Ch34 - Don’t flatter yourself.

Editor: Meouwch

That night, Ning You slept very restlessly. He always felt that the quilt was as heavy as Wuzhi Mountain, and he couldn’t breathe. 

When he woke up in the morning, there was an unkempt man lying next to him, wearing a crumpled suit, solemnly covered with his most beloved duvet.

“Li Mu!” Ning You’s blood surged in an instant, “Have you taken a shower? Getting in my bed just like this!”

The man with his eyes closed seemed to be irritated by the noise. His brows furrowed as he slowly opened his eyes. When he saw Ning You clearly, his eyes became confused, as if he was recalling something. After a while, the confusion disappeared from his eyes. He moved his lips and said, “Wife.”

“Who is your wife?” Ning You frowned. Even in the simple conditions of the cabin, he couldn’t bear to go to bed in his outer clothes and pants, not to mention that Li Mu still reeked of alcohol. 

In any case, he would never admit the brat in front of him was his husband.

“Isn’t it?” Li Mu’s facial expression is a bit absentminded, “We seem to have an agreement, are we going to do something today?”

“No.” Ning You turned over and got out of bed, “You’re dreaming.”

Li Mu’s mind was a little swollen, and he couldn’t tell whether what happened last night was reality or a dream. He followed Ning You to the vanity, hugged Ning You from behind and asked, “Aren’t you going to become my wife today?”

“No.” Ning You took out a new toothbrush from the mirror cabinet, squeezed on toothpaste and stuffed it into Li Mu’s mouth, “Brush your teeth before you talk to me.”

Li Mu obediently held the handle of the toothbrush and brushed his teeth obediently.

On the wide smart mirror, it shows that the weather is sunny today, the temperature is 15 degrees, and the air quality is good. Is it suitable for moving, getting married, obtaining a certificate, and setting up a bed. Avoid opening a business, moving into a new house, starting work and breaking ground.

There are two people standing on the left and right in the mirror. The person on the left is wearing a black suit full of wrinkles, and even the shirt is black. The person on the right is wearing a white silk nightgown, revealing his snow-white chest. 

Li Mu stared in the mirror for a while, then suddenly rinsed the foam in his mouth and took off his coat and shirt.

“What are you doing?” Ning You’s electric toothbrush hadn’t run out of time yet, he bit the brush head and asked inarticulately.

“Do you want to bathe together?” Li Mu said and took off his pants too.

The wild species that has just woken up is still slightly in a state unique to the early morning, with its head drooping, as if waiting for someone to wake it up completely. 

Ning You tore his gaze back, looked at the mirror and said, “No.”

Li Mu’s tone turned bashful: “But my hand injury is not healed yet.”

Ning You glanced at Li Mu in the mirror, naked——except for the gauze on his left arm.

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The shower partition blocked the hot and humid water vapor. Li Mu obediently propped his hands on the wall and calmly let Ning You bathe him, but a certain wild species on his body was  restless, constantly grabbing Ning You’s attention.

“Can you please restrain yourself?” Ning You angrily flushed him with hot water.

Li Mu snorted sullenly, frowned and said, “It misses you.”

Recalling the “excellent” performance of this person when he proposed last night, Ning You was not in the mood at all. He pretended to be blind and washed the big dark horse clean from head to toe. 

But the moment the sound of the water disappeared, before Ning You had the time to put the shower head back on the shelf, the bathrobe strap on his body was roughly torn apart.

“Are you lying to me?” Li Mu took Ning You into his arms, and his silk pajamas were immediately soaked, “You clearly promised me last night.”

“No.” Ning You mercilessly pushed Li Mu’s lips away, “Business marriage has to have a step-by-step process. Do you really think of it as signing a contract and finishing it with a seal?”

Li Mu paused, looked at Ning You uncertainly and asked, “Are we in a business marriage?” 

“Otherwise?” Ning You said in a businesslike manner, “Learn from your elder brother, he still knows how to behave.”

Li Mu frowned, his right hand mischievously reached into his robe: “Then you have to give me the opportunity to perform.”

Ning You remained unmoved and pushed this barbarian’s chest with his hands, and said, “I still have to go to work.”

Speaking of which, he suddenly thought of another thing and added, “You have to go to work too, do you think you are still in the woods?” 

Li Mu obviously didn’t like hearing the word “go to work”, and frowned deeply, like a corporate slave who had to go to work on Monday morning after a good weekend.

He reluctantly took the bath towel to wipe his body clean, and asked Ning You: “Between work and me, is work more important to you?”

Not really.

Ning You said in his heart, both of them are very important. 

But thinking that this person would hang him aside after begging for marriage, he said, “Of course.”

Li Mu stopped talking and looked at Ning You resentfully.

Ning You doesn’t want to go back on his word, but he was afraid that Li Mu would be hurt, so he put up a front and forced out a question: “What do you think I’m doing?”

“I’m thinking about how to kidnap you back to the mountains.” Li Mu said. 

“That depends on your ability.” Ning You snorted softly.

The housekeeper of the Li family sent Li Mu a change of clothes and put on a new suit. Li Mu’s wide-shouldered and narrow-waisted figure made him look like a mannequin in a shop window.

Ning You looked at the urban elite man in front of him, it was really difficult to connect him to the wild man in the mountains. But if he has to say it, he still prefers Li Mu in a leather jacket and Martin boots.

Since Li Mu didn’t have a car so soon after returning to the city, since both of them had to go to work, he naturally acted as Ning You’s driver. 

“Didn’t you ask the company’s driver to pick you up and drop you off?” Li Mu drove Ning You’s car out of the neighborhood, looked at the road ahead, and asked indifferently.

“I said that I drive my own car very well.” Ning You is inevitably a little guilty, because Li Mu also specifically told him not to drive by himself.

“You also said that you didn’t have a problem at that time.” Li Mu glanced at Ning You, his expression obviously not very happy.

“It was different that time.” Ning You said, “I’m really fine in the city.” 

“Ning You.” Li Mu frowned.

“I don’t want a driver.” Ning You said.

“Then I’ll pick you up and take you to and from work in the future.” Li Mu said stubbornly.

Ning You didn’t say a word. He really didn’t want a driver, but Li Mu was not bad as a driver. 

There are a lot of traffic lights on the road, and it is the morning rush hour. The car has been unable to speed up.

Ning You took out his phone and watched the news. The Li family factory is still in the headlines, but unlike yesterday, today’s headlines are all about the second young master of the Li family who appears out of nowhere in the company.

There are excerpts from the video in the news. Ning You clicked on it and saw that Li Mu was wearing yesterday’s suit and was making a statement at the press conference, saying that he would solve the problem of environmental pollution in the factory and give the society a satisfactory explanation.

Looking at Li Mu in the spotlight, Ning You was a little surprised. He had never seen Li Mu like this before, and he seemed to be much more reliable than he thought. 

“How are you going to solve the company’s problems?” Ning You put away the phone and asked Li Mu.

“I know many environmental experts and I am forming an advisory group.” Li Mu said, “In addition to solving the current problems, I will come up with a set of sustainable development plans, which can best be implemented in other companies.”

Li Mu himself is an environmental protection professional and has accumulated a lot of contacts in this field. Compared with Li Zhao, he can indeed come up with countermeasures more quickly and accurately.

“What about the opinion of those shareholders?” Ning You asked again. 

“Now public opinion is on my side.” Li Mu said, “They have to pay even if they don’t want to pay.”

“That’s true.” Ning nodded. No wonder Li Mu was so badly bullied by those shareholders last night, presumably because he was feeling unwell.

He continued to ask: “Then how long will you stay here this time? What about Hari and the cattle?”

“How long I stay depends on the situation.” Li Mu said, “Dou Lan is helping me take care of them.” 

“Speaking of Dou Lan,” Ning You suddenly thought of the project in his hand, “I want her to come work for me.”

Li Mu looked at Ning You inexplicably, obviously not understanding what was going on.

Ning You briefly talked about his new project and explained: “I want to set up an environmental protection station or research station over there. Dou Lan is a veterinarian, and she just happens to be able to provide us with professional support.”

“Your new project is to protect wild animals?” There was surprise in Li Mu’s eyes, but more than that, he was impressed with Ning You, “It can’t be because of me.” 

“Don’t flatter yourself.” Of course Ning You won’t admit it, “I’m doing this for the company’s image. What if something goes wrong like with your family?”

This reason was really lame, Li Mu laughed, and the smile at the corner of his mouth did not dissipate for a long time.

Ning You is no longer distracted by the Li family’s affairs. He believes that Li Mu can handle it well, but the project in his hand has not been reported to Ning Xin, let alone the support of other shareholders, and he is still facing a lot of problems.

“So, you mean to do experiments on animals first, and then on humans after the technology is mature?” 

In the chairman’s office, Ning Xin put down the project plan in her hand and pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses. Her expression made it hard to tell whether she agreed or opposed it.

“That’s right.” Ning You said as he maintained his composure.

When persuading people in his own department, Ning You’s focus is on cooperation with manufacturers. After all, people who dabble in technology want to have access to the top industry technologies.

But in front of his mother, he had to describe the project as a complete benefit, because it was more likely to impress Ning Xin. 

But Ning Xin is not so easy to fool.

“Don’t think I can’t see that you are doing public service, Ning You.” Ning Xin said, “Is this your new fiance’s proposal to you?”

“No,” Ning You said, “It’s because I myself think this project is worth doing.”

“What’s it worth to spend billions or tens of billions to push such a project?” Ning Xin said in Ning You’s words, “Is it worth it just because ‘you like it’?” 

“It’s not for my own sake.” Ning You heard Ning Xin’s ridicule and frowned, “Why are you only focusing on immediate benefits?”

“Because the immediate benefit in front of us is reality.” Ning Xin said indifferently, “You really have been led astray by him. Regarding the candidate of your fiance, I will think about it again. As for this project, you can take it back.”