Miss Lin is a hunky VTuber today?

After all, eating alone is a very lonely thing.

Tonight's live stream is just a regular song performance. She doesn't plan to reveal that the two are living together for the time being, as viewers would keep stirring things up and disrupting the live stream's rhythm.

Perhaps it was her ostrich mentality at work, but she didn't even tell Xueyue about what had happened these past two days. She just kept thinking about it on her own, unable to understand why she hadn't refused Yuzu's request to move in.

Although there was a reason that I felt embarrassed to refuse after acting first, I couldn't fake my happy mood at the time. Some things can fool everyone else but not yourself.

Singing a song called "Unrequited Love," and imagining that short-haired girl busy in the kitchen, I inexplicably felt happy again.

After the live stream ended, Yuan Chu, who could smell the delicious aroma even through two doors, ran to the kitchen clutching her rumbling tummy. It was already 11 p.m., but for Yuan Chu's routine, it was just time for dinner.

Yuzu was only having a light dinner for her, and she's only now starting to eat a late-night snack.

They ate in silence at the table.

One person cleared the dishes, and the other cleared the table. They met again in the living room by tacit agreement. Yuzu stood in front of her bedroom door, pushed the door open with one hand, and turned to look at Tobi, who was lying on the sofa digesting her food without any regard for her image. It took a lot of courage for her to open her mouth.

Goodnight, Sister An'ai.

Chapter 53, Section 432: Rice is hard-earned; please cherish your breakfast.

"An Ai?"

After Yuzu fled back to her bedroom as if running away, pulled up the covers and wrapped herself up like a caterpillar, Yuzu stood there, seemingly savoring something, muttering her own name.

His voice trembled slightly.

Sorrow and love differ by only a tone, yet they sound so different.

Just like Iris and Ai, separated by only a screen, the gap between them is as vast as Mount Song.

She subconsciously misheard Yuzu's "sorrow" as "love," and after a long pause, she realized that the name "An Ai" was no longer known to anyone around her. What everyone knew was Yuan Chu, An Ai, and the current her who was unrestrained in her laughter, anger, and love, yet also detached from reality.

Not that little girl who, in a fit of teenage angst, went to the police station to change her name.

But those memories couldn't be stopped by reason; they occupied her entire mind without warning. Scene after scene played slowly like an old film reel, one segment after another, only to suddenly stop three years ago and fast forward to tonight.

'Take care on the road. My condolences.'

This is what the girl with long white hair said to her under that starless night sky.

Goodnight, An'ai.

This is what the girl with short black hair said to her in this room with its warm yellow light.

The two completely opposite tones both expressed heartfelt blessings, just like the feelings these two sisters had for her.

"Really."

The fresh and elegant girl couldn't help but compare the two sentences side by side, and tears, whether from sadness or joy, gradually welled up from the corners of her eyes.

"Why do you sisters all make me want to cry?"

Wiping away her tears with the corner of her pajamas, the girl stood in front of Yuzu's bedroom, sobbing, crying, feeling sadness, joy, and a sense of reunion after a long separation.

It was all because of just one sentence.

Perhaps the tears of adults are the most valuable, because they have come to a profound understanding that crying cannot solve any problems.

But adults' tears are also the least valuable, because they have learned to use tears to vent their emotions, and they will shed tears for a small thing that happens by chance, or for a kind or sarcastic remark.

An'ai didn't cry for three years because she felt that crying was a sign of weakness and tears were a sign of incompetence.

Three years later, An Ai silently shed tears in the living room, simply because of a "goodnight".

How things have changed is anyone's guess.

Yuanchu did not stay in the same place for long. Gradually, her tears dried on her eyelashes, and the dual exhaustion of mind and body made her collapse on the sofa.

I don't want to sleep, but I also want to sleep.

Such a sentimental, girlish mentality is not usually in Iris's nature, but tonight, she just wants to indulge in this long-lost sentimentality.

But she eventually succumbed to sleepiness and drifted off to sleep.

I remember to turn off the lights with the remote before going to bed.

......

When Yuzu, who had tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep, was groggily woken up by the alarm clock the next morning, she went outside and saw Tobi-chan sleeping in the living room.

"Why are you sleeping in the living room again?"

But this kind of thing is very common. Not only is Tobi-chan quite casual in her life, but her sleeping position is also random. At the most outrageous time, she can even sleep wrapped in a quilt in the gap between the bed and the wardrobe in the bedroom.

Xu You sighed, turned around and went back to her room. She took a thin blanket from under her bed, walked to Yuan Chu's side, and skillfully covered her with it.

But as he was about to leave, he couldn't help but glance at Iris's peaceful sleeping face, and saw the tear stains at the corners of her eyes.

"You cried...?"

Yuzu murmured in disbelief, her outstretched hand hovering three centimeters above Tobi's cheek before being pulled away again.

"Let's make congee with preserved egg and lean pork today."

After crying, you may feel thirsty and hungry when you wake up and need to replenish salt and water.

After preparing the ingredients needed for cooking porridge, Yuzu put them into the rice cooker and simmered them on low heat. She set the time and kept the porridge warm. After thinking for a moment, Yuzu left a sticky note on the coffee table in front of Yuzu.

Cooking porridge takes too long, and she doesn't have time to eat it herself since she has to go to school.

"If we don't leave a message for Sister Yuanchu, she'll forget to eat breakfast again."

Squatting beside the coffee table in front of Tobi-chan's sleeping face, Yuzu held a pen and wrote stroke by stroke on a sticky note.

I left your favorite preserved egg and lean pork congee in the rice cooker. Remember to eat it when you wake up.

After thinking for a moment, Yuzu shyly added a simple sketch of her virtual avatar to the back, and next to it, she also drew a heart.

......

"That's it, sis. Why do you think Sister An Ai cried?"

As soon as Yuzu stepped out of the room, the first thing she did was naturally to call her strategist, Lin Jiang.

This early morning phone call woke up Xu Lin, a night owl whose sleep schedule has become increasingly irregular lately, and Yuzi forcibly dragged him out of bed to come up with ideas.

"Hmm~~ Haha, Izanagi-chan~~ Who's calling so early~"

Oh wait, there's a second night owl here, still sleepy and dragging out its words.

There are fewer classes in the third year, and most of them are scheduled in the afternoon, so the young lady has recently been almost assimilated by Izanagi, and her good routine that she has maintained for many years has been ruined, and they have both gone to the underworld together.

"It's Yuzu. Youyue, you go to sleep first. I'll go out and talk to her. I'll tell you when you wake up."

The white-haired girl got up from the bed and spoke gently to Xu Youyue.

"Okay~~ I'll have porridge for breakfast~"

"Okay, I'll do it in a bit."

"Sis, can you and your wife please stop feeding me dog food at a time like this?"

On the other end of the phone, Yuzu, wearing headphones and quickly swiping her card to leave the residential area and head towards school, listened to the entire conversation with a bewildered expression, and helplessly complained.

"Who told you to call me at this time?"

The white-haired girl rolled her eyes, thinking to herself, "I'm already being kind by not hanging up on you when my precious sleeping time was disturbed. Why are you complaining?"

But she was still his own sister after all, so he just made a sarcastic remark and that was it.

"Okay, okay, it's my fault, alright? Sis, please tell me what to do next."

Yuzu was getting anxious. She was really confused about what had happened today. She couldn't think of anything unusual that had happened last night. The only reason Yuanchu was crying could be because of her sudden "goodnight."

"What else can we do? Let's just leave it like this?"

Xu Lin walked into the kitchen, put the phone on speakerphone on the microwave, and said while chopping the meat into minced meat.

"Do you really think you can win over Iris and Hina in one go? Don't even think about it, it's impossible."

"Oh dear! That's not what I meant!"

Yuzu stomped her foot, deeply sensing that Xu Lin already had a stereotype about her, but now was not the time to bring it up.

"I am... I am..."

Yuzu stammered for a moment, then finally uttered a sentence in a low voice.

"I just wanted to ask how to comfort her..."

Chapter 54, Section 433: Liking someone means trying your best to make them laugh when they're sad.

The pomelo has really grown up.

This was Xu Lin's first reaction.

She finally understood that the most important thing in a relationship is not happiness or joy, but taking good care of that person.

It's not that happiness and joy aren't important, but happiness will naturally come when you take good care of your loved ones, shelter them from the storms of life, and give them a warm home.

If you're only looking for pleasure, you might as well go for a big sword session.

The most important thing in love is the cherishing of the other person.

Moreover, this kind of cherishing must be mutual and selfless, just like her relationship with the young lady.

Liking someone means I'm willing to get up early to cook porridge for you and fulfill all your desires.

Liking someone is like offering them a warm hug when they're in unbearable pain.

If you like it, that's it.

I stand behind you and support all your decisions.

Without the help of the young lady, Xu Lin's plan to bring Youzi and her dorm into the company wouldn't have been able to proceed so smoothly. The fact that the entire company's employees were mobilized to work overtime in just a few days was only possible because of the support behind the scenes from the boss and the young lady, who were the actual controlling shareholders of the company.