Although reluctant to lose weight, Chang Xi still nodded. After all, men who caught her interest at first sight were rare. She looked at his features, his physique.
"Then I’ll treat you to a meal," Chang Xi said, "As friends, I’ll take you to eat the best barbecue in Capital City."
Luo Qianqian glanced at Wild Wolf, who seemed to be lost in thought again, and nodded. After all, a woman who could voice fulfilling desires shouldn’t be as simple as she appeared outwardly.
Wild Wolf looked around bewildered. He just felt a familiar sensation, but now it disappeared. He didn’t even know who it might have been.
"I’ll just call you Xiao Meng," Chang Xi said, looking at Wild Wolf’s stern expression and grabbed Luo Qianqian’s arm. "Let’s go, let’s be friends first."
Luo Qianqian nodded. Although she doubted the woman’s taste in front of her, she agreed. In her heart, anyone who could help her brother was worth befriending.
"Then can I call you Sister Xi?" Luo Qianqian said with a gentle voice, stunning Wild Wolf. Seeing Wild Wolf’s gaze, Luo Qianqian allowed herself to realize she might have overdone it and went back to a cold expression.
"Sure, how old are you? You look about the same age as your brother," Chang Xi said warmly, grabbing Luo Qianqian’s arm as if she hadn’t noticed Luo Qianqian stiffening at all.
"I’m... fourteen this year," Luo Qianqian hesitated, recalling the birth date on her recently made ID. "But I still feel like I’m thirteen."
"Are you really that young?" Chang Xi frowned. "You seem small and petite, so I thought maybe you were just a late bloomer or something, but you’re actually just young? How old is your brother then?"
Luo Qianqian hadn’t answered when she heard Wild Wolf say, "Thirty-three."
Luo Qianqian truly wanted to say she didn’t know, but was shocked by Wild Wolf’s response. Really, that old? That didn’t sound right. He’s so old, and his sister is fourteen? People might believe she’s his daughter... It doesn’t look like it though.
"Are you really his sister?" Chang Xi was also taken aback upon hearing Wild Wolf’s response, not expecting that at all. She had thought he was maybe twenty-seven or twenty-eight, not suddenly grown so much.
"It couldn’t be his daughter or granddaughter, right?" Luo Qianqian pondered for a moment. "My brother doesn’t even have a girlfriend, how could he have a daughter?"
Although she had never asked, he seemed like a total single pringle. The simplest clue was that his cell phone contacts didn’t have a single flirty name. All were various code names, with Luo Qianqian being the exception since she was added after he bought a new phone, labeled simply: "Little Sister."
"That’s good, no girlfriend, no worries," Chang Xi breathed a sigh of relief, murmuring softly, "Although he’s a bit older than I expected, he’s handsome, so it doesn’t matter. Even if he had a girlfriend, I could still compete fairly."
Thinking, she looked back at Luo Qianqian. "Xiao Meng, you’re right, I should lose weight. Now, I’ll go find Master, and he’ll make sure it’s settled."
Luo Qianqian blinked, nodded, and felt relieved as long as his matters were handled.
It wasn’t that they couldn’t go out to eat; instead, they arrived at the parking lot. Chang Xi drove them away, and the skinny ’thief’ had already left. Seeing the car, both Wild Wolf and Luo Qianqian were taken aback. Normally, women choose pretty cars or sports cars in light colors, but Chang Xi broke the norm and chose a black Land Rover. If Chang Xi hadn’t used the keys to open the door, nobody would have imagined it belonged to a lady.
"Sister Xi, I’m going to lay down in the back, you and my brother sit in the front," Luo Qianqian said, readily betraying the brother she had just found for her agenda.
Chang Xi’s face lit up with joy, but she still feigned modesty and agreed with a soft "okay."
Luo Qianqian lay on the back seat, feeling the cost of the car’s interior decorations and slowly widened her eyes. Were these foot mats made of wool? How extravagant was that? It wasn’t even winter yet, and the air conditioning in the car was set extremely low, as if gasoline was free.
She could only tell that the seat covers were made of leather, but whether it was synthetic leather or genuine leather, she couldn’t discern.
The car’s perfume was that of an old lady’s, and although she couldn’t smell it, she could still recognize the brand.
The car wasn’t decorated in the typical girly fashion; instead, it inappropriately contained prayer beads, which didn’t seem to match the woman in front of her at all.
"Hey, dare to overtake my car?" Luo Qianqian hadn’t reacted yet when the car had already started to speed up, frightening her into sitting up quickly and firmly grabbing the door.
"You little thing," Chang Xi overtook the sports car they had just passed, then, seeing the terrified eyes in the rearview mirror looking at her, she quickly apologized, "Sorry, sorry, you lie down. I’m just used to it..."
Luo Qianqian quickly shook her head, afraid that she might soon forget and be thrown onto the floor by Chang Xi.
Chang Xi turned to look at Wild Wolf, noticing that his expression remained unchanged, still staring ahead as before, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Luo Qianqian noticed something odd about the scenery outside; was it the route she often took when she went with her brother to the military zone for vacations?
"Sister Xi, where are we going? Aren’t we going to have a meal?" Luo Qianqian hurriedly asked, not to abandon her, to drop her off first, then enjoy the meal alone with Wild Wolf, right?
"Yeah, the best food is definitely my mom’s cooking. She hasn’t gone out recently, so I’ll have her cook," Chang Xi said, stopping the car. Luo Qianqian’s face darkened, now the car was parked in a residential area, near the barracks, because this was actually the military compound!
Thinking about the many people she had met here with her brother before, although it had been a long time, someone might recognize her, which would be troublesome!
"Come on down, don’t be afraid. My grandfather is at home, but he’s not fierce," Chang Xi pulled Luo Qianqian out of the car, figuring that as long as Luo Qianqian was there, Wild Wolf would surely follow.
Luo Qianqian subconsciously lowered her head.
Chang Xi, smiling, looked at the soldier guarding the compound, nodded, and asked, "Are my mom and grandfather out?"
"No," the soldier replied with a salute.
"That’s good. These two are my friends. Please register them," Chang Xi dared not drive the car back into the compound, lest her mother see and criticize her for not acting like a girl: "Keep an eye on my car, okay? I’ll bring you something tasty next time."
The soldier nodded and took out the register.
Luo Qianqian picked up the pen, wrote down the names Ye Liang and Ye Meng, her neat and elegant handwriting causing the soldier to take a second look at Luo Qianqian.
Although today was the first day she was using this name, after practicing it twice while getting her ID card, she found it quite natural to write, no longer unconsciously writing ’Luo Qianqian.’