The night breeze was slightly cool.

A faint scent of roses brushes against my face; it's not hot, so I don't bother turning on the fan during the White Dew season.

She chuckled and asked, "When did I start running around everywhere?"

Without hesitation, the person on the phone replied, "Today!"

The conversation was accompanied by heavy thuds of people sitting down—not on chairs, but on beds, thankfully not wooden beds.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to withstand the anger and would collapse.

With just two words spoken in anger, Bai Lu immediately remembered her encounter with Zhang San earlier that day and understood.

"I went to school to fill out my college application today, and then I went home. I didn't wander around."

"You didn't fill out the college application yourself!"

The child angrily expresses the reason for his anger.

Bai Lu pretended not to understand and counted the names of the students for him one by one: "Yes, I didn't fill out the college application by myself. Some friends came to my house and asked me to go with them. Yu Xiaoling, Yang Sisi, Yu Dongxu..."

After a moment of silence on the phone, I realized she wasn't going to say anything more. Was that all?

"besides!"

The once refined and aloof voice of the powerful figure has fallen from its pedestal and has been completely replaced by a grumpy child.

Bai Lu heard a "click" sound. Her sixth sense told her it was the telephone receiver on the other end, and her seventh sense told her it was a landline.

Worried that he might break someone's phone and have to pay compensation, I decided to stop teasing him.

"Yes, and Lin Jinfan too..."

"Snap—"

It wasn't a telephone, nor a landline, but a teacup, making a crisp, loud sound of angry flowers blooming.

"You said you would wait for me to come back!"

Vinegar flew everywhere, blasting from one end of the phone line to the other, almost shattering the receiver.

Bai Lu laughed so hard she couldn't straighten up, leaning on the table as she leisurely said, "I haven't finished explaining yet, what's the rush? Did you break the teacup? Aren't your hands hurt?"

Interrupting the phone call where someone was explaining: "..."

"No, the teacup fell to the ground and broke on its own. I didn't break it. Explain yourself!"

Bai Lu kept her smile steady, not exposing the child's last bit of stubbornness, and cleared her throat.

He slowly began to speak: "This morning, Yu Xiaoling, Yang Sisi, Yu Dongxu and I went to school to fill out our college applications. We ran into Lin Jinfan in the city. Lin Jinfan had bought a fruit basket and was on his way to visit his sick high school homeroom teacher. Lin Jinfan's homeroom teacher used to teach us Chinese."

"We see we still have plenty of time, so let's go visit our teacher today."

I don't know if the grumpy kid on the other end of the phone believed it or not; he just said "Oh" after listening.

Then there was silence.

Only the sound of heavy breathing could be heard.

Bai Lu thought he was asleep and was about to hang up when the receiver suddenly moved.

Then came a low, husky voice, seemingly suppressing some emotion: "Lulu."

"Um."

"I will build a big house for Lulu, and Lulu will wait for me to come home."

"good."

Her voice was soothing, calming the irritable child: "I will buy Lulu an air conditioner, a refrigerator, and all the things Lulu likes. Lulu will stay home and wait for me to come back."

Bai Lu, who was half-asleep, had long since shaken off her drowsiness and softly replied, "Okay, I'll wait for you to come home."

"Don't wander around if you've been drinking. Is Li Si next to you? Let him answer the phone."

Xiao Cheng only took Li Si with him this time.

In this unstable state of intoxication, it's best to have someone around to keep an eye on things.

When Li Si opened the door to find Xiao Cheng, whose deep eyes were as cold and murderous as ever, but whose pupils were slightly red...

He was immediately stunned into a daze.

He remembered that when they parted ways in the corridor and went back to their rooms, Cheng-ge wasn't like that.

Although, ever since she heard Zhang San's work report on the phone, her expression had been off.

When having dinner with the head of the air conditioner manufacturer, he didn't let him stop him from drinking, and drank all the alcohol himself.

But everything was normal on the way back, except that his expression was a bit colder than usual and his eyes were a bit more sinister than usual.

The distance that kept people at a thousand miles away has become a distance that keeps them at ten thousand miles away, and so on...

Everything is normal.

After all, Xiao Cheng used to be like this after drinking; he was not weak but strong, and could send people to their deaths with a single punch, or leave them half-crippled. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been known as the "Evil Dragon" in the underworld.

Now, it seems that once you go back to your room and come out again, the brutal aura subsides.

What shocked and puzzled Li Si even more was what happened next: the boss actually asked him to answer his sister-in-law's phone call!

The eldest sister-in-law actually asked him to help take care of the eldest son!

He also gave a series of instructions, as if he was worried that the eldest brother would be deceived, kidnapped, or bullied.

Are you kidding me?!

Li Si gripped the receiver shakily, glancing at the imposing figure opposite him. Did this guy need someone to look after him?

Who would dare to approach someone with such a repressive yet undeniable aura of cold indifference and brutality?

"Li Si, did you hear me?"

"Yes, yes, I heard you, sister-in-law! I live right next to Cheng-ge, I can hear every knock on the door. I'll keep an eye on Cheng-ge's movements and won't let strangers talk to him, don't worry, sister-in-law..."

For as long as Li Si was on the phone with Bai Lu, he was stared at by Leng Lie's gaze.

After exhausting all promises, he finally received his sister-in-law's permission to leave, and promptly hung up the phone.

Oh, I didn't throw it away, I returned it to the big boss who was getting impatient waiting for the call and was about to kill someone.

Li Si dared not eavesdrop on the conversation between the boss and his wife any longer, so he rushed out of the door on his whirlwind wheels to keep watch.

Turn off your hearing function.

I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and waited for the big boss to summon me, only to be told to get rid of me instead.

Why haven't you left yet?

Xiao Cheng's gaze turned slightly cold as he swept his eyes across the corridor, splitting the soft lighting into shadows in front of him.

The hand gripping the doorknob has distinct knuckles and is strong and powerful; with the slightest force, the doorknob would shatter into pieces.

Li Si thought the big shot was perfectly normal and didn't need a gatekeeper at all, but...

"You've been drinking, and your sister-in-law is worried. I'll stay outside for a while. Just call me if anything happens."

Xiao Cheng replied expressionlessly, "No need."

Li Si didn't want to be punched away, so he decisively left.

However, shortly after returning to my room and lying down on the bed, there was a knock on the door.

Has Makoto finally changed his mind?

Do I want to put my sister-in-law's mind at ease?

Li Si rushed to open the door, but instead of the big boss, it was someone else—

A strange woman, her face covered in three pounds of flour, her eyes painted with various colors, her eyelashes smeared like fly legs, dressed very provocatively with half of her ample bosom exposed and long legs in black stockings, holding a bottle of red wine, raised her red lips to him, revealing a bright white smile.

"Hey there, handsome! It's a long night, how about grabbing a drink and chatting?"

The woman tossed her long, red, wavy hair, stretched out her long legs, and winked seductively with her twitching eyes.

Honey trap?

The door slammed shut with a "bang!"

Li Si praised himself for his cleverness; trying to trick him with just a glass of wine? No way!

My sister-in-law is indeed very knowledgeable; she even knows about such a subtle scam as a honey trap.

Fortunately, he remembered his sister-in-law's advice: no matter how high-end the hotel, there are always honey traps out there.

The only difference is the way they appear.

Some offer phone calls... some provide in-person service... some give some excuse first...

Reasons... wait!

Cheng-ge!!!