A rainy night, a girl selling candy, the indifferent pedestrians, and that cold hard candy…
Even though he didn’t have the details, but Lin Xiao already came up with a sad backstory.
Was that little girl’s mother really already dead?
Then where did her father go?
Was the little girl able to sell the candy for food? Or did she starve in the cold winter night?
Xiao Hua may have denied Lin Xiao’s question that it wasn’t about herself, but how could Lin Xiao believe her?
Erasing her sense of existence, melding into the background, Xiao Hua spoke as if it was easy to do, but was it actually that simple?
Perhaps not.
Xiao Hua’s seriousness and emotions from when she was selling the candy wasn’t just acting!
If one truly wanted to blend in with the background and erase their sense of existence, they can’t make any mistakes, otherwise, they won’t be able to blend in and would stand out instead.
A garbage can on the side of the road has no sense of existence, but if someone wore a garbage can over their head and pretended to be one, they would completely stand out!
So Lin Xiao didn’t believe it when Xiao Hua said it wasn’t her personal experience but just acting.
Because if she never personally sold candy…
If she never personally watched her mother fall ill…
If she never personally yearned to survive when starving…
How would she be able to smile like that when Elena picked up those candies?
“Hey Xiao Hua, were you able to sell the candies at that time?”
“So what if I did? You want to laugh at me?”
“Of course not, I just care about you.”
“I don’t need you to care about me.”
“Well, you didn’t starve and survived all this time, so isn’t that good?”
“Saying something like that… I don’t know if I should call you disrespectful or stupid.”
“Neither, you should praise me.”
“I already said, my parents died when I was young, it was the miss that fed me and saved me.”
“So you did sell candy.”
“… You can think whatever you like.”
“When you were starving, sister Ying saw through your lies and bought all your candy. In order to thank her, you became her servant, was it like that?”
“No, she never bought the candy I made, she just ate a piece and then spat it onto my face because it was so disgusting.”
“Hah? Really? She’s so well-mannered, why would she spit it onto your face just because it tastes bad?”
“Because I accidentally used hot sauce instead of ketchup and mixed it into the candy.”
“Ha… ha… it’s a blessing she didn’t hit you.”
“Yes, the Miss is the best person in the world.”
Xiao Hua couldn’t help but smile when she thought of her, but when she turned and saw the pervert who stole her heart away, she wasn’t happy anymore.
“So, I answered your questions and you tore open my old wounds, are you finally satisfied?”
“Xiao Hua, why are you always so hostile towards me, I wanted to ask these things just to tell you something.”
“What…”
Xiao Hua frowned and was clearly getting annoyed as she continued to run ahead. But when Lin Xiao said that, she suddenly stopped moving…
“Xiao Hua, I wanted to say that when I marry her and you have nowhere else to go, you can come to me.”
“Go to you?” Xiao Hua stopped and tilted her head in confusion.
“Although I can’t make delicious candies like your mother, I can make sure you’re never hungry.”
“Uh… just that?”
“Yes, just that… what, are you unsatisfied?”
“I feel like you’re taking in an orphan that no one wants.”
“No, I don’t see you as that, how should I put it… hm, more like a little sister?”
Lin Xiao also stopped and scratched his head.
“You should know I also have a little sister.”
“Saintess Snow sure is unlucky to have a brother like you.”
“Stop roasting me… I just think you two are very similar, but she met me and you met ShenDai Ying.”
“So I was more lucky than Snow.” Xiao Hua didn’t give up any opportunity to roast Lin Xiao.
“Perhaps… you’re obedient, earnest, kind, and smart, in that sense you’re better than Snow, but there’s one place you can’t compare to her.”
“I don’t have as much power and influence?”
“No, you don’t know how to act spoiled. She can take off her Saintess clothes and yell at me, get angry, and act spoiled with her brother without holding back, but you can’t, you’re afraid of acting spoiled with ShenDai Ying.”
“Hm… acting spoiled is it.”
Yes, ShenDai Ying was extremely important to her, she was like her sister and also her mother, but unfortunately, because of her identity and duties, she never dared to act spoiled towards her.
“But you don’t have to worry about those things with me!” Lin Xiao smiled as he finally got to his point, “Since your Miss will marry me anyways, from now on you can treat me like your brother, or even… your brother-in-law!”
“Hah??? Brother-in-law!?”
Xiao Hua almost choked when she heard that.
“Yes, you can treat me like your brother-in-law, you can tell me anything, and of course, you can act spoiled as well!”
“Disgusting! W-who would want to act spoiled to you!”
“Hehe, my sister-in-law is so cute… I know you’ve suffered a lot, so you’re scared of opening up, but don’t worry, I’m your brother-in-law, you can trust me!”
“Hello? Is this the guards? Yes, I’d like to report a crime, there’s a shameless pervert here, and that thick skin fell and almost killed someone! Please arrest him!”
“Don’t be so embarrassed, I’m your brother-in-law!”
“Peh! The miss still hasn’t said she’ll marry you, how are you my brother-in-law?”
“She isn’t my wife yet, but she will be, so you can…”
“Shh! Quiet… they’re coming again!”
“Hm?”
Lin Xiao heard Elena’s warning and noticed that the next wave of enemies was approaching, and once again Xiao Hua spread out her candies and lowered their sense of existence to evade their search.
But this time she didn’t talk about her own story and just squatted there and didn’t say anything.
Just like that, the enemies ran up and looked around but completely ignored Lin Xiao and Elena and left.
Elena poked Lin Xiao’s arm and covered her mouth while speaking to him.
“Pervert, it seems like you’ve gotten better at picking up girls.”
“Uh, who did I try and pick up?”
“Who else… her.” Elena rolled her eyes and looked at the girl selling candies, “You’ve flirted with rich girls, someone else’s wife, idiotic sisters, princesses, and now you’re getting tired and moving onto sister-in-law… what brother-in-law, you really are a pervert!”
“Hey wait, I don’t know how brother-in-law is perverted… but when have I even flirted with that many people?”
“Think about it!”
“Hm, that does seem like the case… but how is that flirting? It’s just making friends!”
Lin Xiao could match a person with everyone that Elena mentioned and other than someone else’s wife, he never flirted with any of them and just thought of them as good friends. But if the other party didn’t treat him as just a friend or held other feelings for him… cough, cough, then that wasn’t his problem, sometimes being too handsome is a burden.
“Also Elena, based on what you said, you’re forgetting someone.”
“Who?”
“Other than them, I also picked up a catgirl maid.”
“… Enough pervert, let’s hurry up! Your sister is going to be in trouble if you waste any more time!”
“Hm… we should hurry. Xiao Hua, let’s go!”
“As long as you don’t say useless stuff, then we’ll be quick.”
“Hm, sister-in-law, what did you say?”
“Uh… I-I already said I’m not your sister-in-law, and you aren’t my brother-in-law!”
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