Early morning at the Lin family's Main Residence. Birds chirped, and dew slowly slid off the blades of grass.
Fifteen-year-old Lin Hanzhi opened his eyes, threw back the covers, changed out of his pajamas, washed his face and brushed his teeth, then headed straight for the room opposite his own. Without ringing the doorbell, he simply entered the code and pushed the door open.
He and the room's owner had always shared the sort of relationship where neither drew any boundaries with the other.
The person on the bed was wrapped in his covers like a cicada pupa, completely unaware of Lin Hanzhi's intrusion. Long accustomed to Qi Gu behaving this way, Lin Hanzhi helplessly peeled him out of the covers bit by bit, then stood beside the sink and watched him wash his face and brush his teeth. By the time the whole routine was over, Qi Gu was finally a little more awake, though his eyes were still narrowed to slits. "Isn't it Saturday? Why do we have to get up so early today too?"
"We're going on a picnic today. Don't you remember, Gugu?"
Qi Gu remembered and nodded groggily. As they walked, sleepiness overtook him again, and he rested his head on Lin Hanzhi's shoulder, continuing forward in a daze.
The covered walkway connected all the Lin family's little villas, so along the way, the other members of the Lin family living at the Main Residence, long accustomed to how inseparable the two children were, all joked that Lin Hanzhi had brought home a little lord to wait on hand and foot.
Lin Hanzhi's peach-blossom eyes curved into a smile, and he did not deny it.
Lin Hanzhi had found Qi Gu and brought him home.
Back then, three-year-old Lin Hanzhi had gone to the mall