"It’s nothing." Li Zhichun didn’t mind, rinsed his hands in the small room inside, and then came back out, pulled up a stool to sit down, and started to eat from the cooled lunchbox with his head bowed.
Li Ling sat on the side, watching Li Zhichun for a while, and then lowered her head to look at her phone.
Li Zhichun, curious, glanced over a few times and saw his daughter wasn’t looking at the anime she usually took an interest in, so he asked, "What are you watching?"
Li Zhichun wouldn’t normally have minded, but once he asked this question, Li Ling instantly became energized.
"Jiang Ning! I’m watching Jiang Ning!"
Li Ling placed her lit-up phone in front of Li Zhichun, her expression ecstatic, "Dad, do you know who Jiang Ning is?"
Li Zhichun looked down for a few seconds at the unfamiliar female face on the phone screen, "Who is she?"
"She’s my lifesaver from today! If it wasn’t for her and that brother beside her, I would have been taken by the bad guys!" Li Ling said excitedly.
Ever since she stumbled upon Jiang Ning’s video, she had been constantly searching for more information and videos about Jiang Ning online.
Jiang Ning has been especially popular on the internet recently, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she’s the person whose fan base grew the fastest across the whole net.
Many media outlets, to ride on Jiang Ning’s popularity, edited a lot of videos about her.
There were some about her entanglement with the Huo family’s business, some about the emotional entanglement among her, Huo Miao, and Mu Mingxuan, and even some had compiled videos of Jiang Ning catching criminals recently, the list went on and on.
Li Ling got addicted to scrolling and ended up watching for several hours.
In just a few short hours, Jiang Ning had become Li Ling’s No.1 hero.
"What?" Li Zhichun had been eating, but he stopped in his tracks, "Lifesaver? You found her?"
"Yes, yes! It’s this sister!" Li Ling scrolled through her phone, and found the trending video of Jiang Ning rescuing her at the train station to show Li Zhichun, "Dad, look, this video was uploaded by others nearby and then many people recognized the brother and sister who saved me, they are really famous! They’ve been on a variety show before and caught lots of bad guys!"
Hearing this, Li Zhichun put his chopsticks down and stopped eating, earnestly watching the video on the phone screen.
He had been divorced from his wife for many years now, leaving him with only this daughter.
All these years, to make Li Ling grow up happy, Li Zhichun never even considered remarrying.
Without exaggeration, Li Ling was his life.
So for this stranger who had saved his daughter, of course, Li Zhichun’s heart was filled with immense gratitude!
He reached for the phone and watched intently.
Li Ling stood on the side, occasionally sliding through the videos on the phone, telling Li Zhichun everything she had just found out about Jiang Ning’s identity and her feats of catching criminals.
"...Dad, Sister Jiang Ning is really amazing! I want to be like that when I grow up!"
"I’ve decided, when I grow up, I want to be a police officer!"
"Just like Sister Jiang Ning, catching lots of bad guys and helping vulnerable people like me out of trouble!"
"Oh right, dad, now that we know Sister Jiang Ning’s identity, can we get in touch with her? I really like Sister Jiang Ning..."
Li Ling’s voice was lively and her expression excited. She was so immersed in her joy that she failed to notice her father staring at Jiang Ning on the phone screen, his eyebrows slightly knitted. It wasn’t clear what he was thinking, but his expression had become a bit severe and grave, even the hand holding his chopsticks tensed slightly.