“Haah… I’m so sleepy… Ow, my chest hurts.”
Just waking up, she felt a soreness in her chest, as if someone had grabbed it hard.
La Fei rubbed her tired eyes and turned off the alarm clock ringing on the nightstand.
The time on the clock was 11:10.
After spending so much time together, she had fully figured out Laiyinmute’s daily schedule.
He slept at midnight and wouldn’t wake until near noon, which meant La Fei could slack off and skip making breakfast to sleep a bit more.
She didn’t know how she managed to sleep that long.
She lifted the blanket covering her, planning to wash up and prepare lunch for Laiyinmute.
“Hey, what’s this?”
La Fei’s half-closed eyes looked at something revealed inside her blanket.
It was red.
She reached out and rubbed it a few times.
The texture was surprisingly smooth, and it faintly gave off the scent of flowers.
La Fei suddenly pulled the entire blanket open.
A red-haired girl appeared in her view, lying spread-eagled on the bed.
Those small eyes were now smiling at La Fei.
“Aaaaaah!”
She screamed and crawled backward a bit.
The curves of her chest jiggled slightly from the sudden motion.
She finally understood why something kept climbing onto her while she was sleeping last night.
“W-Who are you? How did you get here?!”
La Fei looked at the red-haired girl in fear.
Last night before sleeping, she had been alone.
Waking up to find an extra person in bed—who wouldn’t be scared of that?
The girl climbed up from the bed and tidied the messy strands of hair at her temple.
Propping her head up with one hand, a somewhat youthful girl’s voice came from her mouth.
“I said this is my room. Is there a problem? Rather, Miss Demon, why are you here?”
Then she narrowed her eyes at the flustered and panicking La Fei.
La Fei then remembered that she had taken off the bracelet last night and placed it on the nightstand.
“…”
“Sister La Fei, what are we having for lunch today?”
The red-haired girl tightly hugged La Fei’s waist from behind.
Because of the embrace, La Fei’s hand, which was cooking, froze.
She sighed helplessly.
“Miss Rui Na, please let go of me. I’m cooking right now. If I delay Master’s meal, I’ll get my wages deducted.”
Rui Na wasn’t angry at La Fei’s words.
She pressed her face against La Fei and sniffed gently.
La Fei’s body had a pleasant scent of cream.
She let go of La Fei and was about to sit at the dining table when a hand landed on her shoulder.
“Rui Na~ You’re back. Your big brother missed you a lot.”
Laiyinmute had somehow come behind the two.
Rui Na hurriedly released her arms from around La Fei.
She stiffly turned her head, a look of terror on her face.
The moment she met Laiyinmute’s gaze, she saw his “kind and friendly” face.
“Eeeek!”
Laiyinmute punched her on the head.
That punch made her fall asleep on the spot.
La Fei looked back and couldn’t help but remark internally.
‘Youth is great—they fall asleep the moment their head hits the pillow.’
“Good afternoon, Master. Lunch will be ready soon. Please wait a moment.”
With a slight bow, La Fei turned around and continued cooking.
Meanwhile, Laiyinmute dragged Rui Na like a dead dog and threw her onto the sofa.
He then sat to the side, picked up a book, and started reading.
Half an hour later.
“Wow! Sister La Fei’s cooking is so delicious!”
Rui Na was wolfing down the food in her bowl, commenting from time to time.
Laiyinmute looked at his sister, who had absolutely no ladylike demeanor, with a face full of black lines.
But the motion of eating in his hand didn’t stop either.
Indeed, La Fei’s cooking was excellent—that much he had to admit.
She seemed to know a bit of everything.
La Fei sat across from them, drinking juice.
To be honest, she wasn’t very hungry.
Eating too well recently had made her body, which had been thin from hunger, gain some weight.
Especially two areas front and back had visibly grown bigger.
She sighed softly, pained at the thought that the underwear she bought before couldn’t be worn anymore.
“Ah… Oh, big bro, let me discuss something with you.”
Rui Na bit the tip of her chopsticks while looking at Laiyinmute, still chewing food.
“Say it. And if you bite your chopsticks while eating again, I don’t mind giving you another punch.”
“Also, why are you back? Isn’t the academy still on break?”
He looked at Rui Na dangerously.
Rui Na quickly put her chopsticks on the bowl and spoke somewhat aggrievedly.
“My research project is stuck, I’m in a bad mood, so I took leave to come home—what’s wrong with that?”
La Fei watched the siblings’ conversation with interest.
In her mind, she recalled the time she spent with her own sister, and a smile appeared on her face.
Laiyinmute also noticed La Fei’s smile.
That smile was pure, without a trace of impurity—only tenderness and a hint of… loneliness.
But Rui Na’s next words stunned the two on the spot.
“Big bro~ You know my research topic, right? Let me study sister-in-law’s body structure~”
Seeing the two frozen and silent, Rui Na tugged on Laiyinmute’s arm and started acting coy.
“Please, bro~ Just once, I’ll be gentle and won’t go inside—I won’t hurt sister-in-law.”
Hearing this, La Fei nearly spat out the juice she had just swallowed, while Laiyinmute almost choked on his food.
It wasn’t because of Rui Na’s words about research, but because of that “sister-in-law” line.
La Fei felt she couldn’t hold it together.
Laiyinmute, on the other hand, fell into some thought.
“Oh dear, big bro, say something~ Give me a definite answer!”
Rui Na’s cajoling tactic didn’t work.
Meanwhile, La Fei, sitting in the room, was lying face down on the bed like a dead fish.
The face under the blanket was bright red.
“Ah! Bro, I was wrong, stop hitting! How can you bear to hit your dear sister!”
“It’s you I’m hitting!”
From time to time, sounds of things falling to the floor came from outside the house.
She sighed softly.
Looks like she’ll have to clean thoroughly again.
“Nyah nyah nyah, can’t catch me, can’t catch me, useless big bro!”
“You stand right there! Do you really think I won’t hit you?”
‘Agh, so annoying.’
La Fei thought to herself.
Listening to the two making noise outside, she became more and more irritated.
She pushed the door open forcefully.
Scratching her hair, she spoke sharply.
“Stop shouting! Both of you, go sit on the sofa!”
The siblings, who were still roughhousing, immediately stopped chasing each other upon seeing La Fei like that.
They obediently put down what they were holding and sat on the sofa.
La Fei picked up a kitchen knife from the room and waved it in front of the two, a cute smile on her face.
“Sit still and don’t move~”
She gave them a threatening look, then began to clean up the room that the two had made particularly messy.
Laiyinmute and Rui Na exchanged glances, leaned closer, and whispered something.
“Bro, is sister-in-law usually this fierce? Did we make her angry?”
Laiyinmute was a bit helpless.
“I told you, she’s not your sister-in-law, she’s just my maid. You can call her Sister La Fei.”
Rui Na looked utterly unconvinced.
“Then why are you so afraid of her?”
Laiyinmute was about to explain when he saw La Fei coming out with cleaning tools.
He immediately sat up straight, not even looking at Rui Na.
Rui Na then showed an expression that said “Just as I thought.”