Chapter 162: Master Si Caught in the Act

Before four o'clock in the morning, Si Qingchen left a little earlier than usual.
The little one, who should have been fast asleep, stirred with some kind of premonition.
She instinctively grabbed the corner of his suit jacket. Without even opening her eyes, she murmured,
"Brother Chen, where are you going?"
Her voice was unbearably soft, acting like a tiny fishhook that snagged the tenderest part of the man's heart.
Si Qingchen's movement of getting out of bed came to an abrupt halt, as he felt a faint electric current crawl up his spine all the way to the top of his head.
Naturally, the man could not resist turning around again. He leaned over, pressing down on the little thing to kiss her again and again.
Days of continuous intimacy had long made Mu Qingcheng accustomed to his presence.
She instinctively raised her arms to wrap them around his neck, obediently parting her lips...
"Qingcheng, I need to go on a business trip for a few days. Be a good girl and don't go anywhere, understand?"
"...A business trip?"
Hearing this, Mu Qingcheng finally struggled to open her eyes.
Looking at the face suddenly magnified before her, she suddenly realized that she was hugging Si Qingchen with extraordinary enthusiasm.
Not only that, but just now she seemed to have proactively... invited him...
Her two little hands instinctively moved to let go, and her face, already flushed from sleep, turned an even deeper shade of red.
However, before her arms could leave his neck by even a fraction, they were pressed back down by a pair of large hands.
Si Qingchen narrowed his eyes in a "warning,"
"Hold me properly. You are not allowed to let go."

"..."
"Qingcheng, are you not listening to me?"
"...I know. Stop talking."
Mu Qingcheng's face was flushed enough to bleed. Facing this overbearing man, she could only obediently hold on to him.
She did not dare to let go even a bit.
...
After lingering like this for another half an hour, Si Qingchen finally got up with absolute reluctance and climbed out the window.

On the other side, outside the Mu family's gates,
Si Bei had been waiting anxiously for a while, terrified that his boss might get trapped inside the house.
Fortunately, just as he was scheming up countermeasures on how to "rescue" him, he finally saw that tall figure appear at the familiar window.
However, just as he intended to slide down the roof ridge, a slender figure suddenly appeared by the window, grabbed the man's collar, and pulled him fiercely back...
"Damn, the Fifth Miss is truly fiery."
"Did you think just any ordinary girl could handle our boss?"
"Oh my god... Was our boss just 'window-don'ed'?"
...
The surrounding subordinates couldn't help whispering among themselves.
Si Bei's temples throbbed with pain as he thought to himself that his boss's image was... completely ruined.

...
Back on that side,
Si Qingchen hadn't expected Mu Qingcheng's sudden burst of enthusiasm either.
Yet, after the kiss, he saw the little one's eyes turn red.
Si Qingchen froze abruptly, but then realized—was she... reluctant to let him go?
"Be a good girl, I'll be back soon."
"Mm."
Perhaps it was the misty dawn that made one's mind hazy and not fully awake.
At this moment, Mu Qingcheng was exceptionally well-behaved and cute. She bit her lower lip and nodded, her usually aloof little face showing a hint of grievance never seen before.
That pitiful look made Si Qingchen ache with fondness, and he couldn't help leaning over once more to peck at her already somewhat swollen lips.
...
Watching the man smoothly slide down the roof ridge, Mu Qingcheng burrowed back into bed and fell asleep once again, guided by the lingering scent.

Meanwhile, downstairs,
The eldest Young Master Si, who was planning to slip away along the wall, had just reached the corner of the garden when he unsuspectedly ran into an unexpected figure.
At that moment, under the green vine trellis,
Mu Qing wrapped in a white bathrobe, looked with a subtle expression at the Eldest Young Master Si, whose face was clearly a bit unnatural.
He spoke, with deep-seated meaning in his voice,
"Eldest Young Master Si, why are you leaving so early today?"
Si Qingchen, "..."