Many years later, whenever Lu PingAn recalled their first meeting, he would remember that trace of sweetness.
"Do you eat candy?"
A piece of unwrapped chocolate was suddenly thrust before Lu PingAn's eyes.
He jolted awake. Until that very moment, he had not noticed her at all.
Only when he looked up did he discover a cluster of—
"Sunlight."
In Lu PingAn's colorless vision, the place where the girl stood was gold, warm to the extreme.
She smiled brightly, and the hand offering him the candy did not withdraw.
Only after she spoke did that state of "being impossible to notice" completely come to an end. What Lu PingAn's "scan" detected was a long-haired blonde girl whose hair reached her waist.
She looked to be in her early twenties, but her carefree behavior and excessively cheerful smile made her seem much younger—utterly carefree.
The first thing Lu PingAn noticed was not her appearance, but her personality and aura.
"Candy?"
"You don't like chocolate? I have fruit candies too—lychee, orange, grape. Uh, except I can't give you the lychee ones. You can have any of the others."
She seemed puzzled, surprised that the person in front of her did not like chocolate. He clearly had the face of someone who did.
She hesitated like a slightly stingy child, reluctant to hand over candy in her favorite flavor.
Yet her eyes kept sweeping up and down Lu PingAn's body. Lu PingAn felt uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable.
"...Chocolate, then."
"Hehe, I knew you liked chocolate. Here, take it."
Though he had no idea why she was so confident, seeing the girl happily unwrap the chocolate and offer it to him made Lu PingAn smile as well.
"Eh, something's wrong. Why am I..."
Lu PingAn was not someone whose emotions were easily stirred, yet at