Chapter 1287 - If Only You Were Here 4

His eyes immediately softened as he quickly clicked on the voice note. Her clear and familiar voice came through.

“Mr. Mu, I know you’re very tired...If you feel like it’s all too much, come home. Worst comes to worst...worst comes to worst, we’ll just stop caring about everything, and I’ll take care of you...Hearing your worn-out voice makes me sad...” Xi Xiaye’s voice contained a hint of concern that could not be concealed.

With the husband and wife separated by thousands of miles, Xi Xiaye would not know that a few simple words could instantly move Mu Yuchen to the point that warmth flowed through his heart as if the dry ground was suddenly drenched by a gentle dash of rain.

He thought about it, and could not help his heart’s urges. Without caring that it was past midnight where she was, he called her right away.

With Zhou Zimo around earlier, it had not been very convenient for them to talk, so he hung up after a while, but now, he could not help but miss her.

The phone only rang twice when Xi Xiaye picked up. At the moment, she was still in front of her desk reading through Fuhua’s data from the last quarter.

“Aren’t you asleep yet? It’s late.” The man’s low and hoarse voice was quickly heard.

It had been close to two months, and Xi Xiaye was used to the two of them talking idly late at night. She switched the phone to her left hand as she flipped through her documents and responded, “I’m looking at last quarter’s numbers. Mr. Mu, let’s not talk about anything else tonight. Let’s just talk, okay?”

She knew that investigating those matters would take some time too, thus Xi Xiaye did not want to talk about them. She just wanted to talk to him or maybe hear him talk. This thought just suddenly sprang into her mind, so she had sent him a voice note earlier.

“Talk about?” His handsome face very quickly flashed with a warm smile. “Was what you said earlier for real?”

Upon hearing that, Xi Xiaye grinned and her starry eyes were filled with a light that was also earnest. “Of course, I’m for real. If you’re willing, then I’ve got no objections at all. The way you torture yourself, I suddenly find that I’m okay with tiring myself out a little more as long as you’re happy.”

His heart softened while his eyes glimmered with faint happiness. “As down in the dumps as your husband may be, he won’t let his wife be the breadwinner for him. Leave me some dignity.”

“Dignity? Mr. Mu, don’t you know that your dignity levels are already in the negatives with me? I don’t care, yet you do? To me, you’ve always been the perfect man.”

“Am I that good in your eyes?” He turned around in his chair and faced the French window across him as he chuckled.

“It’s not that you’re so great. It’s because as great as others may be, they aren’t mine. Only you are mine...” Xi Xiaye pursed her lips and chuckled to say. Mid-sentence, she stopped what she was doing, and her eyes fell onto their wedding picture. A subtle radiance flashed in the corner of her eye. It was the reflection of her wedding ring’s flicker.

“Missus, have you been watching too many romance dramas?” Master Mu’s brows raised as he asked unexpectedly.

“You’re the one who’s been watching too many romance dramas.” Xi Xiaye’s brows instantly furrowed into a knot, and then she suddenly felt shy. She could not believe that something so corny had come out of her mouth. She felt annoyed for a moment, then she thought about it and continued, “Mr. Mu, I find that you’re more and more unromantic as you grow older.”

“Unromantic? Didn’t I satisfy your wishes at the Western grasslands a while back?” His cheerful voice was heard. His furrowed brows had eased now, and the gloominess in his heart seemed to have lightened up quite a bit now.

“I’m saying that the longer we’ve been married, the more you haven’t said those sweet things to make me happy like before anymore.”

When he heard her accusation, he immediately laughed. “Missus, how old are you this year?”

“Past 28, and then I’ll be 29. Why?”

“You’re already 29 and will soon be in your thirties. You’re not one of those young girls who are still in the prime of their youth. Are you still after compliments and admiration from the opposite sex?”

“Didn’t someone mention before this that I would always be 18 to him?” Xi Xiaye’s teasing voice contained a hint of a smile.

“Always be 18? Who said that? Definitely not me” he said seriously in his strict tone. Xi Xiaye could imagine through the phone the way he was pretending to be all serious. She immediately laughed gently and cleared her throat before smiling to say, “I’ve seen much of your shameless behavior. Mr. Mu, I suddenly remember that you used this same tone to tease me back then, saying that you’d go after anyone who said I wasn’t of value.”

“Mm-hmm,” he responded. Indeed, marrying her was his life’s biggest gamble, and it was exactly this one that he could not afford to lose.

Managing a marriage was no easier than managing a company. It did not matter to him how long they had known each other, but they were lucky to have made their rounds in the world and wandered about, but finally, he found the finishing line with her.

“Alright, I could hear earlier that you weren’t in a good mood, so I wanted to talk to you...Mr. Mu, I want you to always remember that you’re not only your friend’s good buddy, but you’re also my husband, and father to Xiao Rui and Xiao Cheng. You’re also Father and Mother’s son-in-law, and Father-in-law and Mother-in-law’s son, so you’re not alone...I just called Li Si to ask. I know that Ah Mo is in the same situation as Qi Lei. I know that you’re really worried, but this time, I can’t let you take it all on alone. Half an hour ago, I received a secret letter from Detective Zhang. I’m not planning on reading it because I want to wait for you to get back to read it together.”

Her suddenly serious tone stunned him for a bit. Moments after that, he suddenly felt like the heavy curtain on his chest was pulled open, and a gentle light shone in as if something just brightened inside.

Meanwhile, on Xi Xiaye’s end, when she finished, she pulled open the drawer on the side. Inside lay a very well-sealed letter that the postman had just delivered. The symbol on it was the code that Xi Xiaye and Detective Zhang had decided upon, so she could quickly recognize that it was news from him.

Mu Yuchen fell silent for a while, then his dark eyes suddenly lit up. After that, he finally chuckled and said, “Alright, I’ll arrange things over here and rush back to City Z in secret tomorrow.”