Lu Xue said thank you and then went upstairs.
In the following days, Lu Xue shut herself in the studio and started working on the next series of her works, while Mu Yuze got busy with the upcoming art exhibition of the company next month.
Since Mu Yuze had to work overtime in the company for too long, Yan Hua simply rented a simple apartment for his boss near the company to make it convenient for him to commute.
As a result, Mu Yuze didn't return to the Mu family mansion for several days.
But Mu Ziyue and Ding Muyun couldn't sit still anymore.
Mu Ziyue watched as Lu Xue had such a large private space in the house and shut herself inside every day. She had no idea what Lu Xue was actually doing.
Early this morning, Lu Xue went into that room again and then locked the door, not allowing anyone to enter.
The aunts in the mansion were already used to Lu Xue's temper and just continued with their own business without asking.
But Mu Ziyue was extremely unhappy. She stared at the closed door, her eyes wishing to burn holes in it.
She asked Ding Muyun, "What do you think that country girl is doing in there every day? She never comes out. Is she sleeping inside?"
Ding Muyun shook her head. "There isn't even a bed in there. How could she sleep inside? Besides, wouldn't it be better to go back to her own bedroom to sleep?"
Mu Ziyue thought so too.
Her curiosity about Lu Xue was almost at the point of explosion.
Since Lu Xue came to this family, she had almost shut herself in that small room all day long. She had very little communication with the two of them on weekdays, or rather, Lu Xue simply didn't even notice the two of them.
Even when they met under the same roof, she would just walk straight past them and continue upstairs, as if there were no masters in this house at all.
Driven by curiosity, Mu Ziyue once wanted to see what was inside Lu Xue's small room, but Lu Xue had locked the door and it couldn't be opened without a key.
Moreover, when she was fiddling around at the door, Aunt Chen caught her.
Aunt Chen came up kindly to persuade her. "Miss, this is Miss Lu's private area. She has told us that no one is allowed to enter."
Mu Ziyue snorted. "This is my home. What right does she have to demarcate her own private area here? I've lived in this mansion for over twenty years, and now there's even a place I can't enter?"
Aunt Chen looked a bit embarrassed. It took her a long time to say, "This was also what Master Mu told us. We all follow Master Mu's arrangements."
As soon as Aunt Chen mentioned Mu Yuze, Mu Ziyue didn't dare to cause more trouble. She could only leave angrily with a livid face, flicking her sleeves.
Later, Mu Ziyue went to the back garden and took a pair of binoculars. She secretly monitored the window of Lu Xue's room for half a day from a place facing it.
But somehow, Lu Xue was used to drawing the curtains tightly, covering up the situation inside the room.
Mu Ziyue was bitten by mosquitoes and got several big bumps on her body in the grass, but she still couldn't find out any clues.
Now she desperately wanted to find a handle on Lu Xue, and then throw this wild girl and all her strange things out of the Mu family, leaving her to fend for herself.
As soon as this girl came, she had shaken Mu Ziyue's position as the eldest daughter in the family. She even blatantly occupied the room that Mu Ziyue had originally planned to decorate as a study.
What made Mu Ziyue even angrier was that Lu Xue actually had the audacity to receive her friends in this house.
That day, Han Xiaolv came to visit Lu Xue again, and Lu Xue led her in generously.
The two girls played games, watched dramas, and variety shows on the sofa in the living room, taking up most of the space in the living room.
The chattering voices made Mu Ziyue on the second floor so angry that she wished she could come down and fight with them directly.
"Lu Xue has only been here for a few days. If it were any other girl in a new environment, she would have to be more obedient for a while, but what about her? She really thinks of herself as the mistress of this house! I really don't understand. She's so arrogant at home, but why doesn't my brother discipline her?"
Ding Muyun thought for a while and then said, "Your brother is probably too busy with work to even have time to come back. How would he know what kind of behavior Lu Xue has at home?"
Mu Ziyue was so angry that she couldn't vent her anger. She simply rushed out of the house to have a party with her friends outside.
Ding Muyun watched Mu Ziyue's back as she rushed out and silently fell into deep thought.
Just as Mu Ziyue said, she really needed to find a handle on Lu Xue as soon as possible and then let Mu Yuze drive her out of the house.
Living under the same roof, friction was inevitable. As long as the matter was made bigger, maybe she could find a handle on Lu Xue.
But the difficult part was that Lu Xue hardly interacted with the two of them at all.
She acted as if she didn't see them even when they were in the same room. She even staggered the time to go downstairs for meals.
Most of the time during the day, Lu Xue stayed alone in her small room without going out.
In this situation, she was more like a transparent roommate. It was hard to even find any intersection with her, let alone have any life friction.
It seemed that she had to deliberately create one.
Thinking like this, Ding Muyun's eyes gradually darkened.
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During this period, Yan Hua had become a real overtime dog. He was so busy that he was dizzy. But even though he was this busy, he still didn't forget about Lu Xue's matter and kept it in mind.
Once, he and Mu Yuze both worked overtime until 9 p.m. When they left the company, the cubicles outside were already completely dark.