Uneasy daily life

Anxinyuan's father breathed a sigh of relief and met Angelina's gaze.

“Oh…my dear daughter, why are your eyes so pitying and indifferent, like the cold moon in the sky, gentle yet distant, able to illuminate the way ahead, yet not giving me a direction to approach you.”

Anxinyuan's father couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion.

Do I still possess a poetic sense of romance?

Wait a minute!

Anxinyuan's father suddenly looked in the direction from which the sound came, and Bai Ying reached out and pressed her hand to her chest. The voices of the two were completely identical and carried a faint sadness.

Anxinyuan's father: "?"

"Mom, light novel illustrations are usually borderline illustrations."

Angelina mercilessly uttered a sentence.

Anxinyuan's father: "?"

"Huh?" Anxinyuan's mother was taken aback for a moment, then turned her head and smiled, "Darling, can I take a look?"

"Cough cough..."

Anxinyuan's father's eyes twitched slightly as he turned the painting over in his hand: "It's supposed to be close to the edge, but it's not really close at all, hahaha..."

"Your drawing is really impressive."

Anxinyuan's mother exclaimed in surprise, "To be able to depict such a wonderful scene in an anime style, is Bai's drawing skill really that amazing?"

“I write light novels, so of course I hire professionals for illustrations.” Bai Ying shrugged. “I’m not going to swallow ink to print with my teeth, nor am I going to chew up tree bark and dry it to make paper.”

Anxinyuan's father, with a strong will to survive, said: "This is called a two-dimensional work, and everyone has a love for beauty..."

"The girl in the painting is indeed quite beautiful."

Anxinyuan's mother nodded gently and agreed with a smile, "Then I'll get a few handsome celebrity posters too."

Goo!

"Haha, you look much prettier, darling."

Anxinyuan's father smiled and handed over the illustration.

"My darling is way more handsome than any celebrity."

Anxinyuan's mother took the illustration and put it away.

"Alright, alright! Stop showing off your love in front of the guests! What's with all this 'darling' stuff!"

Angelina rolled her eyes, feeling inexplicably awkward, and immediately got to the point: "Anyway, this white figure is a superhuman, a pretty strange person. Don't worry about what strange things he says..."

"9527, it's one thing for you, a subordinate, to ignore the instructions from your superiors, but what's the meaning of your constant slander?" Bai Ying picked up a toothpick apple with an air of familiarity. "I think your relationship with your uncle and aunt is quite good. Most middle-aged couples would have nightmares if they kissed each other, let alone call each other 'darling'."

"Who's middle-aged?" Anxinyuan's father scoffed. "I'm only in my early thirties!"

Bai Ying said knowingly, "Uncle has a long neck?"

"?" Anxin's father was stunned for a moment, then realized what he meant, and his forehead twitched. "Standard build!"

Bai Ying asked in surprise, "Uncle, is it standard corporal punishment?!"

"??"

Anxinyuan's father's expression was contorted, and he couldn't speak. His hands were clenched into fists, making him look like Angelina Jolie in a frantic meme.

"Don't say any weird things! If you do, I'll crush you into a frog!"

Angelina felt like her throat was filled with spittle. I was wrong! I was wrong! I shouldn't have told my parents about the superpowered organization!

The white figure smiled faintly: "Quack!"

Angelina: "..."

Great! Let's use our superpowers to throw the white figure out of the house!

“An’an really has an interesting…commander? Alright, alright, An’an, sit down and have some fruit.” An’an’s mother coughed lightly and smiled. “As parents, we’ve always been curious about why An’an has superpowers, what superpowers are, and most importantly, whether they will have any impact on An’an…”

Angelina angrily picked up a toothpick and some fruit and stuffed it into her mouth. She sat down on the sofa to the side and said in a drawn-out voice, "I told you it's not that complicated or strange—although the white shadow is strange, it shouldn't have anything to do with superpowers..."

“Being rich, living long, having a ruddy complexion, and having eyebrows like silkworms—superpowers themselves aren’t that different from these things,” Bai Ying said casually, waving her hand. “Of course, there are some situations where superpowers can bring trouble, like being too rich can make you lose the trouble of being poor.”

"For example, I have an accomplice named Phantom. His superpower is that his voice can evoke and catalyze emotions, but he wants to be a highly skilled singer, so every time he sings, he has to try to restrain his superpower and try to show his true technique."

Bai Ying stroked his chin: "The trouble that 9527 has with his superpowers is probably that he can fool the scale but can't fool himself?"

Anxinyuan's father: "Huh?"

"Shut up!" Angelina chewed on the dragon fruit, revealing her small, bloodshot white teeth, and protested angrily, "I've succeeded in losing weight! I really have! Get this rude topic out of the way!"

Bai Ying squinted and carefully examined him, receiving a murderous look in return.

"Yes, it must be because the clothes are too thick in winter."

The white-clad figure looked back at Angelina's parents, raising an eyebrow slightly: "You two seem to have some doubts?"

"This..." Anxinyuan's mother hesitated, "Are the troubles of superpowered individuals only this much?"

"I don't know," Bai Ying said, spreading her hands. "Do your uncles and aunts know why humans are humans? Each situation needs to be analyzed individually. Although 'Too Long to Read' may involve selectively ignoring facts or being unable to resist food, that has nothing to do with superpowers."

Angelina angrily held up the toothpick: "What did you say?!"

Bai Ying replied confidently, "I'm talking about you!"

Angelina: "#!"

Let's use our superpowers to throw the white figure out the window!

"This..." Anxinyuan's father asked suspiciously, "Really not?"

Angelina looked puzzled: "Why are you all behaving so strangely?"

"They're probably hiding something from you," Bai Ying said in a deep voice. "From what I've observed, your aunt and uncle's trust in me has suddenly started to drop, turning from expectation to suspicion—did they say something bad about me?"

“Why would I need to speak ill of Bai Ying?” Angelina snorted. “It’s normal for Mom and Dad to keep things from me, what’s so strange about that?”

"Consciously keeping it from you and unconsciously bringing it up are two different things."

Bai Ying raised her hand to shoo him away, saying, "Go, go, go. This is a conversation between adults. You can take the fruit platter to the children's table."

"Huh?" Angelina realized what was happening and looked at her parents suspiciously. "Mom and Dad, are you hiding something from me?"

Anxinyuan's father: "Hahaha, this... darling?"

"that……"

Anxinyuan's mother asked curiously, "Could your superpower be mind reading?"

Bai Ying nodded slightly: "That's right, I think you two probably want to have a second child."

"Huh?" Angelina was startled, but then, thinking about how her parents were always so affectionate, she wasn't surprised anymore. "If you want to have a baby, just have one. Why did you deliberately hide it from me?"

"We've never thought about having a second child!" the father of Anxin Courtyard quickly retorted. "Don't talk nonsense, you toxic screenwriter!"

Anxin's mother sighed: "This really can't be kept from you... An'an, do you know about the earthquake last night?"

Angelina asked, puzzled, "Was there an earthquake last night?"

The white figure blinked, then turned to look at Angelina in surprise: "Did you fall off the bed and make the earth laugh?"

"Huh?!" Angelina's fist clenched. "What do you mean 'funny'?! Even if there's an earthquake, what does that have to do with me...it has nothing to do with me, right?"

“I don’t know.” Anxin’s mother sighed. “When you were in junior high, they told us about superpowers, but you probably don’t know that there were very slight earthquakes every few days during that period. At first, they were the kind of earthquakes that your father and I wouldn’t even know about if there wasn’t news. Later, they became earthquakes that we could feel clearly…”

"That's an earthquake!" Angelina exclaimed, her eyes wide. "I can cause an earthquake? I don't think I could even lift a house up!"

“We don’t really know what superpowers are all about…” Anxin’s father said, troubled. “Every earthquake happens while you’re sleeping. Of course, we didn’t think much of it at first, but one time you had a fight with us, and then the earthquake came again that night. That time the shaking was particularly strong. Your mother and I rushed to your room, but suddenly we found that your room was completely still… I went in first, and your mother was outside the door. One of us wasn’t shaking, while the other was…”

Bai Ying pondered for a moment and said, "The eye of the storm is the calmest, and by the same logic, the epicenter is the most stable."

"That's unlikely, isn't it?" Angelina was still skeptical, then suddenly remembered something and asked in surprise, "Could it be that we suddenly came to Japan..."

“I asked my friends back home, and they said the earthquakes stopped after we moved away,” Anxin’s father said strangely. “It turns out that the geologists who went there to study the frequent small earthquakes also left because they didn’t find anything.”

“Whether we guessed wrong or the problem was solved, there haven’t been any earthquakes since we moved to Japan a year ago, so we didn’t tell you about it,” Anxin’s mother said softly. “But there was another earthquake last night, and you mentioned encountering other superpowered individuals, so we wanted to ask about the situation.”

Angelina was completely dumbfounded. She could create an earthquake? How could that be possible?! But what if it were true? Wouldn't that be a massive crisis?!

She instinctively looked at Bai Ying: "Sir, is this even possible?"

Bai Ying's face was full of thought, lacking her usual carefree and spontaneous nature, and revealing a reassuring composure.

Angelina panicked a little: "Earthquakes and such are things that humans can't do, are they? If superpowers had that kind of effect, the world would have been destroyed several times over, right?"

Anxinyuan's father gave an example: "There have been countless natural disasters throughout history. What if those weren't just simple natural disasters?"

Angelina panicked even more: "No, impossible! Absolutely impossible! From what I know, superpowers at most make you invisible to everyone, allow you to transform into anyone at will, and create firework bombs that only have light and shadow effects and don't hurt anyone..."

Anxinyuan's father panicked as well: "Huh? Isn't that even more powerful than an earthquake? How many superpowered people are there in the world?"

“They’re all residents of St. Elizabeth Hospital anyway!” Angelina said anxiously, looking up at the silent, seemingly reliable white figure. “It’s highly unlikely! Sir, please say something!”

"I've got an idea for your official member codename!" Bai Ying slapped his thigh and said excitedly, "From now on, you'll be called Earth Rumble!"

"Sir, wake up!"

Angelina, unable to contain herself any longer, grabbed the white figure by the collar and shook him violently, yelling in a frenzy, "Is this the time to be talking about code names?! Stop your crazy antics! Earthquake! This is an earthquake!"

"That being said, I still have a slight doubt as to whether you possess the weight to shake Mother Earth..."

"What are you trying to say? If you keep spouting nonsense, I'll just bury you under a mountain!"

"Remember, your crotch should face outwards..."

"A stupid officer who makes lewd jokes at a time like this should just turn his back on the outside!"

boom!

Angelina angrily pressed the white figure face down onto the sofa, surprisingly easily, feeling that the other party did not resist at all.

Ugh?

Angelina subconsciously turned her head and met her parents' rather complicated gazes.

What did I just say?

"An'an already knows so much," Anxin Courtyard's mother said wistfully. "I didn't even notice. When exactly did she start knowing all this?"

"Ah ha ha……"

Angelina replied dryly, "I'm online all the time..."

When exactly he found out is an unsolved mystery, even to himself.

A hand tremblingly reached out to Angelina and gave her a thumbs-up.

Angelina, expressionless, reached out and slapped Bai Ying's head back onto the sofa: "Finished smoking?"

"OK!"

Bai Ying flipped herself back to sit up: "In that case, I'll stay the night."

"Huh?" Angelina asked in surprise, "Why?"

"Of course, it's to verify if you are the source of the earthquake." Bai Ying returned the look of looking at a fool. "You have to see these things with your own eyes."

"Oh, that's right."

Angelina slapped her forehead, but there was only one room for her parents and one room for herself... Hmm? Was there really something to worry about?

"Then you can sleep in the living room; the sofa is quite soft."

Angelina said, showing no hospitality whatsoever.

The white figure stared at her without saying a word.

Angelina scratched her cheek, a little guilty, and looked away: "Uh, so Mom will sleep with me tonight?"

“That’s not a problem.” Anxin’s mother thought for a moment, then turned to ask, “What do you think, dear?”

"I have a feeling I won't be able to sleep."

Anxinyuan's father sighed, having a premonition that he would be rambling on and on with the toxic screenwriter until the wee hours of the morning. "No wonder he's a screenwriter," he thought, "his ability to ramble on is truly remarkable."

"Too long to read..."

Bai Ying said, "Is it possible that we're going to watch you sleep?"

……