On the first day of winter break, on a brilliantly sunny morning, Jiang Linyuan was firmly trapped by his blanket.
A blanket was the perfect partner—incredibly tolerant and considerate, covered in your scent, adjusting to your size, holding you close every night, and even if you farted on it, it wouldn't say a thing.
I'm a blanket-sexual! I love you, my old blanky!
"What ti is it?! Still sleeping!"
The door swung open, and the utterly unreasonable Jiang Zhiyao stord in with a broom, her face full of impatience:
"Get up! The weather's great today, so take the blankets out to air!"
Love was never smooth sailing. There was always soone trying to tear and my blanket apart.
Jiang Linyuan tugged at the blanket and looked at Jiang Zhiyao cleaning his room:
"What are you doing! How can you just barge in without knocking!"
"It's not like it's the first ti! It's not like you're gonna take off or anything, so what's the big deal if I co in!"
The domineering, unreasonable Jiang Zhiyao raised her broom with a look that said if you said one more word, she'd sweep you away like trash.
Jiang Linyuan climbed out of bed, hoisting the blanket over his shoulder:
"What about the blanket in your room? I'll take it out to air too."
"Aren't you even gonna wash up first!"
Jiang Zhiyao said disdainfully.
"I'll do it when I get back."
Jiang Linyuan walked out the door, spotted the folded blanket on the couch, and called out:
"I'm heading down now."
"Wait, I'll co with you in a bit. We'll hit the supermarket too and buy so groceries."
College students were on break, but high schoolers weren't yet, so Father and Mother Jiang were still busy.
With nothing else to do, the siblings helped out around the house, cooking and cleaning.
Jiang Zhiyao was tidying the room when she suddenly spotted the pink notebook on the desk and asked:
"Since when did you have a pink notebook like this?"
"The fox brought it over to repay a favor."
Jiang Linyuan took the chance to wash up.
"Repaying a favor? I think it's more like a fox spirit!" Jiang Zhiyao said irritably but didn't bother to look through it.
"Hey, speaking of fox spirits, do you know the story of the fox spirit repaying a favor?"
"Isn't that what we're talking about now?"
"Let tell you. Once upon a ti, a poor farr saved a fox. In winter, his family ran out of food, and he was about to starve. But one day, he found a bowl of porridge appearing in his house every day."
"After drinking the porridge, the farr felt full of energy. Later, he found out the fox was the one bringing it."
Jiang Linyuan fixed his hair a bit and walked into the living room.
"Oh, isn't that kind of cliché? The snail girl turned into a fox girl?"
Jiang Zhiyao finished cleaning the room and ca out.
"That fox was male."
Jiang Linyuan broke into a grin:
"This story is about a fox essence repaying a favor."
Jiang Zhiyao froze for a second, then dropped her broom and chased after Jiang Linyuan, hitting him:
"You're gonna die! Saying crap like that first thing in the morning!"
"Essence porridge is way more nutritious than rice porridge! I think this story should be called the aning of eating essence porridge!"
Jiang Linyuan dodged her attacks, laughing smugly.
He was so annoying! When this guy got cheeky, he was truly infuriating!
Jiang Zhiyao didn't want to deal with him anymore. She walked to the door and changed her shoes:
"Hurry up and get downstairs!"
Jiang Linyuan asked:
"Aren't you putting on makeup?"
"What kind of nonsense is that? I don't usually wear makeup anyway, okay!"
"A girl should still take care of her image."
"Who am I supposed to dress up for? Why do you always say such weird things?"
Jiang Zhiyao finished changing her shoes and walked straight out the door.
A woman dressed up for the one who delighted her, but after all this ti together, she didn't need any adornnt.
Just being together made them both happy.
"Oh, right, bring your car keys. Drive to the supermarket."
Jiang Linyuan froze for a second, grabbed the car keys the Departnt Head had given him, hoisted the two blankets, and headed downstairs.
...
After hanging up the blankets, Jiang Linyuan got into the car. Jiang Zhiyao sat in the passenger seat without saying a word.
"Aren't you gonna ask about this car?"
Jiang Linyuan inserted the key and asked.
"What's there to ask? It's a car Shen Wanyu gave you. What's the point?"
Jiang Zhiyao buckled her seatbelt and said.
"Aren't you curious why she gave this car?"
Jiang Linyuan stepped on the gas and asked.
"Didn't she tell you I already t her?"
Jiang Zhiyao let out a small laugh.
"She ntioned it, but she didn't go into detail about what you two talked about."
"We just had a simple chat."
Jiang Zhiyao looked around the car interior with boredom:
"Did you chase after Shen Wanyu for a long ti?"
"Friends, we're just friends."
"She sees you as a friend too, that's what I think."
Jiang Zhiyao said:
"You two have a pretty good relationship. Rare, actually, that you could have such a purely platonic female friend."
Don't just make baseless accusations! What do you an by and the Departnt Head being purely platonic friends!
With one sentence, you've made all my efforts so far completely pointless!
I've already held hands with the Departnt Head!
"But it's not good to keep borrowing her car. Rember to return it soon."
Jiang Zhiyao said, thinking back to her conversation with Shen Wanyu.
"You're Jiang Linyuan's little sister?"
"Yeah, I'm Jiang Zhiyao."
"I'm Shen Wanyu. I probably know why you wanted to see , so I'll be straightforward. Jiang Linyuan and I are good friends. But if you're thinking about taking it further, neither he nor I have any intention in that direction."
What a peculiar woman. It was like she could instantly guess what others were thinking.
And she truly had no such intentions.
"Do you ever get a strange feeling when you're around Shen Wanyu?"
Jiang Zhiyao asked again:
"Like she knows everything you're thinking?"
Absolutely! The power of Mind Reading was amazing—whoever used it knew it was great!
"That's just how the Departnt Head is."
Jiang Linyuan said.
"So much better than that Su Muzhi."
Jiang Zhiyao turned her gaze to Jiang Linyuan, who was driving.
"Friendship between friends isn't about ranking."
"Better hope it's really just friendship. She told she likes you."
"Xiao Su is full of lies. You can't believe anything she says."
Jiang Linyuan thought for a mont, then added:
"Besides, there are plenty of people who like . Do I have to keep every single one of them in my heart?"
"Keeping every single one? That's impossible. But I feel like you could manage two or three."
Jiang Zhiyao let out a cold laugh.
"Haji Yao, how can you talk about your own brother like that?"
"...You're not my real brother."
Jiang Zhiyao turned her face away and muttered softly, not daring to let him hear.
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