Genshin Impact: Please don’t bully me, fellow stragglers

June was a restless month.

July is here as expected.

It was as hot as a steamer outside during the day, and even hiding in the shade could not relieve the heat at all.

Some people had small electric fans hanging around their necks and complained bitterly, while others were sweating profusely and holding up bottles of water and drinking it one gulp after another.

Nan Ke stood among these people, looking at the time from time to time and looking towards the school gate opposite.

I have an exam today.

Because Lei Dianying had not returned yet, Nan Ke was responsible for sending him to and picking him up from the exam.

Linghua also came with Nan Ke.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Nan Ke always feels that the air around Linghua is colder.

"What's wrong?" Linghua held up the parasol, noticed Nan Ke's gaze, and leaned her shoulder close to her, "Are you still feeling hot?"

The air grew cooler.

Nan Ke waved the small folding fan Linghua lent her, puzzled: "Linghua, aren't you hot?"

"A little bit." Linghua smiled playfully.

When the first batch of candidates who had finished the exam poured out of the school gate, Nan Ke was treating Linghua to popsicles.

Nan Ke had sharp eyes and saw A Liu from afar in the crowd and waved his hand vigorously.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting for a long time, Nan Ke." A Liu pushed through the crowd to meet them.

"Do you want to eat it?" Nan Ke specially left a tea-flavored one for him. "I just bought it not long ago, so it shouldn't have melted much yet."

"Thank you." Ah Liu put his shoulder bag aside, took the popsicle handed over by Nan Ke, and smiled at Ling Hua, "Thank you for your hard work, I thought it would be Mr. Lingren who came."

"My brother has to go on a long trip for something important," Linghua handed the parasol in her hand to A Liu, squeezed under Nan Ke's umbrella, and blinked at them with her left eye, "So, can I come to your house to play today?"

Ah Liu paused, looked at Nan Ke who had naturally divided the space under the umbrella, and took a bite of the popsicle: "...If Nan Ke thinks it's okay, then it's fine."

When the three of them entered, the room was very stuffy.

Nan Ke turned on the air conditioner in the living room and went to the kitchen to boil water.

Nan Ke rarely cooks for herself and is not familiar with the layout of the kitchen. When she was rummaging around for cups, A Liufang came in and asked, "Can I make the tea I bought last time?"

"Where?"

"It should be up there. Let me look for it."

"it is good."

Nan Ke squatted down to get a cup from the cupboard. A Liu stood on tiptoe behind her and raised his hand to open the door of the high storage cabinet.

Linghua sat in the living room, watching their tacit movements, and opened her folding fan to cover her face.

People who live under the same roof will naturally know each other's preferences and habits imperceptibly.

Although it was only a month, both parties were very considerate.

Brother.

I'm afraid you're going to be defeated by the same face again.

When the iced tea was brought to the table, Linghua silently lit a candle for Kamisato Ayato who was far away.

"It tastes great," Linghua put down the teacup and smiled at the two of them. "Before leaving, my brother specifically told me that last time when he and Nan Ke were having dinner, he promised to make milk tea for A Liu himself but forgot, so he asked me to bring some apology."

"Is this true?" A Liu asked Nan Ke.

"I thought Mr. Lingren was just saying it casually." Nan Ke poured a cup of tea for A Liu and sat next to Linghua.

Linghua chuckled: "I heard that you guys are helping Miss Mitsuyo raise a cat recently, so I bought this without her permission. I wonder if it will be useful to you?"

Linghua took out a pink zipper bag from her small shoulder bag and handed it to Nan Ke.

Nan Ke and A Liu looked at each other and took it.

There was a small pink dress in the bag.

Nan Ke opened her mouth and saw a white sailor suit with a pink collar and a short pink pleated skirt. She opened her mouth in surprise and said, "What is this...?"

"It's for the pet, right?" A Liu took the sailor suit from Nan Ke. "It suits it very well. You are so thoughtful."

"As long as you like it." Linghua smiled.

Nan Ke hesitated and looked at the clothes in A Liu's hand, then turned around to look at the room.

Guo Beng would be violent towards strangers, so he was locked in a room by Nan Ke to sleep.

…Is it really suitable?

"Isn't that great?" A Liu said sincerely, "The burns on its body haven't healed yet, so this is a good way to prevent it from licking its wounds."

"That's it." Nan Ke understood, "It makes sense."

"Nan Ke," A Liu unbuttoned the secret button on the back of his sailor suit, "carry Guo Beng out."

"The country collapses?"

Seeing Nan Ke enter the bedroom, Linghua looked at A Liu and asked.

"It's the cat's name." Liu placed the two pink bows that came with the sailor uniform on the corner of the table, straightened his lips, and glanced at Linghua, "I thought you were here to help your brother earn some performance."

"Why? In your mind, is Nan Ke the type who you will fall in love with whoever performs best?" Ling Hua asked calmly.

Ah Liu pulled the corner of his lip and didn't answer. Linghua continued,

"Please believe me, this time, I came here with the sincere intention of becoming friends with Nan Ke."

Full of nice words and high-sounding words.

Ah Liu was too lazy to talk to her: "From your tone, have you met Guangdai?"

"Not yet, my brother told me," Linghua said truthfully, "but it seems that you have already met her."

Ah Liu snorted in disbelief.

"I suspect that Mitsuyo is from Teyvat, just like us," Ayaka continued. "Unfortunately, we didn't know her before. This time, my brother went to see the general to confirm this."

"She knows that guy, most likely." As if remembering something unpleasant, Ah Liu's brows slightly knitted, then relaxed after a moment. "Next time I see her, I will find a chance to catch her."

"Good work."

Having said that, Nan Ke also came out of the bedroom holding the cat.

A black cat was hanging on Nan Ke's arms, its fur slightly purple under the strong light, and its cold pupils shrank into a sharp vertical line, sweeping over Linghua and A Liu in turn.

"Ah!" Linghua's eyes lit up and she couldn't help but cover her mouth, "This child..."

The cat really lives up to its name!

There was a cushion on the ground. Nan Ke dragged it over, held Guo Beng in his arms and sat cross-legged, causing the bell on the cat's tail to ring crisply: "Guobeng is very shy, so it's best not to touch him."

"What a pity..." Linghua's face was full of disappointment.

Ah Liu stretched out the pink sailor suit in his hand and said with a smile, "Nan Ke."

"Okay." Nan Ke hugged the cat tightly in his arms.

Seeing the boy's smiling face and pink fabric rushing towards him, Guo Beng's ears fell to the sides and he screamed angrily: "Ahhhh!!!"

Nan Ke’s posture of holding the cat is very clever.

Guo Beng's two claws were fixed by her hands and he couldn't swing freely.

He kicked with his hind legs desperately, but could only hit the air.

A Liu grabbed a cat's paw with one hand and pulled it up, then easily put a sleeve on it.

"Oh, its nails are so long."

Linghua also came over and curiously pinched the plum blossom-shaped pad, and with a little force from her fingertips, she pressed out a row of long and curved claws.

"Would you like to trim its nails?"

Ever since.

The three of them sweated profusely at home for the entire afternoon.

I gave Guo Beng a full SPA.

Linghua wiped the sweat from her forehead, clasped her hands together and looked at the kitten with a new look, smiling: "So cute!"

The little sailor suit perfectly covered the bald cat hair, and a pink goldfish knot was tied under the collar. On the tail, which was fluffy due to the frizzy hair, a bow of the same color swayed slightly.

Paired with a round, droopy face like a kitten, it's quite a cute contrast.

Ah Liu pinched his chin to admire his masterpiece and raised his lips: "It's quite cute."

As a cat, Guo Beng was no match for the three of them in strength. He had long since stopped struggling and collapsed into mud in Nan Ke's arms. Upon hearing these words, he stretched out his claws to scratch him.

The trimmed claws only left a few white marks on the back of A Liu's hand without even breaking the skin.

Ah Liu laughed even more happily, and instead of retreating, he moved forward, excitedly picking up another bow to catch the cat's head, and tried to put it on Guo Beng's head.

Guo Beng was so angry that he twisted his body and threw himself into Nan Ke's arms.

"Yeah," Nan Ke said, his eyes reflecting the boy bending over to play with the cat, "very cute."

A Liu's hair is finer in texture than satin, falling softly on her jade-white cheeks. Even at such a close distance, there is not a single flaw to be seen.

The beautifully shaped eyes were closed because of the smile. From Nan Ke's perspective, he could only see the long eyelashes covering half of the bright purple eyes, which made him look innocent, cute and carefree.

Nan Ke spoke in a calm voice.

A Liu raised his eyes to meet hers and was stunned.

There was warmth in Nan Ke's eyes, but it was not bright, and was shrouded in many obscure emotions.

Like a lighthouse whose light is swallowed up by thick fog.

"Nan Ke?" A Liu raised his hand.

The distance between the two people suddenly shortened, even approaching zero. Nan Ke was startled and reflexively shrank back.

A Liu's hand was suspended one centimeter in front of her shoulder. He paused, then turned his hand over to show her the back of his hand.

"Nan Ke," Ah Liu showed his hand distressedly, where the cat had taken advantage of the situation and left two holes, "I was bitten."

Nan Ke was stunned, and quickly got up: "I'll go find some medicine!"

Nan Ke's reaction to A Liu being bitten was a little confused and concerned.

Linghua was helping on the side and saw Nan Ke applying layer upon layer of iodine and medicine on A Liu's hands, and then wrapping them with thick bandages.

"Nan Ke," Ling Hua had to hold her hand in time, "This is A Liu's right hand. He might even want to write something."

Nan Ke came back to his senses, nodded silently, took the scissors handed to him by Linghua, and that was the end of it.

"Nan Ke bandaged the wound, is it because your sister is weak?" Linghua asked as she refilled Nan Ke's cup of tea.

"Mr. Ayato has mentioned Nan Yi to you?" Nan Ke was silent for a moment and picked up the cup. "Nan Yi has a blood disease and his immunity is very weak. Once injured, it is difficult to stop the bleeding."

"No wonder Nan Ke bandaged it so tightly," Ah Liu moved his fingers, which were so tightly wrapped that he could hardly move them.

After he finished speaking, he saw Nan Ke looking at him guiltily, and said with a smile, "Thanks to this, the bleeding seems to have stopped."

Nan Ke looked at the back of his hand. The bandage was white and there was indeed no blood seeping out.

Nan Ke felt relieved: "Yeah."

Only then did she have the leisure to condemn the culprit. After looking around, she found that Guo Beng had slipped away from her arms at some point and jumped onto the standing air conditioner in the corner of the living room.

Meeting Nan Ke's eyes, Guo Beng lowered his head and licked his paws, pretending nothing had happened.

"Nan Ke, don't blame Guo Beng," A Liu pulled Nan Ke's clothes, "It didn't like me in the first place, it was me who insisted on playing with it."

A Liu's expression was gentle, without any anger at all.

Nan Ke pursed his lips for a long time, and suddenly said: "...buy a bite stopper."

"Eh?"

"Originally, it is better to sterilize cats that are too aggressive,"

Nan Ke looked at Guo Beng again, and met those incredulous cat eyes, his face as gloomy as water.

"But it's Mitsuyo's cat, so let's talk about this after we meet Mitsuyo."

The threat of national collapse is frightening.