Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

Huo Wen’an didn’t continue to pursue it. He shook his head and told Xu Xingguang, ”She’s not. Huo Xin could never be that smart.” She was just a little fool, carefree every day, thinking eggs were tasty even when called a fool.

”However, she does look a bit like Huo Xin.” Xu Xingguang understood why Huo Wen’an was so agitated.

Due to this little incident, neither of them felt like eating barbecue anymore.

They returned to the barbecue stall, settled the bill, and then took the food back to the hotel. When Xu Xingguang left the hotel, Song Chi and Zheng Lie woke up, and the barbecue ultimately ended up in their mouths.

Xu Xingguang couldn’t sleep, so she went for a weight-bearing run outdoors. By the time she came back, Huo Wen’an had already left with Zheng Lie.

There was a note on the bedside table that read: [Don’t worry, hope to see you again.]

Xu Xingguang took the note to the desk, picked up her phone, and found that Xiahou Huai Gui had called her half an hour ago, but she hadn’t received it as her phone was left in the room.

While calling Xiahou Huai Gui back, she folded the note into a paper airplane.

Just as the phone was about to stop ringing, Xiahou Huai Gui answered.

He was slightly out of breath, and Xu Xingguang heard the sound of horses neighing on his end, indicating that he was horseback riding.

”Xingguang, just got up?” Xiahou Huai Gui no longer addressed her as Miss Xu, directly calling her by her name.

Xu Xingguang twitched her ear and corrected Xiahou Huai Gui, ”Please call me Miss Xu.”

”No way.” Xiahou Huai Gui joked with a smile, ”You won’t let me like you, and you won’t let me call you by your name, that’s too overbearing.”

Xu Xingguang clicked her tongue and didn’t insist on having Xiahou Huai Gui change how he addressed her. She asked, ”What urgent matter does the young master have to call me so early in the morning?”

Xiahou Huai Gui chuckled lowly and then said, ”There’s something I want to ask your opinion on.”

”What is it?”

Xiahou Huai Gui then said, ”Do you know the Huo Family on Divine Concealment Island?”

Xu Xingguang picked up the paper airplane in her hand and threw it toward the bedroom. As she watched it glide past the ceiling, she replied, ”I know a bit.”

Xiahou Huai Gui suddenly said, ”Back when Xia Country was in turmoil, with internal civil wars and external invasions, the entire country was nearly destroyed. It was the Huo Family who intervened in time, persuading the talented and capable from all over Xia Country to form an alliance army to first quell the internal chaos and then resist external enemies, thus saving the people from calamity.”

”The Huo Family never engaged in politics, but the predecessor to the Alliance Government, the alliance army, was established by the great Pilot of the Huo Family. Mentioning the Huo Family in the Xia Country Alliance Government, everyone holds them in respect, admiration, and affection.”

Saying so much, Xiahou Huai Gui just wanted to convey to Xu Xingguang how unique and great the Huo Family’s status in Xia Country was.

Xu Xingguang asked Xiahou Huai Gui, ”So, with all this buildup, what exactly do you want to tell me?”

Xiahou Huai Gui was silent for a moment before saying in a guilty tone, ”Xingguang, the old Pilot of the Huo Family has called my mother to find you. But my mother hasn’t responded yet; she asked me to check with you first.”

”It puts General Luo in a difficult position.” Xu Xingguang got up, opened the study’s curtains, looked at the south end of the Sea, and suddenly changed the topic, asking Xiahou Huai Gui, ”When a woman visits her boyfriend’s home for the first time, what kind of gifts should she prepare?”

”Ah?” Xiahou Huai Gui suddenly thought of Xu Xingguang’s notorious boyfriend.

Damn it.

Is that bastard really that good? To have Xingguang care so much.

”Are you planning to visit now? Isn’t it a bit early?” Xiahou Huai Gui still hoped Xu Xingguang would break up with that guy. He was waiting for his chance to step in.

But to what end?

He didn’t even have the chance to be a backup plan.

Xu Xingguang continued to provoke Xiahou Huai Gui, ”It’s not early. I proposed to him long ago. If I don’t visit his family soon, he’ll overthink.”

Xiahou Huai Gui sourly said, ”You’re a girl; he should be the one pampering you. Xingguang, a girl can’t be too good to a guy. Getting something too easily won’t make them cherish it.”

Xu Xingguang could see through Xiahou Huai Gui’s little thoughts and sneered, ”I just want to ask you, if it were you, would you cherish it or not?”

Xiahou Huai Gui was speechless immediately.

If any girl tried to win his favor, Xiahou Huai Gui wouldn’t even bother. But if that person was Xu Xingguang, he’d certainly cherish her twice as much.

”Never mind, you’re younger than me anyway. What do you know about these formalities? It’s pointless to ask you.” Xu Xingguang planned to seek advice from Director Zhen when they met later.