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Chapter 89: I took it seriously, and half of it was mine.

It was different from when I came; on the way back, every bus was crowded with people.

After waiting for two buses in a row, Li Mu and Lu Xiaoxi finally managed to catch a bus with slightly fewer people.

To make it convenient, Lu Xiaoxi took the initiative to grab two bags of vegetables, freeing up a hand for Li Mu to hold onto the handrail.

She also held onto the handrail, not afraid of losing her balance at all, since Li Mu was right in front of her. If the bus braked suddenly, she would just bump into Li Mu’s arms.

Fortunately, there were no issues on the road; it was smooth all the way, and she didn’t get a chance to crash into Li Mu’s arms.

“You do your thing; I’ll handle the meat first,” Lu Xiaoxi rolled up her sleeves, tied her cute little ponytail, put on an apron, and started busying herself in the kitchen.

“I’ll help you out,” Li Mu said, tying on an apron without waiting for a response and joining in.

In the kitchen, the two of them, one tall and one short, were busy working.

The sound of the knife clashing against the cutting board had a unique charm.

Once, Li Mu had fantasized about cooking dishes with the girl he admired, and now it had come true.

He still couldn’t cook, so he had only realized half of his dream; he needed to work twice as hard to one day be able to cook for the little girl.

“Hey, you’re cutting the meat too thick; get out, get out, you’re in the way,” Lu Xiaoxi, who was preparing the marinade, looked at his efforts to slice thin pieces and found it amusing, but when she saw the thick slices he had cut, she couldn’t laugh anymore.

The slices of meat were uneven, with the top thick and the bottom thin, and some slices even had holes in the middle. In a sense, Li Mu’s knife skills were still quite good.

At least Lu Xiaoxi couldn’t cut meat slices that looked like donuts.

Li Mu had inherited this aspect from Su Wen; it took Su Wen many years to reach a barely edible level, and Li Mu had only been at it for a short time, so how good could he be?

Li Mu was kicked out of the kitchen without even having a chance to take off his apron.

Since he was kicked out, he accepted it and sighed, returning to his room to start typing.

He had enough drafts saved up and planned to release a new book tonight, publishing twenty thousand words in one go, signing the contract all at once, and then updating three chapters daily until it reached eighty thousand words, restoring it to two chapters a day.

He would just pass the time like this, and once he earned some money, he would buy a set of clothes for himself and the little girl as a reward, preferably in the same style but different colors.

For example, he would buy a puppy pajama set, while Lu Xiaoxi would get a pink pig pajama set, with animal cartoon patterns printed on the belly.

He had already typed some in the morning and added a bit more in the afternoon, completing four thousand words for the day. If all went well, he would type a bit more when Xia Yuanyuan came for tutoring.

He had exceeded his update goal; he really worked hard today.

Li Mu gave himself a thumbs up, sent a message to Lin Sheng and Old Yang, and even opened the door to his room.

He knew that once Lu Xiaoxi finished her missions, she would definitely run to his room, take off her shoes, and lie on his bed playing with her phone. She might even use his account to play Dou Di Zhu (a card game).

Li Mu and the other two were all gamers, and they played a wide variety of games together, with mainstream games forming a fixed three-player team.

When they got tired of one game, they would switch to another.

Putting on headphones, the three gaming enthusiasts dove into a shooting game.

Shooting games often required a high level of concentration, and with the headphones on, Lu Xiaoxi came in without him noticing.

Lu Xiaoxi was very quiet, like a little cat lying on the bed, her little feet swinging back and forth, while Li Mu’s spring bed creaked continuously.

After playing with her phone for a while, she lost all her happy beans and scrolled through some videos. Then she reached out to grab Li Mu’s phone from the table. Once she had it in her hand, she shook it a bit, and when she saw that Li Mu wasn’t looking, she happily started playing with it.

Li Mu had a dedicated management group for games, and Dou Di Zhu was included, but she didn’t open Dou Di Zhu; instead, she opened Li Mu’s WeChat.

Li Mu’s main account hadn’t posted anything on Moments, and he only had a handful of friends, even fewer than the mini-programs, with only one group chat called “A Loving Family,” which included Li Mu himself and Aunt Su and Uncle Li.

Clearly, the two families had such a good relationship; why not create a group chat for both families? She had even thought of a name: “Harmonious Families.”

She also took a look at the chat history between Li Mu and Aunt Su, which included trivial matters like reminding Li Mu to change his quilt or wear a coat, with Aunt Su being quite persistent, even sending money for Li Mu to buy clothes.

Li Mu didn’t know what was wrong with him; he returned the money for the clothes and sent Aunt Su a screenshot of his WeChat balance, which was close to twenty thousand!

Then Aunt Su sent a thumbs-up emoji and a bank screenshot, showing a lot of money…

Clearly, they were family, yet he was showing off wealth to his own family.

How interesting.

She then clicked on the chat interface labeled “Explosive Gold Dad.”

It was all transfer information, with no extra words exchanged.

Lu Xiaoxi chuckled softly and then opened the chat interface labeled “Little Pig Lu.”

They hadn’t said goodnight for several days; ever since they learned to say goodnight hugs, they would hug each other before sleeping every night, sometimes for a few seconds, sometimes for a few minutes, completely replacing the words “goodnight.”

Lu Xiaoxi glanced at Li Mu with a guilty conscience, and seeing that he wasn’t looking this way, her courage gradually grew. She sent a lot of messages to “Little Pig Lu” using Li Mu’s account.

【Idiot Li】: I am a Little Pig, please call me Little Pig Li.

【Idiot Li】: I am a super big idiot.

【Idiot Li】: Lu Xiaoxi is a super big beauty.

Lu Xiaoxi giggled and replied with “I know” using her own phone, then stopped.

“What are you looking at so seriously?” Li Mu suddenly pounced over, lying next to the girl, taking a deep breath of her scent, feeling instantly refreshed.

The girl was startled and pinched Li Mu’s arm, leaving a faint nail mark on his wrist, “Aren’t you going to play?”

She knew that Li Mu would have his microphone on while gaming, and from the calls, she knew he was playing with Lin Sheng and Old Yang, his classmates, so she didn’t dare to speak loudly.

“Don’t worry, I told them I went to the bathroom, and I turned off the mic; you can speak louder.”

“Oh, I just saw your WeChat for a bit.”

“Look if you want; what’s so interesting? Or do you want to stab me?”

“Stab you? I was looking at your chat with your parents.”

“Feel free to look; just treat it like your own phone.”

“I’m not looking anymore; I’m giving it back to you.” Lu Xiaoxi felt that Li Mu was so gentle, and she obediently took out her phone again, “Do you want to see mine?”

“What’s so interesting about your broken phone?”

“Your phone is the broken one; you can’t look at it anymore; if you want to see, I won’t let you.”

“Let me see; I’m looking right now.” Li Mu smiled, poking Lu Xiaoxi’s chubby little face.

Lu Xiaoxi knew where all her moles were; they were already familiar with each other, so whether he looked at her phone or not didn’t matter to him at all.

“Not giving it!”

“Isn’t this considered checking up on me?”

“Not at all; I’m just looking at my own phone, what am I checking up on?” Lu Xiaoxi blinked, meeting Li Mu’s intense gaze, but after just two seconds, she looked away.

“How is it your phone?”

“You just said it; let me treat it like my own phone.”

“Oh, that was just a polite remark; you can’t take it seriously.” Li Mu laughed and scratched the girl’s upper lip.

“I took it seriously; I don’t care; anyway, half of it is mine now…!” Lu Xiaoxi hid Li Mu’s phone in her pocket, claiming ownership of the device.

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