After eating milk jelly, Xia Linmeng said that her health had improved a lot and planned to continue to show her liver. However, after noticing that she had stood up several times and failed continuously, Chen Quefan insisted that she had a good rest first.

Of course, Chen Fan also abides by the previous agreement. He stayed in front of Xia Linmeng's bed, intending to wait for her to fall asleep before leaving.

"So, in order to keep me here, just stare at me with my eyes open?"

"It's because Brother Fan, you feed someone that kind of food..." Xia Linmeng pulled the quilt, only revealing half of her face, and muttered as if she was very shy, "I don't know why... I was a little sleepy before, but now I'm not tired at all, and I'm very excited."

"It's better if you can't sleep, you can lie down."

Chen Fan no longer paid attention to Xia Linmeng's gaze, but leaned against the chair and read the book.

“…Brother Fan,”

"……Um?"

"Your quilt... smells like an adult."

"Impossible," Chen Fan flipped through the pages of the book, "I just fear that you would say such things, the quilt I covered you is new."

"Brother Fan is really h, I specially prepared two quilts. I guess I will sleep in your bed one day!"

"...Yes, yes," It was Chen Fan's mistake to reason with Xia Linmeng. No matter what, she would bring the topic into the gutter and make Chen Fan capsize. "You are really amazing, you have discovered this."

Xia Linmeng pouted dissatisfiedly, "Hmph... I'm perfunctory."

...

Xia Linmeng murmured and scolded Chen Fan a few times. Chen Fan did not respond and continued to read his book.

Half an hour passed without realizing it. When Chen Fan turned the book and realized, he found that Xia Linmeng was asleep next to him-

I'm really tired.

Chen Fan was about to get up to supervise whether Hua Jianai was looking at the shop well. Xia Linmeng suddenly kicked up the quilt, tossed and turned, and waved her hands in the air, as if she was grabbing something.

Have you had a nightmare...

Chen Fan covered Xia Linmeng with the quilt again, and Xia Linmeng suddenly grabbed Chen Fan's elbow.

"Don't leave... Brother Fan."

This girl... pretends to be sleeping and play with me, right?

Chen Fan was about to push Xia Linmeng away, and Xia Linmeng murmured in a dream:

"Don't..."

"Leave me silently..."

Chen Fan was shocked and saw crystal tears falling from Xia Linmeng's eyes and flowing on the white pillow, and a small piece of the pillow immediately became wet.

It seemed that because she had grabbed Chen Fan, she slowly calmed down, and her even breath gently brushed Chen Fan's arm.

Her scattered medium-length hair brushed across her cheeks, and she held Chen Fan's arms sideways. Her slender arms were like white wrists, like an elf princess lost in the forest in a fairy tale.

She has... seen "me"?

Although there was such a conjecture before.

From this moment on, Chen Fan no longer doubted this.

But is she really the person she is waiting for?

Chen Fan is not sure.

Maybe he just happened to look exactly the same as the one in Mengmeng's memory;

Maybe he took over the body of Mengmeng remembering the person, but he didn't have the memory cognition;

Or maybe... there was originally a Chen Fan in this world, and now Chen Fan replaced the original Chen Fan's existence;

Although she finally solved the real reason why Mengmeng was addicted to herself and achieved logical self-consistentness, Chen Fan was not happy at all, and even felt a little inexplicably lost.

A word came to his mind.

Substitute.

He is a substitute for girls' emotional sustenance.

The current alchemy workshop is indeed Xia Linmeng’s destination.

But it's just... the destination when there is nowhere to go, maybe it's not what she really wants.

It’s like when a stray cat has nowhere to go, the cardboard box next to the trash can is its destination.

But it will always be adopted for one day, and the warm little nest is its real destination.

Once she finds her own home, she naturally has no need to be a free-for-nothing watchmaker here.

But this is something Chen Fan had planned long ago, so nothing unexpected happened.

And before that... the Alchemist Workshop would always make her small cardboard box to shelter her from the wind and rain.

This is the promise that the boss, he can give her.

Xia Linmeng, who was mumbling in her dream, waved her fists randomly again. Chen Fan grabbed Xia Linmeng's palm, allowing her uneasy to calm again.

At the same time, driven by an inexplicable emotion, Chen Fan bent down and gently kissed Xia Linmeng's back of his hand.

Just like the guardian oath ceremony of the medieval knights.

The sunset was setting, and Xia Linmeng rubbed her sleepy eyes downstairs. At this time, Chen Fan was guiding Hua Jianai to study.

"Woooo... I said I can't write systems of equations, why do you have to let me write?"

"If you don't know how to do it, learn it for me!"

"Then... I can't learn, what should I do?"

"Then try to learn."

"Wow... Brother Fan, are you a devil? He actually asked me to study hard? No wonder Mengmeng and her senior sister started calling you a teacher. You really became the same as our class teacher. This is probably the so-called 'hell is empty, the devil is in the world'..."

"Do you want to play drums again, huh?"

"No, no, Brother Fan, I'll just learn it..."

When Xia Linmeng saw Chen Fan and Hua look intimate, she coughed a few times.

"Brother Fan, you liar, I agreed to sleep with me all the time."

"That's right, Brother Fan, you liar... I'll just look at the store. You actually have to supervise me to look at the store... Then what's the point of hiring me to work?"

"Stop talking nonsense," Chen Fan rubbed Ah Hua's little radish head, "You are not allowed to have supper if you haven't finished these two exercise books."

“Woo woo…”

Ah Hua wrote in tears. Xia Linmeng came to Chen Fan and yelled with a bulging face, "Brother Fan, you didn't do anything to me when I was sleeping, right? Why do I feel the coolness below..."

"Don't make such jokes randomly," Chen Fan frowned, "If you want to get me into the l and then inherit my alchemy workshop, this method won't work."

"Isn't someone else got you out a while ago? How could I bear to get you into it..."

Xia Linmeng smiled slightly and said, "It's just Brother Fan, if I said something strange in my dream just now, it's all my truth. You must take it seriously."

???

At this time, shouldn't it be right to say the opposite...

Just when Chen Fan was surprised, Xia Linmeng smiled sly, "Actually, Brother Fan, you are too excited to feed me in the afternoon, so I kept lying on the bed and pretending to be asleep."

"Have you eaten?"

Ah Hua, who was not interested in studying, suddenly became alert.

It must be a treasure that can improve talents and appearance!
Chapter completed!