To avoid hurting Xia Che, Hui Jin slowly dispersed the gathered magic.
The anger in her heart vanished completely, replaced by panic.
She tried to pull her hand back, but the young man’s strength was great, and he held her hand tightly.
Warmth passed through their closely touching skin into the girl’s palm, and she felt a sense of reassurance.
“Sorry I’m late. I’ll explain everything properly to you later.”
Xia Che said in a low voice as he took a black baseball cap from his pocket and placed it on Hui Jin’s head.
He pressed the brim down, and the shadow completely covered the girl’s small face.
“I’ll handle it. Trust me, okay?”
He gently squeezed the girl’s palm.
It wasn’t hard, but the reassurance in the young man’s words came through clearly.
Hui Jin leaned closer to Xia Che and said in a tiny voice:
“…Okay.”
On the other side, the fat woman whose cast wind-up had been interrupted was red-faced like a lychee shell.
Her hand hovered in midair, about to fall, but when she met the young man’s cold gaze, she could only awkwardly withdraw it.
Yet her mouth remained arrogant:
“Who are you to this girl? You say you saw it, so that makes it true? Do you have proof?”
“I’m her friend.”
Xia Che glanced at Hui Jin.
The girl shrank against his side like a startled little bird.
“As for proof…”
He shook his head.
“There is none.”
Hearing this, the fat woman immediately gained confidence and pointed at Xia Che’s nose as she shouted:
“No proof, so what are you yelling about? How do you prove my son hit this girl?”
“…No proof, so what are you yelling about? How do you prove she hit your son?”
Xia Che returned the fat woman’s words to her unchanged.
His tone was indifferent, as if he did not take the person before him seriously at all.
The young man’s attitude angered the fat woman badly, but she just could not find anything to refute.
Her fat arms trembled.
After holding it in for a long time without squeezing out a single fart, she simply began to make an unreasonable scene:
“Then I don’t care! This girl has to give me an explanation today! Otherwise I’ll stick to you two! None of us will have a good time!”
Seeing the fat woman start throwing a tantrum, the onlookers immediately began to chatter:
“She knows she’s in the wrong, so she just stops being reasonable?”
“I’m on the little girl’s side here, okay… By the way, don’t you think that guy and that girl look good together?”
“Lucky fool.”
The fat woman could naturally see the crowd’s discussion, so her face reddened another level, from a lychee shell to a cooked lobster shell.
“What are you all yelling about? What are you yelling about?”
She waved her arms at the crowd, her fat trembling, and together with the red dress that bore a weight life should not have to bear, she looked somewhat like a crab baring its claws.
As soon as she came near, the crowd avoided her as if they had seen a plague god.
Seeing that no one paid her any attention, she turned again and shuffled over to Xia Che in her slippers with a pat-pat sound, her expression looking as if she wanted to eat him alive:
“I’m sticking with you two today, so don’t even think about running!”
Xia Che said calmly:
“Fine. I won’t run.”
After saying that, he took out his Hero Agent ID from his chest pocket and showed it in front of the fat woman.
He did not need the fat woman to know what his job was.
What he needed was the Task Force Bureau emblem on the ID case.
Although the Task Force Bureau was everywhere, ordinary people absolutely did not want to get involved with it.
Who wanted five fully armed agents checking their water meter in the middle of the night?
“Why don’t you come sit with us at the Task Force Bureau?” Xia Che raised an eyebrow and said indifferently.
“Huh? You… I… This…”
Seeing the familiar emblem on the ID, the fat woman froze for a moment.
Her fat face instantly turned pale, and she stammered so badly she could not even speak.
The next second, the fat woman made a complete one-hundred-eighty-degree turn.
She rubbed her hands, her face piled with smiles:
“Oh my! Look at this mess… Just now, this… I was only joking with you, wasn’t I?”
To this, Xia Che replied with only one word:
“Get lost.”
“Okay!”
The fat woman turned and ran.
The abandoned boy stood frozen in place.
Watching his mother’s figure gradually recede, he cried and chased after her:
“Mom! Mom! Wait for me!”
Xia Che calmly looked around, and not a single person dared meet his gaze:
“Is there something worth looking at?”
As soon as he said this, the crowd dispersed at once.
After all, no one wanted to be invited for tea by the Task Force Bureau.
They all lowered their heads one by one and even spoke much more quietly, afraid that this “Task Force Bureau agent” would remember their faces.
The farce was finally over.
Hui Jin gazed at the young man’s thin profile and could not help becoming dazed.
As if just looking at his face made the gazes of those around them no longer matter…
Just then, Xia Che looked down at her, and the girl hurriedly avoided his gaze.
Her hand hidden behind her back fiercely pinched her own palm.
What am I thinking…!
Is this really the influence of this body? Tch…
Five minutes later, in front of an ice cream truck, Xia Che handed Hui Jin the vanilla ice cream he had gotten:
“Here, it’s on me. Consider it compensation for the one you dropped at noon.”
Hui Jin took it and licked a small bite.
The sweetness spread across her tongue, and the gray kitten narrowed her eyes slightly, making Xia Che unable to resist wanting to scratch her chin.
“Exposing your identity in public is against the rules. You should be very clear about that, Mr. Agent?”
If only the way she spoke were as cute as her face.
“Of course. I’ve read the employee handbook thoroughly.”
Xia Che led Hui Jin to a bench by the road and sat down.
“Aren’t you afraid someone will record a video and post it online? If that happened, your job would be done for.”
Hui Jin said while seriously eating her ice cream.
Just how much does she like sweet things…
Thinking this, Xia Che looked at the girl and said:
“I’m afraid. Of course I’m afraid, but you’re more important.”
Hui Jin’s movement paused for a moment.
She turned her face away, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible:
“…What kind of silly thing are you saying?”
Enjoying the girl’s cute reaction, Xia Che said with a smile:
“Because I’m your agent. Protecting a hero’s safety is an agent’s duty. I believe Director Jiang will understand me.”
“Hmph…”
Hui Jin gave a light snort and turned her face back.
Sunlight fell across her face.
“That sounds nice, but just now Mr. Agent left me all alone and went off to enjoy himself, didn’t he?”
Xia Che quickly raised his hands in surrender and said sincerely:
“I apologize for that. I originally meant to buy you an ice cream, but when I turned around, you were gone. There are too many people here, and your height is–ow!”
His foot was fiercely stepped on by the girl.
“Sorry… hiss! Anyway, I spent a long time and still couldn’t find you. It was that lady’s loud voice that drew me over. I’m truly very sorry.”
Xia Che lowered his head:
“To let the hero I’m responsible for fall into such a situation is a failure on my part as your agent.”
He looked very self-reproachful:
“I had thought there was an SHS offline grand prix at the amusement park today, and I wanted to bring you here to relax. But now it seems this wasn’t a very good choice…”
“I’m sorry, Hui Jin.”
Hui Jin looked at the young man, tilted her head, leaned closer, and raised her hand.
–And then she fiercely knocked a knuckle on his head!
“Ah–!!!”
This blow straight to his face left Xia Che dizzy and disoriented.
In his daze, he even saw his parents waving to him…
So this is the level of attack Xiao Chi had to endure!
Xia Che rubbed his aching head and looked at the girl beside him, but what entered his sight was her smiling lips:
“All right, now we’re even. I forgive you.”
“Ah… just like that…”
Xia Che was a little stunned.
You had to know, if Xiao Chi had a conflict with him, he would have to rack his brains to coax her.
But even after something like this, Hui Jin seemed not to take it to heart at all?
The girl’s body was bathed in sunlight.
He noticed that in her dark red eyes, traces of unconcealed pitch-black remained, and he could not help frowning.
“Hm? Why the gloomy face?”
Hui Jin put her hand by the corner of her mouth and made a “V” sign:
“We agreed you’d take me out to have fun, so how can you go and get depressed yourself? Come on, smile.”
Her eyes were cold, but the corners of her mouth were lifted in a brilliant smile.
Mm, world-class cuteness.
Xia Che smiled and nodded:
“Yeah, sorry.”
“Don’t say sorry. I’m tired of hearing it.”
Hui Jin crossed her legs like a lord, put one hand on the back of the bench, and glanced at Xia Che:
“Besides, bringing a girl you haven’t known long to an amusement park during the holidays, Mr. Xia Che, don’t tell me you have no experience dating girls?”
She was somewhat worried about whether Xia Che could win over Xiao Chi.
“You make it sound like you’re very experienced in love…”
Xia Che shrugged helplessly.
“But it’s true, I don’t. When I go out normally, it’s basically always with Xiao Chi. Neither of us cares where we go.”
After saying that, he felt the girl’s mood seemed to suddenly improve quite a bit.