Good grief, there were three Kanzaki Rins. Were they seriously playing some kind of triplet game with him?
Fang Cheng was dumbfounded again. This Kanzaki Rin wasn't a child; she looked just like she did in real life, even wearing the same familiar clothes.
They stared at each other without speaking. Outside, something scuttled past with a rustling sound, and it was a long while before everything fell quiet again.
Fang Cheng lowered his voice. "I'm a colleague of your parents. I'm here to protect you."
Kanzaki Rin looked at him strangely. "Is something wrong with your head?"
That familiar tone left no doubt: this was the real one. So what were the two little ones in the bedroom?
He stared at her in surprise. "You remember me?"
Kanzaki Rin reached out and felt his forehead. After making sure he didn't have a fever, she said, "I'd recognize you even if you were burned to ashes."
Fang Cheng caught her hand, touched. "Rin-chan, I can't believe I'm already etched so deeply into your DNA that you'd recognize me even as ashes."
"Quit your nonsense."
Kanzaki Rin pulled her hand back and rubbed her forehead with a sigh. "Damn it, why do you show up even in my nightmares? You really are impossible to get rid of."
She clearly thought she was still dreaming. Fang Cheng was in a great mood after finding her, and smiled. "You dream about what you think about during the day. If I'm showing up in your dreams, that means you think about me every day."
This time, Kanzaki Rin didn't argue. She rubbed her chin and mused, "When you put it that way, I suppose you're right."
"Wait, what?"
Fang Cheng was taken aback. "Do you really have those kinds of feelings for me?"
Kanzaki