But although every last one of these people was normally reasonable, when it came to him, they had decided to be unreasonable to the bitter end!
Wen Xingtian, Ye Changqing, and the others were one thing.
But Grandma Shi paid no heed to any of that. She knew nothing about any plan, much less any bait...
Over the past few days, her heart had practically split into eight pieces from worry.
That little monkey had actually taken his game of hide-and-seek this far...
The old lady was angry.
She lived so close that Zuo Xiaoduo could not hide from her. Whenever she remembered, she would charge over in one breath and start beating him!
In a single day, Zuo Xiaoduo took a full seventeen or eighteen beatings from Grandma Shi.
And it was not even dark yet.
Zuo Xiaoduo's backside swelled, subsided, then swelled again.
He deliberately greeted her with an aggrieved expression and eyes as pitiful as a kitten's, yet failed to inspire the slightest sympathy. Instead, she beat him even harder.
"You feel wronged? You actually dare to feel wronged?!"
Grandma Shi cursed as she brandished a long whip, chasing Zuo Xiaoduo all over the villa courtyard.
No matter how he dodged, that long whip seemed to have eyes, sticking fast to Zuo Xiaoduo's backside and lashing it with crack after crack.
After dinner.
Cradling his swollen backside, Zuo Xiaoduo returned to his bedroom under Li Chenglong's gloating gaze.
It seemed he had cleared the hurdle at High Martial School, but there was still another hurdle.
Zuo Xiaoduo felt apprehensive.
Mom and Dad probably don't know I went out for a trial... right?
Now that it's over, I need to hurry and let them know I'm safe.
The family group chat.
Well-Behaved, Obedient Little Duo-Duo: La la