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"Yu Xing, grill one for me too!"

Zhu Yan smiled as she took a sip of milk tea, crushing the soft, chewy pearls between her teeth.

Yu Xing had just emerged from the deduction when he heard the girl chattering away.

Time had seamlessly picked up where it left off. He was still holding the same pose he'd been in before entering the deduction, and Qu Xuanqing was too.

"Sure~" Yu Xing drew out the word and resigned himself to putting the last plate of meat on the grill.

He wasn't really hungry anymore.

He'd seen too much "meat" in the deduction just now. The moment he smelled the grilled meat, he felt nauseated, as if he'd had his fill.

Qu Xuanqing's body didn't have that problem. She wolfed down the meat in her bowl. The two of them didn't even need to exchange a glance; they carried on with what they were supposed to be doing in perfect sync, showing no sign that anything was amiss.

The system's settlement screen slowly appeared. Since it had only been a low-level deduction, it awarded him just a few points. Yu Xing didn't even look at it before putting it out of his mind.

After finishing the grilled meat, the three of them strolled around the mall to walk it off.

There was an arcade on the mall's fifth floor, and its noisy music spilled out into the corridor. The place was full of young people and families of three. Yu Xing thought it was too loud and didn't want to go in, but Zhu Yan had spotted the large section of claw machines in the corner.

"Let's go grab some plushies!" The girl cheered, deciding what they'd do next.

It had been a long time since Yu Xing had taken two