No Bounds for the CEO’s Spoiling

Qin Muxuan was a bit confused, saying,

“Who called you? Why didn’t you answer the call?”

“Nothing. Just those advertising phone calls.”

Gu Zijin looked ahead and continued to drive, so Qin Muxuan didn’t ask further. After the car turned into a road, a beautiful villa came into sight. Seeing the lanterns and streamers which were decorated outside the villa as well as the colorful balloons which were in the shape of the words ‘happy birthday’, Qin Muxuan felt her heart thumping wildly.

“Qin Muxuan, happy birthday.”

Gu Zijin took out a delicate black gift box from his pocket and gave it to Qin Muxuan. The latter had tears welling up in her eyes right away. She stopped celebrating her birthday five years ago because her birthday meant nothing to her since the only thing on her mind had been how to survive. Now that Gu Zijin had made great preparation for her birthday, she really was touched. Then she sniffed and wiped her tears, saying,

“Gu Zijin, thank you.”

“Don’t you want to open your gift first?”

After Qin Muxuan opened the black box carefully, she saw a dazzling necklace inlaid with expensive diamonds. Gu Zijin said,

“I made this necklace by myself when I was fifteen and kept it until now. Since it’s your birthday today, I’ll give it to you then.”

Although his tone sounded casual, Qin Muxuan still knew how valuable this present was. Then she approached him and kissed on his face. After that, she opened the car door to get out of the car quickly. Gu Zijin stared at the back of Qin Muxuan with a smile in his eyes and then opened the car door and walked out of the car slowly.

They both entered the villa.

Qin Xiaobai rushed to Qin Muxuan right away while handing her the gift,

“Dabai! Happy birthday!”

Qin Muxuan didn’t expect that Xiaobai would be there too. Then she, even more touched, hugged Qin Xiaobai and said,

“What’s in there, Xiaobai?”

“It’s a secret. You have to open it by yourself.”

Qin Muxuan kissed on Qin Xiaobai’s cheek while Gu Zijin also walked into the room. After that, the leading chefs came in to serve the dishes. There was already a piece of delicious and inviting mousse cake on the table with the candles in the shape of the number twenty-four. After Qin Muxuan sat on the seat, the chefs stood beside her in order and sang the birthday song. Qin Muxuan closed her eyes and made a birthday wish before she blew off the candles.

In the dark night sky, the stars shined dimly.

Gu Zijin helped Qin Muxuan put on the necklace with an emotional look in his eyes. He made this necklace when he was fifteen for his future wife and kept it in the safe box ever since. A few days ago when he thought about giving a gift to Qin Muxuan, he remembered this necklace immediately. However, he wouldn’t tell Qin Muxuan about what this necklace meant. Thinking of that, Gu Zijin curled the corner of his mouth.

Qin Xiaobai’s gift was a stratagem box inside which was a letter that he had racked his brains to write for a whole night. It had taken him a long time to look up those words in the dictionary and the handwriting of him was rather poor. When Qin Muxuan was about to go to sleep, she still looked at the stratagem box while feeling helpless. It seemed that she was not clever enough to open this box, so she had to put it aside first and figure out a way to open it in the future.

When they were on the bed, Gu Zijin held Qin Muxuan in his arms spontaneously. Qin Muxuan, with her eyelashes fluttering, felt the necklace on her neck burning hot. She said,

“Gu Zijin.”

“Yes?”

“What if…” I fell in love with you?

Qin Muxuan wanted to say that but stopped on second thoughts. She couldn’t utter the word ‘love’ as if there was a warning line forbidding her to do so. Love was just a game for the rich people, certainly not for her because she couldn’t afford to pay the price. After a long while, Qin Muxuan continued,

“Good night.”

Gu Zijin didn’t say anything else as if he was in deep thought and only uttered ‘Um”.

The next morning when Qin Muxuan woke up, she smelled a pleasant scent of the porridge. Qin Xiaobai walked about behind Gu Zijin briskly while the latter was cooking the porridge with one of his hands. His sleeves had been rolled up, which exposed his fair arms, and his profile looked delicate and graceful. Seeing Qin Muxuan walking toward them, Qin Xiaobai said with his eyes sparkling,

“Dabai, the porridge daddy cooked smells so good.”

Qin Muxuan was well aware of Gu Zijin’s excellent cooking skill and even expected to eat the porridge he cooked. Meanwhile, Gu Zijin turned around and said,

“Take Xiaobai to wash his hands. The porridge is about to be ready.”

“OK.”

Qin Xiaobai then stopped looking at the porridge reluctantly and left with Qin Muxuan.

After breakfast, Gu Zijin sent Qin Muxuan and Qin Xiaobai back to the Gu’s house. It was the weekend when Xiaobai didn’t have any class and Qin Muxuan didn’t need to receive any orders, so they both had a lot of free time today.

When Elderly Lady Gu saw the three of them coming back, she showed an obvious sullen look and said,

“Zijin, where were you last night?”

Qin Xiaobai answered for Gu Zijin,

“Great-grandma, we went to celebrate Dabai’s birthday. Are you angry now?”

As Elderly Lady Gu looked into Qin Xiaobai’s innocent eyes, she was unable to utter those furious words and could only change the topic,

“Xiaobai, you haven’t eaten the breakfast, right? I’ll let Nannny Chen cook for you.”

Qin Xiaobai shook his head and murmured,

“Daddy has already cooked breakfast for me and Dabai. Great-grandma, if you haven’t eaten anything yet, you should go eat breakfast by yourself. I’ll play the building blocks with Dabai now.”

Then, Gu Zijin watched Qin Muxuan and Qin Xiaobai going upstairs. After they both left, Elderly Lady Gu stopped pretending immediately and said in a fierce voice,

“Don’t you remember the things I’ve told you? Do not fall into the trap this slut has set for you! Zijin, for all these years you’ve been in the business circle, you’ve made contacts with all kinds of women. How’s it possible for you to swallow her bait?!”

Gu Zijin compressed his lips lightly and looked right into Elderly Lady Gu’s eyes, saying in a cold voice,

“Grandma, the rumours about me and Yan Yuxiao have been spread everywhere. Shouldn’t you be satisfied already? If one day others know that Xiaobai is my son, do you even want him to call Yan Yuxiao mother? Have you ever considered what kind of assumptions people would made about Xiaobai if he appears in public?”

Elderly Lady Gu was lost for words. She had wanted Gu Zijin and Yan Yuxiao to be together as quickly as possible, but she had never considered what would happen to Qin Xiaobai. If the boy’s identity was exposed, she didn’t know how to explain the existence of him.

If Gu Zijin and Yan Yuxiao were considered a couple, then people would assume Xiaobai to be their kid. If people knew that Xiaobai wasn’t their kid, they would only have more guesses. Things would only get more complicated. Thinking of that, Elderly Lady Gu calmed down a bit with a soft look and said,

“It’s my fault. I should have thought it over.”

“Grandma, please do not interfere with my things next time. You are my grandma, I hope you can have fewer worries and stay healthy.”

“Then I want you to keep your distance from Qin Muxuan! The girl who marries into our family must have a clean family background. I’ll never accept a scheming woman like Qin Muxuan.”

Gu Zijin knew that he couldn’t change Elderly Lady Gu’s prejudice against Qin Muxuan for the moment. The more he talked, the worse the situation would be. Therefore, he stopped talking and went upstairs to deal with his business affairs.

Qin Muxuan listened to their conversation the whole time in fear. As she turned on the phone, she saw a message sent to her yesterday: Xuan, Happy Birthday.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.