Shen Nian nodded with satisfaction: "Mm-hmm."
Ye Anning glanced at her: "What 'mm-hmm'? Let's go!"
Qi Linhan looked thoughtfully at the three girls walking away, with the particularly petite and cute girl in the middle turning back and winking at him slyly.
Big Brother Linhan! Sui Yan's chocolate!
Qi Linhan successfully received the little girl's signal, and he couldn't help but smile.
Perhaps this is what they say... a loli is always followed by two onee-sans.
Sui Yan kept grumbling all the way home after being dragged back, only settling down a bit when they entered the house.
Speaking of behaving, her mischievous thoughts soon stirred again.
Sui Yan quietly moved closer to Xu Mo and whispered, "Xiao Mo, let's go to the supermarket outside and buy something."
Xu Mo held his sister back: "No."
Sui Yan insisted: "But I want to go!"
Xu Mo thought for a moment, then closed his eyes and shouted: "Brother! Sister wants to sneak out and buy snacks!"
Sui Yan: "..." What a traitor!
Sui Yu and Qiao Ze came out of the dining room in sync: "Buy what snacks? We have everything at home."
Sui Yan poked Xu Mo's ear: "But I just want to go to the supermarket!"
Sui Yu wiped his hands: "Then let's all go together. Brother will buy whatever Yan'er wants."
Big Brother's attitude was a bit unexpected for Xu Mo, so he asked suspiciously: "Brother, can I come too?"
Sui Yu replied coolly: "Don't you have any savings?"
Xu Mo: "...Oh." As expected.
Seeing the young boy's dejected look, Qiao Ze couldn't help but laugh: "He's just joking with you. Let's go buy some things."
Ye Anning and Shen Nian also stood up to join them: "I'll buy a toy for Anqing too. He's wanted something for a long time."
Xu Mo calmly reminded: "Anning-jie, Sister has already bought Anqing the gift he wanted."
Sui Yan, sucking on a lollipop, belatedly looked up: "Huh? The toy car?"
Xu Mo shrugged: "Yeah."
Ye Anning felt a bit helpless: "Yan'er, you don't need to buy anything for Anqing. Brother and I will buy things for them."
The little girl said unhappily: "But Yan'er is also a sister!"
No one could refute that, so Ye Anning could only go along with the little girl: "Okay, okay, Yan'er is also a sister."
In that case, she'll give Yan'er a bit more red envelope money from now on. The little girl loves spending money on family members.
As soon as they went out, they saw Qi Linhan standing outside the door. He seemed a bit surprised to see them: "You're all going out? Zhi hasn't come back yet?"
Sui Yu was also a bit helpless: "No choice, his work is quite special. There are too many people watching him."
Ever since Sui Zhi's first movie, he had slowly become famous. With his excellent conditions and being signed to the company that Sui Yu and the others had invested in and heavily promoted him, he had steadily progressed towards becoming an international superstar.
But his movements had also become more and more restricted.
Sui Yan tugged on her brother's clothes: "Brother, will Zhi-gege come home?"
"Are you talking about me?"
Unexpectedly, Sui Zhi's deep voice came from behind them.
Sui Yan's eyes lit up: "Gege!"
The little girl smiled with her eyes curved as she rushed towards Sui Zhi.
Sui Zhi no longer picked her up like when she was little. He just ruffled her hair: "Yan'er missed me that much?"
Sui Yan was very honest: "Gege, did you bring the autographs I asked you to get last time?"
She had asked her brother to get the signed photos of several pretty sisters!
The smile on Sui Zhi's face froze for a second, and he gritted his teeth: "Yan'er, is that the first thing you ask me when I come back?"
Realizing her mistake, Sui Yan quickly changed the subject: "Uh, no no! Gege, let's go to the supermarket!"
Sui Zhi snorted coldly: "Brat, you haven't changed at all!"
Sui Yan: "..." For those autographed photos, she endured!
Sui Zhi put his mask and sunglasses back on: "Let's go buy things."
The supermarket they mentioned was right across from the neighborhood, just a street away.
However, an accident happened at that moment...
They had surrounded Sui Yan and Xu Mo, the two children, protectively in the middle of their group.
But just as they were crossing the street, Sui Yan accidentally tripped and fell a few steps behind.
Ye Anning was about to go back and pull the clumsy little girl, but then she heard people around them exclaiming in surprise.
Not far away, an out-of-control truck was charging straight towards the little girl in the middle of the road, while she just stood there dazed, as if frozen in fear.
In that split second, Ye Anning seemed to suddenly remember something.
Her heart filled with dread, and she instinctively wanted to rush in front of Sui Yan to protect her.
But Sui Yu pulled her back, and before that, Qi Linhan had already rushed out.
As all this unfolded, Sui Yan was a bit dazed.
She stared blankly at the truck speeding towards her, and an identical scene flashed through her mind.
The only difference was that in the scene in her mind, she was alone. But now, everyone was protecting her.
"Yan'er, are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere? Does it hurt?"
Amid a loud crash, Sui Yan heard frantic screams from bystanders and worried words from her brothers and sisters.
Sui Yan finally slowly came back to her senses, only then realizing that she and Qi Linhan had been knocked to the side of the road, while the truck had crashed into the barrier not far from them.
She curled her fingers in a daze: "Gege, what... happened just now?"
What had happened just now? What was that scene that had flashed through her mind?
Qi Linhan picked up the pale little girl: "Yan'er, don't be afraid. We'll go to the hospital now."
But Sui Yan shook her head forcefully: "No, no hospital! I don't want to go to the hospital!"
The little girl's eyes reddened and became moist: "I don't want to go to the hospital..." She had never been so resistant to going to the hospital before.
Qiao Ze forced himself to stay calm: "Yan'er, we'll go to the hospital and get checked out, just in case you're hurt."
The first to regain their composure were Sui Yu and Sui Zhi, who had already called the police and an ambulance, while Ye Anning had finally calmed down a little.
With her head bowed, she thought of the scene from her previous life where she had seen a young girl standing on the hospital rooftop railing.
"Qiao Ze, please have Sui Yan checked, or we can call a doctor to come and examine her at home," Ye Anning's voice was a little hoarse. "Sui Yan, we're not going to the hospital."
Sui Yan actually didn't know why she didn't want to, or even dare to go to the hospital, but when she heard her sister say those words, she still felt relieved.
