"No," Lan Yuxi frowned slightly. "The other party is too cunning, and the forces they deploy each time are different. What kind of person could possess such great power?"
"A fox's tail will eventually show itself," Nan Zhenting said, patting her hand. "However, with the protection of Myanmar's special forces, Nan Xiao and your third brother will definitely be safe. You can rest assured and focus on your own matters."
"Mm, but we still can't let our guard down. I hope they can all be safe." Lan Yuxi lowered her gaze to her serious-looking son. "How was your lesson today?"
Chao Chao nodded. "It was okay, pretty much the same as in country M."
Lan Yuxi smiled and stroked his head. "That's good. I was a bit worried you wouldn't adapt when three new teachers were brought in."
Chao Chao paused slightly before choosing to be honest with his mother. "Those three teachers were actually sent by Shifu to protect me and Meimei."
Lan Yuxi raised an eyebrow slightly. That kid had finally grown up enough to protect Chao Chao and Mu Mu.
"The driver for you and Mu Mu was also arranged by him, wasn't it?"
Chao Chao pursed his lips and nodded. "Shifu said you forgot about him, and now you've remembered."
Lan Yuxi smiled and shook her head. It was her second personality who knew Ruan Sizhe. How could she possibly remember? It was Ying who told her about Bing Yan and Ruan Sizhe.
Ying had participated in the entire process of taming Bing Yan. He knew more than Brother Jiaqi.
Lan Yuxi chatted with everyone in the living room for a while before heading to the study.
Mu Mu had learned some of Ruan Sizhe's words from her. This brat was resenting her for not paying attention to him all these years. But could she be blamed? The person back then was Mei Xi, not Lan Yuxi.
Lan Yuxi opened her laptop and clicked on a hidden file.
As soon as she connected, a sunny young man with green hair appeared on the screen.
Lan Yuxi looked at the striking green hair, and her lips twitched uncontrollably.
"Want to come to Hua Country for a few days?"
Ruan Sizhe's eyes immediately lit up, but then quickly dimmed. "Your memory is quite poor! Didn't I tell you last time? I'm already in Hua Country."
"My memory is a bit poor, but I still remember our last call. You were complaining the whole time and didn't say you were in Hua Country at all. Xiao Zhe, I explained it to you last time, too. I lost several years of my memory, and you appeared during my amnesia. So, please don't blame me anymore, okay?"
The hint of anger that had just appeared on Ruan Sizhe's still somewhat childish face instantly subsided when he heard her words.
"Why are you looking for me all of a sudden? It's not because of your husband, is it? I'm telling you, even if I'm not angry anymore, I won't help him!"
"I didn't ask you to help him. I just want to sincerely apologize to you... Xiao Zhe, I'm sorry. It's Shifu's fault for forgetting you for so many years."
When Ruan Sizhe heard the last sentence, his eyes became slightly moist. The little guy tilted his head and, after a while, said, "You're finally willing to acknowledge me as your disciple! But I don't want to be your disciple anymore. Because I am now Chao Chao and Mu Mu's Shifu, you can at most be my elder sister."
"Okay, whatever you say. Then I'll call you sister from now on."
"You weren't this easy to talk to before."
"The person you knew before wasn't me. The current me is the real me."
"I'll be there in thirty minutes."
Lan Yuxi watched the screen go black, smiling helplessly. It seemed this little guy was really in Hua Country.
It was good that he was here in Hua Country. That way, she could take good care of him on behalf of his father.
Thirty minutes later, Ruan Sizhe, wearing a baseball cap, stepped through the gates of the Half-Mountain Villa.
Lan Yuxi gave him a big hug when she saw him. "Welcome home!"
Ruan Sizhe's face turned slightly red. "I'm a man, isn't it inappropriate for you to hug me like this?"
"Little brat, you dare to call yourself a man!" Lan Yuxi said with a smile, patting his back before letting go. She looked him up and down. "But you've certainly grown a lot compared to the photos Ying showed me."
Ruan Sizhe frowned slightly. "He has my photos?"
"If he didn't have photos, how would I recognize you? What if I met a con artist?" Lan Yuxi pulled his hand. "Come on, let's go inside and talk. Chao Chao and Mu Mu are still in class. They'll be overjoyed if they knew you were here."
Ruan Sizhe looked at her hand holding his, and curved his lips into a smile. "They haven't met me. If you don't say anything, they won't recognize me."
"You're really something! It was one thing to trick them, but why did you trick me too! You were clearly in contact with Ying, and you had people from Bing Yan come to me through him. Why didn't you have Ying tell me about your existence directly?"
Ruan Sizhe said awkwardly, "I wanted you to remember on your own."
Lan Yuxi's eyelids twitched. "What if I never remembered?"
"Then I would have reintroduced myself to you as Chao Chao and Mu Mu's Shifu."
"It seems I have to thank Chao Chao. If he hadn't suddenly come up with hundreds of billions, I might not have remembered you until I died... And that Ying, he's infuriating! When I asked him, he actually needed to get your permission. I don't even know who he's working for."
Ruan Sizhe smiled with his cherry-red lips.
"You little rascal, you dare to laugh!" Lan Yuxi poked his forehead fiercely. "When did you come to Hua Country?"
"Just a few days ago..." Ruan Sizhe asked uncertainly, "Did I really not tell you that I was coming here to study?"
"No, really. Even with my bad memory, I wouldn't forget something this big."
Ruan Sizhe awkwardly adjusted the brim of his cap. "Then perhaps I told you in a dream."
Lan Yuxi curved her lips into a smile. "Which university are you attending?"
"Qing Da."
"Alright! You even got into Qing Da!"
"It was our agreement back then. You said if I got into Qing Da, you would take me as your disciple."
"I wanted to! It's you who wouldn't. You wouldn't accept me no matter what last time, which infuriated me."
"I was annoyed by your complaints. You wouldn't let me say a word and just kept accusing me. I didn't want to talk to you anymore."
Chatting back and forth, they soon arrived in the living room.
Lan Yuxi saw her parents and Old Nan there and said with a smile, "Mom, Dad, Grandpa, this is my second disciple, Xiao Zhe."
"Oh, Xiao Zhe, you're so handsome!" Tang Wan said, patting the seat next to her. "Come and sit."
Ruan Sizhe looked at Lan Yuxi.
Lan Yuxi smiled and introduced, "This is Chao Chao and Mu Mu's grandfather, and maternal grandparents."
After Ruan Sizhe greeted everyone gentlemanly, Lan Yuxi pulled him to sit next to Nan Zhenting.