"Fourth Brother, you have to save me, or I'm done for!" Ye Xunzhi clung to him and started wailing.
Ye Chuyan held his little sister by the collar, trying to struggle free:
"Be good. If you go, you'll only have to write a self-criticism at worst. But if I go, who knows what I might lose."
"Oh, I see."
Ye Xunzhi voluntarily let go and stepped back, tilting her head up at a forty-five-degree angle as she earnestly explained her position:
"But Brother, have you considered that all you'd lose is your life, while what I'd lose is my happiness!"
"Fine, fine, fine. So your true colors are showing now, huh?"
While the siblings were locked in their tug-of-war, a familiar voice tinged with surprise rang out.
"Chief? Is that you, Chief!"
[That familiar, heavenly voice that always seems to come with the sound of money rolling in belongs to...]
Ye Chuyan: What the heck was that whole long string at the beginning?
"Young Miss!"
Ye Xunzhi pulled a Pan Dandan Maneuver, coolly sweeping back her hair with one hand, astonishment written all over her face:
"What are you doing here?!"
Fu Mu jogged over, delighted. "Zhizhi, it really is you! I'm here to pick up my grandfather."
She was clearly very happy that Old Master Xi had returned safely, a faint, happy smile gracing her face. She gave Ye Xunzhi a slightly reproachful look:
"What about you? Why are you here? I waited for you at school for days, but you never answered my messages or calls."
If Homeroom Teacher Shi hadn't said that Ye Xunzhi had only taken a week off,
Fu Mu would have suspected that Ye Xunzhi had been abducted while going out to work at night, or that her family was so poor they had