It turned out to be a handsome man.

, and then quickly ate another piece.

"Really?" Hongji smiled happily, a little complacently, "I'm not bad at my craft~"

Huixian scooped up a bowl of soup with a spoon and took a sip.

“The soup is delicious too!”

He licked his lips unsatisfied, and this time his tone was simply amazed.

"Hongji, you should be a chef, right? Why are you so good at cooking!"

"Haha~" Li Hongji stretched out his hand as if he was about to gesture excitedly, but he withdrew his hand halfway through, and at the same time, he retracted with a bright smile on his face.

As if being restrained, his smile became shallow and shy, as if deliberately, and he always felt that such a smile didn't suit him.

"Then, eat more." There was no laughing and joking tone, and the words became gentle and peaceful.

Afterwards, he suddenly straightened his face again, with a very embarrassed look: "I worked hard all afternoon to make this, if you don't finish eating, you will be sorry for me."

Min Huixian still had a mouthful of soup in her mouth, and just about to swallow it, she choked because of her uncontrollable smile.

Huixian coughed and laughed, almost rolling on the ground clutching her stomach.

"Li Hongji! Do you have a split personality?" Tears were about to burst out of laughter, Min Huixian pointed at the boy sitting opposite, "Just now, it was as if you were possessed by two people with completely different personalities! Who are you imitating? ? You changed your tone so quickly, I didn't expect you to have acting talent!"

Hongji shrank his shoulders, and the disappointment in his eyes gradually became clear.

"It's...strange?"

The emotion in the voice filled the air, and Min Huixian smelled the sadness in it, so she kept silent with interest.

Li Hongji lowered his head halfway, the wheat-colored bangs just above his eyebrows cast a sketch-like shadow under his eyelids, he pursed his lips and was thinking of something, but it was obviously not a pleasant thing.

Min Huixian bit her chopsticks, she was not in the mood to continue eating, and felt a little uneasy.

——Did I say something wrong?

She squinted her eyes and looked at him carefully, the corners of his eyes and brows concealed a smile, revealing some melancholy, and his exquisite facial features were actually indescribably beautiful.

--But.

— not for him.

——This kind of aura and expression doesn't suit him at all.

"Actually..." - when you smiled childishly, you looked very nice, and you didn't look strange at all at that time.

"Hui Xian, you can eat first, I don't really want to eat it." Twirling the corner of his mouth, the young man smiled a little far-fetched.

He got up and left the small table, sat down against the closet, with his face facing the wall, like a child reflecting on his mistakes.

After the atmosphere was not right, Hui Xian also felt that the food was tasteless.

After tidying up the bowls and chopsticks, he silently started to do his homework, but from the corner of his eyes, he couldn't help but glance at the figure huddled in the corner of the wall.

In the small room, it was so quiet that only the second hand of the clock on the wall moved mechanically, walking in a constant rhythm, and the time was lengthened in silence.

After an unknown amount of time, Min Huixian finished writing the last word, closed the pen cap, stretched her limbs and looked at the clock at the same time, and found that the pointer was almost pointing to twelve o'clock.

——It’s already this late?

She looked at Li Hongji who was still "face the wall and think about mistakes".

— This guy will soon become a sculpture if he doesn't move a little bit.

I don't know why, but I always feel that such quiet silence should not belong to him.

"Hey." She walked up to him, squatted down, and pushed his shoulder, "What are you thinking? You've been sitting here for more than four hours, don't your legs feel numb?"

Li Hongji turned his head to look at her, then pouted his mouth in grievance, raised his hand and scratched his hair fiercely: "I still can't remember! What happened before..."

Hui Xian almost couldn't help stretching out her hand to straighten his messy hair. Li Hongji's cute expression when he was annoyed was reflected in her eyes, and her heart suddenly felt itchy as if it had been swept by a feather duster.

Subconsciously retreating a little, Min Huixian heard her heartbeat speeding up obviously.

——I underestimated the charm of this monster ==...

"Hey, Li Hongji." Min Huixian called out his name.

"Ok?"

"If you can't remember it, don't think about it."

——I can't bear to see the beautiful boy turned into a living sculpture.

"Accompany me to the convenience store to buy something~"

At night in Seoul, the downtown area is still brightly lit and people come and go, but the residential area near Huixian's apartment is obviously much quieter.

On the street, only the street lamps on both sides cast a dim orange light, and the warm tone looks a little psychedelic in the dark night.

Huixian and Hongji walked side by side on the path where there were very few passers-by. The sound of their quiet footsteps was very clear in the silent night.

"What are you going to buy at the convenience store? Why do you have to come out so late?" Hongji asked with his hands in his jacket pockets.

"Because I have a lot of homework to do before, and if I don't buy ingredients tonight, I won't have anything to cook and eat tomorrow," Huixian pointed to the convenience store with bright incandescent lights on the street not far away, "It's open 24 hours anyway, so it doesn't matter if it's a little late~"

Min Huixian trotted over and entered the convenience store with brisk steps. Hongji glanced at the signboard of the store, and slowed down unconsciously. Then, he pulled up the hood behind his neck and put it on.

He didn't realize that this movement was a little subconscious, as if he had developed a habit before—a special professional habit.

There are obviously very few people who come to the convenience store at this time, it should be said that there are basically no people.

Li Hongji quickly found Min Huixian who was picking out ingredients among the dazzling array of food shelves.

"Huixian, what are you looking at? What are the boxes of tomatoes worth studying?" Li Hongji asked curiously as he leaned over his head in confusion.

"What do you mean just a few boxes of tomatoes?" Min Huixian glanced at him dissatisfied, and pointed to the two boxes on the shelf, "You know this box... and this box, although they both have six tomatoes, how much difference is there? Korean won? The price difference is enough for me to buy another simple breakfast!"

"...It doesn't seem to be much different..." Hongji looked at the price and frowned, "Why are you so fussy, Huixian?"

"Hey! Isn't this called planning? It's called being careful about living expenses!"

"Anyway, I bought six tomatoes in the end...the taste will not be much worse..." Hongji took a box from the shelf, "just take one at random~"

Min Huixian quickly slapped away his hand that was about to put the box in the shopping basket, and shouted: "Ah! Buying this is the worst deal!"

"Look! The box of this brand is so beautifully packaged, the money is not buying tomatoes! It is buying this box! And the tomato is much smaller than that brand! You will lose money if you buy this!"

After being reprimanded, Hongji blinked innocently: "Huh? There are so many things to pay attention to when buying a tomato..."

Min Huixian became interested and talked about her experience in a continuous manner.

"Hey, look, this milk, you must not take the outermost one. Most of the outermost ones are about to expire, and they will go bad within a few days after you buy them back!"

"Also~ You see, the prices of these two kinds of sashimi are about the same, right? Although this sashimi tastes better than that one, but ah, this sashimi can only be eaten with one dish, and the shelf life is short. So in comparison, it’s more cost-effective to buy that sashimi~”

…………

The aunt at the cash register was sweating coldly when she heard Min Huixian's logical theory.

——Why is this little girl smarter than me =ˇ=...

Then Li Hongji uttered an unbearable yell, which scared the aunt almost down from the chair.

"Ahhhh! Min Huixian! You are terrible! Don't you feel tired when you have to go through so many twists and turns when buying something? Are you really only 17 years old? Why do I think you look like a 40-year-old aunt!"

Li Hongji scratched his wheat-colored hair and yelled, and finally couldn't take it anymore and squatted on the ground with his head in his arms.

"Ah! Li Hongji! What are you complaining about? Now you spend all my food and food! You don't spend your own money, so you don't feel sorry for yourself!"

"But you're exaggerating too much, right? It's only a thousand won and you have to worry about it!"

"A thousand won is not money?!"

"But... oh! Ah! I don't live for free! I also cook and do housework!"

"You did it voluntarily!" Min Huixian stuck out her tongue mischievously, "And if it wasn't for my kindness to take you in, you weird guy who refuses to go to the police station can't even eat a grain of rice! You are now a homeless person! A homeless person! Don't be cruel to me!"

"Min Huixian, you! You" Li Hongji stood up abruptly, his face flushed, "you" for a long time, as if he was thinking about what words to use to describe her.

"You! You are a petty witch!"

"Ah! Li Hongji! What did you say? Dare to say it again?!"

"Stingy Witch!"

"Li Hongji!"

Min Huixian raised her foot and was about to kick him, but fortunately Hongji reacted very quickly and dodged it, and tactfully retreated to a safe place again and again, and then arrogantly made faces at her.

"Min Huixian, you are not only stingy! You are also so barbaric!"

"Li Hongji! Leave my house tomorrow! Leave me tomorrow!" Min Huixian stomped her feet angrily.

"The witch girl is angry~ so scary~" As he said so, the smile on the boy's face was extremely bright, and the way he was bouncing around showed no sign of fear at all.

——This guy is going crazy like a child!

Min Huixian snorted, ignored him, turned around and left.

A few seconds later, there was the sound of Li Hongji's hurriedly chasing footsteps behind him.

"Hey~ Huixian~ are you angry?"

"I'm not that immature!"

"Hey~ I'll make you delicious stone pot rice and clam tofu soup tomorrow, okay? Don't be angry~"

--strangeness.