Chapter 2: Chapter 2 If you want to live here, you must follow my rules
Those eyes, so clear as if they were mirrors, appeared like unblemished black sapphires, evoking an inexplicable warmth in the hearts of those who beheld them.
Li Fengchang frowned slightly, a bad premonition already vaguely rising in his heart.
Sure enough, the next second, the young girl lifted her foot and silently walked to stand before him.
"…Shenshen wants to stay with Fengchang?" Elder Li was startled, and everyone else was equally perplexed.
Among the grandchildren in the Li Family, Li Fengchang stood fourth in line, but he had always been reclusive, never getting along with his peers in the family. That's why, as early as at the age of thirteen, he had moved out to live on his own.
The children of the Li Family feared Li Fengchang because he always wore a cold expression, giving off the impression of a bad temper.
Yet Mi Shen had chosen him, and one can imagine the degree of surprise in everyone's hearts.
"Good, Shenshen will be left in Fengchang's care," Elder Li said in high spirits, slapping his hand down on the table and jolting everyone back to reality.
It was as if they had just awakened from a dream, with the tension on their faces replaced by the joy of having 'escaped a calamity'.
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After the family meeting ended, everyone scattered like birds and animals, and Li Fengchang took Little Mi Shen with him to his solitary residence at Shuiyue Restaurant.
The journey was silent.
After entering the house, Li Fengchang went straight to change his shoes and walked inside.
Standing at the doorway, Mi Shen looked at the shoe cabinet filled with men's shoes and slowly furrowed her delicate brows.
It was only after Li Fengchang reached the living room that he realized he had brought home a 'little tail' with him that evening. When he looked back, he saw the young girl pulling her suitcase, walking over to him barefoot.
Those tiny pale and slender feet were eye-catching, but more so was the wound on the back of her left foot. The long scar was not yet fully healed and looked startlingly raw. Her small stature reached about to his waist, and her frame was slender. The light green dress she was wearing hung loose, clearly too big for her.
Li Fengchang pinched the bridge of his nose, suddenly feeling a headache coming on.
He had always preferred quietness, never even hiring a maid for his solitary villa, only having a cleaning service from a domestic company come every now and then to avoid disturbance.
But now, suddenly there was another person in his home, and he was truly unaccustomed to it.
"Fengchang?" A soft, glutinous voice reached his ears.
Li Fengchang lowered his hand, looking seriously at the child who was half his height, and said solemnly, "If you want to live here, you must follow the rules I have set. Can you do that?"
Rules?
Mi Shen was the least fond of following rules!
But she nodded anyway because she felt that if she dared to refuse, she would certainly be unceremoniously sent back!
"First, no mischief allowed. Your allowed area is the entire ground floor," Li Fengchang stated while gesturing behind him to a room not far away. "That's your bedroom. You are not to step on the stairs, not one step, or it will be a violation!"
Little Mi Shen nodded, "Mhm."
"Second, you are not to do anything destructive, or it will also be considered a violation! Third, you must be obedient and absolutely follow my arrangements, or else I'll send you back!"
"Mhm."
Li Fengchang was a bit skeptical to see her agreeing so readily, "Can you really do all of that?"
"…I'll try my best." Little Mi Shen's face was serious.
Li Fengchang: "…"
He glanced down at her injured foot again, and in his deep dark pupils, a fleeting depth flashed, "What happened to your foot?"
Little Mi Shen looked down, "I hurt it when I jumped from the second-floor window."
She had been at the Li Family for merely a short three days, but those 'heroic deeds' had reached Li Fengchang's ears as well.