Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 32
After making a lot of noise, when Lin Xiaolu combed her hair and moved to the dining table with her slippers to finish her breakfast, it was already 25:[-].

During this period, she probably felt that Lin Yun, as an ordinary person, couldn't see fairies. She and Mo Ke still stared at each other from time to time, extending the cold war from the bathroom to the restaurant.

Lin Yun gave full play to his acting skills, pretending not to know about it and turning a blind eye to it.He silently put away the bowls and chopsticks, rinsed them briefly and put them in the disinfection cabinet, then picked up his own things and looked at Lin Xiaolu.

Although he didn't speak, what he wanted to express was obvious: Do you want me to drive you?
Lin Xiaolu remained silent.

Lin Yun chose to drive her to school at this point, which meant that he was ready to be late. She just didn't want to accept this intention, not that she didn't understand.

Every time she accepted her father's kindness, she lost a reason to hate him.She didn't want the relationship between them to get better so easily. In the end, she would not be able to hate him. Otherwise, who else would remember her mother's grievances?

So she lowered her head and staggered Lin Yun's sight.

This is probably a silent refusal.

"If you really want to go by yourself, don't blame me for being late."

Lin Yun was used to this, and his emotions didn't fluctuate much.Anyway, it wasn't a day or two since Lin Xiaolu quarreled with him, so it's strange that she really readily agreed.If she doesn't want to go with him, then don't force her.

After tidying up his luggage and changing his leather shoes, he opened the door and walked into the corridor of the apartment, heading towards the elevator.

"Squeak"!
However, before walking ten meters away, the door behind him was opened again.

He turned his head, only to see Lin Xiaolu protruding half of her body from the crack of the door, still with her head sideways and her eyes lowered, her lips moving, as if she was whispering something.

"It's too low to hear," he said.

Lin Xiaolu stopped moving.

Her eyes wandered, looking at the ground, then at the wall, and then glanced at Mo Ke who was grinning badly, and then took a peek at her father.

Finally, she took a deep breath, turned her head towards Lin Yun, closed her eyes and shouted:

"I told you to wait for me to get my schoolbag!"

……

……

Luoming District, Xidian Road, under the viaduct bridge.

Lin Yun looked at the stagnant traffic ahead, tapping the steering wheel with his fingers.

Fortunately, he had already fully anticipated the traffic jam, so he was not in a hurry at the moment. Anyway, he himself was doomed to be late, so it was enough to ensure that his daughter could arrive at school on time before eight o'clock.

Lin Xiaolu, who was sitting in the back seat, looked out the window without saying a word, not knowing what she was thinking.In the schoolbag on the side, Mo Ke looked at the two people in the car with his head probed.

Glancing at her daughter's state through the rearview mirror, Lin Yun thought for a while, and felt that some topics still had to be discussed, so he simply said, "Lulu, do you have a final exam next week?"

Taking exams at this time, of course, for children, it is a pot that is not open.

"Hmm." So Lin Xiaolu's reaction was flat, and she obviously didn't want to discuss this topic in depth.

"How are you preparing?" Lin Yun tried his best to keep his tone calm and avoid putting pressure on his daughter.

"Let's be so-so."

"I remember you said you were in the middle at the end of last semester?"

"almost."

"Then is there any target ranking this time? If you achieve it, Dad can buy you some small gifts."

"……unnecessary."

Lin Xiaolu paused, her voice was dull: "You have already bought it for your birthday before."

What she was talking about was in May. To be precise, her birthday was on May [-]th.At that time, Lin Xiaolu hadn't met Mo Ke, nor had she become a magical girl. She was just an ordinary junior high school student who was worried about youth and life.

On her birthday, she insisted on rejecting Lin Yun's proposal to spend it together, saying that she had other arrangements and wanted to hang out with her friends and let him take care of her own affairs.

Lin Yun, who couldn't hold back his daughter, had no choice but to attend the company's dinner party, and left halfway because he couldn't calm down, and rushed home early with the birthday gift he bought for Lin Xiaolu—a new mobile phone.

And it wasn't until he got home that he realized that Lin Xiaolu had no "other arrangements" at all that night.Instead of hanging out with friends, she stayed home alone, sang happy birthday to herself, and ended up blowing out the birthday candles by herself.

Such a scene happened to be encountered by Lin Yun, and he felt distressed and angry at the same time.He asked his daughter why she hurt herself like this, but Lin Xiaolu became angry and refused to answer. The relationship between father and daughter cooled down again, and she didn't say a word for a long time.

Many days later, Lin Yun saw Lin Xiaolu who had become a magical girl in a TV report, and the stagnant relationship between the two slowly moved forward again.

"Sorry, Lulu."

Looking at the moving traffic in front of him, Lin Yun suddenly said: "On my previous birthday, I should have insisted on staying with you."

"Now say this?"

Lin Xiaolu opened her eyes in surprise, but she glanced at Mo Ke in the schoolbag next to her, and put on a nonchalant expression: "It doesn't matter, it's been so long anyway."

"It doesn't matter how long it's been."

Lin Yun finally shifted gears, stepped on the accelerator lightly, and the car started slowly: "Because I will remember, and I will feel uneasy."

"……Remember?"

Lin Xiaolu said this word in her mouth.

She was expressionless at first, then showed a smile that was not a smile, and finally raised her eyebrows, straightened up like a small animal with fried hair, and said in a choked voice: "You can still say this word? Remember? Did you forget?" Did you say what you said when your mother died?"

She will not forget what this man once said to her before her mother's funeral, because he said to "forget her".But now that she said she wanted to "remember", she would be "uneasy", so how could she trust him?

"I'm sorry about your mother."

Facing Lin Xiaolu's anger, Lin Yun remained calm. He held the steering wheel and looked at the road ahead: "I really didn't know what to tell you, so I could only use such vague words."

"Because I remember her, I will feel sad and painful, so I hope you forget her when you are young, forget the pain with time, and grow up happily."

"It's just that I didn't expect that you are actually more sensible than I imagined. My concealment did not make you let go of these things and become happy, but you are always depressed."

"If you're chilled by what I said at the time, or you're still wondering about her death, I think... we can have a good talk sometime."

The last sentence made Lin Xiaolu in the back seat stop breathing.

It took her a few seconds to understand what Lin Yun meant, she even forgot to be angry, and only doubts remained in her heart: "Talk, what can we talk about?"

"Of course it's your mother's business, and my business."

Lin Yun sighed: "You have grown up now, and it's time to confess the things I didn't tell you before. It's just that I still need some preparation, some time, can you wait for me a little longer? I promise that this period of time will not be too long. Soon, when that day comes, I will tell you everything."

Having said that, he paused, took another deep breath, and finally expressed what he had been thinking all along: "So, give me a chance to make up for it, Lulu? Your mother ran away from home in the past about your birthday, give me a chance to make up for it, okay?"

There was a long silence in the car.

Lin Yun waited for Lin Xiaolu's answer, while Lin Xiaolu was digesting what he said.She thinks, hesitates, and finally makes a decision.

"... Parents meeting." Lin Xiaolu's muffled voice sounded from the back seat.

"what?"

"After the final exam, next week, the school will hold a parent meeting."

Lin Xiaolu rested her chin and continued to look at the flowing scenery outside the window: "If you want, then come."

"parent meeting?"

Lin Yun didn't have such a rich expression at first, but after getting this answer, he couldn't calm down for a while: "You mean..."

"Say it first, you are the one who wants to come."

After interrupting his words, Lin Xiaolu turned her head suddenly, her gaze met Lin Yun in the rearview mirror, and she said viciously: "So if you make excuses to miss the appointment again this time, I will ignore you for the next whole year!
"……Ha ha."

Lin Yun suddenly laughed.

He smiled happily and felt a little relieved, as if he hadn't been this happy for a long time.

This abrupt laughter made Lin Xiaolu feel ashamed: "What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing, I'm just really happy." Lin Yun raised the corner of his mouth.

"Why are you happy about this kind of thing? It's so annoying!" Lin Xiaolu's eyelids pulled down.

"I promise you."

"what?"

"One year... No, don't say one year, if I break the appointment this time, you can ignore me for the rest of your life."

"Boring overweight, I'm not interested."

"Then don't care about that, anyway, I will definitely go."

Lin Xiaolu was also touched by Lin Yun's solemn promise, but she still suppressed her emotions and said with a sullen face, "...Hmph, I hope."

In the morning light, the car on the elevated road finally broke through the obstruction of the traffic flow, was able to boost its horsepower, and galloped away towards the distance.

(End of this chapter)