked with a hint of expectation, “Mu Xiulun?”
The bodyguard shook his head, “It’s Young Master Mu Xiulun’s mother.”
…….Day.
Su Jishi remained undeterred, thinking that a script was a script and life was life, and she was not living in a vernacular drama of the 1990s.
She confirmed again, “Mrs. Mu wouldn’t have prepared a check for 10 million in advance to humiliate me, right?”
The bodyguard shook his head: “Of course not.”
Su Jishi relaxed: “Then that’s OK. Please tell Mrs. Mu that I don’t think we have any need to meet. Mu Xiulun and I broke up a long time ago, and our current relationship is just a friends circle-kind of friendship.”
Bodyguard A said, “You have misunderstood.”
Bodyguard B said, “Our Madam said that 10 million is just a down payment.”
Su Jishi: “…”
Su Jishi: “……”
Su Jishi: “………”
Sure enough, the rich’s concept of money was something that the poor script writers who had to make up three years of taxes in one breath couldn’t imagine.
But why would Mrs. Mu pay such a large sum of money to see her?
With this question, Su Jishi’s curiosity was stirred. She smiled and said: “Who said that a circle of friends’ relationship is not friendship? Since Madam Mu wants to see me, I’ll take a trip.”
……
The Mu family residence was old-fashioned, and Mrs. Mu took her husband’s name after she married. Forty years have passed, and except when the couple quarreled, she had never heard of someone utter her maiden name.
The only fights the couple had were all related to the adopted son of unknown origin.
Thinking of Mu Xiulun’s face that was increasingly becoming similar to Mu Minde, Mrs. Mu’s reflection in the glass window became even more distorted.
She also once thought she was married to love, Unexpectedly, men’s sincerity had only a few years of shelf life. She gave birth to two daughters and a son for Mu Minde, and raised them to be a dragon and phoenixes among the crowd, but what did she get in return?
She thought that Mu Xiulun, who came from a humble background, would not be able to adapt to the life of the gentry. It had never occurred to her that he was hiding his capabilities and biding his time! He obviously was still fooling around in that female star’s bed a few years ago and was scraping through jealousy of that starlet named Su Jin. But in the twinkling of an eye, he caused several major events, one after another! If it wasn’t for her Second Brother who saw Gao Ling on the international news a few days ago, she wouldn’t have known that Mu Xiulun had established such a large nickel mine in Indonesia!
How many other secrets was he hiding from the Mu family?
What exactly was he planning?
When Mrs. Mu thought of Mu Minde’s unabashed praise when he talked about Mu Xiulun at the dinner table these days, a flame of jealousy flared up in her heart. Mu Minde married late and just recently celebrated his 65th birthday. He revealed at the reception that he decided to ‘retire’ before he turned 70 and would gradually pass the family business to the next generation.
As for which child to pass it on? He made it a point to say that he treated the younger generation ‘equally’. He absolutely had no bad custom about passing on sons but not daughters, relatives but not nephews; as long as the person was part of his Mu family, it was fair game no matter who it was! —— Even if it was his adopted son, Mu Xiulun!
At that birthday dinner, Mrs. Mu almost gritted her teeth before forcing herself to maintain a dignified smile. Those nephews and nieces of the Mu family were a bunch of weak and inept people, who couldn’t stand on their own. She wasn’t at all worried that they would threaten her children. But Mu Xiulun —— the one who carried the title of an ‘adopted son’; who was he to be qualified to compete for the Mu family’s property?
The memories came to a screeching halt when a knock sounded on the car window. Mrs. Mu looked up, startled — only to see the actress, Su Jin, outside the car door. Her hands were stuffed in her trench coat pockets, her posture relaxed and casual.
“Mrs. Mu, what do you want from me?” she asked in a tone that was definitely unwelcoming. She had no makeup on, and her eyes were crystal clear, with a touch of an unfathomable light inside, flowing in the depths of her pupils.
The social scope and hobbies of a rich lady like Mrs. Mu was actually very narrow. She usually contacts other ladies. She never disdains to talk to a bright faced young actress like Su Jin. Moreover, she usually socialized with other noble ladies. She had always disdained to talk to a bright faced young actress like Su Jin.
A few years ago, Mrs. Mu learned from her second brother that Mu Xiulun had kept a female entertainer, so she briefly investigated Su Jin. She was gentle, pure, charming and pitiful… this was her entire impression of Su Jin.
She had never imagined Su Jin, standing in front of her. She was like an entirely changed person, with a cold and proud temperament, and an upright stance. Where was there any hint of that innocent and meek little flower?
A trace of displeasure flashe in Mrs. Mu’s heart. She thought to herself, Did this kind of starlet, who works as a good-time girl, think that being a bit famous entitles her to act arrogantly in front of her? Or does she only show her meek side when faced with a ‘golden master’?…Whichever the speculation, it raised a distorted sense of pride from the bottom of Mrs. Mu’s heart. It held her aloft, allowing her to stand on the commanding height of morality and belittle Su Jin’s character.
Of course, her thoughts would never appear on her face.
The smile on the corner of Mrs. Mu’s mouth was just right as she opened the car door and gracefully commanded, “Come in.”
“No need.” Su Jishi, however, stopped outside the car door, her eyes falling from high above: “My driver is still waiting for me over there. I’m in a hurry, so please speak directly if you need anything.”
“……” Never ever did Mrs. Mu thought that Su Jin would actually dare to treat her with such an attitude! But thinking of everything she had planned, she could only hold back her anger and quickly get to the point.
“Miss Su,” she started, “I asked you to come here because I want you to do me a small favor.”
“Oh?”
Mrs. Mu opened her checkbook, took out the check she prepared in advance, and handed it to Su Jin. She had been an extravagant noblewoman for forty years and could not remember how many times she had used the same action to dismiss those she deemed unworthy. But this time, she had definitely paid Su Jin the most.
She refused to show any weakness, and that superior smile remained on her face: “This check, take it as my meeting gift.”
Su Jishi’s eyes drifted over the amount of the check and said with a faint smile, “A meeting gift of 10 million? Mrs. Mu is so generous. May I ask what you want me to do?” Between her fluid glance, even the beauty mole at the corners of the girl’s eyes accentuated her inundating brilliance. “Could it be…are you asking me to leave your son?”
“No.” Mrs. Mu spat out her coming intention without any delay, “On the contrary, I want you to get back together with Mu Xiulun.”
Su Jishi: “…”
Even Su Jin could never have expected that Mrs. Mu would have such an intention.
Mrs. Mu continued, “Su Jin, I know you haven’t completely broken up.”
Su Jishi: ….Huh?
“He has always had lingering feelings for you, the canary, and you have old feelings for him, the golden master.”
Su Jishi: …..Why am I unaware of this?
“Otherwise, you wouldn’t have taken the opportunity of filming a variety show and run to Indonesia for a private meeting.”
Su Jishi: ……Mrs. Mu, where exactly did you learn this skill of snapping sugar from a volcano?
Mrs. Mu was oblivious to Su Jishi’s increasingly ugly face and said bluntly, “My request is that you get back together with him, and then…”
Su Jishi asked, “Then?”
Mrs. Mu raised a dignified smile. Even if she was well maintained, she was nearly sixty years old, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes cascaded like terrain eroded by icebergs.
Then Mrs. Mu slowly listed her ultimate goal, “remember who he meets, what work he handles, what plans he has made —— and then tell me.”
Su Jishi finally understood.
Oh, so it was to make her a commercial spy.
Peek-Aboo 
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