One Point Two

At night, Candy had already gone upstairs to bed, and tomorrow she would be heading back to school.

The eight-day Short Holiday had passed in the blink of an eye.

Downstairs, when Zhou Yaling saw her big brother get up to go to bed too, she simply turned off the TV.

"Hey, Big Brother, I've been thinking about it all night, and the more I think about what happened this afternoon, the stranger it seems. Candy didn't look scared at all. If she'd been frightened, how could she have acted like nothing happened just a little while later?"

"She's still a child!"

Mo Jingchun's mouth twitched. Only now had Zhou Yaling realized that she'd probably been the one frightened by Candy's exaggerated wailing.

"Don't overthink it. It's all in the past."

"Go upstairs and get some sleep. We have to get up early tomorrow."

"Oh, right. Don't forget to set your Alarm Clock."

Zhou Yaling waved her hand, looking distracted. "I know. I never turn off my Alarm Clock. I set it to skip national holidays."

"Good." As he spoke, Mo Jingchun quickened his pace and headed back to his room first.

"What a weirdo," Zhou Yaling muttered to herself, then shook her head and continued climbing to the Third Floor.

Tomorrow she'd have to face Old Man's Soul Questioning. Just thinking about it gave her a headache.

"Forget it. Early to bed, early to rise. It's not like I can escape."

The next morning, with the first light of dawn in the east, Mo Jingchun and the bodyguards resumed their daily morning jog around the villas.

Maybe it was because they'd set an example, but Mo Jingchun noticed that more and more people in the neighborhood were coming out for morning runs each day. What he hadn't expected