The Outcast Heiress’s Secret Identities
Chapter 507 - Chapter 507 0497 has quite some guts

Chapter 507: 0497 has quite some guts Chapter 507: 0497 has quite some guts Chi Mu glanced at him from the corner of his eye and heard him say, “What are you so lost in thought about? You haven’t even touched your chopsticks.”

Chi Mu lowered his gaze to sweep over the table full of dishes, remained silent for a few seconds, then slowly picked up his chopsticks.

After three rounds of drinks, the flavors of the dishes had been thoroughly savored.

The celebration banquet was proceeding smoothly.

Midway through the meal, Ye Zhichen’s cellphone rang. She excused herself to everyone and, with her phone in hand, walked out of the private room.

The moment the door closed, the noisy sounds inside the room grew fainter and fainter.

She let out a slight sigh, and carrying her phone, she walked further away before finally answering the call.

“Hello…”

The long corridor was eerily quiet with only her present. After hanging up the phone and a long while later, she didn’t return to the private room. She leaned against the corridor wall, feeling the slivers of draft flowing through.

Until her entire body felt a chill and her mind became slightly clearer, she slowly turned around.

But after taking just a few steps, she saw the man leaning against the wall and smoking ahead of her.

The white smoke blurred his handsome features, but the gloominess on his face was still visible, his eyes harbored a light like that of Satan’s, on the verge of breaking down.

Ye Zhichen was somewhat surprised, and the moment their gazes met, she paused slightly.

Yet she didn’t linger and continued walking forward with an air of calm detachment, giving the impression she had no intention of staying.

In Chi Mu’s dark eyes, his pupils slowly slid to the corner of his eyes, and when he saw Ye Zhichen’s familiar silhouette, he squinted slightly.

Ignored again!

Who gave her the courage?

He scoffed silently, watching the woman walk straight across the corridor. He dropped the slender cigarette from his hand to the ground and mercilessly crushed it underfoot.

In the moment that was about to pass by, he suddenly straightened up and forcefully grabbed Ye Zhichen’s wrist.

Ye Zhichen felt a chill in her heart, looked up, and saw that handsome but familiar face, with her pupils trembling imperceptibly.

“You…”

Chi Mu leaned in slightly, his eyes dark like ink and his brows stern, exuding a cold indifference.

“Ye Zhichen, you’ve got quite the nerve.”

Upon speaking, it was as though a voice from Hell echoed, sinking into her eardrums coldly and ominously, and the grip on her hand tightened slightly.

“Let go… let me go!”

Ye Zhichen came back to her senses and struggled to free her wrist from Chi Mu’s clutches.

Chi Mu’s eyes narrowed slightly, the cold and sharpness in his pupils causing one to feel a sense of dread.

However, the more Ye Zhichen struggled, the tighter he clutched. Ye Zhichen’s beautiful face turned slightly pale, and a fine sweat began to form on her forehead.

At last, she closed her eyes in resignation and, impatiently, used all her strength to fling off his hand.

“Ah–”

At the moment she flung his hand away, her high heels twisted, and her body staggered violently, tumbling toward the ground.

Her eyes widened in terror, instinctively seeking to grasp at something.

Chi Mu’s cold black eyes trembled fiercely. Without thinking, he reached out to catch Ye Zhichen’s arm, pulling her into his embrace.

Ye Zhichen clutched at the front of Chi Mu’s shirt tightly, her pale face filled with lingering fear.

No accident occurred, and the fleeting panic that had passed through Chi Mu’s eyes also settled down, replaced by his usual profound indifference.

Lowering his head to look at the woman who had narrowly escaped disaster in his arms, his brow furrowed.

His hands remained on her slender, frail waist.

Not even a handful!

Does this woman ever eat?

So thin!

Ye Zhichen, regaining her composure, quickly stepped out of his embrace and created distance between them.

But Chi Mu did not let go of her, continuing to grasp her arm.

Ye Zhichen, feeling a bit drained, closed her eyes and with a pale face coldly said:

“Let go.”

Chi Mu’s deep-set eyes were firmly fixed on her face, his gaze sharp and gloomy.

“You should know, there’s no good ending for irritating me.”

Ye Zhichen slowly opened her eyes, looking at him with irony.

“I don’t seem to have the obligation to please you either.”

Chi Mu’s eyes gradually darkened, and the smile that curled up on his lips carried a chilling taste.

“No obligation? Then, to whom do you have an obligation? Xiao Yize perhaps?”

Thinking of her coquettish and flattering manner before that man, a gloomy rage was ready to burst from his blood and bones.

Ye Zhichen didn’t deny it, “This seems to have nothing to do with you…”

Chi Mu sneered, “It has nothing to do with me? You seem to have forgotten your own identity, Mrs., Chi?”

The last three words, the man uttered through gritted teeth, popping out one by one from his mouth, almost every syllable like a knife, fiercely stabbing into Ye Zhichen’s heart.

Mrs. Chi?

Once, she had desperately longed for these three words, thinking that the day her dream came true, she had fulfilled her life’s ambition.

But she never anticipated that it was the beginning of another difficult chapter of her life.

She was a moth to a flame, completely willing!

And what did she get in return?

“Now you remember I’m your Mrs. Chi? Even I had forgotten that without President Chi mentioning it.”

Ye Zhichen stood there stoutly, her tone full of sarcasm, yet the other hand hanging by her side clenched tightly.

Chi Mu remained silent.

After a long while, he slowly raised his head, his pitch-black eyes tinged with obscurity, unblinkingly staring into her eyes, his voice cold and piercing.

“So, you’re saying you feel wronged?”

The icy voice, carrying frost, made Ye Zhichen shiver slightly, chilling her to the bone.

Wronged?

Indeed!

She was wronged, but what of it?

From the moment her name took on his surname, her life was fated to be a mixture of joy and sorrow.

“Ye Zhichen, you and I should never have had anything to do with each other in this lifetime. Everything now is but your own insistence…”

Chi Mu narrowed his eyes, slowly approaching her.

Ye Zhichen’s eyelashes trembled, her heart tumultuous as waves. She lifted her head to look at Chi Mu.

But what she saw was sarcasm curled at the corner of his lips.

“So, no matter how wronged you are, you have to bear it yourself!”

Ye Zhichen’s steps uncontrollably retreated two paces, the coldness and mockery in the man’s eyes were like a sharp knife, piercing a large hole directly in her heart.

Death by a thousand cuts!

The man before her indeed was the person in the world most capable of hurting her.

A casual word from him could devastate her completely!

She bit the inside of her cheek powerfully, her clenched fist white-knuckled.

After a long silence, she slowly lifted her gaze, her face feigning a calm and composed demeanor.

“It’s just a business marriage, is it necessary? Insistence? No matter how lowly I, Ye Zhichen, may be, I would never insist on someone who doesn’t love me to marry me out of obligation! Chi Mu, it was your own decision.”

Love blinds people, but she has her dignity and bottom line!

And her dignity is not to be trampled upon!

Not even by Chi Mu!

Hearing this, Chi Mu’s slightly narrowed eyes tensed imperceptibly, the arc of his lips inadvertently tightened.

A difficult-to-describe anger was churning in his chest.

Especially seeing Ye Zhichen’s nonchalant and uncaring demeanor, it shattered all the patience in his blood!