The next morning, just as dawn was breaking, Guangyou woke up from his sleep.
Last night he dreamed that he was holding a design drawing and chatting with a person wearing a safety helmet.
While chatting, he would occasionally gesture towards a fenced-off open space in front of him.
Guangyou can't remember the specifics of the chat, but he can guess a bit about it.
It's nothing more than "I want to build this place like this" or something similar.
Next to this open space, there were two buildings that Guangyou recognized at a glance, though he couldn't make out their appearance clearly.
However, he woke up before the house was even built.
Sitting half-upright on the bed, after a while, Guangyou lifted the covers, got out of bed to change his clothes, pushed open the door, and walked towards the bathroom.
When Guangyou finished washing up and came to the kitchen, a ray of morning light shone through the window.
Take out the ground meat and flour that I prepared yesterday from the refrigerator.
Set the minced meat aside. Then, Guangyou poured an appropriate amount of flour into a bowl and added an appropriate amount of water to the bowl.
After doing all that, Guangyou started kneading the dough.
...
Amidst the hustle and bustle, the sky quietly brightened.
By the time Guangyou placed the steamer full of xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) on the pot and started steaming, the sky was already fully bright.
After washing his hands, Guangyou looked up at the window.
"The weather's nice today." Guangyou looked away, dried his hands with a towel, and muttered to himself, "Let's go for a run."
The time it takes to steam the xiaolongbao is just enough for Guangyou to run around the office twice.
Since I'm free anyway, I might as well treat it as morning exercise.
...
Before returning to his office, Kōyū stopped by a nearby convenience store and bought a few bottles of milk.
When he returned to the third floor after buying the milk, Ai had already woken up.
Hearing the door open, Ai came out of the kitchen and greeted Kōyū, "Good morning."
"Good morning." Kōyū carried the bag, walked into the kitchen, and greeted Ai with a smile.
"It seems almost done." Ai followed Kousuke back to the kitchen with her hands behind her back. When she saw Kousuke preparing to lift the steamer, she subconsciously asked him a question.
"Be careful, it's hot."
"Don't worry." Guangyou replied, then lifted the lid of the steamer and took a small step back.
Instantly, a large amount of steam, accompanied by heat waves, gushed out of the steamer.
In an instant, the kitchen became "ethereal".
This "ethereal aura" comes quickly and goes quickly.
It only lasted for a few seconds before Guangyou felt the "celestial aura" dissipate somewhat, and his vision became much clearer.
Once the "fairy aura" dissipated, Guangyou could clearly see the steamed buns lying in the steamer.
The filling beneath the dough is faintly visible in the rising steam.
"Hmm...it's ready." Guangyou leaned closer to take a look at the xiaolongbao, nodded in satisfaction, and said, praising himself.
"As expected of me, the presentation is quite good!"
"It's actually not bad." Ai placed the empty plate and chopsticks on the table, and nodded in response to Kōyū's words.
"Hoo...hoo..." Guangyou picked up a small steamed bun with his chopsticks, placed it on a plate to catch it, blew on it to cool it down, and then put it in front of Xiao Ai's mouth.
"Try it."
"Mmm." Ai nodded, parted her cherry lips slightly, and took a small bite.
The soup inside the xiaolongbao was still a bit hot, which somewhat affected its deliciousness.
But this is not a bad influence, but a good one.
To put it simply, "the broth seems to breathe life into the xiaolongbao."
It's no exaggeration to say that a xiaolongbao without soup is like eating instant noodles without a seasoning packet or drinking soda without bubbles.
Most of the flavor was simply gone.
After swallowing the xiaolongbao in her mouth, Xiao Ai suddenly remembered something, and then her two willow eyebrows furrowed slightly as she took a small breath.
"It's still a bit hot..."
Is it still hot?
Guangyou has always been very attentive to this kind of thing.
He didn't carefully observe whether Ai had actually been burned.
Upon hearing this, he frowned, immediately placed the soup-drenched steamed buns on a plate, and then put the plate on the table.
Then, Kōyū quickly grabbed a cup, poured some water, and handed it to Ai, gesturing for her to drink a sip.
Seeing the worried expression on Kousuke's face, Ai took the cup from Kousuke's hand and took a small sip.
Although the water was cold, my heart was warm.
"Are you feeling better?" Kōyū looked at Ai, his face and words full of concern.
"Hmm..." Ai took another sip of water, nodded, and when Kōyū breathed a sigh of relief, she confessed directly.
Actually, I wasn't burned.
"It's good that you didn't get burned." Guangyou nodded, breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the plate, used chopsticks to pick up the xiaolongbao, and blew on it to cool it down.
Then he put it in front of Ai's mouth and said, "Then eat this."
He didn't take Ai's act of pretending to be burned to heart.
"Mmm." Xiao Ai nodded and put the xiaolongbao in her mouth.
The soup was still warm, but not scalding.
After swallowing the xiaolongbao, Xiao Ai asked, "Don't you mind?"
"What do you care about?" Guangyou turned on the tap, rinsed the plate, and said without turning around, "If you're talking about the time you got burned."
"Then I care a lot."
"But what if you're talking about the time you pretended to get burned..."
"It would be a lie to say I don't care, but what I do care about is that you didn't get burned."
"I don't mind if you pretend to get burned."
Even though Ai knew the answer to the question in her heart, she still couldn't help but ask it after hearing what Mitsuyu said.
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