“You’re right. Looks like I’ll need to have our colleagues in the sister departments work overtime tonight.”
Agreeing with Hu Yao’er’s point, Bai Yuling said this to herself as well.
“Alright, enough about that. Tonight, whether it’s our Supernatural Affairs Bureau members or you guys from the Free Life Association, everyone is already very tired. Let’s go back, rest for the night, and wait until tomorrow to dive back into the intense investigation.”
Hearing Bai Yuling’s words, Hu Yao’er—who wasn’t physically exhausted but had been running several threads at once and felt like she was about to have a mental breakdown—quickly nodded and said to Bai Yuling.
“That’s true. We really do need some rest right now. Well then, Auntie Bai, we’ll take our leave now. We’ll meet up again tomorrow at your Fangfeng City Supernatural Affairs Bureau headquarters.”
“Okay, see you tomorrow.”
After speaking, Hu Yao’er turned her head to glance at her other two selves. Receiving their pretend nods in reply, she led them away from there.
…
“Phew, it’s finally over. Although the system feature of using transformation cards to create clones is really useful, controlling so many clones at once to take action is no small burden on the mind. Isn’t there any way to solve this problem?”
Having finished her training for the night, Yan Qi—knowing that her parents were still taking a walk in the park and wouldn’t be back for a while—lay sprawled out on her living room sofa. Recalling her experiences over the past few days of running several threads to control multiple clones simultaneously, she muttered this to herself.
After thinking about this problem for a long time, Yan Qi realized that she had absolutely no solution to it at all.
“This is such a headache.”
Tapping her own head, Yan Qi couldn’t help but feel a bit dejected and secretly grumbled to herself.
“I’m so sleepy. It’d be great if I could just sleep, but unfortunately, if I really fall asleep, all my clones would shut down completely. I wonder when Mom and Dad will come back from the park.”
Just as Yan Qi was sitting on her sofa, struggling to fight off her drowsiness and wondering when her parents would return from their walk in the park—
Right then, in the park not far from her home, Yan Zhenyi was holding his wife Li Caifeng’s hand as they strolled along the nighttime tree-lined path.
“The night view is really beautiful tonight, honey. Aren’t you going to look up?”
Knowing that her husband wasn’t in a very good mood at the moment and wanting to help him relax, Li Caifeng looked up at the starry sky and said this to him.
Hearing his wife’s words, Yan Zhenyi was momentarily stunned. Then, he raised his head and gazed at the star-filled sky above. After a moment, he spoke in an agreeing tone.
“Yeah, Caifeng, the night view really is beautiful tonight.”
Hearing this, Li Caifeng continued asking her husband.
“So, honey, what do you think is more beautiful? The night sky up there, or me?”
“Why are you asking that question?”
Hearing his wife’s inquiry, Yan Zhenyi asked, a bit confused.
“Never mind why I’m asking this question. Just answer me quickly. Hurry up.”
Without explaining why she was asking him this, Li Caifeng simply urged him on.
Hearing this, although he didn’t understand what his wife was up to, Yan Zhenyi thought for a moment and then gave her his answer.
“In my eyes, of course you are the most beautiful, Caifeng. No matter how beautiful the starry sky is, it can never belong to me alone. But you are the only scenery in this world that belongs to me and me alone.”
“Honey, that’s so cheesy. But I really like it. Mwah.”
Hearing her husband’s answer, Li Caifeng’s heart felt sweeter than if she had eaten honey. After saying that she really liked his response, she didn’t forget to leave her mark on his cheek.
“Sigh, Caifeng, what are you doing? What if someone sees us? That would be so embarrassing.”
Having his wife leave a mark on his cheek, Yan Zhenyi—who wasn’t very fond of showing such intimate couple behavior in public—immediately blushed deeply. Then, he quickly said this to his wife.
Looking at her husband’s deeply flushed face, Li Caifeng knew she had successfully improved his mood through her actions just now. A faint smile appeared on her face as she looked at him and said.
“Don’t worry. It’s very late now. There’s no one here in the park to see us. And even if someone did see us, so what? We’ve been a legally married couple for twenty years. It’s not like they’re going to gossip about us.”
Hearing his wife’s words and confirming that there really was no one passing by who could have seen their intimate moment, Yan Zhenyi quickly calmed down.
Recalling his wife’s actions toward him earlier and having spent so many years with her, after a moment of realization, how could he not understand the intention behind what she had just done?
Then, although a thousand words welled up in his heart, in the end, Yan Zhenyi only managed to say one thing to his wife.
“Caifeng, I’m sorry. I made you worry.”
Hearing this, Li Caifeng, knowing that her husband’s emotional knot had been untied, said to him.
“We’ve been husband and wife for so many years. Why are you being so polite with me, honey? Let’s go home now. Xiao Qi is probably still waiting for us.”
“Okay. Let’s go home.”
Nodding to his wife, Yan Zhenyi—feeling much better than before—took her hand and walked together toward the park exit, setting off on the path home.
“I never expected Dad to say something as cheesy as ‘the only scenery in this world that belongs to me and me alone’ to Mom. You’d never tell from how he usually acts.”
Having received the voice conversation between her parents through Ji Zige, Yan Qi couldn’t help but mutter this to herself in surprise.
“Whatever. What’s the use of me dwelling on this? I’d better hurry up and turn on the water heater in their room. Otherwise, there won’t be any hot water for them to shower with when they get back.”
Pulling back her surprised expression, Yan Qi knew that dwelling on such things was useless. After saying this to herself, she got up from the living room sofa and went to heat up water for her parents.