"How is it you?" Yun Shulian looked at the pale-faced man, her body instinctively leaning towards the door.
"What do you mean, 'how is it me'? I'm very professional," Yu Sheng pretended to be displeased, pointing to the yoga mat already laid out before him.
Yun Shulian ignored Yu Sheng and turned to leave.
Seeing this, Yu Sheng quickly blocked Yun Shulian's path. "If you're unhappy about anything, you can tell me. You leaving like this will really affect my reputation at the yoga studio."
"As a yoga teacher, you're personally handing out flyers. Haven't you considered how that might affect your business?" Yun Shulian showed no leniency towards Yu Sheng, now suspecting that their previous encounters were not coincidental.
As soon as she finished speaking, Yun Shulian tried to bypass Yu Sheng and leave. However, Yu Sheng, having gone through great trouble to "invite" Yun Shulian to the yoga studio, had no intention of letting her leave now.
"Miss, I have no choice. Most of the people who come to practice yoga are women, and I get no private lesson clients here. If I don't hand out flyers, how else would I see you here?"
After Yu Sheng spoke, seeing that Yun Shulian showed no immediate intention of leaving, he seized the opportunity to explain. Su Dan Novel Network.
"Miss, I just want a chance to prove that my teaching is no worse than a woman's."
Yun Shulian didn't want to listen to him anymore. Having been reborn, apart from Mu Qi, Yun Shulian had little patience for anyone else.
However, when Yun Shulian's gaze inadvertently met Yu Sheng's eyes, the foot she had slightly raised returned to the ground.
These eyes felt so familiar, as if she had known them for a long time. Yun Shulian inexplicably didn't want the earnest hope in those eyes to turn into disappointment.
Yun Shulian moved her lips, but in the end, she said nothing. She simply turned and returned to the yoga mat in front of Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng watched Yun Shulian sit cross-legged on the yoga mat and let out a silent sigh of relief.
"First, let's adjust our breathing."
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As soon as Yun Shulian left, Mu Qi received a call from the front desk.
Upon hearing Ling Xue's name, Mu Qi immediately refused. However, he didn't expect Ling Xue to snatch the phone from the front desk staff.
"Mu Qi, don't you want to know why Yun Shulian suddenly decided to practice yoga?" Ling Xue's clear and resolute voice reached Mu Qi's ears through the phone line.
As Ling Xue had predicted, Mu Qi fell silent.
Soon after, Ling Xue entered the elevator to Mu Corporation.
The moment Ling Xue entered Mu Qi's office, she saw him sitting in his office chair, one hand on the keyboard and the other holding the mouse.
Ling Xue raised an eyebrow dismissively. "What, you're letting me in, but you're still going to pretend to be calmly working?"
Mu Qi didn't respond. He raised his hand and closed his laptop, then clasped his hands on the desk.
"I asked you to come up, not to listen to this," Mu Qi looked up at Ling Xue, his gaze sharp and as cold as ever.
Hearing this, the composure and teasing on Ling Xue's face gradually disappeared.
She hadn't expected that the seemingly cold and detached Mu Qi of those years would now speak to her, his words always circling back to that woman.
"Do you really want to know?" Ling Xue spoke again, her tone much less friendly.
"Actually, you don't trust her either, do you?
Does that woman mean no more to you than the Mu family you hold in your hands? Are you just treating her as your personal property?"
Ling Xue could accept that Mu Qi was with Yun Shulian simply because Yun Shulian was attractive and had piqued Mu Qi's possessiveness.
Or perhaps it was because Yun Shulian's family background could form a powerful alliance with the Mu family. But she simply couldn't accept that Mu Qi had genuinely fallen in love with Yun Shulian.
Mu Qi frowned. Of course, he didn't think that way, but he wouldn't waste time explaining to Ling Xue.
"Why did Niannian suddenly want to practice yoga?" Mu Qi cut straight to the chase, impatient to waste time with Ling Xue.
For the first time, Ling Xue found Mu Qi's voice particularly grating. She bit her lip and then asked, "Niannian? Did she force you to call her that?"
"Of course not. Miss Ling, what nickname I use for my wife has nothing to do with you, does it?"
Back then, how many times had she told Mu Qi not to call her Miss Ling, but to call her Xue'er.
Yet Mu Qi had never called her Xue'er, always Miss Ling, and sometimes he even addressed her by her full name.
At the time, Ling Xue thought Mu Qi was ascetical, uninterested in women, so although she felt a little uncomfortable, she quickly got over it.
But now, years later, the man she had harbored feelings for for years suddenly addressed another woman so intimately. How could she not be jealous?
Lover?
Mu Qi's words were full of protection for that woman.
When Ling Xue left back then, she thought Mu Qi was solely focused on gaining power. Ling Xue believed that by going abroad at that time, she could resist the urge to seek out Mu Qi and wouldn't affect him.
Once Mu Qi became the head of the Mu family, she could then return, and their union would be a natural progression.
But Ling Xue hadn't expected that after everything was settled, a woman named Yun Shulian would suddenly appear by Mu Qi's side.
She had pined for him for so many years; how could she give up on Mu Qi so easily? How could she easily give up on the position by Mu Qi's side?
"Miss Ling, if you have nothing I want to hear, then please leave. Of course, if you'd like Assistant Li to escort you out, I have no objections."
Mu Qi picked up his pen and tapped it on the desk.
Seeing Ling Xue's expression turn uglier, yet she still made no move to speak or leave, Mu Qi lost his patience and appeared somewhat annoyed.
"Mu Qi, you think Yun Shulian is wholeheartedly devoted to you? Let me tell you, she's suddenly practicing yoga because she's taken a liking to the yoga instructor there!"
"It's truly pathetic, your blind devotion, letting someone take your money to support another pretty boy."
Ling Xue tilted her head slightly, her eyes filled with sarcasm as she looked at Mu Qi, her tone as if deliberately seeking revenge on him.
"Ling Xue, you are maliciously slandering my lover, and you must be prepared to receive my lawyer's letter." Mu Qi's brow furrowed, and the pen in his hand fell to the floor due to his excessive force.