Stardust in the Moonlight: Little Wildcat, Don't Try to Run Away

Chapter 287 Inner Struggle

Mo Chen bandaged Rongyue's hand.

Rongyue looked at Mo Chen who had been silent all the time. When he was silent or serious, he immediately looked majestic, completely different from the man with a gentle smile in his usual time.

Mo Chen raised his eyes to look at Rongyue and found that Rongyue was looking at him.

"I hurt you again..." Mo Chen lowered his eyes and stroked Rongyue's hand wrapped in gauze.

Rongyue listened to Mo Chen's tone, which was full of helplessness and frustration, like a puppy with drooping ears.

"Yeah, how about... punishing you..." Rongyue reached out and hooked Mo Chen's chin.

Mo Chen raised his eyes and looked at Rongyue, waiting for her to continue.

"Wash the dishes!" Rongyue smiled.

Mo Chen nodded and smiled, "Hmm..."

Rongyue watched Mo Chen quietly clean up the table, put the dishes in the sink, and then started washing the dishes.

Rongyue walked to Mo Chen and said, "What's wrong with you? Are you worried about something? Tell me."

"...I just don't know how to treat Xiluo...I have to admit that I did use her, and if it weren't for you, maybe she and I would have stayed the same as before, and even got married and had children after a certain period of time."

"In my eyes, feelings had no place or weight. I thought that marrying someone was like completing a job. You had to complete a specific task at a specific time and find the best person to achieve the best solution."

“…Now that I think about it, I’m such a bastard.” Mo Chen sighed.

"You really are quite an asshole!" Rongyue laughed, "How come you suddenly have this realization?"

Mo Chen looked at Rong Yue and said, "I just tried to think about it. If someone did this to you, I would definitely cut him into pieces."

Rongyue looked at Mo Chen's serious expression and was speechless for a moment.

Mo Chen turned his head and looked at the bowl in his hand. "But that's how I treated Xiluo before. I never liked her, especially after I had you. I clearly know the feeling of love and not love. But I indulged her by my side before, enjoying all the conveniences she brought me... and then..."

"I owe her, but I can't make it up to her. I can't give her what she really wants... I don't know what to do with her..."

Rongyue couldn't think of any solution for a moment. She and Mo Chen had both experienced the torment of unrequited love, so she naturally understood Xia Xiluo's pain to some extent. She silently watched Mo Chen wash the dishes.

"...If I'm not here now, can you still accept her? We can just be together like before..."

"What nonsense are you talking about! Have you drunk too?" Mo Chen frowned and looked at Rongyue.

Rongyue saw Mo Chen's angry expression and quickly said, "I mean if! Just suppose!"

"There are no such ifs and assumptions! What are you thinking about? Why should I think about such assumptions!" Mo Chen frowned and looked at Rongyue, his tone anxious.

"...How about I put it another way. What if one day...if I'm not here..."

Before Rongyue finished speaking, Mo Chen smeared the foam on his hand onto Rongyue's mouth.

"Pfft! What are you doing!" Rongyue wiped her mouth with her hand and stared at Mo Chen.

"I told you to shut up! I don't want to listen to your nonsense, illogical ifs, assumptions and what-ifs. If you can't speak, just stay quiet!" Mo Chen said as he wiped the foam on his hand on Rongyue's mouth.

“…!” Rongyue wiped her mouth and stomped her feet in anger. She punched Mo Chen and ran back to the bathroom in the room to wash her mouth.

Mo Chen watched Rong Yue run away angrily. He was amused by Rong Yue's cute appearance. He continued to wash the dishes. He had only thought about the assumption that Rong Yue was not in this world on the day his mother died. He still remembered the painful feeling. He never dared to touch this issue again.

Mo Chen was originally unable to understand Xia Xiluo, but since he had to leave Rongyue for so long, when he saw her really let go of their feelings and live a good life, he was not only upset, he questioned and even blamed Rongyue, why could she let go! The longer this feeling accumulates, the more extreme and distorted it will make people.

He had never realized this problem before, but after experiencing it personally, when he looked at Xia Xiluo again, he could only feel sorry.

But no matter what, he couldn't let go of Rongyue, and he never wavered in this. He had to admit that love was the most selfless and selfish thing in the world. He could give Rongyue everything she wanted, and at the same time, he was also possessing and demanding Rongyue to the utmost. But as long as it wasn't Rongyue, he had no desire or interest in her.

When Mo Chen returned to the room, Rong Yue was leaning on the bed looking at her iPad.

Mo Chen moved closer to Rongyue and hugged her, then looked at her iPad. It was a photo of a middle-aged man, who he had been looking at when he watched Rongyue paint.

"No matter how I arrange the muscles on this man's face, it's all wrong." Rongyue used a pen to analyze the direction of the muscles on the man's face.

"Something's wrong..." Mo Chen looked at the person on the iPad.

"This muscle should press on this muscle, but you can see that the muscles are clearly in the wrong order...Although the facial features are on the same face, the muscles don't work together."

"Well... that's not so strange. The facial structure is unreasonable. Maybe he had an accident and had plastic surgery, or he is just a dummy or something like that."

Rongyue listened to Mo Chen's words and looked at the person on the iPad. Suddenly, she was enlightened. This person might have been pieced together. Rongyue took apart the facial features of this person and reassembled them to find that the mouth and nose belonged to one person, while the eyes and the face belonged to another person. This was a pieced together of two people.

"You are so awesome!" Rongyue excitedly hugged Mo Chen and kissed him, then quickly got up and got out of bed.

"Where are you going?" Mo Chen grabbed Rongyue who was about to leave.

"I figured out how to paint! You go to sleep, I'm going to paint, I'll be able to finish my work tonight."

"Your hand is still injured, how can you draw?" Mo Chen looked at Rongyue's left hand wrapped in gauze.

"This little injury can't affect me at all!" Rongyue leaned close to Mo Chen and kissed him, "Go to sleep obediently! Don't disturb the artist's creation!"

Mo Chen watched Rong Yue break free from him and then run away. He sighed. Seeing how excited she was, he knew he was doomed to be unable to stop her today.

Now it was hard for him to fall asleep without hugging Rongyue, so he simply got up and went to the studio to accompany Rongyue.

Mo Chen sat on the sofa in Rongyue's studio, looking through the messages on his phone. In the past few days, Mo Chen's people had almost cleared out all the things in the house that Rongyue rented, but they still didn't find what Rongyue's parents guessed.

However, there was a message from the person Mo Chen sent to the museum to return the book, saying that when they checked, they found something similar to a small bookmark stuck in the book, which was not originally in the book.

Mo Chen clicked on the photo, took a look at it, and then sent it to Rongyue's parents.

After a while, Rongyue's parents replied, confirming that this thing was used to harm Rongyue, and told him to take some of Rongyue's blood, return to their original residence, wrap this thing and Rongyue's blood in Rongyue's clothes and burn them. It would be best if Mo Chen went to burn them himself, and wait until the clothes were burned out before leaving, and everything would be fine. Moreover, this thing would backfire on the perpetrator, and by seeing who suddenly showed signs of abnormality, he could find the person who wanted to harm Rongyue.

Mo Chen put down his phone and looked at Rongyue, who was drawing seriously. His eyes fell on the gauze in Rongyue's hand.

The day to submit the work has arrived.

After Rongyue and Mo Chen submitted their works at the designated location, the works of other artists were also displayed in the exhibition hall. The two of them visited them leisurely. Just appreciating these entries in various painting styles was a feast for the eyes.

"Rongyue." Rongyue turned around and saw Ji Lingfeng calling her.

"Senior Ji."

Ji Lingfeng walked in front of Rongyue, glanced at Mo Chen behind Rongyue, and then set his eyes on Rongyue. "Now that the work has been submitted, this meeting is almost over. How do you feel?"

"It's very good. I learned a lot." Rongyue smiled.

"I've seen your work, it's very well drawn." Ji Lingfeng looked at Rongyue with a smile.

"You are worthy of being my senior. You can recognize my paintings even though my name is covered up! Please don't cheat for personal gain. I can win with my strength. Don't affect my clean record."

Ji Lingfeng listened to Rongyue's words, and both of them laughed.

"Don't worry, the instructor doesn't participate in the vote, so it won't affect your innocence."

"After the meeting is over...what are your plans?" Ji Lingfeng put away his smile and looked at Rongyue seriously.

“…I will go back to my country, continue to create, and keep working hard. I hope that one day I can attend this conference as a mentor like you! Let’s first make catching up with senior last season our goal.”

"Why didn't I realize you were so good at talking?"

"So you don't talk to me either! How could you know! If Teacher Xu hadn't always put us together to compare, I would have thought you couldn't talk! And you frowned as soon as you saw me, I thought you were annoyed with me! How could I dare to talk to you!" Rongyue teased Ji Lingfeng.

Ji Lingfeng looked at Rongyue's smile and was panicked for a moment. Why didn't he get over the hurdle in his heart at the beginning? In order to maintain his face and illusory self-esteem, he missed Rongyue. When he went back to find her, she was gone. When he saw her again, she was already married. She had shed the immaturity of her student days, but she still fascinated him.

For so many years, he has been deliberately avoiding thinking about Rongyue. He has been traveling around the world alone to create, seeing a wider world and meeting different people. The busy life can somewhat alleviate the regrets in his heart.

However, after seeing Rongyue again this time, he could clearly feel his heart throbbing, especially when he heard that she was divorced. His desire for her had reached its peak. He was even surprised that he had such deep and irrepressible feelings for Rongyue.

Mo Chen looked at Ji Lingfeng's expression, he could clearly see the emotions that could not be concealed in his eyes.

"Senior, what have you thought of? Why are you in a daze?" Rongyue saw Ji Lingfeng staring at her, so she raised her hand and waved it in front of Ji Lingfeng's eyes.

"Rongyue." Ji Lingfeng came back to his senses and raised his hand to grab Rongyue's hand in front of him.

Rongyue looked at Ji Lingfeng in surprise as he grabbed her hand. Before she could react, her hand was pulled out with even greater force.

"Respect yourself." Mo Chen pulled Rong Yue behind him, then looked at Ji Lingfeng coldly.