“How about it? Can you manage it?”
Su Nuo snapped back to reality and nodded cluelessly.
“I think I can.”
“Then I’ll come back tomorrow morning to hear good news from you. If you don’t have to go back tonight, find a room to sleep in.”
After saying that, Lin Yingluo grabbed her bag and turned to leave.
She still had a meeting this afternoon and needed to rush back to the Company.
Su Nuo stood at the doorway, watching the alluring figure of the elder sister gradually disappear, unable to help but sigh:
“Lin Elder Sister really is a strange person.”
The Mistress of the House was regarded by her as a kind of job—and she had even been hired herself.
Su Xiao Nuo said, “I think both of you are pretty weird.”
One dares to hire, the other dares to be hired.
“Well, since I’m here,” Su Nuo shrugged her little shoulders, “might as well get to work.”
If she were to describe this as job hunting, she had passed the interview stage and was now undergoing the final probation assessment.
Pass tomorrow, and she’d be a full-time employee.
With that thought, the girl suddenly felt motivated.
Though the Job Title was a bit odd, it didn’t matter.
Flexibility was the trend in today’s job market.
“Let me take a look inside first.”
At the end of the corridor stood the Shoe Cabinet.
Su Nuo found a pair of Disposable White Slippers and changed into them.
On the other side, she spotted the Router with a Password Note neatly stuck on it.
She connected the Tablet Lin Yingluo had given her to the Wi-Fi and continued inside.
The spacious Living Room came into view, filled with brand-new, high-tech Smart Furniture.
Everything had been assembled integrally during decoration, giving the space a very cohesive aesthetic.
Su Xiao Nuo couldn’t help but let out an admiring “Wow.”
Apart from the Balcony, the house had three floors in total.
The second floor was mainly bedrooms and functional rooms.
Su Nuo even discovered a Gym with various Fitness Equipment, though clearly unused since the dust covers on the treadmill hadn’t been removed.
The third floor was mainly balconies and open-air areas.
Since there were no high-tech gadgets there, it probably didn’t need tending to tonight.
Returning to the first floor, Su Nuo stepped into the Warehouse Lin Yingluo had indicated.
Sure enough, there were lots of Instruction Manuals and a heap of unpacked packaging boxes piled in the corner.
There were manuals for the Vacuum Robot, automatic Coffee Machine, a complete Bathroom Set, Temperature and Humidity Controller, Multimedia Control Device… even the windows had Smart Window Switches.
Su Nuo picked up the topmost Instruction Manual and flipped through it.
It was for the Vacuum Robot.
“So many words,” Su Xiao Nuo’s eyes spun.
“Ugh, I’m dizzy. Reading Disorder is kicking in.”
Su Nuo didn’t have that problem.
Even if she did, she’d just push through.
Holding the manual, she walked out of the Warehouse and found the Vacuum Robots in the Living Room corner.
Following the manual, she placed them in their Charging Boxes and then connected the devices via the Tablet.
Seeing her get busy, Su Xiao Nuo bit her lip and forced herself to read the manual aloud: “Please follow the steps below, first…”
Her voice was faint and often trailed off into mumbling.
After a few minutes, Su Xiao Nuo realized she hadn’t remembered a single word.
“Ugh, I forgot everything.”
She was really trying to help.
What was amazing was that Su Nuo suddenly felt a piece of knowledge materialize in her mind—exactly what Su Xiao Nuo had just read—clear and integrated with her other knowledge.
“I think I got it,” the girl said in surprise.
“Because of what you just mumbled?”
“Really? I’ll try again!”
Flipping the manual to the next page, Su Xiao Nuo started mumbling again while Su Nuo deliberately focused on doing something else.
A few minutes later, the girl happily said, “I remembered everything.”
“And I forgot it all!” Su Xiao Nuo chuckled foolishly.
It didn’t matter if she forgot; Su Nuo understood it all.
Although neither knew why—some Cross-Learning Neural Network or Quantum Wave Speed Reading phenomenon—it was enough that Xiao Nuo could help.
“How many more are there? I’ll read them!”
Battling her Reading Disorder, Su Xiao Nuo mumbled through the dull manuals.
With her help, Su Nuo worked twice as efficiently and mastered all the Smart Furniture functions faster than expected.
Meanwhile, Su Xiao Nuo’s eyes were spinning from dizziness.
“Is there… more? I can still… ugh…”
Next, Su Nuo started activating each device one by one, warming them up and testing if they worked properly.
The Vacuum Robot swept with a whoosh, the Coffee Machine brewed coffee with a hum, the bathroom water flowed, and the speakers sang.
All good.
Finally, she unified everything under the Integrated Installation’s Control Software and preset various instructions.
After working for a good while, Su Xiao Nuo finally recovered and curiously glanced at the Tablet in her hands.
“What are you doing now?”
“Setting a Voice Password. Simply put, giving it a name so it responds immediately, then completes precise control operations,” Su Nuo explained.
“All the stuff in the whole house can be controlled like that?”
Su Xiao Nuo stared at the Tablet in awe.
“It’s really a super Hajimi Hajimi Baby.”
“Then let’s just call it Habao.”
After finishing the software setup, Su Nuo looked outside and noticed it was already dark.
She closed the Tablet and put it aside, deciding to make something to eat.
Though it was a new house, it was clear Lin Yingluo planned to stay at any time.
The Fridge was well stocked—bagged Meat, noodles, and all kinds of Soup Base, fully equipped.
Su Nuo also took the opportunity to test the functions of various Cooking Utensils.
Finally, after tidying everything up, the girl lay down on the bed in the Main Bedroom, stretched her tired body, and looked up at the night sky outside the window.
There were no clouds tonight.
Perhaps the house’s location was good, as countless stars decorated the sky like a painting.
“You really helped a lot today,” she said.
Without Su Xiao Nuo’s miraculous mechanism, she could have done it too, but probably wouldn’t have finished until late at night.
“Ehehe, it’s nothing… oh,” Su Xiao Nuo said cautiously, “I want to tell you something, please don’t be mad.”
“Hm?”
“Well, at the dinner table today, facing Lin Elder Sister, I was so intimidated by her aura that I turned off my sensory reception… That’s when I realized I could turn it off. Then I turned it back on while eating, and after dinner, when you guys talked, I turned it off again.”
Su Xiao Nuo rubbed her hands nervously and looked up at her with big eyes.
“Sorry, we agreed to face things together.”
In the end… fewer hands in a fight, more hands licking wounds.
Su Nuo pulled at the corner of her mouth.
“It’s okay. It’s no big deal, and actually being able to turn it off is a good thing.”
Otherwise, privacy matters would be awkward.
Su Xiao Nuo beamed.
“Su Nuo, you’re so nice!”
“It’s nothing. I’m okay with the aura thing. Besides,” Su Nuo felt a little strange, “you just called me that? Your own name?”
Doesn’t it feel weird to call oneself by their own name?
“No problem! Everyone used to call me Xiao Nuo more, like I never grew up,” Su Xiao Nuo mumbled quietly, “Even though I’m already grown up.”
Su Nuo glanced down and thought, indeed.
“Where are your parents?” she suddenly asked.
“Don’t mention it. My mom would rather I disappear,” Su Xiao Nuo pouted, mood sinking.
“Because after she remarried a balding little boss, she’s always afraid I’d steal her man.”
Tsk. There was such a thing?
Born an orphan, Su Nuo didn’t really understand family relationships.
Thinking it over, she said, “So you don’t want to go home?”
“Yeah, because her worries are justified. That bald guy often leers at me.”
“…”
Alright, Su Nuo finally understood why, right after revival, Su Xiao Nuo cared most about her unknown “online romance” elder sister when facing her own Death—not about parents or family.
“I’ve always been scared,” Su Xiao Nuo said softly, hugging her knees in her mind, sitting there gently.
“Afraid I wouldn’t find a job after graduation, afraid I wouldn’t know where to go after school, afraid they’d come looking for me and then… I was always very scared. So I often did those things at school, lying on the bed completely still, with my head buzzing, thinking about nothing.”
Su Nuo wasn’t sure if she should comfort her.
After all, her own family situation was no better, and she didn’t have Su Xiao Nuo’s way of venting pressure.
“But now I’m not afraid anymore,” Su Xiao Nuo suddenly became excited.
“Su Nuo, you know? You’re exactly how I imagined myself—knowing everything, understanding everything, never backing down no matter what, and easily solving any problem.”
Not exactly so easy…
Su Nuo wanted to say she wasn’t that amazing and that she did sometimes back down, like when facing life’s hardships.
But then again, strictly speaking, she never really backed down—because the moment she decided to, she got hit and died.
Fate truly didn’t give her the right to back down.
“So I think, even though we don’t know why we ended up like this…”
Su Xiao Nuo’s soul climbed inside her head and, through Su Nuo’s eyes, gazed out the window at the Tide-Locked Moon, 380,000 kilometers away, forever accompanying them overhead.
“Su Nuo, do you think we’ll stay like this forever? Until your lifespan runs out, and then we’ll walk hand in hand together to the Underworld?”
“Maybe.”
Su Nuo didn’t know the answer either.
Maybe no one did.
She also looked out the window.
Besides the moon, countless stars shone in the night sky.
From distant light-years away, they were dazzling, many brighter than the sun.
But at this distance, no matter how bright a Quasar was far away, it couldn’t outshine the Moonlight nearby.
Snapping back to reality, she found Su Xiao Nuo had fallen asleep, lying on the unidentified drifting cloud inside her mind, snoring softly.
“Habao, close the windows.”