Ai said, "Don't you know if it's a dream?"
As Guangyou heard the voice and was about to turn around to say something to Ai, he suddenly felt a refreshing fragrance waft towards him, followed by a soft, smooth sensation on his lips.
His pupils suddenly contracted, his mind went blank, and before he could react, Rou Ni had already left where she had been, leaving only a small wet patch on the corner of her lips.
Unable to walk any further, Guangyou stood there blankly, his eyes unfocused, his mouth slightly open. He reached out and wiped his lips, as if savoring the memory.
At the same time, he felt his cheeks getting hot, and a unique blush crept up his cheeks.
Meanwhile, Ai's reaction was equally strong; her delicate earlobes, covered in fine downy hair, were already flushed with an alluring red.
She stood there stunned for a while, then asked in a murmur, "Why did you turn your head?"
Guangyou said blankly, "I just wanted to say one thing."
Ai turned her head to look at the roadside and asked, "What did you say?"
"I forgot."
Guangyou's heart was beating slightly faster at this moment. He seemed to have lost the ability to think. His mind was filled with all sorts of thoughts, but he couldn't come up with any conclusions.
After a while, Guangyou glanced at the shopping bag he was still carrying and said, "Let's go home first. Mingmei is waiting for the soy sauce."
"Um."
After responding, Ai looked at the ground ahead and followed Kousuke with small steps.
A silence fell between them before Ai spoke first, asking, "By the way, what did you mean by 'close to adulthood'?"
Guangyou looked at her, raising an eyebrow: "You were eavesdropping?"
Ai Haibara, of course, couldn't admit that she had been eavesdropping by pressing her ear against the door after entering the room. Instead, she looked around humbly and said, "I overheard it by accident."
"Literal meaning."
The two had already arrived at the apartment building entrance, so Guangyou quickly ended the conversation and went upstairs first.
Mingmei sat on the sofa watching TV, the whole apartment filled with the rich aroma of food.
Seeing the two finally return, Akemi joked, "I remember there's a convenience store nearby, only a few minutes away. Why did it take you almost half an hour to come back? Did you go to do something else?"
"Not at all, we just ran into some trouble on the way and were delayed a little." Guangyou took out the soy sauce, gestured to Mingmei, and asked, "Do we still need soy sauce now?"
Akemi turned her head to look at the large table of delicious food, then turned back to Kōyū and asked, "What do you think?"
Guangyou gave an awkward laugh and said, "It seems we don't need it. I'll go put the soy sauce away."
After putting the soy sauce in the right place in the kitchen, Akemi and Ai were already sitting at the dining table with their hands on the table, waiting for the last person to sit down.
The drinks on the table had already been poured into stemmed glasses. Just a bottle of juice that cost the equivalent of a dozen or so RMB was poured into a stemmed glass and suddenly it looked much more sophisticated.
Even if the wine in the glass is Nongfu Spring, as long as your movements look professional, it will look much more upscale.
Mingmei's cooking is delicious, with a warm, homey feel that's hard to find in restaurants.
To give a simple example, the portion sizes at home are indeed one or two times larger than those at most restaurants.
"You two seem a bit off. Did something happen just now?"
Akemi keenly sensed that the atmosphere between the two was different from before they left home, and she felt that something had happened on the way.
"Sister, you're overthinking it. What else could happen? Just eat your food."
Before Kōyū could answer, Ai ended the conversation, glancing at him with an unmistakable threatening look in her eyes.
After finishing their meal, Kōyū helped wash the dishes, then sat for a while longer before preparing to leave, while Ai stayed to spend the night.
The sky was gradually darkening. Guangyou walked along the road, the knot in his heart still there, but it was not as obvious anymore.
He had thought about it over the past few hours. This frustration was a manifestation of his extreme insecurity. Today's accident had slightly reduced his frustration and hidden it away, but it was still there.
The disease is hard to cure completely, and he didn't know when this little knot in his heart would disappear.
"It should end on that day."
With one hand propped against a lamppost and the other supporting his forehead, Guangyou's mind was filled with images flashing through his mind.
There are images that arose from his inner turmoil, and things worth remembering up to now...
Shaking his head, Guangyou walked into a convenience store, bought some things using a common excuse, and came out.
"Bang"
Guangyou was carrying a bag in one hand and an opened can of beer in the other.
He doesn't drink alcohol, and this time when he did drink was an extremely rare exception, and his purpose was not to get drunk.
Guangyou didn't know exactly how much alcohol he could drink, but he was sure he could drink three or four bottles of beer and stay sober.
The shop windows along the street shone with a milky white light, while in the distance, high-rise buildings flashed with colorful neon lights.
Guangyou walked a few steps, took a sip of water, and headed towards the office.
However, he hadn't gone far when he realized that he couldn't just go back to the office like that. The smell of alcohol on him was easy for Ran, whose father was an alcoholic, to detect.
He didn't really want to stay in a hotel; with his current physique, it would be too much trouble.
After thinking it over, Guangyou decided that he should spend the night at a new place that had been vacant for a long time.
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