"Did you rush back just to ask these things?" Jiang Qiuqiu’s eyes widened. "If I’d known, I wouldn’t have let you in the car."
"So, now that I’ve been specially recruited by the Military Departnt, I guess I’m your subordinate? You can’t even get three sentences in without bringing up spiritual power!"
Jiang Qiuqiu’s expression didn’t change as she spoke, but her tone rose slightly. Hearing this, Mo Si couldn’t quite tell if she was angry.
"That’s not what I ant..." Mo Si said. "It just slipped out."
He’d stumbled into another dead-end topic.
’Why is every topic I bring up a dead-end one?’ Realizing this one was also a bad idea, Mo Si quickly changed the subject.
"Let’s change the subject. Qiuqiu, won’t you be cold wearing that to the annual eting today?" Outside, the world was blanketed in snow. Against the apricot-colored gauze dress, her exposed skin seed as pale as the snow itself.
"It should be fine. Sister Mingi said that aside from being a little cold when getting out of the car, everywhere else is indoors with heating."
’I see.’
’This was another thing I don’t get. Qiuqiu is probably going to an annual eting, or a victory celebration. For an event that’s for accepting awards, mingling, and eating, shouldn’t she wear sothing more casual and comfortable?’
’Why wear a dress with a hem she could trip on, a dress that looks so drafty it’s as if the snowy wind would blow right through?’
"Black Hole, what are you thinking about?" Jiang Qiuqiu reached out and waved her hand.
The man looked up. "It’s nothing. I was just thinking that since you took first place, I should congratulate you."
"Haha, didn’t you already congratulate on the terminal?"
"That’s different, isn’t it? Congratulating you over a terminal isn’t the sa as congratulating you in person." After speaking, Mo Si asked, "Are you coming back here after the annual eting tonight?"
"I probably won’t. The company organized so activities for after the eting. I might not be back until tomorrow or the day after."
"Why? Is sothing up?"
Mo Si humd.
"I was planning to give it to you tonight, if you were coming back."
As Mo Si spoke, he pulled a square, navy-blue velvet box from his pocket.
"Wow!" Jiang Qiuqiu exclaid. "Black Hole, you actually brought a gift!"
"Mm..." Mo Si averted his gaze. "A while ago, didn’t you say that the silver river of stars on Polar Star was beautiful?"
Once, after returning from a patrol, Mo Si couldn’t help but share a view of the Pole’s silver river of stars with Jiang Qiuqiu. She had ntioned in passing that she found a silver river of stars more distinctive than a blue one.
"So, did you pluck the stars from the sky for ?" Jiang Qiuqiu asked. "Can I open the box and take a look?"
"Mm."
’This velvet box looks a lot like the one from the necklace Mo Si gave before.’
’He probably bought a silver necklace or a bracelet,’ Jiang Qiuqiu thought, ’one that would shimr with starlight, like a ribbon cut from the galaxy itself—’
’For him to even think of a way to gift a ’galaxy’ like this is huge progress.’
Jiang Qiuqiu opened the box with anticipation, but what t her eyes was a small black device.
"..."
"This thing—" Jiang Qiuqiu leaned in for a closer look. "Is it a cara robot’s mory drive?"
’Did he use a cara robot to record the galaxy and bring it back for to see?’
"No." Mo Si shook his head. "If it was for watching, I would have just sent you the video."
"It’s sothing else," Mo Si explained. "But you have to wait until tonight to use it, when it’s completely dark. All you have to do is press the little circle on it."
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