Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The news that Mo Jingshen was married was like a bomb, shocking everyone present.
The girl who sat beside the principal seemed to be attracted to Mo Jingshen in the beginning. Now she hid her emotions a bit, but she still kept looking at Ji Nuan and Mo Jingshen as if trying to confirm whether he was really married or just picked a random woman as an excuse to reject her.
Seeing her looking, Ji Nuan thought it was the right decision for her to come today.
Otherwise, if the principal introduced his daughter to Mo Jingshen, things would have been awkward.
As everyone came and sat down at the table, the sophisticated directors of T University soon changed the topic after the shocking surprise. They were all engaged in the education industry, and most of them had been leaders, so they all basically talked about education.
One leader of T University poured a cup of liquor for another and said fawningly, âDirector Chen, the excellent students we XX department enrolled this year are less than in past years. Please donât give too strict requirements for our studentsâ examination results. As a department receiving little attention, we need our schoolâs special care.â
â-They mostly talked about topics related to T University and the education industry of T City.
Ji Nuan quietly enjoyed the food and listened to the conversation of these big shots in T Cityâs education industry. Two thirty-something men sitting opposite to her enthusiastically picked some food with public chopsticks and put it into her bowl. After knowing that she didnât drink, they called the waiter to bring her coconut juice or a cup of lemon water.
Ji Nuan smiled gracefully at them and thanked them. However, at this moment, someone suddenly grabbed one of her fingers and pinched it.
Ji Nuan felt pain and tried to take her finger back but couldnât.
She jerked her head around and cast a questioning glance at Mo Jingshen, sitting beside her.
Mo Jingshen held her finger with one hand, picked the glass pitcher close to him with another, and poured a cup of water for her. Then he got close to her and whispered, âWhy did you smile so happily? What made you so happy?â
Ji Nuan: âYou asked me to come here with you, didnât you? I canât just show them a dark face.â
The next second, the man pinched her wrist and exerted a bit of strength. âYou just need to sit quietly and eat food. You donât have to smile at other men.â
The two young leaders of the education bureau were almost mesmerized by her beautiful smile. If they hadnât known she was President Moâs wife, they would have been even more enthusiastic towards her.
âBut I canât just remain expressionless when I look at them....â
Mo Jingshen picked a slice of beef with chopsticks and put it into her bowl. âYou just need to look at me.â
âYou shouldnât have brought me here if you donât want me to see other men. You brought me here but donât allow me to look at others...â
âYes, I took you here, but did I ask you to smile at other men?â
â...â
She smiled at the two men who were total strangers to her for his sake. She was his wife. She shouldnât be rude on this sort of occasion.
But since Boss Mo had prohibited her from smiling, she would just avoid looking at other men and smiling at them.
Seeing Ji Nuan silently lowered her head to take food, Mo Jingshen picked the peppercorns out of her bowl for her.
Their actions couldnât escape othersâ eyes, but they tacitly pretended not to see them and did not dare to joke about them, but now they were sure that this Ji Nuan was indeed Mo Jingshenâs woman. From the way they got along, they could tell the two of them were quite intimate.
However, the principalâs daughter, who was looking at them with a smile, suddenly turned her eyes to Ji Nuanâs face, saying, âHow old is Mrs. Mo? It is peculiar for a married woman like you to enter school to study business administration.â
Ji Nuan stopped chewing, and then spent several seconds to swallow the meat in her mouth.
Mo Jingshen ignored her words too and picked a piece of codfish with his chopsticks and put it into Ji Nuanâs bowl again.
The atmosphere became a bit awkward because of the principalâs daughterâs words. Everyone knew that the principal of T University wanted to introduce his daughter to President Mo, but before he even tried, President Moâs wife had shown up.
The room fell into silence. The principal was about to say something to ease the tension, when his daughter suddenly smiled and said to Ji Nuan, âMrs. Mo, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. Iâm Linda.â
âOh, hi.â Ji Nuan hurriedly swallowed the food in her mouth and coughed, because she was in such a hurry that she almost choked.
Mo Jingshen couldnât help frowning. He nudged closer to her the cup of water he just poured with one hand and patted her back with another.
Ji Nuan took a mouthful of water and felt much better. Then she looked up at the principalâs daughter with a smile. âItâs said that the principalâs daughter graduated from a famous college overseas. Miss Linda, nice to meet you. Iâve heard a lot about you.â
However, no matter how polite her words sounded, the interaction between her and Mo Jingshen was so intimate that no one could get between them.
The principalâs daughter smiled. âReally? But I never heard that President Mo had been married. Maybe thatâs because T City is far away from Hai City, we didnât even hear such important news.â
Ji Nuan had been mentally prepared before coming, so she wasnât annoyed by her. This girl was obviously very arrogant. As the daughter of T Universityâs principal, she must be surrounded and fawned by common students since her childhood, so she developed an arrogant character.
Ji Nuan didnât answer her but just smiled, silently agreeing with Lindaâs words that she was ignorant.
Beside her, Mo Jingshen glanced at the principalâs daughter who sat opposite to her and said flatly, âShe is not just my wife.â
Everyone else paused.
Not just his wife? Were there some facts they didnât know?
They knew Mo Jingshen wouldnât be committed to one woman. Perhaps, they just had a contract marriage, or there was some complex relationship between the two of them?
Ji Nuan was also surprised to hear that and looked at him.
The room fell into silence again. The others were curious but dared not ask Mo Jingshen what he meant. The principalâs daughter kept staring Ji Nuan as if guessing what Mo Jingshenâs words meant.
âReally? Then it seems that Iâd better call her Miss Ji...â The principalâs daughter glanced at Ji Nuan.
Ji Nuan suddenly lost her appetite and put down her chopsticks when her hand below the table was suddenly taken by Mo Jingshen and wrapped within his hand.
âShe is not only my wife, but she is also my lover. That is how much I love her.â
As soon as he said this, the room fell silent again.