The Villainous Celebrity Wife of the CEO - Chapter 133.1

After the Disaster
An hour later, a muddy SUV rolled through the pristine jungle and parked steadily in front of Su Jishi.

The car door opened, and a stalwart figure in a suit jumped into the girl’s line of sight. The man stepped out of the car, and the pair of handmade calfskin leather shoes landed into the mud and rotting leaves. However, Mu Xiulun couldn’t care less about the mud beneath his feet and reached Su Jishi in a few steps.

Su Jishi was digging a pit —— It was a good habit for every geological dog to bury leftover kitchen waste on the spot —— She looked at Mu Xiulun, but it was question whether her tone was of surprise or regret: “…It was really you.”

Mu Xiulun’s expression turned stiff. He pursed his lips and asked rhetorically, “Who else can it be if not me?”

Could it be that Su Jin had several ex-boyfriends besides him?

“I thought it was my hammer that transformed into a spirit.” Su Jishi patted her butt and stood up from the ground. She pointed to the lake down her feet and said, “When I fell into the water, my hammer was washed away.”

Mu Xiulun: “…”

“According to fairy tale routines, at this time, there should be a white-bearded fairy grandfather emerging from the bottom of the water, asking me, did you lose a gold hammer or a silver hammer, ah?” Su Jishi spread both hands: “Then, I will tell him, I threw neither gold nor silver hammer. It’s a thick, long and hard sledgehammer.”

Su Jishi’s words were rather ambiguous, but her expression was extraordinarily serious.

Mu Xiulun could not guess what she really wanted to say, and could only follow her thoughts, so he replied, “It seems that Miss Su’s wish has come true. The thick, long and hard ‘sledgehammer’ has now come for you.”

Su Jishi looked him up and down several times, revealing a bit of disgust: “Hey, how come there’s a man growing on top of this nice ‘hammer’, ah?”

Mu Xiulun: “…”

Mu Xiulun: “……”

Mu Xiulun: “………”

He turned and left: “Well then, wait for a hammer without a man to swim to your rescue.”

“Don’t,don’t, don’t!” Seeing that her jest had gone too far, Su Jishi hurriedly picked up her soaked walkie-talkie and caught up with him: “Mr. Mu, thanks for your hard work. You’re a noble character and sterling integrity in service of the people!”

Mu Xiulun gave her a sidelong glance: “Mr. Mu does not serve the people. Mr. Mu will serve you.”

Su Jishi: “…”

She ran out of words.

Su Jishi had never been a lowlife. She just deliberately cracked a joke to ease the ambiguous atmosphere —— She was lost in a no man’s land, without even a precise coordinates. There was only volcanic ash in the sky as far as her eye could see and the vast jungle under her feet. Nevertheless, Mu Xiulun estimated her location by radio waves alone and found her within an hour! You know, which man would go this far for his ex-girlfriend when a tsunami and a volcanic eruption just happened here?

What was more, they were not in a serious relationship before, but a paper contract linking both sides.

—— W-Wrong. Mu Xiulun and her sister were party ‘A and B’, and she was the ‘passerby C’, a stand-in actor who mistakenly entered the story. Did you ever see end film credits with the names of the civilian and military stunt-men/women printed on ah?

Thinking of this, Su Jishi lowered her head to hide the expression on her face.

She did not want to owe him too much, so as to save herself any involvement when she retired from the circle in a year’s time.

Inside the car, Secretary Gao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Su Jin had been found successfully.

As a secretary, he naturally understood winks, and how to ‘deal with things’, especially harvesting credits for his taciturn boss in front of a girl! He opened his mouth and threw a series of flattery, “Miss Su, we finally found you! The terrain around here is too complicated. In fear of not finding you, Mr. Mu even dispatched the bodyguards in place of the local guides, letting them circle the vicinity seven or eight times to find…”

Mu Xiulun glared at him icily.

Secretary Gao immediately changed his tone: “… Oh, Mr. Mu found the scenery in this neighborhood beautiful, so we came out for a drive. Unexpectedly, we ran into you here. Miss Su, are you here to picnic ah?”

Mu Xiulun: “…”

Su Jishi: “…”

Mu Xiulun: “Any more nonsense and you’ll get out of the car and walk back.”

Secretary Gao: “Erm…”

*

After another half hour or so of bumping around on the road, Su Jishi and her company finally arrived at the nickel mine under Mu Xiulun’s name before all her bones were shattered.

When people hear the word ‘mine,’ most would think that all mines were hidden underground. It was like digging for coal tens or hundreds of meters underground, making it extremely difficult to mine and always at the risk of a mine pit collapse. However, nickel laterite was the opposite. It was a surface deposit, which was exposed outside the ground. It was covered with a thin layer of humus about 50 centimeters thick. Just brush away the layer of humus, and the reddish-brown deposit would be revealed.

In a more common and graphic way to describe it —— this was the real gold everywhere.

The nickel mine under Mu Xiulun’s name was extremely extensive. He circled a rest area where he built staff quarters, medical rooms, canteens and other supporting facilities, which he never thought would come in handy at this time by accident.

Su Jishi met twenty buses in the parking area. When Mu Xiulun’s car parked, the victims quickly flocked forward and offered their endless gratitude to Mu Xiulun in stumbling English.

The victims came from different countries. Some of them were indigenous to the west coast; some were tourists visiting the place; and some were businessmen on a small negotiation deal trip… When disaster struck, they would have been buried in the belly of the fish had they been one step slower!

A grandma suddenly knelt on her knees, trying to kneel and kowtow to Mu Xiulun with tears dripping down the deep wrinkles on her face. She was too old to run. When she heard the tsunami warning, she thought she was going to die on that beach today. It was the young businessman from China who saved her. He not only provided them with escape vehicles, but also opened his own industry to provide them with shelter. She would never forget this kindness!

Mu Xiulun hurriedly held her up, not letting her fall to her knees.

He didn’t think he was the savior she was talking about —— He just did what a person with a conscience should do.

Through the car window, Su Jishi saw the refugees surrounding Mu Xiulun in waves. If not for his bodyguard escorts, Mu Xiulun would have been overwhelmed by them. Everyone was beaming with joy for having survived a disaster. At this moment, no matter which country they came from and what kind of hair color and skin color they had, they were expressing their gratitude in the same language.

And Mu Xiulun, who was surrounded by the crowd, the layer of cold aura on his body melted away.

It was as if he was carrying a halo.

Su Jishi’s gaze unconsciously stayed glued on him for a long, long time. Gao Ling turned his head from the front row and asked meaningfully, “Miss Su, our President Mu…is quite good, don’t you agree?”

Su Jishi retracted her eyes and replied, “He’s pretty good.”

But what did ‘good’ have to do with her?

*

Because the tsunami shook off underwater communication cables, Sulawesi had not been able to restore communications until sunset.

Su Jishi anxiously wanted to contact the program group. She was worried that Xiao Xia, that silly girl, would do something irrational after her disappearance.

Mu Xiulun had Gao Ling take her to the office area, where there was a military radio device —— in Sulawesi, as long as they could handle the governor, they could easily buy guns, ammunition or other contraband, no matter what it was.

Thanks to this miracle device, Su Jishi finally contacted them after losing contact with the group for a full ten hours!

As Su Jishi expected, after she fell down the deep ditch, Xiao Xia defied the odds and tried to save her. She did not want to live, but others could not watch her drive herself to death. She was forcibly dragged onto the bus by the bus driver and sped all the way, finally shaking off the raging volcanic ash. It was a real life-and-death situation. If they were a little slower, they would haven been swallowed up by the ash.

They sped all the way to the resettlement area set up by the government, which was delineated four and a half kilometers outside the radius of the volcano. The place was originally a nondescript town, but it was now filled with other villagers who had evacuated. Xiao Xia cried non-stop. Her eyes turned into bulbs from sobbing, stubbornly trying to go back to her, so the Chief Director tasked a few sturdy Follow PDs to guard her.

After learning that Su Jin was out of danger, the Chief Director’s hanging heart finally dropped. If Su Jin hadn’t held up the whole team throughout their escape, they would have fallen on the mountainside due to internal strife!

Just…