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I looked at the wall behind Shen Xiuyuan. It was completely white, like my empty brain.

I sneaked a peek at Mu Huainan. Actually, I was afraid that Mu Huainan would say that he had overestimated himself again.

"But I'm not as good as the praises on the news." I frowned. "If I don't show it, won't it be even more embarrassing if I expose my identity in the future?"

I think I may have lost again, to this old fox who doesn't show anything, cunning, insidious, cunning.

I knew that the closer I got, the more dangerous it was. However, when those complicated and mysterious eyes looked over, I still wanted to jump in recklessly.

"Uncle Huainan."

After a long time, the silence in the room was dead. I opened my mouth, but my voice was hoarse.

As long as the Lu Group is in his hands, I will have to jump into this black hole.

Mu Huainan didn't wait for me to continue. He glanced to the side first and sent Shen Xiuyuan back home with a cold.

"I want to serve you well too..." Halfway through Shen Xiuyuan's speech, the two of them suddenly looked at each other in the eyes for a moment. Then, he immediately shut his mouth, laughed, and said his goodbyes.

I think Shen Xiuyuan is afraid of getting beaten up.

"Does your head still hurt?"

Once again, the room became quiet. When Mu Huainan asked me this, he raised his hand to help me hold onto my hair, and his gaze became softer.

I shook my head, dizzy.

"The student who hurt you."

He paused, probably unable to remember his name, and I began to remind him.

"Fang Wu."

"Yeah, her parents' company works for the media, it's not big. I'll buy it, you take care of it first."

I was taken aback. This fellow bought the property that his family owned just like that?

"I didn't expect you to be so stubborn as to insist on going to school. If I knew earlier, I wouldn't have let you go, so …" Mu Huainan paused for a moment, then continued: "Consider it a work injury, this company is your compensation, there's no need to care about anything else, you can do whatever you want with it."

I pouted. "So there's something you can't calculate."

"For example, I really didn't know that you were so stupid." He answered very quickly, scolding people without turning a corner, scolding people without even saying a word!

My temper.

"If it weren't for the sneak attack, even if the entire class were to join in, it's not certain who would win."

My heart was not convinced, I never thought that I would be able to make fun of the Mu Huainan who had a stern expression the entire time.

"Why are you acting like a barbarian?"

He still wanted to fight for a higher position in terms of force.

"I live alone in a foreign country. I don't have anyone to protect me. I only know how to reason with those foreign students with my fists."

Mu Huainan is a fellow who lives like a prince, he wouldn't understand if I gave him a disdainful glance.

"Only this one time. There won't be a next time." He said these eight words lightly to me.

I thought it was about my fight. Although I was unwilling, I still lowered my head and admitted my mistake. "I know. I won't fight anymore."

"No." Mu Huainan said: "I am saying, that I will not let you be bullied again. This is the first time since you have returned to this country, and also the last time in your life."

As I listened to him, a sour feeling suddenly crept up my heart. This was probably the first time in my life that someone had stood by my side and said that they would protect me, even though I had been bullied for so many years with my teeth clenched.

I suddenly felt reassured.

It's not that his words were genuine, but that he would protect me even if he wanted me to give up everything. It's because the one who said those words was Mu Huainan, and the credibility of his words lay in his strength and not his emotions.

But...

"You were at the party that day in front of so many people."

He said he didn't want me.

"An'an." Mu Huainan interrupted me and said, "What did I say then?"

"She's her, I'm me," I repeated.

Mu Huainan couldn't help but pinch my earlobes and find it funny: "What, you're not you, you're still me?"

I was stunned for a moment before I started to beat around the bush. What in the world was he trying to say?

I didn't say that I didn't want you. It's just that you suddenly appeared at the banquet that day and messed up my original plan.

"So if you don't answer my phone, I won't be able to get in touch with you. I'm alone at home, bumping around like a headless fly."

He smiled, satisfied with what I said, then parted his lips. "But this is also an opportunity. Since Senior Ye is here, it's very important for you to leave an impression in their eyes."

Impression? When I bet everything on the Peng Family project, everyone looked down on me and thought that I was a petty person who would take advantage of the situation and turn to Peng.

This was not a good impression.

I snorted through my nose and complained, "What's so good about leaving such a bad impression?"

"The worse the impression you left at that time, the greater the shock of knowing the truth afterwards. Not every rookie is seen by the industry's seniors with the word 'impressed'."

Mu Huainan taught me. At that moment, he suddenly looked like an elder who could easily come at any time with a great reason, and sincerely taught me, this disobedient child.

"Right now, you're already much higher than many newcomers."

I listened without speaking.

"Work hard on the Peng Family project. At the very least, one year's worth of income is enough for you to exchange for 1% of my debt."

I have just regained some of my spirit, and am being doused from head to toe by Mu Huainan's bucket of cold water.

Thinking about the news just now, while I was unconscious for a week, the value of this project had already exceeded 100 million. But I didn't do anything, could it be that this project really had strength?

"What did the Peng Family do this week to revive this project?"

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was amiss. Although Mu Huainan had used his wishful thinking quite well, he had pretended that it had nothing to do with me and misled everyone in their judgement. This allowed me to once again stand up from the most muddy place and outside of everyone's expectations.

However …

The most important part of these was that the project itself had to be strong enough to support me in standing up.

But apparently, the project book I remember is just a ruined takeout project, with almost no market to penetrate, let alone make money.

How could he get such a high market value in a week?

"What did the Peng Family do?" Mu Huainan's repetitions were more like a thorny kind of rhetorical question. He answered his own question, "The only method they used to pay the price was to use you."

Use me.

It seemed to be like this … During the banquet, Peng Haobai had also explained to me how he didn't know anything. Strictly speaking, it should be Master Peng that used me, so it shouldn't have anything to do with his foolish grandson.

"I know." I lowered my head. "They want to use my relationship with you to make Peng Haobai and I appear together to promote the bidding."

"This is just one aspect."

I was stunned. "One aspect?"

"As long as you are linked with this project, this project will not lack in topics and hype. If you are passionate, you will have money."

I nodded slowly.

"So the value of my usage is actually this high..." I muttered to myself, and then looked at Mu Huainan beside me, and quickly realized the reality of the situation. It wasn't because I had any use for him, but because I was the only one who had a link with Mu Huainan's name.

As long as they had Mu Huainan's name, there would be a never-ending stream of RMB.

"Since he wants to be related to us so much, then I'll just sell him the favor. "Just give him an unexpected harvest."

That's why Mu Huai An told me to invest that ten million. However, he still did not understand how this crappy project could be made into a fire.

Even relying on ten million and the hype between us wasn't enough.

"You're one of my people, so how could I just sit idly by and do nothing about the projects that you invest in?"

That was why he said …

"With your level, even if you're thrown a 100% moneymaking project, the things you do will only be a burden."

… ….

Am I that bad...

"I'm just operating in secret. On the surface, you're the one who's supporting this project."

Was this the unknown man behind the legendary successful women? I watched as Mu Huainan stood up and took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.

"Right now, you just need to rest up. If you need anything, I'll give it to you little by little."

He took out a cigarette and held it between his fingers. Instead of lighting it, he leaned over and smoothed the pillow behind me.

"Alright, go to sleep." He was very close to me, and now the bruises were magnified in my eyes, and he spoke so many words that he looked tired and bored, and his eyes were dull, and there was a soft softness in the darkness, and he looked at me and tucked me in.

He got up and said softly, "Good night."

I knew he was the most tired of all, so I held my tongue and closed my eyes. He didn't go out on the balcony to smoke, but went out of the room to the door.

When the door closed and I opened my eyes, the room was empty and still again.

I have so much to say, but I don't know how to say it.

"Good night!" Mu Huainan's good night from before kept repeating in my mind, and these two simple words that were spoken from Mu Huainan's mouth were so light that it didn't fluctuate at all. It was inexplicably engraved in my mind, and couldn't be chased away.

He said good night.

But I always thought he was talking.

"Don't be afraid, I've always been here."

Was it because I was overthinking it? That faint emotion was mixed with concern and love.

It's my fault for being sentimental.