Chapter-28: Frozen On Fear

After seeing Xiao Bo being hesitant to leave Maple and her kittens, Mu Chen ordered his secretary Le Yang to take them to his apartment.

Xiao Bo was surprised to hear that, "A-Are... are you gonna adopt her?"

Mu Chen gave him a light smile as he patted the Younger's head, "Yes, in that way you don't have to worry about her and her kittens, right?"

>>>I can invite him to my home with the excuse of seeing Maple. In that way, I can spend some quality time with him and get to know him better...

Xiao Bo nodded and smiled gaily at Maple.

"You will have a proper home now to raise your kids, I am so happy."

Xin Yi and Shen Yu beamed seeing their friend so contended. Soon the four of them reached the Wang's farmhouse.

Comprehending that the Younger was getting anxious by noticing his stiffened shoulders, Mu Chen placed his hand over Xiao Bo's shoulder gently pulling him closer.

Xiao Bo was flustered at first as he looked up at the Elder who had an assured smile on his face.

He immediately looked down biting his lips that were curving upwards involuntarily.

>>>How did he know... that I am nervous?

Mu Chen bent his head reaching the Younger's ear and whispered,

"Don't worry. This is just a family party and no one will dare to do anything to you. In any case, I am here with you."

Xiao Bo nodded his head lightly with his blushy pink-tinted cheeks not because the Elder's words were reassuring but because Mu Chen's warm breath was tingling on his nape.

>>>B-But... I am more nervous now... why is he so close to me?

Shen Yu and Xin Yi were busy searching for their families and didn't notice the both behind them.

Right before they enter the farmhouse the head butler of the Wang family, Zhi Yuan, a sixty-year-old man who was looking healthy and firm with a well-built body and muscles greeted them with an elegant bow.

"Welcome, Young Masters."

"Old Zhi, how are you doing?"

Xin Yi was cheerful to meet the old man who took care of him in the Wang's mansion.

"This old man is doing better than you young people, Young Master Feng,"

Zhi Yuan's wrinkles around his mouth crinkled as his lips raised a few degrees.

"Haha, of course, Lao(old) Zhi," Shen Yu commented.

The butler agreed with a slight nod, "Please, go inside. All the Elders are waiting for your arrival."

Xin Yi and Shen Yu walked inside first as they saw familiar faces inside.

"Is this little lad, your Fiance, Young Master?" The butler asked.

Mu Chen just gave him a nod as he walked past him with Xiao Bo in his arms who was bewildered by the elder's actions.

He turned back and gave a little bow to the butler who returned it with a smile,

>>>Living for sixty years, I thought I had gained enough experience to know the difference between rumors and reality.

>>>Maybe I need to learn more... this little lad is nothing like the rumors. If anything he is the total opposite... Master Wang, we are wrong about him and I know you will realize it sooner you meet him.

The head butler of the Wang family who was working for them for almost all his life pondered over seeing the innocent Xiao Bo.

A week back when the news of Wang Mu Chen's engagement with the Song family's notorious Young Master known as the trash of S city made elder Wang Jun Hie's blood pressure rise to its peak.

He didn't want his grandson to marry such an awful person. He was about to call Mu Chen home and scold him but before he could do that his grandson called home to inform them about the situation.

Wang Zi Xin(Mu Chen's father) explained his father who calmed down a little but was still against the decision of Mu Chen taking responsibility for Xiao Bo and making him his real fiance.

That was why he asked Mu Chen to bring Xiao Bo to the family party to see the Younger who was going to be the Fiance of his grandson and why he was going to such an extent for the Younger.

Elder Wang was dead set on breaking the relationship between his grandson and Xiao Bo if the Younger turned out to be anything like in the rumors.

So he asked his close servant, the head butler Zhi Yuan to look into Xiao Bo on the day of the party and see if there was any truth in his grandson's claim about the Younger being innocent and the rumours of him being just some baseless false accusations.

As soon as the head butler laid his eyes on Xiao Bo he knew that the person was nothing like the rumours told to be. He doesn't have any arrogance of the rich Young Masters.

His keen eyes of years of experience could tell apart from acting and original behavior. So, when the butler saw Xiao Bo...

He was looking anxious in the arms of Mu Chen just like a little rabbit coming out of its burrow for the first time.

So the head butler concluded Xiao Bo was as his Young Master claimed him to be and that he was wrong to judge the Younger before seeing him in person.

Mu Chen took Xiao Bo along with him into the hall where all the Elders of the families were chatting with each other.

Song Xiao Bo knew most of them sitting in front of him as they possessed an aura dominant enough to make him shudder since they were the heads of the most powerful families in the country.

Seeing Wang Jun Hie and Wang Li Jing, the grandfather and grandmother of Mu Chen respectively, a bitter experience of his past life resurfaced in his mind.

He only met them once after they were enraged knowing Xiao Bo drugged their grandson and slept with him which was in fact Song Yi Ming's cunning plot to make the Wangs be on his side to face the Li family.

But it backfired as the elder Wangs didn't approve of Xiao Bo and Mu Chen announced his engagement with Xin Yi right after, leaving no chance for Song Yi Ming to let his youngest son marry him.

>>>Same... their looks... are the same...

Xiao Bo's body started trembling seeing the hatred and disgusted look on the elder Wangs' faces. The last time he faced them they outright ignored him and told his father Song Yi Ming that they didn't want to have such filth enter their family.

Those words made Xiao Bo's depression worse when he was trying to cope with Mu Chen's and everyone's anger. He couldn't forget them until his death and even now.

Tears brimmed in Xiao Bo's eyes as he felt nauseous thinking that he had to experience the same thing again he did in his past life.

Even though Mu Chen said he asked his parents permission to get engaged with Xiao Bo... what about his grandparents who were the real dictators of any decision in the Wang family?

>>>Maybe they will throw me out again...

Xiao Bo bit his lips as he downcasted. He clutched onto a fistful of the cloth on his pants crushing it, feeling the intense stares from everyone in the huge room.

He tried to stop his tears feeling the squeeze of Mu Chen on his shoulder but still facing all of them was hard for Xiao Bo.

How could he... when all he faced was immense abhorrence from everyone till now? How could he forget everything and face them confidently just because Mu Chen was on his side now...

>>>Or maybe he isn't...

No matter how hard he tried he couldn't let himself trust anyone other than his elder brother Wei Chen.

>>>Right... if Wei Gege is here... I... I...

He looked up instantly with his red eyes to find his brother in the crowd but his eyes stopped on a certain person and he froze in terror.

That was one of the two persons aside from the psychopath who flayed him alive on the orders of Mu Chen.

He was the foreigner with the well-built body who was standing behind the Elder Wang in his bodyguard uniform.

All the memory of his sufferings came back to him like a whirlwind.

He was trying to forget everything of his past and move on with his new blessed life but every time he tried to take a step further he was made to step ten steps back into despair.

The foreigner was the head of the security guards of Wang's family, named Daniel Miller.

He frowned as he made eye contact with the scared eyes of Xiao Bo.

Daniel Miller remembered Xiao Bo who ran away with the same terrified expression on his face the day he went to meet his psycho nephew, Liam at S University.

He was scolding Liam to be on his best behavior and complete his graduation so that he could become the official personal bodyguard for Mu Chen in the canteen and then they were bumped by a short boy who paled seeing them and ran away despite his friends calling him.

Daniel thought his face was too scary for a teenager at that time and didn't think much of it but seeing the same boy with the same expression made him wonder.

>>>Did I threaten him or something when I was a gangster?

Xiao Bo freed himself from Mu Chen's grip and ran away from the hall shocking everyone there. He bumped into someone,

"You! How dare you-... haa... you pathetic bitch! Why are you running around here? Did the news of you becoming the Fiance of Wang Mu Chen got to your head?"

Song Yi Ming roared as he saw his youngest son.

Xiao Bo looked up hearing the familiar voice. He was trying to avoid meeting with his Father till now but unfortunately, he bumped into him.

But his Father's angry face wasn't the one that made Xiao Bo's blood run cold, it was the psychopath who laughed while skinning him was approaching from behind talking on his phone.

That man wasn't even looking at Xiao Bo but he was imagining the psychopath advancing towards him with a sinister smirk on his face.

Cold sweat beads fell from Xiao Bo's forehead to the floor. Song Yi Ming was yelling at him but he couldn't hear even a word.

Xiao Bo felt like his head was spinning and the surroundings were changing back to the old dusty basement. He strained his teary eyes trying to keep them open.

Song Yi Ming got angrier as the Younger wasn't replying and was standing frozen with a ghastly look on his face.

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