"Because Nianchu is kinder than you," Mu Junze retorted coldly. "Because she's my wife."
Meng Rong's envy and anger got stuck in her throat.
Mu Junze cast a cold, sidelong glance at her and said even more mercilessly, "I called you here today to warn you not to lay your hands on Nianchu again!"
"What if I do?"
"Just try it."
Hearing this, Meng Rong, blindly bold, dared to provoke him. Mu Junze's expression turned even more sinister.
Scared by his look, Meng Rong pursed her red lips tightly and dared not say another word.
"Keep your thoughts in check. If there's a next time, you might as well quit the entertainment industry for good!" Mu Junze angrily left these words and was about to leave the private room.
However, as he passed by Meng Rong, she suddenly hugged him.
"Junze! Junze, I really like you. I did this only because I care about you so much. If you didn't always have only Meng Nianchu in your eyes, I wouldn't have done such things!"
Mu Junze roughly pried her hands off.
Meng Rong hugged him tightly again. "I'm just fighting for my own happiness. I don't think I've done anything wrong. I'm the eldest daughter of the Meng family. Why is it that whenever Meng Nianchu and I are around, she always steals the limelight and I'm just a foil! I just wish you could notice even a bit of my efforts."
"Get out of my way!"
Frowning, Mu Junze suddenly pushed Meng Rong hard.
Caught off guard by the force, Meng Rong lost her balance and fell hard to the ground. Tears streamed down her fair face. She looked extremely embarrassed.
"Get rid of your dirty thoughts. I always keep my word."
Having no patience to entangle with Meng Rong any longer, Mu Junze left a harsh warning and rushed out of the room.
Meng Rong stared at the closed door. Big tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes. She propped herself up forcefully, made her small hands into fists, and the resentment in her heart grew stronger and stronger, hard to suppress. She grabbed the stool beside the table and threw it hard into the corner.
Just then, a passing waiter heard the noise and opened the door. Seeing Meng Rong crying uncontrollably, he was stunned.
Meng Rong hysterically shouted, "Get out!"
...
After leaving the restaurant, Mu Junze returned to Shangting and headed straight for Meng Nianchu's room on the second floor.
Meng's mother was chatting with Meng Nianchu.
Hearing the noise, they both looked over.
Seeing that they seemed to have something to say, Meng's mother left tactfully.
"You've eaten quite a lot," Mu Junze sat down on the edge of the bed. Not knowing how to start the conversation, he stupidly said something so insignificant.
Fortunately, Meng Nianchu sensed his concern. She pursed her lips and moved a bit closer to Mu Junze. She held his big hand with her small one and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Mom said you went out?"
Mu Junze could tell that she already knew what he had gone to do. He nodded and replied with a hum.
Meng Nianchu looked up straight at him. "How did you know I was there? Mom told me that when she couldn't find me at the amusement park and couldn't reach me on the phone, she told you right away. Then soon you said you'd found me and asked Mom to go home and wait. How did you know?"
She had thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out.
After hearing her question, Mu Junze lifted her hand.
The pink fairy watch on her slender wrist looked even more dreamy under the dim yellow light.
Meng Nianchu noticed a faint blue light on the watch strap. If she hadn't looked deliberately, she wouldn't have noticed it at all.
Mu Junze had suddenly given this watch to her when they were participating in "Enamored Couples".
Squinting her eyes, Meng Nianchu suddenly sat up straight and playfully hit Mu Junze's arm. "How dare you! You actually installed a tracker on me. How could you be so excessive."
"Just in case," seeing that she wasn't angry, Mu Junze reached out and pulled her head into his arms. It was like a narrow escape, and this hug was especially precious.
Feeling the sense of security emanating from Mu Junze, Meng Nianchu greedily absorbed it.
This time, Meng Rong's evil plan almost succeeded because of her momentary carelessness. Meng Nianchu was both angry and relieved. Fortunately, Mu Junze had arrived in time, or else...
Just thinking about the consequences was terrifying.
In the dark night, Mu Junze beside her had already fallen asleep. Meng Nianchu sat up, hugged her legs with both hands, and gently stared at Mu Junze's handsome face in the lazy moonlight shining on him.
Mu Junze always showed up beside her in times of danger.
It was the same during the last fire, and now again. Thinking of the burning fire in her memory and Meng Rong's ruthless back as she left, Meng Nianchu's hatred grew stronger.
The light in her eyes gradually turned darker. She sneered and thought angrily in her heart:
I'll skin you alive sooner or later!
Meng's father was already extremely busy and stressed out about the continuous decline of the company's stocks. Meng's mother wanted to tell him about what Meng Rong had done this time, but Meng Nianchu, out of concern for her father, stopped her mother forcefully.
Now that her father had just recovered a bit, if he knew that Meng Rong had done such a despicable thing again, no one knew how angry he would be.
If something happened to her father, wouldn't it just suit Meng Rong's long - held desire to inherit the Meng family!
How could she let Meng Rong succeed!
Although this incident hadn't been exposed for the time being, Meng Rong's negative news hadn't decreased at all during this period. Every time Li Feng posted articles on Weibo showing off his wife and children, Meng Rong would surely be mocked and scolded.
Moreover, somehow, the news about her seducing Mu Junze, which had been suppressed by the public relations company behind her, was dug out again. With the negative news coming from both sides, Meng Rong's path in the entertainment industry was extremely difficult.
When chatting with Bai Ling, Meng Nianchu accidentally learned from her that no one was willing to cooperate with Meng Rong at this time. The merchants whose cooperation she had canceled voluntarily were overjoyed to finally get rid of such a difficult person.
Meng Rong had no dramas to film and was only surrounded by scandals.
After listening to Bai Ling's words, Meng Nianchu gradually tightened her grip on the phone, and a sneer appeared on her lips.
Then the phone vibrated again.
Meng Nianchu opened the latest voice message from Bai Ling.
"Breaking news. I heard that Meng Rong has also realized that this scandal is different from her previous ones and can't be easily dealt with. She's preparing to hold a press conference to play the victim and clear her name. I think this trick might actually work. Although she's not very good at acting in the crew on weekdays, she's really good at acting for her group of brainless fans. It might really work."
By the end of the voice message, Meng Nianchu's expression turned cold.
Hold a press conference to play the victim and clear her name?
"Heh," Meng Nianchu sneered.
It depends on whether she allows it!