I Opened a Restaurant in Honkai

This was the day.

It was an ordinary dusk.

Zhao Bai returned home, intending to prepare dinner, only to find all the curtains drawn. Bronya sat on the sofa with her back to him, the striking spiral twin-tails at either side of her head gone, her soft gray hair falling freely over her shoulders.

The time had come.

Zhao Bai noticed it, and all the mental preparation he had built up day and night suddenly crumbled away, like ice and snow beneath the sun.

Nervous...

Nervous like a virgin...

"Bronya, I have something to give you."

Her thin lips parted slightly, and her voice was soft as a lark's. A fickle wind lifted the curtains, and the dim orange sunset spilled into the living room. Her face shifted between light and shadow, stars glittering in her eyes.

P.S.: I'm dizzy. The school notified me that I'll have an online makeup exam next week, and I might have online final exams next month. I've been writing this book from late February until now. I basically attended online classes on my phone while typing on my computer, and I haven't learned anything at all. Time to cram hard.

A Seven-Hundred-Meter Sword

Zhao Bai was not completely clueless.

He had spent an entire month preparing himself mentally. Seele had leaked information to him, so Zhao Bai knew Bronya wanted to give him a gift and had even revealed roughly what kind of gift it was. There was no surprise at all, but when it actually happened—when that aloof, expressionless little girl looked at him with shining eyes, opening her heart for him alone—how could he not be excited?

The curtains billowed open, and the girl's lovely face resembled a sculpture beneath the sunlight.

She breathed softly.

The wide furisode outlined the girl's slender