In another house in the courtyard.

Suzaku was lying on the bed, his eyes widened and he was staring at the ceiling, motionless.

He didn't know whether Lao Meng did it on purpose or if he really didn't know that the sound insulation of this courtyard was very poor.

Especially Lao Meng's room.

Because it was in disrepair, if you spoke in that room, the whole yard seemed to hear it, as if the wind swept the sound away.

After listening to Lao Meng's words, Zhuque's expression gradually became serious. In a trance, he seemed to have returned to his unbearable childhood.

Lao Meng poured a cup of tea, sat across from Qin Muxue, sighed and spoke softly.

"Fortunately, this child is extremely talented and has some ability to learn ancient arts. I was also a moderate teacher in the Chu family at that time. I thought this child did have some abilities, so I wanted to accept him as my disciple."

"But at that time, the level of the Chu family's training camp was very strict. If you wanted to be my apprentice, you had to go through many tests and you had to be promoted to the first level of the training camp."

"Suzaku is too short due to stunted growth, so he failed the assessment in many projects. If he wants to rely on himself, I'm afraid he won't be able to be my apprentice in this life."

"So I secretly leaked my thoughts to Zhu Wu."

Having said this, Lao Meng took a sip of tea, and his eyes became a little more bloodshot.

He paused for a few seconds and then sighed, as if he had thought of something.

Qin Muxue didn't rush her, she just waited quietly.

After a long time, Lao Meng finally spoke again.

"Zhu Wu came to beg me when he learned that I wanted to accept his brother as my disciple. He knelt outside my room for three days, and then I finally had a reason to come out and see him."

"Later, I asked him to bring Suzaku on the grounds that I was moved by his sincerity."

"The boys in the original training camp were still not convinced, thinking that I favored Suzaku. Some people joked that if this works, they will come to my room and kneel in front of me day and night. In this way, they will not have to go through those inhuman things.

With torture, you can become the first level of the training camp."

"But Suzaku is very impressive. He only studied with me for more than a month, and he made rapid progress. Soon, not only did he learn ancient arts very well, but his grades in other projects also gradually improved."

Hearing this, Qin Muxue was puzzled: "According to what you said, Suzaku should be very outstanding in the training camp, and he should go directly to Chu Tingxiao. But how did I hear that before he went to Chu Tingxiao's side?

Before, Suzaku had traveled to many places? He was even unable to enter the Chu family for a time?"

Lao Meng half-squinted his eyes, put his hands behind his head, and moved his body back a little.

He frowned, and the talkative look he had just now disappeared immediately, replaced by a cryptic look.

Seeing this, Qin Muxue put a hand on Lao Meng's knee: "Lao Meng?"

She stared at Lao Meng and repeated her question.

Before Lao Meng could reply, Qin Muxue felt a chill behind her and a gust of cold wind blew in.

Immediately, Qin Muxue heard Suzaku's faint voice: "Because I pretended to be a little girl and sneaked into the young master's room to peek at his sleep and was discovered."

Qin Muxue turned her head away, looking at Suzaku intently with a bit of surprise in her eyes.

The corners of her mouth moved slightly: "Pretend to be a little girl?"

Zhuque sat next to Qin Muxue nonchalantly and continued: "That year during the New Year, when the young master learned that Zhu Wu still had a younger brother like me, he agreed to let Zhu Wu take me to the villa to celebrate the New Year."

"I was really shocked when I saw the young master for the first time."

Zhuque's eyes were fascinated and he was looking ahead, as if the scene from that year was reappearing in front of his eyes.

"I never thought that there could be such a good-looking boy in this world."

Suzaku said, even with an adoring smile on his face.

"His eyes, nose, and lips were all just right and incredibly beautiful. I was stunned for a moment. I didn't even know how I was brought into the villa by my brother."

"It wasn't until I got slapped in my brother's room that I came to my senses."

Suzaku lowered his head and pursed his lips, with the same obsessed look on his face: "Later, I heard my brother say that when I saw Mr. Chu, I couldn't even walk away. Even Mr. Chu asked me name, I just stared at him blankly, not moving at all."

Qin Muxue stared at Zhuque's side face and couldn't help but feel an unspeakable emotion in her heart.

Not only did she not dislike such Suzaku, she even sympathized with him.

From the day he entered the Chu family, it was destined that Zhuque and Chu Tingxiao would have different identities. They would never have any other relationship apart from being CEO and bodyguard.

But under such a shackles, Suzaku developed strange and ulterior feelings for Chu Tingxiao.

Over the years, while he tried his best to suppress his feelings, he still had to stay with Chu Tingxiao as a bodyguard. You can imagine the torture.

Thinking of this, Qin Muxue couldn't help but reach out her hand.

By the time she came to her senses, her hand had already been placed on Suzaku's back and she patted it twice.

Suzaku suddenly raised his head, frowning slightly, staring at Qin Muxue.

When their eyes met, Qin Muxue suddenly came back to her senses and retracted her hand blankly.

She lowered her head, as if to cover up her embarrassment, and whispered: "So, if you were discovered and exposed by others, the Chu family would think that you had done something wrong, and even suspected that you had done something inappropriate to Chu Tingxiao, until it was too late. Are you still allowed to enter the Chu family?"

Suzaku's expression became more and more sad after his sorrow was solved.

He lowered his head, paused for a long time, and then sneered: "But they never dreamed that I still passed the many tests and finally went to Mr. Chu. It's just that my brother was worried that I would continue to behave strangely if I stayed with Mr. Chu. So they kept pushing me out to perform other tasks."

Having said this, Suzaku raised his head.

When he raised his head, Qin Muxue finally saw Suzaku's Adam's apple.

Before this, Qin Muxue had never even discovered Suzaku's Adam's apple.

His throat is so small that if you don't look carefully, you can't really see it.

Zhuque didn't know what Qin Muxue was looking at, so he just continued to talk to himself: "I have figured out a lot of things outside these years. There is nothing shameful about my feelings. But Mr. Chu is not me, nor is he like me. Human. I can’t force him to become me, right?”

"So, I secretly swear that as long as I live, I will protect him and not let anyone hurt him."
Chapter completed!