Chapter 1034

Mu Xiaoyao immediately went to the empty seat beside Mu Xiaojiu and sat down, picking up his chopsticks to eat in silence.

The Mu family didn’t have a rule against speaking during meals or maintaining silence in bed, but no one spoke a word during this meal.

After dinner, Mu Xiaojiu was the first to stand up and turn to enter his room.

Not long after, not knowing what he had taken, he came out of the room and stepped out of the door.

He left again without uttering a sound.

Baili Xia watched his departing figure, the last bit of light in her eyes silently dissipating.

Neither Nangong Xu nor Mu Xiaoyao spoke.

Mr.

Xiaojiu still finds it very difficult to accept the child in Xiaxia’s belly, right?

Since they became aware of it, it had been less than two days, but they could all tell he was trying hard to accept it.

“Give him a little more time,” Nangong Xu said softly, looking at Baili Xia.

Baili Xia just glanced at him without saying anything.

What was the point of giving him time?

Even she didn’t know if she wanted to accept a man who didn’t trust her.

What could more time do?

“Let’s go for a walk after you finish eating,” Mu Xiaoyao suddenly suggested, noticing her hesitation.

“Okay.” Baili Xia felt a bit better when facing Mu Xiaoyao.

She found that she was beginning to like being with Brother more and more.

Maybe ‘like’ wasn’t the right word, but with Brother by her side on this unfamiliar island, at least she felt at ease.

Nangong Xu gave a few instructions for Mu Xiaoyao to take good care of her, then said no more.

It was just before they left the house that he brought a thin jacket from the room for Baili Xia.

It was Mr.

Xiaojiu’s jacket; Baili Xia didn’t have any autumn clothes here.

They had already been ordered, but they hadn’t been delivered yet.

“If you have your phone, you might as well turn it on and check it,” Mu Xiaoyao said before they left.

Baili Xia then remembered that after Uncle had turned off her phone, she seemed to have ignored it ever since.

The phone had been turned off all this time…

Suddenly recalling something, she hurried back to her room and, indeed, saw Nangong Xu had placed her phone next to her laptop.

She turned it on immediately, and the screen was flooded with unanswered calls and messages from Dongfang Jin.

She quickly called him back.

“Xiaxia, where are you now? Has he been treating you poorly? How are you?” Dongfang Jin bombarded her with a series of questions as soon as the call connected.

With a heavy heart, Baili Xia waited for him to allow her time to speak before she hoarsely said, “I’m fine, he hasn’t mistreated me.”

After explaining Mu Xiaojiu’s intentions to Dongfang Jin and after much persuasion, Dongfang Jin finally accepted it.

Actually, this was for the best; this place belonged to Mu Xiaojiu, heavily guarded, making it really the safest for Baili Xia to nourish the pregnancy and have the baby here.

He was only worried that Mu Xiaojiu might mistreat her, but it seemed there was no issue now.

That bastard Mu Xiaojiu, though he didn’t quite like him, wouldn’t actually do anything to Baili Xia now that he was refraining from laying a hand on her.

After hanging up the phone, Baili Xia finally left the house with Mu Xiaoyao.

Walking down the quiet path below, she couldn’t help asking, “Did you know Jin was looking for me?”

Otherwise, why would he remind her to turn on her phone?

Mu Xiaoyao just glanced at her and remained silent.

Of course, he knew Dongfang Jin was looking for her.

Just like him, Dongfang Jin had also been on the island for most of the day.

If she didn’t give him a call to check in, that man probably wouldn’t be willing to leave.