Chapter 106 Does he no longer like her?
"Is that thing shaped like a dragonfly, only the size of your little finger? If so, it should be Old Yang's electronic time-limited identity token. Back when I wasn't as high-ranking as Old Yang, he protected me like this. I guess the token will expire after your military training, and you won't have to return it to him then."
"An identity token? Does that mean that when others see it, they'll know that Grandpa Yang is protecting me?"
Qiao Mei looked down and touched the little dragonfly, which she thought was quite nice as a brooch, and found it rather novel.
"Pretty much. Looks like I'll have to find some time to invite him to dinner. He helped you so much this time, and I, your grandfather, can't just leave without showing my appreciation. Alright, if there's nothing else, I'll hang up now. I need to go and find some wine to bring over for him to drink."
Upon hearing this, Qiao Mei ended her call with Xu Wenfeng via her personal computer and continued waiting for the light elevator, which resembled a regular elevator, to come up. Sure enough, she was approached by another group of people.
This time, the person who came to find her was not as high-ranking as Xu Wenfeng; the rank of colonel was written on the nameplate on his chest.
He looked to be over forty, with hawk-like eyes that gave one an unsettling feeling, like prey being locked on, when he stared at you with those eyes.
Qiao Mei remained calm and waited for him to speak first.
He seemed to have noticed the dragonfly brooch she had pinned to her collar, narrowed his eyes, and then closed his mouth again.
However, the look in his eyes as he looked at Qiao Mei deepened with a more probing gaze.
He withdrew his gaze from her, turned his feet, and headed straight for Yang Yanhua's office. Qiao Mei's heart, which had been pounding, finally settled down, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
Just then, the light elevator arrived. She went in and went from the seventeenth floor to the first floor. As soon as she exited the light elevator, she saw an unexpected person in the light elevator opposite.
The young man's handsome features were shrouded in a coldness, giving him an unapproachable and aloof air. At this moment, his wild blue eyes, with their upturned corners, were half-closed, as if he were thinking about something.
"Xu Heyu?" Qiao Mei recognized him and murmured to herself. She originally wanted to pretend she didn't see him and leave quickly.
But the moment she looked away from him, he looked up and saw her with his blue eyes.
The girl's beautiful long curly hair and red eyes were so eye-catching that it was hard for him not to notice her.
He noticed her shifting her gaze away from him, guessed her intention, his blue eyes dimmed for a moment, then he pretended not to notice anything, and greeted her with a smile: "Little Rose."
"Xu Heyu." Qiao Mei nodded politely. When she was forced to go with him to the entrance of the military building, she heard him say that he was there to complete the procedures for a guaranteed admission to the military.
In the original book, Xu Heyu did indeed join the army, but it was during his senior year of college.
Qiao Mei had roughly guessed that this might be the reason, and after hearing what he said, she wasn't too surprised.
"Where are you? I remember you were supposed to be in military training, what brings you here all of a sudden?"
The girl didn't tell the truth: "My grandfather has an old comrade-in-arms who asked me to bring him some things, so I came over."
"Rumble..."
She had just finished lying when thunder rumbled outside, followed by the strong smell of earth and a distinctly cool spring rain that lashed her face.
"Whoosh!!" A bolt of lightning, as long as a whip, ripped through the void, as if splitting the sky in two.
As the lightning struck, the rain intensified, becoming like a small waterfall.
Qiao Mei hadn't checked the weather forecast before leaving, and she hadn't expected the weather to be so absurd in such a short time. She hadn't brought an umbrella.
Just as she was about to use Ao Cang's lightning followers to create a rain shield for herself, she couldn't summon any lightning from the tip of her outstretched right finger. There was only a tiny spark of electricity that looked like it was about to go out.
"............" Damn it, how could she forget that when using the Familiar's superpower, the Familiar Beast must be within two hundred meters of her.
The dormitory where Ao Cang is staying is currently at least a kilometer away from her.
Seeing this, Xu Heyu opened the umbrella he had brought, indicating that Qiao Mei could fight with him.
"Perfect timing, I also have something I want to say to you, and I'll take you home while I'm at it."
Qiao Mei ignored him and instead looked around, trying to find another umbrella.
But this was a military building, and the soldiers inside mostly only brought their own supplies. She wasn't familiar with them, so she couldn't borrow an umbrella.
If we continue to wait here for the rain to stop, Ao Cang will have to wait too long.
After much deliberation, she finally sighed and accepted Xu Heyu's suggestion, entering his umbrella, which looked very large, so large that even if two people were three rings apart, they would still be within the protective range.
"Then I'll have to trouble you."
Xu Heyu didn't miss Qiao Mei's actions just now, and he could also sense from her distant and polite tone that she didn't want to have too much to do with him.
He selectively ignored all of this, suppressing the hurt in his blue eyes, and forced a faint smile: "No trouble at all, let's go."
On the way, he said a lot of things that Qiao Mei considered to be mostly nonsense.
For example, did she encounter any difficulties during military training? What problems could she talk to him about?
In order to find topics to talk about, he could even bring up her diet, saying that if she didn't like the food, he had some connections who could help her change her taste, and so on.
She felt awkward about making things too awkward since she had borrowed his umbrella, so she just gave him perfunctory replies.
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