Chapter 9 Come Anytime, I'll Be There

• When Huo Yuchuan saw Jiang Mucheng, he raised his hand and glanced at the time on his watch.
• Even if it wasn't a deliberate move, Jiang Mucheng could guess what it meant... It was almost midnight, which meant that Huo Yuchuan had waited for her for a very long time.
• If that's the case, then it was more reason for her not to avoid him.
• But first, she should put on a relaxed smile and pretend as if she didn't understand what that gesture meant. "Were you waiting for me? I thought that you had already left. If I knew you were waiting for me, I'd have left earlier," she asked.
• If she knew that he was waiting for her, then she would have slept in the lab.
• Huo Yuchuan smiled with his eyes. "Get in the car," he said, as he naturally took off his jacket and wrapped it around Jiang Mucheng.
• Jiang Mucheng touched the jacket, but she felt that it would be wrong to give it back to him and a little unnatural to have it over her. Regardless, she followed Huo Yuchuan into the car.
• "So, did you you publish that paper a while back and created all that buzz, just to get my brother's attention?"
• Huo Yuchuang waited for Jiang Mucheng to get comfortable in her seat before he hit the accelerator and sped off.
• Huo Yuchuan's tone of voice was no much better than the wild sounds of the roaring car.
• "It was purely published for scientific research purposes," she explained.
• "Then why did my brother come? When will you guys get a divorce?"
• Jiang Mucheng opened the car window and a cold breeze instantly blew in. As she heard what Huo Yuchuan said, she pretended to calmly open a bottle of water.
• She didn't reply, so Huo Yuchuang drove even faster.
• All of a sudden, he hit the brakes and water from the entire bottle almost splashed out.
• "We can't get a divorce," Jiang Mucheng replied with furrowed brows.
• "Have you not seen the woman beside my brother?"
• Huo Yuchuan suddenly turned his face and looked at Jiang Mucheng as if he was interrogating her. "Even if you ignore how he brought a woman to show off, what about all the rumours?"
• "I don't follow gossip news. I don't watch anything. Besides taking care of my bacteriophage, I don't care about anything else. You know that."
• Jiang Mucheng slightly glanced at Huo Yuchuang, then quickly looked away.
• Huo Yuchuan scoffed, but eventually let out three words. "Get a divorce."
• With that said, he started the car up again. Jiang Mucheng bit her lip and silently looked at the dark night sky.
• It wasn't like Huo Yuchuan didn't understand the reason why she couldn't get a divorce.
• With her current situation, she couldn't tell Huo Yuchuan.
• Even if Huo Ciyi agreed to go ahead and get divorced, she met a new man dated, got married again, that man could be stranger A, stranger B, or stranger C but it could never be Huo Yuchuan.
• Just then, Huo Yuchuan stopped the car near Jiang Mucheng's house, turned his body and looked at Jiang Mucheng seriously.
• Jiang Mucheng remained completely silent. She just opened the car door and walked down the alley.
• As Huo Yuchuan looked at Jiang Mucheng's back, he hesitated for a moment, but eventually opened the car door and called out to her.
• "Whenever you want to come over, I'll be there."
• Jiang Mucheng heard this but didn't look back.
• She didn't tell Huo Yuchuan her real address. She only gave him the name of the area. She walked around the alley, then towards a main road and turned into a small alley before reaching her house.
• Throughout that journey, Jiang Mucheng was distracted and bothered by what Huo Yuchuan said about being there for her at any given time.
• After reaching the front door of her house with much difficulty, she finally relaxed when suddenly, she received a text.
• The text read: "Mum and dad will be back in the country tomorrow. You know what that means. Come back to the house on Jiangchun Road tomorrow morning."
• Jiang Mucheng read those few words with furrowed brows, and instinctively replied with two simple words: "Got it."