After seeing Xiao Bo being hesitant to leave Maple and her kittens, Mu Chen ordered his secretary Le Yang to take them to his apartment.

Xiao Bo was surprised to hear that, "A-Are...are you gonna adopt her?"

Mu Chen gave him a light smile as he patted the Younger's head, "Yes, in that way you don't have to worry about her and her kittens, right?"

>>>I can invite him to my home with the excuse of seeing Maple. In that way, I can spend some quality time with him and get to know him better...

Xiao Bo nodded and smiled gaily at Maple.

"You will have a proper home now to raise your kids, I am so happy."

Xin Yi and Shen Yu beamed seeing their friend so contended. Soon the four of them reached the Wang's farmhouse.

Comprehending that the Younger was getting anxious by noticing his stiffened shoulders, Mu Chen placed his hand over Xiao Bo's shoulder gently pulling him closer.

Xiao Bo was flustered at first as he looked up at the Elder who had an assured smile on his face.

He immediately looked down biting his lips that were curving upwards involuntarily.

>>>How did he know...that I am nervous?

Mu Chen bent his head reaching the Younger's ear and whispered,

"Don't worry. This is just a family party and no one will dare to do anything to you. In any case, I am here with you."

Xiao Bo nodded his head lightly with his blushy pink-tinted cheeks not because the Elder's words were reassuring but because Mu Chen's warm breath was tingling on his nape.

>>>B-But... I am more nervous now...why is he so close to me?

Shen Yu and Xin Yi were busy searching for their families and didn't notice the both behind them.

Right before they enter the farmhouse the head butler of the Wang family, Zhi Yuan, a sixty-year-old man who was looking healthy and firm with a well-built body and muscles greeted them with an elegant bow.

"Welcome, Young Masters."

"Old Zhi, how are you doing?"

Xin Yi was cheerful to meet the old man who took care of him in the Wang's mansion.

"This old man is doing better than you young people, Young Master Feng,"

Zhi Yuan's wrinkles around his mouth crinkled as his lips raised a few degrees.

"Haha, of course, Lao(old) Zhi," Shen Yu commented.

The butler agreed with a slight nod, "Please, go inside. All the Elders are waiting for your arrival."

Xin Yi and Shen Yu walked inside first as they saw familiar faces inside.

"Is this little lad, your Fiance, Young Master?" The butler asked.

Mu Chen just gave him a nod as he walked past him with Xiao Bo in his arms who was bewildered by the elder's actions.

He turned back and gave a little bow to the butler who returned it with a smile,

>>>Living for sixty years, I thought I had gained enough experience to know the difference between rumors and reality.

>>>Maybe I need to learn more...this little lad is nothing like the rumors. If anything he is the total opposite... Master Wang, we are wrong about him and I know you will realize it sooner you meet him.

The head butler of the Wang family who was working for them for almost all his life pondered over seeing the innocent Xiao Bo.

A week back when the news of Wang Mu Chen's engagement with the Song family's notorious Young Master known as the trash of S city made elder Wang Jun Hie's blood pressure rise to its peak.

He didn't want his grandson to marry such an awful person. He was about to call Mu Chen home and scold him but before he could do that his grandson called home to inform them about the situation.

Wang Zi Xin(Mu Chen's father) explained his father who calmed down a little but was still against the decision of Mu Chen taking responsibility for Xiao Bo and making him his real fiance.

That was why he asked Mu Chen to bring Xiao Bo to the family party to see the Younger who was going to be the Fiance of his grandson and why he was going to such an extent for the Younger.

Elder Wang was dead set on breaking the relationship between his grandson and Xiao Bo if the Younger turned out to be anything like in the rumors.

So he asked his close servant, the head butler Zhi Yuan to look into Xiao Bo on the day of the party and see if there was any truth in his grandson's claim about the Younger being innocent and the rumours of him being just some baseless false accusations.

As soon as the head butler laid his eyes on Xiao Bo he knew that the person was nothing like the rumours told to be. He doesn't have any arrogance of the rich Young Masters.

His keen eyes of years of experience could tell apart from acting and original behavior. So, when the butler saw Xiao Bo...

He was looking anxious in the arms of Mu Chen just like a little rabbit coming out of its burrow for the first time.

So the head butler concluded Xiao Bo was as his Young Master claimed him to be and that he was wrong to judge the Younger before seeing him in person.

Mu Chen took Xiao Bo along with him into the hall where all the Elders of the families were chatting with each other.

Song Xiao Bo knew most of them sitting in front of him as they possessed an aura dominant enough to make him shudder since they were the heads of the most powerful families in the country.

Seeing Wang Jun Hie and Wang Li Jing, the grandfather and grandmother of Mu Chen respectively, a bitter experience of his past life resurfaced in his mind.

He only met them once after they were enraged knowing Xiao Bo drugged their grandson and slept with him which was in fact Song Yi Ming's cunning plot to make the Wangs be on his side to face the Li family.

But it backfired as the elder Wangs didn't approve of Xiao Bo and Mu Chen announced his engagement with Xin Yi right after, leaving no chance for Song Yi Ming to let his youngest son marry him.

>>>Same...their looks...are the same...

Xiao Bo's body started trembling seeing the hatred and disgusted look on the elder Wangs' faces. The last time he faced them they outright ignored him and told his father Song Yi Ming that they didn't want to have such filth enter their family.

Those words made Xiao Bo's depression worse when he was trying to cope with Mu Chen's and everyone's anger. He couldn't forget them until his death and even now.

Tears brimmed in Xiao Bo's eyes as he felt nauseous thinking that he had to experience the same thing again he did in his past life.

Even though Mu Chen said he asked his parents permission to get engaged with Xiao Bo...what about his grandparents who were the real dictators of any decision in the Wang family?

>>>Maybe they will throw me out again...

Xiao Bo bit his lips as he downcasted. He clutched onto a fistful of the cloth on his pants crushing it, feeling the intense stares from everyone in the huge room.

He tried to stop his tears feeling the squeeze of Mu Chen on his shoulder but still facing all of them was hard for Xiao Bo.

How could he...when all he faced was immense abhorrence from everyone till now? How could he forget everything and face them confidently just because Mu Chen was on his side now...

>>>Or maybe he isn't...

No matter how hard he tried he couldn't let himself trust anyone other than his elder brother Wei Chen.

>>>Right...if Wei Gege is here...I...I...

He looked up instantly with his red eyes to find his brother in the crowd but his eyes stopped on a certain person and he froze in terror.

That was one of the two persons aside from the psychopath who flayed him alive on the orders of Mu Chen.

He was the foreigner with the well-built body who was standing behind the Elder Wang in his bodyguard uniform.

All the memory of his sufferings came back to him like a whirlwind.

He was trying to forget everything of his past and move on with his new blessed life but every time he tried to take a step further he was made to step ten steps back into despair.

The foreigner was the head of the security guards of Wang's family, named Daniel Miller.

He frowned as he made eye contact with the scared eyes of Xiao Bo.

Daniel Miller remembered Xiao Bo who ran away with the same terrified expression on his face the day he went to meet his psycho nephew, Liam at S University.

He was scolding Liam to be on his best behavior and complete his graduation so that he could become the official personal bodyguard for Mu Chen in the canteen and then they were bumped by a short boy who paled seeing them and ran away despite his friends calling him.

Daniel thought his face was too scary for a teenager at that time and didn't think much of it but seeing the same boy with the same expression made him wonder.

>>>Did I threaten him or something when I was a gangster?

Xiao Bo freed himself from Mu Chen's grip and ran away from the hall shocking everyone there. He bumped into someone,

"You! How dare you-...haa...you pathetic bitch! Why are you running around here? Did the news of you becoming the Fiance of Wang Mu Chen got to your head?"

Song Yi Ming roared as he saw his youngest son.

Xiao Bo looked up hearing the familiar voice. He was trying to avoid meeting with his Father till now but unfortunately, he bumped into him.

But his Father's angry face wasn't the one that made Xiao Bo's blood run cold, it was the psychopath who laughed while skinning him was approaching from behind talking on his phone.

That man wasn't even looking at Xiao Bo but he was imagining the psychopath advancing towards him with a sinister smirk on his face.

Cold sweat beads fell from Xiao Bo's forehead to the floor. Song Yi Ming was yelling at him but he couldn't hear even a word.

Xiao Bo felt like his head was spinning and the surroundings were changing back to the old dusty basement. He strained his teary eyes trying to keep them open.

Song Yi Ming got angrier as the Younger wasn't replying and was standing frozen with a ghastly look on his face.

Before Yi Ming could slap the Younger with his raised hand, Xiao Bo was pulled back and was embraced tightly by Mu Chen who came running behind his Fiance after glaring at his parents and grandparents for making the Younger scared by their unwelcomed stares.

Mu Chen rubbed the Younger's back gently as he glowered at Yi Ming,

"Mr. Song, everyone is waiting for you in the hall. We both have some business so we will come back later. Please go inside."

Seeing Mu Chen being fond of his youngest son who he deemed useless and pathetic made him smile brightly with dripping greed.

>>>Seems that Young Master Wang is affectionate towards this bitch...good very good!

"Yes, Young Master Wang."

Song Yi Ming bowed to him and left grinning that his plan was successful.

Mu Chen brushed the Younger's hair and didn't break the hug,

"It's okay, Xiao Bo. Everyone here won't harm you in any way. I won't let anyone lay their hands on my Fiance even if it is your Father."

Xiao Bo was about to relax at the gentle words of the Elder when,

"Ah, Young Master Wang. It's been a long time, right?" Liam greeted.

Hearing the voice Xiao Bo clasped Mu Chen's shirt so hard that his pink fingertips turned pale white.

He buried his head, shutting his eyes tightly not letting his tears escape.

He was trembling so badly that Mu Chen felt bad for him. It was already the Younger's second time to panic on this day.

"Go inside. We will talk later,"

Mu Chen replied and then in a swift move, he lifted the Younger in his arms and walked upstairs to his room.

Liam stood there confused,

>>>Is that shaking lamb...Young Master Wang's Fiance?

He shrugged and walked inside as it was not in his interest, to meet his uncle Daniel.

Xiao Bo stayed in the elder's arms quietly as Mu Chen closed the door behind him with his leg and then sat on the bed with him in his arms.

Mu Chen was worried for the Younger as just before he had a panic attack at the University and even though he suggested that there was no need to go to the party if he was feeling unwell Xiao Bo insisted that he was fine.

After arriving here and seeing Xiao Bo all anxious Mu Chen held him to give him some comfort but the way Xiao Bo became fear stricken seeing his family members stares he understood that bringing the Younger here was a bad plan.

He wanted to scold his grandparents and parents for not being welcoming even after he clearly explained to them that Xiao Bo wasn't anything like that in the rumors...he was just too innocent...and too pure for this world.

Just like a,

"Snowball."

"Hm?"

Xiao Bo was calming down in the warmth of Mu Chen's body when he heard him.

He looked up with a befuddled expression with his big caramel brown eyes that held the stars of the universe in them.

The corner of Mu Chen's lips twitched into a soft smile as he gently wiped the tear stains on Xiao Bo's cheeks,

"Snowball... you just look like that."

"..."

Xiao Bo didn't know how to respond to that.

Finally, his senses came back to him and he was no longer scared as he forgot everything staring into those ebony eyes that were looking at him endearingly.

Mu Chen's face moved automatically as if he was hypnotized by the Younger's charms, he placed a soft feathery kiss on Xiao Bo's forehead.

The Younger blinked his eyes as Mu Chen retracted back with widened eyes surprised himself by his action and that was when Xiao Bo's brain lightened bright and the reaction to it was a complete cherry face.

"Y-You..."

Xiao Bo couldn't form any words and he just then noticed he was on Mu Chen's lap.

He didn't know where to put his face so he closed it with his palms becoming all shy.

Mu Chen found that action so adorable that he felt something warm tingling inside his heart.

"Snowball, that will be your nickname from now on," Mu Chen stated, proudly.

>>>My Snowball...

Xiao Bo curled his fingertips opening only part of his eyes with an astonished look.

"M-My...nickname?"

Mu Chen nodded in response.

"Right...or should I call you shy little Snowball?"

"W-What?"

Xiao Bo's heart started beating fast as his cheeks heated up seeing a teasing look on the Elder.

"Why, you don't like it? Everyone calls you Xiao Xiao, A'Xiao...and that brother of yours even calls you Bobo..." Mu Chen muttered the last part.

"I want to call you something that no one calls...the right to call you Snowball will be only mine."

"Eh?"

Xiao Bo felt like his heart would stop beating because of how fast it was rising with each word from Mu Chen's mouth.

>>>Why is he...

Mu Chen sighed with a smile as he removed the Younger's palms from his face and held them,

"Did you calm down now?"

He asked ever so gently with his face so close to the Younger that he had to look away.

>>>Calm down? ...how can I calm down if you are this close to me???????

Xiao Bo wanted to yell that but ended up yelling inside his mind with flushed cheeks.

"I am sorry," Mu Chen said, suddenly gaining the Younger's attention.

"Um?"

"It's too soon for you to meet my family. If I didn't insist you to come here in the first place you shouldn't have to go through all this. I don't know what you went through in the Song family...but I can feel the gist of it."

Xiao Bo didn't say anything and kept on listening to him as it was rare for him to have a conversation like this with Mu Chen in his past life and somehow he felt the Elder wasn't anything like in his past life.

At that time Mu Chen would just ignore his approaches and would never give him the chance to speak.

But after the incident where he and the Elder were drugged and slept with him... Mu Chen turned colder towards him.

Maybe he felt like he betrayed the trust of Xin Yi...he took out his anger on Xiao Bo until he announced the engagement with him.

In his last life, Xiao Bo couldn't even imagine Mu Chen talking as he was a man of few words known by everyone...

But now he was talking with him so gently with so much affection in his eyes that the Younger's feelings that he locked up deep inside his heart started trying to break out of their restraints.

"You have been through so much, Snowball. But I promise, you won't go through any such things by my side. I won't let anyone harm you and neither will I...trust me."

Mu Chen cupped the Younger's cheek as he spoke. Xiao Bo felt tears in his eyes again hearing those honest words.

"Rea...*hic* lly?" Xiao Bo choked on his tears.

"Yes, all this engagement... Fiance... I know it's all too sudden for you. I feel that too. I am nervous just like you cause I don't know if I did the right thing by announcing you as my Fiance. I thought I was helping you out of trouble but instead, I pulled you further into troubles that are far more problematic."

Xiao Bo could sense the anxiety in Mu Chen's words.

"That's why...I am sorry. But still, I want you to be my Fiance...I know we have written the contract and you can break this off anytime you want and I have no say in that..." Mu Chen paused,

"...can you...can you give me a chance?"

"A chance?" Xiao Bo was flustered.

"Yes...a chance before you think this is all too much for you and back off from this. How about you give me some time...to-"

"I think your family doesn't like me," Xiao Bo commented cutting off the elder's words.

Truth to be told after seeing that foreigner and that psychopath, Xiao Bo didn't want to do this engagement or anything else anymore.

He wanted to run away somewhere far from everyone and live a peaceful life.

He didn't want to face those men who tortured him to death and if he did this engagement then he had to keep seeing them as they belong to Wang's family.

On a side of his heart, he didn't want to raise his hopes that Mu Chen would love him...that was too far he didn't even think engagement and marriage were possible between them.

It wasn't his plan when the Goddess gave him this life.

He just wanted to live quietly somewhere with his brother Wei Chen without interfering in Mu Chen's and Xin Yi's love.

Nonetheless, Xin Yi announced that he was in love with Mu Chen's cousin Wang Bai Hu shocking him to the core.

He was still confused about how could main leads drift apart from each other like this...?

But as if Mu Chen read the Younger's turbulent mind he asked him for a chance.

Xiao Bo was pulled back from his endless thoughts by Mu Chen's voice,

"No...they are just wary. If they speak with you they will know...fuck that! I will see them if they even try to do anything funny to you, so don't worry. Worse comes to the worst, I can just break ties with my family and we can just live away from them."

Mu Chen declared stunning the Younger.

>>>What...he would break his ties with his family...FOR ME...????

Seeing the shocked expression, "Don't worry. I run a small gaming company and make decent money so there won't be any problem."

Mu Chen spoke amazing Xiao Bo again.

>>>Small company? He is calling the top WMC gaming company... that makes some trillions annually...small?

As a reader of 'Childhood Sweethearts' and also as he has seen in his past life Xiao Bo could swear that the WMC company would become the world's top most gaming company that broke all world records with its profits.

Even now it wasn't just a small company. The games produced by the WMC gaming company were so addicting that all the teenagers in the country went to internet cafes just to play those games.

Nevertheless, even if we assume the Wang family threw out Mu Chen, he would still be the most powerful man in the country possessing wealth and intelligence.

Not getting any response from Xiao Bo,

"Snowball, If you still don't believe me, I will just go and announce that I am breaking up all ties with my family-"

Xiao Bo closed his mouth with his tiny palms,

"S-Stop...I trust you and there is no need for you to break ties with your family. I...I just got nervous seeing everyone...I am sorry."

"You don't have to be sorry, Snowball. It's their fault, I told them not to scare you still they had the audacity...I will scold them good for you, okay?"

Xiao Bo giggled seeing how serious the elder was looking.

"You will scold your parents...for me?"

"Of course... my Snowball."

Mu Chen said in a teasing tone hearing him giggle for the first time in front of him cause whenever he was with him either Xiao Bo would be scared of him or avoid talking with him.

He was jealous of Xin Yi and Shen Yu who could make Xiao Bo giggle and smile.

Mu Chen also wanted to be the person who could make the Younger smile and he did it now even by being so absurd.

"A-Are you going to keep calling me that?" Xiao Bo asked with cherry red cheeks.

"Yes..." Mu Chen paused, "...Snowball."

"Uh..."

Xiao Bo buried his head in the elder's chest feeling bashful by the flirtatious voice of Mu Chen,

"S-Stop it."

Mu Chen felt happier than ever in his heart seeing the little lovable action of Xiao Bo.

He hugged the Younger and whispered in his ear, "I won't... Snowball."

On The Other Hand...

"WHAT THE HELL??"

A loud noise coming from the inside broke the peaceful atmosphere and grabbed the attention of everyone outside, in the lawn.

Inside, Cao Shen Yu's corners of eyes were glossy.

His face was flushed and he was looking at his parents furiously that the smoke was coming out of his ears.

"Shen Yu, tone down your voice before you anger the elder Wang," Cao Zheng Bao, Shen Yu's father glared at him.

"That's right, Yuyu. Calm down, don't humiliate us like this in front of everyone," Cao Mei Xia, his mother suggested.

"Calm down? What do you mean calm down when you dropped this bomb suddenly on my head, huh? How could you arrange my marriage without letting me know? Ma, Pa, I never expected this from you."

Shen Yu's rage turned into disappointment at his parents.

"It was arranged by Elder Wang for you. We couldn't refuse as the other family was also good and reputable."

Zheng Bao tried to persuade his son.

"I am still seventeen, Pa. Who wants to marry at this age? I want to do so many things in life, what about my dreams and goals? No matter how reputable the other family is I am not marrying anyone. If you try to force me, I will run away from home," Shen Yu threatened.

"Yuyu!"

Mei Xia looked anxious cause her son was someone who would do exactly what he said and she didn't want him to run away from home and be outcasted by the Wangs.

"What's all this commotion?"

Elder Wang walked there along with his eldest son Wang Zi Xin and daughter-in-law, Wang Shi Han.

The Wangs were already flabbergasted by Xiao Bo running away and Mu Chen giving them a threatening look and following his Fiance.

They were squabbling that it was each other's fault when they heard Shen Yu's scream and decided to solve it first before they talked with Mu Chen.

CONTINUED...

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Mini theatre:

Mu Chen: My little Snowball...(⁠ʃ⁠ƪ⁠＾⁠3⁠＾⁠）

Xiao Bo: *shy* *shy* stop it...( 〃．．)

Shen Yu: You self-centered raccoon! How dare you want to marry me? ( #'⌂')/┌┛

Li Fan: "..."

>>>Self-centered raccoon? Me?
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Xin Yi: *searching for his boyfriend*(・∧‐)ゞ

Bai Hu: *with a determined look* I will have my first kiss with YiYi today, no matter what! ᕦ⁠(⁠ò⁠_⁠ó⁠ˇ⁠)⁠ᕤ

Ms. Villainess: Everyone is paired up... except my single ass...
｡ﾟﾟ(」｡≧□≦)」*disappears*

Ms. Villainess has something to say:

AHHHHHHHHH! SNOWBALL? SO CUTE! MUMU WAY TO GO! Aww my cute tiny little fluffy shy BoBo(⁠/⁠^⁠-⁠^⁠(⁠^⁠ ⁠^⁠*⁠)⁠/

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