"Do you think they banded better? And that they are ready for the new team members?" Lei asked worryingly, looking at the team's back. They safely sent them to their flight. Commercial flight because the jet was taken by Lei's father.
"Are you sure?" Lei asked, his eyes ticking around the airport, ready to tackle whoever came closer. His face became the biggest not-do though for others. His brows were furrowed, and he looked ready to kill.
"Don't ask me this ever again. Do I strike as a person that first acts and then thinks?" she lagged but the silence and Lei's gaze were telling what he thought.
"I hate you," she noted and proceeded to fake sulking. Lei hugged her from behind, leaving his small bag on the ground. How come he wasn't scared someone would steal was a mystery to her.
"Let's go. When we landed, I called for the driver to pick us up. Where do you want to go? My house?" Lili turned to face him. It didn't even occur to her. He was home now. He wouldn't have that much time for her.
"Can we stay at the Zhu long house?" she asked, unsure how he would react.
"Why do you want to?" Lei asked, probably confused, and Lili didn't wonder. It was hard to explain what she felt, but her psychologist said she should always feel comfortable telling her feelings to others.
"I think I will feel safer. You have been too long from work, so I'm sure you will camp in your office. And I don't want to be home alone. I will be distracted by the tea and always surrounded by people not having time to think and degrade myself." Lili said truthfully and hoped Lei would get it. And he actually did.
Lei nodded and hugged her out there in the public. No one cared about them. Well, one girl took out her phone and probably took a picture of them, but somehow Lili didn't care. The annoyance and fear she felt being surrounded by strangers were quickly swept away by Lei's warmth, smell, and the low vibrations of his voice in his chest.
"Honestly, I would do anything you want. Heck, if you told me to sell my company, I would do it and that shows something…" Lili chuckled and shook her head, stepping away from his hug.
"Don't, you will need more money. I got used to your pampering. So you have to take care of me and make money." She stuck her tongue out at him and ran a bit further from him.
Of course, she didn't mean it like that, but Lili had to admit she really got used to his pampering. Her parents never had problems with money, but they were spending it moderately. Not this ostentatiously like Lei and his family.
They met the driver and got into the car. But when Lei told him the destination, Lili was confused.
"Why do you mean by lung ge mo tin daai lau?" Lili looked at Lei confused before they were using a different name for it, daai bun ying. Before it was Dragon's headquarters, now he said skyscraper?
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. Chao had an interesting idea when he was still in Uni. He wanted to build a high-rise building to accommodate all the players. And for other purposes. Their own arena downstairs, that could be used for social events. Something like a multipurpose room. Offices and bars on the highest floors. Well. Throughout the years of building it, it changed a bit and became a lot higher so it became a skyscraper. They finally finished it and not too long ago, we finally moved in."
Lili was too stunned to speak. And the silence became even worse when their car pulled into underground parking underneath a huge pricey looking building. Lei helped her out of the car and left all the things for the diver to take care of them.
"I would show you the foyer but this elevator goes only directly to our floors," he said and pressed his finger on a button and then the second button with a number on it, a lock unlocked on the screen and the elevator went up.
"I'm going home. I won't even be able to get outside of this damn building…" Lili muttered and Lei chuckled.
"Yeah, later we will go to the security office and get your fingerprint in. I wasn't able to get yours before." Lili nodded and rolled her eyes at him.
They arrived when the door to the elevator opened with a ding and Lili and Lei emerged from inside. She was stunned by the look of the room. The training room was even more high-tech and amazing than before. Dark, with LED lights shining on the walls and floor. Metal decor. New computers, their own new chairs, with the Zhu long logo on them, everything carefully fitting together.
"What are you doing here?!" Chao exclaimed immediately. It made Lili chuckle and Lei frown.
"I own part of this company, you idiot. And I even have room here too. What do you think we are doing here?" Lei shook his head, stunned at the stupidity of his own brother. But it only made Lili laugh. She loved their sibling relationship.
"This... I still have no idea how can you be so stupid in real life. I think if your fans knew you were not the 'strategic genius' they call you, you would lose them…" Lili walked to the tables and looked around. Since it was her first time being here.
"Like it?" Yitian asked, hoping she would like it. Especially when this entire floor was his own design. Lili nodded, and they all looked relieved. Which, to be honest, was weird. She wasn't much older than them, so why did they want her recognition?
"You did awesome work. I even saw a talk on a forum about this building. Everyone calls you extravagant, asking why do you need such a big building. But I know now. You plan to expand. So you need a skyscraper." She understood in the car after learning about the building, she did a bit of digging about public opinion.
"I have no idea why such a fine woman like you stays with the old muzzle like my brother. I will introduce someone else to you, you are too good for Lei." The said person glared at Chao, raising his fist, threatening, but Chao just laughed. As Lili did when she went back by Lei's side.
"I know. But he is my muzzle," she giggled, hugging Lei's waist.
"So, someone inform me, what is going on with the tournament? I will help you play," she said and sat down by a vacant computer. That was another thing she saw when browsing online.
"You will what?!" all four of them exclaimed, totally stunned by that sentence. It wasn't like Lili to play with them publicly. She usually helped with everything else, just not appearing in public.
"I feel like helping you," she said and chuckled. The feeling of being needed was hard to explain, yet so strong in her mind. But then she frowned.
"Will you tell me what you want to do? So I won't make myself an idiot?" Chao nodded and carefully explained the rules they already posted on Weibo. Lili was attentively listening to him and once he finished, her eyes actually lighted up with excitement.
"You thought of it really well. It will be fun for everyone." She shared her thoughts, and Huobai nodded.
"Sis, what are you doing here?" Luhan just ran down the stairs and his eyes lit up once he saw Lili. That little puppy came to like her so much in the past weeks. He was seventeen, only nine years younger than her, taller than her. But he came, and she patted his head and if this was an animation movie, you could see a tail wagging at his back.
Meanwhile, Aijie contained his polite distance, still afraid of her. Even though Lili never gave him any more reason to fear her than the one at the airport. But that obviously was enough.
The rest of Zhu long was slowly coming into the room too. Greeting her and being glad she was back. Shanshan was the most surprising one as he hugged her and showed her a sad smile. It almost robbed her of her breath.
"I guess it's time for hatching new dragonlings?" She laughed and sat before one of the computers that were vacant. The sudden urge of happiness and adrenaline was something that made her feel alive again. Something she missed before.