Is this an inconspicuous confession?

Lin Li and Elysia left Vill-V's room and returned to the construction corner.

Although only a short time had passed, the first layer of rebar had already been erected compared to before.

The speed amazed both of them.

At the construction site stood a man in a white hat, holding a massive blueprint that was only a third of the way unfolded, a troubled expression on his face.

"Damn it, what is this drawing? And it has to be made of reinforced concrete... Is this something a human can even make?"

The man muttered to himself, looking at the crooked lines on the blueprint, his lips pursed slightly.

Beside him, another technician wearing a blue hat heard this and quietly walked away.

There were two people in blue hats at the scene, only one in a white hat, and everyone else was in yellow hats, meaning they were the construction personnel.

Elysia led Lin Li over.

"Hi there, can I take a look at the building plans drawn by Vill-V?"

Upon hearing this, the man turned around and saw the two of them approaching, hand in hand. His expression showed slight surprise, mixed with a hint of guilt.

"Are you... Captain Elysia?"

"Mhm, can I see it?" Elysia smiled and pointed to the blueprint.

"Of course, but the blueprint is a bit heavy, so I'll hold it."

The man nodded and said, unfolding the blueprint a bit more and placing it in front of them.

Elysia looked closely, and her delicate eyebrows immediately furrowed.

What should I do if I can't understand it? Aren't building plans supposed to just show the shape of a house, something simple?

Why is this blueprint... all annotations, and different types of lines, with varying thicknesses?

She looked at Lin Li, who also had a bewildered expression.

Lin Li hadn't gone to college, and even in high school, she had focused on liberal arts.

This blueprint was clearly related to civil engineering, something not taught at her school at all.

Seeing their expressions, the man in the white hat patiently began to explain.

Even though he didn't seem to fully understand it himself, he could still explain it to laypeople.

He pointed to various places, explaining them one by one.

Elysia listened attentively, but Lin Li had no desire to.

Listening to someone explain this was just like being in class; she was bound to fall asleep if she paid attention for too long, so she directly started playing on her phone.

A while later, the man seemed to have finished explaining and asked Elysia to hold one end of the blueprint while he took out a bottle of water from his back.

It was only then that Elysia felt the weight of the blueprint, finding it a bit difficult to hold with one hand.

Seeing this, Lin Li put away her phone and helped out.

"I've explained everything I can. Anything I haven't explained, I also don't know," the man said.

"Mhm, I understand much more now, thank you!" Elysia said with a smile. "What's your name? You look a bit familiar, I think I saw you at Heng's place before."

"My name... uh, let's just forget about names. Captain Elysia only needs to know that I belong to the Flame-Moth Special Operations Unit."

For some reason, the man's gaze kept drifting when he talked about his name, especially when he met Lin Li's eyes.

Lin Li thought he was very suspicious.

"Mmm... alright, we'll be going now."

"Okay, slow..."

"Immer! Come here for a second!"

Just as the man was about to say goodbye, he was interrupted by another voice.

"..."

Now Elysia and Lin Li knew the man's name.

Immer... why does that name sound so familiar?

Lin Li felt increasingly uneasy the more she thought about it, but by then, Immer had already placed the blueprint on the ground and trotted over.

Elysia felt her hand being pulled and turned to see Lin Li holding her phone in front of her.

The screen displayed a post from Flame-Moth titled "How Vill-V Got Caught - Captain Elysia and Her Little Girlfriend Teammate."

The author of the post was named Immer.

"Oh, so he's Immer. He has good taste," Elysia nodded in strong agreement.

"Good taste, my foot! Over eight hundred people have already viewed this post!" Lin Li rolled her eyes. "You wait here, I'm going to go beat him up right now."

"Whoa, don't!" Elysia quickly grabbed her. "Xiao Li, don't be rash. Immer hasn't done anything wrong, why beat him up?"

"You call this not doing anything wrong? This is already spreading rumors."

"Rumors? Hmm... but I think he's quite right." Elysia smiled sweetly, pulled Lin Li closer, and whispered, "In my opinion, the relationship between you and me right now is exactly like the title of this post."

"……Are you serious?" Lin Li frowned.

"Mhm, Xiao Li, I'm serious~" Elysia said with a smile, looking at Lin Li expectantly, her gaze unwavering.

This counts as a confession, right?

"Don't mess with me. If you want to tease me, just tell a joke," Lin Li said, pulling her hand away from Elysia and running towards Immer.

Feeling the emptiness in her hand, Elysia pouted, but she wasn't disappointed.

She had just seen it – Xiao Li's face had turned red, even if it was just a little bit.

Lin Li walked over to Immer, who was currently talking with another technician wearing a blue helmet.

Although the person in the blue hat was a technician, he seemed to be asking Immer for advice on something.

Immer was seen patting his hat and yelling:

"Are you a damn pig? This section means the wall is four hundred thick, the window is half that, and there's a vacuum soundproofing layer."

"When have you ever seen a four-hundred-thick window? What have you been learning for so long? If you can do it, do it. If not, get lost!"

Although Immer was yelling, his tone wasn't particularly harsh. It was more like brothers cursing each other, and it didn't seem to affect the technician at all.

"No, but the cross-section drawing here means exactly that! The wall and the window are both four hundred thick, and the window and wall are combined."

"Amazing, you truly are a damn genius." Immer said, amusedly angered. "Go ask that Vill-V. If it's really like you said, I'll eat the blueprints myself."

"I will, you just wait and see, damn it."

The man threw down a harsh remark and left the site directly.

Immer watched his retreating back and snorted.

He sensed someone behind him, turned his head, and saw Lin Li. His attitude immediately improved.

"Ahem, um… Miss Lin Li, is there something you need?"

Immer's tone was a little guilty.

"You know me?" Lin Li asked, feigning ignorance.

"Yes, a member of the revived Second Special Squad. The entire Flame-Moth knows."

"Okay, since you know me, then explain what this means."

Lin Li held her phone in her hand and showed the Tieba post to Immer, the original author.

His expression immediately became very interesting.

"Ahem… um, Miss Lin Li, listen to me, this wasn't actually written by me…"

"Did I write it?" Lin Li retorted.

"……"

"Uh, it was actually written by my sister. You know, girls, they always like to ship couples or whatever…"

"Oh, then bring your sister here. I want to meet her."

Lin Li's tone became increasingly frosty.

She picked up a random brick from the ground and crushed half of it in her hand.

"……"

Immer's pupils contracted.

My god, what kind of person is this, crushing bricks with their bare hands?

If she landed a punch on me, I'd be bruised all over… maybe even in pieces.

"Now, delete the post, or else… hmph."

Lin Li crushed the remaining half of the brick. Immer swallowed hard.

He quickly took out his phone and deleted the post.

Seeing this, Lin Li nodded with satisfaction, turned around, and left directly.

Immer breathed a sigh of relief, but soon, the person who had just left to find Vill-V returned. He pointed at the drawing and said to Immer:

"You idiot, it's exactly as I said, and you still doubt me? If you can do it, do it. If not, get lost!"

"……"

Immer fell silent for a moment. Although he already knew he was wrong, he became more and more angry and started arguing with the other person again.

"No, you can talk now? What are you barking about?"

The other people on the construction site stopped what they were doing and watched the two of them argue, finding it quite amusing.

Lin Li walked over to Elysia and said:

"Let's go, I don't want to stay here anymore."

After speaking, she took Elysia's hand with her left hand, the one that hadn't crushed the brick.

Her right hand was in her pocket, hidden from Elysia's view.

But Elysia had witnessed the entire process and directly pulled Lin Li's other hand free.

The back of her hand was fine, still the same, fair as jade.

But the palm was different. It still had some red brick fragments clinging to it, mixed with the bright red blood from her broken skin, and some dust. It looked as devastating as if she had just come from a battle.

"..."

Elysia said nothing, glared fiercely at Lin Li, then quickly pulled her towards the nearest infirmary.

I don't know what Xiao Li was thinking. She could have just asked Immer to delete the post. Why did she have to be so stubborn and try to crush such a hard brick...

Really, she doesn't take care of herself at all.

What's the use of being strong? It's not like you won't get hurt?

Elysia didn't say a word on the way, just pulling Lin Li to the infirmary herself, cleaning her wound, and then bandaging it lightly.

"You're not allowed to do that again, understand?" Elysia puffed out her cheeks, saying angrily.

"...Mm."

Lin Li could only hold her phone with her left hand now.

"No playing!"

Elysia took the phone and put it in her pocket.

"If I had known, I would have just kept holding onto you. Are you going to hurt yourself as soon as I'm not watching you?"

"...I'm sorry." Lin Li lowered her head, like a child admitting fault.

"What good is an apology?" Elysia said with a stern face.

However, she couldn't really get that angry at Lin Li, so she just kept staring.

After more than ten seconds, she pulled Lin Li away and they returned to the villa.

"Xiao Li, you're staying home this afternoon until evening. You're not allowed to go anywhere, understand?"

"Mm..." Lin Li nodded.

"Hmph, I'll just watch you here."

The two sat on the sofa.

Lin Li leaned against the sofa and closed her eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, just as Lin Li felt she was about to fall asleep, Elysia's voice, with a hint of blame and lingering resentment, suddenly came from beside her ear.

"Really, what would you do without me? No one to take care of you when you're hurt, no one to boil water for you, no one to cook for you, no one to talk to when you have something on your mind..."

"If only you were truly my little girlfriend, then I could..."

The rest of her words were very, very soft, and even though Lin Li was concentrating intently, she couldn't hear them clearly.

She secretly opened her eyes and glanced at Elysia beside her, a different kind of warmth rising in her heart.

She felt someone gently stroking her injured hand and knew it was Elysia.

"Xiao Li, are you asleep?"

Elysia asked softly, with a hint of urgency.

"..."

Lin Li didn't open her eyes. She pretended to be asleep, wanting to see what Elysia would do.

Seeing this, Elysia carefully pulled Lin Li into her arms, slowly unwrapped the bandage from the infirmary, looked at the healing wound, and gently blew on it.

Her warm breath landed on the newly scabbed wound, making Lin Li feel a little itchy. She couldn't help but twitch her fingers.

It's over. Lin Li thought. Elysia must know I'm faking being asleep.

However, Elysia didn't seem to notice her fingers twitching just now and continued to blow.

As she blew, she also said, "Xiao Li, I've never cared for anyone this meticulously before. You're the first. Can you feel my feelings?"

"I was really serious before... Although 'little girlfriend' sounds a bit awkward. If I were to write it down... I'd just write 'girlfriend,' that sounds better."

"Xiao Li..."

Elysia said many, many things, all about Lin Li.

After a long time, a steady breathing sound came from her lap, and Elysia gradually stopped talking to herself.

She wasn't talking to herself at all. She knew from the beginning that Lin Li wasn't asleep. Those words were meant for Lin Li to hear.

It's just... after saying so much, the other person didn't react at all, which was really disheartening...

She had already said something like a confession to Xiao Li at the construction site, and she had been thinking of officially confirming their relationship today... Sigh, she hoped Xiao Li really just didn't understand.

After all, to normal people, a girl liking another girl... is wrong, right?

"You saved me so coolly from the Herrscher, and you're so cute and beautiful, how could I not be moved?"

"If, Xiao Li, you actually know what I'm saying but are pretending not to understand, I'll be really angry, you know?"

"..."

Nothing could be said in response to Elysia.

Elysia pursed her lips slightly, her gaze gradually firming.

Just wait, Xiao Li, I will definitely make you willingly say you like me. When we become a real couple... Hmph hmph.

Elysia also closed her eyes, gently stroking Lin Li's fair and delicate face, and gradually fell asleep.