Yuzuru felt the soft touch beneath his hand, then looked to Ran for permission. Ran blushed and hesitated for a moment before finally nodding gently: "...Just this once."
Having received permission, Yuzuru Hanyu no longer held back.
His technique was clearly much more skilled than Sonoko's, and he quickly increased the liquid in the bottle. Sonoko tilted her head back and let out intermittent sobs, her fingers gripping the sofa cover tightly.
"Hmm..."
Twenty minutes later, Sonoko finally finished her "punishment." She slumped in the chair as if all her strength had been drained, her cheeks flushed, her chest heaving violently, and her bangs were soaked with sweat and stuck to her skin.
Xiaolan shook the bottle filled with milky white liquid with satisfaction: "First day's portion complete~"
She handed the bottle to Yuzuru Nan: "Nan, would you like to try some?"
Yuzuru took the bottle and took a sip under Sonoko's embarrassed and indignant gaze. It didn't taste like real milk, but rather a unique sweetness with a hint of strawberry fragrance and a faint vanilla aftertaste.
"Is it good?" Xiaolan asked curiously.
Hanyu Nanami nodded honestly: "It's delicious."
Upon hearing this, Sonoko's lips unconsciously curled up, clearly pleased with the compliment, despite her current disheveled appearance.
Yuzuru gently pulled her shirt up for her, but then heard her whisper, "...Should we continue tomorrow...?"
"Of course! A week is a week!"
Xiao Lan righteously accepted the bottle and put the lid on it.
Sonoko buried her face in the cushion, her muffled voice coming through: "...Then I'll need Nan's help tomorrow..."
Just as Xiaolan was about to object, Yusheng Nan interrupted with a smile: "Sure, but..."
He leaned close to Sonoko's ear and whispered something, which made Sonoko scream and grab a pillow to throw at him.
"What are you talking about?" Xiaolan looked at the two of them suspiciously.
Yuzuru smiled mysteriously: "It's a secret~"
Just then, the sound of wind chimes starting up the flower ladder came from upstairs.
After tidying up the spirit rice field in the attic, Akemi pulled Ai, who was huddled in the experiment, down with her. The two of them came out of the flower ladder and were stunned when they saw the scene in the living room: "What... are you doing?"
Ai's gaze swept over Sonoko, who was disheveled, Ran, whose face was slightly flushed, and Hanyu, who was grinning like a cat that had stolen cream. She coldly uttered two words: "Pervert."
A pervert who doesn't even spare himself!
Is that kind of snack something I can eat at my age?
Yuzuru Hanyu spread his hands innocently: "I was just carrying out a just punishment~"
Akemi looked at the bottle on the table filled with white liquid, and seemed to understand something. She smiled gently and asked, "Young Master Yuzuru, is it good?"
"Fantastic!"
Yuzuru gave a thumbs up.
"Heh." Ai sneered, "I can tell from your smug look."
She turned to the garden, "How does it taste?"
Still somewhat dazed from the afterglow, Yuanzi mumbled, "Sweet... kind of like sun-dried strawberries..."
As soon as the words left her mouth, she realized what she had said and immediately turned into a boiled shrimp, shrinking into a ball as if she wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Ai shook her head, ignoring Sonoko who had crawled into the sofa and refused to come out, and turned to walk towards the kitchen: "A bunch of hopeless adults... I'll go heat up the milk."
He paused, then added, "Normal milk."
............
A subtle atmosphere permeated the restaurant during dinner.
Yuanzi was incredibly attentive, spending the entire dinner time serving Xiaolan food, from braised pork to steamed fish, piling the bowls in front of her into a small mountain.
"Xiao Lan, try this shrimp. I specially picked out the biggest one for you!" Yuanzi smiled ingratiatingly, picked up a crystal-clear shrimp with her chopsticks, and carefully placed it on top of Xiao Lan's bowl.
Ran glanced at the "food tower" that looked like it could collapse at any moment, her lips twitching slightly. She said, half-laughing and half-crying, "Sonoko, are you trying to bury me in food?"
"How could that be!" Sonoko blinked her big eyes, her gaze innocent, as if everything she had done was out of pure goodwill. "I just wanted to express my apology~"
Xiao Lan gave a soft hum and picked up a shrimp, putting it in her mouth.
After Sonoko's attentive service throughout the night, her anger had indeed subsided somewhat, but the punishment still had to continue—she was afraid that Sonoko wouldn't learn her lesson if she didn't teach this mischievous young lady a profound lesson.
After all, this time they even dared to secretly put pop-out cookies in their mother's clothes.
Next time, will you dare to get Mom drunk and throw her onto Nan's bed?
It's too much to even think about, so the punishment must continue. We must teach her a profound lesson so she'll remember it.
After dinner, in the kitchen, Yuzuru carefully took out the semi-finished dessert molds that Natsumi Kosaka had meticulously made one by one and arranged them neatly on the counter.
The basic shape of the meringue lemon pie has been taken shape, with the delicate filling faintly visible beneath the pale golden crust, exuding a subtle lemony aroma.
"Miss Xia Mei's craftsmanship is truly amazing."
Mingmei tied on an apron and walked over, her fingertips lightly brushing the edge of the mold. "Even the semi-finished product is so exquisite."
She had personally experienced the Egg of Memories incident, so she had a deep impression of Natsumi Kosaka, the princess of a fallen kingdom.
A few days ago, after Xiaolan and Sonoko returned, they enthusiastically recounted what happened at the cake shop, which gave her a better understanding of Natsumi Kosaka.
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