Shocking! A master of metaphysics has been mind-reading!

Lu Qiu couldn't quite explain the feeling. It was like going out with a particularly irreverent friend, and then a primary school student suddenly ran out, saluted your mischievous friend, and said "Hello, teacher." Then you looked at your friend who was always joking around and never serious, and gave him a few words of encouragement in an unusually serious manner.

How should I put it? It's like watching an acquaintance pretend to be serious.

If this acquaintance has a strange nickname that belongs to that circle and sounds odd, then he will find it even harder to get over this hurdle.

Thinking of this, Lu Qiu suppressed a smile, but fearing that someone would get angry, he covered his ears with his hand as if he were stealing a bell. Everyone has their own hurdles, and Lu Qiu felt that his point of laughter was just these three words.

Xia Wange glared at Lu Qiu, "If you halve the number of things you ask for, I'll agree to one and a half!"

Lu Qiu glanced at her, adjusted his posture, and said, "Let's finish half of this first. The way back is quite long, and I want to hear a story."

"A story?" Xia Wange looked at him. "What story?"

Lu Qiu smiled, "It allows me to temporarily forget Xia Yunzi's story."

Xia Wange secretly rolled her eyes. "Are you sure it's worth a lot of money to get me to agree to do something?"

"The thing I have plenty of is money," Lu Qiu said calmly.

Xia Wange choked for a moment, "Okay, fine, I'll tell you."

"Once upon a time, there was a Little Red Riding Hood. She was going to visit her grandmother, but when she arrived at her grandmother's house, she found that the big bad wolf had eaten her, and then Little Red Riding Hood was also eaten by the big bad wolf."

Lu Qiu waited a moment, then asked, "That's it?"

"That's all." Xia Wange shrugged.

"Tell me a few more."

"Once upon a time, there was a Sleeping Beauty. When she was sixteen, she pricked her hand on a spinning wheel and fell asleep. She slept until she died."

Lu Qiu listened with great interest, "It's too short."

Assistant Xu: "..."

"Once upon a time, there was a Snow White. The Queen looked in the mirror and asked who was the fairest of them all. The magic mirror said that the fairest of them all was Snow White. So the Queen grabbed her and made her sunbathe, turning her into a dark-skinned princess."

"No follow-up?" Lu Qiu raised an eyebrow. "Master Xia... you shouldn't be so perfunctory about even half of this matter, should you?"

Xia Wange looked at him and said, "I think you're getting revenge for me pushing you too fast just now."

Lu Qiu looked at her without saying a word.

How could he describe the speed at which Xia Wange pushed him as she left?

When he judged that turning at that speed was unsafe, he pressed the brake, and the other party used the brake to accelerate and drift past the corner.

That was the first time he had realized that anything with wheels could drift.

"Tell me something long, original, and both expected and unexpected," Lu Qiu said, looking at her. "Like just now, I knew you could push the wheelchair fast, but I still underestimated how low you would go with me."

Xia Wange recalled how she had pushed Lu Qiu while running away earlier, and knowing she was in the wrong, she took a deep breath and slowly said, "Then the Queen asked the magic mirror who the most beautiful woman in the world was. The magic mirror said she was on the eastern continent. So the Queen traveled across the sea to the eastern continent. On her way to find the most beautiful woman, she was robbed by bandits and fell off a cliff. She was stopped by a piece of wood and didn't die, but she also lost her memory."

"Later, she was found by a family. Because she was blocked by a piece of wood, the family named her Mulan. Flowers grew on the wood, so she was called Hua Mulan. To repay her kindness, Hua Mulan joined the army in place of her benefactor. When she went to the battlefield, she was killed by the enemy army all the way to the sea. So she jumped into the sea. The sea god sensed her and said that she was the daughter of the sea. He also said that the magic mirror was her magic weapon. So she regained her fish tail and became a mermaid, swimming freely in the sea. She became a mermaid."

"The mermaid always remembered her life as a queen on land, so she exchanged her fish tail with a witch. The witch gave her legs, but there was a side effect: her hair would grow very fast with every step she took, and she couldn't cut it off. So she found a tall tower and let her hair hang down from the tower."

"Finally, a dwarf tribe came to the tower. He called his six brothers to help her braid her hair so that she could come down from the tower. Later, the seven dwarfs discovered that her hair would stop growing if it came into contact with the leaf juice, so they dyed her hair green."

"Her hair did indeed stop growing, but it was still very heavy. One day, while she was picking mushrooms, she encountered a frog that mistook for a lotus leaf and jumped onto it. She happened to turn over and kiss the frog, and the frog spat out venom that turned her into an ugly duckling."

"She always liked pretty girls but was very insecure. She only wanted to play with pretty swans. But when she grew up, she realized that she was a swan herself. Swans migrate south for the winter. She was flying for the first time and had no experience. She flew around the world and ended up in the north. She was caught as soon as she landed and turned into a stewed goose in an iron pot."

After waiting a while, Lu Qiu looked at Xia Wange and asked, "And then?"

Xia Wange: "..."

"Then I decided to find a place right away to eat braised goose in an iron pot."

Lu Qiu nodded and looked at Assistant Xu, "Now you should understand why I couldn't help but laugh when I heard those three words, right?"

Assistant Xu: "..."

I understand now, I understand it perfectly. So this is the kind of Master Xia you are. You don't even need to think before spouting nonsense. He probably hadn't spent enough time with Master Xia before, and thought Master Xia was a very meticulous person. No, that's not right, this story is actually quite meticulous too.

"It's almost time to get off work, let's make a reservation at a restaurant." Lu Qiu glanced at the time.

Assistant Xu quickly took out his phone. "Mr. Lu, what would you like to eat today?"

"Didn't she say it? Stewed goose in an iron pot, I want some too." Lu Qiu turned to Xia Wange, "Shall we eat the Queen, Mulan, Mermaid, Rapunzel, and Ugly Duckling together?"

Unexpectedly, the other party listened so carefully to her fabricated story. Xia Wange hesitated for a moment, then, based on her intuition, said, "I won't eat."

Lu Qiu sighed and softened her voice slightly, "Alright, I was just kidding. Let's go eat together, it'll be more lively with more people."

Xia Wange followed the steps and reluctantly said, "Alright, let's eat."

"Eating people is illegal, Master Xia really has no taboos." Lu Qiu immediately changed the subject, "No wonder he is the person in the circle whose title can travel around the world with a goose."

Xia Wange: "..."

Good grief, they're actually waiting here to shut her up.

This guy must be getting revenge on her for pushing him to drift!

Assistant Xu: "..."

Help! Can you two be serious for once?

Speechless and unable to punish Lu Qiu with a talisman, Xia Wange could only channel her grief and anger into her appetite, ordering whatever was expensive, hoping to pry a layer of skin off Lu Qiu's wallet.

She ate until she was stuffed, and didn't feel hungry at work the next day. After arriving at work, Xia Wange found a place in Lu Qiu's office to play on her phone. Lu Qiu and Assistant Xu were already used to it and even provided her with drinks and snacks.

What was supposed to be a peaceful day turned into an unexpected turn of events when Du Yun entered the office—

"Master Xia, I just received news that something happened. The people who went to solve the problem of the bridge closure also inexplicably jumped into the river when they went to check the site last night. They were rescued but never woke up."