The next morning, Lu Xiaoxiao was yawning as she came down the stairs when she spotted Lu Shiyan straightening his clothes by the door, apparently about to head out.
Her eyes widened in surprise, and she called out to him, "Shiyan, when did you get home? In the middle of the night?"
She remembered that he hadn't been home last night. Seeing him downstairs so early, she'd almost thought she was still half asleep and imagining things.
"Oh, Xiaoxiao. You're awake." Lu Shiyan turned at the sound of her voice, but when he mentioned coming home last night, his gaze shifted awkwardly to the side. "Last night... yes, I didn't get back until the middle of the night. It's only natural you didn't notice."
"Oh, really?" Noticing that his expression seemed a little off, Lu Xiaoxiao tilted her head in puzzlement, then hurried down the stairs and stopped in front of him. "Haven't you been staying over with my future sister-in-law a lot lately? You suddenly came home in the middle of the night. Did something happen?"
Ever since Lu Shiyan and Lu Yuan had reconciled, Lu Shiyan had rarely stayed away from home. As long as he didn't have work out of town, he generally came back. That only changed after he started dating Yu Sangning, when he began spending a few nights at the Yu Family Old House every so often.
Still, roughly speaking, the frequency of his visits home was back to what it had been before, so the Lu Family was used to it.
Caught off guard by his sister's perceptiveness, Lu Shiyan paused, then gave a wry smile, his voice sounding a little helpless. "Well... I wouldn't say anything happened. We just had a small disagreement. She said she wanted some time alone, so I