So she stopped trying to get away and instead sat up as straight as she could, making sure Lin Xiaolu wouldn’t slide off her shoulders. Then, she peacefully started watching TV.
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Just like that, time quickly approached noon.
As the winter sun climbed high in the sky, the girls who couldn’t get up yesterday evening because they played too late began to leave their bedrooms one after another, and because it was a holiday, everyone was a bit lethargic.
Among them, Asou Haruka was the most casual, too lazy to even comb her long hair and simply shuffled into the dining room with her slippers on, her hair a tangled mess. Passing the living room, she glanced at the sofa, prompted by the TV noise, and seeing Emerald Sparrow being used as a pillow by two kids, she laughed quite tastelessly.
Not wanting to speak loudly, Emerald Sparrow could only glare at her wordlessly.
By the way, at last night’s board game party, after Bai Jingxuan was caught and sent to bed early, Asou Haruka took her place. She had no spirit of concession when playing games with kids, fussing when she lost and gloating when she won. Eventually, she was targeted along with her own team members by the younger members and ended up winning the least number of times throughout the night.
As for Emerald Sparrow at that time, she was working overtime in the study with Hong Siyu, with the noise from the living room as background noise.
And since it just so happened to be Hong Siyu’s shift at the Abnormal Strategy Bureau today, she was also responsible for making breakfast, so in reality, her sleeping time was only about one or two hours longer than Lin Xiaolu and the others.
No wonder she had no patience for the disheveled Asou Haruka.
A while later, Xia Liang also came out of her room with grace, her recently grown hair tied into a side ponytail that fell over her shoulder. She stretched and passed the living room, but then, like the others, she was drawn by the sound of the TV to the huddled trio on the sofa and her gaze sharpened slightly.
"What’s going on here?" she mouthed silently, forming the words with her lips.
"They got up too early and are sleeping," Emerald Sparrow mouthed back in lip-speak.
This response made Xia Liang pause for a moment, then, changing direction with no intention of heading to the dining room, she made her way into the living room.
She first looked at Lin Xiaolu, who was leaning on Emerald Sparrow’s left shoulder, drool almost dripping, then at Bai Jingxuan seated on the right, who was lying on her thigh and had also apparently fallen asleep at some point. Xia Liang couldn’t help but smirk helplessly.
"What about me?" she pointed to herself, mouthing the question.
"Go eat first." Emerald Sparrow replied helplessly.
Then she saw Xia Liang sporting a sly smile like that of a little fox.
Before Emerald Sparrow could react, Xia Liang simply sat down with her legs tucked in, then laid back, resting entirely on Emerald Sparrow’s lower legs.
At this point, Emerald Sparrow was completely squeezed into a position without any space to move.
This bizarre scene naturally didn’t escape the eyes of the other team members. Soon after, Asou Haruka came out of the kitchen, holding a glass of boiled water in one hand and a half-eaten egg in the other. Seeing another person had joined by Emerald Sparrow’s legs, she whistled maliciously.
"You all seem very close," she commented with a grin.
Emerald Sparrow, whose feet were now completely immobilized, could only respond with an even more fierce glare.
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The lazy, leisurely morning quickly passed.
By noon, the responsibility of cooking naturally fell on Asou Haruka, who had slept through half the day.
Today, however, since most people got up quite late, lunch wasn’t very formal—only three or four people gathered at the table. The others, like Mimosa who was last to get up, had their breakfast and lunch combined into one meal and didn’t need to eat again. At the moment, she was silently scrolling on her phone in a corner of the living room, frustrated for having the TV remote taken by Mu Baihe.
Emerald Sparrow moved her slightly sore shoulders, picked up some greens from the table, and began slowly chewing in her mouth.
However, before she could really enjoy the flavor, she saw from across the table Asou Haruka resting her cheek on her hand, watching her intently.
"How is it?" she inquired.
"...Not bad," Emerald Sparrow swallowed her food, took a moment to savor it, and honestly replied.
"Hong Siyu’s cooking spices are just too plain; they didn’t allow me to fully show off my skill," Asou Haruka then lifted her bowl, "If you get me more spices, I can make you all an authentic Dongying State cuisine."
At those words, though Emerald Sparrow had no reaction, the other girls all lifted their heads and looked at Asou Haruka.
"Dongying State cuisine..." Lin Xiaolu tightened her grip on her bowl.
"I’ve never tasted it..." Bai Jingxuan’s eyes shimmered.
"My mentor never made it for me..." Qiu Yun’s eyes widened.
"Even if you bought them, you’d hardly ever step foot in the kitchen, right?"
Not swayed by any culinary desire, Emerald Sparrow said flatly, "Usually, you just lie on the sofa and direct Hong Siyu to do this and that."
"After all, it seems like Hong Siyu loves doing household chores," Asou Haruka declared, unabashedly proud, "So I graciously gave her the right to do them."
"Isn’t it just because you’re lazy?"
"Sister, do you expect somebody who’s been treated like a princess by her manager and personal assistant for ten years to do things herself?"