After enjoying Yan Che's spectacular show, Lu Cheng casually tossed the tablet aside.
He walked to the wide floor-to-ceiling window, stretched, and calmly watched the undercurrents of the capital city's night.
Just then, a warm, soft presence, carrying the familiar scent of gardenias, pressed against his lower back.
Mu Wanrou's chin rested lightly on his back, her hair tickling him.
"Still busy, even at this late hour?" Her voice was soft.
Lu Cheng reached back to hold the hands wrapped around his waist, and as he turned around, he deliberately let out a yawn, "Just finished."
His gaze swept over Mu Wanrou's slightly open neckline, and his Adam's apple subtly bobbed... "Now..."
He bent down, scooped up the stunning beauty, and carried her horizontally towards the bedroom. Mu Wanrou gasped, instinctively hooking her arms around his neck, "It's time to get busy with... our private matters."
Mu Wanrou's cheeks flushed, and she buried her face in his chest: "I wasn't talking about that..."
"Tao Tao said she's waiting for our video call!"
Lu Cheng grabbed his phone from the nightstand and dialed his little sweetheart, Mu Taotao's, video call.
"Daddy! Mommy!"
The request went through, and it was answered almost instantly. From the other end of the video, the little princess's energetic, tender voice immediately came through!
"Tao Tao, do you miss Daddy and Mommy?"
Lu Cheng's voice was filled with a father's tenderness and doting.
"Yes!" Mu Taotao nodded emphatically, but then, a cute expression of slight 'discontent' and 'resentment' appeared on her delicate, doll-like face, and she protested in a childish voice.
"Oh, Daddy! Why didn't you call earlier or later, but precisely at this moment!"
"Do you know! I was just playing Angela, and I was about to get a penta kill!"
"It's all your fault! It's all your fault! Give me back my penta kill!"
Lu Cheng: "..."
After a warm daily interaction, and hanging up the video call... Lu Cheng seemed to suddenly remember something, and while his 'naughty' hand roamed over her exquisite curves, he mumbled to himself.
"Sigh... even Tao Tao is playing like crazy."
"I wonder what that girl Xuan'er is up to?"
He lowered his head and gently nibbled Mu Wanrou's small earlobe, his voice muffled: "I'm afraid she's... going to turn the world upside down."
...However, Lu Cheng didn't know.
His precious sister, who he thought was 'watching the house', had already arrived in the capital city... Capital International Airport, Arrivals Hall.
Lu Xuan had her black baseball cap pulled low, and a mask covered most of her face, revealing only a pair of bright, darting eyes.
"Hmph! Brother!"
"Still want to leave me at home alone? Dream on!"
"This young lady wants to see what kind of trouble you're stirring up in the capital city this time."
Just as Lu Xuan had walked out of the airport and was about to follow her plan to first settle into a hotel and then discreetly investigate her brother's itinerary.
A gust of wind blew from the side... Lu Xuan's steps suddenly halted.
Not because of the cold.
But because her intuition, far superior to ordinary people's, had warned her!
She felt... like she was being watched?
She subtly raised her hand to adjust her cap, her peripheral vision quickly scanning her surroundings.
Soon!
She found those 'tails' with unfriendly gazes among the crowded people!
Although they tried their best to disguise themselves, attempting to blend in with ordinary tourists.
Their sharp eyes, which always seemed to inadvertently lock onto her, still betrayed their true identities!
"Interesting... truly interesting..."
Lu Xuan scoffed, her eyes filled with barely contained excitement.
"This young lady has just arrived in the capital city, and someone is already delivering themselves to my doorstep, wanting to play with me?"
"I've been in the capital city for so long before, and I've never seen anyone volunteer themselves..."
"I just don't know if you're here for me, or... for my good brother who likes to attract trouble everywhere?"
She showed no sign of panic or fear.
Instead, she treated this sudden tailing as a... hunting game wrapped in excitement and challenge!
With a scoff, she suddenly pulled her suitcase and turned into the nearby restroom.
Three minutes later, Lu Xuan, having changed into a white T-shirt she had hidden in her bag and wearing her baseball cap backward, quickly walked out along the wall.
Catching sight of several men still loitering at the restroom entrance, a sly smile curved her lips. She suddenly quickened her pace and slipped into a tour group holding a guide flag.
Lu Xuan mingled with the crowd, following the group as they twisted and turned, occasionally bumping into an older woman next to her and complaining in dialect... By the time she emerged from the tour group, she had reached the entrance of the underground parking lot.
Looking back, those 'tails' were long gone.
"Is that all? You want to play at tailing this young lady?"
However, Lu Xuan didn't leave immediately... because the feeling of being watched hadn't disappeared.
Instead... it felt closer?
She silently hid behind a pillar in the parking lot and began to observe in reverse.
Indeed!
Not long after.
She saw those 'tails' who had just been following her, walking dejectedly towards a black car parked not far away.
One of them, who seemed to be the leader, opened the car door and respectfully reported something to the person inside.
The next second!
When she clearly saw the face of the man inside the car!
Her beautiful eyes, which had been somewhat excited.
Instantly, widened to their limit due to extreme shock and disbelief!
It was a face... a delicate, clean face with a hint of melancholy.
Those deep eyes, that high nose bridge, that perfect contour... surprisingly... surprisingly bore a seven or eight-tenths resemblance to her brother, whom she thought of day and night?
"Brother? Why is he here?"
No!
That's not right!
Her brother's mind wouldn't let her get away like that; he would have already pulled her into the car... Although very similar, this man's eyes were completely different from her brother's.
Lu Cheng's eyes were always lazy, like a fox pretending to be confused while knowing everything, with a hint of casual mockery.
But this man... his gaze when it swept over his subordinates was terrifyingly cold, seemingly smiling, yet his smile was full of calculation and ambition.
"Who... is he?!"
In the instant Lu Xuan's mind was in a trance.
Yan Che, inside the car, seemed to sense something. His cold eyes, as if piercing through the dim parking lot, precisely met Lu Xuan's gaze, who was hiding behind the pillar!
Their eyes met!
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
Yan Che's face first showed a stunned (moment of surprise), then a smile mixed with pleasant surprise slowly bloomed.
And Lu Xuan, under that aggressive gaze, felt her heart suddenly stop!