Xu Moran was silent for a moment, then gave him a thumbs up, "I admire you!"
Xiao Anhe humbly replied, "Of course, of course."
The two of them couldn't keep talking at the mall entrance. They were going to X city tomorrow, and there were still many things to pack, especially since Xiaomei was also with them on this trip to Beijing.
Xu Moran hugged the plush tiger, just as she had when she was a child. Xiao Anhe smiled and asked her, "Ranran, do you still have the tiger you had when you were little?"
Xu Moran was suddenly stunned. The cloth tiger from his childhood?
For years I deliberately kept it to myself and didn't want to think about it, but when Xu Ye brought it up, I still felt very sad.
It was after Xu Ye climbed over the wall to visit her at the orphanage for the last time that the orphanage director called her into his office and asked her some questions. She probably didn't answer in a way that satisfied the director, so the director snatched her cloth tiger away.
And... he even tore it up in front of her and threw it into the trash can.
No one knows how heartbroken she was. For a long time afterward, she would go to the place where Xu Ye climbed over the wall every day to wait for him, but he never came.
Later in her childhood, she never had any toys.
Xu Moran took a breath and pretended not to care, saying, "Kids don't have much of a memory. Later, the cloth tiger was lost."
Xiao Anhe was very perceptive. From Xu Moran's stunned expression and the sudden dimming in her eyes, he knew that she had been hurt.
The orphanage director back then was truly despicable. Besides switching his granddaughter's and Xu Moran's identities, he didn't know how many other things he did to harm Xu Moran. He must investigate this thoroughly.
He's not a kind person; he's always been very clear about right and wrong.
"Ranran." Xiao Anhe shook Xu Moran's hand back and forth. "As punishment for my breaking my promise back then, let me be your tiger from now on."
Xu Moran turned her head to look at his incomparably handsome face and laughed, "You'd better spare me. I wouldn't dare let such a handsome guy like you become my toy."
"Ranran." Xiao Anhe persisted, "I'm doing this willingly, so please agree. If you don't agree today, I'm afraid my insomnia will flare up again. Poor sleep is very harmful to the body, and you don't want me to age prematurely at such a young age, do you?"
Xu Moran sighed. She realized that she could never beat Xu Ye in eloquence. Since she couldn't win the argument and everything he said made sense, she could only nod and say, "Alright, since you insist, I have no way to refuse."
Xiao Anhe was in a good mood and was not affected by Bian Wei's phone call at all.
He didn't know that Bian Wei's mood was the exact opposite of his; it was as bad as it could possibly be.
It wasn't that he didn't want to be a hero, nor that he wanted to ruin his reputation at this time, failing to stand by the Xiao family and support the most legitimate bloodline of the Xiao family. Rather, compared to the power struggle within the Xiao family, and compared to Xiao Anhe, an outsider, his only grandson was more important.
Just half an hour ago, Qian Yue'e had someone deliver an envelope to him. When he opened the envelope, he saw that half a human finger had fallen out.
There was a mole on that half finger, and he recognized it at a glance whose finger it was—his only grandson, Bian Feng's.
As he trembled as he examined the half-finger lying on the ground, its cut still fresh with blood, the phone rang. The caller was none other than Xiao Yang, the current ruler.
Realizing why Xiao Yang would call him at this moment, he shakily put the phone to his ear, and immediately heard a heart-wrenching wail from the other end, "Grandpa, Grandpa, please save me! I'm in so much pain! Grandpa, if you don't save me, they're going to kill me..."
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