Transform into a magical girl after getting off work-Chapter 407 - 71 Emotional Negotiation

Lin Xiaolu’s words made sense, or rather, her words were the ones that held truth.

In fact, just as she had said, even last year, at the peak of their cold war, father and daughter did have New Year’s Eve dinner together, although throughout the process Lin Xiaolu barely made any noise apart from "mm" and "ah", with Lin Yun being the only one talking.

If last year’s Lin Yun had heard Lin Xiaolu’s these words, to say he would have been moved might be an exaggeration, but he definitely would have felt greatly relieved, not to say even now, he felt similarly pleased.

But the problem was, that sentence didn’t sound like something Lin Xiaolu would say, and in the current situation it even seemed puzzling.

"Your whole team is together, even the people from Bai’an City have come, all the Magical Girls are together, and you’d be the only one not going over to celebrate the New Year?"

He looked at Lin Xiaolu as if he were meeting his daughter for the first time: "Is it really necessary?"

"Emerald Sparrow is already an adult, Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan don’t need to go home, they’re different from me, they don’t have to consider where to go, they just need to be with the other team members," Lin Xiaolu said, casting her gaze down slightly.

"But I do have my own family, teammates are important too... but during the holidays, shouldn’t I be with family?"

"Even if the place to celebrate the holidays is the Abnormal Strategy Bureau’s office? I can’t bring the New Year’s Eve dinner in there, you can only go eat in the cafeteria with me," he replied.

Lin Yun tried to keep his expression gentle, speaking deliberately and calmly, "And the nature of the work at the Abnormal Strategy Bureau is very special; actually, everyone should avoid entering the Bureau with family members as much as possible, so even if I could take you there, you could only go on a tour with other employees, or stay with me in the office."

"Is there a problem with that?" Lin Xiaolu asked, not understanding.

Lin Yun shrugged, "It will be boring."

Lin Xiaolu was speechless for a moment as if she were making up her mind, and after a while, she nodded firmly, "It doesn’t matter, I’m not afraid of being bored."

"But your teammates are gathering at the same time to joyfully celebrate the New Year."

Lin Yun pointed out Lin Xiaolu’s sore spot bluntly, "Everyone else is having fun, and you’re the only one accompanying me on duty. I don’t mind, but you had better think it over again."

"This, uh... ah... well..."

Squinting her eyes, Lin Xiaolu pursed her lips, seemingly going through an intense internal struggle, and after a while, she nodded heavily, "I’ve made up my mind, I want to go!"

Such a firm choice left Lin Yun even more puzzled.

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And before he could inquire further, the Lin Xiaolu in front of him uttered an even more surprising statement:

——"Also, after the New Year’s holiday ends, our school will soon have final exams! I plan to focus solely on studying during this period, so I’ll move back home before the test!"

Was he dreaming?

Struggling to suppress the corners of his mouth from turning upward, Lin Yun fell into contemplation.

Lin Xiaolu’s words were actually quite moving to him, at first hearing one could say he was greatly comforted, but joy aside, he could distinctly sense that his daughter wasn’t telling the whole truth.

At least not entirely.

The reason was simple, one was because Lin Xiaolu always tended to look away when she lied, and the second was that this statement didn’t fit with her usual behavior.

Having lived with Lin Xiaolu as Emerald Sparrow for over half a year, the present Lin Yun had a deeper understanding of his daughter’s character. Whether one called it being stubborn or not forthcoming, in short, Lin Xiaolu often found it difficult to express herself directly most of the time.

Even now, when the father-daughter conflict was thawing and they could gradually mend their relationship, it was probably hard for her to express such thoughts.

After all, father and daughter, seemingly sitting at the same dining table having dinner together, appeared to have no distance between them, but in reality, there were still layers of barriers.

There were also two reasons for this, one was because the effects of the cold war had not yet dissipated, Lin Xiaolu had now learned a considerable part of the truth and no longer harbored so many grievances against her father, but that didn’t mean they could be as close as ordinary parents and children.

Rather, even without the factor of An Ya’s death, the father-daughter relationship in the Lin family had never been very good.

The past Lin Yun indeed wasn’t a good father; he almost abandoned his emotional duty to his child under the guise of work, and always demanded a lot from his daughter in a very rigid manner. From a child’s perspective, this had almost all the elements of a "hateable father."

If one were to score their relationship, with a full score of 100, then during the cold war, it would probably be at 0, and during the time An Ya was alive it would only be around 40 or 50, not even reaching the passing line.

This led to the current awkward state between them, where it was clear that they were each other’s only relatives in this world, yet they still did not know how to resolve the awkwardness, much less truly open up to each other.

Having never been close, without even a reference example, how could they recover?

The second reason, Lin Yun felt, was because he "revealed his identity with the Abnormal Strategy Bureau."

For Lin Xiaolu, though her father might have been unsatisfactory in the past, he was still someone who had been with her from birth, very familiar, with no gaps in their lives together. Stay tuned with novelbuddy

But when Lin Yun said he was actually from the Abnormal Strategy Bureau, that status quo was broken. This suddenly revealed truth would only make Lin Xiaolu feel alienated and at a loss.