Watching the Xia family aunt and niece playfully roughhouse, Xu Shi smiled with both relief and helplessness.
The helpless part was, of course, that this little menace hadn't gotten to see blood flow like a river. How nice would it have been if you two had actually fought... But the scene before him was so warm that he had no intention of genuinely stirring up trouble. Being a jerk didn't mean being that much of a jerk.
To be fair, the two of them had always gotten along well enough. They bickered now and then, sure, but Xu Shi could sense the subtle distance between them, that polite restraint. Naturally, it came from the burdens of their past lives, as well as the words they had both kept buried and couldn't say to each other.
Now that knot had been untied, and the long-lost intimacy between them was too precious to ruin.
Fine, he would let himself suffer a little now and then... With that thought in mind, he simply watched with a grin as Xia Ke'an furiously chased after Xia Wuyou.
Clearly, that old auntie had been thoroughly enraged by the outrageously rebellious words, "Call me Mom." She wanted nothing more than to use her authority as an elder to pin Xia Wuyou to the ground and give her a proper interrogation about whether she still dared to be so disrespectful.
Unfortunately, the white-haired older sister wasn't good at running. Her self-healing ability had repaired the severe complications, but her overall physique was still rather frail. And the person she was facing was a combat-oriented fighter like Little Cat Xia.
Boss Xu could see it plainly: Xia Ke'an was being toyed with. My God, have you really become this stupid? What exactly did you go through, old auntie?
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