"Ah! Goddess sister, you made Siri sister cry~" As soon as Shi Xingwu returned from outside, he saw this scene and immediately pointed at Lei Xirui and Xia Qingtian, saying in shock, "She's crying, she's really crying!"
"Shut up!" Xia Qingtian didn't know why Lei Xirui was crying again, but she couldn't let Shi Xingwu make a fuss. Otherwise, given Lei Xirui's personality, she would be so shy afterward that she'd want to bury herself in a sandpit. "If you make any more trouble, you won't get any dessert!"
Upon hearing this, Shi Xingwu immediately crossed his fingers in front of his lips and made an 'x' gesture.
Fine, he wouldn't say anything.
As soon as Lei Xirui heard Shi Xingwu's words, she knew she had caused trouble for Xia Qingtian. She immediately wanted to stop crying, but her sadness surged in her heart, making it difficult to stop.
In her anxiety, after Shi Xingwu fell completely silent, she let out a clear sob.
This sound attracted the attention of Xia Qingtian, Shi Xingwu, and Li Xiaozhong, who had followed Shi Xingwu in.
Lei Xirui covered her mouth with both hands, her blushing face instantly spreading to her neck. Her only thought was: I'd rather find a sandpit and bury myself!
Before Xia Qingtian could comfort Lei Xirui, someone came to report that the third young master Lei had arrived.
Lei Xirui immediately shivered, looking at Xia Qingtian with apprehension.
Xia Qingtian immediately looked back and asked, "Xirui, do you want to go back with him?"
Lei Xirui shook her head and said, "He wants to abandon me here, transfer me to another school, and prevent me from ever returning to the country... Qingtian sister, will you help me?"
Xia Qingtian took a deep breath and snapped her fingers.
"Understood!" Shi Xingwu immediately understood, made a salute gesture, then directly pulled Lei Xirui's wrist, dragged her upstairs, and cleanly hid her in his room.
Closing the door, Lei Xirui leaned her back against it. Shi Xingwu pressed one hand on the door and the other hand to his lips, making a shushing gesture: "Shh..."
Lei Xirui looked at Shi Xingwu, who was so close, and slowly nodded. She felt her heart beating very fast.
Separated by a door, Li Xiaozhong looked at the closed door, his mouth twitching.
He hadn't even gone in yet...
Downstairs, as soon as the third young master Lei entered the living room, he noticed the wilted bouquet of flowers on the sofa and his eyebrows furrowed slightly.
He knew Lei Xirui had come to find Xia Qingtian.
That useless girl!
"Third young master Lei, it's been a while. I just brewed some milk tea, would you like..." Xia Qingtian was interrupted by the third young master Lei before she could finish speaking.
"Hand over my sister," the third young master Lei commanded coldly.
"Heh, you're so hot-tempered. Milk tea isn't suitable for you, third young master Lei. How about I have someone prepare some herbal tea for you?" Xia Qingtian said softly, holding her porcelain teacup.
"Xia Qingtian, don't play these games with me," the third young master Lei said, looking at Xia Qingtian with cold eyes. "Don't think I can't touch you just because we're in Finland."
"Wow, where is all this anger coming from? It's so hot I can smell the burning," Bai Yuqi said, hands in his pockets, swaggering down the stairs. "Who is it? Old Third Lei, are you uncomfortable if you don't threaten people with a scowl every day?"
"This has nothing to do with you!" the third young master Lei snorted at Bai Yuqi and then looked back at Xia Qingtian.
Don't think he wouldn't do anything to this woman just because she had the Bai family backing her!
"Why wouldn't it? You're threatening my benefactor~ Hurting my benefactor is like cutting off my financial path, and cutting off someone's financial path is like killing their parents. Old Third Lei, if this feud really starts, it'll be an irreconcilable hatred until death!" Bai Yuqi smacked his lips and said, "I heard that the tomb artifacts your Lei family recently acquired aren't entirely clean. How about I investigate? I'm bored anyway~"
Upon hearing Bai Yuqi's words, the third young master Lei's expression clearly soured a bit.
It was all his foolish elder brother, who was framed and tricked into acquiring such a hot potato, and the amount involved was not small.
He himself was also in a desperate situation because of this matter.
He had just left Country Z when such a major incident occurred.
And it was discovered by this most detestable, most unconventional person, Bai Yuqi!
There wasn't a single good thing happening these days!
"Xia Qingtian, as long as you hand over Xirui, I can pretend today's events never happened." The third young master Lei was willing to take a step back, but he had to take his sister with him.
"Third young master Lei, Xirui doesn't want to go back with you." Xia Qingtian looked at the third young master Lei and said, "Since you don't cherish such a good sister, someone else will. Please leave."
"Xia Qingtian! Don't think I don't know what you're up to!" the third young master Lei said coldly. "Xirui knows nothing. Even if you try to win her over, it's useless. I'm the only one in the Lei family who knows about that matter. If you have something against someone, come at me!"
What the third young master Lei said genuinely confused Xia Qingtian.
That matter?
What matter?
When did she try to win over Lei Xirui?
"Using Xirui's innocence to play the beauty trap, aren't you too despicable and dirty?" the third young master Lei truly looked down on the underhanded tactics Xia Qingtian employed. "Only someone as pure as Xirui would be deceived by you. You want to trick me, it's not that easy!"
Oh my...
A beauty trap?
Xia Qingtian was even more bewildered. Had she really done these things?
Bai Yuqi, standing at the bottom of the stairs, looked even more astonished. What was he hearing?
Bai Yuqi looked at Xia Qingtian, his eyes shining, and secretly gave her a thumbs-up: My benefactor, you're playing a wild game!
"Third young master Lei," Xia Qingtian put down her teacup and looked at the third young master Lei, "After you take Xirui back, what will you do?"
The third young master Lei was stunned by Xia Qingtian's question.
What would he do?
He hadn't thought about it.
He only knew that his sister, the third young master Lei, could not be used by anyone, especially someone like Xia Qingtian who harbored malicious intentions and resorted to any means.
"Xirui doesn't want to go back right now. Even if you forcibly take her back, third young master Lei, it will only make her resentful. She is a person with independent thoughts, and if she is determined to escape, what can you do, third young master Lei? Lock her in her room forever? Then what's the difference between her and the canaries you keep in cages or the guard dogs tied in the backyard of your Lei family?"
The third young master Lei clenched his fists by his side and said coldly, "This is our Lei family's private affair, you don't need to worry about it."
What does Xia Qingtian know?
Why is she saying this!
Who does she think she is!
"Xirui can come to me this time, but next time she escapes and knows you'll come here, she won't dare to come to me again. If she goes somewhere else, it's not as safe as it is here." Xia Qingtian looked at the third young master Lei, her eyes slightly serious and her tone indifferent, "This is not how you raise a sister."