Chapter-29: The Right To Call You Snowball Is Mine

Before Yi Ming could slap the Younger with his raised hand, Xiao Bo was pulled back and was embraced tightly by Mu Chen who came running behind his Fiance after glaring at his parents and grandparents for making the Younger scared by their unwelcomed stares.

Mu Chen rubbed the Younger's back gently as he glowered at Yi Ming,

"Mr. Song, everyone is waiting for you in the hall. We both have some business so we will come back later. Please go inside."

Seeing Mu Chen being fond of his youngest son who he deemed useless and pathetic made him smile brightly with dripping greed.

>>>Seems that Young Master Wang is affectionate towards this bitch...good very good!

"Yes, Young Master Wang."

Song Yi Ming bowed to him and left grinning that his plan was successful.

Mu Chen brushed the Younger's hair and didn't break the hug,

"It's okay, Xiao Bo. Everyone here won't harm you in any way. I won't let anyone lay their hands on my Fiance even if it is your Father."

Xiao Bo was about to relax at the gentle words of the Elder when,

"Ah, Young Master Wang. It's been a long time, right?" Liam greeted.

Hearing the voice Xiao Bo clasped Mu Chen's shirt so hard that his pink fingertips turned pale white.

He buried his head, shutting his eyes tightly not letting his tears escape.

He was trembling so badly that Mu Chen felt bad for him. It was already the Younger's second time to panic on this day.

"Go inside. We will talk later,"

Mu Chen replied and then in a swift move, he lifted the Younger in his arms and walked upstairs to his room.

Liam stood there confused,

>>>Is that shaking lamb...Young Master Wang's Fiance?

He shrugged and walked inside as it was not in his interest, to meet his uncle Daniel.

Xiao Bo stayed in the elder's arms quietly as Mu Chen closed the door behind him with his leg and then sat on the bed with him in his arms.

Mu Chen was worried for the Younger as just before he had a panic attack at the University and even though he suggested that there was no need to go to the party if he was feeling unwell Xiao Bo insisted that he was fine.

After arriving here and seeing Xiao Bo all anxious Mu Chen held him to give him some comfort but the way Xiao Bo became fear stricken seeing his family members stares he understood that bringing the Younger here was a bad plan.

He wanted to scold his grandparents and parents for not being welcoming even after he clearly explained to them that Xiao Bo wasn't anything like that in the rumors...he was just too innocent...and too pure for this world.

Just like a,

"Snowball."

"Hm?"

Xiao Bo was calming down in the warmth of Mu Chen's body when he heard him.

He looked up with a befuddled expression with his big caramel brown eyes that held the stars of the universe in them.

The corner of Mu Chen's lips twitched into a soft smile as he gently wiped the tear stains on Xiao Bo's cheeks,

"Snowball... you just look like that."

"..."

Xiao Bo didn't know how to respond to that.

Finally, his senses came back to him and he was no longer scared as he forgot everything staring into those ebony eyes that were looking at him endearingly.

Mu Chen's face moved automatically as if he was hypnotized by the Younger's charms, he placed a soft feathery kiss on Xiao Bo's forehead.

The Younger blinked his eyes as Mu Chen retracted back with widened eyes surprised himself by his action and that was when Xiao Bo's brain lightened bright and the reaction to it was a complete cherry face.

"Y-You..."

Xiao Bo couldn't form any words and he just then noticed he was on Mu Chen's lap.

He didn't know where to put his face so he closed it with his palms becoming all shy.

Mu Chen found that action so adorable that he felt something warm tingling inside his heart.

"Snowball, that will be your nickname from now on," Mu Chen stated, proudly.

>>>My Snowball...

Xiao Bo curled his fingertips opening only part of his eyes with an astonished look.

"M-My... nickname?"

Mu Chen nodded in response.

"Right... or should I call you shy little Snowball?"

"W-What?"

Xiao Bo's heart started beating fast as his cheeks heated up seeing a teasing look on the Elder.

"Why, you don't like it? Everyone calls you Xiao Xiao, A'Xiao... and that brother of yours even calls you Bobo..." Mu Chen muttered the last part.

"I want to call you something that no one calls... the right to call you Snowball will be only mine."

"Eh?"

Xiao Bo felt like his heart would stop beating because of how fast it was rising with each word from Mu Chen's mouth.

>>>Why is he...

Mu Chen sighed with a smile as he removed the Younger's palms from his face and held them,

"Did you calm down now?"

He asked ever so gently with his face so close to the Younger that he had to look away.

>>>Calm down? ...how can I calm down if you are this close to me???????

Xiao Bo wanted to yell that but ended up yelling inside his mind with flushed cheeks.

"I am sorry," Mu Chen said, suddenly gaining the Younger's attention.

"Um?"

"It's too soon for you to meet my family. If I didn't insist you to come here in the first place you shouldn't have to go through all this. I don't know what you went through in the Song family... but I can feel the gist of it."

Xiao Bo didn't say anything and kept on listening to him as it was rare for him to have a conversation like this with Mu Chen in his past life and somehow he felt the Elder wasn't anything like in his past life.

At that time Mu Chen would just ignore his approaches and would never give him the chance to speak.

But after the incident where he and the Elder were drugged and slept with him... Mu Chen turned colder towards him.

Maybe he felt like he betrayed the trust of Xin Yi... he took out his anger on Xiao Bo until he announced the engagement with him.

In his last life, Xiao Bo couldn't even imagine Mu Chen talking as he was a man of few words known by everyone...

But now he was talking with him so gently with so much affection in his eyes that the Younger's feelings that he locked up deep inside his heart started trying to break out of their restraints.

"You have been through so much, Snowball. But I promise, you won't go through any such things by my side. I won't let anyone harm you and neither will I... trust me."

Mu Chen cupped the Younger's cheek as he spoke. Xiao Bo felt tears in his eyes again hearing those honest words.

"Rea...*hic* lly?" Xiao Bo choked on his tears.

"Yes, all this engagement... Fiance... I know it's all too sudden for you. I feel that too. I am nervous just like you cause I don't know if I did the right thing by announcing you as my Fiance. I thought I was helping you out of trouble but instead, I pulled you further into troubles that are far more problematic."

Xiao Bo could sense the anxiety in Mu Chen's words.

"That's why... I am sorry. But still, I want you to be my Fiance... I know we have written the contract and you can break this off anytime you want and I have no say in that..." Mu Chen paused,

"...can you... can you give me a chance?"

"A chance?" Xiao Bo was flustered.

"Yes... a chance before you think this is all too much for you and back off from this. How about you give me some time... to-"

"I think your family doesn't like me," Xiao Bo commented cutting off the elder's words.

Truth to be told after seeing that foreigner and that psychopath, Xiao Bo didn't want to do this engagement or anything else anymore.

He wanted to run away somewhere far from everyone and live a peaceful life.

He didn't want to face those men who tortured him to death and if he did this engagement then he had to keep seeing them as they belong to Wang's family.

On a side of his heart, he didn't want to raise his hopes that Mu Chen would love him... that was too far he didn't even think engagement and marriage were possible between them.

It wasn't his plan when the Goddess gave him this life.

He just wanted to live quietly somewhere with his brother Wei Chen without interfering in Mu Chen's and Xin Yi's love.

Nonetheless, Xin Yi announced that he was in love with Mu Chen's cousin Wang Bai Hu shocking him to the core.

He was still confused about how could main leads drift apart from each other like this...?

But as if Mu Chen read the Younger's turbulent mind he asked him for a chance.

Xiao Bo was pulled back from his endless thoughts by Mu Chen's voice,

"No... they are just wary. If they speak with you they will know...fuck that! I will see them if they even try to do anything funny to you, so don't worry. Worse comes to the worst, I can just break ties with my family and we can just live away from them."

Mu Chen declared stunning the Younger.

>>>What... he would break his ties with his family... FOR ME...????

Seeing the shocked expression, "Don't worry. I run a small gaming company and make decent money so there won't be any problem."

Mu Chen spoke amazing Xiao Bo again.

>>>Small company? He is calling the top WMC gaming company... that makes some trillions annually...small?

As a reader of 'Childhood Sweethearts' and also as he has seen in his past life Xiao Bo could swear that the WMC company would become the world's top most gaming company that broke all world records with its profits.

Even now it wasn't just a small company. The games produced by the WMC gaming company were so addicting that all the teenagers in the country went to internet cafes just to play those games.

Nevertheless, even if we assume the Wang family threw out Mu Chen, he would still be the most powerful man in the country possessing wealth and intelligence.

Not getting any response from Xiao Bo,

"Snowball, If you still don't believe me, I will just go and announce that I am breaking up all ties with my family-"

Xiao Bo closed his mouth with his tiny palms,

"S-Stop... I trust you and there is no need for you to break ties with your family. I... I just got nervous seeing everyone... I am sorry."

"You don't have to be sorry, Snowball. It's their fault, I told them not to scare you still they had the audacity... I will scold them good for you, okay?"

Xiao Bo giggled seeing how serious the elder was looking.

"You will scold your parents... for me?"

"Of course... my Snowball."

Mu Chen said in a teasing tone hearing him giggle for the first time in front of him cause whenever he was with him either Xiao Bo would be scared of him or avoid talking with him.

He was jealous of Xin Yi and Shen Yu who could make Xiao Bo giggle and smile.

Mu Chen also wanted to be the person who could make the Younger smile and he did it now even by being so absurd.

"A-Are you going to keep calling me that?" Xiao Bo asked with cherry red cheeks.

"Yes..." Mu Chen paused, "...Snowball."

"Uh..."

Xiao Bo buried his head in the elder's chest feeling bashful by the flirtatious voice of Mu Chen,

"S-Stop it."

Mu Chen felt happier than ever in his heart seeing the little lovable action of Xiao Bo.

He hugged the Younger and whispered in his ear, "I won't... Snowball."

On The Other Hand...

"WHAT THE HELL??"

A loud noise coming from the inside broke the peaceful atmosphere and grabbed the attention of everyone outside, in the lawn.

Inside, Cao Shen Yu's corners of eyes were glossy.

His face was flushed and he was looking at his parents furiously that the smoke was coming out of his ears.

"Shen Yu, tone down your voice before you anger the elder Wang," Cao Zheng Bao, Shen Yu's father glared at him.

"That's right, Yuyu. Calm down, don't humiliate us like this in front of everyone," Cao Mei Xia, his mother suggested.

"Calm down? What do you mean calm down when you dropped this bomb suddenly on my head, huh? How could you arrange my marriage without letting me know? Ma, Pa, I never expected this from you."

Shen Yu's rage turned into disappointment at his parents.

"It was arranged by Elder Wang for you. We couldn't refuse as the other family was also good and reputable."

Zheng Bao tried to persuade his son.

"I am still seventeen, Pa. Who wants to marry at this age? I want to do so many things in life, what about my dreams and goals? No matter how reputable the other family is I am not marrying anyone. If you try to force me, I will run away from home," Shen Yu threatened.

"Yuyu!"

Mei Xia looked anxious cause her son was someone who would do exactly what he said and she didn't want him to run away from home and be outcasted by the Wangs.

"What's all this commotion?"

Elder Wang walked there along with his eldest son Wang Zi Xin and daughter-in-law, Wang Shi Han.

The Wangs were already flabbergasted by Xiao Bo running away and Mu Chen giving them a threatening look and following his Fiance.

They were squabbling that it was each other's fault when they heard Shen Yu's scream and decided to solve it first before they talked with Mu Chen.

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