Seeing Qin Jian at the door after a few days of absence, he had returned from his work on the mountain, still bursting with energy. Although his face seemed expressionless, the relaxation of his brows and the softness of his gaze betrayed the joy in his heart.
An Hao rubbed her eyes, talking to herself, "Am I hallucinating? No, it shouldn't be a hallucination!"
"It's definitely not a hallucination," Qin Jian said with a slight upward curve at the corners of his mouth, pointing at the threshold, "May I come in?"
An Hao rolled over to sit up, casually tidied up her messy hair, and retied it into a ponytail with a hairband, smiling at him with mirth in her eyes, "Come in, since you're already here…"
She motioned for Qin Jian to sit down and poured him a cup of hot water from the thermos, handing it to him.
"Big Brother Qin, why have you come so late?"