"Number—nine—" Rong Lan didn't even catch her breath as she kicked the scumbag who had sneak - attacked her calf flying.
The man flew through the air and knocked down another person. Screams echoed non - stop.
Nearly a dozen people were lying awkwardly on the ground. Those still standing stepped back involuntarily, losing their initial arrogance.
Rong Lan put down the wine bottle in her hand, reached up to tidy the small ponytail that had been tugged and almost come loose. Smiling sweetly, she looked at the people who had backed away. "What's wrong? Scared? Weren't you just saying you'd make me kneel and apologize?"
The people who had backed away shook their heads and waved their hands timidly. "It wasn't us. We didn't say that."
After tidying her ponytail, Rong Lan stroked the fur of her fox ears before picking up the wine bottle again. "Really? I don't care. Come over by yourselves. I'll give you a quick end."
These people weren't the key figures she remembered, but since they had gotten involved in this, it wasn't her style to let them leave unscathed.
They weren't extremely bad, but they definitely weren't good people. If she had been the loser, they would surely have tried to take advantage. So, since their side was the loser, they couldn't get away unscathed.
"Sister!" Several people knelt down with a thud in unison. "We were wrong. We shouldn't have been so blind as to have thoughts about you. Please be magnanimous and spare us."
"Pfft!" Rong Lan rolled her eyes. "Please don't claim kinship randomly. I'm not your sister." She would soften when Bai Rongran called her sister, but not when these people did. They looked much older than her. How shameless could they be to call her sister?
"We'll never dare again! Really! Never again!"
Seeing that they were about to swear to the heavens, Rong Lan walked closer with the beer bottle in her hand. "What does it matter to me that you'll never dare again? I'm going back to China in a few days. I won't see whether you'll do evil in the future."
"We, we—"
Before they could continue to give reasons she didn't care about to persuade her, Rong Lan smashed a beer bottle over each of their heads.
The people screamed and covered their heads as they fell, writhing in pain on the ground.
Rong Lan scanned the area. Everyone was lying on the ground, incapacitated. Only then did she toss the broken beer bottle aside, clap her hands, and turn around to look for her brother's position.
Sure enough, as he had said, he had been sitting in his original position at the bar all along. When Rong Lan looked at him, he met her gaze immediately, smiling gently and wordlessly giving her the greatest praise with his eyes.
Rong Lan was stunned. She tilted her head, and her fox ears that had been perked up in excitement drooped slightly.
She didn't know if it was because she had been too excited while beating people or if Chu Hengyuan's smile was simply too gentle, but she clearly felt the strange sensation of her heart racing.
Chu Hengyuan raised an eyebrow when he saw the fluffy white ears droop suddenly.
He was just about to get up and walk towards his little girl, but just as he threw the cigarette pinched between his fingers into the ashtray, the little girl who had been in a daze two seconds ago appeared in front of him. With a blushing face, she threw herself into his arms.
Chu Hengyuan instinctively wrapped his arms around her, his hand resting on her back, but he didn't understand why she had suddenly thrown herself into his arms. "Are you tired, Lanlan?"
Rong Lan hugged the man's waist and buried her face in his chest. Hearing his question, she shook her head. "I'm not tired. Why is your heart beating so fast, brother?"
His heart - beating speed was almost the same as hers.
Chu Hengyuan gently patted her back, smiling with gentle eyes. "Because I've been looking at my Lanlan. My heart races whenever I look at my Lanlan for more than five seconds. I'm used to it."
This was the most honest truth.
Every time he stared at her, his heart would race. It was definitely the feeling of being smitten.
Once there was a flutter in the heart, love wasn't far away.
He knew he would fall in love with this little girl who was like a treasure sooner or later.
"What about you, Lanlan? Why is your face red? Is it because you've exercised and it's too hot?" He had noticed when she walked towards him that her little cheeks were bright red.
Rong Lan didn't expect that even though she had hidden her face so quickly, he still noticed. Her fox ears drooped a bit more. "It's not because it's too hot. It seems to be because—"
She paused. "It's so wonderful that I can see my brother as soon as I turn around."
In that moment, she vaguely understood what it meant by "I look back, and there she stands, where lantern light is dim."
He was sitting there, a cigarette almost burnt out between his index finger and middle finger. Smoke was swirling around him, making him look decadent and cold. There was no trace of a smile on his face at first, but the moment he met her eyes, he showed a gentle smile, melting all the coldness around him.
It seemed that it was from the moment she saw the smile engraved on his eyebrows that her heart started to race.
Chu Hengyuan understood what she meant. He smiled and ruffled the back of her head. "Do you think the smell of cigarettes is pungent, Lanlan?"
He had lit two cigarettes. Although he hadn't taken a single puff, he still worried that his clothes might have absorbed too much of the smell.
"I don't smell the cigarettes. Why did you light them, brother?" The little fox still didn't want to move her face away because she knew her face must still be hot.
Chu Hengyuan sighed helplessly. "It's a habit picked up from my good - for - nothing friends."
Once when he was bored and went to the bar with those guys, they had said that in a place like a bar, even if you didn't smoke yourself, it was good to light a cigarette. Firstly, it was for the atmosphere. Secondly, with all kinds of cigarette smells mixed in the bar, it was better to smell the smoke from your own cigarette than the ones you didn't like.
Bai Rongran and Seth, who were sitting in a booth far away looking in the direction of the bar, averted their gazes at the same time. The former looked disgusted, while the latter smiled foolishly.
Bai Rongran took a deep breath. "Can I go over there and check the situation now?"
Seth hesitated for three seconds and shook his head. "Maybe we should wait for sister - in - law to call us over. She'll definitely call us over to join in the fun later."
"Look at how your brother and sister - in - law are acting. They probably won't remember to clean up the mess for a while." She was extremely worried about Rong Lan. She never expected that after Rong Lan had knocked everyone down, she did nothing but walked straight towards Chu Hengyuan and threw herself into his arms.
The pink bubbles around those two were almost overflowing in front of her.
"Hehe." Seth scratched the back of his head. "Brother and sister - in - law should know what they're doing. Sister - in - law must be tired after knocking down so many people at once. Just let her act coquettishly with brother."