They would not have met so late and in such an unsavory manner .

She would have her proper ident.i.ty as his fiancée and could stand proudly beside him right from their first meeting!

The man smiled at this .

He could not help reaching out and rubbing her silky hair .

This silly woman was probably thinking that, if she were the one who had been acknowledged by the Mu family a decade and a half ago, she would have naturally become his legitimate fiancée .

He thought otherwise, however .

In a way, if it had not been for Mu Wanrou pretending to be her, he might not have fallen in love with her .

At that time, being opposed to this woman's mother, he would have resented her .

The young him would have treated her with strong hostility .

Mu Qingcheng had caused his father to be lost in reverie and his mother to harbor hate for all eternity .

As the woman who was truly in his heart, Mu Liancheng poured almost a lifetime's worth of love on her .

His heart, which was entirely on Mu Qingcheng, had never once thumped for another .

The infatuated and devoted Jiang Yishan initially raged out of humiliation, only for it to lead into disappointment; it was all because of that woman .

In Mu Yazhe's young mind, Mu Qingcheng was indubitably a heinous woman .

She had effortlessly destroyed his parents' marriage .

She was the culprit for his family's destruction!

Hence, when Mu Sheng paired him with the nine-year-old Mu Wanrou and told him that she was Mu Qingcheng's daughter and his sister as well as his future fiancée, the young him looked at her with disgust .

He found her to be revolting .

Still, with the Mu family's inheritance rights at stake, he did not hesitate to make use of her . Getting engaged with her was for the sole purpose of gaining a bargaining chip in the fight for control of Disheng Financial Group .

It was not until he was older that he understood everything .

What his parents had was just a marriage of convenience . It was all for the sake of winning the bout for power among the rich .

This marriage had neither romance nor love . Both parties were forced into it .

The marriage was merely nominal .

Mu Qingcheng was also not a third party .

On the contrary, she had all along been a clean woman .

His father's infatuation for her had never borne fruit .

Only then did he erase his hatred for her .

However, if the one Mu Sheng had brought home a decade and a half ago was Yun s.h.i.+s.h.i.+, he would probably not have developed romantic feelings for her, and she would have ended up being exploited by him .

Mu Wanrou, who had replaced her to be part of the Mu family, ironically became a p.a.w.n in his fight for leaders.h.i.+p .

Simply put, that woman had replaced her as his sacrificial lamb .

Fate seemed to have its providence .

Their encounter was neither too early nor too late and was just right .

Sometimes, an unexpected turn of events might not actually be a mistake at all .

It was just that, in order to meet her, he seemed to have exhausted a lifetime of luck .

“Seven years ago, Mu Wanrou was diagnosed to be congenitally infertile . You probably know of this matter,” he said slowly .

Yun s.h.i.+s.h.i.+ nodded . “Yes . I know about it . ”

He lowered his gaze . “She's actually not congenitally infertile . ”

Her eyes on him widened in shock and incredulity .

“How can that be? Didn't the Mu family bring in the country's most advanced medical center for this matter . ”

“Disheng Financial Group holds 40% of the country's medical market share . ” His lips arched . “As such, it's not really difficult for me to falsify a simple medical report . ”

She was so shocked she was rendered speechless .