Chapter 29 - The Missing Incident

Chapter 29 The Missing Incident

The can was suddenly snatched away, and Lin Qing finally moved.

She looked back and found Mu Li was looking at the jar with a strange expression.

Lin Qing stretched out her milky arm and said to Mu Li: “My jar.”

Her voice was like that of a doll who had been drenched in the rain.

“Is this jar very important to you?” Mu Li asked while knowing the answer.

“Yes.” Lin Qing nodded.

“It’s so important that you can stare at it for the whole afternoon?” Mu Li asked again.

Lin Qing nodded again.

“Why is it important?” Mu Li’s tone was obviously deeper.

Lin Qing’s expression was somewhat blank.

“Because … it’s very important.” Lin Qing didn’t know why he asked that.

Mu Li was silent.

After he paused for a while, he rephrased his question: “Do you like eating this?”

Lin Qing’s eyes were a little dim as she shook her head.

“So,” Mu Li concluded, “Someone likes eating this. Even if you don’t like it, it’s very important to you.”

For some reason, when he said this, Mu Li felt very stuffy in his chest.

It must be because the window was closed and the air hadn’t been circulated for a long time, he thought.

This time Lin Qing stayed silent for a long time. She thought about it carefully.

“Yes.” She replied.

Mu Li figured out who that person was.

It turned out that Chen Qudong also liked lemon tea.

There was a moment when Mu Li thought perhaps Lin Qing happened to know his preferences. However, judging from her state throughout the afternoon, his thoughts became more and more untenable.

To be honest, he was a little disappointed.

Lin Qing put down her arm. The setting sun shone through the large French window. She stood against the light, and Mu Li couldn’t see her expression clearly.

Mu Li placed the jar on the coffee table, and the sound of the jar’s bottom hitting the coffee table was loud.

The corners of his mouth turned up.

Lin Qing inadvertently saw it.

He should ….

Be very disappointed

She didn’t do it on purpose.

She had promised herself that she would let go of her crush, and she really tried not to think about it. However, when Mother Lin took out the can, those bittersweet memories seemed to surge back into her mind.

Because Chen Qudong liked lemon tea, she learned how to make it.

She used to have headache the moment she smelled lemons, but now she became immune to the smell.

Because of that, her mom had always thought Lin Qing liked lemon tea, so she gave her a jar before she left.

The instant she saw the lemon tea, Lin Qing felt that she was back to familiar scene where she prepared lemon tea and sneaked it into Chen Qudong’s backpack when they met.

It filled in almost all of her memories during university.

Therefore, when she thought of herself saying goodbye to the past, she felt lost and sat motionless by the window for the whole afternoon.

“Since it’s something you don’t like, don’t keep it at home.” Mu Li’s expression was somewhat indifferent, which he didn’t even noticed.

After saying that, he picked up the lemon tea and decided to throw it into the trash can.

“Ah …” Lin Qing stared helplessly at him.

The fate of the jar was in Mu Li’s hands.

Lin Qing bit her lips.

Although she didn’t like it, but throwing it away…

Was really a waste.

“Then…” Lin Qing said with some hesitation and concern, “Do you like lemon tea?”

“What if I do? What if I don’t?” Mu Li couldn’t understand the shift in Lin Qing’s attitude.

Hearing this, Lin Qing looked a little happy. She did not want to waste any food, so she suggested: “If you like it, let’s keep this jar of lemon tea for you, okay?”

Lin Qing thought that her suggestion was very worthy of reference.

Mu Li loosened his fingers that were holding the can. With a thump, a muffled sound came from the trash can.

Lin Qing’s shoulder trembled slightly. She didn’t even have the time to blink, and the can disappeared.

From her face, Mu Li could tell her disappointment.

Such disappointment got his nerves.

Was she so sad to lose something that Chen Qudong liked?

However, he forgot he like that, too.

Lin Qing did not like wasting. This kind of behavior should be condemned. She looked at Mu Li with blame and pouted her lips.

Then she murmured: “Even if you don’t like it, you don’t have to throw it away…”

Although her voice was very, very low, Mu Li still heard it clearly.

“Lin Qing, do you want me to eat that jar in honor of another man?” Mu Li’s tone was cold.

“That’s just a jar of lemon tea. Isn’t it for drinking?” His words were not straightforward and Lin Qing somewhat lost him.

Mu Li looked gloomy.

He didn’t mean it but at the bottom of his heart there was a trace of…

Pain.

Lin Qing stopped talking.

This was the first time she had seen Mu Li get mad, and she didn’t want to see it.

He frowned when he got mad, making her feel the urge to smooth the frown.

Thinking about it, Lin Qing was unable to differentiate her thoughts from reality. She really walked towards the front of Mu Li and pressed her tender finger between his eyebrows.

The warmth between his eyebrows stunned him.

“Are you mad?” Lin Qing felt a little unhappy. “I don’t like you being mad.”

Mu Li looked at her and didn’t say anything.

“I’m sorry. If you want to throw it away, then throw it away.” Lin Qing’s tone sounded detached as if she didn’t care about that jar of lemon tea anymore.

Did she really not care, or did she hide her true thoughts?

Mu Li waited for her to withdraw her hand and took a step forward.

The distance between them was so close that Lin Qing could clearly see Mu Li’s long eyelashes. It was rare for a man to look good with such long eyelashes.

As he got closer, Lin Qing smelled the faint fragrance over Mu Li.

This fragrance was very special.

All of a sudden, Lin Qing felt her heart thumping.

She hastily covered her chest.

What… is going on?

Mu Li’s collar was wide open, revealing his tanned skin. This healthy skin color made him even more charming.

Lin Qing pursed her lips, and the hair hanging by her face was pulled behind her ears.

“Lin Qing,” Mu Li raised his eyebrows, “Do you know… ”

Before he could finish the sentence, his phone in the pocket rang at the perfectly wrong time.

“Your phone is ringing.”

Lin Qing reminded him. Mu Li took out his phone and Lin Qing stood in the distance without moving.

After answering the phone, Mu Li looked at Lin Qing.

It seemed he needed to go out.

This was a call from a comrade-in-arms, asking him for some urgent favor.

He had to go.

“I need to go out. Wait for me at home.” Mu Li put on the suit on the armrest of the sofa while explaining to Lin Qing.

Lin Qing nodded.

“Also,” Mu Li added before he left, “Don’t keep that jar.”

Lin Qing put on a yes look.

Mu Li suspected that after he left, Lin Qing would probably take a look at that pitiful jar of lemon tea.

After the door opened and closed, Lin Qing sat back on the small stool by the window and fell in a trance again.

An hour and a half later, Mu Li returned home.

The moment he opened the door, he had a bad premonition.

The lights in the living room weren’t on.

Normally, Lin Qing would be watching TV at this time, and she would sit there abstract-minded during commercials.

But now, in front of Mu Li it was dark.

He could see the huge glass window from the entrance, and the curtains were still opened.

“Lin Qing?” Mu Li called her.

As long as he called, Lin Qing would slowly appear in front of him.

He waited for a while, but Lin Qing did not show up.

After Mu Li searched all the rooms, including the study that Lin Qing had never liked to go to, he didn’t find Lin Qing.

He started to get anxious.

Where would she go at this time?

Mu Li dialed Lin Qing’s number.

A few seconds later, Lin Qing’s phone rang on the sofa.

Mu Li hung up his phone and secretly clenched his fists.

At this time, a delicate and innocent single woman was outside there alone …

It was really dangerous.

Three minutes later, Mu Li dispatched all of his officers and ordered them to find Lin Qing in the shortest time possible.

The officers received the order with discretion and started searching

What surprised the officers was that there existed a woman who could make Commander Mu worried!

Mu Li waited for a moment and finally decided to go out and look for Lin Qing.

Not only did he need to find Lin Qing, he also needed her to be safe and sound.

Just as he was about to open the door, the door opened from outside.

The person standing at the door was Lin Qing, whom Mu Li had been worried about for a long time.

Lin Qing was holding a medium-sized white bag in her hand. Because it was opaque, he couldn’t see it through. However, there were a few big clear words printed on the bag—

Baile Supermarket.

Mu Li recognized the logo of a large supermarket near the community.

Mu Li took a deep breath.

“You’re back.” Lin Qing said indifferently. She changed her shoes at the entrance, and then waved the bag in her hand in front of Mu Li. “Have a look at what I bought?”

Her tone actually revealed a bit of playfulness.

She was probably looking forward to his asking.

Mu Li followed her cue and asked, “What is it?”

Lin Qing was a little proud. She opened the bag and took it out in front of Mu Li, “Lemon.”

…

This little girl had actually worried him for so long just because of a few lemons?

Moreover, Mu Li glanced at those lemons,

They looked ugly.

Seeing that Mu Li’s reaction was not as expected, Lin Qing explained: “Actually, I bought some other fruit, mangoes, kiwis … but I went there mainly for the lemons.”

After listening to her explanation, Mu Li still didn’t react.

He felt that Lin Qing’s behavior was a little unusual this time.

Lin Qing closed the bag and was about to take it to the kitchen. But she took a step back, and acted as if she finally remembered something, “Wait, are you going out again?”

This question reminded Mu Li:

“Who allowed you to go out by yourself? I told you to wait for me at home.” Mu Li raised his eyebrows and asked.

Lin Qing tilted her head and said, “I want to go out.”

Mu Li looked her up and down.

That’s right, this is the normal Lin Qing.

Lin Qing went to the kitchen and was busy for a while. Meanwhile, Mu Li was handling affairs in the study.

There were a lot of things going on recently, and he might be even busier after a while.

At that time, Lin Qing would be at home alone more often.

What if she went out like today without even remembering to take her phone…

Mu Li felt that this was not going to work. He had to take some measures.

The next day.

Mu Li woke up and couldn’t find Lin Qing. He went downstairs and saw that she was acting furtively in front of the refrigerator.

To be honest, there weren’t many opportunities to use this word to describe Lin Qing.

“What are you doing?” Mu Li said suddenly, and Lin Qing trembled.

“No, nothing.” Lin Qing stammered, and at a glance, he could tell that she had done something wrong.

However, Mu Li wasn’t in a hurry to expose her secret.