Before entering the second-floor agency, Xiaolan carefully tidied her clothes, restrained her expression, and made sure that Mouri Kogoro wouldn't notice anything before pushing the door open.
"Dad, I'm back!"
"Yo… you're back."
Mouri Kogoro drunkenly held a can of beer. After taking a sip, he continued watching TV. "How was your date today?"
"Well, it was alright… Dad, lift your feet."
Xiaolan said as she habitually cleaned up Mouri Kogoro's messy desk.
"Alright?"
Mouri Kogoro glanced at Xiaolan and said, "I think you're very happy today… something good must have happened, right?"
Xiaolan paused. She found it difficult to hide the joy in her heart and asked, "How did you know?"
Mouri Kogoro took a few big gulps and exclaimed "Ah" with pleasure. He said, "If you weren't happy… I drank so much beer and made the desk so messy, you would definitely be angry."
Xiaolan smiled and said, "Is that so."
After cleaning up the desk, Xiaolan said, "I'm going upstairs to take a shower… go to bed early."
"Mm-hmm."
Mouri Kogoro perfunctorily responded with a few words. After watching Xiaolan's departing figure, he touched his chin and muttered, "This child is unusually happy today… she didn't even advise me to drink less."
Then he looked at the clock and muttered, "She came back at almost eleven o'clock… at this time… hmm, that brat didn't do something to Xiaolan, did he?"
Speaking of this, Mouri Kogoro burped.
"Well… forget it, let the young people handle their own affairs."
Mouri Kogoro didn't plan to interfere with Xiaolan's dating. Although he was very unhappy with Kudo Shinichi, he didn't have any objections to him, as long as Shinichi was good to Xiaolan, he didn't have any other requirements.
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The next day, noon, school classroom.
After finishing the morning's lessons.
Lin Yi closed his textbook. Even with his eyes closed, he could clearly recall the contents of the textbook that he had memorized half an hour ago, as if those images were frozen by his brain and printed into photos, branded in the depths of his memory.
"The effect of absolute memory is really not a joke…"
Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh with emotion. He ate three memory breads and entered thirty minutes of absolute memory. He could memorize anything he saw at a glance.
Lin Yi had obtained the memory bread a long time ago, but he had never used it because he was organizing all the relevant English materials.
After organizing the English materials, he used the memory bread, memorizing the important English information into his mind in one go, which was a great way to improve efficiency.
However, the memorized content remains just that, memorized content. When it comes to language, it still needs to be used frequently.
Just as Lin Yi was organizing the English materials in his mind,
Ran and Sonoko naturally came and sat down in front of and to the side of Lin Yi.
"Here, a bento."
"Don't say it's bad."
The two of them took out a bento at the same time and placed it in front of Lin Yi.
The actions were so synchronized, as if they had rehearsed it, which startled them both, and they subconsciously looked at each other.
Then they both laughed guiltily.
"Ah... Ran, did you also prepare a bento for Lin Yi?"
"Yeah... I didn't expect you did too, Sonoko."
"Right? We really have a tacit understanding."
"Yeah, yeah."
"....."
Lin Yi glanced at them both and silently accepted the bentos.
What tacit understanding? Didn't you both actively offer to make me a 'love bento'?
Yesterday evening, after Lin Yi went back, he started flirting with Ran via text messages again. While chatting, Ran, in order to show her girlfriend potential, offered to make Lin Yi a 'love bento'.
Sonoko hadn't seen Lin Yi all day, and naturally missed him terribly. Since she couldn't see him, she could only express her longing through text messages.
And so, she also proactively suggested bringing Lin Yi a bento tomorrow.
Lin Yi naturally wouldn't refuse.
He understood very well that simultaneously pursuing two beautiful girls, especially if they were best friends, couldn't be kept a secret.
If you try to deal with it by blocking, trying to hide it from both of them while dating them at the same time, something big will eventually happen.
Blocking can only solve temporary difficulties, and is useless for long-term development.
So, you have to learn from Yu the Great's flood control, and use dredging to deal with it.
Of course, dredging doesn't mean blurting everything out right away... that would only cause the flood to wash you away directly.
You have to dredge little by little.
You have to let them realize that something is wrong little by little.
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