They are in the music show, but I am a stranger to them

However, the moment Mu had this thought, her eyes, which had been calm all this time, began to flicker for the first time, and this idea quickly grew in Mu's heart like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Yes, escape.

Escape from this prison that makes him feel closed and depressed! Mu just wants to stay by Chen Qi's side as in the past.

Only when I am by his side can I feel that I am cared for all the time, and I won’t be abandoned or betrayed. I don’t have to worry that no one will not care about my feelings... Everything I want, only he can give it to me!

If I escaped by myself... then it was not Qi who took me out, and my father could not blame Qi.

Moreover, as long as I stay by Qi's side, if my father wants to cause trouble for Qi, he has to get through me first.

In this way, Qi will not be in any trouble, and he can still stay by Qi's side as before, and completely escape from this "prison"!

This time, I am different from half a year ago. Half a year ago, under the restrictions of so many family rules and regulations, I could not help Qi in many ways. Now, if I can completely get rid of all this, then I can take care of Qi's spirit at all times.

With me protecting and taking care of Qi at all times, Qi will definitely not have another emotional breakdown like last time!

Gradually, Mu felt that his idea was more and more feasible. His fingers trembled slightly at this unprecedented idea. But even so, Mu still insisted on taking out the old flip phone from his pocket and dialed the number of Chen Qi in his memory.

Mu did not forget that Chen Qi was still waiting for his answer, and he was also looking forward to her returning to him.

And now that I have made the decision, I naturally have to let Qi know first.

Not long after Mu dialed Chen Qi's cell phone, Chen Qi's voice, which seemed a little tired for some reason but still gentle, finally reached Mu's ears again on the other end.

"Mu?"

Mu: "...Qi, where are you? I've made up my mind. I want to leave Ruoye's house."

said it.

Mu had never thought about leaving the home that had raised him for sixteen years, yet he said it so easily, without even the slightest regret.

Obviously, Mu's decisive answer also frightened Chen Qi on the other end of the phone, so much so that Chen Qi, who originally hoped that Mu could break free, said to Mu in a calm tone after a brief silence:

"Mu, although I don't know what happened, I hope you really want to understand it, instead of just trying to accommodate my ideas."

"——Qi, are you scared?"

However, the next second, Mu's rather calm answer caused Chen Qi on the other end of the phone to fall into a brief silence. After a while, after hearing Chen Qi's long, deep breath, Mu replied in the same calm tone as hers, with great certainty:

"I understand. Mu, thank you for giving me a clear answer. I will help you now - although I was planning to do this from the beginning."

"Mu, I'm not far from your house now. I'll pick you up from the main gate later."

Pick me up? However, after hearing Chen Qi's words, Mu was subconsciously stunned, but soon, realizing what Chen Qi might be planning to do, Mu quickly spoke:

"Wait, Qi--"

...The phone has been hung up.

Mu looked at the hung up phone, and for the first time, an extremely anxious expression appeared on her face. She didn't even have time to change her clothes. She just wore light-colored pajamas and a pair of white socks that she wore at home, and ran out of her room in a hurry.

However, just as Mu ran out of the room, suddenly a very clear guitar sound came from outside the window. Mu, in a panic, immediately recognized the name of the song coming from outside the window.

Who is it? Who is playing Qi's "Heaven is weak"?

Wait, Qi said he was near my home? Could it be that the one playing this song now is Qi?

And judging from the sound, it seems to be coming from the back door?

After a brief moment of surprise, Mu soon heard hurried footsteps from the second floor. When Mu looked down through the window from the second floor, he found that seven or eight bodyguards had heard the noise and rushed towards the back door immediately.

Obviously, Mu's father had already anticipated this situation, so he arranged for bodyguards at home to be on standby at all times. As long as they heard the slightest movement about Chen Qi, they would subdue him immediately.

Seeing the bodyguards starting to rush towards the back door, the anxious Mu subconsciously wanted to run towards the back door as well to stop these bodyguards from committing any possible violence against Chen Qi.

But soon, Mu's reason helped her again.

"Qi seemed to say that he would pick me up at the front door."

Why did Qi specifically say this? Mu had no time to think. In a hurry, his trust in Chen Qi overwhelmed his impulse, but Mu's footsteps did not stop at all. He ran quickly towards the main door in his socks.

Just as Mu was about to run out of the house, he found that two bodyguards were already standing outside the door. When they saw Ruoye Mu running out, they were surprised and stretched out their hands to stop him:

"Miss Ruoye, you can't——"

However, these two bodyguards, who were 1.8 meters tall, a rare sight in Japan, were unable to stop Mu. Mu quickly bent down and squeezed past the two bodyguards without stopping.

Mu had just stepped into the courtyard when he saw a tall figure with a guitar bag running towards him. He subconsciously narrowed his eyes and said in a tone filled with a bit of disbelief and surprise:

"Qi? Are you really here?"

"Of course."

However, from Mu's perspective, Chen Qi, who had just approached him, looked a little disheveled, with his clothes and hair a little messy, and his clothes were stained with some dirt and weeds - but Mu could also guess that it would be more or less difficult for even Chen Qi to climb over the high wall of Ruoye's house.

However, even though Chen Qi in front of her looked a little embarrassed, Mu didn't care at all. What she cared more about was that he was really willing to risk being caught by so many bodyguards for her sake and try every means to take her out of the house, just because this was her request.

At this moment, even though Chen Qi looked a little embarrassed, he was still the brightest person in Mu's eyes.

I didn't just run towards him alone, this time, he also ran towards me.

"But now is not the time to talk about this. We have to leave quickly."

"……Um."

Mu also nodded gently. The next moment, just when Mu wanted to take the initiative to hold Chen Qi's hand for the first time, two hurried footsteps behind him interrupted Mu and Chen Qi's actions.

However, this time, before Mu could turn around and react to the bodyguard following behind him, Chen Qi took off the guitar bag on his back when he saw the person coming.

The next second, before Mu could react, he saw Chen Qi holding up his violin bag, and silently said in his heart, "I'm sorry, grandma!"

But facing the two bodyguards running over, Chen Qi's heart was also ruthless, and he immediately shouted at the two bodyguards:

"A guitar worth four and a half million! Got it!"

After saying that, under the gaze of Mu, who was obviously dazed by fear, Chen Qi, without any hesitation, threw the musical instrument case in his hand directly to the two bodyguards who were chasing him.

Before the two bodyguards could even react, they saw a dark shadow flying towards their faces in the darkness!

The bodyguards reacted quickly and subconsciously blocked the flying guitar case together, but then, the sound of "four and a half million guitar" from Chen Qi made them panic and they hurriedly tried to catch the fallen guitar case for fear of breaking it.

"Mu! Let's go!"

But at this moment, Chen Qi grabbed Mu's hand without saying a word, and while the two bodyguards were still confused, he grabbed Mu and ran towards the door, without even turning his head to take a look at his precious guitar.

However, Chen Qi and Mu, who rushed out of the door immediately, did not know that on the second floor, Mr. Ruo Ye had been watching this scene silently from a high place from beginning to end.

When this father saw that his daughter actually went against her will and ran away from home, and that Chen Qi really dared to break into his home and take his daughter away, a smile that was either bitter or helpless appeared on Mr. Ruoye's face.

At this time, Mr. Ruoye's cell phone that was placed aside also vibrated. He silently turned on the hands-free function. The bodyguards who were running towards the back door immediately reported anxiously:

"Master, the sound coming from the back door was from a speaker. We were tricked."

"Master, do you want us to drive after the young lady?"

“—Forget it.”

However, Mr. Ruoye quickly regained his composure and responded calmly to the proposals of his bodyguards:

"Girls can't be kept when they grow up... Even if you bring back a child who wants to run away from home, her heart is no longer at home."

"Maybe, we as parents really don't care enough about Mu... Otherwise, Mu wouldn't choose to trust a brat he's only known for a year and run away from home."

"However, this boy is really courageous. I thought he was the kind of person who would be timid and would never take the lead in any situation."

At this point, Mr. Ruoye couldn't help but smile. He had already learned about Chen Qi's experience and interpersonal relationships through his own means. Naturally, he had a general understanding of Chen Qi's character, and he also knew why his daughter was so fascinated by this guy.

Mr. Ruoye is well aware that Chen Qi possesses the part that his daughter desires most.

The reason for this was because Mr. Ruoye wanted to know whether his daughter, who was so obsessed with him, could get equal treatment from Chen Qi.

At least, from my observation this time, this kid can indeed do it.

Although, considering what Chen Qi said during the day, Mr. Ruo Ye suspected what kind of feelings Chen Qi had for Mu, even Chen Qi himself was not quite sure, but at least, he dared to make a fuss for Mu today, which at least proved how much Mu weighed in his heart.

Now this boy doesn’t see this relationship clearly, and maybe his own daughter doesn’t understand it clearly either, but, the opposite sex who are willing to go through so much for each other will realize this sooner or later.

As a "disqualified" father, since I can't keep my daughter, all I can do this time is probably just watch from afar.

"Are you really letting them go just like this?"

On Mr. Ruoye's phone, his wife, who had been on a video call with him from the beginning to the end, asked with a somewhat uneasy tone when she heard that her husband was really going to let Chen Qi leave in harmony:

"A young and hot-tempered man took our daughter away from our home. What's the difference between this and 'eloping'?"

"Mu Weilai is going to rely on our relationship to enter the entertainment industry. If this matter gets out, where will we put our face?"

"Even if we take a step back and Mu really doesn't want to enter the entertainment industry in the future, Mu is so naive. If she falls into the hands of that guy named Chen Qi, won't she be manipulated by him? If something bad happens, how can Mu get married?"

"——Why, at this point, do you think there will be another man who can walk into Mu's heart like Chen Qi did?"

After hearing these words, Mr. Ruoye shook his head with a smile. He did not blame his wife for her reaction. After all, Mu was not her biological daughter, and their relationship had not improved much. It was normal for him not to care about Mu at the first time.

But what his wife said also forced Mr. Ruoye to consider...

It's not that he didn't trust Chen Qi's character. Although they had only met a few times, Mr. Ruoye could see that Chen Qi was a man who dared to do and take responsibility for his actions. Apart from the fact that there were a few more girls around him, there were no other problems with his character.

But, Chen Qi was only nineteen years old after all, and his daughter was only sixteen years old. In addition, his daughter had such a good impression of him, what if something happened...

...Maybe this is not a bad idea? At least, given that kid's personality, if he really did something like this, then no matter if he was unwilling or not, he would have to take care of Mu wholeheartedly and not have any other thoughts.

Anyway, this kid has passed the assessment, and Mu really likes him, so it shouldn't be a bad idea to tie these two together, right?

"——You're right. We should talk to that kid."

Mr. Ruoye nodded thoughtfully. Facing his wife's expression of "Fortunately you understand", Mr. Ruoye was thinking about something completely different.

This kid is good in other aspects except that he is a bit of a philanderer... It seems that he should stop him from having such thoughts.

Especially, the girl from the Toyokawa family. Mr. Ruoye also inadvertently recalled the records he had seen before about Chen Qi and Toyokawa Shoko... Obviously, he knew very well who the biggest enemy his daughter would face was.

……

Ten minutes later, Chen Qi, who had run out of the villa area with Mu, looked at the street behind him breathlessly. After making sure that no one was chasing them, he breathed a sigh of relief...

"Huh... Looks like, Mu, your father has spared us."

Thinking of this, Chen Qi couldn't help but feel fortunate. He didn't think that his little trick could really get Mu out of Ruoye's house. In fact, he was still gambling whether Mr. Ruoye would show leniency to his daughter.

Now it seems that Chen Qi won the bet. Mr. Ruoye is indeed much more tolerant towards Mu than himself. After all, she is his daughter after all.

His tense nerves finally relaxed, and Chen Qi wanted to have a good rest. However, he suddenly thought of Mu, whose hand he had been holding. He quickly turned his head and paid attention to Mu's situation at the first moment.

And just as Chen Qi expected, after running away for more than ten minutes, even he, a man, was still out of breath. Mu was much smaller than him and had worse physical fitness. After such a long time of exhaustion, his face was also pale and covered with sweat.

"Mu, are you okay?"

Chen Qi immediately loosened his hand that had been clenched until it turned red, and quickly half-knelt down and asked Mu with concern. Looking at Mu who was panting and couldn't even speak, Chen Qi glanced at Mu from head to toe in a panic, but soon found a blind spot that he had not noticed.

"Mu, you don't even have shoes on?!"

This time, Chen Qi was really a little scared. The situation was urgent before, and he didn't have time to pay attention to Mu's outfit. He was just busy pulling Mu to run, without considering that Mu's current condition was not suitable for running.

Chen Qi realized this belatedly, and a trace of self-blame flashed across his face - he should have discovered it earlier, and he should have carried Mu on his back and ran at the first moment. After running barefoot for more than ten minutes, Mu's feet must have been injured.

"I'm fine..."

Noticing Chen Qi's nervous expression, Mu also shook his head gently. Even though his feet felt numb, he still shook his head calmly, subconsciously stroking his wrist that was red from being held, and said softly:

"Qi, don't worry about me, just do what you should do."

"…Let's go take a break."

Of course, Chen Qi didn't really think that Mu would be fine. Instead, he took Mu's hand and walked to a long wooden chair not far away. Looking at Mu's limping steps, Chen Qi's heart was also vaguely wrapped in a sense of guilt...

After all, Chen Qi knew that Mu's feet were the feet for ballet dancing...

Chen Qi carefully helped Mu sit down on the bench. However, just after Mu sat down, Chen Qi looked at the white stockings wrapped around Mu's legs. After hesitating for a long time, he spoke to Mu with some difficulty:

"Mu."

"Hmm?" Mu turned his head slightly to answer.

"...I don't mean anything else. If it's convenient, can I take a look at the injury on the sole of your foot?"

However, after saying this, Chen Qi couldn't help but turn his head away in embarrassment. He was of course very clear that no matter what his purpose was, telling a girl that he wanted to see the soles of her feet would inevitably be suspected of sexual harassment.

Especially, the girl in front of him was so pure and innocent. For a moment, Chen Qi had a strong sense that he was kidnapping an ignorant girl...

"……Can."

However, what Chen Qi could not have imagined was Mu's response after a moment's thought. Chen Qi turned his head in surprise, and found that Mu had raised his head slightly and slowly took off the stockings wrapped around his legs in front of him.

Chen Qi knew that his behavior was not right, but he had to admit that for a moment, he was stunned when he saw Mu's legs, which were still smooth and white in the dark.

But before Chen Qi could react, Mu had already taken off the white silk stockings on her legs. Listening to Chen Qi's words, she stretched out her legs and pressed them on Chen Qi's legs, letting Chen Qi look at her at will, which also made Chen Qi feel quite pressured...