After returning to the hotel, Second Brother Yan clumsily tried to pry information from Wan Tong, asking how she met Zhou Rui and how their relationship was.
Wan Tong suppressed her laughter and gave him some information.
Originally, according to Second Brother Yan’s plan, they were supposed to return home after staying in the city for three days. However, since meeting Zhou Rui that day, he seemed to have been enchanted. Consequently, he ended up paid extra fee for two more days of stay at the hotel.
Wan Tong only mentioned the hotel she was staying at to Yan Qinglu once, but she didn’t expect him to remember and come looking for her.
In front of her, he seemed to lose some of his roguishness and evilness, and when he smiled with narrowed eyes, he seemed harmless to the extreme. To some extent, it seemed like he had already considered her as his girlfriend. And during those two days, he took her around the nearby area almost everywhere.
On the eve of returning home, Yan Wan’ying took Wan Tong away from the hotel.
Yan Wan’ying had been following Yan Qinglu’s team for the past few days, but she rarely had the chance to see him, and even when she did, he didn’t seem pleased.
She managed to get some information from Chen Hou, saying that Yan Qinglu had been busy dating these days, but Chen Hou intentionally didn’t reveal who Yan Qinglu was dating.
Judging from Chen Hou’s ambiguous expression, she could guarantee that Yan Qinglu was serious!
So, could Yan Qinglu’s date be that so-called ‘White Moonlight’?
Finally, the white moonlight came out!
Initially, Yan Wan’ying was worried. If Yan Qinglu liked her, would she have to kill herself to complete the mission?
Yan Wan’ying easily found Yan Qinglu’s group and then turned to Wan Tong, saying, “Fourth Sister, do you want to come with me to find Yan Qinglu?”
In fact, she was somewhat afraid of Yan Qinglu, so she wanted to take Yan Wantong to bolster her courage.
“What do you want from him?” Wan Tong asked.
Yan Wan’ying ignored her question had already dragged her over.
The confrontation ahead seemed to be getting out of hand. A middle-aged woman was crying hysterically, holding various props and smashing them onto Yan Qinglu’s group, refusing to move.
“I said, Sister, if you don’t move today, you’ll have to move tomorrow. The government has already made plans, and all the residents in this area have to move. It’s not just targeting you!” Chen Hou used his persuasive skills, but he couldn’t convince those residents.
In the end, they had to resort to violence.
“Stop! Everyone, stop!” Yan Wan’ying, for some reason, intervened with a sense of justice.
“She’s with them, I’ve seen them together these days!” Someone shouted, and Yan Wan’ying was shoved around mercilessly.
Yan Qinglu and his group showed impatience at Yan Wan’ying’s sudden appearance. Why did she have to interfere in everything?
“Take her away!” Yan Qinglu growled lowly, his voice filled with suppressed anger, and his dark eyes flashed with a hint of beast-like coldness.
Chen Hou pulled Yan Wan’ying aside and threw her to the side. “For heaven’s sake, Yan Wan’ying, can’t you stop causing trouble?”
Wan Tong stood outside the chaotic crowd, feeling a sense of foreboding when she saw that frantic middle-aged woman.
“Yan Qinglu,” she called out to his back.
The scene was clearly chaotic, with almost deafening noise that could almost drown out her voice. But for some reason, Yan Qinglu seemed to filter out all other sounds completely, abruptly turning his head to look back.
His expression changed dramatically, his pupils trembling slightly as they reflected the figure of the girl rushing towards him.
Wan Tong almost threw herself into his arms, causing him to take two steps back. At that moment, a liquid with a strong odor splashed past them.
Several people nearby quickly dodged, but inevitably, some of the liquid splattered onto them.
Yan Qinglu, smelling the pungent odor in the air, tightened his grip on Wan Tong and shouted, “Spread out!”
With a crackle, the frenzied woman actually lit a fire. Fortunately, those splashed with kerosene quickly dispersed, but a nearby potted plant caught fire and quickly ignited.
The woman was pulled back by her husband and restrained, while others began to extinguish the fire to prevent it from spreading to nearby houses.
Yan Wan’ying only saw shadows moving, then her attention was drawn to the fire. When she came to her senses, she found that Yan Qinglu’s figure was gone.
She quickly grabbed Chen Hou and asked, “Where’s Yan Qinglu?”
Chen Hou was busy, too busy to bother with her at the moment. After shaking her off, he shouted, “We’ll come back tomorrow, you figure it out yourselves!”
Chen Hou and Lin Daxiong left with their team, leaving Yan Wan’ying standing in place, dazed. But then she heard the emotionless voice of the system : [Target favorability rating -5, current favorability rating is -10.]
“Ahhhhhh!” Yan Wan’ying stomped her foot in frustration.
Wan Tong was pulled by Yan Qinglu into an empty alley.
“Didn’t I send you back to the hotel? Why did you come out again?” Yan Qinglu frowned, feeling even more frightened when he thought of the scene just now.
He wasn’t afraid of death himself, but he didn’t want to see her even slightly harmed.
“I came out with Youngest Sister,” Wan Tong said, panting slightly.
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Shishi’s reminder sound of Yan Wan’ying’s decreased favorability.
Yan Wan’ying is probably really mad now.
The weather was cold, and Wan Tong was pulled along by him for a while. Her cheeks were slightly red, and there was a watery sheen in her eyes.
Yan Qinglu looked at her, his heart surging with emotion, his thoughts all tangled up again.
“Your Youngest Sister isn’t a good girl, be careful in the future,” he said, then felt his words were strange, and he was afraid she would get angry since he was talking bad about her sister.
But Wan Tong just nodded. “Okay.”
Seeing her obedient like this, Yan Qinglu couldn’t help but reach out and pat her high-raised ponytail. “Good girl.”
Wan Tong : “…” She really suspected sometimes that he saw himself as her dad, the way he talked to her sounded like he was coaxing a child.
But she didn’t argue with him. Thinking of the scene just now, she couldn’t help but remind him, “You be careful in the future.”
“Don’t you think I need to change jobs?” Yan Qinglu asked tentatively.
Yan Wan’ying persuades him every day to return to the right path, urging him to find a decent job and settle down properly. Wan Tong, who has also never experienced any major upheavals, what would she think?
Wan Tong shook her head, “Of course, you can do what you like to do. I know you’re actually kind at heart.”
She never thought of insisting that he give up the job the demolition team had given him. For now, she only wanted to keep him safe.
As for him establishing the Underground Empire shortly afterward…
She only hoped that her intervention could make his empire shed less blood.
Yan Qinglu listened to her words and laughed. She let him do what he wanted, but labeled him as kind-hearted. In the end, she really didn’t want him to stir up trouble.
“Alright, I got it,” he said softly, but his voice was firm.
At the corner, several neatly arranged heads popped out, their big eyes gleaming with gossip.
“Is this the Brother Lu I know?”
“Brother Lu is really skillful at coaxing people, it’s deadly.”
“Little Fourth Yan is getting cuter and cuter…”
“Brother Lu hit the jackpot, poor Little Fourth Yan!”
“Get lost, when Brother Lu was begging everywhere to buy medicine, didn’t you say Brother Lu was pitiful?”
Finally, the skinny Chen Hou kicked one of them, and led the group to leave first.
Otherwise, if Brother Lu found out they were spying, he would definitely teach them a lesson.
The next morning, when Yan siblings left the hotel and got on the bus, both Second Brother Yan and Yan Wan’ying were in low moods.
Only Wan Tong quietly waved to the crowd outside the car.
Amidst the waving farewell crowd, Yan Qinglu’s figure stood out like a crane among chickens, impossible to ignore.
Before boarding the bus, Wan Tong went to the restroom and only then did she find out that Yan Qinglu had come to see them off.
Seeing that Wan Tong had found him, he silently gestured to her, “Wait for me.”
Wan Tong smiled, but the bus was already slowly moving.
After returning to Datang Village, Second Brother Yan seemed absent-minded all day, until New Year’s Eve when Yan Zheng returned home for the New Year, and the family atmosphere improved slightly.
But with the hostess missing from the house, the New Year atmosphere wasn’t very strong.
Yan Zheng only had five days off. Before he left, Second Brother Yan suddenly suggested working at the construction site with him.
Seeing the situation, Yan Wan’ying also hastily proposed to go work, but was rejected, and was told to prepare for the college entrance examination.
Yan Wan’ying never wanted to spend her time studying. After some crying and tantrums, the family had no choice but to agree in the end.