CHAPTER 614: CHAPTER 613: THE ORIGINS OF FU HUO

Huo Mutian squinted his eyes dangerously, "Do I really have to kiss you right here and now for you to behave?"

"..."

Wen Qiao remained silent for a moment, shifting her skirt to move to the side and collected her expression, picking up the cake to continue eating with an innocent look of "whatever just happened, I don’t know anything about it."

Huo Mutian snorted, "Sly little girl, do you think I can’t handle you?"

However, after a while, Huo Mutian still gave Wen Qiao a brief explanation, "When I was in school, there was a girl I liked who had a crush on him for quite some time."

The Fu and Huo families could indeed be called family friends, with the adults having a good relationship, but the relationship between Fu Jinghen and Huo Mutian was a bit more delicate.

Huo Mutian was one year younger than Fu Jinghen, and they both attended Jiangcheng First High School, with Huo Mutian being Fu Jinghen’s junior.

Unlike the exemplary student Fu Jinghen, Huo Mutian took advantage of his good looks to take the concept of "early romance" to the extreme.

From the first to the sixth floor of the academic building, it might be an exaggeration to say there was one in every class, but definitely, on every floor, there were one or two girls who had dated Huo Mutian.

From younger students to senior ones, Huo Mutian was not discriminating.

He was emotionally intelligent, charming, and had never lost in the field of love; the only Waterloo in his twenty-six years of life was Fu Jinghen.

For the first time, he pursued a girl for a whole term—she kept saying she already liked someone else but refused to name who. Huo Mutian thought she was just playing hard to get.

He liked her and was willing to indulge her until the end of the term when he prepared a rather formal confession and even bought flowers.

It happened to be during the change of classes. Huo Mutian, with flowers in hand, headed toward the girl’s classroom, followed by a group of mischievous friends.

But as soon as he reached the girl’s floor, he saw her shyly standing in front of Fu Jinghen, slipping something into his arms before hurrying away.

She passed by Huo Mutian without giving him a second glance.

If only Huo Mutian alone had witnessed this scene, it might have been bearable, but there was a crowd behind him eager for a spectacle, and his inability to save face was quite embarrassing.

Fu Jinghen seemed to notice something and looked in his direction, focusing on the apple in his hand, he asked a question that Huo Mutian still vividly remembers to this day—

"Do you want a bite?"

His tone was indifferent, a very ordinary inquiry, but to Huo Mutian at that time, it felt like a provocation.

Huo Mutian, too, had always been the center of attention since childhood; he wasn’t used to such humiliation. From that time on, he always saw Fu Jinghen as a thorn in his side, constantly provoking him.

He would bump into him intentionally in the hallway, compete for the basketball court during PE, and scoff disdainfully whenever the teachers praised Fu Jinghen...

If the provocation had provoked any reaction, it wouldn’t have been too bad, but the trouble was, Fu Jinghen never paid any attention to Huo Mutian’s provocations.

What could be more irritating than bursting with anger while the other person remained utterly composed and indifferent?

Feeling ignored like this was especially hurtful for the normally arrogant Huo Mutian, but there was nothing he could do about it.

As they grew up and he took charge of his company, the Fu and Huo families were involved in different sectors in the business world, so Huo Mutian had no opportunity to even the score.

As time passed, causing any displeasure to Fu Jinghen became an obsession for Huo Mutian.

The incident was extremely embarrassing for Huo Mutian, but faced with the choice between being misunderstood as having special feelings for Fu Jinghen and the shame, he’d rather bear the shame.