"You're the smart one, is that it?"
Nalan Jie rolled his eyes.
Right, he had thought of this idea a long time ago!
It was just that he hadn't had the opportunity before.
Now that he finally had the chance, he naturally had designs on it.
Xiao Lin ignored Nalan Jie and quietly waited for him to continue.
"Ahem, old Xiao, remember that pact we made back then?"
Feigning a couple of coughs, Nalan Jie tentatively spoke up.
"Forgot it!"
Xiao Lin answered with considerable self-righteousness.
Fine!
So you're retaliating, aren't you?
"It was that time we went together to the Imperial Capital Spring Breeze Tower, we..."
"Hold it, I remember! That's ancient history, considering you're a grandfather already, you still have the nerve to bring it up?"
Xiao Lin interrupted the rest of Nalan Jie's words with no small amount of speechlessness.
Weren't those just things from their youth?
Back then, he hadn't even married yet.
Now he had three grandsons already!
Therefore, those "glorious" past events were better left unmentioned.
"Hehe!"
Seeing Xiao Lin's reaction, Nalan Jie chuckled shamelessly.
He knew Xiao Lin was sensitive about this matter!
"Then let's talk about the pact from back then."
Seeing that Xiao Lin had dropped the act, Nalan Jie leisurely spoke up at that moment.
"Sigh, wasn't that just a verbal agreement? Besides, the ones we gave birth to were all boys!"
Sighing and recalling all sorts of things from the original work, Xiao Lin actually tried his utmost to avoid this topic.
Yet Nalan Jie was stubbornly drilling into this very thing!
"Even though it was a verbal agreement back then, it was still a promise, wasn't it? Could it be, old Xiao, that you want to back out of it?"
As he spoke, Nalan Jie wore a skeptical