Chapter 38

<Shui Lai's Pov>

...We had never seen this side of Yu Ge.

He had never gotten angry at us before. Compared to this, no, we had never even experienced Yu Ge's anger.

Xiao Bing was still shocked and had tear stains on her face.

Li Hua, Yu Ge's friend sighed as she excused herself and the still-knocked out Mo Yun.

It wasn't too hard to track down the chip on Yu Ge's clothing. But what was hard was accepting the fact that we had been immature all along, causing endless amounts of trouble when we should have been laying low.

Yu Ge had already known so much about us. He even found out about Xiao Bing's real profession. Where had he gotten information? How did he know all this?

I wasn't the best hacker in the world, I clearly knew this. If Yu Ge had an informant, from where, I didn't even know.

Were we not needed? Were we just tag-alongs that Yu Ge raised out of familial love? What was the point of all this then?

No, this wasn't true.

I breathed out heavily to calm myself.

He had told us to train. He was going to test us when he came back. He would come back. We just had to improve and earn his approval. But would we ever be standing at the same stage as him?

Yu Ge was always ahead of us. We only thought it was a step away at first, but as we grew up, the gap was growing wider than we could ever comprehend.

Even with Xiao Bing's incredible speed, Yu Ge was undoubtedly faster. Even with Jing Ge's incredible strength, Yu Ge was much stronger. And even with my intelligence, it couldn't do anything to beat Yu Ge's experience and wisdom.

Mentally, Yu Ge was 45 years old. He must've felt like he was a father and mother to us as he took care of our every need. We were spoiled, heavily, and only Jing Ge had tried to take care of Yu Ge as an older brother. Were we just kids who were being taken care of?

Xiao Bing started crying again.

"...That's not Yu Ge. That's not Yu Ge. It wasn't. He's always nice. He spoils me. He doesn't ever get angry. That's not Yu Ge."

She kept repeating it, trying to brainwash herself into believing it.

"Xiao Bing. Stop fooling yourself. Yu Ge is angry right now."

"NO! I didn't do anything wrong! Yu Ge wouldn't scold me!" she hysterically screamed. Ugh, the shrieks hurt my ears.

"Xiao Bing, st-"

"Shut up!" Shui Bing flung a fireball at me.

I countered with lightning and dispelled it with equal force.

Then, I slapped her hard.

"SHUI BING! GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF!" I shouted.

She then went quiet. I had a short temper and she knew it.

"B-but why would he scold me?" she asked pitifully.

"Xiao Bing, what have you done until today? You made a mess out of the kidnapping zoo animals mission, you made a mess of Yu Ge's zombie trial, and you even got him to go to Japan to buy things for you. Are you a princess? No, even princesses don't get such good treatment. Besides Jing Ge, we are very spoiled and used to having Yu Ge to support us. But the incident with you not telling about your poison arts teacher being a man, and precisely that man to be chasing Jing Ge, that incident just blew his top. Even Jing Ge who's slow to anger, has gotten mad many times, how do you expect for Yu Ge not to have human emotions? Do you think he's a god? I thought so too, but he's not. He's a fragile human being, more so because he gives his trust easily to those he deems are fine. He's not innocent, but still has a pure view on life."

"...Ok, I've calmed down." Xiao Bing sighed and tumbled onto the carpet.

"Lai Ge, I really am stupid," she remarked.

"Yes, you are," I said back.

"How did Yu Ge know about my job? I was only about 6 years old then. And you weren't even good at hacking much," we both pondered this, but Xiao Bing asked out loud.

"We still don't know too much about Yu Ge. He has a lot of secrets. The places he goes to are sometimes blocked by weird transmissions, so I can't trace him. The people he knows, I only know Mo Yun and Li Hua. We really don't know anything about him although he knows so much about us. I just hope that what Yu Ge meant by testing us when he got back would mean that if we reached his expectations, he would tell us everything."

"Makes sense, he'll come back at Halloween. Let's train hard and redeem ourselves until it comes."

We both sighed and shivered at how scary Yu Ge was. He was like a totally different person.

What was going to happen with Jing Ge though?

<Shui Jing's Pov>

I called after Xiao Yu but in less than a second, he disappeared. I called him frantically. Voicemail wasn't applied to his phone, so it was very unfortunate.

Fortunately, after a couple of minutes, Li Hua got a call from Xiao Yu.

But it was a warning, to not go and find him.

Why was he fine with Xiao Lai chasing Zhang Xing but not fine with Lu Han chasing me? It was all the same, people liking each other.

The party went on.

Xiao Lai and Xiao Bing acted as if they were overjoyed and I acted like I was fine. Lu Han still noticed my forlorn expression and took me away to my room.

"Shui Jing, we'll be ok." This man in front of me wasn't good at consoling, but he got straight to what I was worried about.

"Lu Han, I don't know how to talk to Xiao Yu. If you betray me, I have more than enough power to kill you. What is he so worried about?" I joked.

"Shui Jing." That shut me up. He sounded worried, very worried. My mentality was stable but I still couldn't help feeling sad.

Tears started coming from my eyes.

"Haha, I'm crying. I haven't cried in so long that I forgot I could..."

Laughing while crying, there was no doubt that I must've looked hideous.

But Lu Han still embraced the snotting mess of myself.

"Don't cry, if all else fails, I can take you up to elope in space."

I burst out into laughter.

"I'm sure that Xiao Yu can still chase us," I told him.

"Don't mention another man in front of me," Lu Han frowned.

"Haha, you're so very funny." I sarcastically said.

"...But thank you." I smiled while wiping off my tears.

"I really mean it."

I was pushed down onto my own bed. Surprised, I looked at Lu Han with wide eyes.

"Do you expect me to try to hold myself back when you've told me your true feelings?" he grunted and moved closer.

By this time, I had lost all rationality and blushed, as red as a lobster.

"I'm not much of a gentleman as you think. Will you still like me even that way?" he asked.

"You are a rogue, never was a gentleman."

Lu Han chuckled and placed his lips on mine.

Nibbling at first and then the next thing I knew, we were panting from his bites and licks. His tongue twirled around mine and licked every corner of my mouth.

Lewd sounds echoed throughout the large bedroom. I was about to stop him but Lu Han stopped first.

"You're too young. I will give amnesty and not take advantage of you."

I snorted.

"You took my first kiss, so you have to take responsibility," he voiced out with an incomparably handsome serious expression.

"Then what about me? You also took my first kiss," I asked.

"I'll take responsibility by marrying you."

"The law states that men can only marry at 22 years old," I recited.

"Oh, so you researched on this?" he gave a deep smile.

"No, I just know from Xiao Lai mentioning how it should be changed," I denied it. Xiao Lai had his future set out and planned already so he knew about this kind of stuff.

"I think it should be changed too. 22 is far too old of age for a person to get married at. It's unfortunate that my family doesn't have influence in China to change this," agreeing, Lu Han nodded.

"I turned 18 today. Aren't you going to wish me a happy birthday?"

"I remember saying it in the morning."

"I must've been half-asleep."

"No, you were still sleeping," he explained.

=_= Really, this man made me speechless sometimes. And I could never get used to it.

"I said it right at the time you were born."

"I'd rather you say it when I'm awake. Very sweet of you, but it's also very useless," I remarked.

"Hm, then Happy Birthday. I hope to wish you forevermore happy birthdays."

I was secretly very pleased but acted as if I was angry.

"You just want me to become an old man."

"And I'll stay with you the whole time."

"Your sweet-talking skills is on a high level. How many have you lured in?"

"Only you. I only tried to seduce you, and saved up all my experience for you."

"Experience?"

"Other people around me getting together, especially, young master Jiang flirting with every person coming his way has been played out to me my whole life."

"I forgive you."

"Thank you, wife."

"Who're you calling wife!"

"I proposed to you, are you not accepting it?"

"You call that a proposal? Try better!"

But even though Lu Han had cheered me up, I was still worried.

When would Xiao Yu come back?