Chapter 116: One Call Boss, Boss for Life!
Chi Qian was just about to take the watch when Chi Yanliu stopped her, “Don’t casually accept other people’s watches.”
“Huh? Why not?” Chi Qian was confused. Isn’t pawning things for money pretty normal?
Chi Yanliu glanced at the girl, his eyes half-narrowed, “Just don’t.”
The girl felt bewildered by the faintly guarded look in his eyes. In the end, she wrote an IOU and handed it to Chi Qian.
Since minors needed a guardian to ride the Eagle Coaster, Chi Qian temporarily acted as the girl’s guardian.
She brought her along for the ride.
The girl clearly had never done anything so thrilling before. She was so nervous that she instinctively clutched Chi Qian’s arm and buried her face in her shoulder.
Up close like this, her eyelashes were long and curled, her complexion fair with a healthy glow.
She looked delicate and soft, like a little bird seeking shelter.
Chi Qian opened her mouth and said, “Safety service requires an extra fee. Two hundred a ride—remember to add it to the IOU later.”
The girl: “…”
She silently nodded.
When the last ride on the Eagle Coaster ended, the golden castle suddenly began to tremble, and even the ground shook along with it.
“What’s going on? An earthquake?”
“It looks like the castle… the castle is sinking!” Luo Zichuan, with sharp eyes, noticed it first.
Chi Qian, sitting on the giant eagle’s back, flew upward to look from above, “Guys! The castle is about to sink underground. Move away from it!”
If another quicksand whirlpool appeared and dragged people down, who knew if they could make it out alive?
Chi Yanliu, Chi Fengxiao, and the others quickly carried the treasure chests to a safe distance, watching as the golden castle kept sinking.
[Noooo!! I still wanted to visit the Golden Castle!!!]
[So much treasure, all sinking underground. My heart’s bleeding!]
[Luckily, Sister Qian already hauled off several chests of jewels—didn’t lose out!]
[What about the giant eagle? It should stay, right? If it’s survived this long, it must have some special reason!]
But clearly, that wasn’t the case.
The giant eagle set Chi Qian down, then, at the very moment the golden castle sank beneath the ground, it followed the whirlpool and flew down after it.
It silently glanced at Chi Qian once, then disappeared into the whirlpool along with the golden castle.
The quake stopped, and the desert returned to its original state.
Not long after, even those large treasure chests turned into sand and scattered away in the wind.
Chi Fengxiao screamed, “Baby Qian, our treasure chests are gone!”
“Ah! My chest is gone too!”
“How could this happen?”
Even Chi Fengxiao himself felt heartbroken to death—so how much worse must it be for little money-grubber Chi Qian?
But when he turned his head, Chi Qian was standing there calmly with her hands in her pockets, completely unaffected.
Surprised, Chi Fengxiao walked up to her, “Baby Qian, you love money so much, yet you’re calmer than all of us. Looks like you’ve really grown up these days.”
“Not bad, not bad.” He patted her shoulder approvingly. Just as he was about to praise her more, he saw her body go limp and slump sideways.
Then, just like the treasure chests, she turned into sand and scattered away.
Chi Fengxiao’s face went pale, “Baby Qian!! Don’t scare your uncle!!!”
Chi Yanliu’s lips twitched. So it wasn’t calmness—she was just so shocked that while her body hadn’t reacted yet, her soul had already gone wandering.
[The biggest victim of this treasure hunt: Sister Qian]
[She really is devastated, but it’s my first time seeing such a textbook out-of-body experience]
[Hahahahaha why do I suddenly feel better about my own life?]
[This castle is cursed! Everything taken out turns to sand—it really feels like a curse.]
Chi Qian felt it must be aimed at her.
Everyone else only had one chest, but she, with the help of her little followers, had taken five!
Which meant her loss was the greatest.
If that’s not targeted, what is?!
Her mouth opened, and a faintly transparent soul seemed to drift out.
Chi Fengxiao felt both distressed and amused. Risking having his legs broken by the old man later, he picked her up on his back.
In her current state, she couldn’t even walk a few steps before collapsing.
Shen Jiashu tried to comfort her, “Princess, don’t be sad. Gold will come again. It’s not the end.”
“I’m not sad. Why would I be sad? Even though I lost five chests of treasure, I gained three houses. I’m overjoyed!”
Chi Fengxiao turned his head, “When did you buy those?”
Chi Qian: “My left atrium, my right atrium, and my shattered defenses.”
“…It’s just a few chests. Don’t be upset. There’ll be more in the future,” Chi Fengxiao reassured her.
“In that case, it must be my fault—makes me seem petty, less magnanimous than my other cousins.”
“…”
“Look at you, so hot and cold toward me. What, is talking to me beneath you? I knew it—if others didn’t ignore you, you’d never come talk to me on your own.”
The others struggled to hold back their laughter.
Chi Fengxiao was speechless.
He had said one line, and she fired back ten.
Sad or not, nothing could stop her chatterbox mouth.
Chi Yanliu found it amusing to watch—partly because it was rare to see Chi Fengxiao shut down like this, and partly because of Chi Qian’s biting little rants.
He had thought Chi Fengxiao, like himself, only cared for her out of obligation to their father’s orders.
But now, it didn’t seem so.
Chi Qian went on, “Today’s sun was blazing hot, I’m half-paralyzed, and no one even bought me an ice cream. Such a cold, heartless world—I’ll avenge this grudge right away.”
[Help, someone knock Sister Qian out. Once she starts going crazy, no one can hold her back.]
[Before anyone knocks her out, Movie Emperor Chi will probably kill that person first.]
[Sister Qian: Why take away my money? You might as well let me chop garlic!]
Chi Fengxiao also felt that if they didn’t soothe this crazed money-grubber, things could turn dangerous.
So he decided to divert the trouble elsewhere, “Baby Qian, don’t forget—if we hand this bunch of guys over, we’ll get a bounty reward.”
Chi Qian fixed her gaze on her little followers, “Oh right, they’re all money!”
The little followers: !!!
Boss, you don’t really mean to sell us off for cash, do you?!
We don’t believe it!!
Just then, the sound of helicopter blades came from above.
A dozen helicopters landed nearby, and squads of uniformed, well-trained military personnel disembarked.
Chi Qian happily turned in all those “walking bounties.”
Then, she herself was arrested.
Chi Qian: ?
Chi Yanliu walked over from behind, “Major Raymond, you’ve made a mistake. This young lady isn’t with the terrorists.”
Seeing him, Major Raymond’s eyes flickered with unease, and he immediately straightened up.
“Mr. Chi… but this young miss was wearing the same hood as them.”
“Yes. She was just using it for sun protection.”
Major Raymond: …Huh?
What kind of hobby is that? Totally reckless.
He was about to have his men release Chi Qian, when the captured terrorists suddenly screamed out, their voices hoarse:
“Boss, don’t worry! We’ll never betray you!!”
“Boss, run! Don’t worry about us! As long as you live, you can come break us out of prison later!!”
“One call you Boss, Boss for life! Even if they pry my mouth open with steel bars, I’ll never tell them you’re our Boss!!”
Chi Qian slowly put out a question mark.
Wait a sec… you guys aren’t serious, are you??
