"Be good, okay?"
Griseo turned her head away.
"Big Brother Xu Qi was being difficult, so I'll be difficult too!"
Xu Qi was both amused and exasperated.
"All right, Griseo. Then tell me, what should Big Brother Xu Qi do so you won't be difficult?"
The little girl's eyes spun mischievously.
"Then... next time, I want Big Brother Xu Qi to give me a bath!"
A bath?
Xu Qi instinctively glanced at the petite Griseo and shook his head repeatedly.
"No, no! How could I!? Do you remember what I told you? Men and women shouldn't be too physically intimate. Griseo, you're already a big girl. That definitely won't do."
Griseo looked utterly dejected, to the point that Xu Qi even felt a little guilty.
It was as though he had just done something terribly wrong.
"Then... then I want Big Brother Xu Qi to sleep with me. That's okay, right?"
Putting a child to sleep? Xu Qi was good at that.
On top of that, he already felt guilty, so Xu Qi immediately agreed.
"All right, I'll sleep with you next time... Honestly, how old are you now, and you still need Big Brother Xu Qi to sleep beside you before you'll go to bed? If your Mother Eden finds out, she'll definitely punish you."
"Then Big Brother Xu Qi just shouldn't let Mother Eden find out, right?"
Xu Qi pinched the little girl's nose, then left with a smile.
As she remained in the room and watched Xu Qi leave, Griseo's face was just as radiant with delight.
She picked up an extracurricular book Big Brother Xu Qi had given her earlier. It was called The Silent China. She opened it to the page marked by the bookmark, which happened to say...
"Chinese people have always liked harmony