Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 275 Lin Xiaolu's Chocolate

From the year after Lin Yun and Anya became magical girls together until they got married, Anya would give him chocolates every year.

At first, they were snacks bought from roadside shops, then they became semi-finished products processed by themselves with the help of national magic props, and later on, they were completely handmade chocolates from raw materials.

Among all the chocolates given as gifts over the years, the one that left the most profound impression on Lin Yun was probably the first time Anya bought semi-finished products and gave the chocolates shapes.

"Well...it's not that I'm being harsh, but I do have some doubts."

Lin Yun studied the chocolates taken out of the gift box carefully. At that time, he had no idea what Anya had made. "What is this chocolate made of? A cane? A branch?"

——"Really? It's a sword!"

Anya pointed at two bulges, one large and one small, on the chocolate, and said in a somewhat annoyed tone: "Look, isn't this the guard of the sword? The one above is the hilt, and the long one is the blade..."

"Y-really?"

Lin Yun squinted his eyes and looked left and right, but he couldn't come to the conclusion that "this thing is a sword". However, seeing that Anya was really interested, he could only respond: "If you say it is a sword, then it is a sword."

"It's the sword!"

Anya slapped Lin Yun's arm angrily: "Besides, how can you criticize a girl's chocolate on Valentine's Day? Aren't you asking me why I made it in the shape of a sword?"

"I think being more like this will help you find a boyfriend in the future..."

Lin Yun was halfway through his words when he saw Anya was clearly very unhappy, so he changed the subject and said, "Okay, then why did you make it into a sword?"

"Hehe, you are really curious, right?"

Anya changed her face like a Sichuan opera performer, quickly changing from anger to joy: "I won't keep you in suspense. Since you want to know so much, I'll tell you once and for all, okay?"

"Oh, okay, I'd really like to know." Lin Yun's voice was calm.

"The reason why it was made into a sword is because - in my opinion, when Ayun came to save me when I was in danger, he was like a knight... no, it should be said that he was like a prince riding a white horse and holding a sword."

Anya closed her eyes slightly, with a look of deep thought on her face: "I was a princess bullied by bad guys, and my prince charming fell from the sky and saved me."

"What do you mean by a princess who is bullied by bad guys? Who on earth could bully you? And it was you who saved me in the beginning. I just want to repay you..."

Lin Yun subconsciously tried to correct the verbal loopholes in his view, but halfway through his words, his brain gradually realized that Anya seemed to have said something even more outrageous in the first half of the sentence: "... Wait a minute, what did you say?"

"My prince charming fell from the sky?" Anya folded her hands and placed them on the side of her cheek, tilting her head slightly so that her face rested on the back of her hands.

"No, it's close, but I'm going to say the first sentence."

"I am a princess who is bullied by bad guys." Anya looked self-pitying.

"...the sentence before that." Lin Yun lowered his eyelids.

"Ah, I forgot."

Anya smiled and said, "I've told you this before. I'll only tell you this once. If you don't understand, there won't be a second time."

"But, you clearly said that I was like a prince..."

"do not know."

Anya put her hand down and began to shake her head: "I am now a princess whose memory has been cleared by the evil queen after I gave her the chocolates, so I don't know what I said."

She stood up and pushed the piece of chocolate that didn't look like a sword at all, but was said to be a sword, in front of Lin Yun. Then she bent down slightly and put her mouth close to Lin Yun's ear:

"Anyway, put away your sword, Your Highness."

The memories end here.

Because Lin Yun couldn't remember clearly what he was thinking after that. Was he happy? Or was he shy because he knew that she was young? He had forgotten all the details, and only the warmth of the emotion remained in his heart.

Before they knew it, the fight between Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang had ended. After reluctantly hugging Xia Liang, Lin Xiaolu returned to her seat and opened the last cardboard box in front of her.

—"Here, Delphinium, this is yours!"

Then, she pushed her chocolate in front of Delphinium.

It was a brown-black ring made of chocolate, with some raised chocolate plates on top. The plates were cut into sharp shapes and had some hollow patterns.

There is no doubt that this piece of chocolate, like the two pieces that Lin Xiaolu had just given away, has many imperfections and can even be said to be a bit rough. However, considering her level and ability, the piece of chocolate in front of Delphinium is probably the limit of her handicraft ability.

"So what is it this time? A bracelet?" Xia Liang, who was standing by, guessed while observing Lin Xiaolu's "new work".

"It's like a hat in a birthday cake!" Bai Jingxuan commented.

In fact, even Delphinium herself thought so at first.

Because she knew that today was her birthday, and the piece of chocolate that Lin Xiaolu took out, which looked like a decoration, was undoubtedly very similar to the paper birthday hat given by the cake shop in her memory. However, now she was "Delphinium", and logically, the juniors in the Fangting City team, except Xia Liang, should not know that "Delphinium's birthday is today".

Excluding the possibility that Xia Liang took the initiative to inform the other two, Lin Xiaolu should not know Cuiqiao's birthday. So, what does this piece of chocolate symbolize?

Or in other words, what were the paper birthday hats in cake shops originally modeled after?
An answer already emerged in Delphinium's mind.

——“This, is it a crown?”

She whispered, "It's very similar, Baimei."

These words made Lin Xiaolu, who was originally hesitant, suddenly brighten up.

"Yes, it's the crown!"

She raised her voice with some excitement: "Sure enough, Delphinium, you can see it!"

Ignoring Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan's voices of "It turns out to be a crown", Lin Xiaolu stood up and ran to the side of the Delphinium, and began to point out every detail on the chocolate and explained: "The ring below is the base of the crown, the one above is the coat of arms, and then I made a spire here. When making this place..."

She earnestly told Delphinium about the details of the "crown", what she was thinking when designing each decoration, what problems she encountered while making it, what good ideas had to be abandoned due to lack of ability, and what effects were better after compromise... She talked about this for a full six or seven minutes before finally stopping.

"And finally, let me tell you why I decided to make it look like a crown..."

She glanced at the chocolates on the table, her eyes wandering. "But because it might be a little embarrassing to say it out loud, and there's a guy next to me who's waiting to see me make a fuss, so Delphinium, I might... only say it once."

Cuiqiao listened to Lin Xiaolu's words and did not respond immediately.

She just stared at the "crown", and some memories surged up in her mind like bubbles in the deep sea. The images in those memories were still so clear until now, causing her to suddenly let out a long sigh of relief, and then lowered her eyes peacefully:
"Ah."

"That's right... because Xia Liang told me before that if you give chocolates, you have to put all your opinions and feelings about that person into it. So, I was actually thinking about what I think of Delphinium."

Although she was eloquent when talking about the specific design, when it came to the motivation for designing this "crown", Lin Xiaolu suddenly stuttered:

"I, actually thought about making it in the shape of a string, because your magic suit is a string, and my magic suit also has a string part, which is something I can learn from you. Later, I also thought about whether to make it into a magic wand, because when I first met you, you used a magic wand to teach me how to fight."

"But after thinking about it for a long time, I feel that the delphinium seen only from these angles is not the most complete delphinium I know. The you I know should be a more complete, more beautiful, and more...distant existence."

"When you first appeared in front of me, you saved my life, and at that time, you were the most shining existence in the world in my eyes. I was thinking at that time, if this was a fairy tale, and I was lucky enough to be the heroine, then I must have met the prince of my life at that time."

"But I'm not the heroine, and this isn't a fairy tale. Delphinium, you're also a girl, so I often feel regretful, because the feeling at that moment will probably always be just an illusion of mine."

"But even so, the reason this story is just a fantasy is because I'm not good enough. As for you, Delphinium... there is no doubt that in my heart, you are the prince who can save others. Or, you don't need to be a prince, you can be a princess."

“So, this crown…”

Lin Xiaolu raised the chocolate crown and suspended it in front of her eyes, aligning it above Delphinium's head: "That's how I see you."

"Thank you for saving me, thank you for guiding me, thank you for staying for me, thank you for loving me..."

"I love you best, Delphinium."

These are the words that Lin Xiaolu most wants to convey to Cuiqiao at this moment.

This sentence also made Delphinium speechless for a long time, and even her throat became tight.

She really wanted to stand up right now and tell Lin Xiaolu, you are my princess, and I will be the king who will give you the whole world.

She really wanted to turn around and hug her queen, telling her that she loved them and that she would protect them with sword and crown forever.

The queen presented the sword to the prince who was to remain forever in her heart, and the princess presented the crown to the man who was like a prince to her.

But the prince failed to become king. The sword at his side had long been rusted, and the queen was not by his bedside. The only person left in the bedroom was a person who didn't know whether he was a prince or a princess, a person full of regret.

——"Hey, what, what's wrong? Delphinium, why do you seem so sad all of a sudden? Is this... tears?"

"What's wrong, little senior? Don't cry, did Xiaolu say something wrong? Hey, Xiaolu, come here quickly and apologize!"

"Teacher, don't be sad. I have a handkerchief here!"

And without knowing when, the younger generations had already surrounded Delphinium, and were extremely anxious because of Delphinium's sudden emotional expression.

"…I'm fine. It's not Bai Mei's fault."

She took Bai Jingxuan's handkerchief and put it over her eyes, her voice a little hoarse: "I just thought of some things in the past, and I got a little emotional. It's all in the past, it's no big deal."

But yes, at least she is not alone now.

Perhaps the sword is rotten, perhaps she cannot bear the weight of the crown.

However, she will use this rotten sword to protect everything she has in the end.

(End of this chapter)