"It’s okay, you don’t need to worry about her," Chen Yan said nonchalantly, "she needs to catch up on her sleep."
Hmph, she promised we would set off this morning, but stayed up all night watching comedy shows until seven thirty in the morning.
After the car had been driving for a while, Lu Sisi took out a drink from her backpack and handed it to Chen Yan.
"I was worried you didn’t have time for breakfast, so I brought this for you." In the dim light of the car, Lu Sisi shyly glanced at Chen Yan.
Chen Yan looked down and saw it was a bottle of chocolate milk.
This girl... She must have remembered that he once mentioned liking chocolate-flavored things when they chatted.
Just as he was thinking that, Lu Sisi pulled out another bottle of milk from her bag and whispered, "This one is for Auntie."
Chen Yan chuckled and tossed the milk to the back seat: "For you."
"Thanks," Gu Qingyi responded gently.
Lu Sisi quickly turned around and nodded, "You’re welcome, uh, Auntie. You don’t have to be polite."
The girl was so nervous that she didn’t even dare to look at the back seat directly.
Soon the car got onto the highway and sped along.
Lu Sisi hadn’t seen Chen Yan in days and had a lot she wanted to say to him.
But with a "senior" sitting in the back seat, she felt restrained and wasn’t sure how to start a conversation with Chen Yan.
Chen Yan tried to engage her a few times, but Lu Sisi responded seriously and formally, making it clear she was nervous. Seeing this, Chen Yan picked up his phone and made a gesture to Lu Sisi.
Understanding, Lu Sisi took out her phone and saw a new message from Chen Yan on WeChat.
"Are you this nervous?"
"Don’t be, it’s nothing."
"I want to make a good impression on your elder."
After sending that, the girl looked up at Chen Yan with a pleading expression.
Chen Yan was moved by her look, smiled, reached over, pressed her phone-holding hand down, took the phone away, and placed it on her lap. He then held Lu Sisi’s little hand by his side.
Feeling Chen Yan’s hand holding hers, Lu Sisi’s body trembled with nervousness, but her heart began to calm.
The consort mother in the back seat, leaning in the corner, squinted at the front. She saw Chen Yan holding the girl’s hand.
Gu Qingyi’s lips twitched, and she pulled her hood lower over her face before closing her eyes to sleep.
The car drove for over two hours and then stopped at a rest area.
Chen Yan and the driver got out to use the restroom. Lu Sisi immediately followed them—she really didn’t know how to face the "senior" in the car alone.
Even if she didn’t need to, the girl forced herself to use the restroom at the rest area.
When she came out, she didn’t see Chen Yan. She looked around and decided to walk back to the parked car.
As she got closer, she saw a graceful figure standing by the car door, stretching.
With just one glance, Lu Sisi’s eyes widened.
What a... beautiful girl!
Even as a woman, Lu Sisi found it hard to look away.
Those big eyes and small facial features—so envious!
That thick, luscious long hair—so envious!
The puffer jacket open to reveal a tight-fitting sweater beneath, with that chest outline—so self-conscious!!
Lu Sisi couldn’t help looking down at her own...
Well... it’s fine. I’m still young, maybe they’ll grow some more... right?
Lu Sisi walked closer and hesitated, "Hi, excuse me, you’re blocking our car door."
Gu Qingyi gave her a puzzled look, then realized—this girl probably hadn’t seen her clearly in the car.
Gu Qingyi nodded and said, "Did you finish using the restroom?"
"Yes. Huh?" Lu Sisi was taken aback.
Sweet and crisp, but with a slight accent?
Lu Sisi thought: This is Auntie?! She looks younger than Chen Yan!!
Gu Qingyi thought: Quite a pretty girl, but her eyesight isn’t great...
Examining Lu Sisi, Gu Qingyi took a deep breath and, remembering her role as the consort mother at the celestial human realm level and twenty-one years old, forced a "kind and gentle" expression onto her face, "How old are you?"
"I... I’m eighteen, I just had my birthday in December."
"Hmm, four years younger than Chen Yan, quite suitable." Gu Qingyi continued nodding kindly, "How did you two meet?"
Lu Sisi suddenly panicked.
Say he made me cry on the plane?
"Well, um... I encountered some difficulties before, and Chen Yan helped me out, so we became friends." Lu Sisi answered vaguely.
"Oh. Are you from Jinling Prefecture?"
"Sort of, my mom is from Jinling Prefecture, my dad is from Port City."
Gu Qingyi nodded again, and then...
"How many siblings do you have?"
"What do your parents do for a living?"
"Do you go to school in Jinling Prefecture too?"
Each question left Lu Sisi more flustered, and she hurriedly answered each one, eventually starting to stutter.
"Alright, Young Lady Gu, do you need her birth date and time to assist you with a calculation?"
At this moment, Chen Yan walked over from behind, interrupting the two girls’ conversation.