Li Weihao returned to the team to report, only to find out his younger brother had run away.
He said if there was to be a punishment, he would take it along with his brother; it was his fault for not teaching his brother well.
His younger brother had been with the team for four years, and he had spent too little time with him. Li Weihao continued reading.
Zeng Jingrong waved his hand at him: "This matter needs your mother to handle. If she doesn't personally punish Ranran, it will be hard to convince others."
"This will be noted for now. Your mother is currently staying in the Kushan Mountains..."
Li Weihao hadn't expected his third uncle to be entangled with foreign espers.
Espers, meticulously trained by their families and envied and praised by outsiders, developed arrogant personalities.
Their behavior often crossed boundaries.
As the esper families grew larger, they needed to absorb or cultivate more powerful espers to maintain their transcendent status.
They also required vast resources, forming a cycle.
Within this cycle, a conflict emerged between the esper families and the nation.
The nation, in its apprehension, was bound to weaken the esper families.
This was the primary reason for the downfall of the Han family in the past.
Foreign espers acted even more outrageously, and among them, there was much mutual suppression.
Furthermore, their choice of partners had to be approved by the family before they could marry and have children.
This was because the family desired offspring with supernatural abilities.
It would be difficult to reach a conclusion between his third uncle and this speed-type esper.
After returning to his dorm to wash up, Li Weihao found that Xiao Xiaohei hadn't returned yet, so he went out to look for him.
Unable to find Xiao Xiaohei in the cafeteria, he then went to the administrative building.
Just as he was about to enter the administrative building, he heard Xiao Xiaohei's low whimpers coming from behind the building. He turned and walked towards the back.
Behind the building, Li Wanting was playing chase with Ji Qing and Ji Xiang.
Twenty days had passed since they arrived, and these two children were becoming more mischievous. However, when she was working, they would obediently follow behind her, "helping" in their own way.
During breaks, the two children would chase and play with Xiao Xiaohei, even pulling her along.
Then Xiao Xiaohei and the two children would form one team, and she would be the other.
At this moment, she pretended to be chased in a panic, looking back to make sure the two children didn't fall.
Seeing that the two children and Xiao Xiaohei were about to catch up, Li Wanting hurried her pace.
"Bang!"
A man emerged from the corner and collided with her. She was knocked backward repeatedly.
The man reached out to pull her, and the momentum caused her to fall into his embrace.
"I'm sorry, thank you."
Li Wanting apologized and thanked him, then retreated from his embrace.
"Ao wu ao wu."
Xiao Xiaohei rushed forward, its wolf-like paws landing on her shoulders. The impact made her lose her balance, and she stumbled into the man's arms.
The man remained motionless, standing steady.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."
Li Wanting apologized to the man again, pushed away the two wolf paws on her shoulders, and pulled out of his embrace.
Unexpectedly, Ji Qing and Ji Xiang, who had caught up, both leaped and hugged her legs.
"Bang!"
She was once again thrown into the man's embrace.
Hiding in the man's arms, she didn't dare to look up: "I'm sorry, I..."
"Uncle."
"Uncle."
Ji Qing and Ji Xiang, holding onto Aunt Li's legs, looked up and called out to the man.
Li Weihao, having seen Xiao Xiaohei rushing towards the woman from behind, hadn't dared to move. He waited for the woman to be bumped back into his arms by Xiao Xiaohei.
With him blocking to cushion the impact, the woman shouldn't have fallen too hard. Who knew Xiao Xiaohei's pounce was much lighter than when it pounced on the three of them.
Just as he was about to scold Xiao Xiaohei, he noticed the two children running behind it.
His surprise peaked when the two children hugged the woman's legs: "Ji Qing? Ji Xiang? What are you two doing here?"
Why hadn't his eldest uncle mentioned that Ji Xiang and Ji Qing had also been sent in?
How long had they been here? Who was looking after them?
With that thought, he lowered his head to look at the woman in his arms.
Upon hearing Ji Qing and Ji Xiang call him "Uncle," Li Wanting suddenly looked up: "You are..."
"Bang!"
As one looked down and the other looked up, their foreheads collided with their chins.
Li Wanting felt as if her forehead had been hit by a stone, and the pain brought tears to her eyes.
"Are you alright?"
Seeing the tears in the woman's eyes, Li Weihao couldn't help but ask.
"I'm fine." Li Wanting blinked, and the tears in her eyes disappeared.
In those clear, large eyes, Li Weihao saw his own reflection, very clearly.
Seeing that their Uncle wasn't paying attention to them, Ji Qing and Ji Xiang jiggled the legs they were holding.
Li Wanting came back to her senses, turned her head, and looked down to tell the two hangers-on on her legs to let go.
Ji Qing and Ji Xiang refused to budge, continuing to hold her legs and call out:
"Uncle."
"Uncle."
Even though he was a head taller than the woman in his arms, he couldn't see the children behind her.
He could only tilt his head left and right to respond to the two children:
"Hey! Hey!"
As he leaned towards the woman's side, his face accidentally brushed against hers.
Very smooth.
These three words suddenly appeared in Li Weihao's mind, leaving him momentarily stunned.
Li Wanting was also dazed by the contact. She abruptly turned her head, and her lips accidentally swept across the man's turned side profile.
Very soft.
These three words reappeared in Li Weihao's mind.
Then he frowned deeply. When had he become so reckless?
He and his second brother had been pursued by female classmates since middle school due to their good looks.
Even when disguised for missions, they couldn't completely alter their appearance to look ordinary. During missions, they were often pestered by women.
Of course, some physical contact was unavoidable with women who threw themselves at them, and he had always found it repulsive.
What was going on with him now?
Li Weihao's frown made Li Wanting feel indignant. It wasn't as if she had done it intentionally.
Falling into this man's arms three times was not her intention.
The two touches were also not intentional.
She was not one of those women who fainted over handsome men and couldn't move.
She was also not Jiang Lin, who always talked about chasing men.
She slightly bent her body backward, pulled the two children apart one by one, and then dared to move her legs.
Then, she squatted down and gently chided the two little children with innocent faces: "Ji Qing, Ji Xiang, if you're naughty, you'll get spanked."
Ji Qing and Ji Xiang immediately ran off, shouting to Xiao Xiaohei as they went: "Run, we're going to get spanked."
Xiao Xiaohei glanced at Li Weihao and Li Wanting, then followed the two children with its hooves.
Li Wanting stood up abruptly, said "I'm sorry" to Li Weihao, and then ran to chase the two children.
Li Weihao stood there for a moment, then walked towards the direction of the three of them and the wolf.
Seeing Aunt Li chasing them, Ji Qing and Ji Xiang's short legs moved even faster.
"Hehehe, Aunt Li is chasing us."
"Hehehe, run faster."
The clear and cheerful laughter made Li Wanting's mood lift as well.
She had been misunderstood before, hadn't she been misunderstood enough?
She didn't care about this little bit.
So, she shouted at the backs of the two children: "I'm going to catch you!"
"Ah!"
"Ah!"
The two children screamed and sped up, accidentally falling onto the grass.
Li Wanting took two big strides to reach the children and anxiously asked: "Did you get hurt?"
Ji Xiang waved at Xiao Xiaohei, who was watching them from the side: "Go!"
Xiao Xiaohei immediately pounced on Li Wanting.
Ji Qing and Ji Xiang took the opportunity to climb onto Li Wanting's back:
"Aunt Li, you lost."
Li Wanting lay flat: "You're cheating again."
Ji Qing and Ji Xiang shouted that they weren't cheating and asked if Aunt Li admitted defeat.
Not admitting defeat was cheating; they were on the same team as Xiao Xiaohei.
Li Wanting had no choice but to admit defeat. These two children always tricked her with this tactic, and she always fell for it.
Only then did Ji Qing and Ji Xiang slide off Aunt Li's back and say to Li Weihao, who had caught up: "Uncle, we won."
Li Wanting suddenly flipped over and looked at the man standing two meters away in astonishment.
The upward angle of her gaze made the man blend with the blue sky and white clouds, making him appear even more handsome.
Li Weihao felt that the woman's surprised expression removed the distant, sharp aura from her slender, angular face, creating a vivid picture against the light green grass.
"Uncle?"
"Uncle?"
The calls from Ji Qing and Ji Xiang broke the sudden silence.
Li Wanting leaped up like a carp: "You, Li Weihao?"
"I am." Li Weihao nodded. "Are you looking after Ji Qing and Ji Xiang?"
"Yes." Li Wanting glanced at Xiao Xiaohei, who was squatting nearby. "Are you here to... take Xiao Xiaohei away?"
Hearing her awkward words, Li Weihao frowned: "Are you stuttering?"
"No." Li Wanting shook her head. "When I get nervous, I become like this."
Li Weihao thought about her nimble movement just now and asked again: "How did you get in?"
Li Wanting didn't want to reveal her most embarrassing moments: "Can we not talk about it?"
Li Weihao nodded and then asked Ji Qing and Ji Xiang how long they had been here.
When it came to the children, Li Wanting became more talkative and spoke more fluently.
Li Weihao could feel her genuine affection for Ji Qing and Ji Xiang, especially when they were all playing together—the woman, the two children, and the wolf—the air around them seemed to be filled with joy.
Li Weihao then asked about Xiao Xiaohei.
Learning that Xiao Xiaohei had sought out this woman on its own, Li Weihao seriously examined her.
He could only describe her with two words: thin and tall.
Thinner than those models on diets, and taller than ordinary women.
As for her appearance, perhaps due to her thinness, her eyes were large and round. Now that the playful mood had ended and the surprised expression had faded, her face had returned to its unapproachable, indifferent look.