[After understanding your daughter's character, you heaved a sigh of relief. It turns out that Mayuri's rejection and bad words towards you were just an external disguise, not her true inner feelings.]
[You quickly found a way to get along with your daughter, and your relationship became closer and closer.]
[However, the closeness of your relationship has not changed Mayuri's personality. You begin to worry about Mayuri's future. Your tsundere attitude will make her miss out on many things.]
[During the day, Mayuri doesn't want to be seen with you by acquaintances, and doesn't want to be asked about her parents. She never agrees to go out with you.]
[You invite her out that night, but she refuses with a false attitude. You help her come up with a suitable excuse.]
A short memory scene emerged in Nan Youxi's mind.
"Mayuri, do you want to go shopping with me? I can pick out some snacks for you."
"don't want!"
"It's dark outside, just come with me."
"You're actually afraid of the dark. You're such a coward! If that's the case, I can go with you reluctantly."
"Then let's go."
[You took her to a big supermarket in the city center. She had never been out so late before. She was curious about everything at night, and the novel products in the supermarket made her linger.]
"Mayuri, do you want this excavator?" Minami Yuki stood in front of the shelf.
"No, only children play with this!" Contrary to the girl's firm tone, her eyes could not leave the blue remote-controlled excavator for a long time.
"I think it's fun. I bought it home and dug in the backyard."
Seeing Minami Yuki putting the excavator into the cart, Mayuri quickly smiled. She quickly put away her smile, glanced at Minami Yuki, and said casually:
"This is quite difficult to operate. If you don't know how, I can teach you."
[You bought a lot of things that she obviously liked but said she didn't like, and her stubborn look made you laugh.]
[After returning home, Mayuri played with the excavator in the backyard until late at night. You sat next to her and told her a ghost story.]
[The ghost story you carefully prepared played the role you expected. When the girl was having fun, she didn't feel the horror of the ghost story. When she was sleeping alone in bed and the room was pitch black, she felt that there seemed to be something scary hidden under the bed, in the closet, and under the desk, and the shadows in the corners seemed to be crawling.]
[She opens your door.]
"Are you afraid of the dark?" The girl pushed the door open a crack, stuck her head in and looked at Nan Youxi on the bed.
"Don't be afraid." Nan Youxi teased her deliberately.
"You said before that you were afraid of the dark!" The girl spoke impatiently, and her tone and eyes were already pleading.
"Well, I'm actually afraid of the dark."
Mayuri immediately laughed: "Then there is no other way, I will sleep with you."
The girl pushed the door open a little more, moved in sideways, climbed onto Nan Youxi's bed, and lay down beside him.
The bed was warm, and Mayuri's uneasy heart calmed down a lot, but this alone could not dispel her fear.
"If you are very scared, you can hug me for a little bit." She hinted to Nan Youxi.
[In the following days, you tell your daughter a ghost story every day and let her sleep next to you every night. ]
[Mayuri tried to refuse to listen to the ghost story. You asked her if she was scared, and she immediately changed her mind and asked you to tell two.]
[Mayuri also tried to make herself strong. At night, she held back her fear and refused to look for you. You controlled the speakers in Mayuri's room, playing the monster's breathing and footsteps. Within five seconds, the girl appeared in your arms.]
[You and Mayuri's relationship has improved. ]
[At the same time, Honoka's persuasion of Yuko has been effective.]
[After staying in her childhood hometown and recalling the happy scenes of her childhood with her mother in the streets and alleys, Yuko finally relented. When Honoka asked her to take Mayuri home countless times, she just said "yes".]
[Honoka immediately took her back to Ino County.]
[You make a phone call and extend Minami Haruna and Minami Ryota's trip for another month to prevent their return from affecting your relationship.]
[Honoka lives in your house, and Yuko comes to the old house to live with you and Mayuri. ]
[Mayuri is very hostile to this mother who suddenly appeared, and she also has a grudge against you, the bedmate who led the snake into the hole, and she doesn't talk to you for a whole day.]
[At night, she saw Yuko enter your room and take her place, and her resentment deepened. ]
[Late at night, she finally mustered up the courage and came to your door, trying to fight with Yuko for you, but she found that Yuko was riding on you and teaching you a lesson, and you had no ability to resist. She was shocked and looked at Yuko with fear for many days.]
[At first, the relationship between mother and daughter was not smooth. Yuko was too cold and Mayuri was too arrogant. Their interaction seemed like Yuko was intentionally bullying Mayuri.]
[Yuko went to wake Mayuri up, but Mayuri said she couldn't get up out of instinctive resistance, so Yuko said "oh" and left. Thinking of Mayuri going to the bathroom, she had to hold it in for another hour to fulfill her promise of not getting up.]
[Yuko gave Mayuri some fruits, but Mayuri said she didn't want to eat them. Yuko said "oh" again and ate the fruits in front of her, enjoying them very much.]
[The cunning wife soon discovered the rules. No matter what she said, Mayuri would contradict her, and she would actually contradict her.]
[Yuko began to make use of this rule.]
[When Mayuri was playing games with you, Yuko came over and said, "It's nice to play games with daddy." Mayuri dropped the controller and ran back to her room. Yuko picked up the controller she dropped, said "Ahhh," and started playing with you.]
[Mayuri likes beef, and so does Yuko. Mayuri is strong and eats fast, so Yuko can never get more than her. So Yuko first tells Mayuri to eat more beef, and then Mayuri won't even put a chopstick into the beef dish. Yuko says in her heart, gives you a few slices of meat, and then takes the whole dish for herself.]
[You didn't want to intervene at first. After all, this was a way for them to get along as mother and daughter. But Yuko went too far, and Mayuri was deceived too badly. You had to agree with Yuko that she could only bully your daughter three times a day.]
[You don't understand how a very smart me and a very cunning Yuko could give birth to such a silly daughter.]
[You think that Mayuri must have been with her aunt Xin'ai for too long and has picked up on her aunt's silliness.]
[Mayuri doesn't really hate Yuko. She doesn't get close to Yuko because Yuko resists her getting close to her. Now, although she has been bullied by Yuko a lot, her resistance to Yuko has gradually diminished.]
[From Yuko's attitude, she discovered that her mother no longer resisted her.]
(End of this chapter)