The Mysterious Letter Writer

"Hey, beautiful, waiting for someone?"

Hearing such frivolous words, Yangyang frowned and replied politely, though with some impatience.

"Sorry, what I'm doing is none of your business..."

"None of my business?" Lu Guan chuckled and walked up in front of Yangyang. "Why don't you take another look at who I am?"

But Yangyang showed no particular reaction. She merely glanced at Lu Guan's white hair before turning her gaze back to the ship.

"Could it be because your hair color changed that she didn't recognize you right away?" Dania tugged at Lu Guan's sleeve and whispered a reminder.

Only then did Lu Guan realize what had happened. "That explains it..."

He then waved a hand in front of Yangyang's eyes, making the feather-haired girl grow annoyed.

"If you keep being so rude, I'm going to get angry!"

Lu Guan chuckled and decided to stop teasing her.

"Beautiful, why don't you take a closer look at who I am?"

After being pestered by Lu Guan repeatedly, even the most good-tempered girl would have grown a little angry, let alone Yangyang, who was a Midnight Ranger. Naturally, she wouldn't be friendly to a hooligan like this.

"I said it's none of your business! The person I'm waiting for isn't... Huh? Cousin Lu Guan? Why did you dye your hair white?"

Yangyang was somewhat surprised.

They hadn't seen each other in years, and her memory of Lu Guan's voice had grown a little fuzzy, but she still remembered that obnoxious face of his.

Since when... did Aunt and Uncle let him dye his hair?

"Ahem... Actually, it isn't dyed." Lu Guan coughed twice and chose to move past the subject. "It's been a long time, cousin. You've gotten much slimmer, and you've grown even prettier."

"...You've gotten better at charming girls." Yangyang was about to take the luggage from Lu Guan when she noticed Dania standing beside him, looking at her with her signature gentle smile.

"And who is this?"

"Let me introduce her..." Lu Guan gently pulled the blushing Dania into his arms and introduced her to Yangyang. "Her name is Dania. She's my classmate at the academy, and she's also my girlfriend."

"Girl... friend?" The corner of Yangyang's mouth twitched. Why did she feel as though something inside her had quietly shattered?

Her younger cousin had actually started dating a girl, while she was several years older than him and still had to watch them feed her dog food...

"Yeah... It's a shame a single person like you wouldn't understand, cousin... what it feels like to have someone who understands your needs and looks after you all the time..."

"Ahahaha..." Yangyang forced out an extremely strained smile. Her hands, hanging at her sides, clenched tightly into fists, veins bulging.

They're hard! My fists are hard!

This naturally evil demon pill! He actually hit me with his ultimate right in my face!

She had thought that after growing up for a few years, he would have toned down that side of his personality a little, and that having a girlfriend would have made him better at talking to girls...

She had gone too easy on him back then. She should have beaten him harder, until seeing her made him as scared as a mouse seeing a cat!

"Um... hello, cousin Yangyang!" Seeing Yangyang's smile that didn't reach her eyes, Dania couldn't stop her heart from pounding, but she still obediently greeted her. "My name is Dania..."

"Phew..."

Yangyang let out a long breath, frantically repeating to herself, "Don't get angry. Anger gives you wrinkles. Don't get angry. Anger gives you wrinkles." Only then did she suppress her anger at her demon pill cousin.

Looking at the well-behaved Dania before her, Yangyang's attitude immediately softened considerably, and she spoke.

"Hello, Dania."

"For Lu Guan to find a girl as beautiful and gentle as you, he must have earned that good fortune over several lifetimes..."

Though the words were all compliments, there were still some barbed remarks belittling Lu Guan beneath them.

Dania wasn't from Huanglong, so naturally she couldn't hear what Yangyang was implying. Seeing that Yangyang was treating her fairly well, she couldn't help showing a sweet smile.

But Lu Guan couldn't sit still. This woman was subtly mocking him for not being good enough for Dania!

Gold eyes met gray eyes once more, and a battle of gazes broke out between them without another word.

Gold eyes: What are you trying to do?

Gray eyes: Just telling the truth!

Gold eyes: Single dog!

Gray eyes: Big demon pill!

[Beep! Yangyang's affection -2]

[Current affection: -8]

[Host, please watch your behavior!]

It wasn't that Lu Guan wanted to pick on Yangyang deliberately. Although her affection had nothing to do with the perfect ending, that wasn't why Lu Guan didn't attach importance to it.

Mainly, it was... Lu Guan couldn't keep a straight face when he saw Yangyang's face, and his thunderous language module loaded automatically. It was that simple.

Besides, if anyone could have strange thoughts about an older sister they'd spent every day with as a child, Lu Guan could laugh at them for the rest of his life.

Just as the two were facing off with their eyes, Chixia called out from nearby, "Yangyang! Have you met your cousin yet?"

Hearing her, Yangyang shot Lu Guan another fierce glare, then pulled Dania toward Chixia. "Lu Guan... hurry up and follow! Any slower and you can walk to Jinzhou City yourself!"

"Tch..." After letting out a very cool "tch," Lu Guan picked up his and Dania's suitcases and hurried after the two women.

"Wow... Yangyang, this is your cousin?" Chixia sized up Lu Guan and remarked, "He's really handsome! No wonder you spend every day looking at that fan and... Mmph, mmph!"

"Just go drive your car..."

Chixia was only halfway through her sentence when a somewhat heated Yangyang covered her mouth and shoved her into the car.

Then she gave Lu Guan a fierce look. "What are you staring at? Hurry up and bring Dania into the car."

With that, she huffily opened the front passenger door and got in.

Lu Guan smiled helplessly and got into the back seat with Dania.

To his surprise, there was already someone in the back seat.

"Hello." When Baizhi saw Lu Guan and Dania, the aloof woman merely nodded and greeted them, then said nothing more.

As soon as he arrived in Jinzhou, he ran into the starter trio.

He hadn't expected that one day he would get the same treatment as the Rover, although the mysterious letter writer among them was a little... hard to describe.

No one spoke along the way, and soon Chixia parked the car at the city gate.

"Identity verification is required to enter the city." Chixia turned around from the driver's seat to explain to the two of them. "Since this is your first time in Jinzhou, the procedure will be a little more troublesome."

Meanwhile, Baizhi got out of the car and went straight to the guards at the gate to fetch a device.

"I'll test them. That will be much faster."

She then picked up the device and, after obtaining Dania's consent, began scanning her.

"Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep!"

As soon as the device came into contact with Dania's frequency, a rapid alarm sounded. The guards at the gate reacted quickly, drawing their weapons and surrounding Lu Guan and Dania.

"Lament energy signature detected. Immediately place the targets under control and proceed according to contingency plan three!"

"Could there be some misunderstanding?" Yangyang asked hurriedly. "Could there be something wrong with the device?"

"Don't panic..." Baizhi shook her head and reset the detector. "I'll try again. It shouldn't make a mistake twice."

When the device sounded the alarm again, Yangyang began to look at Lu Guan and Dania somewhat differently.

So they're actually Tacet Discords capable of disguising themselves...

I knew it! After all these years, how could cousin Lu Guan still be such a demon pill!