Xingbao

After leaving the Wen family villa.

Ji Chuxing didn't pull her hand out of Bo Yanchen's grasp. With a serious expression, she reminded him, "I told you, you can't call me a kid or a little girl!"

Bo Yanchen raised an eyebrow, in a very good mood.

The little girl's hand was soft and small.

She looked fierce, but she was actually so well-behaved that he wanted to grant her every request.

Biting into a milk tablet with that huffy look on her face, wasn't she still a child?

"Then what should I call you?" Bo Yanchen asked, raising an eyebrow.

Ji Chuxing chewed her milk tablet and glanced at him. "I have a name."

"Oh." Bo Yanchen nodded in understanding and let Ji Chuxing get into the car first before getting in himself.

Seeing that the little girl had just finished her milk tablet and was already reaching for jelly, he said somewhat helplessly, "We're having dinner soon. You can't eat any more."

Ji Chuxing reluctantly put the jelly down.

Bo Yanchen's eyes curved with his smile. "Good girl."

Ji Chuxing didn't want to speak.

Bo Yanchen looked at the girl with a relaxed expression and drawled, "Xingbao."

Ji Chuxing paused almost imperceptibly.

She slowly turned back and saw Bo Yanchen looking at her, the corners of his lips raised.

Ji Chuxing stared for several seconds before slowly saying, "Shut up!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a piece of milk candy was stuffed into her mouth, leaving her completely dazed.

Bo Yanchen's voice was indulgent. "Don't be angry. Here's a piece of milk candy. We'll go buy ice cream after dinner."

Ji Chuxing blinked and instantly became well-behaved. "I want milk tea too."

"Sure!" Bo Yanchen readily agreed.

Ji Chuxing was happy. She swayed her little head, and the row of stray hairs on top bobbed along with it.

Bo Yanchen couldn't help chuckling under his breath.

She said not to call her a kid, but wasn't she one?

She was easy to coax—a single piece of candy was enough.

But...

Xingbao...

He slowly rolled the name around in his mouth.

It was the little nickname the girl's grandfather had always called her when he was alive. Probably no one had called her that since he died. Though the little girl had just rejected it, Bo Yanchen could tell she still liked the nickname.

Wasn't she a little darling?

The car was about to pull away when someone stood by Bo Yanchen's window. It was Wen Li'an.

He had come out right behind Bo Yanchen and naturally saw that Ji Chuxing, who had been cold-faced at the Wen house and even prickly as a hedgehog, was docile and well-behaved at Bo Yanchen's side.

Wen Li'an felt an indescribable sense of loss. Even he didn't know why he was standing there.

By the time he came to his senses, he was already in front of Bo Yanchen's car.

"Young Master Wen, can I help you?"

Wen Li'an, however, looked at Ji Chuxing. The girl was indifferent and expressionless. He opened his mouth and said to her, "I'm sorry."

Ji Chuxing said nothing. Wen Li'an took a deep breath. "The Wen family has wronged you."

Ji Chuxing seemed utterly unconcerned. "What does that have to do with me?"

She didn't care at all about the Wen family's attitude toward her, because they had no place in her heart, or perhaps she simply didn't care about Zhou Ru.

Wen Li'an was stunned and couldn't get a word out.

Bo Yanchen chuckled, closed the window, and the car sped away in a cloud of dust.

After leaving the Wen family villa, Bo Yanchen took Ji Chuxing to the best restaurant in South City, as usual.

Someone arrived during the meal.

Wei Xingzhou had come for Ji Chuxing.

From yesterday until now, he had listened to Bo Yanchen go on and on about "my little girl" and "the little girl."

At first, he suspected Bo Yanchen's iron tree had blossomed. Now he understood: this lord was in a hurry to raise himself a ready-made daughter.

He wanted to see for himself just what kind of sacred being she was.

The moment he saw Ji Chuxing, he was floored. The little girl really was like a little fairy. No wonder Bo Yanchen treasured her so much and talked about her all day.

Everyone liked a good-looking person, and Wei Xingzhou thought the girl had the potential to be his younger sister. So he greeted her like an old friend. "Hello there, little girl! I'm Second Master's friend. You can call me Brother Wei!"

"Shut up!"

Two voices rang out at once.

One was obviously Bo Yanchen's, and the other was Ji Chuxing's.

Wei Xingzhou was dumbfounded.

The private room fell quiet for a moment. A second later:

"Who said you could call her little girl?"

"Don't call me little girl!"

Once again, the two voices rang out in unison.

Wei Xingzhou was hurt. Clutching his heart, he looked at Ji Chuxing with a sorrowful expression.

Ji Chuxing didn't spare him a glance. She was happily tucking into her sweet-and-sour squirrel fish.

Sob... "Little girl" isn't a cute way to address her at all!

I should call her Master, like I call Bo Yanchen! Now that's domineering!

Wei Xingzhou glanced at the dishes on the table, so sweet they went to his head, and for a long while couldn't bring himself to touch them. He looked at Bo Yanchen as if he were crazy. "This is what you're eating?"

Bo Yanchen raised an eyebrow and was just about to speak when a server pushed another food cart in, laden with dishes for him.

Bo Yanchen raised his eyebrows, a little surprised. It turned out the little girl had ordered dishes for him separately.

He smiled tenderly. "My Xingbao knows how to care for people now?"

Second Master's Xingbao looked fierce. "Hmph, I don't!"

Bo Yanchen smiled happily. The little girl said one thing and meant another.

Wei Xingzhou looked at Bo Yanchen as if he were crazy. In the end, he could only order his own dishes separately.