Episode 1: Will the moment of reunion make you cry? Part 8
After a while, around half-past eight in the evening, dinner was finally ready.
“Are all dishes this complicated?”
Jiuyuan said this with a complex expression as he watched me prepare and plate each exquisite dish.
Actually, after washing the vegetables, she didn’t help at all, spending the entire time watching me perform.
“Ah, sorry. I suddenly felt inspired and wanted to make it a bit better.”
Using simple ingredients, I created cuisine comparable to a three-star restaurant. My cooking skills have reached their peak.
After all, I’ve lived for so long, and there was nothing else to do, so I honed everything I could to the extreme.
If I could see the game panel now, I’m sure all my life skills would have reached max proficiency, leveled up to MAX.
It’s nothing amazing; anyone who lives long enough can reach this level. Practice makes perfect, and time accumulates experience.
Even without natural talent in this area, as long as you persevere, you can reach the level of ‘geniuses’ by simply spending more time.
In the end, some people are disappointed with ‘reality’ simply because they ‘cannot achieve their goals quickly.’ Of course, there are also cases where they ‘cannot achieve them at all’… Whether you pour your passion into it is entirely up to you.
Suddenly, I’m spouting some grand principles. As expected, as one gets older, one wants to share the experience of elders.
However, in terms of teaching, this attempt was clearly a failure. It seems I still have a long way to go.
“Let’s leave it at this for now. Next time, if there’s an opportunity, I’ll teach you some simpler dishes.
Well, it’s about time to wake Keling and the others up… It’s this late, waking them up feels a bit too devilish. It would be better to let them continue sleeping…
But I guess Mom and Dad will be back around nine or ten. If I don’t leave soon, it’ll be trouble.
So, in the end, I can only leave without saying goodbye…
“Then, Jiuyuan, if Xinran and Keling wake up later, have dinner together. If they don’t wake up, these dishes… it would be a waste to throw them away, so give them to Mom and Dad.”
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“Are you leaving?”
“I wanted to wait for them to wake up before leaving, but it seems I won’t make it in time…”
“Brother…”
“Keling?”
Oh, she’s awake after all.
Keling leaned against the living room doorway, rubbing her eyes as she looked at me.
I was just thinking I wouldn’t make it in time, but she woke up after all.
Right, their bodies should be quite uncomfortable now, and they should be very weak.
“Wait, don’t push yourself. It’s too dangerous to go downstairs like this.”
“Hehe…”
She giggled foolishly.
What can I say? Getting absorbed in this isn’t good. You need to know when to stop.
No… Let’s leave it at that for today. I can lecture her later.
I patted Keling’s head and said.
“You’re not mobile right now, let me help you.”
“Mmm~ Brother is the best.”
“By the way, if you’re coming out, at least put on some clothes. You’ll catch a cold.”
“I’m wearing clothes.”
As soon as she gets her way, she starts pushing her luck. This little devil.
I’ve noticed that once women have someone they like, they automatically max out their seduction skills. They become more shameless and unscrupulous, completely discarding any sense of shame.
In simple terms, they “blue-pill” themselves.
But responding now would be falling for it. So, I decisively used the tactic of changing the subject and asked instead.
“Where’s Xinran?”
“Sister Xinran is also awake. She woke up even earlier than me, but she said she couldn’t see Brother in this state and went to wash up first.”
“Is that so.”
If I listen now, I can hear the sound of water from upstairs. She’s probably taking a bath.
Perhaps I was too focused on cooking earlier, and I didn’t even hear the water.
Unlike the shameless Keling, Xinran is diligent. She’ll probably come out wearing normal clothes later.
“Alright, Keling, you sit down first. I’ll go get Xinran.”
“Mmm~”
Jiuyuan, I’m leaving Keling in your care.
“Okay, don’t worry.”
So, I left the living room and headed upstairs. The sound of water stopped just a moment ago. I assume Xinran has finished her bath.
Just as I thought that, Xinran opened the bathroom door on the second floor and walked out.
“Brother?”
…I was thinking you’d definitely be dressed by now… How naive I was.
“I was just about to get dressed. Brother, you’re deliberately coming up at this time.”
“Normally, you’d bring your change of clothes in with you, wouldn’t you? You’re the one being deliberate.”
“You found me out, how embarrassing.”
At least blush a little then.
Xinran, still drying her hair, naturally approached me and stood on tiptoe.
What else could I do?
After a while, Xinran stepped back, seemingly satisfied, and said to me.
“Brother, is this wrong…?”
“We are both wrong. We have both made mistakes.”
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“…”
“Let’s go. Get dressed and come down for dinner.”
Xinran went back to her room to change into a set of homewear, her usual attire. We’ll eat dinner together now. Though, now there’s one more little sister.
This was the scene before. I suddenly thought of Zi’ai. Zi’ai should be a five-year-old girl now. Miss Shirley…
Looking at her in front of me, I should probably go see her. After all, I promised the other Zi’ai that I would take good care of this world’s version of her. Although there is someone looking after her, after resting for a while, it was already nine o’clock.
After dinner, I had to go back.
I also needed to leave soon. She was whining and hoping I would stay, saying that if she hid me in her room, I wouldn’t be found.
Although Keling pulled at me, I didn’t want to hide in a closet again.
Enough of that. When I’m not here, tonight will be so lonely…
“But Brother, don’t you have me? And two older sisters. Sleep holding them.”
“Don’t you have Brother’s scent?”
“But what do you mean… Girls naturally have a pleasant scent, I’ve experienced that fully. But what scent could a grown man have?”
“Probably body odor!”
“A pervert.” Keling threatened, poking my nose.
I pinched Keling’s… “Without Brother… Keling won’t be able to sleep…” I have an ingrained clothing phobia, what will happen in the future…
My thoughts turned blue. I sighed, but I couldn’t resist her tearful plea. I took off my jacket and threw it to her.
I sighed headachely. “I’ll start going to school tomorrow, and I’ll come home regularly too… Yes, don’t worry, you’ll still see me.”
“Here, for now.”
“You can still come find me, but I thought about it, and if I said that, they’d probably come to me every day.”
I originally intended to say…
“I just bought a bed.” So I didn’t say it.
“Bye-bye!”
“Okay~ Brother!” Keling’s face lit up, and she quickly put on my jacket, zipped it up, and with her overly long sleeves flapping, she turned and ran upstairs.
This goodbye was a departure, knowing we would meet again. Keling’s little devil tail was wagging wildly.
It’s fortunate I can do this. I can’t possibly give them my remaining clothes… “Running naked, please spare me,” Jiuyuan said with a wry smile.
Seeing Xinran and Jiuyuan, I shook my head.
“But Xinran, there’s no need to compromise for us.”
“Brother, you said you’d accept everyone, but you don’t have to satisfy all of us.”
“Even if you’re right, you could be a bit more selfish, couldn’t you? An emperor decides which concubine to favor based on his mood, doesn’t he?”
“Xinran said it as if you were treating us like objects.”
“How could I possibly…” Xinran and Jiuyuan exchanged a smile and said.
“If you say that, you’ll continue to act spoiled towards me with all your might.”
“Then we won’t stop either, right? You also said that you would keep reincarnating forever… you won’t stop.”
“The one who has to be prepared if you get tired of us is me.”
Ah…
