Chapter 1481: 1476: Is it a punishment from Xiao Yu?

Chapter 1481: Chapter 1476: Is it a punishment from Xiao Yu?

Xiao Yu took her arm down, avoiding her gaze with downcast eyes, “You came from Jiang Du City, does anyone from the Marquis’s Manor know?”

Su Miaoyan blinked her big eyes, shaking her head, “They don’t know, my mother forbade me from looking for you. I sneaked out through the dog hole.”

Mentioning her mother, she shed a couple of tears, looking somewhat sorrowful, “Mother said that brother Yu had divorced me, didn’t want me anymore, so I hurriedly chased after you. I found people from Qilin Garden, asking them to send me home at the fastest speed, to get back to brother Yu’s side.”

Every sentence she spoke brought comfort and joy to Xiao Yu’s heart; she considered the Xiao family as her home, and even sought help from Qilin Garden, managing to find a way to come to him.

She still loved him.

“Brother Yu, you didn’t write the divorce letter, right? Mother is lying to me, she must be too worried about me, that’s why she lied about brother Yu divorcing and not wanting me.” Su Miaoyan held Xiao Yu’s hand, rubbing it against her face, her soft voice was sweet and soothing.

Xiao Yu felt her tender white skin as she pressed his hand to her face, and his heart trembled fiercely.

Having been nurtured in the Marquis’s Manor for this period, she seemed to have returned to the tender soft girl he had known before.

Xiao Yu had long understood that men always harbored crooked thoughts, especially towards women.

From the first glance he saw Su Miaoyan, those crooked thoughts in his heart were stirred, desiring to arrogantly keep her confined by his side, wanting to bully her, wanting to hear her weak cries, wanting to possess her fiercely for a lifetime!

Later, he married her. In the bedroom with the lights extinguished, he would always make her cry. No matter how she pleaded with tears, he could never bring himself to let her go.

She was really too delicate and too easy to bully.

But now…

He controlled his crooked thoughts.

Xiao Yu withdrew his hand, his face as cold as eternal, unthawing ice, “Go back and rest, I will send you back to Jiang Du City tomorrow.”

“Why send me back? This is my home!”

Su Miaoyan suddenly opened her eyes wide, hastily reaching out to embrace Xiao Yu, “Brother Yu is my husband, after getting married, I cannot always stay at my mother’s house. We still have to find Ningning, waiting for our baby to come home and reunite!”

Ningning’s name pierced into Xiao Yu’s heart like a needle, painfully suffocating him.

His face turned steely blue as he pushed Su Miaoyan away, “Ningning cannot come back, you won’t be able to wait, and now… The Xiao family is not somewhere you should stay. That divorce letter, I wrote it myself, Madam Su didn’t lie to you.”

“That’s impossible!”

Su Miaoyan pouted, her voice tinged with clarity, “Brother Yu loves me the most, he wouldn’t divorce me! Brother Yu, please don’t be angry, okay? I can feel it, Ningning must not be dead, he’s obedient and will definitely be found!”

She was so gentle, nobody had the heart to hurt her.

But Xiao Yu couldn’t allow her to remain in the Xiao family, nor could he let her harbor illusions, “Ningning is gone, and you can’t stay at the Xiao family anymore. Now, you are the legitimate daughter of the Marquis’s Manor, and have nothing to do with me.”

“How can that be? I am your wife!”

Su Miaoyan climbed back onto him, her eyes brimming with tears, “Brother Yu said he would only love me in this lifetime, and would only marry me, brother Yu wouldn’t lie to me…”

She believed in Xiao Yu, always believed in him.

Xiao Yu kept a cold face, pushing her down from him, “Traveling is tiring, go back and rest.”

He called someone in, taking Su Miaoyan out. Su Miaoyan cried all the way, her tears streaming down, almost dragged away by the maidservant, and Xiao Yu did not spare her another glance.

But the moment she left his study, he leaned weakly against his wheelchair.

How could he refuse her?

Xiao Yu had already learned of how Su Miaoyan came to the Xiao family by evening. He invited Mu Qianya over, and before he could even speak, Mu Qianya felt the pressure upon sitting at the desk.

Her lips pursed cautiously, she said, “I know I shouldn’t have done that, but I didn’t want to give my brother a chance. He knows you love Miaoyan, so he purposely took her to threaten you.”

“He wouldn’t dare threaten me. He would only take good care of Yan’er and return her to my hands.” Xiao Yu’s sharp gaze fixed on Mu Qianya, his eyes clearly saw through her.

Mu Qianya came to seek his help, but Mu Nanfeng had spoken to him earlier, years ago, about this matter. At that time, Xiao Yu had no interest in involving himself in other family’s affairs and disapproved of Mu Nanfeng’s conduct, so he dismissed it.

Now that Mu Nanfeng had taken power in the Mu Family and returned Su Miaoyan to him, it meant asking Xiao Yu for a favor.

The favors owed by Xiao Yu have a value worth a Young Miss’s weight in gold. To secure her own interests, Mu Qianya couldn’t allow him to owe Mu Nanfeng a favor. So she took Zhuiying and took back Su Miaoyan herself.

She wanted this favor in her own hands.

“Very clever, scheming, and capable,” Xiao Yu assessed Mu Qianya.

“But it was all for your good. My brother is greedy and lustful; he might harm Miaoyan. Miaoyan is fragile, she can’t bear any more harm.” This, Mu Qianya felt deeply.

She understood her legitimate brother, not born of the same mother, all too well. His nature was dark and violent, his methods despicable. His scandals were not absent in the family, and he behaved badly outside as well.

She was also very worried about Miaoyan’s wellbeing, which is why she acted quickly with Zhuiying to bring her back.

“Mu Qianya, Zhuiying is my person,” Xiao Yu said coldly.

Mu Qianya certainly understood the implication of Xiao Yu’s intense gaze.

He didn’t care about these small matters. What mattered was that Mu Qianya, an outsider, had moved his people in his Xiao family.

Especially those who were there to protect him personally.

A chill went down Mu Qianya’s spine; Xiao Yu’s look suddenly frightened her and she felt an inexplicable pressure. She bit her lip and said in a low voice, “I overstepped. I apologize.”

Xiao Yu maneuvered his wheelchair and left. Mu Qianya thought the matter would end there, but when she lay in bed that night, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

She looked at the red string on her hand, her heart conflicted. She got up, wanting to find Zhuiying.

She didn’t find him at his place, but instead saw a kneeling figure outside Xiao Yu’s courtyard.

Somewhat familiar.

Mu Qianya approached slowly and called out in a low voice, “Zhuiying?”

“Cough.”

The man took a heavy breath, which sounded abnormal to Mu Qianya. She hastened forward and was shocked. She saw the knife plunged into Zhuiying’s abdomen, her face nearly distorting, “You… how could this happen to you!”

She pulled out a handkerchief to cover his wound, but before she could get close, Zhuiying coldly said, “Get lost.”

Mu Qianya’s body stiffened instantly; she stood there, clenching her dress tightly and gritted her teeth, “Is it Xiao Yu? Did he do this to you?!”

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