Hearing the little girl’s contradictory words, Qin Shuchun gently bumped her with her shoulder. “Why are you acting tsundere again?”
“You clearly like me a lot, so just admit it openly! I want to hear you say it!”
“No one’s going to laugh at you. And if anyone dares to, I’ll tear them to shreds for you!”
Xie Wanwan had been lightly bumped on the forehead, but it didn’t hurt.
Instead, it felt more like something had gently brushed against her heart, sending ripples through it that refused to settle.
Just like the passionate and sincere friendship between the girls—warm and everlasting.
Su Xiaoye reached out and rubbed both their foreheads. “Does it hurt?”
“No. She’s just acting spoiled with me!” Xie Wanwan shook her head as she answered Su Xiaoye’s question, then turned to Qin Shuchun.
“You’re right. So what if I like you as a friend? Is that not allowed? If you’re unhappy about it, just suck it up!”
Qin Shuchun got the result she wanted and looked deeply satisfied. “I taught her well!”
“You caught on so quickly. You’re really smart! From now on, just say whatever you want to say!”
“Of course, you’re not allowed to say it when you’re secretly cursing me, because I don’t like listening to that!”
Xie Wanwan tilted her chin slightly and gave a humph. “I’m going to say it anyway. If you make me unhappy one day, I’ll bring a megaphone right up to your face and loudly curse you out!”
“You’ll listen whether you like it or not!”
Qin Shuchun lightly tugged on Su Xiaoye. “See that? She can draw inferences now. You should learn from her too!”
Su Xiaoye smiled until her eyes curved into crescents. “Okay. I’ll learn everything you two teach me!”
The three girls toured the historical site while whispering and fooling around. Their voices were so soft that they didn’t disturb anyone else.
Holding up his phone, Xie Shen followed behind them and took picture after picture.
The girls in the photos were smiling brightly, and the person taking the pictures wore an equally happy smile in the corners of his eyes.
Walking ahead, Xie Tangning clung to her big brother while occasionally turning her head to eavesdrop on the girls’ whispers.
Good. One little tsundere and one little mute had both taken a huge step forward, especially Su Xiaoye.
She had begun learning how to make friends and interact with others instead of cautiously clinging to her as her only “lifeline.”
In the future, she would have a much wider world—more friends, not just Xie Tangning and Qin Shuchun, not just Xie Wanwan, and not just Liang Zhou…
She would have a vast world of her own.
Lu Huaiyu naturally noticed the little girl’s wandering attention. He manually turned the distracted child’s head back around. “Tsk. Your beloved big brother is explaining history to you, so how can you be spacing out?”
“Pay attention to me~”
One sentence from Little Lu, complete with a trailing tilde, instantly reeled Xie Tangning’s soul back in.
“I wasn’t spacing out. I’m listening~ Big Brother, how do you know so much? As expected of my big brother~”
Xie Changyu tugged Wu Dacheng over and crowded up beside Lu Huaiyu, bumping him unhappily. “Why are you only explaining history to Xie Xiaoning and not me~?”
“I don’t care. You can’t play favorites~ You have to explain it to me too!”
Lu Huaiyu gently pushed away the head that had come right up to his face. “I’m not blocking your ears. You’ve been listening this whole time, haven’t you?”
“Settle down. Can’t you see all your fans are watching? Can you set a good example for them? You’re a grown man, yet you act so childish. I don’t even want to talk about it!”
Wu Dacheng immediately piled on. “Exactly! You’re already so old and still throwing a tantrum. Even I, a child, don’t act like that!”
Xie Changyu was practically laughing from anger. “Wow~ You really did inherit your dad’s legacy! You’re just as shameless and nosy as he is, aren’t you?”
The chubby boy giggled. “Well~ Like father, like son! If the upper beam is crooked, naturally the lower beam will be crooked too!”
Xie Tangning and Lu Huaiyu simultaneously gave him a thumbs-up. “Impressive. You really are a model of filial piety!”
Xie Changyu ruffled the little boy’s hair and sighed. “Judging by the look of you, your childhood must have been very complete. You must have gotten plenty of ‘braised pork with rattan’ punishments, huh?”
Wu Dacheng gave a little hey and answered proudly, “Not at all. Where we come from, hitting children is illegal!”
“So it’s such a shame that I never got to have a complete childhood~ Sigh~ I’m so pitiful~”
“Such a tiny wish, yet it’s so hard to fulfill!”
[Wow~ So this is why Leo gets along so well with the girls! He’s seriously so annoying!]
[Ahhh, where’s our Brother Weixiang? We’re in Luo City now, so the children can have a complete childhood! As parents, we have to fulfill every one of a child’s wishes!]
[Leo, you’re really daring! Aren’t you afraid your dad will watch the episode later and immediately make up for it?]
The child’s words were so infuriatingly provocative that not only did the audience want to give him a complete childhood, even Monkey Bro and Shen Yunqiong looked at him with admiration.
“That was seriously asking for it! Would you mind if I gave you a complete childhood right now? I’d be more than happy to do it!”
“I’ll even take the loss and fulfill your wish without requiring you to call me Dad!”
As Liang Zhou spoke, he raised a fist the size of a sandbag, his face full of eager anticipation.
Shen Yunqiong offered his suggestion with complete sincerity. “Look at you. Your childhood is clearly incomplete. What a shame! So let me make up for your regret!”
“This isn’t Hong Kong City. Hitting children isn’t illegal here! Want to give it a try?”
Wu Dacheng’s alarm bells immediately went off. “No way! My boss is right here. Don’t you dare do anything!”
“You have to look at the owner before beating the dog! If you two dare hit me, just wait for my boss to deal with you!”
Xie Tangning: “…”
There’s no need to describe our relationship that way!
He doesn’t even know how to use a metaphor properly. No wonder he always ranks last in Chinese class. Wu Dacheng, you illiterate fool!
Seeing how firmly the little fatty refused, the two good friends still had no intention of giving up. They put their arms around each other’s shoulders and leaned in to continue brainwashing the child.
“Really, you don’t want to try? Your boss, Xie Tangning, had a very complete childhood. Wouldn’t it be inappropriate if you, his little lackey, didn’t have one?”
“If you’re worried about the two of us doing it, we could have Uncle Weixiang or Aunt Miao Qi do it instead!”
As a qualified little lackey, Wu Dacheng always lost his head whenever his boss was mentioned. His chubby little face was filled with conflict.
In the end, reason defeated his boss-addled brain, and he began refusing them in all seriousness. “I may be a loyal little lackey, but I’m not stupid!”
“You two bastards actually think you can manipulate me into being stupid enough to volunteer for a beating?!”
Liang Zhou let out an exaggerated gasp. “You finally figured it out? Took you long enough!”
“I even brought up Xie Tangning, and I still couldn’t persuade you? Look at you, Little Fatty—you’re finally growing up!”
Shen Yunqiong’s face was practically covered in the words stirring up trouble. “Little Fatty, it looks like your loyalty to your boss isn’t that great after all!”
“You’re not fit to be his lackey. Hurry up and step down so someone else can take your place!”
Wu Dacheng shot the two of them a sidelong glance and said with utter disdain, “The reverse psychology won’t work on me. I’m not some brainless idiot!”
Liang Zhou and Shen Yunqiong only needed 0.01 seconds to figure out who he was implying. One was a former top idol, and the other was a certain “educator.”
The two brothers exchanged a look of instant understanding, then began grinning crookedly to themselves again. Their deranged appearance made them look as though they had just escaped from a mental hospital.
Monkey Bro admitted there was nothing he could do. He simply had no class, and loved using the most malicious assumptions to judge everyone!
What could you expect? He wasn’t even human—he was a monkey!
Why would a monkey need manners?
