"I was just playing cards at the convenience store when I saw you and Dongdong come back. I thought I should be making dinner for you at this hour, so I came back..."
Shangguan Dandan stepped through the door right after them. As she spoke, she headed for the kitchen, only to find that Zhou Shuling, who ought to have been there at this hour, was nowhere to be seen.
"So I came back to take a look, take a look... The faucet isn't running. I should get some water."
Bravely entering the kitchen, Shangguan Dandan placed a basin beneath the faucet, carefully adjusted it, and came back out without mentioning cooking again.
"Zhou Shuling went with Li Hongfang to have photos taken." Liu Chang'an had long grown accustomed to the diligent Empress Dowager's various antics. He felt nothing in particular, had no desire to mock her, and certainly had no objections.
"Little Ling and Fangfang went to take photos? I heard that when you hire someone for a photoshoot, you need makeup. I wonder whether the person doing their makeup is any good?" Shangguan Dandan asked with some concern.
"Oh, they're not going to shoot some strange character like a female Sun Wukong. They don't need your help."
Shangguan Dandan was furious. She dragged over a chair and climbed onto it, pulled out an eyebrow pencil from her sleeve pocket, and prepared to draw two strokes of a mustache on Liu Chang'an to prove her makeup skills.
Naturally, Liu Chang'an dodged. Zhou Dongdong eagerly volunteered to let her do her makeup instead, so Shangguan Dandan drew two curly mustache strokes above her lips.
What were they having for dinner tonight? It was time once again to solve Goldbach's conjecture of everyday life. Liu Chang'an looked at Zhou Dongdong and