At Lin Hanzhi's signal, the car crawled slowly through the darkness, its ride exceptionally smooth. It only jolted slightly over a speed bump at an intersection before the estate.
The jolt half woke Qi Gu, who had already drifted into a deep doze. He opened his eyes halfway, still hazy with sleep, a watery mist in them lending his otherwise rather cold face a touch of softness.
When he opened his eyes, he met Lin Hanzhi's searching gaze.
He had no idea how long Lin Hanzhi had been watching him like that. Instinctively, he shifted back a little. "What's wrong? Why aren't you sleeping?"
When they first got into the car, Lin Hanzhi had been sprawled out like a flattened hamster, just like him. Why was he suddenly so energetic?
Could Lin Hanzhi actually have better stamina than he did?
Qi Gu immediately ruled out that possibility.
Lin Hanzhi hefted his phone. "I'm replying to messages. Can't sleep. What can I do? Kids are like this in their rebellious phase. This unfilial daughter keeps turning the tables and nagging her old man to get married."
Shock covered Qi Gu's icy face, and his sleepiness instantly vanished. *???!!!*
Wait, my friend, you never told me you were so young and accomplished that you already had a kid!
"She's not my biological daughter," Lin Hanzhi hastily added when he saw Qi Gu had misunderstood.
"Then?" Qi Gu rarely took an interest in other people's affairs, but he did show his friends an appropriate amount of concern.
"She's my adopted daughter. She's eighteen already. The kid's had a hard life, so as parents, we have to be a little more forgiving. Let her be rebellious." Lin Hanzhi sighed as he spoke, looking like a wife complaining to her husband that their grown child