"Yip-yip~"
Quan Li grinned, looking rather pleased with himself.
"Quan Li."
The voice from behind made Quan Li's body stiffen instinctively.
"Don't scare the little one."
Quan Li slowly sank a little lower.
Then it turned around and gave Lord Xiao Xiao an even brighter smile than before.
There was a hint of innocence in its eyes.
Xiao Xiao chuckled.
"Master Xiao, we're here."
Chi Xiuchuan brought the car to a stop.
Tao the Younger was already waiting downstairs.
"Uncle Tao."
Chi Xiuchuan was a little surprised. He had called the man before coming, but... "Why did you come downstairs?"
"We can find the place ourselves."
"You've gone to all this trouble for Qiqi. How could I wait upstairs?"
The man grinned. Thinking of his daughter, he couldn't help smiling. "That girl got so excited when she heard you were coming."
"If we hadn't caught her in time, she would've climbed right onto the windowsill."
"Looks like she—"
The man's words cut off abruptly.
Only then did he notice that just two young men had gotten out of the car.
There were no little animals.
He looked into the back of the car behind the young men, eyes narrowing as uncertainty crept across his face. "Qiqi's friend... didn't come?"
Chi Xiuchuan instinctively looked at Master Xiao.
Xiao Xiao smiled. "Uncle Tao, let's go upstairs first."
"Qiqi must be getting impatient."
"Ah, oh."
The man nodded.
But he already knew the answer.
So it really hadn't come?
Qiqi... Remembering how the girl's eyes had lit up when she heard him say that Brother Chi and Brother Xiao would be coming soon, he sighed.
The girl would be very disappointed, wouldn't she?
They took the elevator to the seventeenth floor.
"Qiqi."
When the elevator doors opened, Xiao Xiao immediately spotted