Chapter 16: Unexpected Encounter

  On the park bench

  Chu Ying'er propped up her chin, her whole body curled up on the long chair, her slender eyebrows furrowed, looking very troubled. "Why is everyone here so fierce? Eh!! Just had a fight and now I'm even hungrier."

  Hungry.

  So hungry

  I'm so hungry.

  The bird is gone, she's lost her way again, what to do now? Lan knows that she's running around everywhere and will definitely get angry again.

  Chu Ying'er bit her finger, scrunched up her face, hungry... so hungry, she hadn't eaten all day, she was almost starving to death!

  Hungry... so hungry.

  As she sat there, she fell asleep with her arms wrapped around herself on the long bench, looking pitiful and forlorn, like a little dog abandoned by its owner.

  In the darkness, someone had been quietly paying attention to her every move until she fell asleep on the long chair before revealing himself.

  "Hey! Wake up, don't sleep anymore, you'll catch a cold like this."

  Hu Ke squatted in front of the bench, gently patting Chu Ying's face with his hand. He had noticed her since she appeared in the small park.

  His home is not far from here, and this is the only way he can take to go back home. He drove his car back home as usual after work, but suddenly felt a strong spiritual response, opened the window of the car and looked out, surprisingly saw the little girl who jumped off the building in the hospital that day.

  He gazed intently at her every move, never expecting that she merely strolled around the park, found a bench to whisper a few words and fell asleep.

  Looking at her defenseless face, Hu Qiang couldn't help but shake his head. This little girl was really not ordinary, sleeping alone in the park without any fear of perverts lurking around. Didn't she have any sense of self-protection?

  "Ugh! So noisy, stop it already! I'm so sleepy!" Chu Ying'er shook off the hands slapping her face, her small mouth pouting in discontent, seemingly extremely annoyed at being disturbed from her sleep, looking utterly adorable.

  "Hey kiddo, you can't sleep anymore, wake up quickly. Where's your home? I'll send you back." A faint smile appeared on Hu Jun's usually stern face.

  "Huh? Going home?"

  As soon as she heard the word "home", Chu Ying'er immediately came to her senses, slowly waking up from her dream. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and opened her heavy eyelids, and the scene in front of her gradually became clear. The blurry face of a certain person in front of her also started to become clearer.

  "Huh? Who are you?" It wasn't Lan after all. Chu Ying'er blinked her eyes, with a faint sense of disappointment in her gaze, only to find it was someone she had never seen before, making her think it was Lan coming to pick her up and getting all excited for nothing.

  Gurgling sound.

  The stomach was very uncomfortable and protested loudly, growling and grumbling to express its extreme dissatisfaction with the owner's behavior of starving it.

  Just as Hu Qi was thinking of answering her question, he heard her stomach growling uncomfortably. He smiled and stretched out his hand in a friendly manner, "Hello, my name is Hu Yifei. I'm passing by here and saw you sleeping. It's going to get windy at night and there's nothing to shelter you. I was worried that you, being a young girl, would catch a cold sleeping here. Are you hungry? How about I treat you to something to eat?"

  Chu Ying'er saw the other party's friendly gesture of extending their hand to her, and she also learned from them, extending her own hand to lightly grasp the other person's hand. Because Qin Ye Lan had told her before that when someone extends their hand to you, you should also extend your hand to them, shaking hands is the most basic courtesy between people.

  "Eh, you're also good, that... are you really going to treat me to something to eat?" She's so hungry now, her stomach is protesting, she really wants to eat something.

  Hu Ke looked at Chu Ying's expression and seemed somewhat surprised, he couldn't pry into her inner thoughts.

  Hu Qitian was born with a special ability, which not only allowed him to see through people's souls but also to know others' thoughts and even control people's minds. As long as he made physical contact with someone, he could sense what the other person wanted to do.

  However, this ability is very mentally taxing and cannot be used frequently, or it will cause a person to age prematurely. He usually doesn't use it to pry into other people's affairs, but this time he was purely curious about Chu Ying'er, so he wanted to understand her more deeply.

  But he never thought that he couldn't see through her.

  The surprise in Hu's eyes flashed by quickly, and he soon withdrew his hand, jokingly saying, "Of course, as long as you're not afraid that I'm a bad guy."

  Maybe it's because he was curious about her and his mind was playing tricks on him, but he felt that being with her made people feel very relaxed and happy, rarely making jokes.

  "Are you a bad person?" Chu Ying'er asked innocently.

  Hu Ke didn't expect her to have such a cute and innocent side, smiled and said, "Of course I'm not a bad person." Which bad person would say they're a bad person?

  According to the information, Chu Ying'er has changed a lot since her childhood sweetheart's death. She became indifferent and distant to people, rejecting everything from afar. It seems completely different from what Xiao Yu told him, was the information wrong?

  "You said you're not a bad person, I believe you." In fact, Chu Ying'er was hugging her stomach with hunger, and didn't care if someone was good or bad, just wanting to fill her empty stomach first.

  "Let's go!" Hu Qiao looked at the nameplate watch on his hand, "At this time, it seems that I can only invite you to eat McDonald's. Next time, I'll invite you to a big meal. There is a 24-hour McDonald's not far ahead."

  "Okay!" Chu Ying'er replied readily, but in fact she didn't understand a word he said. She really wanted to ask what McDonald's was, but never mind, as long as she could eat her fill, she wasn't picky.