Rong Lan was carried and placed on the neatly cleaned kitchen counter. Only then did she realize something was amiss. Her eyes widened in shock. "Brother?"
"I'm here." Chu Hengyuan chuckled softly. He squeezed between the girl's legs, holding one of her wrists with one hand while reaching behind his back to untie his apron. "Didn't I just say I'd let Lanlan feel my moment of uncontrollable passion? Has Lanlan forgotten so soon?"
Rong Lan watched as Chu Hengyuan untied his apron and leaned closer. Frightened, she leaned backward. In a moment of desperation, an idea flashed through her mind. "But I'm hungry. I want to eat!"
Chu Hengyuan reached out and wrapped his arm around her back, pulling her closer to him. "The meal won't be ready for a while, and the roast chicken will take even longer. We might as well play some fun little games. Otherwise, just sitting around waiting for the meal would be a waste of this wonderful evening, wouldn't it?"
The words "fun little games" coming from the man's mouth carried a lingering and seductive charm that made one's heart flutter. Rong Lan blushed deeply, and some strange and inappropriate thoughts popped into her head. She shook her head to get rid of those strange ideas. Blushing, she pushed the man's shoulder. "Brother! I'm not only hungry but also tired!"
"What is Lanlan thinking about? I'm not asking Lanlan to do anything strenuous. Sitting on the kitchen counter will actually let you rest for a while, won't it?" Chu Hengyuan smiled and teased the girl.
He knew she was tired. Although he didn't know exactly how she transformed from a fox form to a human form, she must have expended a great deal of energy. He really didn't intend to do anything to her. It was just that she rarely came into the kitchen with him. If he didn't seize this opportunity to tease her in the kitchen this time, he didn't know when the next chance would be.
Rong Lan shifted uneasily. "It's too hard here. I'm not comfortable sitting at all! I want to go sit on the sofa and rest..." Her voice became softer and softer at the end because she could tell from her brother's eyes that he wouldn't let her off easily.
But their current position was really awkward. It was so awkward that she didn't dare to look down, and she wasn't so naive as to try to push him away because she knew very well that unless she used magic, she couldn't push him.
"Sitting on the sofa all the time is so boring. Lanlan should always unlock some interesting new places." Chu Hengyuan smiled and gently lifted the girl's chin in his arms. Then he saw that the girl's already round eyes widened even more, as if they were written with the words "unbelievable".
Rong Lan reached out and covered the man's mouth. "Brother, you'd better stop talking." It was okay for him to tease her physically, but she always felt there was something wrong with what he said! When he said "interesting new places", he emphasized the words, which sounded like he was being a hooligan.
Chu Hengyuan's eyes were filled with a smile, and he let the girl cover his mouth.
Then Rong Lan realized that she had used the wrong way to make her brother shut up. They were too close. He couldn't speak because she covered his mouth, and she couldn't look anywhere else but into the man's bright black eyes. But her brother's eyes were so beautiful that if she stared at him, she would easily be charmed by his good looks.
The two stared at each other for half a minute, and finally Rong Lan lost. Blushing, she averted her gaze. "Let's make a deal. Brother, you carry me down, and I'll let go of you and let you talk. How about that?"
Chu Hengyuan neither nodded nor shook his head. The smile in his eyes deepened.
Before Rong Lan could ask what he was smiling about, he kissed the palm of her hand.
The shy little fox withdrew her hand as if she had been burned. Her face flushed bright red. "Brother!"
Chu Hengyuan raised his eyebrows. "I didn't do anything. I just kissed the palm of my little wife's hand. Lanlan, your face is a bit too red."
"Brother, you should let me down quickly! I'm hungry!" Having no other excuses, Rong Lan insisted on using "being hungry" as a reason, hoping that her brother would take pity on her empty stomach and let her go.
"Don't be in a hurry." Chu Hengyuan turned his head and glanced at the oven on the other side of the kitchen counter. "Your roast chicken isn't ready yet. Even if I let you go now, you still won't be able to eat anything, my little girl." He murmured softly to his little girl and then gently kissed her forehead.
Rong Lan, who was being held close to him by the back, couldn't even dodge. She wished she could bite him to make him let her go. "But I can eat snacks!"
"Your excuse..." Chu Hengyuan shook his head helplessly. "Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore. You answer me a few questions, and I'll let you go. How about that?"
Rong Lan was puzzled. "What questions?"
"Lanlan is a very powerful fortune - teller, right?"
"Right!" The little fox admitted without hesitation.
Chu Hengyuan smiled. He propped his free hand on the kitchen counter and tapped it lightly with his finger. "Then - Lanlan, help me calculate my marriage fortune. How about it?" He really wanted to know if she would always be in his future.
"Calculate marriage fortune?" Rong Lan was stunned by the question. She could see the marriage line on him, but perhaps because his marriage line was related to her, she couldn't see it very clearly. She couldn't figure out the specific direction of the marriage line.
Rong Lan, the "very powerful fortune - teller", sat up straight, made a fist and coughed lightly against her mouth, assuming the air of a mysterious master. "Since brother has asked, I must popularize the basic knowledge in the metaphysics circle for you."
"Advanced fortune - tellers can indeed calculate people's fates and hearts, but no matter how advanced a fortune - teller is, they can't calculate the specific fates of those whose causal lines are related to themselves. I can't calculate brother's marriage fortune because brother's marriage line is related to me. But this seems to mean that brother's marriage line has always been related to me." If the marriage line was always related, it meant that they would be together in the future.
Chu Hengyuan couldn't help laughing. Seeing the girl's serious look, he knew she wasn't just trying to coax him. "This answer is enough."
Her being his marriage line meant that they wouldn't separate in the short term.
"Can I get down now?" Rong Lan shook her legs, her eyes full of expectation.
"Sure."
Rong Lan's eyes curved happily, but Chu Hengyuan's "but" came late. "But Lanlan has to give me my reward first."
Rong Lan: "???" Cheating! Totally cheating!
"Brother, you don't keep your word!" She stopped smiling and angrily slapped the man's shoulder.
Chu Hengyuan still smiled. The arm around the girl gently rubbed her waist through the clothes. "I'm afraid Lanlan will forget about this in a few days. It's the right thing to redeem the reward first." He knew his little girl's character very well.
Rong Lan turned her head proudly and snorted. "I'm not that kind of person!" She wouldn't forget, but she would choose a "suitable" time to redeem it.
It had to be said that her brother understood her. If she was allowed to decide when to redeem the reward, she would definitely choose a time when she could run away after giving the kiss.