It’s been just a few days since our last argument. Have you already forgotten?”
He almost knew that if it were his biological son sleeping here, Director Luo would definitely kick him away and throw in a complimentary one-stop reflection service.
Hmph, what’s so good about Xia Xianning that he likes him so much…
Okay, even if Xia Xianning is indeed good, and he himself likes him too, but such a biased father is still quite rare.
Luo Yingbai quietly leaned close to Xia Xianning’s face, looking at him. Xia Xianning had very long eyelashes, and his brow was slightly furrowed, looking angry even while asleep.
Luo Yingbai’s heart felt a bit itchy, and his hands were itchy too. He blew on Xia Xianning’s eyelashes, but Xia Xianning had no reaction.
Luo Yingbai rubbed his hands excitedly and took out two flower hair clips he had sold in the Yin-Yang realm last time.
This was only the second time he had bought something for a young girl in his life. The first time was buying a birthday gift for Xia Xianning when he was young, which was angrily smashed. This second time, Luo Yingbai really wanted to put it on him, peeking for a long time but not daring to do so. Now, a good opportunity has come!
He moved in slow-motion, carefully pinching a tuft of Xia Xianning’s hair and clipping a small clip onto it.
Luo Yingbai accidentally pulled Xia Xianning’s hair, causing Xia Xianning to move slightly. Fortunately, Xia Xianning didn’t wake up and just changed positions and continued sleeping.
Luo Yingbai carefully clipped the other hair clip, this time successfully.
Xia Xianning’s delicate little face, with two pink flowers on his head, was too cute!
A sense of accomplishment swelled in his chest. Luo Yingbai, suppressing his laughter, circled around Xia Xianning to look at his work from different angles, then quietly took out his phone to take a few photos.
Just as he raised his phone, Xia Xianning suddenly opened his eyes.
Luo Yingbai was startled and quickly bent down to catch his phone, looking up with a dry laugh: “X-Xianning, you’re awake.”
Xia Xianning glanced at him and nodded, the small flowers on his head swaying slightly.
Luo Yingbai: “Cough cough… Well, I came to find my dad and check on you. I didn’t expect you to be asleep…”
Xia Xianning: “…Is my being asleep that funny?”
Luo Yingbai pinched himself hard: “No, not funny, I just remembered something else funny, sorry, let me laugh for a bit!”
Xia Xianning: “…” Is he that happy?
Xia Xianning didn’t seem to notice at all. Luo Yingbai almost suspected he was deliberately playing dumb with him, but this thought quickly disappeared. If Xia Xianning had already discovered his actions, he would probably want to kill him and would definitely not be so tolerant.
He found it increasingly funny and couldn’t stop laughing. Xia Xianning was speechless and simply leaned back in the chair waiting for him to finish laughing. After watching Luo Yingbai for a while, a hint of amusement also appeared in his own eyes. He had originally intended to remove the clip after letting him have some fun, but now he had forgotten.
At this moment, someone knocked lightly on the room door. Since Luo Yingbai hadn’t closed the door properly when he entered, it creaked open, revealing Wei Shou, Gou Songze, and… Luo Jiao behind it.
Xia Xianning quickly reached to remove the flowers from his head, but the delicate paper hair clip was stuck with some glue. The more he pulled, the more his hair became disheveled.
Wei Shou pinched his own thigh and turned halfway, his face turning red. Gou Songze pounded his chest twice and bit his finger. The quickest to react was Luo Jiao, who strode into the office and kicked Luo Yingbai: “I knew you’d be causing trouble!”
Luo Yingbai was quick-witted. Before the kick could land, he sat down on the floor: “Ouch, dad, don’t kick me, hahaha. Look at Xianning, isn’t it funny?”
Xia Xianning saw that Luo Jiao was about to kick and, knowing he wouldn’t really use force, intervened: “Teacher, don’t hit him. We were just playing.”
Luo Jiao looked at his disciple and turned away: “Cough cough… cough cough cough…”
Xia Xianning: “…”
With remarkable composure, he no longer tried to hide the weird expressions in the room. He calmly removed the flowers from his head and put them away, then lifted Luo Yingbai from the ground, standing between him and Luo Jiao: “Teacher, we were really just playing around.”
Luo Yingbai said: “Okay, dad, Xianning has explained, we haven’t seen each other for days, you must have missed me. Spare me. By the way, I have something to ask. Xianning, how is Yin Ming?”
Xia Xianning said: “He refuses to say anything. Last night he had a concussion and was sent to the hospital. He’s now out of critical condition.”
Wei Shou added: “I was on duty watching him. He seemed normal, just extremely panicked and terrified. When I was awakened by a wall-hitting sound, I saw him choking himself and trying to ram into the wall.”
Luo Yingbai asked: “He got a concussion?”
Wei Shou shook his head: “I thought it wasn’t that serious. He only hit once, and his forehead wasn’t even broken before I stopped him. But Yin Ming fell unconscious and had to be sent to the hospital with two people watching him.”
Gou Songze added: “It was like he was possessed by a ghost, but no ghostly energy was detected at the time.
Luo Yingbai pondered silently, sorting through the line about Yin Ming. He was a teacher from their school who had left under mysterious circumstances over a decade ago, going to the mountains to study feng shui and divination. Luo Yingbai knew about him because he had approached them to help resolve the Liao family’s matter.
The first question that arose was that Yin Ming didn’t seem like someone who would go out of his way to help others. If he couldn’t bring Liao Zhong back himself, then even if he asked Luo Yingbai to help and Luo Yingbai succeeded, the Liao family would be grateful to Luo Yingbai – so what benefit would this bring to Yin Ming?
Then there was the formation he set up at the exit of the yin-yang realm. Initially, Luo Yingbai thought he wanted to harm him and Xia Xianning, but upon recollection, that didn’t seem to be the case. The formation was meant to trap – at most preventing them from leaving temporarily. Based on Yin Ming’s tone and behavior, it seemed he was trying to block something in the yin-yang realm, not them.
However, Luo Yingbai was certain that nothing unclean could have been brought out at that time. So was Yin Ming feeling guilty, or deliberately playing dumb?
Luo Yingbai asked, “A Shou, did you hear Yin Ming talking in his sleep?”
Wei Shou, who hadn’t paid attention at the time, thought carefully and realized: “Oh, he seemed to say a few things about a cenotaph, something about not entangling. I didn’t hear it clearly.”
Luo Yingbai said, “Okay, I understand.”
He had a suspicion that Yin Ming was definitely connected to the strange events in the school’s teaching building and had likely left the school because of that incident. But after the previous handling, no strange events had occurred in the teaching building, leaving no trace to investigate. They could only wait until Yin Ming woke up to ask for clarification.
After discussing the case, the four youngsters went out to eat with Luo Zhao. Luo Yingbai obsequiously opened the car door for Luo Zhao. Luo Zhao laughed and scolded, “You brat.”
He got into the passenger seat. Luo Yingbai said, “I’ll drive. Let the other three sit in the back.”
As the other three were approaching the car, Luo Yingbai waited a moment before opening the door and getting in.
Luo Zhao asked, “What’s wrong?”
Luo Yingbai responded casually, “Nothing. Just felt like there was a camera light flashing. But when I looked, it was gone.”
