Zhou Li bit her lip gently and after a moment, she raised her head to look at Leng Xuan, her face flushed as she said, "I need you to pretend to be my boyfriend again. When my dad and Feng Gui come, we can go meet them together. Perhaps only then will Feng Gui realize it’s difficult and back off..." After speaking, she lowered her head again.
Leng Xuan had actually guessed the reason Zhou Li was asking for his help; now that she had said it herself, he just smiled and joked, "I thought I was already your boyfriend, how could I bear to let someone else steal you away from me?"
Zhou Li knew Leng Xuan was joking, but for some reason, she still felt a sweet sensation in her heart, and she said, "Thank you!"
With a slight smile, Leng Xuan said, "Alright, you should go back first; if your brother doesn’t see you soon, he’ll probably be anxious and start looking for you everywhere."
Zhou Li asked, "And you?"
Leng Xuan replied with a mysterious smile, "I’ll be following behind you and appear when you need me the most..."
"..."
Zhou Jingpeng was actually a bit anxious at that moment. He got up early in the morning and couldn’t find his sister anywhere. He was really worried that the little girl was playing some sort of disappearing game with him. Although, as her brother, he did not desire for his sister’s lifelong happiness to be arranged by the family, hiding was still not a solution. After all, she was still studying here. What if dad and Feng Gui stayed for a few days? Wouldn’t they end up going to the school? With his sister’s thin skin, if this got out, she might really not be able to face staying at school.
After looking around nearby for a while, Zhou Jingpeng had no choice but to go home and wait. As soon as he got home, he received a call from his father, Zhou Guohua. Upon answering it, he heard his father say, "Hello, Jingpeng, we’ve already arrived in Baiyun City. Tell your sister not to wait at home, come directly to Haitian Hotel for lunch with us. You know the place, right?"
Jingpeng inwardly groaned; he didn’t even know where his sister was, and here were their parents already in town. What was he to do? But he couldn’t say it directly, so he replied noncommittally, "Ah, I know it, it’s not too far from us."
"That’s good!" Zhou Guohua laughed, "Little Gui is very considerate, insisting on treating you to a big meal for the first encounter. He used some kind of ’apple’... some sort of phone, searched online for a long time before he found this big hotel. It’s said they have everything there, whatever flies in the sky, swims in the sea, you name it, they have it for eating, and the taste is also very good, so he directly chose this place."
"Hehe," Jingpeng laughed unnaturally, feeling that Feng Gui seemed a bit too showy, which was not a quality he liked.
"Oh, Jingpeng, Little Gui wants to have a word with you. Talk to him," Zhou Guohua said.
"..."
"Hello, is that Brother Jingpeng? I’m Feng Gui, do you remember me?" The voice on the other end of the phone had changed to that of a young man’s.
Jingpeng said, "I remember, of course, I remember, isn’t it Little Gouzi?"
"Brother Jingpeng, let’s not talk about Little Gouzi anymore, that’s all in the past. Anyway, where’s your sister?" Feng Gui sounded rather proud.
Jingpeng frowned slightly; was it just because he mentioned Little Gouzi that this kid’s tone changed so noticeably? It seemed this young lad didn’t have a very generous spirit. If his sister really ended up marrying him, wouldn’t she be bullied to death? With this in mind, Jingpeng was already feeling annoyed but had to contain it for the sake of his father’s face, so he only said, "She went out for a bit; she’ll probably be back soon."