Why bother with dating when you already have a cat?

It's not that you only start to feel it when you get old and have gray hair and wrinkles.

Instead, at some point, when trying things from my younger days, I realized that I could never go back.

Or you might see in the news that someone has won some award, received some honor, or achieved some success, only to find upon closer inspection that this person is actually younger than you.

"Is there a difference between me like this and you like this?" Xiaoyu tilted her head, somewhat unable to understand what Ai Qing was saying.

Just like her, Ai Qing spends her days eating, sleeping, and staying at home. Apart from tinkering with that thing called a computer, she has nothing else to do.

She doesn't understand the concept of "work" yet, nor does she know what "making money" means, let alone that Ai Qing is "creating" a novel to obtain enough "resources" to support the two of them.

"You wouldn't understand," Ai Qing laughed, not in a hurry to explain these things to her. "You should study hard first, and you'll gradually understand these things in the future."

"It's studying again," Xiaoyu sighed.

It seems that no matter what the problem is, as long as you study hard, you can solve it easily.

Even Ai Qing himself didn't realize that his current tone of voice was more or less the same as the tone he used to speak to his parents when he was a child.

Many principles seem simple to adults, and they understand them as soon as they are explained, but when they are facing children, they find it very troublesome to explain them.

In the end, I simply decided not to explain further.

You'll understand later.

Sometimes this isn't necessarily an excuse; it's just that it's genuinely hard to explain.

Just like when I was younger, my dad always told me to pay attention to exercising, otherwise I would suffer from my health when I got old.

At that time, Ai Qing couldn't understand it, even though she was perfectly healthy.

But now that I've been sitting in front of the computer for a long time, I've realized how powerful it is.

Humanity's greatest strength lies in its ability to learn from the experiences and lessons of history.

But the biggest drawback is that it's impossible to truly apply these lessons to oneself.

As a result, generation after generation repeats the same mistakes.

"Come on, let's play this. We can play this together." Ai Qing shook her head, trying not to think about it, and pulled Xiao Yu forward.

"What is this...?" Little Fish blinked, looking at the strange thing in front of her.

A long pillar lay horizontally on the ground, fixed in the middle, with a chair armrest on each side, one higher than the other, and I had no idea what it was for.

“Seesaw.” Ai Qing said, eagerly sitting down on one of the chairs, then stretching out her legs so that the other chair would fall to the ground. “Xiao Yu, sit over there and hold onto the armrest.”

Although she didn't know what to do, Xiaoyu obediently sat down, held onto the armrests with both hands, and looked at Ai Qing opposite her.

"Hold on tight, I'm going to move." Afraid that Xiaoyu would be frightened and cry out, Ai Qing didn't use too much force right away. She slowly bent her knees and sank down, prying Xiaoyu's petite body.

As the chair beneath her bottom was gradually raised, Xiaoyu's legs slowly straightened from a bent position.

She felt her body lift off the ground and instinctively gripped the handrail tightly. When her feet were completely off the ground, even though the speed was not fast, she still let out a soft "Ah~".

His body also leaned back.

Fortunately, she listened to Ai Qing's advice and held onto the handrail, thus avoiding falling off the seesaw.

Moreover, Ai Qing didn't hold on to the lowest position. After Xiao Yu's feet left the ground, he stopped and slowly lowered himself back down.

Just as the little fish rose into the air, it quickly returned to a state where its feet were firmly on the ground. The difference between the two states gave it the illusion that it had actually flown.

This made her feel somewhat insecure, but also very excited.

"Want more?" Ai Qing asked with a smile. "Weren't you scared?"

The little fish shook its head repeatedly.

"You don't want it anymore?"

"No..." Little Fish quickly explained, "I said, I wasn't scared, but I still want to."

Ai Qing loved teasing her like this. Every time Xiao Yu stumbled over her explanation, she looked especially adorable.

"Should I hurry this time?" Ai Qing asked. "It'll be more fun if it's faster."

"Mmm!" Little Fish gripped the armrests tightly with both hands and nodded, "I'm ready."

"Here we go."

Before Ai Qing finished speaking, she bent her legs again and used her weight to easily push the little fish high into the air.

Although it was a little faster, it wasn't particularly fast. Ai Qing still took care of Xiao Yu's safety, just a little faster than before, and lifted her into the air again.

"Ugh!" Little Fish gripped the handrail with one hand and quickly pressed her fisherman's hat down with the other. The feeling of her legs being off the ground made her feel like she was floating, both tense and thrilling. "This is fun!"

"As long as it's fun." Ai Qing smiled smugly, repeatedly lifting the little fish up, watching her clothes flutter, she was experiencing the rare joy of taking care of a child.

But to be honest, this thing is really tiring.

Ai Qing only did squats a dozen times before her thighs started to ache terribly.

No wonder his dad didn't like playing this with him much when he was little; he always told him to find his own friends to play with.

After all, the advantage of a heavier person playing on a seesaw is that they can control the rhythm, but the disadvantage is that they have to exert all the effort themselves.

After playing for a while, Ai Qing stopped, a little out of breath.

The little fish opposite her fell from the air to the ground. As the seesaw hit the ground, she looked at Ai Qing with a series of questions: "What, it stopped? You, can't do it?"

Ai Qing: "...?"

You just wait!

Ai Qing gritted her teeth and exerted force again, lifting the little fish into the air.

"Ah! So high!" Little Fish exclaimed excitedly and with a sense of trepidation.

Her fisherman's hat flew high into the air, spinning in mid-air, echoing her voice, like a falling leaf, gently landing on the lawn beside her.

Chapter 63 Lost Love

The seesaw is a lot of fun.

But Ai Qing had already been drained dry by Xiao Yu.

He lay on his back on the lawn, looking up at the deep night sky, panting, one hand on his chest rising and falling with his breath, feeling his heart pounding.

I deliberately avoided hiking to avoid this situation.

Why... why did it turn out like this?

He gets so tired from playing on a seesaw, how come he had so much energy when he was a child?

I just can't understand it.

Seeing Ai Qing lying on the lawn, Xiao Yu also got off the seesaw, first ran to a short distance away to pick up the fisherman's hat that had just flown away, and then returned to Ai Qing's side.

I don't know what she was thinking, but when she saw Ai Qing lying on the ground, she squatted down, then sat down and lay down on her side next to Ai Qing.

Ai Qing turned to look at her with a puzzled expression. Before he could ask, Xiao Yu closed her eyes and said to him, "Go to sleep."

Ai Qing looked speechless: "...Who said they were going to sleep?"

"Huh?" Little Fish opened her eyes, her face full of surprise. "Lie down, no, go to sleep?"

In her mind, she probably doesn't yet have the concept that "you can only lie down and sleep like this at home".

After all, kittens can sleep on the bed, on the table, on the windowsill, on the wardrobe, in the corner of the bedroom, or under the chair.

But it will never sleep in the cozy cat bed that you carefully selected and bought for it.

It's quite normal to be able to accept sleeping on the lawn with the sky as your blanket.

“You can’t just sleep in public places like this. I’m just too tired and need to rest.” Ai Qing rolled her eyes and quickly sat up. “When I’m in human form, I can only sleep in bed.”

"Okay, okay." Little Fish nodded, indicating that she had learned it. "I'm tired, time to rest."

"So why are you still lying there?" Ai Qing said, looking at the little fish on the lawn. "Your clothes are all dirty."

But Little Fish is an automatic laundry maid, so it's okay if it gets dirty.

Thinking of this, Ai Qing simply lay back down.

The two lay on the lawn. Xiaoyu imitated Aiqing's posture, facing the sky with her back to the earth, looking at the boundless night sky.

"Do you see that shining star over there?" Ai Qing pointed to a dim star in the night sky. "It's right next to the moon."

"The stars are big, but this one is so small." The little fish squinted and finally saw the inconspicuous little point of light. "The moon is big, but it doesn't count."

“Don’t let its tiny size fool you, it’s actually huge,” Ai Qing said. “It’s even much bigger than the moon, it’s just too far away from us.”

"Hmm?" Little Fish couldn't yet comprehend the scale and structure of the universe and stars, and his expression immediately turned to confusion.

Ai Qing smiled, took the hat she had just brought back, and then held it up in front of her, asking, "Do you think this hat is big?"

The little fish nodded.

"And now?" Ai Qing moved her hat further away.

In Xiaoyu's view, the hat went from covering the entire field of vision to only occupying a part of it.

"Too small, a little bit."

"How about this?" Ai Qing tossed the fisherman's hat forcefully, sending it flying again to land on the lawn some distance away. "Is it even smaller now?"

Little Fish nodded, a thoughtful expression on its face.

"So do you think the hat itself has become smaller? Take it back and put it on your head, it's still the same size."

"Yes!" Little Fish nodded vigorously, then extended the analogy, "So, if you bring the star over, it will also become bigger!"

"...Hmm, that's about it." Although there was still a slight misunderstanding, Xiaoyu was still quite clever to understand to this extent.

After resting for a while, Ai Qing got up, patted her bottom, and pulled Xiao Yu to her feet on the lawn.

After playing with a few more pieces of exercise equipment with Xiaoyu, the two of them walked deeper into the park along the cobblestone path.

The park is probably more lively in the early morning than on the street.

However, this liveliness is not human.

Walking along the park path, after a while in the silence, you can clearly hear the chirping of insects and the traces of the wind.

The little fish wandered around, stopping and starting, looking here and touching there. Sometimes it would try to ask a few questions, and after receiving an answer, it would nod, half understanding.