Three-and-a-half-year-old little girl, also known as Ann, lived a life of scarcity and hardship in an orphanage, where even a single steamed bun could lead to beatings and scoldings from the headma...
After hanging up the phone, Ji Yi soon received a video recording from his disciple.
[Disciple: Master! If you really want to accept her as a disciple, can I have a game with her? Maybe I can outperform her a little.]
Confidence is a good thing, but blind confidence is not advisable.
Ji Yi did not reply to his disciple’s message.
He opened the video and watched it.
From initially being indifferent, to later on—Ji Yi’s eyes sparkled, his hand holding the phone trembled with excitement.
Before finishing the video, Ji Yi couldn’t wait any longer and immediately made a call to Qin Huo.
As soon as the call was answered, without any hesitation, he directly said, "Qin Huo, I want your granddaughter!"
Qin Huo: "Get lost!"
Beep...
After being scolded, Ji Yi was stunned, suddenly realizing the ambiguity in his words.
He quickly dialed the number again, but it was rejected.
Oh no! This was a misunderstanding!
Ji Yi quickly got up, postponed everything, and ordered, "Prepare the car, we’re going to Bay Villa!"
Bay Villa, the first-floor living room.
After returning home, Qin Sui’an was taken by her six brothers to play in the garden, while Qin Huo and Lan Jin rested in the living room.
Qin Huo was still panting heavily, unable to calm down from his anger.
"Hmph, I never expected Ji Yi to be a hypocritical beast!"
Thinking about his inappropriate thoughts towards his precious granddaughter, Qin Huo angrily slammed the table.
"I really want to chop him!"
Lan Jin looked at him puzzled, her expression full of anger.
"What happened?"
If she remembered correctly, the Ji Yi mentioned by Ah Huo was the old friend who helped register their granddaughter. What happened? It was just a phone call, why was he so angry and upset?
Qin Huo gritted his teeth and repeated what Ji Yi had said on the phone.
Lan Jin furrowed her brows at first, almost wanting to curse as well, but soon calmed down.
"His intention was to accept Ann as his disciple, right?" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Qin Huo: ... The raging anger in his heart gradually weakened because of her words.
Qin Huo was uncertain. "Did Ji Yi mean that?"
Lan Jin glanced at the phone he had thrown on the sofa.
"I’m just guessing. You’ll know if you call back."
However, Qin Huo had no intention of calling back to ask.
Who made Ji Yi’s words so ambiguous, refusing to explain?
Lan Jin didn’t try to persuade him further either.
She got up and walked outside.
"The living room feels boring without our granddaughter."
In the garden.
Although the flower bushes could only accommodate three or five people, they were almost bursting with the presence of the six young masters of the Qin family.
Qin Sui’an sat in the center of the flower bushes, and her brothers dared not squeeze her, not wanting her to feel uncomfortable.
On her right was the Eldest Brother, Qin Fujia, and on her left was the Second Brother, Qin Yanyi.
In front of her was the Third Brother, Qin Lvzheng, and behind her was Fourth Brother, Qin Niexun.
The fifth brother, Qin Yaoyu, and Sixth Brother, Qin Qianyi, were squeezed to the edge of the flower bushes.
Due to limited space, the big white goose curled up in Ann’s arms, blinking its small eyes, attentively listening to Ann telling a story.
She was telling a story about participating in a chess competition.
"The first young lady was very nice, always smiling at Ann. But when the game started, she stopped smiling, and later, she seemed like she wanted to cry."
Qin Sui’an’s little eyebrows furrowed as if she had returned to the emotions she felt during the competition.
Qin Sui’an had a good impression of the first opponent, and she originally wanted to play chess with her a little longer.
However, seeing that the young lady’s mood wasn’t great, she quickly finished the game, allowing her to go home early.
After finishing talking about the first opponent, Qin Sui’an continued, her eyebrows furrowing again.
"Ann doesn’t like the second Sixth Brother! She won the game shortly after it started."
She didn’t want to face the disliked Sixth Brother, so she swiftly ended the game, letting him leave.
"The third young lady was also very nice, but she was very nervous and made moves slowly. Ann let her go home first after thinking for a long time."
Qin Sui’an was eager to win the prize money and didn’t want to waste too much time, so she quickly let the third opponent go home.
The six brothers listened attentively to their sister’s words.
Qin Qianyi listened attentively, stroking his chin, curiously speculating, "Ann, are you playing more chess with someone you find pleasing to the eye?"
Qin Sui’an blinked his round eyes in confusion, "Pleasing to the eye?"
What does that term mean?
The big white goose explained in a way understandable to human babys, honking, "Ga! Ann, it means you find the other person agreeable, willing to talk more with them, willing to spend more time with them, roughly that’s what it means."
Qin Sui’an let out a long "Oh" and understood.
She looked at her Sixth Brother, nodding her small head, "Oh! If Ann finds someone pleasing to the eye, she can play chess with them for a bit longer."
Qin Qianyi widened his eyes and raised his thumb, "Ann is truly amazing!"
This was genuine praise.
Having witnessed his younger sister Ann’s chess skills before, Qin Qianyi felt that his own skills were inferior.
He never expected Ann’s chess skills to be so advanced that she could send opponents home at any time.
He began to suspect that when he played chess with Ann before, she might have played longer with him because she found him more "pleasing to the eye".
Seeing her Sixth Brother’s expression not quite right, Qin Sui’an quickly comforted him in a sweet voice, "Sixth Brother, your chess skills are also impressive! Even more so than the young ladies and gentlemen Ann encountered today!"
With the Qin family’s genes, no matter how bad their chess skills were, they wouldn’t be extremely terrible.
Qin Qianyi felt touched in his heart, "Thank you, Ann!"
His heart finally felt somewhat at ease. Qin Sui’an continued to talk about the opponents she encountered later, almost following a similar "pattern".
If the opponent was pleasing to her eye, she would win a bit later.
If the opponent wasn’t pleasing to her eye, she would quickly defeat them, not wasting any extra time.
After finishing the story, Qin Sui’an pursed her lips and happily took out a slightly thick red envelope from her pocket.
She raised the red envelope, curved her round eyes, and giggled, "This is the prize Ann won!"
The reactions of the six brothers were similar to Qin Haochen, Qin Huo, and Lan Jin when they first saw the red envelope.
In the past, this amount of money meant nothing to them, but at this moment, all six brothers wore proud and proud smiles on their faces.
"Ann is amazing!"
"Ann is so talented!"
This was the prize their little sister personally won!
Just as Lan Jin walked into the garden, she saw a cluster of flowers swaying as if they were about to topple over.
She shook her head and chuckled, walking over, "Why haven’t you come out yet? Are you all sleeping inside all the time?"