After get off work, I become a magical girl

Of course, considering his identity, there was no reason for him to know so much, so Lin Yun could only choose his words carefully: "I heard a little bit before, today should be your birthday?"

"Uh-huh!"

Bai Jingxuan nodded: "There will be a birthday party for me tonight, will uncle come?"

There was nothing unusual on Lin Yun's face, but when he heard the word "uncle", the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

There is actually nothing wrong with this name. It is even the most appropriate name between Bai Jingxuan and Lin Yun. If there is any problem with it, it is that Bai Jingxuan did not call her like this before.

And that is the biggest problem.

In fact, Bai Jingxuan not only gave up calling Lin Yun "Dad", which originally gave Lin Yun a headache, but also started calling him "Uncle"; even to Cuiqiao, she gave up calling him "Mom" and started calling him "Teacher" again.

This process was so natural and so sudden that when it first happened, Cuique didn't realize anything was wrong. By the time she realized the situation was not optimistic, Bai Jingxuan's name had completely changed back.

As for why it turned out like this, Delphinium actually knew it clearly - it could be said that it was basically all her own fault.

This matter has to start from the day when he returned home and confronted Lin Xiaolu: After Lin Yun revealed his identity as an employee of the Strategy Bureau to Lin Xiaolu, the turmoil caused by Hong Si and Guituan finally subsided a little.

The girls obviously understood Hong Siyu's return and gradually accepted the existence of this "new" teammate. However, in addition to understanding, some new problems also arose.

The first one is Lin Xiaolu.

After Lin Yun seriously explained to her his relationship with Hong Siyu, and even his relationship with Cuiqiao, she really calmed down and no longer used troublesome issues like "stepmother" to irritate Lin Yun.

However, this "quiet" was one-sided. Because Cuiqiao soon discovered that Lin Xiaolu's attitude towards her was starting to become a little strange. Although it was not obvious from her words and deeds, at certain times, she would always secretly stare at Cuiqiao with an inexplicably complicated look, and when Cuiqiao turned her head to look at her, she turned her face away and pretended to be doing something else.

This behavior would be fine if it only happened once or twice, but it happened almost every day, and it was hard for Kuei-chih not to notice it. After a few days, Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan also noticed this strange phenomenon.

What’s even more strange is that Lin Xiaolu started to work inexplicably hard.

It's not that she didn't work hard before. In fact, Lin Xiaolu had always completed the tasks assigned by Cuique without compromise, and she definitely spent a lot of effort. However, in the past few days, her efforts began to become a little stubborn, and she even had a tendency to move closer to Bai Jingxuan.

When Delphinium asked her why, she replied, "I'm the only one among the three who hasn't awakened the magic suit yet, so I'm a little anxious."

This answer sounded reasonable, so Kuizi didn't ask any more questions. After all, it was hard to guess what teenage girls were thinking. Since Lin Xiaolu's overall behavior was positive, there was no need to worry too much.

If Lin Xiaolu's condition is just confusing, Bai Jingxuan's attitude is somewhat worrying.

Before this incident, and also after the attack on Lakeside Spring, Bai Jingxuan's desire to express herself in the secret base had obviously become much stronger. She would try to speak up on various occasions to maintain her presence and not let Delphinium ignore her existence.

But that night, after Cuiqiao chose to explain the situation and returned to her home, Bai Jingxuan seemed to speak much less.

It's not that she never speaks, but she rarely speaks on her own initiative. If someone asks her something, she will still answer, but that's it, and there is basically no more communication.

If Cuique hadn't paid more attention to Bai Jingxuan these days, she might not have noticed this. After all, this child has always been very quiet and never interrupts at inappropriate times.

Of course, even if she noticed it, it would be useless, because at this time, Bai Jingxuan had changed her way of addressing Cuiqiao back to "teacher".

When I asked her why she was like this, I could only get a slightly naive answer:

——"If uncle and teacher don't plan to get married, they won't adopt me, right?"

This was a very naive answer, but it made Delphinium's heart sink, because it was too light and too logical.

The idea that "Lin Yun" and "Cuiqiao" would get married and start a new family was purely Lin Xiaolu's imagination. Lin Yun had no intention of remarrying for the time being.

Because the condition is wrong, the subsequent inferences are also wrong. Based on this, "Lin Xiaolu's family will adopt Bai Jingxuan" is also a castle in the air. From this logic, it is not difficult to deduce Bai Jingxuan's current answer.

There is nothing wrong with this answer, but when it is said by Bai Jingxuan herself, it becomes a completely different situation.

Judging from her previous attitude towards this matter, this is not such a light matter for her. Her attitude should not be like this.

Cuiqiao thought that Bai Jingxuan would be doubtful and would come to her to confirm the authenticity of her promise; she also thought that Bai Jingxuan would be dissatisfied and think that she was being perfunctory and deceiving; but she never thought that it would be neither of the two. Bai Jingxuan did not express any doubts or dissatisfaction, but easily convinced herself and then easily accepted it.

This is the worst possible development.

This means that Bai Jingxuan not only failed to resolve her emotional knot, she didn't even think the problem could be solved. She began to hide the problem and instead internalized the emotional knot and made it a part of herself.

After several fruitless attempts to talk, Cuique had to pull Xia Liang along and take the initiative to explain the whole story, including but not limited to the fact that Bai Jingxuan had been allowed to call her "Mom". Then, under Xia Liang's subtle gaze, they temporarily abandoned these premises and had a discussion, and finalized a plan:

That is to use Bai Jingxuan's birthday as an opportunity and use the atmosphere of the birthday party to get a chance to have a sincere conversation.

So today's scene happened, Bai Jingxuan made a special trip to the director's office of the Special Strategy Bureau and asked him if he wanted to participate.

Obviously, the "birthday party" is a long-lost experience for Bai Jingxuan. No matter what problems she had before, she now hopes to share this happiness with people she knows.

But unfortunately, Lin Yun’s answer was destined to be no.

"……Feel sorry."

After struggling for a while, he finally responded, "I have something important to do tonight, so I may not be able to come."

If possible, he really hopes that he can learn to split himself and attend the birthday party with two identities at the same time. Unfortunately, he can't.

At this birthday party, only one of Cuique and Lin Yun was destined to be present.

After saying this, he was already thinking about remedial measures in his mind, thinking about what words to use to make Bai Jingxuan feel a little better, but before he could continue speaking, he heard a soft laugh.

"hey-hey."

Bai Jingxuan closed the book in her hand, and for some reason a tiny smile appeared on her face: "I knew it, because Sister Xiaolu told me that you even missed her birthday before."

Lin Yun didn't know what to say for a moment and could only pull the corners of his mouth bitterly.

"It seems that I made the right decision to come here." Bai Jingxuan suddenly said this.

"……what?"

The sudden turn caught Lin Yun off guard. He looked up in surprise, only to find Bai Jingxuan squinting her eyes with an innocent smile on her face:

——"Everyone is celebrating their birthday together, but you, my uncle, can't go alone. Wouldn't you feel lonely? So I came to accompany you before your birthday, talk to you, and share the good luck of your birthday with you."

These light words did not leave any trace in the office, but left Lin Yun speechless for a moment.

He looked at the girl in front of him who seemed to be smiling very happily. For some reason, his throat moved slightly, but he couldn't say a word.

The weather was very cold on the day of the snowfall. Even though the heater was on, there was still an lingering chill in the huge Yi Ce Bureau. The snowflakes melting outside the window kept stripping away the heat from the house, allowing the cold to continue to invade the house.

But at this moment, Bai Jingxuan's words seemed to have some kind of magic, adding warmth to the snow in the sky.

Although it was the dead of winter, the snow outside no longer brought the slightest bit of coldness. An inexplicable warmth seemed to flow through Lin Yun's limbs and bones, making him feel a little dazed.

After a long silence, he suddenly gathered the documents on the table and slowly stood up.

"I really can't go to your birthday party."

Reaching out his hand, he rubbed Bai Jingxuan's head: "But, since you have nothing to do now, I can take you to the shopping mall and buy you a birthday present."

"I didn't come to see my uncle for gifts!" Bai Jingxuan pouted in dissatisfaction, as if she felt that her words were misinterpreted.

"I know."

Lin Yun took back his hand from her head and opened the door to the director's office in front of him: "It's not for anything else, I just want to buy it."

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The sky was very gloomy on a snowy day, with gray clouds covering the sun tightly, leaving no gap for the sun to shine in. It was just past five o'clock, and the sky had already turned dark, as if it was already night.

Even on weekdays, the shopping mall next to the Yi Ce Bureau is quite busy - after all, it is the only shopping mall in the surrounding area and accounts for the majority of the customer flow.

Among the crowd, a pair of customers who looked like father and daughter appeared. A middle-aged man, who was dressed meticulously, had an indifferent expression, and had the aura of a workplace elite, was walking slowly in the square with a little girl.

They said they were here to buy gifts, but in fact they were just shopping. Along the way, Lin Yun had taken Bai Jingxuan to visit many things, such as the indoor ice rink in the shopping mall, and a specially designated area for experiencing advanced head-mounted displays... Although these types of attractions are not new to people who often go shopping, Bai Jingxuan enjoyed them very much.

Only at times like this would she rarely reveal her relatively childish side, which is that her threshold for happiness is very low, and she can be full of interest no matter what she plays.

However, although they had no burden when playing, Bai Jingxuan became more reserved when Lin Yun said he wanted to buy a gift. No matter what kind of gift Lin Yun proposed, she was slightly resistant, obviously thinking that "accepting the gift" would make her motives for coming to Lin Yun impure.

This thought made Lin Yun laugh and cry, but he didn't force her and just took her to continue strolling in the mall.

From the perspective of passers-by, it looks like a father walking with his daughter, stopping at the door of some toy or clothing stores from time to time, as if asking the girl next to him something. But most of the time the girl just shook her head, and the man smiled helplessly, and the two continued to move forward.

They looked all the way until they reached the door of a deserted handicraft shop, and then they gradually slowed down their pace. Lin Yun noticed that Bai Jingxuan's eyes seemed to be attracted by something in the window.

Following his gaze, he saw a piano music box with exquisite workmanship, which was placed there with its lid open. Under the lid of the music box, there were exquisitely arranged transmission components, but because there was no spring, it just stood there without any other movement.

"Are you interested in that?" Lin Yun lowered his head and wanted to seek Bai Jingxuan's opinion, but found that the girl had turned her head away and was looking straight ahead as if nothing had happened.

"No, just a quick look."

Bai Jingxuan muttered softly, reaching out and tugging at Lin Yun's sleeve: "Let's go."

"you sure?"

This time, Lin Yun did not go along with her wishes, but asked again: "I didn't say that you must buy it after seeing it. If you are just interested and want to take a few more glances, it's not impossible for me to wait for you for a while."

After he said this, he felt that Bai Jingxuan's force in pulling his sleeve had obviously weakened a lot. His eyes, which had been forced to look forward, once again glanced towards the window beside him. It was obvious that he was a little moved.

"Go ahead." He waved at Bai Jingxuan, expressed encouragement once again, and then stood aside to show that he would not wander around.

Having been instigated to this point, Bai Jingxuan no longer hesitated and trotted all the way to the store, squatted there, and carefully examined the music box.

Lin Yun followed and stood quietly behind Bai Jingxuan, looking at the handicraft in the window with her. When the salesperson in the store noticed the two people who looked like father and daughter and wanted to come over to ask about it, he shook his head at her from a distance, then silently pointed at Bai Jingxuan, temporarily declining the other party's kindness.

Several minutes passed like this before Bai Jingxuan gradually moved her eyes away from the music box. After looking back reluctantly, she said to Lin Yun, "Let's go, uncle."

"You really don't want to buy it?" Lin Yun asked.

“There’s no point in buying it.”

For some reason, after examining the music box in the store, Bai Jingxuan felt a little depressed. She shook her head and said, "It just looks very similar, but it's not what I remember after all."

"What are the things in the memory?" Lin Yun asked.

He remembered Bai Jingxuan's magic costume - Tianyin's appearance was a music box, and the magic costume of a magical girl is often inextricably linked to her personality and experience. Obviously, for Bai Jingxuan, the music box seemed to be something with special meaning.

But unfortunately, after asking this question, he did not get any follow-up response from Bai Jingxuan.

The two of them wandered around the mall for a while. During this time, no matter what gift Lin Yun suggested to buy, Bai Jingxuan refused. This delayed the trip that was supposed to end in half an hour, and the two of them didn't leave until almost six o'clock. After several suggestions failed, Lin Yun had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​buying gifts - the purpose of giving gifts is to make the recipient feel good. If this can't do that, it's better not to buy it.

After leaving the mall, Lin Yun drove the car with Bai Jingxuan on the snow-covered road. He looked out of the car through the swaying wipers on the front window. Just as he was concentrating on the road conditions in front of him, he suddenly heard Bai Jingxuan's subtle voice from the seat next to him:

"When I was... young, my health was very poor, so I basically couldn't go out."

As if answering a question from a long time ago, she said without much context, "So I could only listen to my father telling me stories. He would tell me what the outside world is like and that there are many beautiful things in this world."

Although this sentence sounded like absurd talk, Lin Yun vaguely realized that what she was talking about might be the question he had asked in the handicraft shop before.

"Whenever I had a headache and couldn't fall asleep, my dad would come and comfort me. He would hold my hand by the bed, tell me stories, and coax me to sleep."

Bai Jingxuan lowered her voice and continued as if she was talking to herself: "One day, my father told me that he had to go on a business trip, but I refused to go. So he took out a small box from his bag and placed it beside my bed, telling me that this thing was called a 'music box'."

"He said that if I turned the spring, the music box would make music and little people would dance on it. If I couldn't sleep, I would open the music box and hear the music, and I would fall asleep, just like when he was there."

"I didn't believe it, so he opened the music box and let me watch the little people dancing on it. After a while, I really fell asleep."