Chapter 27: What the hell, everyone looks the same!

He didn't want his own father to stay for even another second. He waved his hand, urging the group to leave quickly.

"Hey, just go! Don't you trust me? At the very least, there's Master Wang. With him around, you can rest easy now, right?"

After driving Elder Jiang and the others into the car, Jiang Li watched as the vehicle sped away into the distance.

Smiling, he turned back and once again draped his arm around Qiao Nian's shoulder, acting like a close brother: "Let's go, Second Brother will take you shopping for clothes!"

...

Jiang Li was highly efficient. Two hours later, he drove back to their residence with Qiao Nian, carrying bags upon bags of purchases.

As the car entered a complex of terraced villas, Qiao Nian's eyes grew darker, and her expression became increasingly intrigued.

She knew this villa area. When it first opened, Qiao Weimin had just made a large sum of money and planned to trade their cramped duplex, where the family of five lived squeezed together, for a villa.

He had set his sights on this place back then.

She remembered that day when Qiao Weimin and Shen Qiongzhi took Qiao Chen out to view houses, leaving her all alone at home.

She had just given blood to Qiao Chen the day before and could only stay home to rest and recover. Qiao Weimin and the others didn't return all day, leaving her starving at home for the entire day.

By the time Qiao Weimin returned with Qiao Chen at ten that night, the three of them had already eaten dinner out...

Qiao Nian pulled her gaze away from the dappled shadows of the greenery. A trace of mockery flashed through her eyes. Her expression was faint, carrying a hint of indifference; any trace of sorrow had long since vanished.

"We're here."

The car came to a stop.

Jiang Li was the first to get out. He opened the door for her and hauled more than ten paper bags from the trunk—all the clothes he had just bought for her.

"This is a property I invested in around the city. I haven't lived here much since I bought it. You'll stay here with me for the time being. I'll have them arrange fewer engagements for me this year so I can have more free time to spend with you."

Qiao Nian stepped out of the car behind him. Seeing him busily running back and forth, his handsome face blurring before her eyes, she rarely couldn't resist her curiosity and called out to him, "Um, Second Brother..."

Hearing her call him "Second Brother," Jiang Li's handsome face nearly split with a grin. Even the purple streak in his hair seemed to perk up with pride. His peach-blossom eyes blinked as he flashed her a look: "What is it? Are you tired? Hungry? Or does the spot on your neck where you applied the medicine hurt again?"

Qiao Nian: "..."

"None of the above?" Jiang Li was full of patience. "Then do you have something to tell me?"

"Go ahead! Anything is fine!"

Qiao Nian truly couldn't suppress her doubt: "Have I seen you somewhere before?"

"Seen me? What do you mean?"

Qiao Nian put her hands in her pockets and pursed her lips to phrase her words: "I mean... have we met somewhere before?"

"I thought you looked a bit familiar."

She had wanted to ask this earlier. She felt like she had seen Jiang Li's face somewhere, but she couldn't quite remember where!

Jiang Li froze, pointing at his own nose. "You don't know where you've seen me?"

"..." Qiao Nian raised an eyebrow, her clear, dark eyes seemingly asking him what kind of ridiculous question that was.

Jiang Li's handsome face turned from black to red, and then from red to pale.

Which damn team told him he was a red-hot top star, so famous that the entire nation recognized his face, and his fangirls spanned from age 80 down to 8...

So, the "entire nation" didn't include his own sister?

Unwilling to give up, Jiang Li pointed to his handsome face and pressed further: "Niannian, you really don't know who I am?"

Qiao Nian stood there in a relaxed, unrefined posture. Her beautiful face was calm as she nodded decisively: "I don't."

The dozen shopping bags in Jiang Li's hands suddenly felt incredibly heavy. Meeting Qiao Nian's star-like eyes, which were filled with curiosity, his throat felt as if it were stuffed with cotton. He managed to squeeze out a sentence: "Maybe I just have a very common face!"

(End of Chapter)