A few days passed in the blink of an eye. It was evening.
The sun hadn't quite set yet. By the time, it was probably around seven in the evening.
In the huge backyard of Annie's mansion—which covered at least half an acre—Feng Baobao sat on a stone bench in the pavilion, enthusiastically smashing walnuts with a beautiful golden metal ruyi and munching away. Just then, Zhang Chulan wandered out from the first floor, spotted her, and eagerly went over.
"Bao'er-jie?"
"??"
"You're eating walnuts?"
"Mm."
"Here! Let me try one too?"
"!!"
"Get away from my ruyi! Don't touch it!"
"!?"
"What's wrong with eating a walnut?"
"Eat all the walnuts you want, just don't use my ruyi to smash them!"
"Then what should I use?"
"Your fist, your head, anything!"
"..."
"No!"
"I'm using your ruyi!"
"No!"
"I won't let you!"
"I'm doing it anyway!"
"No! No!"
"Zhang Chulan, get lost!"
Then something that left everyone dumbfounded happened: Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao were actually squabbling over a cheap copper-plated stainless-steel lump they'd bought online for less than a hundred yuan?
"..."
(,,.,,)
Annie had seen the whole thing from the second-floor terrace, where she was relaxing and enjoying the view beside a little garden.
"..."
(ˉ▽￣~) Tch~~
But after watching them for a few moments, Annie decided their antics weren't interesting. She curled her lip and turned away, no longer paying attention to the two idiots.
"Hey—"
"Great Ancestor Annie, what are you doing here?"
Hearing footsteps, Annie had just turned around when she saw Lu Linglong and Lu Lin, her cousins, walking over together. Lu Linglong even had the nerve to tease her.
"What are you looking at?"
Before Annie could answer, Lu Linglong hurried over and copied her, leaning against the terrace's flower-bed railing. Ignoring