Chu Hupo: "Meow, meow, meow?"
Rong Lan couldn't help bursting into laughter. She immediately held onto her brother's arm and led him towards the room. While guiding him, she also tried to soothe the fluffy little ragdoll cat. "It's getting late. Go to bed early, little Hupo. I'll teach your daddy a lesson and make sure he regrets saying such mean things!"
Hearing Rong Lan's words, the fur at the tip of Chu Hupo's tail smoothed out. "Meow~"
"I know. Little Hupo trusts me! I'll definitely teach your daddy a good lesson. I won't side with him at all!" Rong Lan coaxed the little one. After helping Chu Hengyuan into the room, she closed the door and picked up a corner of the quilt on the bed.
Chu Hengyuan, who had been helped to sit on the edge of the bed, didn't understand what his little girl was up to.
It wasn't until the blushing little girl grabbed the corner of the quilt and wrapped it around his waist that she threatened, "What you said just now hurt the delicate heart of our little Hupo. Now I've tied you up. Don't try to struggle. I'll come back later to deal with you!"
Chu Hengyuan looked down at the loosely wrapped quilt around his waist and remained silent. God knows he almost burst out laughing. He was acting drunk, but he wasn't a fool. Couldn't his little girl make the "tying" look more convincing? It would be better if she used a belt or a tie to tie his hands.
Seeing that the man really didn't move, Rong Lan thought he was scared by her. She nodded in satisfaction and turned around to enter the bathroom with peace of mind.
What she didn't know was that after she left, Chu Hengyuan raised his head and even stretched. His expression was clear as day.
He had to think about how his little girl would bully him later. Should he pretend to be reluctant yet receptive when she did so? Or should he keep pretending to be drunk and let her do whatever she wanted?
Just thinking about it made him feel hot all over. However, he overestimated her courage after all. After washing up, the little girl laid him down on the bed, covered him with the quilt, and then crawled into the covers herself and was about to turn off the light and go to sleep.
None of the things he had imagined happened.
Chu Hengyuan secretly sighed. His little girl... always flirted and then ran away. If he had known things would turn out like this, he wouldn't have pretended to be drunk himself. Instead, he would have found a way to get her drunk.
God knows, when Rong Lan was washing up in the bathroom, she also thought about how to take the opportunity to bully her brother. But when she thought about all the things waiting for her to handle after she had just returned to this body, she lost the mood to fool around.
With her hand on the remote control of the room light, Rong Lan turned her head and saw the glasses on Chu Hengyuan's nose. She put down the remote control and turned around to take off his glasses.
"Eh—" Holding the glasses in her hand, Rong Lan suddenly sensed something subtly wrong. Her mind cleared instantly.
Seeing the little girl fiddling with the glasses, Chu Hengyuan nervously squinted his eyes. Had she discovered something? No, she had taken off his glasses before, and she had never noticed anything wrong with them.
Rong Lan examined the glasses in her hand for half a minute, then opened the temples and put them on.
She had always known that these glasses were just a decoration for her brother. The lenses had no prescription, so she didn't feel dizzy at all when she put them on. But—
She looked around the bedroom while wearing the glasses, then reached out and gently patted the chest of the person lying obediently on the bed. "Brother, there's something wrong with your glasses. I'll confiscate them first. I'll return them to you after I figure out what the problem is."
After saying that, she took off the glasses and put them on the bedside table on her side. Without hesitation, she pressed the remote control, turned off the light, and lay down.
Chu Hengyuan, who had lost a pair of glasses: "..." What on earth went wrong? Why did his little girl suddenly discover that there was something wrong with his glasses? Although the glasses weren't very useful to him now, if she knew their function, she would be so angry that she would probably explode. He didn't even know if roast chicken could appease her.
Rong Lan nestled into Chu Hengyuan's arms and yawned. "Brother is so well - behaved even when drunk. He doesn't like to talk either."
Chu Hengyuan, the "doesn't - like - to - talk" one, remained silent. If his glasses hadn't been confiscated, he would have definitely flirted with her before going to sleep. But now his mind was full of thoughts about how to apologize in the right way so that she wouldn't be too angry if the truth came out.
"By the way." Rong Lan snapped her fingers. "Although I'm really sleepy, I still have to tell you what I promised to."
Chu Hengyuan came back to his senses but still didn't say a word. He just rubbed his face against the top of the person in his arms lovingly, sticking to the persona of a drunk who didn't like to talk, laying the groundwork for his next act of pretending to be drunk.
"I have a friend—"
Hearing this beginning, Chu Hengyuan understood that the friend the little girl was going to talk about next was actually herself. This was a typical case of "inventing a friend out of thin air".
"Since I have a very good relationship with her, I also know her parents and elder brother. When I was little, I always went to her house to play. Every time I heard her mother call her father 'brother'. But as far as I know, her mother is much older than her father. Because I was young, my understanding of the title 'brother' was still based on the conventional impression. So I couldn't understand why her mother, who was older, would call her father 'brother'."
Rong Lan was self - satisfied, thinking that she had fabricated the story perfectly. What she didn't know was that as soon as she said the first sentence, Chu Hengyuan had already predicted her train of thought.
Chu Hengyuan thought thoughtfully. Translating her words according to his judgment, he guessed that the little fox was talking about her real parents and elder brother.
"So I asked my friend's elder brother why her mother called her father 'brother'. I thought it might not be appropriate. My friend's elder brother told me that it was their term of endearment and had nothing to do with age. He also said that for their parents, every call of 'brother' was an 'I love you' that outsiders couldn't hear. This was too much information for me as a child, so I've remembered it until now."
When she was a child, she really didn't understand anything. What they had taught her was that she should call boys of the same generation who were older than her "brother". And her mother was more than a hundred years older than her father. She had always been confused about why her mother would call her father "brother".
Later, when she couldn't figure it out, she went to her elder brother for answers. Her elder brother laughed so hard that he bent over at that time. He picked up the little bean - sized her and took her to catch chickens. It wasn't until she ate the clay - wrapped chicken he made that he slowly explained it to her.
— You're still young, so you don't understand. But it's okay. You'll understand when you grow up. The title 'brother' can not only represent the bond between relatives but also convey love. Every time mother calls father 'brother', it's a love letter, an 'I love you' that others can't understand.