"Princess Vivi, I'm here! I'm really sorry about last time. Are you all right? That stubborn old man you call a father must have lost his mind."
It was Ye Chen. The last time he was here, Cobra had "caught them in bed," and Ye Chen had been worried about Vivi ever since. So as soon as the Marines called off their pursuit, he had come strolling back in.
Whatever else had happened, Vivi was innocent. Even if Cobra thought Ye Chen was a villain, Ye Chen didn't want her dragged into it.
He had left in a hurry last time and had felt guilty about it ever since. He wanted to apologize to Vivi and see whether Cobra had given her a hard time.
"Is it him?"
Seeing Igaram and Bell turn around, Cobra hurriedly asked them.
In truth, he had already recognized Ye Chen's voice. But he would rather believe he had misheard it. He wanted Bell and Igaram to tell him it wasn't Ye Chen.
People were selfish. Though Cobra suspected Ye Chen and his daughter were involved, as a father, he didn't want to believe it was true.
These past few days, he had kept trying to convince himself otherwise, coming up with all sorts of excuses.
Vivi is only ten. How could there be anything between them? Surely nothing happened.
Vivi has always been kindhearted. Ye Chen was being hunted and had nowhere else to turn, so he went to my daughter for help. That makes sense, doesn't it?
But another voice in his head kept tearing those arguments apart.
Why was Ye Chen naked? Why had he taken a bath? Why had he climbed into my daughter's bed? Where had his trousers gone?
Even if his earlier suspicions had been wrong, Cobra and the