Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 146 - 143 Old Man Tiger

"What does ’Old Cai’ mean?" Qi Yi looked at Yan Yan curiously.

"Uh, ’Old Cai’ is just someone who is considered old and past their prime." Yan Yan explained to the curious baby.

"Someone called you ’Old Cai’? Were their eyes even in the right place on their face?" Qi Yi was perplexed.

How could those four words, old and past one’s prime, be associated with his youthful and unbeatable girlfriend?

"It was just a fifteen or sixteen-year-old kid. To her, I probably do seem older." Although Yan Yan was somewhat annoyed at the time, she didn’t really mind being called ’Old Cai,’ considering it wasn’t a significant person’s opinion of her.

If she minded everything, it would only exhaust herself, and she wouldn’t be the person who grew up targeted but still maintained an optimistic personality.

"A fifteen or sixteen-year-old can’t see straight?" Qi Yi now seemed even more upset than when Yan Yan had heard it.

"You yourself call me an ’old driver,’ oh my, you almost changed the topic from the Pacific to the Atlantic." Yan Yan found Qi Yi’s frustrated expression kind of cute.

"Oi ya, you caught me off guard, seems like my girlfriend isn’t easy to fool now." Qi Yi chuckled as he settled into the passenger seat.

"Are you telling me you came all the way to Melbourne just to fool me?" Yan Yan looked at Qi Yi with mock seriousness.

"Of course, I plan to use every trick in the book to lure you to New York." Qi Yi hadn’t given up on getting Yan Yan to take a vacation to the United States.

"Vacation, huh! I do have plenty, but you won’t fool me. If you really want to persuade someone, persuade my dad and mom―if they say, ’Don’t stay in Melbourne with us, go to the United States and find Qi Yi,’ I’ll join you in a minute." Yan Yan expressed her eagerness to go.

"You think I wouldn’t do it?" Qi Yi sensed a lot of threatening undertones in Yan Yan’s recent comment.

"Ha! How could I think that? I believe you would do it, but I doubt you could succeed. Unless I’m not my parents’ biological child, your chances of success are slim to none." Yan Yan gave a brief explanation.

"How did it even come to whether you’re their biological child?" Qi Yi jumped into the car, grabbing Yan Yan’s hand so that she couldn’t drive.

"Of course, my parents would never willingly send their own daughter into danger." Yan Yan grew up in a democratic but very traditional family.

Yan Dabang and Lu Bingran, although giving Yan Yan a lot of freedom and treating her like a friend, were not liberal at all.

"If there’s going to be a tiger in our family in the future, it definitely has to be you. You’re already a tiger, what talk is there of a tiger’s den?" Qi Yi asked Yan Yan seriously.

"Oh? Really? Are you sure about that? Haven’t you bathed in a few months?" Yan Yan questioned with a puzzled face.

"A few months without bathing? What do you mean? ...Oh, you mean I’ve become thick-skinned?" Qi Yi took a moment then laughed as he understood.

"I mentioned you’re thick-skinned, how does that compare to calling me a ’tigress’? Not only are you thick-skinned, but you’re cheeky too." Yan Yan made a face at Qi Yi.

"You could give me a hundred courage, and I would still never dare to call you the word ’tigress.’ Every day I keep wishing to throw myself into the tiger’s den." Qi Yi put on a "pitiful" face.

"So, the real situation now is that you throw yourself into the tiger’s den, but this den isn’t a ’tigress’s’?

Then the conclusion is, I am a male tiger, right?" Yan Yan lifted up her left hand, which Qi Yi was holding, and pulled his right hand close to her mouth, "Do you believe a male tiger is about to bite you now?"

"I don’t believe it." Qi Yi responded and then covered the "male tiger’s" mouth.

Yan Yan completely lost the opportunity to actively use her "operating tools."

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"Are you going to let me drive properly or not?" Yan Yan asked Qi Yi, combining both bashfulness and complaint, unaware of her own expression.

"No way, I feel like just staying at the airport. Why not, bite me～" Qi Yi mischievously responded, appearing a bit adorable, unlike the image of a math Quant Yan Yan had in her mind.

"I had a big breakfast today, I can’t bite anymore. If you like the airport so much, you can take your luggage and stay there. Just let me know when vou want to leave, and I’ll come to see you off. Do you need me to open the trunk for you?" Yan Yan fixed her expression and asked Qi Yi seriously.

"I just arrived, and you’re sending me back? I need to find the Women’s Federation." Qi Yi quickly came up with his response strategy.

"Why would you go to the Women’s Federation?" Yan Yan was curious.

"Well, whether it’s domestic violence, the Women’s Federation can be contacted. A man being abused by a woman at home also needs to turn to the Women’s Federation." Qi Yi replied with a look that asked, "You didn’t know?"

"I’ve abused you? Haha, looks like you really are itching for a beating. Maybe you get uncomfortable if I don’t hit you?" Yan Yan was amused by Qi Yi’s expression.

"Uh-huh, yes, that’s right!" Qi Yi almost blurted out for her to come and bite him.

"Sorry, I really haven’t learned how to hit people, so you’ll just have to keep being uncomfortable." Yan Yan didn’t like hitting, and biting was definitely just a joke.

Yan Yan didn’t like girls who resort to violence over minor disagreements, so she would never let herself become one.

Although some guys really do have a masochistic streak, feeling uncomfortable if their girlfriends don’t hit them occasionally, Yan Yan was sure that Qi Yi wasn’t one of them.

"With me picking you up, will you make it back in time for the march?" Qi Yi finally asked a "normal" question.

"It will be fine, it doesn’t start until ten." Yan Yan got up early today mainly to pick up Qi Yi.

"That’s good, I can witness my girlfriend attending the grand graduation march," Qi Yi said with a little excitement.

"Are you really going? If we head back to the City now and then go the walking street, good spots will have already been taken by friends and family. Even if you’re just accompanying me to the parade, you might not be able to spot me in the crowd. You could really just go to the hotel and rest first." Yan Yan knew the plane ride must have been tiring.

"Ah, sleep can be done any time, but missing your girlfriend’s graduation ceremony is something you’d deeply regret later," Qi Yi responded, mimicking Yan Yan’s style of speaking.

"Where have I heard that before? Did I say that sometime?" Yan Yan felt that Qi Yi had probably been mimicking her again.