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"... Five days."

"Fifteen days."

"Ten days, no more than that."

"Make a deal."

With a heavy heart, he opened the door and let Hen and the others into the house.

"Isn't this pretty clean?" Hen was very satisfied with the tidiness of Lin's house. In his opinion, it was rare for a man living alone to be so clean. "Although you have an arrogant problem, you will definitely be a good man in the future."

"Hehe..."

Lin was sweating profusely, and he couldn't help but glance towards the bedroom out of the corner of his eye.

Instead of looking around at the room's furnishings, Griseo walked to the sofa and casually touched a slightly dented spot. The warmth of the touch brought a smile to her face, a smile completely different from her innocent appearance.

Afterwards, Lin showed Hen and the others around the house. Since the house hadn't changed much in the past few years, Hen and the others were quite familiar with it.

As Lin passed by the master bedroom, he walked past without any hesitation, but Griseo stood in front of the master bedroom.

"Huh? What's wrong Griseo?" Lin turned around and found Griseo standing still, sweat pouring down her face.

Griseo touched her lips and said blankly, "Brother Lin, I want to see your bedroom."

"This... there's nothing to see." Lin chuckled dryly, sweating profusely. He pointed to the room next door. "How about we go check out my game room? There are lots of games there."

"But I don't play games."

"..."

I almost forgot that Griseo has never been interested in video games since she was a child.

Lin was about to find another excuse to get away with it, but when he saw Hen and Bianca walking this way, he shuddered and hurriedly pushed open the bedroom door. "Okay, okay, let's take a look then, but you can only look for a little while."

After entering the room, Griseo looked around as if searching for something, while Lin forced himself to keep a calm expression so as not to give himself away.

However... it seems there's no problem.

Everything is normal, except there's a smell of air freshener in the room. Was it just sprayed?

"Wardrobe..."

"Haha, the closet is full of my clothes, there's nothing nice to look at." This time, Lin was determined not to back down. He vowed to protect Griseo's respect for his brother and not let those beautiful childhood memories be tainted.

Seeing Lin's attitude, Griseo understood that he was probably not going to do it this time, so she nodded, smiled, and walked out of the room.

Lin breathed a sigh of relief and was about to follow when the wardrobe was pushed open, and a hand grabbed his wrist and dragged him inside.

"..."

After a dozen seconds, Lin, panting heavily with a trace of liquid at the corner of his mouth, crawled out of the room. He glared fiercely at the person inside, then wiped his face and walked out.

"From today onwards, we're neighbors again. Why don't you come over for dinner today?"

Lin also thought about how they had finally returned, so he nodded in agreement. "Okay."

Then Lin went next door to eat with the family. As for those two unruly guys? Lin didn't care about them. They almost got him exposed earlier. He'd take care of it at home.

"Bianca's skills are still so good after all these years."

"How could I dare say it's good in front of you?" Bianca said with a smile, chatting briefly with Lin, who was sitting on the sofa after finishing her meal.

Lin glanced at the time and felt it was about time. "It's getting late, I'll head back then..."

"Wait a minute, Brother Lin, could you come to my room?"

At this moment, Griseo stood at the door of her bedroom, smiling as she asked Lin, just like she had done years ago.

Lin seemed to have returned to the past in a daze. After a moment of stunned silence, he nodded. "Oh, okay, is there something you need?"

"Nothing."

Griseo smiled.

"I just wanted to show you my new work."

Special Feature: Painters and Painting (Part 2)

Humans are born on the path of pursuing perfection, and it is precisely because we are like the crescent moon in the sky that we reach for the unattainable full moon.

Lin's memory of Griseo was still that of the little girl who would sit in front of her drawing paper all day long. In the warm afternoon sunlight streaming through the window, he would lean back on the sofa and watch the girl holding a paintbrush, her soft strokes gently brushing across the paper.

Griseo's impression on him was... innocent? Dull? No, she was more like a blank sheet of paper.

Pure and untouched by anything... I wish those guys could learn that.

Lin chuckled at his own naive thought, then shook his head with a wry smile.

Upon entering Griseo's bedroom, Lin looked around at the room's furnishings. Perhaps because she frequently hired people to clean it while abroad, the room was practically indistinguishable from a place where someone regularly lived. Her own painting tools, which she had brought back, were all placed in the room.

It was very clean, just as Lin had imagined Griseo's room to be.

"Griseo, what do you want to show me? A painting?"

Lin watched as Griseo walked over to her luggage and searched through bags of documents, so he curiously went over to her.

"Hmm..." Griseo answered somewhat vaguely, "Some new works that haven't been published yet."

"You've already published your work, that's great." Lin Xinwei smiled. "I always thought your work would be a huge hit if it were published."

"It's already gone viral!"

"Really? Where is it? I'd like to see it too."

Griseo casually mentioned a website and an author's name.

"Hmm? This seems familiar..."

"A boy like Brother Lin must visit that website often, right?"

"Eh, right..." Lin couldn't quite remember what website it was, but he couldn't just say it casually, otherwise it would make him seem like he didn't know anything and discourage Griseo. "I'll look for it when I get back."

"Found it."

Griseo pulled out a thick file folder from a pile of documents. She smiled happily, stood up, and handed the folder to Lin.

"Then I'll open it?"

"Um!"

Lin's ravaged heart was gradually healed by Griseo's smile. He nodded happily, then opened the file bag and took out the original artwork inside.

Is this a short comic?

This distinctive black-and-white comic style is quite different from Griseo's usual ink paintings. Although the drawing skills are exquisite and solid, Lin doesn't recall Griseo ever drawing this type of comic before.

Moreover, the passersby on the first page, their human figures, are quite different from the fantasy style that Griseo likes to draw; they have a... very "carnal" feel to them.

Even the female student who appears in less than a single shot—the lines of her skin, the perfectly placed exposure of her armpits, the bare skin between her stockings and skirt, and the texture of her flesh—it's almost like—

"Griseo, did you take the wrong one?" Lin asked Griseo, who had a natural smile on her face, with a puzzled look.

He glanced at Griseo a couple more times, and it seemed like an illusion, but Griseo's posture was a little strange, some parts of her body were vaguely visible, and he also smelled a familiar fragrance.

"No, please continue reading, Brother Lin..."

The last "Brother Lin" sounded incredibly sweet and charming to Lin, not at all like a younger sister would use to address her older brother.

Lin had a bad feeling, but he thought there shouldn't be any problems.

He turned to the next page, but the male protagonist who appeared at the beginning completely stunned him.

Isn't that his face?

The face drawn with soft lines in the black and white comic is almost identical to Griseo's exquisite drawing skills. Keep in mind that they had been separated for several years, and Griseo actually drew it based on his memory of his appearance plus his own imagination.

Lin's fingers trembled as he turned the page with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty.

The setting of this comic is that Lin, yes, Griseo directly used his real name, is an all-around man who is proficient in playing various musical instruments, cooking, chess, and tea ceremony. He was adopted by a kind family when he was young and has a happy family life with a sister who is not related to him by blood.

At that moment, Lin discovered something.

This is not a short comic with an independent plot. The background introduction and the protagonist's behavior at the beginning clearly show a connection to the plot of the previous work.

Trembling, he rapidly flipped through the sketches in his hands amidst Griseo's increasingly bizarre smile. The protagonist in the sketches was not sleeping in the middle of the night, but instead went to his stepsister's room...

The last panel of this page shows Lin, the protagonist, knocking on his sister's door, and then his sister opening the door from the inside, revealing a crack.

This must just be... a regular comic strip, right? The brother and sister's daily drawing routine? Yeah, right... By the way, why would he think it's drawing?

Lin's mind was a complete mess. He felt his fingers were incredibly heavy, and he didn't know how he turned to the next page. After he finally saw the contents of the next page, he broke down.

In the comic, a younger sister Griseo has a flushed face with her tongue sticking out in a daze. She opens her nightgown to reveal her body, which is completely "excited" after countless pleasures, and welcomes Lin's arrival.

He frantically dropped the manuscript in his hand, took out his phone, and opened the website Griseo had just mentioned.

Now he finally understood why the website name seemed somewhat familiar... Before he met Prometheus, he would occasionally indulge his impulses on this website.

Searching the author's name yields extremely high search volume because this author has been serializing for several years, and has a long-running work that is still being serialized.

Lin numbly flipped through those works, which had been serialized since Lin and Griseo separated. These works even clearly recorded the entire "process" of the protagonist and his adopted sister from when they were only thirteen or fourteen years old to adulthood. Fans were all amazed by the twisted yet delicate emotions between the siblings in the works, as if it were... the author's own experience.

"Brother Lin." Griseo had somehow gotten up and leaned on Lin's shoulder. Her usually calm and collected tone now sounded incredibly alluring, and her breath tickled his ears. "I've lost all my inspiration. For a long, long time, I've been imagining drawing all my fantasies, but they're just fantasies."

"I've been... I've been... I've been waiting... waiting for the day we meet again! Waiting for the moment when I finally confess my feelings for you, hidden beneath the surface of our innocent relationship, and I wonder how wonderful your expression will be!"

She chuckled.

"I know those older aunties are in Brother Lin's house~ But it's a real shame, I'm the leading lady. I'm the one who can do whatever I want to Brother Lin and savor every corner of his house."

Griseo's lips curled into a smile as she pinched Lin's earlobe and whispered to him, "Then let's begin 'expanding our inspiration'."

Lin watched in despair at the scene before him, a scene that gradually overlapped with the one in the comic.

He can't move.

On Griseo's table lay an empty bottle, with a small amount of pale green liquid remaining at the bottom.

The food he just ate...

No...we can't do this...especially Griseo ...! Help me!

Hen pushed open the door and poked his head in. "Griseo, where's Lin? Isn't he in your room?"

Griseo her head, her face bearing the same blank expression as always. "Brother Lin... went back."

"Back already? Oh, okay." Hen shrugged and closed the door.

After Hen's footsteps faded into the distance, Griseo went to the door and locked it from the inside.

Then he walked back to the bedside, slowly lifted the blanket, and smiled at Lin, who was lying on the bed with her eyes wide open in fear.

Next, under Lin's unwavering gaze, Griseo slowly unbuttoned her pajamas, revealing a body just like in the manga... full of flesh.

"And that completes the new work."

Griseo's face was illuminated by the fluorescent light of the computer screen as she chuckled as she scrolled through the compliments under her new work.

"Teacher Fanxing's works are as useful as ever."

"That's fantastic, little sister's counterattack!"

"Writing 'For Sister Only' and tally marks on the brother's body at the end was absolutely brilliant! How did Ms. Fanxing come up with the idea of combining the sister's identity as an artist with the content..."

How did you come up with that idea?

Griseo chuckled softly, an uncontrollable desire flickering in her eyes. She turned to look at the person lying unconscious on the bed...

Chapter 185 Action

I had that dream again...

Delta opened her eyes to see a pristine white ceiling. Her head was throbbing with pain from all the dreaming lately, and she wished the Medical Department could prescribe some medication so she could sleep soundly until dawn.

Speaking of which, where is this?

"Are you awake?"

The voice was as clear as water. After Delta's brain had been re-lubricated, he thought for a few seconds and remembered who it was.

"Cherry?"