"In short, my relationship with Erald Sparrow and Hong Siyu is not what you think,"
Taking the salt bag, Lin Yun carefully compared it with a spoon before sprinkling it into the pot, summing up, "All this is for work. In fact, whether it's or Erald Sparrow, a lot of things have been done considering you, so stop guessing wildly."
"But..."
Lin Xiaolu hesitated again, "If you really have nothing to do with each other, why would Erald Sparrow consider ?"
"...Because she's your senior."
After a mont of thought, Lin Yun opened his mouth to answer, "The relationship between senior and junior Magical Girls, if unchanged, will last ten years; such a lengthy comradeship often surpasses kinship."
This answer should not have co from him since it involved Magical Girls, and he should not appear to know too much. Even after admitting his current employnt at the Abnormal Strategy Bureau, "Magical Girl" remained the primary demarcation of his and Erald Sparrow's identities, and he should have skirted around it.
However, after the conversation had already reached such a point tonight, to clarify things and resolve misunderstandings was the most important matter. That's why Lin Yun chose to reveal it after careful consideration.
Of course, this is only the superficial reason. While it sounds high-minded and seemingly rational, in truth, it is not very convincing.
Just from Lin Xiaolu's expression, it was apparent that she was not very satisfied with this answer.
In fact, Lin Xiaolu was not oblivious to Erald Sparrow's previous favoritism; rather, it was precisely because Bai Jingxuan had diverted Erald Sparrow's attention in recent days that she began to realize she had been favored before.
However, as for the source of this favoritism, even though Erald Sparrow had explained repeatedly, she did not believe it was because of herself.
In her subconscious, she still felt that this favoritism stemd from her parents' influence. Perhaps it was partly due to her mother being a team mber, but more so because Erald Sparrow had an unusual relationship with her father.
But now, her father was telling her very plainly that it was not because of any of these reasons, and that there were no romantic or love relationships between him and Erald Sparrow.
This not only ant that all her previous speculations were wrong, but it also ant that she had voiced these incorrect assumptions, even directly in front of Erald Sparrow, and had presumptuously started calling her "Mommy"...
If she really had the wrong idea, just the thought made Lin Xiaolu's toes curl in embarrassnt.
Yet as she pondered this, if all of these were wrong, then what was the real answer?
The favoritism she felt was no illusion, yet both her father and Erald Sparrow unanimously denied a deeper connection between them, so which side should she believe?
Was there another answer beyond these contradictory facts?
Since she was dood not to get any other answer from Lin Yun, after finishing dinner, helping clean up the dishes, Lin Xiaolu fell into deep thought on her own.
She pondered while showering, brushing her teeth, changing clothes, and as she lay in bed.
Then, still pondering, she turned on her phone, opened the ga, and found the character supposed to be based on her mother nad "Dawn Grass."
"When I asked Erald Sparrow, she also said it was because of ."
Recalling a sumr night's conversation, Lin Xiaolu murmured to herself, "What's so special about ? I'm not particularly talented, have a bad temper, and I'm not cuter than Xia Liang and the others, even my studies have started to lag behind hers..."
"Mom, what kind of relationship did you and Erald Sparrow really have?"
"If it's really nothing to do with Dad, then what was that dream about the other night? Why did I dream of Erald Sparrow holding as a child?"
The virtual character on the screen, of course, could not answer her questions.
No matter how much Lin Xiaolu flipped through the character's voice lines in the ga, all she could hear were so trivial greetings and battle cries.
Amid her gradually murky thoughts, she eventually gave up on continuing to think about the issue and instead started playing other ga levels.
In recent days, her focus had finally shifted from "Dawn Grass" to other characters in the ga, starting to cultivate other Magical Girls.
And during the process of developing the ga characters, she sotis triggered personal storylines for the characters, signifying a deeper bond forming between the ga character and the player's "Fairy."
Thus, Lin Xiaolu casually opened a character's personal story and skimd through it. Just when she found the story sowhat boring and was about to fast-forward, a particular part of the plot caught her attention.
The reason was that two Magical Girls in the story had a misunderstanding; one of them mistakenly thought the other had a preference for the sa sex, leading to an absurdly humorous conversation.
Light jokes and teasing about sa-sex preferences were not an important part of the plot. They were rely interspersed in the story for light relief, but for Lin Xiaolu, it seed like the only key to a locked door.
Such an insignificant plot detail suddenly cleared all her thoughts, connecting all her questions at once and leading her to a brand new answer.
Yes, why hadn't she thought of it before.
She stared blankly at the screen, savoring this new revelation, a tumult of emotions within her refusing to settle.
— Why couldn't Erald Sparrow have liked my mother?
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