After get off work, I become a magical girl

This is why Lin Yun can go home frequently today without having to work until late at night like in the past.

However, the above background and game, there is no way to tell Lin Xiaolu. Maybe when Lin Xiaolu grows up, she will have to face these things, but Lin Yun does not want her to be exposed to these things now.

"I am the director now. No one can ask me to work overtime unless I want to." This was the answer he finally gave.

But always using this excuse was still a bit far-fetched. More importantly, he was worried that if he was there every time his daughter came home, people would feel that there was something fishy going on, which would arouse unnecessary suspicion.

So, sometimes, even if Lin Xiaolu went home, he would choose to continue staying in the base as Cuiqiao, creating the illusion that "Lin Yun is busy with work."

But today is different. It is the end of the year and the new year is about to begin. When Lin Xiaolu returns home this time, he must meet his daughter as a father.

Not for anything else, just to ask for leave.

After all, it is New Year, and it is a time for family reunions. Considering that he had spent the previous Full Moon Festival with his team members as Lin Yun, and this time with the addition of the Bai'an City team, Cuiqiao's identity is undoubtedly more suitable.

Therefore, Lin Yun as such will have to be absent.

He had already thought of an excuse. It just so happened that he had made a regulation for the Fangting City Special Policy Bureau to stay on duty during holidays a while ago. He said that as the director, he would stay in the Special Policy Bureau to take charge. It sounded very reasonable.

Unfortunately, when he and Lin Xiaolu were having dinner together at the table, thinking about when to bring up this topic, Lin Xiaolu spoke first:

"……dad."

Just one word made Lin Yun raise his head in surprise.

Now that the relationship between father and daughter has gradually eased, although it is not uncommon for Lin Xiaolu to talk to him, because of the previous cold war, the number of times she has called him solemnly like this can be counted on one hand.

In his memory, almost every time Lin Xiaolu used this title as an opening remark, she would follow up with a very remarkable speech.

And this time, his daughter did not disappoint him.

"New Year's Eve is the day after tomorrow, and I want to go home to celebrate." Lin Xiaolu put down the chopsticks in her hand and said in a deep voice.

"Oh, you're planning on... going home?"

Fortunately, Lin Yun had prepared himself mentally, so he didn't show too much surprise. He just acted like he had no opinion on it and asked calmly, "Is it the same as the previous Full Moon Festival? Or are you calling all your teammates over?"

"Well, I want to invite everyone, is that okay?"

Lin Xiaolu nodded: "There may be more people this time than last time."

"People from Bai'an City? Then our house might be a little small."

Lin Yun remained calm: "Besides, if we want to seat so many people, we may have to change the table we are eating at now."

Hearing this, Lin Xiaolu looked down at the dining table below her and immediately looked embarrassed.

"...How about changing tables?" she suggested in a low voice.

"Changing the table just for the holidays?"

Lin Yun raised his eyebrows: "Do you think we are such a wealthy family?"

"Aren't you the director..." Lin Xiaolu muttered, "You are such a high-ranking official, it should be okay for you to change the table at home, right?"

"How many times do I have to tell you that my father is an honest official and he does not abuse his power."

Lin Yun put some food into his bowl and said, "Besides, this table was bought by your mother. We definitely can't change it. If we really buy a new table, it will just be left on the balcony gathering dust. Forget it. You might as well go to your base to celebrate the New Year."

When Lin Xiaolu heard that the table was bought by Anya, she fell silent for a moment. After a while, she spoke again:

"Then you'll go to our side?"

"I can't go." Lin Yun shook his head and smiled: "I was just about to tell you that Dad will be on duty at the Strategy Bureau during the New Year this year, so I may not be able to spend the New Year with you. I'm sorry."

"On duty?" Lin Xiaolu was speechless.

"Yes, after all, such a big incident happened before the Full Moon Festival, largely because the Strategy Bureau was slow to react, so someone has to be on duty starting from the New Year this year." Lin Yun replied pretending to be "helpless".

"In the Yi Ce Bureau?" Lin Xiaolu asked.

"Yes, in the Yi Ce Bureau." Lin Yun replied.

"Then I'll go to your office."

"You're coming to my office..."

Lin Yun repeated this sentence again, and his brain gradually realized what his daughter was saying: "...Ah? Come to my office?"

"Well, I'll go to your office to celebrate the New Year with you." Lin Xiaolu drooped her eyelids and looked at Lin Yun with displeasure, as if to say, "If you find another excuse, I'm going to make trouble with you."

"Why?" Lin Yun rarely felt confused during the conversation with his daughter.

"You are my father and I am your daughter."

Lin Xiaolu emphasized the pronunciation of each word:

"Isn't it natural to celebrate the New Year together?"

Chapter 217 Emotional Negotiation

What Lin Xiaolu said makes sense, or rather, her words are the truth.

In fact, it was just as he said. Even last year, when the cold war between father and daughter was at its peak, the two of them still had a New Year's Eve dinner together. Although during the whole process, Lin Xiaolu made almost no movement except "um" and "oh", and only Lin Yun was talking.

If Lin Yun heard what Lin Xiaolu said last year, it might be a bit of an exaggeration to say that he was moved, but he would definitely be very relieved. It is better to say that even if he heard it now, he would still feel very happy.

But the problem is that this sentence doesn't sound like something Lin Xiaolu would say at all, and in this situation, it's even a little confusing.

"Everyone in your team is together. Even people from Baian City are here. All the magical girls are together, but you're the only one who won't go over during the New Year?"

He looked at Lin Xiaolu as if he was meeting his daughter for the first time: "Is this really necessary?"

"Cui Que is already an adult. Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan don't have to go home. They are different from me. They don't need to think about where to go. They just need to be with the other team members."

Lin Xiaolu lowered her eyes slightly: "But I have my own family after all. Although the relationship with teammates is also important...but I should still be with my family during the holidays, right?"

"Even if the place of celebration is the office of the Strategy Bureau? I can't bring the New Year's Eve dinner in, you can only eat in the cafeteria with me."

Lin Yun tried to calm his expression and said slowly, "Besides, the nature of the work of the Strategy Bureau is very special. In fact, everyone should try to avoid entering the Strategy Bureau with their family members. So even if I can take you there, you can only go with other employees to visit, or stay in the office with me."

"Is there any problem?" Lin Xiaolu was puzzled.

Lin Yun shrugged: "It will be boring."

Lin Xiaolu was speechless for a moment, as if she had made up her mind. After a while, she spoke again: "It doesn't matter. I'm not afraid of being bored."

“But your teammates all got together at the same time and happily celebrated the New Year.”

Lin Yun bluntly touched Lin Xiaolu's sore spot: "Everyone else is playing, and you are the only one accompanying me on duty. Dad doesn't have any objections, but you'd better think about it again."

"This, uh...ah...hmm..."

Lin Xiaolu squinted her eyes and pursed her lips, obviously experiencing a fierce psychological struggle. After a while, she nodded heavily and said, "I've made up my mind. I want to go!"

Such a firm choice made Lin Yun even more confused.

Before he could ask more questions, Lin Xiaolu in front of him made an even more surprising statement:

——"Also, our school will have final exams soon after the New Year holiday! I plan to concentrate on studying during this time, so I will move back home before the exams!"

Am I dreaming?

Trying hard to suppress the upward curve of his lips, Lin Yun fell into deep thought.

Lin Xiaolu's words actually moved him a lot. At first glance, he felt very relieved. But although he was happy, he could clearly feel that his daughter was not telling the truth.

At least not entirely true.

The reason is very simple. First, Lin Xiaolu always likes to look away when she tells a lie. Second, this statement does not fit her daughter's usual style.

After spending more than half a year with Lin Xiaolu as a delphinium, Lin Yun now has a deeper understanding of his daughter's personality. It can be said that she is awkward or not frank. In short, most of the time, it is difficult for Lin Xiaolu to express herself directly.

Even now that the conflict between father and daughter has been thawed and their relationship can be gradually mended, I'm afraid it would be difficult for her to express this idea.

After all, the father and daughter seemed to be sitting at the same table having dinner together and there was not much distance between them, but in fact there were still layers of barriers between them.

There are two reasons for this. First, the impact of the Cold War has not yet been eliminated. Although Lin Xiaolu has learned a considerable part of the truth and no longer has so much resentment towards her father, this does not mean that the two will be as close as ordinary parent-child couples.

It is better to say that even if Anya had not passed away, the relationship between father and daughter in the Lin family has never been very good.

In the past, Lin Yun was indeed not a good father. In the name of work, he almost abandoned his emotional attention to his children, and he always asked his daughter to do this and that in a very cold and hard way. From the child's point of view, this almost gathered most of the elements of a "hateful father".

If we use a score to describe the relationship between father and daughter, with a full score of 100, then during the Cold War it would be probably 0 points, and when Anya was still around it would only be 40 or 50 points, not even reaching the passing line.

This has led to the current awkward situation between the two of them. They both clearly know that the other is their only relative in this world, but for a moment they still don't know how to resolve the awkwardness or even truly open up to each other.

How can we recover when we have never had a close relationship and don’t even have a reference sample?

The second reason, which Lin Yun could actually feel, was because he "revealed the identity of the Strategy Bureau."

For Lin Xiaolu, no matter how unsatisfactory her father was in the past, after all, she had been with him day and night since she was born, and they were extremely familiar with each other, and there was no gap in their lives.

However, this state of mind was broken when Lin Yun revealed that he was actually from the Yi Ce Bureau. This sudden revelation of the fact only made Lin Xiaolu feel unfamiliar and at a loss.

This can be seen from the fact that she has been saying from time to time recently, "Aren't you the director?"

If it was an ordinary family with a close parent-child relationship, this wouldn't be a problem at all, and the child wouldn't change his or her view of the parents because of a little unfamiliarity. But the Lin family was not a model family, so the distance between them increased.

Due to these two reasons, Lin Yun and Lin Xiaolu are still in a state of mutual testing, trying to gradually find a more comfortable way of getting along through interacting with each other again and again.

This is also one of the motivations for Lin Yun to encourage and even push Lin Xiaolu to go to the magical girl base for training in a dual capacity - as the saying goes, distance creates beauty, and reducing the frequency of meetings between father and daughter may gradually dilute the negative impression in his daughter's mind.

At the moment, the relationship between father and daughter has obviously not eased to a level higher than that of the Fangting City team, enough for the daughter to give up the gathering with the team just to celebrate the holiday with her family.

Under the current circumstances, even Lin Yun himself would not make such a suggestion, because in his imagination, these would only add to the burden of decision-making for his daughter and would have no real significance.

So, according to common sense, Lin Xiaolu has even less reason to propose such a plan.

If she really just considered her father's feelings in the context of the New Year and wanted to take this opportunity to narrow the distance between them, she would never use such a straightforward approach.

In other words, anything that Lin Xiaolu can talk about frankly is definitely not what she cares about most.

The biggest possibility is that Lin Xiaolu herself did not consider the aspect of "this can bring the father and daughter closer", she just subconsciously chose this method for some other purpose.

Why on earth?

Lin Yun remained silent, but his inquiring gaze made Lin Xiaolu feel uncomfortable. She subconsciously asked, "What's wrong? Why are you staring at me?"

"Did you encounter any problems with the team?"

After a little consideration, Lin Yun decided to get straight to the point: "Who did you quarrel with? Or do you feel stressed? So you want to separate and calm down for a while?"

The first person he thought of was Bai Ji from the Bai'an City team. After all, Lin Xiaolu had been depressed because of the conflict with Bai Ji before, but after thinking carefully, this was not possible. After all, Bai Ji lost to Lin Xiaolu in the subsequent competition, and after crying bitterly, they reconciled temporarily, so Lin Xiaolu would not worry about him until now.