Chapter 35: Senior Martial Brother

At 10:30 p. m., Xie Wantang arrived at the airport half an hour early.

At this hour, the people waiting to pick up passengers really aren't just old or young.

Among the crowd watching, Xie Wantang saw a familiar face.

It turned out to be Lu Rourou.

Lu Rourou didn't see her; her expression was excited, fully focused, her eyes fixed tightly on the exit.

As for who Lu Rourou came to pick up at this hour, Xie Wantang had no curiosity at all.

She stood at the back of the pick‑up crowd, her lower back leaning against the rail, waiting while buried in her phone.

She first opened a surveillance app on her phone, her slender fingers tapping several times, watching the treasures in her plantation and some insects of great medicinal value.

Seeing them grow healthily and happily, Xie Wantang felt pleased.

After exiting the app, Lu Yanshen initiated a video call; Xie Wantang didn't answer and hung up immediately.

After hanging up, she replied with a line: "Out here, not convenient to answer; if there's something, say it."

"Where? Should I go pick you up?"

"No need, I said I might have something tonight and might not come back."

When she received Senior Martial Brother's call in the morning, Xie Wantang guessed that his return to the country this time was probably to carry out some special mission.

His domestic missions are highly classified, yet he contacted her and even asked her to pick him up, so she guessed he might need her help.

So, in the afternoon, while she had Xu Yanqiu taking a SPA in the room, she took the chance to catch up on sleep.

She wasn't afraid of staying up late.

After that, Lu Yanshen didn't send any more messages.

Immediately after, her phone rang with no number displayed; she didn't answer, just looked up and saw no one.

Xie Wantang then turned around to answer, "Senior Martial Brother—"

"Wantang, where are you? I'll be out right away, but I just saw the hostage we rescued abroad last time; I need you to help me."

"Oh, okay."

Xie Wantang understood instantly, hung up, and squeezed her way into the crowd.

Soon, Shen Ye emerged from inside, pushing a suitcase.

After Lu Rourou was kidnapped by barbarians in Milan, it being her first encounter with such a thing, she was terrified and imagined many terrible outcomes.

She didn't know how long she'd been held, but when Shen Ye's team burst in, she remembered his deep, handsome face.

He became the dawn in her darkness.

And thus she fell in love.

Before she was taken back to the country, she resorted to any means to ask his colleague for Shen Ye's phone number.

She never imagined that Shen Ye's number changes constantly; different missions mean different numbers.

Moreover, when his phone called, the recipient's phone couldn't display his number at all.

As for how Lu Rourou knew Shen Ye's flight tonight to Sijiucheng, she used a trick to deceive Shen Ye's most honest, simple comrade.

The comrade only realized something was off before Shen Ye boarded, then told Shen Ye about it.

So Shen Ye called Xie Wantang to pick him up, intending for her to provide cover.

When Shen Ye stepped out, Lu Rourou recognized him even though he wore sunglasses and a hat; she identified him by intuition.

"Team Shen—" Lu Rourou, excited, tiptoed and waved at him.

Honestly, Xie Wantang didn't recognize Shen Ye's disguise at first; if Lu Rourou hadn't shouted out, Xie Wantang might have missed him face‑to‑face.

Xie Wantang is good at distinguishing voices, but her memory of facial features isn't strong.

Except for Lu Yanshen.

She thought, if Lu Yanshen turned to ash in this life, she'd probably still recognize him.

Shen Ye pretended not to hear, his gaze fixed on Xie Wantang; she walked over, arms wide, warmly hugging him, "Senior Martial Brother, welcome back, I missed you so much."

Lu Rourou: "……"

Xie Wantang?

Lu Rourou's attention was shifted away by Xie Wantang's sudden appearance and her request to hug Shen Ye, which Shen Ye had not refused.

Xie Wantang, quick‑eyed and swift‑handed, grabbed Shen Ye and ran at that moment.

"Let's go, Senior Martial Brother."

When Lu Rourou came to her senses, inside and outside the crowd, there was no sign of Shen Ye or Xie Wantang.

For a second, Lu Rourou wondered if she was seeing things.

However, she thought of a plan; Miss Lu Rourou is the type to act immediately, so she called her older brother for help, but the phone rang for a long time and Lu Yanze never answered.

Then, Lu Rourou called her second brother, Lu Yanshen.

"Second brother, where are you? Still with Dream‑Dream sister?"

"No, what's up?"

"So you're going back?"

"Something?" Lu Yanshen's eyebrows tightened slightly.

"Check if Xie… second sister‑in‑law is at home." Lu Rourou pursed her lips, about to call Xie Wantang's name in front of her brother, but after recalling his previous reactions, she corrected the address in time.

"She has something tonight, might not come back; what does she want with your second sister‑in‑law?"

"Second brother, I tell you, I just saw second sister‑in‑law at the airport, she was kissing and hugging a man." Lu Rourou deliberately embellished to tell Lu Yanshen about Xie Wantang's scandal.

"Rourou, are you seeing things? Your second sister‑in‑law isn't that kind of person."

"Hmph, how could she not be? I saw it with my own eyes, second brother, don't you believe me? I'm your sister." Lu Rourou was extremely upset.

Thinking that Xie Wantang was so familiar with the Shen team she liked, and hugging him publicly, Lu Rourou felt she could almost die of anger at this vile woman.

Team Leader Shen is hers, Xie Wantang already has her second older brother, and is still a married woman; surprisingly, in public, she's so improper.

It's too hateful.

"How late it is, what are you doing at the airport?" Lu Yanshen finally understood.

"I originally wanted to pick up a friend, but I just got a call from the friend saying they didn't board the flight." Lu Rourou casually made up an excuse to fool Lu Yanshen.

In her eyes, her second older brother is far less clever than her eldest older brother.

From childhood, she and her second older brother have been instilled by the family elders to always listen to the eldest older brother; the eldest older brother is the mainstay of the three siblings.

So, even though her second older brother dotes on her just as much as the eldest older brother, and even more obedient to her than the eldest older brother, Lu Rourou still looks down on her second older brother, Lu Yanshen, in her heart.

"Do you have a driver? Want your second older brother to come pick you up?"

"No need, second older brother, I have a driver; go find Xie Wantang quickly." Lu Rourou didn't want her second older brother to waste time here; she only wanted to immediately contact Xie Wantang, find her and get things clear.

Because, when she called Xie Wantang, that bitch wouldn't answer her calls.

"Okay."

Before Lu Yanshen hung up, Lu Rourou hurriedly asked again: "Second older brother, why don't I come find you two?"

"You'd better hurry home, don't let Mom and Dad worry about you."

"Alright." Lu Rourou pouted.

After hanging up, Lu Yanshen dialed Xie Wantang's number.

The call went through, but no one answered.