Ye Chuqi had already leaned into Bai Quanxin's palm with a beaming smile, nuzzling it like a pro. If anyone knew how to act spoiled, it was her.
Bai Quanxin laughed too. The girl's hair was soft and fine beneath her hand, and those long silver strands were warmer than she had imagined. The emptiness of more than a decade seemed to be closing, little by little.
"Your sixteenth birthday is coming up. Is there anything you'd like?"
Ye Chuqi had prepared a gift herself, though she hadn't had the chance to give it yet. As for what she wanted, she couldn't very well ask for an ore vein just because San San kept chanting "ore vein, ore vein, ore vein" in her ear.
"I haven't had a chance to explore Maple Leaf City yet... Would you like to come with me?"
Ye Chuqi soon realized that suggesting a shopping trip had been a terrible mistake. At last she understood why Coke had looked so despairing when they'd gone shopping with Xiya. It wasn't physical exhaustion but a helplessness that sank into the soul. Ye Chuqi had thought her own shopping sprees were wild, but Bai Quanxin was even worse. The moment the shopkeepers of Maple Leaf City saw Bai Quanxin, their eyes lit up as though a walking fortune had entered. Without even asking, they brought out their finest stock. Bai Quanxin would glance it over, wave a hand, and have it all packed up and sent to the Ye Family Old Residence.
Ye Chuqi: No chance to show off at all.
"So this is Xiaojiu?" Bai Quanxin's shopping spree finally came to a halt when she saw him. She knew about the boy, of course. Ye Chuqi valued him, and Ye Qinglan had brought him back to Maple