"That's good, you scared me to death just now."
Lai Bao let out a sigh of relief and then looked at him with a smiling face, "I saved your life, how are you going to thank me?"
It took a while before Mu Bai snapped back to reality, and his little face cleared of its gloom. He stared at her clothes soaked by the water, and suddenly his eyes widened. Pointing to her chest, with his mouth agape, he blurted out, "Wen Laibao, you've started growing boobs?"
"Mu Xiaobai, shut your mouth, no looking."
Lai Bao was shocked and slapped away Mu Bai's hand, covering her chest and puffing her cheeks as she glared at him. Her delicate little face turned as red as a ripe tomato, "You... you shameless!"
Lai Bao was in fifth grade, and her body had started to develop; not too quickly, but not too slowly either. Yet, it was just a little bit that couldn't be seen under her clothes.
But today, she was wearing a thin chiffon dress, which clung to her skin when wet, so Mu Bai had spotted it.
"Really grown?"
Mu Bai, puzzled, pulled her hand away and looked at her chest, then pinched it. "So it really has grown. I thought I was seeing things. The feel isn't all that great."
Such potential at a young age!
It could be predicted that in ten years, City C would have one more playboy.
"What are you doing!"
Lai Bao cried out in anger and embarrassment. The little steamed bun she cared for so much pinched painfully, she pushed Mu Bai forcefully to the ground, and yelled at him, "Mu Xiaobai, you're a bully, a hooligan."
After yelling, she ran away crying.
Mu Bai blinked innocently, feeling very wronged. He was really just curious!!!
Around the corner, Lai Bao, in her panic, ran into someone and nearly fell. Fortunately, that person steadied her in time, otherwise she would have really hurt her little bum.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, thank you, I'm sorry…"
Lai Bao was incoherent, continuously bowing in apology as tears fell like rain.
"Wen Laibao?"
It was a boy's voice, cracking with the onset of puberty, tinged with uncertainty.
"Here!"
Lai Bao instinctively straightened up and looked up at the owner of the foreign voice. Her first impression: he was really tall, even taller than their class teacher.
The boy was about fifteen or sixteen, with very handsome features, even more attractive than her Brother Chen, Gu Chen. He had a cool fragrance about him, pleasant to the smell. Sunlight fell on him, as if he was adorned with a layer of gold, making him look almost divine.
He looked somewhat familiar!
"Have you seen Mu Bai?"
The boy asked somewhat anxiously after getting confirmation.
Only then did Lai Bao remember. This was Mu Bai's older brother, Mu Qian. She had seen him once during Mu Bai's birthday.
Thinking of Mu Bai, Lai Bao's little face fell again. She pointed in a direction, angrily told the boy, "You better get out of here quickly, or I'll tell the teacher you climbed over the wall and snuck into our school. Hey, you... don't run off; I'm not finished with you... so rude."
Watching the boy hurry away, Lai Bao pouted with cheeks puffed, her tears momentarily forgotten.
Then she thought, why would Mu Qian come to their school in the middle of the day? It couldn't be that he knew Mu Bai had fallen into the water and came specially to see him, could it? On second thought, that seemed impossible, unless he could foresee the future or had superpowers. How could he have possibly arrived in such a short time?
Lai Bao shook her head, feeling she was overthinking it.
At the end of the school day, as soon as Lai Bao saw Mu Bai, she turned and ran. Mu Bai, very proudly shouting behind her, "Wen Laibao, you saved my life, I can grant you three wishes. Think about it and let me know."
At that time, Wen Laibao hadn't thought of asking Mu Bai for anything in return. Later, when the Wen Family fell into hardship, she remembered those three wishes, but by then Mu Bai had already gone abroad to study.