Driven by shame, anger, and resentment, he flew into a rage and with a wave of his hand knocked the glutinous rice balls out of Shen Jingyan's hand.

"Eat my ass! Are you deliberately messing with me?"

The smile on Shen Jingyan's face vanished completely, and her eyes turned cold and terrifying. Liu Haisheng was startled and felt as if he were being threatened by a wild beast.

Wait a minute, he's a grown man, why would he be afraid of a little girl?

"Look...what are you looking at?"

"Liu Haisheng, what right do you have to waste food? Do you know that there are still many people who don't have enough to eat? Waste is the greatest crime!"

These days, people value correct values ​​above all else. No matter when, they want to say a couple of quotes that align with those values ​​to show that they are good citizens of the new era.

Wasting food is a serious offense, enough to get you arrested and criticized by the inspection team.

"I've already wasted my time, what right do you, a little girl, have to lecture me?"

Once Liu Haisheng's scoundrel instincts kicked in, he grabbed Shen Jingyan's arm without thinking twice, intending to blatantly snatch her away.

The moment his hand touched Shen Jingyan's arm, a gust of wind swept up behind Shen Jingyan.

A tall, dark figure rushed out from behind her and punched Liu Haisheng squarely on the bridge of his nose.

"Holy shit!"

Caught off guard by the sudden attack, Liu Haisheng had no strength left to fight back and covered his nose, howling in pain.

The tall man wasn't going to let him off the hook, and kicked him twice more in the stomach.

Liu Haisheng curled up in pain, like a shrimp about to be cooked.

Shen Jingyan exclaimed in astonishment, "Gu Zhiqing!"

In Shen Jingyan's memory, Gu Zhiyun had always been a slender intellectual. Although he was tall and slender, he was not aggressive.

However, Gu Zhiyun's attacks just now were all aimed at the most painful parts of the body. His movements were fast and ruthless, probably even more so than those of a professional thug!

Gu Zhiyun turned around, the icy look in his eyes still lingering.

"Jingya, he didn't hurt you, did he?"

Shen Jingyan had never seen Gu Zhiyun so angry before, and she was so surprised that she stammered.

"No...no injury."

"Fuck your grandpa, where did this pretty boy come from, daring to lay a hand on me!"

Struggling out of the pain, Liu Haisheng grabbed a table and smashed it at Gu Zhiyun with a fierce look.

"careful!"

Shen Jingyan quickly pushed Gu Zhiyun away.

Although Gu Zhiyun was tall, he was agile and dodged Liu Haisheng's attack by shifting his body to the side.

Shen Jingyan picked up the hot soup from the pot of cooking glutinous rice balls and poured it all over Liu Haisheng.

"Run!"

She threw the pot onto the tricycle, pushed Gu Zhiyun onto the tricycle, and then hurriedly rode off.

Behind them, Liu Haisheng's wails continued unabated.

"You just wait, I'm not done with you yet!"

"Ding—Master has successfully turned Liu Haisheng into 'Hot Soup Chicken,' completing the mission perfectly and earning two thousand points!"

With the points in hand, Shen Jingyan felt a surge of energy.

"Gu Zhiqing, hold on tight!"

Gu Zhiyun sat on the tricycle, watching a series of surprised faces flash by.

The little girl's legs seemed to have motors installed, pedaling very fast all the way. The cold wind whistled in her face, and the strands of hair on Gu Zhiyun's forehead almost flew up.

He had the illusion of riding in a jeep, his expression a mess in the wind.

The tricycle didn't stop until it reached the entrance of the courtyard house where Chen Jingyan rented out her property.

Where is this?

Gu Zhiyun jumped off the tricycle.

He had been flying so fast that when his legs touched the ground, it still felt a little unreal.

"The house I rent."

Shen Jingyan pushed the tricycle into the yard.

Gu Zhiyun stood at the door, hesitating whether to go in.

"Gu Zhiqing, why aren't you coming in?"

Shen Jingyan waved to him, "Come in and hide for a bit. That Liu Haisheng has a lot of henchmen. He'll be looking for us on the street soon."

Gu Zhiyun then took a firm step, entered the courtyard, and locked the gate.

Shen Jingyan parked the tricycle and turned around to find that Gu Zhiyun had a cut on the corner of his mouth.

It must have been when he was dodging the table that Liu Haisheng threw that he accidentally got his skin scraped by the table leg.

Gu Zhiyun had a pale complexion, and a bright red wound hung at the corner of his mouth, which looked quite incongruous.

"Comrade Gu, your lip is cut. Let me put some medicine on it for you."

Gu Zhiyun touched the corner of his lips and didn't feel much pain.

But the girl's concern warmed his heart.

"Okay," he readily agreed.

Once inside, Shen Jingyan had him sit at the table, poured some hot water from the thermos into a basin, and soaked a towel in it.

She wrung out the towel, bent down slightly, and wiped Gu Zhiyun's wound.

Gu Zhiyun obediently raised his head, looking somewhat like a golden retriever that Shen Jingyan had raised in her previous life.

Every time she bathes the Golden Retriever, it always lifts its chin contentedly, squints its eyes, and looks very relaxed.

...She misunderstood again.

But faced with such a divinely bestowed face, she found it difficult to concentrate on treating her wounds.

Since she didn't have any ointment or cotton swabs on hand, she exchanged them for a bottle of ointment and a pack of cotton swabs from the space shop.

Then, very calmly, he took out the ointment and cotton swabs from his pocket.

"You carry these things with you?" Gu Zhiyun asked curiously.

Shen Jingyan casually made up a reason: "I've been riding a tricycle a lot lately, and I'm afraid of getting bumped or bruised, so I always carry one with me."

She felt her reasoning was flawless.

Gu Zhiyun frowned slightly, but said nothing.

He had a slight doubt in his heart, and then he remembered what Lao Xu had said.

Old Xu said that Jingya is like a treasure chest, she has everything you could want.

Where did she get all these emergency supplies from?

Was it really prepared in advance?

Before he could think it through, Shen Jingyan had already applied the ointment to his wound with a cotton swab.

The two were very close, so close that their noses almost touched.

A faint, familiar fragrance wafted from Shen Jingyan's hair, emanating from his nose.

It doesn't have that cheap, artificial scent of shampoo; it has a sweet, natural fragrance.

The little girl's bedding also smelled of this fragrance.

His eyes lingered uncontrollably on Shen Jingyan's rosy lips.

Recalling that unexpected kiss that night, his breathing became erratic.

"Comrade Gu, why is your face red? Did I hurt you?"

Shen Jingyan noticed that Gu Zhiyun's fair cheeks were flushed red, as if he had applied rouge.

"No... I can do it myself..."

Gu Zhiyun hurriedly shifted his gaze and reached out to take the cotton swab.

Before Chen Jingyan could withdraw her hand, a warm, large hand enveloped her small hand.

Gu Zhiyun was originally going to get cotton swabs, but instead he grabbed Shen Jingyan's hand.

The warm, soft touch came from his palm, and his face turned even redder than before.