Recently, he kept calling her "little one," leaving her both amused and exasperated. If she weren't worried about hurting his pride, she would have snapped back with, "Old man!"
"You started looking at me first!" Li Si retorted defiantly. She would never admit it, but lately, she found his charm increasingly irresistible.
"You!" He chuckled, pulling her closer. Glancing at the book cover, he asked, "Is this a romance novel?"
She nodded. "Yeah, are you interested?" Recently, she'd been obsessively reading Zhang Ailing's novels, unable to put them down.
He shook his head. He was a grown man; how could he be interested in what he deemed childish girl stuff?
"Mochen, what do you think—any idea how Brother Long and Xia Yu's DNA test is going?" Li Si's curiosity got the better of her as she split her attention between him and the ongoing situation.