Since their relationship has gotten better, Xia Yunuo has become less hesitant to hug Song Yunshen on the electric scooter.
However, as they approached the school, Xia Yunuo still felt a little shy and deliberately kept her distance from Song Yunshen, grabbing the back of his school uniform with her two small hands, pretending to be just an ordinary friend.
After all, a boy and a girl in school uniform riding an electric bike past the school gate together is already considered very arrogant behavior by ordinary students.
Especially today, the first-year high school students arrived at school a week earlier than the second and third-year students to register and participate in military training, so there were a lot of vehicles coming and going at the intersection.
The two of them made their way through the crowd and arrived at the entrance of the milk tea shop without incident. After parking their electric scooter, they went inside and greeted Song Jiayao.
Song Jiayao was playing King of Glory behind the counter when she heard the noise and quickly stood up. She then saw Song Yunshen leading Xia Yunuo into the store.
Upon seeing that they were acquaintances, Song Jiayao immediately relaxed and plopped back down, saying to the two of them, "Wait for me a moment, I'll be done soon. If you want some milk tea, just sit for a while."
"How much longer?" Song Yunshen peeked out and said speechlessly, "Is this your attitude at work? I'm going to report you to Sister Xuanxuan."
"Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Song Jiayao rolled her eyes at him, then he caught her off guard and killed her right under the tower. "Ugh, it's all your fault! You distracted me."
"You're even playing Diao Chan? Do you even know how to play her?" Song Yunshen sneered, unable to resist mocking him.
"Shut up!" Song Jiayao glared at him.
"What would you like to drink?" Xia Yunuo stood to the side, quietly tugged at his sleeve, and asked in a low voice, "If Sister Yaoyao is busy, I can make something."
She learned a lot of skills at the cat cafe these past two days. It's just a cup of milk tea; as long as you know the general steps and recipe, there shouldn't be any problems.
"There's no reason to let guests do it themselves!" Song Yunshen shook his head and chuckled, then beckoned to Song Jiayao, "Make us milk tea first, I'll help you for a bit."
"Are you sure you can do it?" Song Jiayao asked doubtfully.
"If you lose, I'll help you reach the King rank for free, okay?" Song Yunshen couldn't help but roll his eyes and urge, "Hurry up, we have to go to class, we don't have time to waste with you."
"Then good luck, don't mess around." Song Jiayao handed him her phone with some skepticism, and then started making milk tea.
Song Yunshen took it, glanced at the economy panel, and immediately couldn't hold back. "Teleportation Diao Chan, your economy is 1000 lower than the enemy mage?"
"Our jungler doesn't know how to play. I keep getting ganked and killed by the enemy jungler, and he never comes to help me," Song Jiayao pouted and complained.
Upon hearing her words, Song Yunshen glanced at the jungler's economy, which was the highest in the entire game, with a kill score of 8-2-4.
The team only had 12 kills in total, and this guy's participation rate was 100%.
Oh ho, so you're a prison player.
Meeting my sister is a blessing for you.
Song Yunshen twitched the corner of his mouth, didn't argue with her anymore, silently helped the jungler speed up the jungle, farmed the mid lane together, then frantically pushed the side lanes, and used teleport to join team fights, or farmed the other side lane's economy, quickly turning the tide of the battle.
With the two cups of milk tea ready, Song Yunshen secured the victory and returned the phone to Song Jiayao.
"They actually won?" Song Jiayao looked surprised. "I thought we were doomed to lose."
Song Yunshen didn't bother to say anything more to her. He picked up two cups of milk tea, then took Xia Yunuo and said goodbye to her before leaving.
Song Jiayao was still happily taking screenshots, after all, Song Yunshen had managed to turn her negative record into a positive one, and the jungler had even given her a like, so of course she had to show it off.
When she came to her senses, she suddenly realized something. "Holy crap! Song Yunshen! You didn't pay!?"
Since Song Mingyuan returned to work, Song Yunshen's summer vacation has returned to normal, with him spending every day between the three Xia sisters.
Xia Yunuo recently finished all her summer homework and handed it all over to Song Yunshen.
Then Song Yunshen turned around and dumped all the homework on Xia Kening.
Xia Kening had already finished her own homework and should have been enjoying her summer vacation, but instead, she spent the last few days copying homework for Song Yunshen.
Even Xia Jinshu was somewhat surprised, not expecting her younger sister to work so hard after finishing her homework. She truly deserved to be a top student who ranked third in the grade in the final exam.
Xia Kening herself was the only one who was extremely irritable.
On Saturday morning, which should have been her gaming time, she took out Song Yunshen Song Yunshen's summer homework after helping him complete his daily tasks and continued to work on it.
"I'm speechless! How come you guys have so much summer homework?!" Xia Kening complained, her arms aching from copying halfway through her work, as she swung them around.
"Don't rush, you're just copying homework now. When you get to high school, you'll have to do it all yourself," Song Yunshen said with a chuckle. "With your two older sisters watching over you, you probably won't be able to copy even if you wanted to."
"You didn't secretly add any other homework to my assignment, did you?" Xia Kening couldn't help but ask suspiciously.
"Only a middle school student like you would ask such a stupid question." Song Yunshen curled his lip, then chuckled coldly, "Didn't expect that, did you? This is the world of high school! It's far more cruel than you imagine."
"What kind of cringey lines are those?" Xia Kening said, speechless.
"Anyway, you'd better hurry up, today's the last day." Song Yunshen leaned back leisurely in his chair. "If you don't finish copying, I won't pay you."
"Okay, okay, I'll definitely make it in time." Xia Kening sighed helplessly. "I knew I shouldn't have made that 600 from you. It made me barely play games this week."
"School starts tomorrow, so you won't be able to come over to my place to play games every night anymore," Song Yunshen joked with a chuckle. "Get ready to go to school properly."
"Sigh----" Hearing him say that, Xia Kening couldn't help but sigh deeply, leaning back in her chair with a look of utter despair. "How come summer vacation went by so fast? It's gone in the blink of an eye, and I haven't had enough fun yet."
"Stop slacking off." Song Yunshen reached out and ruffled her hair haphazardly. "Hurry up and keep writing."
"This is child labor exploitation!" Xia Kening protested, grumbling.
"So what if I'm exploiting you? You think you can resist?"
"Damn capitalists!" Xia Kening gritted her teeth, but ultimately picked up her pen again and continued to work hard.
At 9:45 a. m., Xia Kening and Xia Yunuo successfully completed the handover. Song Yunshen then accompanied Xia Yunuo to the market to buy groceries. After returning home, they ate lunch and watched a movie.
Remembering his earlier appointment with Xia Jinshu, after watching the movie, Song Yunshen tentatively asked Xia Yunuo, "Are you going to work part-time at the cat cafe today?"
"Yes, I'm going." Xia Yunuo nodded. "Class ends at 3, I'm going there then."
Upon hearing this, Song Yunshen felt somewhat helpless.
After all, in his opinion, Xia Yunuo should not know that Xia Jinshu is tutoring him.
[If we take Xia Jinshu directly to the cat cafe, won't we just run into her?]
How am I supposed to explain this then? After all, Xia Jinshu doesn't seem to want Xia Yunuo to know that she's tutoring me.
Hearing Song Yunshen's thoughts, Xia Yunuo's expression changed slightly.
Why is Song Yunshen taking his sister to a cat cafe?
Wasn't taking Ningning last time enough?
Xia Yunuo pursed her lips, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.
But the thought of possibly running into her sister at the cat cafe made her a little worried.
Unlike Xia Kening, Xia Jinshu might tell her mother if she knew that Xia Jinshu was working part-time at a cat cafe.
My mother was never really in favor of them working part-time during the summer holidays. If it weren't for the fact that their current part-time job is tutoring, my mother definitely would still be against it.
If her mother found out she was working as a waitress at a cat cafe, she might not let her go anymore.
Thinking about this, Xia Yunuo rolled her eyes and began to ponder.
After she had cleared the dishes and put them in the kitchen, she pretended to take out her phone to answer a call, made a few "uh-huh" sounds, and then hung up. She then acted as if nothing had happened and put her phone away.
Seeing this, Song Yunshen asked curiously, "Who's looking for you?"
Seeing that he had taken the bait, Xia Yunuo finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately replied, "My mom called and asked if I was free this afternoon to help her clean the house."
Upon hearing this, Song Yunshen was immediately delighted. "Aren't you going to the cat cafe this afternoon?"
"I can only tell Sister Xuanxuan," Xia Yunuo said, shaking her head helplessly.
Is there really such a good thing?
It's like a pillow being delivered just when you're about to fall asleep.
Song Yunshen was completely unaware of any problem; he only felt incredibly lucky, as if everything he wanted had come his way.
Xia Yunuo, however, was not happy. The thought of her older sister going on Song Yunshen made her feel gloomy and unhappy.
Sister, what's going on? She's only here to tutor Song Yunshen, so why is she going on dates with him all the time?
What kind of tutor does she?
Xia Yunuo was dissatisfied, but had nowhere to vent her frustrations, so she could only keep it bottled up inside.
She herself didn't realize that even though Song Yunshen and Xia Jinshu went on a date together, she only complained about Xia Jinshu and never thought of blaming Song Yunshen.
Time quickly passed to 3 p. m.
After seeing Xia Yunuo off, Song Yunshen rode his electric bike to the entrance of the residential area and found Xia Jinshu waiting there.
Today, Xia Jinshu once again wore that beige school uniform, revealing a pair of long, slender, snow-white legs, easily catching Song Yunshen's eye.
After he looked away from Xia Jinshu's long legs, he noticed that Xia Jinshu was still carrying her schoolbag today, and asked in confusion, "Senior, we're going out to play today, why are you carrying your schoolbag?"
"I don't know where you're taking me yet, but there should at least be tables and chairs, right?" Xia Jinshu tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and said with a smile, "If there's any free time, I can give you a couple of English questions to pass the time."
Song Yunshen: "----"
Is this guy even human?
Doing homework while going out to play? Don't they have any sense of humanity?
Seeing Song Yunshen's bewildered and exasperated expression, Xia Jinshu found it amusing and covered her mouth with a light laugh, "Alright, alright, I was just kidding. I already promised to go out and play with you, how could I possibly give you a lesson?"
"And this schoolbag—" Song Yunshen asked, speechless.
"It's just for show." Xia Jinshu straddled the back seat, naturally wrapping her arms around Song Yunshen's waist, pressing her entire body against his back, and whispered in his ear, "After all, everyone at home knows I'm here as a tutor, it would be too fake not to be carrying a backpack."
Feeling Mama Xia's embrace, Song Yunshen felt his ears burning and itching, and his heart started to itch too. He could only manage a weak reply, "Hmm... that's true."
He suddenly thought of Xia Jinshu in the Future Diary, who was adept at all kinds of flirting techniques. In comparison, the current Xia Jinshu seemed rather naive and far less capable than even a tenth of the future Xia Jinshu.
However, naivety also has its advantages.
If Xia Jinshu were to become like him in the future, Song Yunshen felt he might not be able to handle it.
After all, this is the kind of thing that will thoroughly drain the man during a breakup sexual encounter.
I can't afford to mess with them.
Starting the electric car, Song Yunshen drove Xia Jinshu towards Wanda Plaza, and they soon arrived at their destination.
Compared to when he brought Xia Kening here before, Song Yunshen didn't pull any more tricks; he simply led Xia Jinshu directly to room 4.
We arrived at the entrance of the cat cafe.
Xia Jinshu actually knew he would bring her here, but she still pretended to be surprised and looked very delighted.
Song Yunshen was still unaware of what was going on. Seeing her surprised expression, he nodded with satisfaction and led Xia Jinshu into the cat café.
When waiter Xiao Cheng saw Song Yunshen enter the store, he naturally had no reason to charge him an entrance fee. However, after seeing the girl who followed him, Xiao Cheng's expression immediately turned strange. He wondered, "Why is it a different girl again?"
Could the landlady's brother really be a scumbag?
The one they brought last time almost caused a disaster, but they dared to bring a new one today.
Speaking of which, isn't that little girl named Xia Yunuo coming to work at the store this afternoon?
Isn't the proprietress's brother afraid of running into her again?
You can't possibly bring Xia Yunuo 'Xia Yunuo older sister today, can you?
With a strange look on his face, Xiao Cheng disinfected the two of them and then let them in.
After thinking it over, I still didn't send a message to the landlady.
Since he'd already messed things up once before, he wanted to see how the landlady's brother would handle things this time after Xia Yunuo arrived.
As a result, Xiao Cheng waited for a long time but Xia Yunuo did not come. He secretly asked Xiao Zhou at the water bar and learned that Xia Yunuo had taken the day off and had something to do at home.
Could it be that the proprietress's brother knew about this beforehand, which is why he dared to bring other young girls to the shop?
Xiao Cheng had a guess in his mind, and the corner of his mouth twitched a few times involuntarily.
Song Yunshen had no idea that the waiter was thinking so much. He led Xia Jinshu Shu to the cat tree and took the blue cat down from it.
The blue cat was quite well-behaved. It nestled in Song Yunshen's arms for a while, but it still felt a little uncomfortable and struggled to get up after a short time.
So Song Yunshen handed the blue cat to Xia Jinshu, who was standing next to him.
Once in Xia Jinshu's arms, the blue cat surprisingly became docile again, finding a comfortable position and lying there with its eyes half-closed.
Upon seeing this, Song Yunshen couldn't help but click his tongue, thinking to himself that this guy had a good eye for talent.
"It's so well-behaved." Xia Jinshu smiled gently, patted the blue cat's head, and swayed her body slightly as if holding a baby, radiating a maternal glow.
"Does Senior like it?" Seeing that the two of them got along well, Song Yunshen couldn't help but smile with satisfaction, and then asked her.
"Of course I like it." Xia Jinshu smiled. "It looks exactly like the blue cat that escaped from the neighbor's house before. They're both so cute."
"What about the other cats? Do you have any you like?" Song Yunshen asked again.
Upon hearing his words, Xia Jinshu immediately looked around.
"That's just a tabby cat, it's very lively." Song Yunshen pointed to the spicy strips.
Xia Jinshu immediately shook her head. "Too naughty, it's better to have an obedient one like Blue Cat."
"What about this plush toy?" Song Yunshen reached out and touched Nuts, who was resting on the cat tree. Unexpectedly, the little guy was a bit impatient and turned his head to move to another spot.
"It's pretty, but it's too aloof," Xia Jinshu commented. "Look how well-behaved this blue cat is; it's not moving at all in my arms."
Song Yunshen gave a slightly speechless twitch of his lips, thinking to himself that Jian Guo wasn't like this when she was in Xia Yunuo's arms before.
So you're all contracted beasts, huh? Only obedient in front of your masters.
"Since you like it, senior, why don't you give it a name?" Seeing that she really liked it, Song Yunshen finally activated his hidden skill and said with a smile.
"Huh? Give it a name?" Xia Jinshu was clearly taken aback. "It doesn't have a name?"
"No," Song Yunshen shook his head, then explained, "This cat cafe is owned by my sister, and the cats are all strays she picked out from her pet hospital."
"When it first opened, my classmate and I went to her pet hospital to pick out this cat. I chose it especially for you."
"The other cats all have names now, except for this little blue cat. Once you name it, we'll post its self-introduction on the bulletin board over there."
Hearing his explanation, Xia Jinshu pursed her lips, feeling a touch of emotion in her heart.
No wonder Song Yunshen specifically asked him what kind of cat he liked; now I understand why.
She had learned from her diary that Song Yunshen and her younger sister had come to the cat cafe that day, and she felt a little uncomfortable about it.
Upon learning the truth, she was overjoyed. She hadn't expected that Song Yunshen would still be thinking of her while he was out having fun with her sister.
"What should I name you?" Xia Jinshu looked down at the blue cat in her arms and began to think seriously.
She was really torn. After thinking for a long time, she simply picked up the blue cat and went to the bulletin board to look at the names of the other cats.
"So that tabby cat is called Spicy Strip? Who came up with that name? It's quite fitting." Xia Jinshu couldn't help but chuckle. "The Ragdoll cat is called Nut? That does sound pretty hard, it matches its aloof personality."
Upon hearing her comment, Song Yunshen couldn't help but feel a little flustered. He hadn't expected that the names Xia Yunuo and Xia Kening had chosen so casually would have such an effect.
"You could also refer to your favorite snacks and suggest a name for it."
"I see..." Xia Jinshu pondered for a moment, thinking seriously. Then, after some hesitation, she finally whispered, "How about we call it... QQ Candy?"
Song Yunshen was visibly taken aback upon hearing this answer.
Because Xia Jinshu usually doesn't eat her family's snacks on her own initiative, she usually only takes a few bags of snacks home when Song Yunshen asks her to take some.
But he had never seen Xia Jinshu take QQ Candy.
On the contrary, she took quite a lot of things like potato chips, spicy strips, nuts, and braised food.
Thinking of this, Song Yunshen suddenly realized something.
Aren't these all the snacks that Xia Yunuo and Xia Kening like to eat?!
So all the snacks Xia Jinshu took from his house before were for her two younger sisters, and she didn't take any of her own favorites?
Thinking of this, Song Yunshen fell silent, pursing his lips tightly, feeling a pang of unease.
"W-What's wrong?" Xia Jinshu couldn't help but ask softly when she saw him suddenly fall silent. "Is it not a good idea? Does it have to be a Chinese name?"
Upon hearing this, Song Yunshen immediately snapped out of his reverie and shook his head, "It's nothing, I just happened to be thinking about something else. QQ Candy is a good name, and it suits the character quite well."
As he spoke, Song Yunshen poked the blue cat's plump belly and said with a chuckle, "Look, isn't it pretty cute?"
"Haha, now that you mention it, it's true." Xia Jinshu laughed, reaching out to scratch Blue Cat's chin. "Then from now on, you'll be called QQ."
It's candy.