The Scheming Ex-Husband's Courtship
Chapter 150: A Chance Encounter

Chapter 150: Chapter 150: A Chance Encounter

When leaving Reynolds’s vineyard, Reynolds offered her a bottle of the estate’s newly brewed wine, which was typically quite expensive.

Gu Qili didn’t accept such a valuable gift; although she and Reynolds had met by chance, they hit it off because of their compatible personalities and had a particularly good rapport.

She spent the whole afternoon listening to his life’s struggles; although it was a familial inheritance, he started learning about wine as soon as he could read, having worked as a sommelier, sold wine, toiled in the vineyards, picked grapes under the scorching sun, and made wine in a winery – that’s why he could manage such a big estate so well at such a young age.

In the end, Gu Qili asked him for two of the newly cultivated grapevine saplings from this year. She remembered the name of this type of grapevine because Mu Shuoqian had once mentioned it when he first sent her to fetch wine from the cellar; it is called Merlot and is a noble variety used for making red wine.

Back at the hotel, Mu Shuoqian had returned and was sitting at the table, looking through documents.

Gu Qili greeted him, changed her clothes, and carefully placed the insulated box with the saplings, making a slight noise, which made Mu Shuoqian look up in her direction.

Gu Qili asked with a smile, "Have you eaten?"

He nodded his head and looked towards the box she treasured so much, "What’s inside?"

"Grapevine saplings."

"Where did you get them from?" he asked, setting aside the documents in his hand.

Gu Qili never intended to hide it from him, so she told him about her encounter with Reynolds.

"I asked him for these saplings; I don’t know if they can survive when planted."

"Where are you planning to plant them?" Mu Shuoqian didn’t seem surprised at all and didn’t show any sign of jealousy, as if he had known that she spent the afternoon with Reynolds. Seeing her so candid, his expression looked very pleased.

If she’s frank, then there’s no affair.

What she didn’t know was that he had almost instructed the person tailing her to forcefully bring her back halfway – what if Reynolds took a fancy to her?

But he knew she did it for the vineyard she longed for, so he held back.

"Secret." Gu Qili blinked twice, "And I’m going to need your help to handle its customs procedure."

He nodded his head and continued to read the documents.

Gu Qili noticed that since that night they discussed him not giving her the cold shoulder anymore, the temperature of his face seemed to have warmed up. Although it couldn’t be described as fiery enthusiasm, at least it was no longer freezing cold.

Thinking of this, she cheerfully walked over and sat down in the chair next to him, took out her phone, and said, "I took some photos at the Lavender Field today, do you want to see them?"

Seeing that he didn’t react and his gaze was still focused on the documents, she thought she had disturbed his work and just about to leave sulkily, Mu Shuoqian suddenly put down what he was holding and scooted his chair a little closer to her, "Where?"

Gu Qili happily pulled up the photos on her phone – in fact, when she was alone today, she had already secretly looked at them many times and giggled for quite a while.

"This one came out the best." Gu Qili was referring to a photo of the two of them at the Lavender Field, both looking striking against the backdrop of a sea of flowers, like a professionally staged photo shoot by a photographer, exquisitely flawless.

He didn’t comment but examined it very carefully, and his head nearly touched hers, allowing her to feel the steady rhythm of his breathing.

"Mu Shuoqian, do you have WeChat?"

He slightly raised his eyelids, his eyebrows drawing together in the middle, which very explicitly gave away his answer.

Gu Qili felt that, in this era, not having WeChat made one as rare as a dinosaur fossil, even their principal, who advocates against being glued to screens every day, plays WeChat; a classmate secretly added him and discovered that he was into a mobile game, ranking quite high, too.

Even if Mu Shuoqian was busy, he had to keep up with the times. After all, he’s only thirty years old, not an old man, always trying to appear deep and mysterious.

"Shall I download it for you?"

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