After get off work, I become a magical girl

Not only were there almost no white appliances, there was no TV in the living room. There was a TV cabinet against the wall directly opposite the sofa, but there was only a vase on the cabinet top.

In addition, this layout makes the house feel somewhat lacking in popularity, or in other words, it lacks the breath of life.

If there were no human voice, the whole house would be silent, with only a slight buzz from the fluorescent light on the ceiling of the living room.

"Would you like some tea?" Xia Liang asked with a smile as he walked to the tea cabinet in the restaurant.

"No thanks." Delphinium responded casually, still looking around.

"So you're just tired and planning to rest?"

Xia Liang blinked and said, "You should take a shower before you rest, right? It may take some time to boil the water."

"It's not that urgent..." Delphinium seemed absent-minded.

"Where do you want to sleep?"

She was interrupted by Xia Liang before she finished her words: "There is an empty room left, and the bedding inside has been washed and changed, but if you want to sleep with me, that's fine too?"

"I'm more used to sleeping alone."

"Eh? Now that we're here, why don't we sleep together? I actually really want to sleep with you, young senior."

"Don't bother, I just want to stay for one night."

"Then I'll go to the single room and prepare the bed?"

"No need for this for now."

"Ah, how about you sit down first?"

"...Xiao Jin."

Interrupting Xia Liang's barrage of questions, Cuique looked at her calmly and asked bluntly, "Is there no one else in your family?"

With just one sentence, Xia Liang fell into silence.

Rather, the reason why she kept asking questions and even interrupted Delphinium to try to change the subject was a form of evasion. She had already guessed what Delphinium might ask next, but she just kept evading it and didn't want to mention it.

Xia Liang's smile remained unchanged, but it no longer looked natural. After a long silence, as if he had accepted his fate, this businesslike smile finally collapsed and turned into a helpless: "No."

"Not here means..." Delphinium couldn't help but frown.

"Not here means not here. They are not in this house and will never come back." Xia Liang said lightly.

She looked at Delphinium with a complicated expression, and Delphinium looked at her silently. The buzzing sound of the light above her head was still there, which was a bit annoying.

"call--"

After a while, Xia Liang looked away and sat down on the sofa. He let out a long sigh, as if he had let go of a burden, and asked:

"Young senior, you came here, really you want to confirm this?"

"That's right." While still pondering the meaning of the word "absent", Delphinium answered without hesitation.

"Why did you notice it?" Xia Liang turned his head to look at her, "Is it because of the conversation we had in Xiaolu's living room before?"

"not quite."

Delphinium also walked to the sofa in the living room and sat down along the armrest: "Compared to that conversation, the main reason is that you seem lonely."

"lonely?"

Reaching out to touch his cheek, Xia Liang was a little dazed at first, and then he smiled bitterly at himself: "Why is it loneliness... Is it really that obvious?"

"Just think of it as an adult's intuition."

Delphinium lowered her eyes and passed on the topic: "After all, we are already companions, so I feel that I should know you better. I hope you don't feel offended."

Xia Liang is now undoubtedly a member of the Fangting City Magical Girls Team. In theory, everyone should let go of their guard and become more united. However, Lin Xiaolu is unilaterally hostile to Xia Liang, so there is no progress in their relationship.

Delphinium originally thought that she was from the older generation and that it was best to let the children solve these relationship problems themselves. However, as the situation became increasingly serious, she realized that it was not a wise move to continue to ignore it, so she had no choice but to take action herself.

Now that you have chosen to take action, you must go deeper to understand the real answer.

"…Young Senior, your statement is too cunning."

Listening to Cuiqiao's explanation, Xia Liang's smile turned bitter again: "If you put it that way, I have no choice but to answer, right?"

She leaned against the sofa, her expression dazed, and then closed her eyes: "However, I also think that the young senior and Xiaolu are both trustworthy people, and I shouldn't keep this kind of thing in my heart."

"Then please don't take it too seriously. Just treat it as a pastime and listen to my story."

She slowed down her tone and spoke with some nostalgia: "This is indeed my home. It was once the place where my family of three lived, but now, I am the only one left here."

"My father is dead." Xia Liang slowly raised his head, "My mother is in prison."

Her words made Delphinium's eyes gradually widen.

The fluorescent lights above my head were still bright, but at that moment, even the annoying sound of electric current disappeared briefly.

After another pause, Xia Liang tilted his head to look at Cuique and said in a hoarse voice: "The reason is that she killed my father."

Chapter 42 Good boy

2023-04-30

Xia Liang once always remembered a saying in his heart: Only good children are loved.

It comes from what her mother said to her when she was young, when her parents were still loving and their life was happy: "Is our little dog well-behaved? Only good children are loved by others, and mother also likes good children."

"Little Puppy" was her nickname at that time, because she liked to bite people when she was angry, so whenever she opened her mouth, her parents would jokingly say "The little puppy bites again."

Xia Liang felt that she was not a puppy and that she could be very obedient. Since then, she rarely bit people when she was angry.

She became a good child in the eyes of her parents and relatives.

She is well-behaved and likes to act like a spoiled brat at home, and her sweet smile makes her parents dote on her; she is sensible and generous in social occasions, and her relatives, friends and elders always praise her; she is obedient and serious in school, and is a role model that the teacher asks her classmates to learn from.

The harder she tried to be good and sensible, the happier her life became, and Xia Liang gradually got used to it. However, everything changed after a few years.

She didn't know whether the cause was "finding another job" as her father said, or "being cheated out of a large sum of money" as her mother said, but in any case, it seemed that since then, she rarely saw smiles on her parents' faces.

Dad always looks sad when he comes home, and Mom always sighs and gets angry more often.

Whenever this happened, Xia Liang would stand up and try to make them happy and make them smile.

This method was somewhat useful at first, when Xia Liang acted cute and well-behaved, her parents would always force themselves to laugh along with her. But later, as time went on, no matter how hard Xia Liang tried, it was no longer of any use.

She felt very strange. Was it because she was not well behaved that she could not make her parents happy?

Then one day, she discovered that her mother started taking money out of the house.

My mother said she could earn money, but except for the first few times when she could bring back money, the money she took out later was never returned.

Dad started to come home less and less, and even when he did, he would quarrel with Mom. He loudly scolded Mom for "wasting the family money through gambling", while Mom accused him of "having an affair while unemployed".

At that time, Xia Liang was still confused about these words. She knew that gambling and extramarital affairs were bad things, but she never thought that they would happen in her own family.

She plucked up her courage and decided for the first time not to be a good child because she decided to go against her parents. She wanted to persuade them not to quarrel because quarreling all the time would make their relationship bad.

But this attempt failed, her parents ignored her and just yelled at her to "go away".

So Xia Liang became a good child again. No matter how much her parents quarreled, she no longer tried to stop them. She just kept showing them her smile.

She continued to study hard in school and brought home many certificates, hoping that her good performance would make her parents happy. But these certificates were eventually treated as waste paper and thrown on the table.

One day, the parents' argument escalated into a fight, and the certificate was soaked by the spilled boiling water, and the words on it could no longer be seen.

Later, my father started beating my mother and then threatened to divorce her.

He said he was fed up with women like his mother, he had a new love, and he wanted to choose his own happiness.

There is no doubt that Mom would disagree, because she has not yet proved that she is the backbone of the family, and she has not yet earned back the money she temporarily lost. She believes that Dad is equally responsible for this.

Things at home were sold and the dispute between his parents became more and more intense. Xia Liang could only hide behind the door and watch them quarrel, and then go back to continue doing his homework.

——She wants to be a good child, because only good children are liked by others.

Then, one night, she heard her father roaring.

He said: "Why did you touch my personal money? I will beat you to death, you bitch!"

My mother was also screaming. She said, "Just try it if you can!"

Then, they really started. With dull thumps, roars, and screams, when Xia Liang carefully looked out of the door, he could only see his mother standing there with a knife in her hand, covered in blood, and his father lying at her feet, never to move again.

"come over."

This was the first sentence my mother said after seeing Xia Liang.

Xia Liang felt scared because when her mother said this, her voice was cold and she held the knife tightly in her hand.

But she is a good girl, and her mother likes good girls, so she has to be obedient.

She walked over.

The mother stabbed her with a knife.

The feeling was very painful and uncomfortable, but Xia Liang still remembered that she had to be a good child, so even though she screamed in pain, she held back her tears.

The police who broke into the house took away my mother, and also took away Xia Liang who was nearly killed.

In the end, looking at her mother being taken away, she struggled and gave her mother the same flattering smile she always had.

——"Stop smiling so foolishly."

Here’s what my mom said: “It’s disgusting.”

At that moment, it seemed as if something in Xia Liang's heart had shattered, leaving only a dark, bottomless hole.

Just like that, she lost her parents.

No relative was willing to raise her. It was unknown when the relatives who used to visit her house frequently stopped associating with this family.

Xia Liang became an unwanted child.

She didn't want to leave home, but no one was willing to support her, so she lived alone in this house, living on subsidies from the city government.

At school, her classmates, who had originally disliked and excluded her because she was "the good kid from other people's families", somehow got to know the rumor. They all shouted that her mother was a murderer, and even made a jingle about it, and started singing it whenever they saw Xia Liang.

The school teacher was also helpless. No matter how he scolded the children in class, he could not control their private behavior. It was not until the end of elementary school and the day when the children graduated that he said to Xia Liang in a tone of regret: