"Your Holiness, I want to come with you."
Ning Rongrong also clutched Qin Xiao's sleeve pitifully, refusing to let go.
What a sin...
Qin Xiao sighed inwardly. But he had indeed promised Ning Fengzhi back then, so in the end, he could only nod. "All right, then."
"Yay!"
The girl immediately beamed, her eyes curving into lovely crescents.
Qin Xiao said fiercely, "Don't celebrate too soon. Let me lay down the ugly truth first: once we leave here, you have to listen to me in everything. Otherwise, I'll leave you by the roadside."
"Mhm, mhm." Ning Rongrong nodded emphatically. "Don't worry, I'll behave. If you tell me to go east, I'll never go west. If you tell me to beat a dog, I'll never chase a chicken. Even if you want me to warm your bed, I, Ning Rongrong, won't so much as furrow my brow."
She spoke with utter solemnity.
Qin Xiao had been nodding along at first, but at that last point, he shook his head. "Wouldn't letting you warm my bed be doing you a favor?"
Ning Rongrong: "..."
Sword Douluo, Ning Fengzhi, and Bone Douluo all changed expressions.
"Qin Xiao, I don't like the sound of that." Sword Douluo was so angry that his beard bristled and his eyes bulged.
"I don't like it either..." Bone Douluo chimed in.
However...
Before Qin Xiao could say anything, Ning Rongrong put on a stern little face. "Grandpa Sword, Grandpa Bone, you can't treat Qin Xiao like that. I think he's right. After all, feelings need time to grow..."
The moment Ning Rongrong finished speaking, silence fell.
As the saying went, a married daughter was water poured away.
But nothing had even happened yet, and her elbow was already bending outward toward outsiders?
Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo felt