Chapter 1037: Chapter 1037: Natural Conception 2 Update, Mwah (2)

Newlyweds… especially… still resting at 11 in the morning.

What happened last night, the intensity of it, naturally goes without saying.

“You brat… humph… don’t wear the poor girl out… take it easy, got it?”

Qin Mu: “…”

The elder had clearly misunderstood.

Qin Mu tried to explain… but seeing the smile in the elder’s eyes, his thin lips tightened, and he chose to remain silent.

“Mm.”

“Look at you… sigh, can’t deny you look more pleasing now that you’re married… sigh, our Qin San has finally found someone, married, planning for kids. From now on, you’re an adult, no longer just a child…”

The elder, in his older age… ever since his heart condition worsened, had become somewhat sentimental.

“These past few days, I’ve been chatting with Xiaowan’s mother, and only now learned how much hardship that girl has endured since she was young.”

Qin Mu: “…”

Because of what the elder said, Qin Mu’s thin lips tightened, and his large hands clenched into fists.

“Mm?”

“Qin San, I think… you should know Xiaowan’s background. Back then, Wu Kun did something despicable, hiding the fact that he was already married while being involved with Mu Qingqiu. Later, Xiaowan was born. Mu Qingqiu is someone with a strong, upright character… and once she learned the truth, she raised the child alone all these years. That Wang Xue is hardly someone easy to deal with—always stirring trouble behind the scenes… so Xiaowan didn’t exactly have a smooth life as a child.”

Qin Mu tightened his lips. He… had never actually investigated Mu Wan’s background.

He only knew roughly that Mu Wan was Wu Kun’s illegitimate daughter…

Yet he didn’t know that Wu Kun had actually deceived Mu Qingqiu by claiming he was unmarried.

Qin Mu squinted slightly. He only needed someone to play the role of a wife… to keep up appearances before the elder and the Qin Family.

So… he had never truly taken the time to understand Mu Wan’s background, let alone the kind of person she was.

Now, hearing the elder’s recount, he was beginning to grasp the events of the past.

“Mm… I recall, at the wedding… Mu Wan accusing Wu Jingjing of certain things…”

“Sigh… actually, it’s far deeper than that. It was only in recent days that I learned, when Mu Wan was five, that Wang Xue had actually hired someone to kidnap Xiaowan… directly abandoning her in the remote wilderness. She was left out there for three days and nights. By the time Mu Qingqiu found her, the child was already dehydrated and collapsing, clutching a tree branch in her hands while crying out for her mother. Since then… Xiaowan’s personality became introverted… fearing strangers… preferring solitude and silence.”

“Whatever happened during Mu Wan’s middle and high school years… it was actually far worse than that. Back in middle school, Mu Wan had the chance to advance to a prestigious high school, but that spot was privately taken by Wu Jingjing. In school, because everyone feared Wu Jingjing’s background, they avoided Xiaowan altogether. Xiaowan… naturally had no friends… What’s more, they even bullied her whenever they could, just to curry favor with Wu Jingjing.”

“As for high school… Mu Wan excelled academically… she could have received a full scholarship to a prestigious art school in France, but she gave it up instead.”

The reason for giving it up, naturally, was to attend the same university as Qin Mu.

The elder was just about to reveal the reason outright but wisely stopped himself at the critical moment.

Humph… if this brat had just a shred of awareness, he’d figure it out on his own.