Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 24 Lin Xiaolu's Memories
It was night, the gray-black sky seemed to be smeared with ink, the shadow of the moon was hazy, and the stars were dim.

Lin Xiaolu lay sideways by the window, curled up, quietly looking at the boundless night sky.

At some point, Mo Ke had already fallen asleep lying on the bedside, the crystal wings on his back were draped over his shoulders, and the pink fluff was trembling slightly, without a single sound.

From time to time, there was a slight sound of fabric rubbing on the ground beside the bed, and it was obvious that someone was tossing and falling asleep.

"Xiaolu, are you asleep?"

Suddenly, Xia Liang's voice sounded in a dark room.

She didn't get a response, and Lin Xiaolu said nothing, turning a deaf ear to it.

"Let me tell you, this dress is a bit too tight, and I feel constricted when I sleep."

But Xia Liang never cared about these things, so he said to himself when no one answered, "So can I sleep naked?"

"……no."

Agitated by these words, Jing Ye no longer had any melancholy, Lin Xiaolu drooped her eyelids and rejected Xia Liang's proposal.

She first casually refused, and then recalled, realizing what Xia Liang's words "clothes are tight" meant, and immediately felt even more uncomfortable: "Wear my clothes and sleep in my room, where did you come from?" How much to ask? Believe it or not, I will let you sleep on the sofa in the living room?"

"Sleeping naked?" Xia Liang blinked, her cheeks flushed.

"Of course I'm wearing clothes!" Lin Xiaolu gritted her teeth.

"Just kidding, besides, it's not good to be seen by your family."

"Do you still know this is my home?"

Halfway through the joke, the two were speechless for a moment.

After a while, Xia Liang held the quilt in his hands, tightened his arms, and closed his eyes:

"Let me tell you, Xiaolu."

"What's the matter?" Having already spoken, Lin Xiaolu couldn't pretend to be silent anymore, so Lin Xiaolu could only ask Xia Liang angrily.

"Do you have a bad relationship with your father?"

Xia Liang's question made Lin Xiaolu's expression freeze.

With her back facing Xia Liang's direction, Lin Xiaolu moved her face closer to the inner side of the pillow to lower her voice: "Can you see?"

"Well, I feel it."

"So, but it has nothing to do with you?"

When it came to this topic, Lin Xiaolu's voice became a little hoarse: "Or do you want to preach to me?"

"Not."

Xia Liang said softly in the night: "I'm just curious."

"Curious what?"

"Your father should care about you. He is actually very kind to you."

"... How do you judge? Just based on what you said?"

"Not words, but attitudes and expressions."

Speaking of this, Xia Liang's tone was a bit serious: "Whether parents really care about their children can be seen from such details."

As soon as these words came out, there was another long silence.

Lin Xiaolu didn't say a word, as if she was caught in some kind of thinking, and Xia Liang didn't say much at this time.

After a long time, as if she had decided on something, Lin Xiaolu said, "What does he look like now?"

Xia Liang was a little puzzled when he heard the words: "Now? Wasn't it before?"

"of course not."

In the darkness, Lin Xiaolu's expression was unclear, but her voice seemed to come out of her throat, with an indescribable resentment:
"If you haven't seen it, you can't understand it. He is really unreasonable. That cold-blooded face makes people feel chilling."

"It's been like that since I was a child. Work, work, work, either work overtime or socialize. When I'm at home, I just keep a straight face, as if I'm not happy about anything and don't care about anything. It's the same for me, only They kept enrolling me in cram schools, buying exercise books, and telling me to study hard.”

"At that time, my mother always said that she had to be considerate of him and forgive him. Even if he prepared a table of dishes for the festival, and he said he couldn't come back to eat as soon as he called, she still didn't complain at all."

"And then one day, she died."

"It was fine the day before, but the next day he suddenly told me that my mother was dead, and from now on it will be only him and me, and then neither the reason nor the result. I asked him to show me the last side of my mother, you Guess what his answer was?"

As if she didn't expect Lin Xiaolu to ask a question at this time, Xia Liang responded slightly: "Hmm... your father didn't agree?"

"Well, he said 'forget her'."

Lin Xiaolu sneered, but there was no smile on her face: "He packed up her things casually, invited a few people casually, and held a funeral casually, as if everything was over like this.

"Then disappears in the middle of the memorial service, hugging a young woman from nowhere."

"Is he really working outside? Is he really thinking about his mother? I don't know, but I am very worried and scared. I asked him the reason, but he avoided talking about it; even if I cried to him After reading it, there is still no reaction at all, only talking nonsense like he is also very sad."

"In the end, I quarreled with him. I can't remember what I said to him at that time. I just remember that I really told him all the anger and confusion at that time, and then he slapped me."

"What did you say? 'Who do you think I'm all for'? It seems to be this sentence?"

"For whom? Anyway, it's not for me, and it's not for mother? Otherwise, why did he hug other women at home within a few days?"

"It's obvious that you look so loving on weekdays, but after the other party really passed away, you immediately changed your face. Is this what mother once said to understand him?"

"And then I ran away from home."

These words made Xia Liang's eyes slightly widen.

As if suddenly realizing something, she looked in the direction of Lin Xiaolu, but in the dark room, Lin Xiaolu still turned her back to her.

"So I won't ask you why you ran away from home. I know that only under what circumstances does a person want to run away from home."

Her voice was muffled, and the unknown anger receded at a certain moment, but she didn't know whether it disappeared or was hidden deeper.

"I lived in a classmate's house for many days. I didn't go to school during that time, and I just stayed alone."

She continued to talk about her past experience: "I don't know when, it seems that the parents of a classmate contacted the school, and the school told him where I was, and then he came to the door."

"That was probably the first time I saw him in such a state of distress, with black eye circles like a ghost, unshaven beard, uncut hair, and he didn't wear the formal suit he wore all year long, and put on a dusty scumbag. Here comes the jacket."

"He said 'go home', and I thought we've gotten to this point, why should I go back with you?"

"But seeing him like that, I don't know why I still feel soft-hearted, sympathy? Or grievance? When I came back to my senses, I had already held his hand like a ghost."

"Since then it has been like this, I don't talk to him much, he seems to be a 'good father' like making up for something, but that's about it."

When she said this, it seemed that because what she wanted to say was finally over and some emotions had been dispelled, she breathed a sigh of relief and slowed down her speech.

"No, it's over here."

Lin Xiaolu closed her eyes: "Can this boring story satisfy you?"

Xia Liang didn't answer immediately.She didn't know when she let go of the hand holding the quilt, as if she remembered something, she was a little dazed.

After a while, she lowered her eyelids and replied softly, "Yes."

"That's good."

Lin Xiaolu pulled up the quilt and half covered her face: "I'm sleeping."

The room was silent, for a long time, the sound of even breathing came from Lin Xiaolu's bed, only Xia Liang was left awake on the mattress on the floor.

She didn't bother with the tight clothes on her body anymore, and she didn't care about the poorly matted floor of the bed she worked with Lin Xiaolu on.

She seemed to say something, but only she could hear that sentence.

Finally, in the dim midnight, Xia Liang also slowly fell into a deep sleep.

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