After Mayuri finished complaining, most of the resentment in her heart disappeared.
Generally speaking, when boys and girls reach this age, they are either extremely sensitive and care about other people's every move and every little thing, or they are obsessed with their own little world and rarely care about other things.
Mayuri is the latter. Apart from games, everything else is just a spice of life in her eyes, and she doesn't care much about it.
When Nan Xizi walked into the kitchen and took out 1,000 yen as a hush money and gave it to her, she immediately stopped complaining.
Nan Xizi took out another thousand yen and gave it to her, and she smiled.
After returning to sit next to Nan Youxi, Nan Xizi wiped her forehead, looking like she had worked hard.
"Solved." She raised her index and middle fingers and made a V sign.
"What a dirty solution." Nan Youxi complained.
"Dirty is reality, maturity is dirty, and dirty is the law of society."
"Well, if Mayuri has no objection, then I have no objection either."
Mayuri was already thinking about what to buy with the 2,000 yen. She reached a settlement out of court and withdrew the complaint from Minami Yuki's court.
She put the fried eggs and ham on the bread, handed it to Minami Yuxi and Minami Xizi, and took off her apron.
"I'm going to Sister Nao's house. I won't be home for lunch." She picked up her small shoulder bag.
The bag is pink, and the golden interface on the cover is in the shape of a heart, which is very youthful and girlish. However, she put handheld game consoles and game discs in the bag, which have nothing to do with traditional girlish things.
"Be careful." Nan Youxi said.
"Come back later." said Nan Xizi.
"By the way," Mayuri walked back from the entrance, "Dad, do you have time tonight? Nao-san said she could lend me the game disc for Double Couples. Ichimi-san and Nao-san have already played it together, so I can't ask them to play it again."
"No!" Nan Xizi hugged her husband's arms tightly.
"Yes." Nan Youxi replied.
"Yeah!" Mayuri clenched her fists happily.
"No playing." Nan Xizi pulled Nan Youxi's arm. She took a breath, puffed up her cheeks, and stared into her husband's eyes.
Today was a rare day off, and she had originally thought of keeping Nan Youxi to herself, but she didn't expect her daughter to steal a copy! She had to get it back!
"Mom, you're already old, yet you're still acting cute like this. How shameless!" Mayuri pulled her eyelids and made a face.
"Because I'm indeed cuter than Mayuri." Putting her two index fingers against the corners of her mouth, Minami Xizi forced a smile on her face.
She was telling the truth. Mayuri, who was about to enter high school, was already 1.7 meters tall and looked like an adult, while Yuko, who was in her thirties, still looked like a middle school student.
When the family goes out, although others do not recognize Mayuri as Yuko's mother, they always recognize Yuko as Mayuri's sister.
Mayuri was very angry about this, she didn't want a mother as a sister.
"You old lady pretending to be young!" Mayuri snorted and ran out of the entrance.
She moved clumsily, and the sound of the door opening and closing floated in the quiet living room.
"Don't play games with her at night." Nan Xizi shook her husband's arm and put her face close to Nan Youxi's. Her cute and innocent face like a doll made Nan Youxi dizzy.
Compared to when she was young, Yuko has become more straightforward and bold. She will pester Minami Youxi and directly express her demands.
"What else can we play if not games?" Nan Youxi was unwilling to agree with her.
It’s only one day of free simulation, so of course it should be shared equally between mother and daughter. How can you neglect your daughter just because the mother is cute
"I." Nan Xizi's face was closer to her husband.
She wanted to show a sense of oppression, but all she showed was her beauty and revealed was temptation.
…
There were many thin clouds in the sky. The setting sun fell behind the clouds, and the light was refracted, like an orange egg yolk spreading in a celadon bowl.
Chiju Kazumi drove Mayuri to the doorstep of her home. Mayuri said goodbye to her in a hurry and went into the house.
Although her father agreed to let her play games, she was still worried that her mother would interfere and ruin her good thing.
Pushing open the door to the living room, she felt completely relieved.
Nan Youxi was sitting on the sofa in front of the TV, flipping through a comic magazine out of boredom.
Mayuri walked quickly to her father's side and looked around: "Where's mom?"
She saw that her father had a mysterious smile on his face: "Don't worry, she won't be able to disturb us for a while."
Fifteen-year-old Mayuri had vaguely understood some adult matters from the game, but although she was very curious, she did not continue asking.
After inserting the game disc into the console, she took the handle, jumped onto the sofa, and lay down next to Nan Youxi.
She rested her head on Nan Youxi's shoulder, her cheek against her father's collarbone, feeling the firmness and warmth of his shoulder.
If her mother were here, she would grab her hand and pull her up, not letting her get close to her father.
Only when her mother is not around can she enjoy her father's arms.
Handing the other handle to her father, she leaned over again and rested her head on the man's legs.
"Let's begin. Which role does Dad want to choose?" she asked.
"I want to be a mother." Nan Youxi chose a female role.
"Then I'll be the father." Mayuri chose the remaining male doll.
The girl's excess energy made her restless while playing games. She kept changing her postures, sitting on Nan Youxi's shoulder, squatting on Nan Youxi's shoulder, resting her head on Nan Youxi's thigh, resting her legs on Nan Youxi's thigh, and lying across Nan Youxi's body...
When she lifted her legs onto Nan Youxi's shoulders, the man could no longer bear it and grabbed her ankles: "Pay attention to your appearance, you are wearing a skirt!"
"It doesn't matter if mom isn't here anyway. And I'm wearing leggings underneath."
"You can't do that even if mom isn't around... Why is that so weird? Shouldn't it be okay because he's the dad? You've made it seem like he's having an affair behind mom's back, which is a good relationship between father and daughter!"
The word "affair" was too stimulating for Mayuri. She immediately sat up straight with her face flushed.
"How are Nao and Kazumi?" Minami Yuxi asked while controlling the character.
"Nothing has changed, except that they often ask about your relationship with your mother. They seem to be worried about you."
Nan Youxi glanced at the girl and thought: My silly daughter, are they worried about your parents' feelings? They want to be your stepmother!
"I want to change people, let me play with mom!"
Mayuri and Minami Yuki exchanged controllers and she was completely immersed in the game.
Nan Youxi originally wanted to play with her all night long, so he gave the daytime to Yuko and left the nighttime to his daughter. However, his daughter lacked willpower and actually fell asleep on his lap in the early morning.
He carried Mayuri back to the room, took off her shoes and socks, covered her with a blanket, and returned to his bedroom.
The noise of him getting into bed woke Nan Xizi up. The dazed puppet mother stretched out her arms to him, put them around the back of his head, held him in her arms, and fell into deep sleep again.
Nan Youxi put his arms around his wife's waist and watched her sleeping face in the moonlight that filtered through the undrawn curtains. The hazy moonlight outside the window was not as good as the trembling eyelashes and the heaving chest of the person beside him.
(End of this chapter)