CHAPTER 38: CHAPTER 38: CONCEALMENT

The butler replied honestly, "Sir, the madam left just after you went out for your morning run!"

Hearing this, Mu Beiting pursed his thin lips and asked expressionlessly, "Where did she go?"

The butler answered, "Madam said she went out to find a house for her parents and that she wouldn’t be back for lunch or dinner!"

Upon hearing this, Mu Beiting said nothing further, picked up the chopsticks in front of him, and began to elegantly eat the breakfast in front of him.

However, Mu Beiting ate less today than usual, and after just a bowl of porridge, he put down the utensils and went upstairs.

The butler looked at the barely touched breakfast in front of him, full of confusion in his eyes.

Why did he feel that the master had no appetite because the madam wasn’t there, and that’s why he only ate a little?

But normally, the madam never had breakfast with the master! How could the master possibly lose his appetite just because she wasn’t there?

It must be his imagination? Yes... it must be...!

Elsewhere, after a long morning of searching with her mother, Ye Anxin finally found a small two-bedroom apartment in the suburbs.

Although the house was already twenty years old, with renovation so old that it no longer looked like its original form and the location wasn’t in the city, at least it was cheap, costing only a few hundred each month, within Ye Anxin’s financial capacity.

So, after the agent showed her the house, she immediately paid the rent and directly moved in with her mother after packing up their luggage.

Father Ye, carrying the luggage, followed Ye Anxin into the house and couldn’t help but cover his nose with his hand, glancing around, frowning in dissatisfaction, "Anxin, I’ve raised you for twenty years, and you let me live in such a place! No, I won’t live here! Who knows how long this house has been empty, it’s musty everywhere, if I stay here for long, I’ll definitely get sick!"

Ye Anxin put down the luggage in her hand and explained, "The mustiness is because the house has been closed for too long, once Mom and I clean it up and open the windows and doors for ventilation, the mustiness will be gone! Although the house isn’t big, it’s enough for you and Mom to live in!"

Hearing her words, Mother Ye quickly caught the important part and grabbed her hand, asking with confusion, "Anxin, aren’t you going to live with us?"

Ye Anxin paused, her eyes flickering with guilt, stammering, "Mom, I... I won’t live here! It’s too far from my school, inconvenient! I’ll be staying at Yueyue’s place from now on!"

Upon hearing this, Mother Ye was not convinced but instead asked seriously, "Anxin, tell me the truth, where have you been staying these past few days? Who was that man who came to get your luggage the other day? What’s your relationship? Just from the way he dressed, it was obvious he wasn’t an ordinary person! Other than Mu Rufeng, when did you meet someone so wealthy? Why have I never met him?"

"Mom...!" Being pressed by Mother Ye’s relentless questions, Ye Anxin immediately panicked! Moreover, she’s always been bad at lying, especially to her own mother!

In fact, it wasn’t that she didn’t want to tell her mother about marrying Mu Beiting, but Mu Beiting’s identity was too special! She didn’t tell her parents firstly to avoid scaring them, and secondly, she knew her father well; if he found out she married Mu Beiting, who knows what he would do! Thirdly, Mu Beiting never mentioned her family, seeming to have no intention of meeting her parents! If she just recklessly revealed their relationship like that, she was afraid it would affect him.

It was because she had too many concerns that she kept the matter from her parents all along.