The Elite's Forbidden Romance

"You still dare to talk back?"

Before Ning Xiaofei could finish her sentence, Ji Zichuan had already stepped forward, snatched the bouquet from her, and pushed her aside with force.

Stumbling backward, Ning Xiaofei bumped into the corner of the reception desk, her lower back struck with a sharp pain. As she reached out to brace herself on the desk, she only managed to grab the tablecloth.

She fell to the ground, and the tablecloth she pulled down sent the place cards and gift boxes clattering all around her.

In an instant, all eyes in the hall turned towards her.

"You piece of trash!"

Ji Zichuan's eyebrows immediately knotted into a frown, his right hand raised, and the bouquet in his hand hurled fiercely towards Ning Xiaofei's face.

Feeling the whoosh of air, Ning Xiaofei instinctively curled up and raised her hand to shield her face.

Bang!

There was no pain as she'd expected, just a gust of wind brushing past her cheek, carrying a faint scent of flowers…

Perplexed, she opened her eyes and saw an arm stretched out above her head. The arm was clad in an iron-grey suit with a glimpse of a snow-white shirt at the cuff, where a black gemstone cufflink sparkled brightly. The hand extending from the sleeve, pale and slender, was now firmly holding onto Ji Zichuan's wrist that had held the bouquet.

Someone was helping her?

Ning Xiaofei slightly lifted her face to see the owner of the hand.

Sitting on the ground from her perspective, the figure appeared exceptionally tall.

The sunlight streamed in from the windows beside them, casting a golden halo over him. She couldn't see his face clearly, yet she could still feel his imposing aura, as if a deity had descended from the heavens.

Tall, domineering, unparalleled!

Ji Zichuan's expression changed in a split second, his face shifting from full-blown anger to an obsequious smile.

"Mr. Mu, you're here too?!"

Mr. Mu?

Mu Tianye?

Ning Xiaofei immediately snapped back to reality, no wonder everyone's expressions changed so suddenly, it was him who had arrived.

Looking up at the long, lean legs in front of her, she immediately turned around and wrapped her arms around them, bursting into exaggerated cries,

"Husband, you've finally arrived, they've all bullied me!"

Not hugging a powerful leg when you have the chance is as good as being an idiot, especially when the leg is so thick and long—oh, actually it's not thick at all—Ning Xiaofei gently caressed the leg in her arms.

Yes, firm and lean, this guy must be a regular at the gym.

"They hit me, they cursed at me, they didn't regard you at all..."

Hmph!

She didn't believe that even if the King of Hell had no feelings for her, he would still care about his face.

Her own wife being beaten, such an embarrassing event, he wouldn't ignore it, would he?

Over the years at the Ji Family, she had endured humiliation and hardship, and had finally married, not to be looked down upon anymore. To still get hit when attending a banquet, of course, she had to seize the opportunity to vent her anger.

The expressions of Ji Zichuan's family of three became awkward in an instant.

It was well-known that although Mu Tianye was married to Ning Xiaofei, they had merely registered their marriage without a wedding ceremony and reliable sources said that Mu Tianye hadn't returned from abroad at the time of their registry, and hadn't consummated the marriage after they officially married.

From these behaviors, everyone had already concluded that he had no affection for Ning Xiaofei, naturally there wouldn't be any doting, therefore their attitude towards Ning Xiaofei remained the same as before without any change.

Who is Mu Tianye?

A top-notch bachelor in A City, a figure so influential that a mere stomp of his foot in Nancheng would cause ripples through Nancheng.