Xu Mu stood to the side and saw a pair of small white panties, with a tiny ribbon bow tied at the waistband.
However, Meng Wanyue didn't take them off completely — she only pushed them down to her ankles, then started trying to remove her top.
After several failed attempts, Xu Mu stepped forward to help her take it off.
While holding her top, he noticed a dagger hidden in an inner pocket.
Meng Wanyue then collapsed onto the bed in a star-shaped sprawl, clearly unconscious.
He had to admit, she was rather attractive.
If he were lying down beside her, they would form the character "木" (wood).
In the end, Xu Mu chose righteousness — though he couldn't deny a flicker of temptation in his heart.
He lifted the blanket and covered her, then turned and quietly left the room, closing the door behind him.
Downstairs, Xu Mu opened the car door and found Ye Tong leaning against the seat, already asleep.
He didn't wake her and simply drove home.
After parking in the garage, he gently shook Ye Tong awake. "We're home."
"Oh, I must've fallen asleep," Ye Tong murmured, frowning briefly. But when she saw Xu Mu's face, her expression softened into a faint smile.
Xu Mu supported her upstairs into the bedroom.
He then pulled out his phone and downloaded the full recording from the cloud, planning to bring it to the company tomorrow and tell Xu Shou and Xu Ningbing everything.
Just then, Ye Tong's hand started to move restlessly.
Xu Mu was caught off guard — this was the first time his wife had ever taken the initiative.
Though she'd always been cooperative before, he had always been the one leading.
"Hubby, I've felt so happy these past few days," Ye Tong whispered, her voice tinged with alcohol and coyness.
"Mm. From now on, you'll be even happier," Xu Mu replied with a faint smile. "Now sleep."
"I can't sleep."
With that, Ye Tong slipped fully under the covers.
Xu Mu's eyes widened — he didn't expect Ye Tong had been studying the "stock market" lately, practicing the art of buying low and selling high.
Though she wasn't that experienced, she was clearly taking it seriously.
And that was no easy feat — even Xu Mu, a seasoned trader, had almost lost billions doing the same.
The next morning.
Meng Wanyue's eyes snapped open. She found herself lying in bed.
She quickly checked her body — her pants were still around her ankles.
Taking a deep breath, her gaze turned sharp and fierce.
Her head was still foggy, but she remembered clearly that Xu Mu had carried her inside.
And not only that — she had told him about the Dragon King.
"Drinking really causes trouble! That bastard Xu Mu — does he think just because Ye Tong and Ye Yu like him, I wouldn't dare to kill him?!"
Tears welled up as she spoke. Trained as an assassin since childhood, she had always guarded her body carefully.
She had survived countless battlefields and assassinations without losing herself — only to be defiled by that man.
Fuming, she got dressed and turned on her phone. She had installed three hidden pinhole cameras in her apartment.
Connecting to them, she pulled up last night's footage.
She saw Xu Mu helping her inside, asking about the telescope, and her own responses.
Then he led her to the bedroom.
Meng Wanyue clenched her fists — here it comes, the disgusting scene.
But— she froze.
The video wasn't what she'd imagined.
Her pants were taken off by herself, and as for the top, she had tried several times before Xu Mu helped her remove it.
At the end, Xu Mu simply covered her with the blanket and left.
Afraid he might come back, she fast-forwarded the video at ten-times speed — until she saw herself waking up alone.
"I… I wronged him."
She muttered softly.
She had always suspected that Xu Mu's kindness was no different from other men's — that he wanted her body.
But despite having the perfect opportunity last night, he hadn't touched her at all.
Not only had he refrained from doing anything inappropriate — he hadn't even laid a finger on her.
Meng Wanyue even began to wonder if perhaps she wasn't attractive enough to interest him.
But regardless, Xu Mu's kindness clearly wasn't out of lust.
Maybe that was just the kind of person he was.
[Favorability +30]
Xu Mu had already woken up. Remembering last night, he still felt a trace of satisfaction.
It was as if he had been the loyal subject, while Ye Tong was the queen upon her throne.
Instinctively, he opened his status panel.
A new notification popped up — more than a hundred Fate Points gained.
Xu Mu glanced toward Ye Tong, but saw no dark aura above her head.
He wasn't sure whose points they were from, but to gain that much in one go — and while he'd been asleep — meant the other person's Fate Level must be high.
He quietly left the bedroom. As soon as he went downstairs, Ye Tong opened her eyes.
She wanted to die of embarrassment!
She buried her face in her hands — was that really her last night?
She'd better stop drinking from now on.
She couldn't recall everything clearly, but she remembered enough — she'd been the one who pushed Xu Mu down.
As a top-tier chef, Xu Mu casually made breakfast.
After eating, he grabbed his keys and left, leaving the rest in the kitchen.
Before going, he sent Ye Tong a message.
Ye Tong didn't dare go downstairs. She didn't even know how to face him.
Would he think she was too forward?
Would he think she was a bad woman?
Then her phone buzzed.
She checked the screen — a message from Xu Mu.
"Breakfast's in the kitchen. Heat it up when you wake. You must be tired after last night."
Ye Tong's cheeks turned as red as a boiled crab.
Above her head, her Favorability bar kept rising rapidly.
At the company, Xu Mu sat in his office listening to the full recording from the previous night.
He was shocked by how tightly the company guarded its secrets — even as the chairman's son, he had never heard a word about this.
Clearly, it had been deliberately concealed.
In short, the Xu family had taken in the pharmaceutical researchers formerly under the Ye family.
The medical industry was unlike any other — its investments were massive, and success rates extremely low.
Without progress, it became a bottomless pit that devoured endless funding.
Many companies couldn't sustain it and had to abandon their projects.
The Ye family had once suffered the same fate.
But when success did come, the profits were immense.
After years of heavy investment, the Xu family finally developed an all-natural herbal weight-loss medicine.
Unlike the fake products on the market or those that caused rebound weight gain after stopping,
this medicine had no side effects.
Its only flaw was that it created a strong sense of fullness.
In simple terms, overweight people consumed more because they burned more.
But after taking this medicine, they could still get enough nutrition while feeling full — eating less naturally led to weight loss.
However, just as the medicine was about to launch, its formula was leaked by Qian Gang to Feng Yue.
Now Lin Yan knew about it too.
Lin Yan planned to invest all the money he'd earned as a mercenary into production, using Li Feipeng's factory to bring the weight-loss drug to market early.
The Xu family had poured blood and sweat into development — only for others to try to reap the harvest.
The reason Lin Yan dared to do it was simple — he saw the massive potential in the drug.
Xu Mu stood up and headed out to find his father.
But as soon as he opened the door, he saw Meng Wanyue standing outside, about to knock.
Seeing Xu Mu, she instinctively took a step back, a trace of nervousness in her voice.
"P-President Xu…"