Chapter 7: No Way to Avoid

Chen Feng felt a bit unhappy, feeling that his good intentions had been treated like donkey liver and lungs.

Originally, he had intended to send Qin Xiaorou home or call her a taxi if she were leaving alone.

After all, it was late at night, and it was truly worrying for a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl to be out by herself. As it turned out, Qin Xiaorou had turned on him without a second thought and just ran off, leaving him behind.

Chen Feng sighed, turned around, and walked toward where he had parked his car.

He had only walked a short distance when he heard a shout from behind: "Uncle! Uncle, wait!"

Chen Feng turned around in surprise and saw Qin Xiaorou running toward him, slightly out of breath.

"Why did you just leave? What was that about?"

When Qin Xiaorou reached him, she glared at Chen Feng with dissatisfaction while catching her breath, leaving him stunned.

"Here!"

Qin Xiaorou took a drink out of the plastic bag containing her five dolls and shoved it into Chen Feng's hand.

Chen Feng finally reacted and asked, "You just went to buy drinks?"

"What else?" Qin Xiaorou glared at him. "You didn't think I ran off, did you?"

"Uh, well, haha, of course not." Chen Feng felt a bit awkward. He had clearly misunderstood and wronged her. As it turned out, even though this young girl lacked manners, her nature wasn't bad.

"Then why did you leave without saying a word?" Qin Xiaorou asked, looking like she wouldn't let it go.

As a grown man, Chen Feng certainly wouldn't be stumped by a little girl, so he replied naturally, "My car is parked over here; I was planning to drive it to the roadside to wait for you."

"Oh, you drove here? It’s not an e-bike, is it?"

Qin Xiaorou teased with a tone of disdain.

She really was a rude, wild girl. Before yesterday, he didn't even have an e-bike, let alone a car.

Fortunately, he really did have a car now, otherwise, he would have been embarrassed.

"It's a car, with four wheels," Chen Feng emphasized.

"Cars obviously have four wheels, do you think they have two?" Qin Xiaorou retorted on purpose.

"Alright. Do you want me to take you home? If you're worried, I can call you a taxi."

This wild girl was truly a headache; Chen Feng didn't want to bicker with her.

Qin Xiaorou refused directly: "It's only ten o'clock, it's still early. I don't want to go back yet."

Chen Feng frowned and said, "It's so late, are your family members okay with you being out alone?"

Qin Xiaorou said with a cold face, "I don't have family."

Chen Feng was stunned. He looked her up and down, then shook his head and said, "Who are you trying to fool? The outfit you're wearing is worth at least a thousand, and those shoes are designer—they must be over a thousand too, right? You’re an orphan?"

Qin Xiaorou continued to argue, "Who said I was an orphan?"

Chen Feng said irritably, "Didn't you just say you didn't have family?"

"Not having family means I'm an orphan?" Qin Xiaorou countered.

"Isn't it?" Chen Feng stared at her.

Qin Xiaorou said with a straight face, "When I said I didn't have family, I meant there was no one home tonight, understand?"

The level of her self-justification was truly something else.

Chen Feng couldn't help but rub his forehead and said helplessly, "Fine, whatever you say."

After saying that, he turned and walked away. He didn't want to put up with this brat's temper any longer.

"Hey, wait for me."

Qin Xiaorou grabbed the large plastic bag and hurried to catch up.

Chen Feng wanted to ignore her, but thinking about how she was just a girl and it was truly unsafe this late at night, he looked at the drink in his hand, sighed, and had no choice but to stop.

"Uncle, don't be in such a rush to leave. Drink your beverage first. We played in the arcade for so long and didn't drink anything; aren't you thirsty?"

As Qin Xiaorou spoke, she took out a drink for herself, opened it, and started gulping it down.

Seeing this, Chen Feng didn't stand on ceremony. He was indeed thirsty, so he opened his drink and downed half of it in one go, then let out a burp, feeling quite refreshed.

"This drink is pretty good," Chen Feng praised casually, lifting the bottle to look at the label: Yuan Chang Functional Drink. He hadn't had it before.

"Right? I love drinking this stuff. There's even a chance to win a prize. I won 200 yuan last time."

As Qin Xiaorou spoke, she picked up her bottle cap, flipped it over to look, and said with some regret, "I didn't win anything. Let me see yours."

Chen Feng handed her the bottle cap. Qin Xiaorou flipped it over, her eyes widened instantly, and she shouted in surprise, "You won! A grand prize, a Big Whale color TV!"

This luck!

Chen Feng felt almost numb. He didn't even want to win any prizes, yet he kept winning through others' hands. This situation really left Chen Feng with no way to avoid it.

"Uncle, you won a color TV, it's worth several thousand yuan. Aren't you excited?"

Seeing Chen Feng's calm expression, Qin Xiaorou asked with some confusion.

"I already have a color TV at home, so I'll just give it to you," Chen Feng said indifferently.

Qin Xiaorou paused for a moment, then her voice lowered, and she said coyly, "Uncle, why are you being so nice to me? Giving me all those game tokens was one thing, but now a grand prize? You... you don't have a crush on me, do you? I'm still young."

*Damn it!*

Chen Feng couldn't help but reach out and vigorously ruffle her hair again, turning it into a bird's nest once more.

Qin Xiaorou shrieked again and said angrily, "I'm warning you, if you do that again, I'm going to flip out! Do you know that what you're doing is equivalent to ruining someone's appearance? That's a crime."

Seeing that the wild girl was genuinely angry, Chen Feng had to wave his hand and say, "Alright, alright. My fault. But what kind of nonsense are you spouting? You're still a minor. And I have a... wife. Don't talk nonsense, understand? I gave you those game tokens earlier because I really didn't want to play video games anymore. Now I'm giving you this grand prize because I don't need the TV, and you bought the drink for me anyway—can I even keep it?"

"You can keep it. I gave you this drink, so it's yours. I have a color TV at home too, and besides, I'm a minor, so I can't go claim the prize alone. It's better if you go claim it."

"Fine, fine." Chen Feng didn't want to argue with her. He put the bottle cap away and finished the rest of the drink in a few gulps.

"Let's go, I'll take you home."

"We're really going home this early? Can't we play a little longer?"

Chen Feng said irritably, "It's almost eleven o'clock, and you call that early? Don't you have school tomorrow?"

"Seriously. You adults are all the same, always bossing people around."

Chen Feng stopped talking and led the way, soon arriving at his Buick.

"A newly bought car, but it's a bit low-end. It looks really cheap."

This girl really had a foul mouth.

Chen Feng walked to the driver's side and said to her, "Do you want me to take you home or not? If not, I'm leaving."

"I do! Of course I do!"

Qin Xiaorou quickly opened the passenger door and sat inside.

Chen Feng got into the driver's seat, started the car, and asked, "Where do you live?"

"Do you know Jinxiu Road? Just take me there."

"Jinxiu Road is long, at least five or six kilometers. No specific address?"

"Fine, Zhuangyuan Xuefu."

Chen Feng was startled when he heard that. He turned his head to look at her in surprise: "I couldn't tell, your family is quite wealthy."

Qin Xiaorou curled her lip and said, "Money is useless."

Chen Feng could only chuckle.

The Zhuangyuan Xuefu residential complex was quite famous because it was one of the top-tier high-end residential areas in Xiuzhou City, with prices over 80,000 per square meter.

Just by the name of the complex, one could tell it was a school district property; the surrounding kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, and even universities were among the best in the province.