night.
After parting ways with Wang Xuefeng, Xiao He returned to his dormitory.
But from the placement of everything in the house, she realized that Patika and Valerie hadn't returned since they left for class that morning.
Logically, they should come back for a midday rest and take a shower after dinner; it's impossible for them to be outside all day.
For some reason, she felt uneasy. She wanted to go out and search, but she didn't know where to begin.
In this world, life and death at any moment may not be so important, after all, the dead can be brought back to life.
But some things are different because they are irreversible.
"So annoying."
Xiao He sat alone in her dormitory, her mind preoccupied with the two who hadn't returned home late at night, making it impossible for her to rest peacefully.
After thinking it over carefully, she decided to go to the Omega Building first.
Unexpectedly, just as I got up, I heard a familiar sound of footsteps outside the dormitory door.
"Click!"
The gate was opened, and Valerie, supporting the slightly drunk Patika, waved to Xiao He as soon as she saw him.
"Quick, quick! Give me a hand! I'm exhausted!"
"You, all of you?" Xiao He's lips twitched. "What have you all been doing all day...?"
"Ah! It's a long story!" With Xiao He's help, Valerie finally managed to get the drunken Patika onto her bed.
"This was Mr. Li Xiaozhi's private banquet. Patika doesn't drink alcohol, and she was like this after only one glass. Otherwise..."
"otherwise?"
"Otherwise we wouldn't be able to get back so early."
After Valerie finished speaking, she sat down in her chair, panting, and grabbed her water glass to gulp it down.
"Can't go back? So early?" Xiao He tapped the clock on the wall in an annoyed tone: "You call this early?!"
"Sigh..." Valerie muttered weakly, "If I hadn't strongly objected, Patika would have wanted to stay outside. This is really too early!"
Xiao He grew angrier as he listened, and habitually shoveled the hair on his forehead back with his five fingers, as if he was about to explode.
Let her go! — Can you really say that?
Don't let her go anymore! — Do you even have the right to say that?
If you go again, I'll kill him! —Is this propaganda against violence?
...
Finally, Xiao He calmly sat down.
"What's wrong?" Valerie asked casually as she put down her empty water glass and wiped the water stains.
"It's nothing," Xiao He said calmly. "I've decided not to have any more daughters."
"puff--"
Valerie exhaled a mouthful of air that she hadn't yet swallowed.
"You? What are you saying? As if you can decide that!" Valerie rolled her eyes at her after recovering.
Xiao He nodded solemnly: "I can."
"Are you kidding me?"
"No."
“Okay, then why not have a daughter?” Valerie asked, puzzled.
"Dangerous, mentally exhausting, and mentally taxing," Xiao He succinctly stated.
"So you mean that it's very hard for Your Highness to raise Patika as a daughter?" Valerie suddenly covered her mouth and laughed.
“That’s right. If it were me, I’d turn to the dark side after just one day of raising her, and the kind of dark side that destroys the world.” Xiao He said expressionlessly, “I’m starting to feel sorry for Isabel now.”
“But… there’s nothing we can do about it. We’re just accompanying her while she studies. As long as it doesn’t affect her studies, let her do whatever she likes,” Valerie said, shaking her head with a hint of helplessness.
Xiao He didn't know whether he felt like an old father or an old mother; he just felt that he suddenly understood things he didn't understand before.
“I didn’t object to her preferences, but Li Xiaozhi is not a good girl’s choice to entrust her life to.” Xiao He blurted out.
"A good girl? What makes a good girl?" Valerie tilted her head and asked innocently.
She always knew that Patika had a bad temper, didn't care about people, and had a terrible reputation in the Temple of Saints, except for the time she decided to sacrifice herself to save everyone... Does that make her a "good girl"?
Xiao He understood her confusion, but he didn't know how to explain his definition of a "good girl" as a "modern person," nor did he understand the general view of love in this world.
Is it "loyalty" to give oneself to love or to marriage?
Valerie became even more confused as she waited for Xiao He's explanation.
"However, why do you say that Mr. Li Xiaozhi is not worthy of being entrusted with anything?"
After Valerie finished asking her question, without waiting for Xiao He's reply, she began to recall things herself, and then started counting on her fingers and rambling on:
"It seems that many people say that Commander Lucadi is not suited for marriage, and many say that he will never find a wife in his life. Why is that?"
"What exactly are the criteria people use to judge whether someone is suitable or not... whether they are worthwhile...?"
"If everyone has different opinions, then is the answer appropriate or inappropriate?"
Valerie realized that this problem wasn't for her.
She has always loved pursuing the truth and seeking the only correct answer.
If she can't figure out the correct order to solve a problem, she will fall into a state of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
As she asked a series of questions, the small room fell into an inexplicable silence, and even Patika's breathing gradually calmed down.
Looking at Xiao He, then at her own fingers, Valerie didn't know what she was waiting for.
"There is no answer." Xiao He suddenly felt relieved.
"No?" Valerie was stunned, her brain abruptly shut down.
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