Title: The Villain's Contract Lover
Translator: Fringe Capybara
Chapter 17 - What Was That Look? (“So that man was the real reason that she accepted ‘Blossom’? It has nothing to do with the Mu’s after all?”) (3)
Mu ZhenYu arrived home very early that day. As soon as he stepped inside the door, he saw two big boxes of unopened coconuts piled up there in the narrow hallway.
They appeared very out of place in this small but delicately decorated apartment.
Just when he was about to ask her what was going on, he heard a loud BANG! coming from the kitchen – as though someone had just smashed a hole in the wall with a sledgehammer.
Was someone trying to take apart the apartment here? Mu ZhenYu frowned and walked into the kitchen briskly. He saw Xu WanZhi with a cleaver in her hand. The blade of the cleaver was halfway embedded into the coconut. She smashed it against the cutting board with all her might.
BANG! BANG! BANG! She looked like she wanted to smash the cutting board into pieces.
Hearing his steps, Xu WanZhi immediately stopped what she was doing and turned around. Seeing that it was him, she quickly hid the cleaver and the coconut behind her back.
“Boss Mu….” She greeted him softly. Her head slightly lowered, her eyes filled with unjust and looked guarded.
Mu ZhenYu was in a very foul mood early, but her tender voice immediately made him feel much better. Pointed at the direction of the entrance way, he tried to ask her patiently, “What was going on over there? What’s with all the coconuts?”
“I bought them online. They were on sale today.” She blinked at him. Her eyelashes looked like two butterflies. She looked very proud of herself, “We are going through hardship right now, so we should save where we can. It’s much cheaper to buy two boxes at one time instead of one individual fruit at a time at the fruit stand outside our house.”
Mu ZhenYu walked over to her and snickered. She made that sound so justified.
“Who cracks open coconuts like that?” With the same austere tone, he reached out his hand to her and said, “Hand it over.”
Xu WanZhi cussed him out to herself. She could have easily opened up the coconuts and eaten the meat had he not come home suddenly. Now that her magical power was all gone, she had no choice but to use a cleaver. She hoped that she could get it all done before he came now, now it was all for naught.
Mu ZhenYu looked somber, and she had no abilities. She worried that if she kept antagonizing him, it’d be her head that was cracked open. Reluctantly, she handed the coconut over to him. “Don’t be mad. I won’t eat it anymore.”
Mu ZhenYu glanced over at her, took off his cufflinks, rolled his sleeves up, and reached for a sharp paring knife. He quickly peeled the coconut, then finding the thinnest spot and with a slice and a twist, cracked open the coconut into two equal halves.
His entire operation was so smooth and ghastly that he looked like a crazy psychotic who just chopped up a body.
He tossed the knife in the sink, grabbed a spoon, handed both the spoon and the coconut over to her and asked, “What’s that look? Did I say you can’t have it?”
Xu WanZhi remained standing where she was, stunned.
“Take it,” repeated Mu ZhenYu impatiently.
She had no choice but to take the coconut from him and thank him.
She could tell he was unhappy and was trying very hard to suppress his anger.