"I must intervene in this matter," Zhu Bufan declared without hesitation. "Actually, it's very simple to stop her from crying, just watch me."

After finishing his words, Zhu Bufan stopped listening to Su Bingshan's nonsense, turned around, and picked up the incessantly crying Xiao Yan, saying with a smile, "No more crying Xiao Yan, uncle will take you downstairs to the store to buy some candy, let's go!"

"No, no, I want a toy car, the biggest kind, the ones that can carry people with a remote control." The girl stopped crying immediately, not only did she stop crying but also shamelessly set a very "grand" goal for Zhu Bufan.

"This..." Zhu Bufan said with some difficulty, "It seems like the store downstairs doesn't have that kind of car."

"There are some in the supermarket outside the school, right across from the school's diagonal gate. I go there every day with my mom, I'll take you," the girl pushed her luck, determined not to rest until she got that car today.

Zhu Bufan frowned and looked at Su Bingshan behind him.

Su Bingshan shrugged with a bit of schadenfreude, "You said you wanted to fulfill all her needs, go ahead. A toy car costs more than 500 yuan, try buying one every day and see if you can afford it."

"This..." Zhu Bufan was immediately flustered, no wonder Su Bingshan was so fierce and brutal with her own daughter, turns out the problem was with this girl, she was really too much.

"Go, go, go, let your dad buy it for you, I..."

"Whimper... you big bully, bullying me again." The girl's face changed as quickly as flipping a book, ridiculously fast.

Zhu Bufan wanted to say something else when Su Bingshan quickly stepped forward, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "Zhu Bufan, don't mention her father in front of Xiao Yan, it will make her sad."

Oh! At this moment, Zhu Bufan finally realized, no wonder. Every time I mention "dad," this girl burst into tears, it turns out she comes from a single-parent family, no wonder... Does that mean that Su Bingshan is widowed, a... beautiful widow. 'Widow' sounds too harsh, especially when used on such a beautiful woman like Su Bingshan.

The girl continued crying nonstop in Zhu Bufan's arms, and Zhu Bufan, feeling terribly sorry for her, firmly and decisively said, "Alright Xiao Yan, stop crying, I'll go and buy you the toy car now, let's go!"

Having said that, he walked towards the door carrying Xiao Yan.

"Zhu Bufan, stop right there, ignore this stubborn girl..." Su Bingshan hadn't finished her sentence when Zhu Bufan already twisted the door handle, rushing out of the room with Xiao Yan in his arms, Su Bingshan, worried, quickly followed behind, trying to catch up.

Eventually, Su Bingshan caught up with Zhu Bufan at the elevator entrance.

"Zhu Bufan, stop messing around, quickly put her down, you still have to go back to class later, you can't delay your time," said Su Bingshan, trying to take Xiao Yan from Zhu Bufan's arms.

"Don't, don't," Xiao Yan knew Su Bingshan was going to punish her and kept resisting. Anyway, she was going to get punished, she had to get that car no matter what.

Su Bingshan was about to teach Xiao Yan a lesson, but Zhu Bufan kept stopping her, and Xia Yan, as if she had found a savior, clung tightly to Zhu Bufan's chest and refused to leave, looking quite smug.

Just at this moment, the elevator door opened.

Inside the elevator stood two women, likely also lecturers or something, who were surprised to see Su Bingshan and her daughter entangled with an unfamiliar man. They were both slightly taken aback, thinking, isn't this "Ice Mountain" girl always unwilling to be close to men? What's going on today? Has she taken the wrong medication?

"Shan, who is this gentleman?" one of the older middle-aged women asked first.

"He is…"

Before Su Bingshan could finish her sentence, the younger woman also spoke up teasingly, "When did Shan meet her new boyfriend? Why hasn't she introduced him to us yet? Right, Xiao Yan?"

"Yes, Auntie Huihui, this is my mom's new boyfriend, his name is Zhu Bufan, and he's really nice to me. He's even going to buy me a big car!" Innocently speaking her mind, in Xiao Yan's view, Zhu Bufan is indeed Su Bingshan's friend, and Zhu Bufan is indeed a man, so a male friend, isn't that a boyfriend!

"Stop talking nonsense you little brat, or I'll tear your damn mouth!" Su Bingshan fiercely glared at Xiao Yan, and after forcing her to shut up, she then, with a blushing face, explained to Huihui, "Don't listen to her babbling, he is Zhu Bufan, just one of my students, and I'm just tutoring him in English."

"Is that so?" Huihui deliberately stretched her voice teasingly. The implication didn't need to be spelled out.

"Get lost, Huihui, if you think nonsense again I won't bother with you anymore! I…"

"Uncle, let's go quickly, let's go buy the car, don't mind them, let's go!" Xiao Yan tapped Zhu Bufan's shoulder, signaling him to hurry into the elevator.

Then let's go! After all, Zhu Bufan felt staying around was really awkward. If not leaving now, then when? First to buy the girl the toy car, then to help her mother with a hospital visit, and then I'm out of here.

Hopefully, by then I'll have earned some medical fees; otherwise, even the car money will be gone.

Zhu Bufan, carrying Xiao Yan, led the way, while Su Bingshan was initially walking alongside him. But after a while, realizing the campus was full of acquaintances, it became inconvenient and potentially scandalous to be seen with a "strange man". So, Su Bingshan deliberately and subtly kept a distance of about 10 meters from Zhu Bufan.

Not letting Zhu Bufan out of her sight, yet avoiding the awkwardness of walking together.

As Zhu Bufan exited the school gate carrying Xiao Yan, he was immediately spotted by several "surveillance personnel" stationed at the gate. Unfortunately, given the rushed timing, the major force had not yet arrived since Brother Kuan had just sent people to monitor; a few supervisors clearly were not a match for Zhu Bufan.

The lackey immediately passed the message back to headquarters to Brother Kuan. Brother Kuan quickly made another round of urgent deployments...

If Zhu Bufan had taken a moment to observe, he might have noticed the undercover surveillance personnel, but unfortunately, he was currently too distracted by Xiao Yan's fixation on the "car", no room left in his mind to consider anything else.

Though it was just across the street from the school gate, it took Zhu Bufan more than a kilometer to finally find this legendary toy store.

The toy car Xiao Yan mentioned was a sizable one, displayed right at the entrance of the toy store. Having latched on to a "big spender" today, she zeroed in on that super large car at the toy store-- this one, buy it, or else cry.

Oh boy, this car costs 588 yuan! Although Su Bingshan's salary as a lecturer is quite decent, it isn't enough to buy the girl a toy car every day.

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