The Billionaire's New Wife in Chief

Chapter 1329: Chapter 690: Mo Han & Wanwan Arc – In What Capacity Should She Ask Him to Stay?

Ning Wan was stunned; she really hadn’t expected him to ask that. She stayed silent for a while before finally smiling and saying, "If you want to know, you can actually go ask someone else. Asking me doesn’t mean I’ll necessarily tell you."

Xi Mohan pressed his lips together and looked at her, his face not looking very good.

This little girl was getting bolder and bolder. She actually dared to talk to him like that now?

Recently, Ning Wan really had become less and less afraid of Xi Mohan. Probably because this man no longer looked at her with the same disgust as before, to the point that she’d even started to suspect that maybe Xi Mohan liked her.

But in reality it was just a suspicion; she didn’t dare be sure.

Their gazes met—one pair of brows and eyes curved with a smile, while the other man’s eyes held a faint anger at first, then in the end his face went completely expressionless.

Right when Ning Wan thought Xi Mohan was going to threaten or coax her, the man simply let her go.

He didn’t continue pressing her. Instead, he turned around and left without a word.

Watching Xi Mohan’s back, Ning Wan frowned slightly and muttered, "Is he mad?"

His reaction was impossible to read; she had no idea whether he was angry or not.

When Ning Wan came out of the room, Auntie Li told her that because of company matters, Xi Mohan had to go on a business trip for a month. The news made her freeze on the spot.

Her body went rigid, her mind blank for a moment. When she finally came back to herself, she asked in a daze, "He... where is he now?"

Auntie Li didn’t hide it. "Sir is packing his luggage in the bedroom right now. I think his flight is in two hours. Sigh... I just finished making afternoon tea. I was planning to have you two eat some together. It wasn’t easy for Sir to come back this time, but it turns out he only came back because he needed to grab his luggage for the trip... Ai, Miss Ning..."

Ning Wan didn’t wait for her to finish before she turned around and quickly headed upstairs.

She knew it was completely normal for Xi Mohan to go on business trips, but she’d been living here for a week now, and he’d come home every day. Even if they didn’t share all three meals, they at least had breakfast and dinner together. She also knew that every night when she was asleep, Xi Mohan would come into her room to check on her.

Now that she knew he’d be away for a month, the only thing she felt was a sudden, inexplicable sense of disappointment and sadness in her chest.

Every time she got used to someone’s presence in her life, she would slowly become dependent on that person—just like she was now with Xi Mohan.

Her steps were a little unsteady as she walked upstairs. All she wanted right now was to see Xi Mohan as soon as possible, but when she reached the doorway of his bedroom, her feet abruptly stopped. All at once she realized she couldn’t think of any reason to knock and go in, and even if she did see him, she had no idea what she could say.

Once she went in, what was she supposed to say?

Ask him not to go and to stay instead?

How was that even possible?

Not to mention that even if she did ask him not to go, whether he agreed or not would be another matter entirely.

The most important thing was... with what identity could she ask him to cancel his trip and stay? What right did she have to ask Xi Mohan to do what she wanted?

Thinking that far, she lowered her head and stared at the floor in front of her, her face clouded with desolation.