Lu Chuanbai slowly took off the bathrobe that had barely served any purpose on him.
"Our kid is so well-behaved. Don't you think you should be obedient too?"
"Stay away! We're living together just for business!"
Xu Qingqing's heart skipped a beat. Before she could recover from the feeling of weightlessness, she quickly burrowed under the quilt, wrapping herself up like a chrysalis.
But Lu Chuanbai grabbed the corner of the quilt and slowly pulled it towards him.
Xu Qingqing was no match for his strength. Her face flushed as red as a boiled shrimp. She clenched her fists and threatened, "Don't do anything stupid, or I'll scream!"
"Do what stupid thing..." Lu Chuanbai said with a smile in his eyes.
"Of course it's... it's..."
Xu Qingqing stammered for a long time but couldn't come up with a proper answer.
Lu Chuanbai pulled the quilt a bit more towards him. "I just want to go to sleep. I'm pulling the quilt because I'm cold."
"You..." Xu Qingqing was stunned.
So this guy was just teasing her!
Was it really that fun!
Xu Qingqing was so angry that she threw a pillow at him.
"What did I do?" Lu Chuanbai easily caught the pillow, looking completely innocent. Suddenly, he leaned closer to Xu Qingqing. His handsome face was truly irresistible.
"Nothing. You're fine."
Xu Qingqing slapped his face away and lay down to go to sleep.
Just then, Lu Chuanbai's phone on the desk rang. It was his father calling.
Lu Chuanbai didn't rush to answer it. Instead, he opened the wardrobe, found a pajamas and put it on before answering the call.
"You rascal! Why did it take you so long to answer the phone!"
Lu's father's powerful voice came from the other end of the phone.
Lu Chuanbai yawned lazily and didn't explain. "What's the matter calling so late?"
"I'm not looking for you. I'm looking for Qingqing." Lu's father's voice softened a bit, and he laughed heartily.
"Looking for Qingqing?"
Lu Chuanbai raised his eyebrows and looked at Xu Qingqing in confusion.
Hearing her name during their conversation, Xu Qingqing poked her head out from under the quilt and asked in surprise, "Me?"
Lu's father called specifically for her. She hadn't done anything special recently.
"Yes."
Lu Chuanbai handed the phone to Xu Qingqing. Xu Qingqing put it to her ear and softly greeted Lu's father, "Uncle Lu, what do you want from me?"
"Qingqing, are you free recently?" Lu's father's voice was kind.
Xu Qingqing also looked at Lu Chuanbai in confusion. Lu Chuanbai shrugged, indicating that he didn't know.
Xu Qingqing answered truthfully, "I don't have much to do these two days."
To let Xu Qingqing focus on writing the speech, Xiao Wang gave her a three - day leave, so she didn't need to go to work on Weishan Island.
"Do you know about the domestic antique treasure hunt event?"
Lu's father was too embarrassed to directly ask Xu Qingqing for help, so he beat around the bush.
"The domestic antique treasure hunt event..."
Xu Qingqing raised her chin and carefully recalled the events she had participated in before.
She seemed to have attended one with her father and bought a Qing - dynasty jade pendant at a very low price. The jade pendant was still hanging on her father's wall.
"I know, but I haven't been for many years."
"I have two tickets. Do you want to go with uncle?" Lu's father's laughter was like that of a human trafficker using candy to lure a child.
Lu Chuanbai roughly understood what his father was up to. He climbed onto the bed and sat cross - legged beside Xu Qingqing.
Xu Qingqing understood Lu's father's intention and said considerately, "Uncle, I've been wanting to go and have a look for a long time."
"That's great." Lu's father smiled brightly. "I'll trouble you to appraise the antiques I find then."
"No problem." Xu Qingqing readily agreed.
She just had no inspiration for the speech, and she also wanted to test the 10% luck value added by the system. By participating in this treasure hunt, she could see if her chances of finding treasures had increased.
Hearing Xu Qingqing's ready agreement, Lu's father's lips curled higher and higher. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
It was really better to have a daughter. A daughter was a caring little cotton - padded jacket who would help him solve problems!
His two sons only made him angry and caused him trouble!
"Then let's meet at 7:30 tomorrow. I'll send a car to pick you up."
"Thank you, uncle."
Xu Qingqing said with a smile and then hung up the phone. She raised her hand to return the phone to Lu Chuanbai and met his half - smiling eyes.
"You get along really well with my dad. He's never been this gentle with me."
"Uncle Lu is a nice person. If you tone down your cold - faced look a bit, he'll definitely be gentle with you too."
Xu Qingqing stuffed the phone into Lu Chuanbai's arms and shrank her head back under the quilt. Only then did she realize that her attitude towards Lu Chuanbai was becoming more and more bold.
In the past, Xu Qingqing would never have joked with Lu Chuanbai like this.
Lu Chuanbai also had this feeling. He raised his eyebrows and casually threw the phone on the bedside table. Then he lay down beside Xu Qingqing.
It was the first time he felt that being joked about wasn't so bad.
After Lu's father hung up the phone, his step - mother couldn't wait to ask him, "How about it? Did Xu Qingqing agree?"
"She agreed." Lu's father nodded and quickly sent a message in the old friends' group.
Old Lu: [Guys, I've decided to go to the treasure hunt with you tomorrow.]
After seeing the message, Old Liu couldn't help but tease Lu's father: [Old Lu, if you don't find anything this time, don't get angry.]
Old Li also chimed in: [Right, no throwing a tantrum.]
Looking at his friends' replies, Lu's father's face darkened.
In the previous treasure hunts, except for Lu's father, the others had all found one or two satisfactory antiques. Only Lu's father had ended up with a bunch of junk made by modern technology.
As a competitive person, Lu's father was naturally unhappy.
Old Liu thought that Lu's father would get angry after hearing this.
Unexpectedly, Lu's father replied, [Don't worry. I definitely won't get angry. I've invited a powerful external aid. None of you can beat me this time!]
Old Liu, holding his phone, snorted, pushed up his reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, and pointed at the phone screen.
"A joke! This Old Lu is really a joke!"
"Everyone knows that there's no one in the Lu family who can appraise antiques. He's just boasting!"
Old Liu didn't have time to type, so he directly sent a voice message: [Old Lu, don't talk too big! My granddaughter is going with me too. Let's have a competition then.]
[Okay, let's compete!]
Lu's father also sent a voice message.
Although Old Liu's granddaughter had won the treasure hunt championship for three consecutive years and found the most treasures every time, their family's Xu Qingqing was no slouch either.
Xu Qingqing had come into contact with countless precious antiques and came from a famous family. He didn't believe that she couldn't beat Old Liu's just - graduated granddaughter.
After saying that, Old Liu went upstairs and knocked on his granddaughter's door. "Tianjing, open the door for grandpa quickly!"
Liu Tianjing, who was wearing headphones and playing games, didn't hear the knock until Old Liu had knocked for a long time. She slowly took off the headphones and ran to open the door.