"Is this the entrance you found? It's a bit narrow."
Ye Chuyan squeezed through the ventilation duct into the cabin with difficulty, with Shi Che right behind him. Shi Che was so big that he nearly got stuck.
Seeing this, Shi Yao tried to crawl in too, but Shi Che stopped her in time.
"All right, Yaoyao, you can't keep following me. Go back to your cabin and rest, okay?"
Shi Yao bit her lower lip. "But I want to stay with you."
"But it's dangerous here." Shi Che was unusually stern. "Be good. I'll come back for you once I've dealt with this."
Wait, wait, wait. Always waiting.
Shi Yao's eyes dimmed before she put on an understanding smile.
"I understand. I'll wait for you to come back."
[Wait? So this was where Shi Yao's hatred of that word came from.]
Hearing Ye Xunzhi's voice, Ye Chuyan looked up.
[This little thing looks pretty dopey, but she's going to be a real force to reckon with in the future. The kind who'll put her life on the line without hesitation. And her obsession with her brother is seriously terrifying.]
[Speaking of how that started, we'd have to go back to when the siblings were little.]
Ye Chuyan immediately perked up. Gossip about his friend? Now this was something he'd never heard before.
[Captain Shi's mother was a hopeless romantic through and through. Her family wasn't one of the elite, but she still came from money. Yet she fell for a poor boy.]
[His father certainly had some skills. With his handsome face and silver tongue, he charmed his mother so thoroughly that she refused to marry anyone else.]
*[But after they got married, her parents died and left her a vast fortune. That was when his father began to