Chapter 8: Keep Laughing, Huh? Why Did You Stop?
Looking at Mo Ziyang asking for help, Lin Muxi felt helpless and had a headache. In order to keep her secret of turning into a girl, she could only quickly betray her good bro.
“Please… Lin Muxi, this isn’t even a hard thing to do…”
Mo Ziyang looked at Lin Muxi in despair, his eyes full of pleading. To save his butt from a beating, he even tried using money power.
But even when faced with a few red banknotes, Lin Muxi stayed unmoved, saying she really couldn’t help.
It’s not that she didn’t want the money, but she honestly had nothing to prove she was a guy. If she could, who wouldn’t take free money?
Seeing his grandson in such a sorry state, Grandpa Mo, who was standing nearby, couldn’t help but laugh.
With his many years of experience reading people, he could tell from their actions that their relationship wasn’t like what he first thought. It didn’t seem like they were romantically involved, and it looked like they’d known each other for a long time.
From the way it looked, maybe this girl really was his grandson’s friend.
“I’ll believe for now that she’s your friend. But if I hear about you fooling around at school again, don’t blame me for being harsh.”
Leaving those words, Grandpa Mo gave Mo Ziyang a fierce glare, buckled his belt, and left.
“I gotta say… your grandpa really hits hard. Just watching from the side made me feel pain…”
Lin Muxi looked at Mo Ziyang, who was nodding and smiling respectfully to Grandpa Mo. When she glanced at the way he was slightly rubbing his butt, the smug smile on her face was almost impossible to hide.
Serves him right for taking advantage of her so much today. He brought this on himself. Seeing this, she immediately went over to “comfort” him.
Once his grandpa was far enough away, Mo Ziyang turned his head, lightly patted Lin Muxi on the shoulder, his eyes narrowing just a little, but with a kind-looking smile on his face.
“Eek!”
That single pat made all the hairs on Lin Muxi’s body stand up.
Uh-oh. Laughed too much, now her good bro was mad. In an instant, she even imagined how she might die.
“Keep laughing, huh? Why did you stop?”
“Uh… um, if I said I didn’t mean it, would you believe me?”
“What do you think?”
Lin Muxi stood in front of Mo Ziyang, avoiding his gaze, trying to hide the panic on her face, mumbling for a long time without saying anything.
What to do, what to do…
Could he be about to figure out the truth?
Looking at Mo Ziyang’s cold stare, cold sweat started running down her back. Her brain was working at full speed, thinking of how to stop her good bro from suspecting anything.
Seeing the way she pretended to be calm, her small hands twisting the hem of her skirt like a student being scolded by a teacher, Mo Ziyang felt most of his anger fade…
He couldn’t help it. Today, Lin Muxi was just too cute. It made him unable to stay mad.
“Tch, forget it. Just behave yourself today, and I’ll let this go.”
“Got it, bro!”
Hearing that Mo Ziyang wouldn’t keep questioning her, Lin Muxi finally felt the heavy weight in her heart drop, and quickly put on that same flattering smile from before.
Instead, Mo Ziyang showed a sly smile when he saw Lin Muxi quickly agree.
How dare she just watch for fun while he’s about to get punished! If he didn’t make Lin Muxi pay a price today, he wouldn’t be Mo Ziyang!
“Okay. Do you know who you are today?”
Leading Lin Muxi toward the gate, Mo Ziyang glanced at her, his eyes saying, ‘You better know your role today, or else.’
“Role? What role? Aren’t we just going to the comic convention?”
Mo Ziyang’s question caught Lin Muxi off guard. She tilted her head, wide-eyed and confused, staring at him.
“I’m here to go to the convention, so what role?”
Seeing her puzzled face, Mo Ziyang suddenly flicked her forehead.
“Ah! What are you doing, Mo Ziyang? That really hurts!”
Almost in tears, Lin Muxi turned and glared fiercely at Mo Ziyang, like she was asking him what he was trying to do.
“Remember, today I’m the young master, and you’re my maid here to serve me, got it?”
Without caring about her angry look, Mo Ziyang grinned mischievously and pointed at the maid outfit she was wearing.
“Huh? Are you sick or something? You want me to dress up and play along? Besides, you don’t even look like a young master.”
Though she said that, Lin Muxi quickly accepted Mo Ziyang’s words. After all, he was her good bro and she didn’t want to offend him, especially since he’d helped her so much.
But she couldn’t help but complain about his outfit, who would wear that landlord-looking outfit to a comic convention?
“What? Everything I’m wearing is expensive brand stuff! You just don’t have good taste.”
Mo Ziyang pointed at his casual shorts and T-shirt, shocked that Lin Muxi didn’t recognize quality.
“Sorry, I don’t get it. To me, you just look like some street punk.”
“You…!”
Seeing Lin Muxi’s ‘whatever, I don’t understand you’ attitude left Mo Ziyang speechless. He wanted to roast her but didn’t know how.
Just then, a two-seater sports car with posters of cute girls on it pulled up nearby.
Mo Ziyang opened the door, holding back his anger as he grabbed Lin Muxi and tossed her inside.
“Wait here, I’m going to change clothes.”
He gave Lin Muxi a sharp look when she tried to speak, then left with a maid who got out of the car, leaving Lin Muxi stunned inside.
“Hmph… money isn’t everything…”
Feeling unfairly scolded, Lin Muxi sat in the car pouting, tapping the seat with her little hand, mentally cursing Mo Ziyang many times over.
After doing nothing for about ten minutes, the car door opened, and out came Mo Ziyang dressed in a black suit, keeping up his cool and handsome image.
“Wow, did you just change clothes or change person?”
Looking at Mo Ziyang’s cold, distant face and unique style, Lin Muxi was surprised. It was like unlocking a new “skin” for her bro.
“You’re stupid. I’ve always looked like this, you just didn’t notice.”
Looking at the clueless maid with cat ears beside him, Mo Ziyang felt helpless. Who knew he’d met such a troublemaker back then, someone who turned him from a cool guy into a silly fool?
“Now I get why the school’s pretty girls are all over you, but why are you usually such an idiot?”
Lin Muxi stared at Mo Ziyang’s handsome face and deep dark eyes, thinking how she never realized her bro could be this good-looking before.
“It’s thanks to your dumb buff.”
“Take that! You’re the dumb one.”
Seeing her good bro teasing her, Lin Muxi flared up like an angry kitten and started roasting Mo Ziyang back.
But Mo Ziyang, starting the car calmly, wasn’t worried at all.
Before Lin Muxi could say anything more, he covered her mouth and leaned close with a wicked smile.
“Don’t forget, today you’re my cat-eared little maid. Talking back to your master like that is not allowed.”