The package has assigned me way too many objects.

However, he knew that the female demon was just being modest. If she were really as ordinary as she claimed, why would those nobles have paid so much attention to the few empty tables in the Minagawa family's house?

The balcony where Chu Yinan and Minagawa Izumi were sitting was also surrounded by glass, and the floor beneath them was also made of glass tiles. The height of the second floor didn't seem particularly intimidating, but looking out at the distant sea from here gave one a feeling of standing high in the sky and looking towards the ends of the earth.

They had been up and active for a long time, but the approaching winter made dawn come a little late.

Just as Chu Yinan was about to say something, the woman gestured for him to stop talking with her slender finger and pulled him to watch the sunrise.

The time before dawn is perhaps the quietest time of day, even more tranquil than the dead of night. A few stars hang faintly in the dim, purplish-black sky, and a dazzling golden ray shines out from where the sea meets the sky. Finally, the sky turns a clear, deep blue and begins to brighten.

"I've only ever seen this kind of light when I draw a legendary gold item," Chu Yinan said abruptly.

"Such a beautiful sunrise, and you're ruining the atmosphere by talking about drawing cards." Minagawa Izumi pinched his nose, not wanting to scold or hit him.

Chu Yinan glanced at the female demon a few times, quietly shifted his position, and hugged her silk-stockinged feet to his chest. He glanced at her again and, finding that the female demon did not scold him, he felt at ease playing with her feet under the guise of a massage.

I initially thought her feet were only flawless at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they were still incredibly beautiful.

The skin on her feet was firm and delicate, with very few wrinkles on the back of her toes. Even without the lights on, just by the faint light of sunrise, one could feel the translucency of her feet. The light shone through her toes, giving them a rosy glow that only a baby would have.

These incomparably beautiful feet, set against the hazy backdrop of black stockings, resembled exquisite works of art veiled in mystery, adding a touch of alluring temptation.

Chu Yinan held each of the delicate toes in his hands. They were soft and boneless, and the warmth emanating from the soles of his feet made him feel as if he were playing with a beautiful jade, which became more and more lustrous with each touch.

"Did you have plastic surgery?" he couldn't help but ask.

"It's hereditary in my family. Who would get plastic surgery on their feet? People who need plastic surgery are the ones who love to show off. I live my life alone, I don't pursue those things."

"That seems to make sense." Chu Yinan thought it made sense.

"Have you had enough fun?"

Feeling embarrassed by her stare, Chu Yinan said "enough" but didn't let go of her hands.

"Do you have anything interesting to tell me?"

"I don't have anything interesting to say. But you little rascal, you must be out playing all the time. Do you have any fun stories to tell about your time with Yan Liu's family?"

"There were no funny stories, but plenty of embarrassing ones. I once fell asleep hanging in Yu Tang's sock, and when I woke up, my whole family laughed at me, completely ruining my reputation!"

"How do you want to hang up? Tell me a few more interesting things, and I'll let you hold my leg a little longer."

Given the conditions, Chu Yinan looked at the jade-like feet in his arms with mixed feelings. In the end, he couldn't help but sell his dignity and recounted all his embarrassing moments. Every time he struggled with his pride, the mature and beautiful woman would stretch out her toes in front of him, and Chu Yinan would immediately tell her everything.

The sunrise ended, and it was almost light by then.

"Alright, it's about time I took you home, otherwise your family will really worry. Running away from home isn't a good thing." Minagawa Izumi stopped walking and pulled him up from the ground.

"Can I come again in the future?"

Minagawa Izumi thought for a moment and said, "If you have another fight with your family and run away from home, you can come over. If you're doing well, then forget it."

Chapter 91 Squatting at the Door

"Why are you saying this, you female demon, as if I have to take sides? As if being on good terms with this side means I can't be on good terms with you?" Chu Yinan took the teapot and poured tea over the lemon slices in his cup, but unfortunately the lemon flavor was weak.

"Then just think of it that way! Anyway, your family will have some opinions if you come here every few days, especially since your Aunt Yanliu has raised you for so long. But if you really encounter something unpleasant, you still have to tell them."

Minagawa Izumi was naturally referring to his "running away from home." Hearing him recount his embarrassing moments and mention cross-dressing, it seems that Xiao Chu Nan wasn't as willing as he appeared to be to play this game with his family, but he wasn't particularly averse to it either. He just had a few minor objections, and since he didn't want to be seen as part of the family, he complied.

Chu Yinan's main complaint was that he was tired. He had accepted his loss with Vallis, but his family was already annoyed if he was asked to go shopping all day. Now, they had dressed him up in women's clothes and taken him around all day. It would be strange if they didn't have complaints.

"It's a bit embarrassing to say."

“You’re thinking like how kids interact in a group, worrying that you’ll be left out if you don’t agree with the other kids, so you force yourself to smile. But if you think like this about your family, then that’s a big problem. You might as well just argue with them.”

"An argument would feel even worse than this."

"It's not as serious as you think. You can make up after the argument. If it really doesn't work out, just come to me."

After finishing the tea in the teapot, Minagawa Izumi took his little hand and led him to the door to wait for Turing Tower to send a drone to take him back.

Chu Yinan still didn't quite understand the female demon's feelings. Why could he only look for her when he ran away from home? But whatever she said, he would just go along with it. Anyway, he didn't have many opportunities to look for her at other times.

"So, even when he didn't run away from home, he could still contact you, right?"

"That depends on whether I can see your messages or not," Minagawa Izumi said, not daring to make any guarantees.

"You're just like Heinrich before, the kind who never checks the news."

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At Yan Liu's home, breakfast had already been finished, but the house was in complete chaos.

When I woke up early in the morning, Xiao Chunan was nowhere to be found. I thought he was hiding in the attic sleeping, but I couldn't find him anywhere.

The maid who woke up earliest said that when she woke up, her shoes were not in the entryway. She assumed they were in the shoe cabinet and didn't think much of it.

Doesn't that just mean he went out late at night?

"Fu Xi, did Xiao Chu Nan go to Yenisetta to find you?" Yan Liu was so anxious that she paced back and forth, her face filled with panic and worry. She only ate two bites of breakfast before losing her appetite.

Fu Xi, who was an accomplice in Xiao Chunan's escape in the middle of the night, shook his head and said, "It's neither in Turing Tower nor Yenisetta."

Heinrich knew where Xiao Chunan had gone. She could clearly track his location. After a night of absence, his location had flown to the edge of the cape of Glory Island, presumably to find a wet nurse.

However, according to Yan Liu and Bei Yutang's records, Xiao Chunan had turned off her location services. Therefore, they were unaware of the truth.

Yan Liu looked at Heinrich: "Heinrich, could it be that Xiao Chunan ran back to his family home to spend the night? And Morgan came to pick him up?"

Heinrich did not tell the truth:

"No, Morgan goes to bed early. He wouldn't come to pick him up in the middle of the night. If he really wanted to find Xiao Chunan, he would come to pick him up in the evening. You don't need to worry so much. He will come back on his own."

"Where could he spend the night? I've never heard of him staying overnight at any classmate's house to hang out. The only places he would go besides the AI ​​Tower are Lefie Manor. He's nowhere to be found now, and he's turned off his location services so he doesn't want us to know."

Marissa hung her head dejectedly, as if she had done something wrong, and reflected:

"Could it be that I made Xiao Chunan angry yesterday because I made him get dressed?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Liu also thought it was possible, and immediately felt extremely annoyed. She shouldn't have been so playful. Xiao Chunan usually wouldn't get angry with them, so she hadn't taken Xiao Chunan's reluctance to heart at the time.

In the courtyard, Chu Yinan had already returned in an AI delivery drone. However, since it wasn't convenient to fly around randomly back on Twin Islands, he switched to a go-kart to rush back.

Last night, she confidently declared that she had "run away from home." Logically, she should be more confident now that she's back. But I've cleared my head and forgiven them.

However, Chu Yinan overheard Aunt Liu and the others' worried words through the window, and felt extremely guilty for causing them so much worry and sadness for no reason.

On the way back, Yutang sent him several messages asking where he had gone.

Yu Tang didn't drag him into the dress-up game yesterday, but Chu Yinan didn't dare answer her calls.

Chu Yinan paced back and forth in the small courtyard, hesitant to open the door and go in. He squatted under the window and listened to the sounds inside. He wanted to wait until Aunt Liu and the others calmed down before going in, but the more he listened, the more guilty he felt.

Left with no other choice, Chu Yinan, who had just left the female demon, had to ask the elder for help. However, when he opened the message bar, he saw that the female demon seemed to have anticipated that he would not dare to enter the house, and had sent him a message when he was almost home.

[Minagawa Izumi: Just be a little thick-skinned and go in; there's no need to worry so much.]

Just then, Yu Tang sent him another message asking about him, so Chu Yinan couldn't pretend he didn't see it anymore.

[Yu Tang: Where did the little rascal go?]

[Chu Yinan: I'm home, I'm home. Still figuring out how to get in.]

Bei Yutang was in her room when she suddenly received a message from her younger brother. She thought he would explain why she was so angry, but to her surprise, he said that he was afraid to go home.

With a complicated expression, she went downstairs. Seeing her mother so worried, she didn't dare to tell her anything. She just said, "I'm going out for a walk," and then put on her shoes and went out.

Before she even left the courtyard, the girl saw Xiao Chunan squatting by the window near the dining room, staring at his phone as if waiting for a reply to her message.

Chu Yinan's peripheral vision suddenly caught a pair of long, slender, black-stockinged legs approaching. His sister sat down next to him, gently brushed his cheek with her finger, and whispered:

"what happened?"

"...Well, I ran away on a whim and went to my wet nurse's place. Well, not exactly a wet nurse, but I learned from Qilin and the others that an aunt had taken care of us in the tower when we were little."

Seeing her younger brother huddled under the window eavesdropping, Bei Yutang couldn't bring herself to scold him for being so inconsiderate. Instead, she asked helplessly:

"Are you still angry now that you hear Aunt Liu is so worried?"

"I wouldn't say I was angry. I wasn't really angry before. I have a good temper. I just had some opinions."

Bei Yutang guessed that Xiao Chunan probably wanted to see the wet nurse he mentioned, but he was taken around for a while, became unhappy, and ran away because he couldn't get over it.

Now it's just regret after acting impulsively.

“Come on, I’ll take you inside. The longer you hide here, the more worried your Aunt Liu will be.”

Chapter 92 Don't take those strange little paths anymore.

Chu Yinan's legs went numb from squatting outside the door, and he felt embarrassed to follow Yu Tang inside.

Chu Yinan was conflicted. He felt guilty for not apologizing, but he also felt bad for not paying money, seeing how worried Aunt Liu and the others were.

When Yan Liu saw Xiao Chunan return, she picked him up before he could even take off his shoes, holding him as tightly as if she could confirm that the little guy was right beside her.

"Hey, Aunt Liu, let me take my shoes off first."

Bei Yutang changed her shoes, came over to help him take them off, and placed them on the entryway. Yan Liu then carried him to the living room and sat him down.

"Where did you go? Do you know how worried Aunt Liu was about you?" Yan Liu felt relieved, and although her tone was reproachful, she didn't dare to be too harsh.

"I know," Chu Yinan said softly, feeling an overwhelming sense of apology. "I did go to Glory Island for a visit."

"Why are you going in the middle of the night? Did you not have fun changing your clothes yesterday?"

"I'm a little unhappy, but not particularly angry. I just impulsively ran away." Chu Yinan was nowhere to be seen with the same fierceness as last night. "I'm sorry, Aunt Liu, for making you worry so much. But I always plan things out, so nothing will go wrong."

"You deliberately made Aunt Liu worry, didn't you?" The plump and beautiful woman lightly slapped Chu Yinan's bottom, then reflected on herself, "Aunt Liu wasn't good either. She shouldn't have failed to notice that you were unhappy. If you really don't like something in the future, you should tell Aunt Liu, okay!"

"Okay, I'll tell you before I leave from now on."

Chu Yinan's intention was that if she wanted to go somewhere in the future, she should tell Aunt Liu first, instead of trying to find time to go herself. However, since she didn't explain herself clearly, she was naturally misunderstood.

Yan Liu wasn't angry either, so she gently bit his ear:

"You said you'd leave again, do you really want Aunt Liu to worry? You're not allowed to run away from home again, especially not sneaking off alone late at night. Even if you wanted to go back to Glory Island, you should have invited Delia and the others."

Chu Yinan thought to himself that he wasn't going alone; his elder sister Fuxi was with him the whole time.

As a gesture of reconciliation, Chu Yinan wrapped his arms around Yan Liu's neck and kissed her smooth, firm cheek:

"I was a little out of line this time. I was squatting outside for a long time and didn't dare to come in."

When Yan Liu heard Xiao Chunan say "something's not right," she knew that he didn't think there was anything wrong with running away last night; he just felt ashamed of her concern.