Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 308

Chapter 308 Why Are You Rushing To Sleep

Mu Zhi was shuddering as she stared at Lu Jinye. She insisted on staying in the car, reiterating herself out loud, “I am not staying here tonight.”

Lu Jinye turned to look at Mu Zhi, “So, where do you want to stay?” “I want to go home.” “Looking at the rain, that’s impossible.” “You can stay in there yourself, I don’t feel like joining you.”

She was suddenly reminded of the time the last time they were in the same hotel. Lu Jinye was a ticking time-bomb who could manipulate her emotions.

Mu Zhi was terrified.

Seeing that Mu Zhi would not move a finger, Lu Jinye cast a sideway look at her, saying, “Fine, I’ll get myself a room at the motel, and you can choose to stay here.”

He gave Mu Zhi one of the two umbrellas he had in the trunk. If he had forcefully carried Mu Zhi into the motel, she would’ve struggled, got water over herself, and easily caught a cold. He was certain that the both of them wouldn’t be able to find a fresh change of clothes in the area.

So he left Mu Zhi alone and went into the motel.

“I’m staying here.” Mu Zhi insisted like a stubborn mule.

Lu Jinye said nothing, as though agreeing to her tacitly. But he had just taken a few steps before turning around and uttered, “By the looks of how quickly water levels is rising, it’ll reach the door handle in less than half an hour, and you wouldn’t be able to open the door because of the water pressure. Good luck getting trapped.”

He resorted to employing scare tactics.

Mu Zhi was furious. She had the impulse to lash out at him, but Lu Jinye had promptly disappeared into the motel.

She could only catch a glimpse of his coat, and she was fuming.

When she looked at the rain outside, she could picture what Lu Jinye had described. The slowly growing rain wasn’t helping with the situation.

At that thought, Mu Zhi became a little intimidated.

She had never seen rain this heavy in her life. It almost looked like rain came in the form of water surging from the sky instead of droplets. It did not look like it would cease anytime soon.

Mu Zhi then cast her gaze afar. There were numerous cars in the parking lot, so Lu Jinye was forced to park his car farther away from the building.

It was a grubby-looking motel. Most of its customers must have only chosen to stay in for the night due to the heavy downpour.

Judging by the vast number of customers the motel had, Mu Zhi became terrified.

Witnessing the rising water levels, she was starting to change her idea of not entering the motel.

Is Lu Jinye right?

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Mu Zhi glanced at the apathetic rain reluctantly… Only to notice that the puddle of water at a distance away had grown into a bottomless pond.

She clenched her fists, then ultimately stepped off the car, put up the umbrella, and headed towards the motel.

Inside the motel, Lu Jinye was waiting her in the elevator, preparing to head upstairs. Mu Zhi was astonished.

When she came back to her senses, she scuttled towards Lu Jinye and barged into the elevator, saying, “Did you expect me to be here?”

“Let me tell you what, don’t be too happy. I’m not doing this for you. I only chose to come because I’d like to see my husband again.”

“I know.”

Lu Jinye uttered in response to Mu Zhi’s explanation.

Following that, Mu Zhi continued putting up a bold front, saying, “I’ll leave as soon as the rain stops tomorrow.”

Lu Jinye nodded listlessly and hummed in acknowledge.

The elevator stopped with a jerk. When the door rolled open, Lu Jinye walked towards the corner room and unlocked the door with the key.

The shabby motel used mechanical keys instead of migrating to the digital door lock systems.

As soon as the door was unlocked with a click, Mu Zhi reached out a hand towards Lu Jinye, saying, “Give me the key.”

Lu Jinye acted like he was clueless. “What?”

“I said, give me the key?”

“No.”

“Lu Jinye, I can pay you the fees!”

Mu Zhi glared at Lu Jinye in vexation, thinking that he had pushed too far. She seemed to have never gained the upper hand when she was dealing with Lu Jinye.

Mu Zhi waggled her hand and demanded, “Can you give me the key now?”

Lu Jinye frowned at Mu Zhi.

“This is the only key, and this is the last room the motel has.”

“You dirty scumbag!”

Mu Zhi was enraged to hear what came from Lu Jinye. She bellowed at him with a scowl and turned around, preparing to head back to the reception.

“It’s true, this is the only one.”

“Don’t even start!”

Mu Zhi growled through gritted teeth. She went to the ground floor and walked up to the front desk.

“Please give me a room, as long as it’s on a different floor as Lu Jinye.”

“Apologies, miss, we’re out of rooms.” Said the front desk attendant to Mu Zhi.

Upon ensuring that she did not hear it wrong, Mu Zhi became flabbergasted.

“The last room has just been taken by the mister, apologies,”

“Is this a joke? Don’t you even have a single room or something?”

Mu Zhi found it hard to believe. She was dejected.

Alas, the attendant shook her head apologetically.

Mu Zhi was on the verge of having a meltdown. She thanked the attendant, wheeled around, and headed back upstairs. She found Lu Jinye standing by the open door when she stepped out of the lift, obviously waiting for her return.

Mu Zhi became even more dejected.

Why is this happening to me?

“I shall allow you to sleep with me.”

Lu Jinye teased Mu Zhi when he saw her come back up.

Mu Zhi glared at Lu Jinye for some moments before muttering, “I’ll never sleep with a jerk like you.”

Despite her hostile tone, she headed into the room.

She stood sizing up the room. Lu Jinye had gotten the most sumptuous room the motel had to offer. It was spacious, but there was no partition, and it only had a king-sized bed.

Mu Zhi swallowed hard at the sight.

Fortunately though, there was a couch.

She walked up to the bed and grabbed the blanket while saying, “I’ll sleep on the couch tonight, don’t mind my business.”

But upon lifting the blanket, she realized that it was the only one.

It meant that Lu Jinye wouldn’t have a blanket to get if she had taken it away.

Seeing her actions, Lu Jinye put the blanket over Mu Zhi’s shoulders and said with a laugh, “Why are you rushing to sleep?”