Xu Mo diligently helped her sister retrieve small rubber bands: "Sister, these are the new rubber bands you bought and said were super cool and super flashy."
The bound man heard these words and instantly turned pale.
Could it be... an utter disaster?
Ye Anning and Shen Nian suppressed their laughter, sitting aside and waiting for the show.
Sui Yan roughly pried open the box of rubber bands: "Yeah, these rubber bands are fluorescent. At night, they'll glow. Twinkling, super cool!"
Sui Anqing leaned over and rummaged through the rubber bands in the box: "I want to braid his hair too, are there any pink ones?"
Sui Yan looked: "Only a few pink ones, I'll give you one, the rest are mine."
Sui Anqing pretended to act coy: "Sister~ give me one more!"
Sui Yan shuddered: "Okay, okay! Stop the aegyo!" She innocently looked up at Ye Anning, "Sister, do you and Nian Nian want some too?"
Ye Anning had been a bit dazed, but upon hearing this, she instinctively refused: "No thanks... you two pick the colors, just give him a little braid first."
Sui Yan obediently nodded: "Okay."
She earnestly parted a strand of the man's hair and carefully braided it.
Shen Nian glanced at the man and couldn't help but ask Sui Yan: "Yan, how were you so formidable earlier? Didn't Auntie Liu not let you learn martial arts?"
Liu Hua firmly believed her precious daughter was a soft and adorable lucky charm, with her brothers to protect her.
Sui Yan was still clumsily braiding the man's little braid, pondering: "Hmm... I don't know, when I saw this person I just felt he wasn't a good person, so I was waiting for him to make a move."
Ye Anning vaguely sensed this was probably another of Xiao Yan's hidden skills from her previous life. She poked her sister's face: "Yan, don't take matters into your own hands like this in the future, okay? It's dangerous."
Sui Yan pretended not to hear: "Sister, how does this little braid look?"
Ye Anning pinched her chubby cheeks: "I'm talking to you, did you hear me?"
Sui Yan tried to protect her little face: "I heard, I heard!"
Ye Anning released her grip and playfully rubbed her face: "Good girl, I'll buy you candy."
Sui Yan reluctantly said: "Sister always uses threats and temptations like this."
Ye Anning spread her hands helplessly: "But our Yan is vulnerable to them."
The little girl huffed arrogantly: "Sister is too much!"
When Liu Hua and the others returned home relaxed in the evening, they saw the lights in their home flickering from afar.
Sui Zhi was full of exasperation: "They're being so lively at home?"
Qiao Ze sighed: "They seemed rather reluctant to see us leave this morning."
Sui Yu's expression was calm: "Aren't they always like this?"
Qi Linhan was also nonchalant: "Yeah, always messing around with random stuff."
Liu Hua and Xu Yi held hands: "Alright, let's go in and see."
Just as they were about to enter the door, the lights inside went dark.
Liu Hua opened the fingerprint lock on the side while muttering: "These kids really know how to make a fuss."
The moment she opened the door, both sides froze. Liu Hua looked bewildered at the fluorescent mess glowing in the darkness: "Yan, what are you all doing?"
Xu Mo, who was acting as the light switch assistant, heard her mother's voice and immediately turned on the lights: "Mom, you're back!"
"...This?" Liu Hua's expression gradually turned to shock. "Who is this man? Why is he tied up?"
Sui Yan was still holding a few rubber bands, scratching her head: "Mom, we're braiding his hair. Isn't it cute?"
Ye Anning helplessly covered her face, stepping forward to explain: "Auntie, this man pretended to be a delivery guy sending Yan a package this afternoon, trying to kidnap her."
Shen Nian also sighed: "Then Yan beat him up, and we didn't want to scare anyone, so we dragged him inside and tied him up."
Sui Anqing looked rather cheerful: "Sister said it was too boring, so we braided this guy's hair. It's really fun!"
Xu Mo was expressionless: "The rubber bands for braiding are fluorescent, so they wanted to see the glow effect and made me stand here to turn the lights on and off for them."
Liu Hua: "..."
Everyone else: "..."
What badasses my girls are!
Liu Hua walked around Sui Yan in shock several times: "Yan, when did you learn martial arts?"
Sui Yu seemed more calm: "Mom, that's not the question right now."
Xu Yi frowned: "So, who sent this man? We just spoke with the police station about reporting the incident from the other day. Could the Lu Family still have the nerve to target our Yan?"
Upon hearing the key words, the bound man immediately started struggling: "Mmph! %*&?¥@~#!"
Sui Zhi walked over, lightly pinching the tape over the man's mouth, and in his terrified gaze, "ripped" the tape off cleanly.
"Ahhh!!!" An agonizing scream burst from the man's mouth before Qiao Ze stuffed a handkerchief in it a second later.
"Shut up, or I'll cut out your tongue." The recently graduated medical student smiled gently.
The man: "..." Save me! This entire family are demons! If he had known, he would never have taken this job even if he was dying!
Sui Yu patted Qiao Ze's shoulder: "Don't be so cruel, we don't want to scare him." He smiled, looking harmless. "You can either reveal your employer, or... experience the Ten Great Tortures of the Qing Dynasty?"
The man felt this youth looked rather terrifying. He hurriedly nodded: "Mmph!"
A tall, burly man, with his head adorned by fluorescent rubber band braids in a garish mess, his face etched with terror...
No matter how you looked at it, it was bizarre!
Xu Yi felt a headache coming: "You girls go upstairs first, we'll question him."
Liu Hua had calmed down, walking into the kitchen and slamming a kitchen knife in front of the man: "What upstairs? I'd like to hear who wanted to harm my daughter too."
The cleaver looked extremely sharp, with an eerie cold gleam reflecting from the blade's edge.
The man gulped nervously and nodded more frantically.
Take those handkerchiefs away from me and let me speak!!! I'll tell you everything right now!!!
