August in An City was the month where the fragrance of Osmanthus flowers permeated the surrounding air. The feather light breeze gently stroked the trees, leading to waves of blossom shower. Passers-by stopped in their tracks, mesmerized by the beauty of the scenery.
However, Mu Yu, who was in a rush for her appointment, did not have the leisure to do so.
In the morning, after reporting to the Municipal Bureau of Forensic Medicine, she made a trip to school after noting that the time was still early. Initially, she intended to send Mu back home, however the tyre of her scooter punctured suddenly. After much difficulty, she managed to repair the tyre, but the remaining time was insufficient to allow her to go back home, hence she was forced to bring Mu to her date.
Thinking of her mother's lion-like roar, she felt her scalp going numb. She did not dare to dawdle for a second longer. Seeing the red traffic light ahead starting the five seconds countdown, she hurriedly increased the speed of her scooter to the maximum, in anticipation of using these precious few seconds to speed across the zebra crossing.
In the meantime, Qin Jinhuan, who was seated inside the car leisurely listening to music while waiting for the red traffic light to turn green, saw his phone ringing. He immediately connected his Bluetooth device.
The moment it connected, his servant Li Xianglan's panicked voice was heard, "Young Master, the Old Master is missing!"
"What?! Where did he go missing?!" Qin Jinhuan suddenly sat bolt upright.
The Old Master was his grandfather who was nearly in his eighties. Lately he was diagnosed with brain atrophy, hence he was not as sharp as he used to be anymore.
Li Xianglan sobbed and said, "The Rising Sun Plaza. I accompany him there like always..."
At the exact moment, the traffic light turned green. Without waiting for her to finish her sentence, Qin Jinhuan stepped on the accelerator.
Bang!
"Ahhh!"
Screech-
Qin Jinhuan noticed he had hit a person. He stopped his car immediately and went out to investigate.
"Mu!"
Mu Yu, who fell down after the accident, got up immediately and turned her head. She saw Mu, who was previously strapped down to the back of the scooter, had fallen head first to the ground. She hurriedly adjusted her scooter into an upright position, but when she saw Mu's broken penis, she felt extremely distressed. Immediately, she turned her eyes to the car owner and angrily questioned him, "Do you know how to drive a car? Don't you understand the traffic signals?"
Although Mu was just a mannequin, he was still precious to her.
Initially, Qin Jinhuan wanted to help her out, but after hearing her words, he immediately withdrew his helping hand and coldly stated, "I was driving normally. It is you who disobeyed the traffic rules."
Mu Yu picked up the castrated penis, while turning her head to see the traffic signals. She vaguely knew she was in the wrong, but when she saw the injured Mu, her temper flared up again. "The rules are dead, but humans are alive. I crossed the pedestrian crossing first, you..."
When she saw Qin Jinhuan getting into the car, she rushed toward his car window and shouted angrily, "You've hit a person and still wanted to run away? Did you know that a hit and run will result in a harsher penalty?!"
Qin Jinhuan who was in a hurry to leave, angrily retorted, "Well, you looked fine to me."
"I am fine, but my Mu is injured. See!" Mu Yu pointed at Mu. "He is injured and you must be held accountable for him!"
"This pile of plastic trash can be considered a human being too?" Qin Jinhuan nonchalantly rolled up his car window.
Seeing Mu being insulted, Mu Yu furiously pressed down against the window while defending Mu, "Mu is not a pile of rotten plastics! He is my closest friend! I will not allow you to insult him like that!"
Qin Jinhuan saw the stuff she was carrying and laughed. "I see. Since no man wanted you, you decided to buy a pile of rotten plastics to hug yourself to sleep at night, huh? You are so pathetic and sad."
"You!" Mu Yu's face turned bright red at once. "Uncle, did your mother make you into this lustful, dirty guy?"
Uncle? Me? An uncle? Is this young lady's eyes blind?
Qin Jinhuan knitted his eyebrows together. He was worried about the whereabouts of his grandfather, and seeing the eloquence of her speech, he decided not to waste his time anymore and stepped on the accelerator.
"Don't you dare drive away!" Mu Yu stepped in front of the car.
Qin Jinhuan's patience began to run out. "You scratched my car, I hit your pile of rotten plastics, so we are even. Now move it."
"You insulted Mu! You must apologize to him!"
What? Apologize to a pile of rotten plastics? This was out of the question.
Qin Jinhuan was too lazy to care about her antics. Since she was standing perfectly straight in front of him, he immediately put his car into reverse gear and reversed it two meters away, before rapidly turning the steering wheel to bypass her and drive away.
"Stop! Apologize to Mu!"
Mu Yu knew her attempts were futile. In the heat of the moment, she threw the stuff she was holding in her hand at the car. The moment she realized what she had thrown, she immediately ran after the car shouting, "Stop the car! Give me back my penis!"
"Damn it! Damn it!"
After chasing the car for a few steps, her phone rang.
Seeing that it was a call from her mother, Mu Yu couldn't be bothered with chasing after the car anymore and picked up the call immediately. She answered her mum, smiling apologetically, and the next second, an ear-splitting voice pierced through. "If you don't arrive at True Love in ten minutes, don't ever think of bringing Mu into the house!"
"I'm arriving soon, right away!"
Mu Yu hung up the phone while she turned around. Looking at Mu that was injured, she felt sorry and comforted it with a whisper while tying it up again. She rushed to True Love western restaurant's small parking lot, locked her scooter and walked into the restaurant while wiping away her sweat.
"How dare you stare at me? I'm going to beat you up!"
Mu Yu was shocked by the sudden yell coming from the back. She turned around only to see an old man with grey hair hitting Mu. Taken aback, she hurriedly ran back. "Grandpa, why are you hitting my Mu?" she grabbed the old man and questioned.
"He stared at me! How dare he stare at me?!" The old man pushed her away aggressively and raised his arms against Mu again.
"Sigh! Grandpa." Mu Yu hastily pulled Mu to her back and smiled apologetically. "He's not staring at you. That's just the way he looks at people."
She could tell that the old man was mentally abnormal.
"He raised his head so high up! He's obviously not taking me seriously! Let's see how fully fledged he is!" The old man pulled his sleeves up and stepped forward again in an overbearing manner. "Give way!"
"Grandpa, you misunderstood. He's..." Before she could finish explaining, the old man picked up a broom and whacked Mu's leg. Mu Yu rushed forward in panic, hugging the old man and yelling, "You can't hit him!"
"He won't be obedient without beating! Go away!" yelled the old man.
"Don't! Don't hit Mu!" Mu Yu almost cried.
What bad luck had gotten into Mu today? First, it was a car accident and now he was getting beaten up by someone.
Just as she ran out of solutions, a security guard rushed over, moving Mu secretly and pretending to be scolding, "You rascal, how dare you not listen to your grandfather? Do you need spanking? Face the wall and ponder about your fault!"
"No lunch for you!" The old man finally stopped his anger when he saw Mu turned around to face his back toward him.
"That's right, he'll be good after one meal of hunger!" The security quickly played along and changed the topic. "Uncle, let's leave him standing there. You should go have your lunch first."
"Eat?" The old man licked his lips, put down the broom and spoke to Mu Yu. "Little missy, I want to eat. I'm hungry."
"Huh?" Mu Yu was stunned.
She was here for a blind date though.
"Girl, just get him some food, or else he's going to start hitting your Mu again," the security guard urged.
Mu Yu took a look at Mu nervously and turned around scrutinizing the old man. Although he looked wretched, he was well dressed; it seemed like he was from a wealthy family. Remembering his reprimands on Mu, she guessed that he was upset by his unscrupulous posterity due to the uneven distribution of wealth. Her compassionate nature rose, and she forgave the old man's 'violence' toward Mu. After showing her gratitude towards the security guard, she guided the old man to the restaurant and went over to the table number her mom mentioned. "Excuse me, are you Mr. Xiao?" she asked cautiously when she saw a tall, thin man looking at the menu.
The tall, thin man's eyes brightened as he saw her. He got up from his seat immediately and nodded. "I am Xiao Qi, you must be Mu Yu, right? Oh wow, you look prettier in real life!"
"Thank you." Mu Yu wiped her sweat.
Xiao Qi chivalrously pulled her chair out and asked, "What would you like to have?"
Before Mu Yu spoke, the old man interrupted preemptively, "Steak."
That was only when Xiao Qi noticed the old man and asked incredulously, "He is-"
"I am grandpa." The old man sat down boldly.
"Your grandpa?" Xiao Qi felt even weirder. "Who brings their grandfather to a blind date?"
"Nah!" Mu Yu surreptitiously pointed at the old man's brain and explained vaguely. "He kept mumbling about being hungry and none of his family members were around. I found him pitiful so I brought him here to get some food."
"You are such a kind girl but you shouldn't mess with this kind of person. Just in case no one comes for him, he will bilk at your place and rely on you for everything." Xiao Qi lectured her, sounding experienced. He then stood up and got a waiter. "Get him bread and get him out to eat. Count it on me," he pointed at the old man and said.
"You go out and eat. Count it on my bill." the old man said and happily moved Xiao Qi's cutlery set to place it in front of himself.
"Hey!" Xiao Qi held onto the cutleries and shouted with contempt. "What are you doing?"
Splash!
The old man poured lemonade at Xiao Qi and cried grievously to Mu Yu. "He glared at me!"
"Shit!" Xiao Qi wiped away the lemonade on his face angrily and scolded without caring about his image anymore. "You old man! Go away!"
"He's still scolding me! I'm going to hit him!" The old man stood up, took the chopsticks and started hitting Xiao Qi.
"Grandpa! No!"
"Damn it! How dare you hit me? I'm gonna get you good now!"
"Mr. Xiao, stop!"
Bang!
"Ouch!"
Swoosh-
Before Mu Yu could react, Xiao Qi was knocked onto the ground and the table was flipped over. Instinctively, she turned her head to see who it was, and at once, she became startled.
It was him!
Qin Jinhuan-who could only see his grandpa, Qin Xiaozhi-quickly pulled him away from Mu Yu and asked in a concerned tone, "Grandpa, are you okay?"
That is his grandpa! He is the unfilial grandson?
Mu Yu casually rolled her eyes at him.
Qin Xiaozhi ignored Qin Jinhuan and tugged on Mu Yu's arms like a child, looking at her eagerly as he said, "I want to eat steak. I am hungry."
Qin Jinhuan immediately coaxed him. "Grandpa, the steak here is not delicious. After we get back home, I'll let Aunty Lan-it's you?!"
Mu Yu realized that she was recognized by him, so she stretched out her arm and said, "Return it to me! "
"What?"
Due to a crowd that had gathered around them, Mu Yu whispered softly, "The penis."
Qin Jinhuan, being unable to understand her and not wanting to dawdle, turned around and dragged his grandpa away forcefully after seeing that he refused to move.
"Stop there!" Mu Yu cut him off and smiled cheerily at Qin Xiaozhi. "Grandpa, the fragrant and tasty steak will be here in a minute."
Upon hearing that, Qin Xiaozhi immediately shrugged off Qin Jinhuan and ran to Mu Yu with a silly grin.
"Grandpa!" Qin Jinhuan shouted to stop his grandpa but it was to no avail. Annoyed, he turned and asked Mu Yu, "What are you doing?"
At this point in time, Qi Xiao who got the short end of the stick already slipped away. Mu Yu signaled Qin Xiaozhi to sit down at an adjacent table and turned to Qin Jinhuan while shrugging her shoulders. "Harboring such evil intent to try and kidnap my grandpa, shouldn't I be the one asking what do you want?"
"Your grandpa?!" Qin Jinhuan could see the cunning intent in Mu Yu's eyes. As such, he raised his eyebrows with interest and said. "Just like that you want to claim my grandpa as your own grandpa? You think it is so easy to be my-Qin Jinhuan's-woman? Look at your figure... Oh please!"
Upon hearing that, people who surrounded them burst into a commotion. "Qin Jinhuan? Qing Tian Group's President?"
"No wonder he looks so familiar to me."
"I did not expect this dorky looking old man to be the influential and big shot Mr. Qin back in the days of An City!"
"Indeed. Time and tide waits for no man!"
Being ridiculed like that made Mu Yu embarrassed and shameful, but at the same time, these discussions made her even more flustered as she did not expect the person she was provoking was the CEO of Qing Tian Group!
This person was not someone she could afford to mess around with.
Then again, all she wanted was to get back Mu's penis in order to complete Mu's body. Was that also wrong?
Mu represented her feelings toward her brother Yi Han, thus if Mu was incomplete, her feelings were also incomplete. This was the only object her brother left behind for her to reminisce about.
Qin Jinhuan saw her lower her head and how she kept silent as a sign of compromise so he went ahead and dragged his grandpa once more.
However, like a startled kid, his grandpa tried to shake him off as hard as he possibly could before proceeding to hide behind Mu Yu while shivering and trembling in fear. Mu Yu opened her arms out like a mother hen protecting her chicks, blocking Qin Jinhuan's way and not letting him come close.
That broke the last straw and Qin Jinhuan finally could not take it anymore. With a dark solemnity in his face and a somber tone, he asked, "What do you actually want?"
With a weak voice, Mu Yu replied, "I just want the penis back."
"What penis?"
"Shhh-the crossroad intersection, remember?" Mu Yu awkwardly reminded him. "As long as you return the penis back to me, I'll immediately let your grandpa go back with you."
Qin Jinhuan finally realized what she meant. With a scowl, he asked, "Isn't that useless piece of toy with you?"
"I accidentally threw it in your car."
Realization dawned on Qin Jinhuan. After a pause, he replied, "You could have said so earlier. I changed cars with my friend on the way here, and currently, he is out of town."
"When will he be back?"
"That is hard to say. Maybe tonight, or maybe tomorrow morning. Nonetheless, I would ask my friend to keep the penis in safe hands. Give me your phone number and I will call you once he is back. Is that okay?"
After giving her phone number to him, she uneasily asked, "You are a big CEO of a big corporation, so you wouldn't play a fool out of me right?"
Qin Jinhuan casually laughed. "That useless piece of toy might mean the world to you, but it is completely useless to me."
The meaning implied in his words made Mu Yu flushed, but she had no word to retort.
Luckily, Qin Jinhuan did not continue with the conversation but instead said, "I have to bring my grandpa home."
"Alright." Mu Yu shifted aside and handed Qin Xiaozhi over.
Who would have thought that Qin Xiaozhi actually refused to move and clinged onto her arms. Pouting, he asked, "Little missy, you don't want me anymore?"
Little missy? The old man previously took Mu as his grandson, so now who does he mistake me as?
Mu Yu was stunned and dumbfounded.
At the same time, Qin Jinhuan leaned closer to her and whispered, "How about this? Accompany me to send grandpa home."
"No way!" She refused right off the bat.
How could a lady follow a man back so casually?
"You don't want the penis?"
Mu Yu angrily replied, "Didn't we come to a consensus beforehand already?"
"Verbal statements with no black and white proof does not mean anything."
"You!"
"Just help me out. This is my name card." Qin Jinhuan softened his tone. "Grandpa is diagnosed with brain atrophy, so he has to get home now and take his medication, or his condition would worsen."
Upon hearing this, Mu Yu felt it would be against her conscience to refuse so she accepted the name card. However, at the same time, she could not hold herself back and went off in a fit of pique questioning. "Are you begging me?"
Qin Jinhuan nonchalantly avoided the questions and answered, "I will give my friend a call now and ask him to deliver the penis back right away."
Realizing the threat from his reply, Mu Yu was left with no choice, and helplessly turned around to say to Qin Xiaozhi. "Grandpa, let's head home."
"Okay! Let's go home, go home." Qin Xiaozhi instantly danced around with joy and purposely held onto Mu Yu's hands tightly.
While being on the call, Qin Jinhuan stared deeply in thought at the view of Mu Yu's back.
In An City, other than his grandpa, nobody dared to raise their voice at him, let alone bargain.
This small little girl.
Half an hour later, Mu Yu stood outside the humongous door of his house, baffled and dazed. She knew that his family was rich, but it didn't cross her mind that the house they lived in could be so luxurious, even more flashy than all the 5-star hotels she had seen before. And this made her extremely uncomfortable and uneasy.
After sending Qin Xiaozhi into the house, she wanted to turn around and leave immediately. Little did she know, Qin Jinhuan was right on her heels and she crashed right into his arms. That gave her a huge shock, and she hurriedly pushed him away.
To her surprise, Qin Jinhuan took advantage of the situation and hugged her tightly instead, letting his warm and moist lips brush across her face up to her ears as he playfully teased. "So anxious to throw yourself into my arms?"
Flabbergasted, Mu Yu struggled and murmured, "Let go of me!"
Qin Jinhuan smiled naughtily. "What if I don't let go?"
"You are such a ruff...."
Before she could even complete her sentence, she was cut off by a loud screaming voice. "Throw this unbecoming woman out of the house!"
The next thing she knew, she was dragged violently out of Qin Jinhuan's arms. Without given enough time to react, she had already been shoved out of the door, causing her to stagger and stumble onto the ground.