Falling For The Contract Bride
Chapter 146

Falling For The Contract Bride Chapter 146

Chapter 146 The Masquerade Ball

Lu Jinye felt a tinge of fury brewing within him as he stormed away.

Meanwhile, Xiao Qingqing was in a great mood lately, especially after Lu Jinye had announced news oftheir marriage to the public. Xiao Qingqing was indulging herself in congratulatory greetings every day.

She worked in the entertainment industry. It was an unspoken rule that celebrities of the entertainmentcircle would compete against each other to marry into a wealthy family. Xiao Qingqing basically tookthe crown of a queen by marrying Lu Jinye!

Thus, there was an unprecedented number of brand representatives who swamped Xiao Qingqing tobe the sponsor of their wedding.

Diamond rings, wedding gowns, and everything that could be used at the wedding was offered to heras means of advertisement.

However, Xiao Qingqing pridefully refused all of them.

“My husband is Lu Jinye, do you think that we need the money?”

Unquestionably, Xiao Qingqing did not choose to burn bridges with the brand representatives. Thesewords were said to her agent, who was looking back at her with a troubled expression. It was such apity to lose out on money-making opportunities.

However, seeing as they had been partnering with each other for years, he could not help but remindher.

“Mr. Lu appears to have gone overseas today.”

“I’ve been reluctant to say this, but you can’t be complacent just because you’re getting married to LuJinye. You’ve got to prepare a backup plan.”

Xiao Qingqing refused to listen to him.

She turned around and glared at the agent with a stern face, “You mean Lu Jinye has gone overseas?What’s he doing?”

She was under the impression that Lu Jinye had been spending his nights mingling with Liang Yunzhanand the gang, drinking and partying. Even if Lu Jinye were to womanize, Xiao Qingqing was notbothered.

However, she was caught off guard upon learning news of his travel.

“I don’t know. I only saw someone who looks like Mr. Lu when I went to the airport today.”

“It shouldn’t be him.”

Xiao Qingqing muttered in an attempt to save her pride.

“Jinye will definitely let me know before traveling. You should go, I need to carry on with my makeuptrial.”

Xiao Qingqing chased the agent away with a simple excuse.

But she could not help feeling worried when he was gone. She went on the internet to search newsabout Lu Jinye and found out that there was no report of Lu Jinye’s overseas travel. Then, she relieveda little as she completed her makeup trial in preparation for the wedding.

After deciding on the style of the bride’s makeup, they were supposed to finalize the outfit of the groom.The makeup artists and fashion designers Lu Jinye hired were his close acquaintances. Xiao Qingqing

thought that he’d make time to choose his outfit amid his busy work.

However, when she was done with everything and preparing to leave, she noticed that Lu Jinye had notmade his way for the fitting session.

When the fashion designer asked Xiao Qingqing of his whereabouts, she could not gather a response.As his fiancée, she had no clue of where Lu Jinye went!

“Umm, Jinye is in the middle of a meeting, I’ll tell him to make time for the fitting session later.”

That was all Xiao Qingqing said before scrambling to leave.

She tried to make a call to Lu Jinye but it could not go through. Left with no option, she resorted tocalling Linda. Linda took a long moment to pick up the call, saying that she had just got off the plane.

Xiao Qingqing was starting to be upset. She did not bother wasting another second to greet Linda,asking peevishly, “Then what about Jinye? Where is Lu Jinye?”

…

Lu Jinye did not return to City A. He was about to board the flight bound to City A when a call came in.It was his business partner in the States. During their chattering, Lu Jinye gave the business partner hisaddress while the partner zealously invited him to stay for a few days for a vacation.

It sounded like a good plan to him.

Lu Jinye looked into Mu Zhi’s address and booked a room in the same hotel Mu Zhi stayed in. Hemade sure that his room was next to Mu Zhi’s.

At night… When Mu Zhi was preparing to unpack Mu Xiaomu’s luggage, she heard a door-knock.Hurriedly standing to her feet, she walked up to the door, answered it, and stared at the attendant in

confusion, asking, “Can I help you?”

“Miss, it is the hotel’s 50th Anniversary this year. We are organizing a ball and extending our invitationto you. This is the invitation card and the event takes place at nine in the evening.”

“And this is the outfit to the ball.”

The attendant tactfully presented a gown to her.

Despite her suspicion, Mu Zhi glanced at the mask and decided to accept it.

She wasn’t planning to go, but it was inappropriate to decline the attendant.

However, when Mu Zhi brought the outfit into the room, Mu Xiaomu was excited by the look of themask. Exhilarated, she said to Mu Zhi, “Mama, can we go and have fun?”

Mu Zhi glanced down at Mu Xiaomu intending to refuse her.

But she had not managed to say a word when they were interrupted by a phone call.

It was Lu Junnian. As soon as Mu Zhi answered the call, Lu Junnian said, “I’m downstairs, coming tolook for you now.”

Finishing what he had to say, Lu Junnian hung up right away.

Mu Zhi glared at the phone, infuriated…

If he was on the way, why bother informing her?

She turned her eyes to the outfit furiously. Great… Seems like the gods are telling me to attend themasquerade ball.

Mu Zhi then noticed that the attendant thoughtfully prepared a children’s mask as well as a miniaturecloak.

Mu Zhi handed the cloak and the mask to Mu Xiaomu, saying, “Hurry up and get changed, mommy ischanging too. Let’s go have fun.”

Mu Xiaomu shot her arms in the air, cheered merrily before obsequiously changed into the ball’s outfit.She even wore her mask neatly.

Meanwhile, after making sure Mu Xiaomu was presentable, Mu Zhi hurriedly changed into the gown.Before Lu Junnian had come to the room, she grabbed Mu Xiaomu’s hand and headed to the rooftop.

Similarly, Lu Jinye had received a mask too, which was lame in his eyes. He was contemptuous ofevents like this. Overhearing the sound of the door shutting outside, Lu Jinye curiously checked thepeephole and found Mu Zhi decked up in a mask, heading towards the elevator with Mu Xiaomu. Hepeered at the mask, realizing that it was not as lame as he thought.

In the end, he showed up at the rooftop, wearing the mask.

On the other hand, Lu Junnian did not replace anyone when came to the room. After knocking on Mu Zhi’sunanswered door for a long moment, he started regretting at the phone call. It acted as a reminder forMu Zhi to flee.

Mu Zhi caught him off guard and managed to dodge him in the short amount of time between the calland his arrival.

After pondering for a moment, Lu Junnian decided to head downstairs to enquire if the attendant wasaware of Mu Zhi’s whereabouts. In response, the attendant handed Lu Junnian an outfit for the ball,along with a mask.