"Ow!"
Ye Xunzhi held her head, rubbed the bump on it, and sat on the ground in a huff.
She was sitting on the stone steps outside their lodgings. Sleeping was out of the question. In a place plagued by war like this, heaven knew whether a bomb might come flying in while she slept.
Then she would be dead before she even knew what had happened.
Even the guarded embassy had been like that, let alone a low building like this. A gunfight could break out at any moment.
In a country at war, there was never any absolutely safe place. Being displaced and on the move was the norm.
"Does it hurt a lot?" Ye Chuyan sat beside her and reached out to help rub her head, looking a little puzzled. "I really didn't use much force."
Thanks to Ye Xunzhi's joking around, their earlier topic had been brushed aside.
Ye Chuyan had never been the type to insist on getting to the bottom of everything. Besides, he could tell that Ye Xunzhi did not want to talk about it.
This was probably what happened when children grew up and had secrets of their own.
Ye Chuyan felt deeply that he had started living like an old man at such a young age. He rummaged in his pocket.
"I have a piece of candy here. Want it?"
It was a lemon-flavored Swiss candy that Ye Chuyan had swiped before leaving. Ye Xunzhi reluctantly accepted it and popped it into her mouth. (￣~￣) Chew, chew. She held up one finger.
"Candy good. Brother bad."
"Haven't you heard of being nice to the person who feeds you? If you don't love me, spit it out!"
Ye Chuyan pinched both of Ye Xunzhi's soft cheeks with one hand and started shaking