Wu Lingyu took a deep breath and reluctantly stepped out of Xu Qingfan's embrace.
"Nothing happened, I just suddenly remembered something from when I was little and wanted to hug Brother Fan," she said as she stepped back, clasped her hands behind her back, and smiled sweetly.
Xu Qingfan gave her a playful scolding smile. He poked her forehead with his finger, "You scared me! I thought something had happened to Yu."
Wu Lingyu gave a shy smile, biting her tongue and pretending to be dumb, but what she really thought, perhaps only she knew.
"Let's go down, there are too many mosquitoes on the rooftop," Xu Qingfan said, taking her hand again.
Wu Lingyu looked back at the rooftop, her feelings conflicted.
[I should have known better than to hide here...]
When the two of them returned to the third floor, Wu Lingyu encountered the person she least wanted to see at the moment.
"Brother Qingfan, you found Yu!"
Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi were whispering at the door and ran over to greet them as they saw the two coming downstairs.
"Hmm, did Xiao Xiao and Ruan Wen cheat? I've searched the whole house and couldn't find them," Xu Qingfan said, his gaze sweeping over their lips.
"Hehe, don't know, duck. Keep looking, Brother Qingfan!"
Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi exchanged a smile and shook their heads together.
"Then I'll go down and look some more. It's almost time for fireworks anyway," Xu Qingfan said, glancing at his watch. It was already almost nine in the evening.
"Brother Qingfan, you can do it, duck!"
"Brother, you can do it."
He smiled at them, let go of Wu Lingyu's hand, ready to continue searching downstairs, but Wu Lingyu suddenly grabbed his hand.
"I... I'll search with Brother Fan," she said, eyes meeting Xu Qingfan's before she nervously looked down.
"Sure, then Yu, pay good attention for me," Xu Qingfan smiled, letting her lead him by the wrist.
After the two left, Zhang Yiyi and Lin Wanning exchanged puzzled looks.
"Yiyi, did you feel like Yu was acting a bit strange just now?"
"Felt it," Zhang Yiyi nodded.
Lin Wanning's cowlick wobbled as he got a thoughtful expression, "Could it be that Yu also kissed Brother Qingfan?"
"Um...." Zhang Yiyi pondered, finally uttering just three words, "It's possible."
The two looked at each other.
If Xu Qingfan really was a philandering heartbreaker who accepted anyone, what would they do?
Just as they were at a loss, Zhang Yiyi suddenly had a flash of insight: "But the timing doesn't match up, huh!"
"Brother Fan and I split up at 8:50, he still had to spend time looking for the fourth and fifth floors, he definitely had no time to kiss Yu!" Zhang Yiyi explained.
"Right, right, it's only nine o'clock now, Brother Fan definitely didn't have time!" Lin Wanning looked down at her watch with a look of surprise.
"So it's definitely not what Wanning was thinking!"
Zhang Yiyi nodded firmly, also to convince herself in her heart that her brother wasn't the kind of person like Ito Sei!
"Hmm!" Lin Wanning nodded in agreement, but soon she became puzzled again, "Then why did Yu just give me that weird look?"
Zhang Yiyi spread her hands: "No idea~"
"Could it be that you and Brother Fan kissed, and Yu saw you?"
Lin Wanning thought for a moment, then said with absolute confidence:
"Absolutely impossible!"
"There are no windows in that corner, no one could have seen!"
Seeing Lin Wanning say this, Zhang Yiyi also felt it must be true, unable to think of an answer, both of them just silently raised their guard towards Wu Lingyu.
By now Xu Qingfan was almost trained to be like them, if something went wrong halfway and all efforts were wasted, it would be infuriating!
Anyway, that's what Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi thought, little Qingfan, easy to handle!
Xu Qingfan, taking Wu Lingyu with him, searched the first floor and the yard again, ruling out all possibilities and, inevitably, found the two cheaters on the second-floor balcony.
"Aha! I knew it, no wonder I couldn't find them, they were hidden here drinking soda!" Xu Qingfan picked up someone's cup and gulped down the half cup of soda left in it.
"Ah~ Brother Chou Fan, that's my soda!" Xiao Ruawen reached out to snatch it, but wasn't quick enough.
"We already won, we've even touched the star apple tree, noobs!" Xia Xiaoxiao secured her own cup to prevent Xu Qingfan from taking advantage.
Xu Qingfan glared at her, then lowered his head and asked, "Cousin, have they been hiding here all along?"
"Ah, ba. Ah, ba... soda's tasty!" Yao Zixin danced around joyfully for a bit, raising his own soda as he spoke.
Xiao Ruawen and Xia Xiaoxiao were instantly amused by this, even Yu, who had been sullen before, now had a smile on her face.
Xu Qingfan's forehead darkened, now knowing they had been bribed by them.
"Alright, alright, go call your dad and mom to watch the fireworks, and wipe your mouth."
"Cousin, I want to watch Superman, not the fireworks!"
Wu Lingyu, like a good wife and mother, gently wiped his face with a tissue, Yao Zixin instantly became obedient, and shyly lowered his head, sneakily glancing at the fairy sister.
"Zixin, how about we watch Superman tomorrow, okay?" She smiled gently at Yao Zixin.
The little cousin, having spent all his days in the village, had never seen such a fairy sister, shyly nodded then ran off: "Okay~ I'll go find mom and dad to watch the fireworks now!"
Xu Qingfan watched this scene with a bit of jealousy, then imitated Wu Lingyu by squatting down, coquettishly said: "Sister Yu, I also want to watch Superman, not the fireworks!"