Chapter Ninety-eight

  "Don't scare me, you're going to go shopping at those small stores. Aren't you always looking down on those small stores?"

  I turned my head in disbelief and looked at her, scanning her from top to bottom. "Tell me, who are you? Why did you pretend to be Xiao Su's lookalike and deceive me into going shopping with you?"

  "What's going on in that head of yours? Haven't you ever heard that habits can change one day?"

  Her eyes darted left and right without looking at me, it seems like there's something she's hiding from me.

  I shook my head at her, saying indifferently: "The words you just said, I really haven't heard anyone say before. You wouldn't be hiding something from me, would you?"

  Before yesterday, she looked down on those small shops with disdain, a typical rich woman looking down on poor alleys. She wouldn't go herself, but also didn't let me go, saying that the things in those small shops were all low-end fake brand-name goods, and that when buying things, one should look at the storefront - if it wasn't a glittering and grand large storefront, then you couldn't enter.

  "This, this, none."

  Ashamed, he began to stare at his fingers, not daring to look at me again.

  "Hmm... actually, I think the small store may be a bit smaller, but sometimes the things inside are not worse than those in famous brand stores. Never mind, we have plenty of time today, let's just wander around until it gets dark and then head back."

  "Alright."

  I nodded in response.

  "However."

  Xiao Su suddenly turned his head, looking at me with a serious face. "You'd better have a good talk with your brothers and sisters, tell them not to follow us today, go out and play on their own during the double rest days. What's the point of coming to find you every day? Is it just because they can see you?"

  I couldn't help but laugh, "If I had a choice, I'd rather be like you guys and not have that special ability. Its existence hasn't helped me in any way and has only disrupted my normal life."

  "Hmph, no guts."

  The car screeched to a halt suddenly.

  Xiao Su looked at me and said: "You are the 13th generation successor of the Xia family's royal demon master, although you don't want these things, but heaven has chosen you and given you this special ability. I believe that in the future, these will still be helpful to you. As Xiao Su's best friend, Xia Qinghe, you must not be so disheartened, remember that at any time, sister is your solid backing."

  After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and gave my shoulder a heavy pat.

  "I really don't know which sentence of yours is true and which one is false. However, I still want to thank you, I'm still working hard to persist, won't give up so easily."

  "Alright, alright, don't start crying again."

  "I didn't! Honestly, you're so dramatic with your words, how can I not be moved? Xiao Su, you're being too much!"

  I looked at her with a hint of resentment and said.

  She burst out laughing several times, and her tomboyish image appeared.

  "It's better if you don't cry, so I won't have to come and comfort you."

  She took a sharp turn, entering a deep alley, accelerating and continuing to charge forward, another sharp turn, stopping in front of a villa.

  "We've arrived at my uncle's house, Qinghe you get off first, I'll park the car in the garage and then come over."

  "Alright."

  As I got out of the car and stood outside the villa, waiting for Xiao Su to come out.

  It wasn't until after more than ten minutes that she finally came out, carrying her large bag in her hand and looking like she was suffering.

  I walked up and asked her: "What's wrong, did your uncle send you some weird stuff again?"

  "Uh."

  She nodded with a bitter smile and picked up her bag, hugging it tightly in her arms.

  "This time what he gave me, I'm too embarrassed to say it out loud."

  She twisted and turned, arousing my curiosity even more.

  "Isn't that an exaggeration, sorry? What... in this world could make you feel embarrassed. Is there something more exaggerated and ridiculous than the Q-version lucky charm I gave you for the middle school entrance exam?"

  "Hmm."

  She nodded at me, weakly saying: "Having experienced it, I can say that the thing was simply too frightening, too scary and too shocking. When he took it out and put it in front of me, I really had an impulse to hit my head on the ground and never wake up again."

  Looking at her crying and laughing expression, I'm very sorry, as her good friend and bestie, at this moment, I only feel amused with some schadenfreude, without any sympathetic feeling.

  Xiao Su pouted and said, "If you want to laugh, just laugh. If you keep holding it in, be careful not to choke. The expression on your face, with a stiff smile that's afraid to laugh, is even more terrifying than my terrible uncle. Have mercy on me and don't make this face again. I've already been scared half to death by that terrible uncle, and I don't want to see your frightening face and lose the other half of my life."

  I covered my mouth with one hand and stared at her in surprise: "How did you know I wanted to laugh at you?"

  "Bang."

  A palm slapped on my head, and in the blink of an eye, I was staring at her, looking at her originally worried face that slowly piled up with a smile.

  "No way."

  I reached out and touched my head, looking wronged as I said to her: "Are you like that fox, having a tendency to abuse people?"

  Xiao Su looked at me and asked: "Is the fox you mentioned Xia Ben Zhun classmate?"

  "Right."

  I nodded at her.

  Walk down the stairs and walk in the long corridor.

  "Your uncle is really weird, building his own villa in such a secluded place. It's so much trouble to get here once, why not build it by the highway like others? It would be more convenient for commuting and shopping."

  Xiao Su nodded in agreement, but didn't think it was unexpected either.

  After a while, at a corner, she suddenly turned her head and looked at me, then leaned to my ear and whispered: "Do you know why I didn't answer your question just now?"

  "I don't know."

  Seeing her mysterious look, I cautiously shook my head, indicating that I really didn't know.

  "Haha, because my uncle was just following behind us eavesdropping, I'm sure he heard every word you just said."

  "No way."

  Seeing her smile with a mischievous look on her face, I suddenly felt like a deflated balloon and became listless.

  "You knew all along that your uncle was following us from behind and eavesdropping on our conversation, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

  I looked at her with a sorrowful face and said, "You made me say those words in front of your uncle, you're also not being human. Xiao Su, I must have left a bad impression on my uncle."