NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 130 - Why are you both here?
“……”
“Mm…”
Early in the morning, Bai Yu lay on the recliner, slowly opening her eyes. She stared blankly at the ceiling, still groggy and not fully awake.
“Hah…”
After a while, as if realizing something, she suddenly tensed up. Her expression shifted to slight panic as she quickly turned her head to the side.
Only when she saw YouYu sleeping peacefully did she let out a silent breath of relief.
Carefully, she lifted the blanket covering her, set it aside, and got up from the recliner.
“……”
After standing up, she walked over to YouYu’s bedside, crouched down slightly, and stared at his face, momentarily lost in thought.
Then… without thinking, she reached out toward his cheek—
“……!!”
The moment her fingertips brushed against his skin, Bai Yu snapped back to reality, quickly withdrawing her hand.
She straightened up hastily, pressing a hand to her chest as she let out a relieved sigh.
“YouYu…”
She opened her mouth slightly as if wanting to say something, but after a moment of hesitation, she gave up.
“…Forget it, just keep sleeping.”
Deciding against waking him, she changed into fresh clothes, walked to the door, and cast one last deep glance at him before quietly closing the door behind her and leaving the room.
…
“…Such a strange feeling.”
“But… now’s not the time to dwell on that.”
Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Bai Yu quickly washed up before heading to the kitchen. She took a deep breath as she opened the refrigerator.
This morning… would be her first time making breakfast for YouYu.
She couldn’t afford to “fail.”
After all, yesterday…
“I barely did anything useful, huh…”
As she pulled out all the ingredients from the fridge, Bai Yu couldn’t help but recall yesterday’s events.
At noon, she had fully intended to take the lead in negotiating with WuYue and Liu Meng, to convince them that YouYu should be entrusted to her. That was how it was supposed to go.
But things didn’t turn out the way she expected.
Her judgment had been off—she mistakenly believed they had fully accepted her argument.
Yet, when she turned to WuYue for confirmation, WuYue unexpectedly hit her with a barrage of sharp questions—”Have you slept together?” “Gone all the way?”—and so on.
Logically, Bai Yu should have anticipated such an interrogation and prepared countermeasures in advance.
But when the moment actually came, the scripted responses she had carefully memorized were completely useless—her nerves got the best of her, leaving her tongue-tied.
In the end, it was only thanks to YouYu’s own explanation, some subtle assistance from Liu Meng, and the fact that WuYue wasn’t really trying to make things difficult for her, that she managed to escape unscathed.
On the surface, she had won. She achieved her goal.
But in reality… she hadn’t actually accomplished anything meaningful.
It wasn’t until she returned home, much later, that the realization hit her.
Yet before she could properly “reflect” on it, YouYu had approached her with another request.
So, she had no choice but to put her self-reflection aside and accompany him outside again. After all, she had already made up her mind—to do everything she could for YouYu. That was the priority.
However… even after going out, she found herself unable to be of much help.
Despite claiming they were “searching for his memories,” she spent most of the time simply following YouYu as he led the way.
No—rather, it was precisely because the locations she initially took him to were completely useless to him that he ended up taking the initiative, leading her around instead.
They walked for a long time, only returning home late in the evening. By then, Bai Yu was nearly “exhausted.” After all, without transforming into a magical girl, long-distance walking took a very different toll on her body compared to simply standing in a convenience store.
If YouYu hadn’t used some money—legally acquired, somehow—to buy a comfortable recliner for her to rest in…
She doubted she would have woken up feeling this refreshed.
“…Which is why, today’s breakfast has to be perfect!”
Reaffirming this to herself, Bai Yu looked down at the ingredients before her and fell into deep thought.
She had, in the past, gathered “intelligence” from WuYue regarding YouYu’s favorite foods.
But… no matter how much she prepared, this was still her first time making breakfast for him. Some margin of error was inevitable.
And Bai Yu… would not allow any errors.
So—
“……”
Picking up her phone, she opened her chat with WuYue, typed out a few questions about YouYu’s preferences, and sent them. Then, she waited.
However, several minutes passed with no response from WuYue.
With no other choice, Bai Yu changed tactics—turning to the one person who had been taking care of YouYu during this time: Liu Meng.
This time, she got a reply—
“I’m coming over.”
“???”
That was all Liu Meng sent. No further messages, no responses no matter how many times Bai Yu called out to her.
Sensing that something was amiss, Bai Yu stared at the untouched ingredients and muttered to herself,
“…Did I just make a huge mistake?”
“……”
And, as expected—
Not long after, the door to the house echoed with a series of rapid knocks.
Letting out a resigned sigh, Bai Yu set aside what she was doing and walked toward the entrance.
The moment she opened the door—
“Why are you here?!”
“Bai Yu asked me how to make breakfast for YouYu! So I came! What about you?! What’s your reason for showing up?!”
“…So.”
Watching the two of them bicker in front of the doorway, Bai Yu furrowed her brows, let out a sigh, and said:
“Why are you both here?”