The nights at the turn of March and April are still a bit cold.
Especially on the balcony of a high-rise apartment where the night wind blows.
Leaning against the guardrail, Song Qianqiu rubbed his arms.
"Haixing confesses, Harumi rejects, and then become friends again...that's it?"
"Yeah."
"I really didn't expect...that child actually took this step."
Song Qianqiu sighed for a while and then asked: "What is the opportunity?"
"I don't know."
"Really?"
Naruse didn't look at her, he alternated his hands and rubbed his arms, "I really don't know."
"Forget it, I'm very happy that Chunhai is willing to tell mom about this."
Naruse said nothing.
He knew very well that if she didn't confess part of the truth to her and asked Haixing instead, she would get far more than what he told her now.
After a moment of silence, Song Qianqiu turned around and looked at the night sky, sighing softly.
"Starfish..."
Naruse looked at her and then looked inside. On the sofa, Naoko was also looking here.
The two looked at each other, and she smiled at him.
"Go in." Naruse said, "If you get sick at this time, you will be in trouble."
"Okay~"
Song Qianqiu smiled again, put her hands on his shoulders, and pushed him in.
Returning to the living room, sitting down next to Naoko, Naruse continued to watch TV.
"At night, it's still a little cold outside..."
"It's much warmer than the Northeast."
"That's true."
Song Qianqiu leaned on the sofa, observing the two children calmly, while thinking about what he just heard in his mind.
She wanted to calm down, but there were constant clicking sounds from the other side.
She turned her head and said, "Why are you eating Haixing's snacks again? Didn't you have enough at night?"
"No, just being idle is also idle...Do you want to eat, Miss Song?"
"I can't eat it."
When Haixing came out from the bath, she saw Matsu Chiaki and Miss Sato sharing her snacks together. The two bags of potato chips had already reached the bottom.
Naoko then went to take a shower and waited for her to come out, and finally it was Naruse's turn.
This is what he wants too - he wants to hang out for a while, but he doesn't want others to wait.
After cleaning his body, Naruse sat in the bathtub and exhaled a long breath.
"Is the bathtub here so big..."
Leaning back, he quickly remembered that he had made the same emotion on the first night he moved in two years ago.
With his body pressed against the bathtub, Naruse slowly closed his eyes.
Gulu——
He sank into the water.
"Ha——"
Before ten o'clock in the evening, the two adults started yawning one after another.
"No way...I'm going to sleep."
After falling on Matsu Chiaki's shoulders for an unknown number of times, Miss Sato finally decided to go back to her room to sleep, and when she got up, there were still crumbs of snacks stuck to the corners of her mouth.
"Let's go wash up first." Song Qianqiu's condition was only slightly better than hers. "I have to get up early to go to the set tomorrow. It's time for me to go to bed. Let's play with Naoko and Haixing for a while."
"No, I'm going to sleep too."
Haixing was about to nod, but when he saw what Shangzi said, he had to change his mind.
"I fell asleep too..."
Song Qianqiu smiled at the two of them.
"You can't fall asleep so early, right? Don't worry, it'll be hard to wake up if I fall asleep. It won't disturb me."
So Shangzi didn't rush to bed, and Haixing also stayed outside.
"Good night."
"Good night~"
The two adults washed up one after another and then returned to their rooms to rest.
Shangzi and Haixing looked at each other.
"The work is really hard."
"Well..."
After watching TV for a while, Shangzi suddenly stood up: "I'm going to Chunhai's room to have a look."
After taking a shower, Naruse stayed in the living room for a while and then went back to his room.
Shangzi opened the door. He sat at the desk and glanced at her, "Are you going to sleep?"
"No, go to bed later. What is Harumi doing?"
"Nothing to do." He shook the mouse in his hand and looked at the computer screen, "Just playing around and passing the time."
Shangzi walked into the room and stood behind him.
"Is this an online game?"
"Yeah."
"'The Barrier of the Heart: The Sword of Dark Silence'... Is this Harumi's character... Hey, the name is missing?"
"..."
Hiding the character's name, Naruse coughed and said after a while: "I played a game a long time ago."
Shangzi smiled.
"What a cool name."
"...Stop talking."
She stood back and watched for a while.
"What is Harumi doing now?"
"I haven't been online for a long time, and I don't know what to do. I just browsed around."
"Wow, is this a dragon?"
"Yeah."
"Looks very powerful."
"This is just an NPC... I also have a flying dragon mount."
Naruse clicked on the keyboard, and the character began to read, and then a black flying dragon appeared out of thin air and lifted him into the air.
"Look..."
Shangzi lay behind him, looking at the screen, and the voice rang in his ears.
"Is this Chunhai's dragon? It's so powerful..."
After taking a shower, she only wore pajamas, and Naruse sat motionless.
"...Hmm."
"Can it fly?"
He hit the space.
"Wow...Is this dragon only found in Harumi?"
"That's not true."
"How did it come about?"
"Uh... krypton gold."
"..."
Suddenly there was a sense of oppression behind me: "How much does it cost?"
"... Let's see how high this dragon can fly."
After a while, Haixing also came to Naruse's room.
"Are you playing games?"
Shangzi was lying behind him, looking very attentive. She walked over and saw that he was controlling the character to fly around.
"Online games?"
"Yeah."
The starfish looked at it for a while longer, but he was just flying around.
"Isn't this boring?"
Of course it's boring.
Provided that his mind is still on the game.
Naruse didn't say anything. He tapped the keyboard. The flying dragon mount disappeared out of thin air and the character fell from the sky.
He casually killed a few wild monsters nearby. He turned his head and said, "Is my mother asleep?"
"Yes." Shangzi stood up straight, his hands still on his shoulders.
He looked at Starfish, "Aren't you still asleep?"
She looked at Shangzi.
"I sleep with Shangzi."
Shangzi smiled and said, "It's already past ten o'clock, and it's almost time to go to bed. Aren't you going to go out to play tomorrow?"
"Then go to sleep." Naruse also turned off the computer, "I went to sleep too."
"Good night."
"Good night."
The two left his room and walked quietly into Song Qianqiu's room.
Only the bedside lamp was still on, and she was lying in the middle of the bed, already asleep.
"Where do you want Haixing to sleep?" Shangzi asked softly.
"Let's go outside."
"Then I'll sleep inside."
The bed here is also very big, even if it’s a little crowded, it’s enough to sleep three people.
The two of them went to bed separately and got into bed.
"Shangzi, please call me when you wake up tomorrow."
"Okay."
Starfish took off his glasses and put them on the bedside to prepare for bed, but his eyes were attracted by the photo frame facing inside.
Thinking of Naruse's hiding actions during the day, she picked it up without hesitation.
"..."
It's just a photo of the high school entrance ceremony.
What did you think it was...
What is there to hide?
Haixing thought, holding the photo frame in his hand, but didn't put it back for a long time.
Why is this expression...
She looked at his face and touched it with her fingertips.
"Starfish, what's wrong?"
Shangzi on the other side looked over.
"...Ah, it's okay." Haixing put the photo frame back on the bedside, "I turned off the light."