"Xiao Xue, are you... not going back?" Mu You turned to look at Lin Xue, who had followed him inside.
After entering, Lin Xue changed her shoes with practiced ease, went to the wardrobe, took off her coat and hung it up. Then she found a comb, gathered her long hair in front of her, and began grooming herself in the mirror.
At his words, Lin Xue turned to give him a puzzled look while fixing her hair. "Going back? Where do you want me to go?"
"Uh..."
Mu You was at a loss for words.
Lin Xue was different from him. He was alone, with no other relatives, and everyone he knew was already in this home, so he had no one else to give an account to after returning.
But Lin Xue's family were all still alive. After she had disappeared for an entire month, they were bound to be worried. He had thought she would at least go home first after waking up.
Yet Lin Hai had left so readily just now, with no intention of asking his sister to go back with him. He had not even asked.
"I already messaged my family to let them know I was safe. I didn't tell them we went missing, since I didn't want them to worry. I just said I'd gone out of town to handle some things and only got back today, but I still have a few things to finish, so I won't be home for a few days," Lin Xue said, shaking her head.
Her parents were both workaholics who spent little time with their children; they barely saw each other a few times all year. She and Lin Hai had grown up with their grandmother, and when she was older, she had spent years