How much?!
At hearing that figure, her own mood soured completely, and she immediately pulled the flower pot out of his arms: “Stop, stop.”
Xu Buran came over and easily took the flower pot from them, glancing at him: “Fengqing, you should go rest. Miss Baoxiang and I can handle it.”
Miss Baoxiang and I~
Zhang Zhixu repeated the words mockingly in his mind and cast his gaze up toward the sky.
Chen Baoxiang, however, nodded in agreement: “Our strength together should be enough. Later we can go move the canopied bed.”
“Agreed.”
The two of them talked and walked away together again, leaving him standing there alone.
Zhang Zhixu: “…”
In all his years of living, he had never been so completely overlooked.
He had been about to turn on his heel and leave without a second thought, but the irritation in his chest refused to settle, so Zhang Zhixu stood rooted in place and kept watching the two of them.
He watched Xu Buran and Chen Baoxiang split to opposite sides of the canopied bed. He watched them agree on a count of three and lift together.
— And then he watched Chen Baoxiang, crouching beside the bed, press a hand to her shoulder and wince sharply for just a moment.
Zhang Zhixu froze. His gaze darkened, and he strode forward in long steps.
Chen Baoxiang had just mustered her strength and was about to lift the bed when her arm was suddenly pulled.
Thud!
The just-lifted bedframe dropped back to the floor with a loud crack.
Chen Baoxiang looked up in a daze, meeting Zhang Zhixu’s taut jaw directly.
“Move aside.” His voice was cold.
Xu Buran’s head appeared from the other side, caught between laughter and exasperation: “Fengqing, what are you doing? I can’t move a bed this large on my own.”
“You and I.” He gripped the bed frame. “Should be strength enough.”
The moment the words left his mouth, the bedframe on his side was hauled up with such force that Xu Buran nearly lost his footing on the other end.
Xu Buran quickly stabilized his stance and raised an eyebrow at the person across from him: “Haven’t seen you in a few years — your temper’s gotten quite a bit bigger.”
“You haven’t changed at all.” Zhang Zhixu’s face was blank. “Your martial arts still aren’t up to standard.”
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