NOVEL NEXT Chapter 310 - You are irreplaceable.” (2)
Chapter 310 – “You are irreplaceable.” (2)
“You were even busier then than you are now?” Yan Shuyu finally couldn’t help but interjected. “Exactly how busy were you?!”
With the husband not being home day after day, never mind the little male lead’s mother, even if it was her she’d want to divorce the boss. Not to mention that she as a young mistress from a wealthy family. Why would she want to subject herself to that?
Boss Zhou gave her an expressionless glance and Yan Shuyu’s neck shrank quickly. She smiled at him and said, “Carry on. Carry on. I promise I won’t interrupt you again.”
The conversation took a turn after that point. The boss continued mildly, “I still didn’t have time to spend with her even when she was pregnant. She met a friend whom she got along with well and decided to say goodbye to our lifestyle. She took off after she had given birth.”
“Wait…” Yan Shuyu, who had promised to not interrupt, looked at the top of the boss’s head reflexively and couldn’t help but asked, “A friend whom she met… while she was pregnant?”*
There was no change in Boss Zhou’s look. “She said they were just friends.”
“Mmm, mmm.” Yan Shuyu nodded. “Then what happened?”
“They moved overseas after the divorce.”
Yan Shuyu, “……”
Who’d believe that there wasn’t a lush grass field on the top of the boss’s head?
With the indifferent look on the boss, Yan Shuyu felt that it would be inappropriate for her to tease him. It was said that a man’s ego was a very dangerous territory.
Nevertheless, she got it now. The female side had cheated and led to a divorce. That would explain why everybody avoided talking about her and also explained the distance feel between the little male lead and his mother. “So you’ve always told Xiao Yi that his mother is overseas?”
“She wanted to pursue love and wished that we would not meddle with her life. I had no choice but to tell Xiao Yi the truth.”
The boss may look like he had no better choice but Yan Shuyu wanted to make a comment. He was such a smart man, of course there were many things that he could have done. He merely chose the most direct and simple way that would also serve the purpose of toughing up the little male lead.
Then again, comparing to all of the other stuff that he had done in the book, he was already being a very kind and loving father here. Yan Shuyu decided against commenting on it and, instead, focused on a different point. “If she was going after he true love, why is she back now?”
Zhou Qinhe gave her a smile that wasn’t a smile and it seemed to be saying that now you finally figured that out.
Yan Shuyu remained silence. She really wasn’t that stupid. But there were just so much information in their conversation today that she couldn’t quite focus was all. =.=
Boss Zhou looked back at her and continued to explain to her patiently. “She had split with said friend and heard some of her friends and families back in China mentioned me. She had also seen our pictures on Twitter and suddenly realized that she missed Xiao Yi a lot. She felt that I had changed a lot and wasn’t the indifferent money-earning machine that I used to be. That I am flesh and blood now and someone who understands what love is…”
Yan Shuyu couldn’t help but studied the boss. She felt that perhaps little male lead’s birth mother had overthought this. As far as she could tell, the boss was still that indifferent money-earning machine…
When she was zoning out, the boss concluded, “She felt that if you are fine then, for sure, so would she.”
“Fine for what?” Yan Shuyu was baffled but the boss just at her calmly and unruffled. Chuckling, he asked, “What do you think?”
Yan Shuyu may not be the smartest one but all women were experts when it came to relationships. She thought over it for a little bit and suddenly understood what the little male lead’s mother meant by that – that she wasn’t good enough for the boss’s love!
She was just trying to eat melon and somehow ended up being looked down upon. Yan Shuyu was irritated all of a sudden. She thrusted out her cleavage that was squeezed out by the gown and said, “What did she mean by ‘if I am fine’? Exactly what does she have that I don’t.”*
Boss Zhou finally smiled for the first time since they have gotten home and that smile was warm like a breeze in spring time. “Mmm. You are irresplaceable.”
Yan Shuyu, “……”
Yan Shuyu blushed uncontrollably all of a sudden. Something had gotten into the boss lately. What’s was all the mushiness coming from him? They were too much for her.
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Translator’s notes:
Chinese saying – the top of one’s head is green = being cheated on. Hence MC was looking at the top of ML’s head, as if to see if it’s green.
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