"Wow, this food is so delicious! Did you really make this, Nana?" C.C. exclaimed after eating a piece of cheese bread and drinking some milk at the dining table. Her face lit up with delight as she praised the food enthusiastically.

  Nana, sitting across from C.C., smiled politely and said: "These are just some simple foods. You're too kind, Miss C.C. By the way, I heard that you've known Rulu for a very long time?"

  "Yes," C.C. replied without much thought, as Rulu had already briefed her beforehand. "That was a very long time ago. Back then, Rulu was still a child, much shorter than now. He was chubby and white like a baby, and extremely cute."

  Nana's eyes brightened as she asked: "Really? I'd love to see what Rulu looked like as a child. Do you have any photos of him from back then, C.C.?"

  "No, but his angry face hasn't changed at all from before. If you saw it, Nana, you'd definitely laugh and want to tease him."

  "So Rulu, you've always been quick to anger?" Nana turned to look at Rulu beside her, speaking thoughtfully.

  "That's not true. C.C. is joking," Rulu said calmly, while secretly cursing C.C. for talking nonsense.

  "I'm not making things up," C.C. continued with a nostalgic expression. "When Rulu was little, he was very clingy. He often wanted hugs and kisses, and would whine and cry if he didn't get them. Now that he's grown up, he's not as adorable anymore."

  "Really? I can't believe it! Rulu, you used to cry?" Nana found this incredible—she couldn't imagine what Rulu would look like crying.

  "Enough, C.C. Even jokes should have limits, or Nana will take you seriously," Rulu said with visible annoyance, thinking that C.C. shouldn't go too far or Nana might catch on, which would complicate things.

  "I'm not joking! I remember once when Rulu and I were playing hide-and-seek. He couldn't find me and thought I had disappeared. His face turned red with worry, and he kept calling out that he needed to find his big sister," C.C. said cheerfully.

  Nana was intrigued and asked: "What else? Tell me more interesting stories about Rulu from before, Miss C.C."

  "Alright, since you made me such delicious food, Nana, I'll tell you everything. Rulu used to..." C.C. began, but Rulu loudly cleared his throat and said with a gloomy face: "C.C., are you full? If you're full, give me your breakfast." He reached for C.C.'s breakfast plate and pulled it toward himself.

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  "What are you doing? Don't steal my food!" C.C. exclaimed in panic, quickly grabbing the plate with both hands and wrestling it back from Rulu.

  "If you're not full, eat quickly. And don't talk while eating—you might choke," Rulu said, glaring at C.C.

  "Fine, I won't talk. Why are you so fierce?" C.C. realized that Rulu was getting angry, so she stopped talking and focused on eating her breakfast.

  "Rulu, don't scare Miss C.C. You haven't seen each other for so long, it's fine if she jokes a little," Nana said, trying to smooth things over and lighten the atmosphere when she saw Rulu getting angry.

  "I'm not scaring her. Nana, why aren't you on my side? Why are you helping her? She's just a stranger with an unknown background to you," Rulu said to Nana, looking very displeased.

  Nana was taken aback, then said: "Because... you were wrong just now. C.C. is a girl after all. How can you bully her?"

  "I feel like you two are bullying me..." Rulu said gloomily, feeling that Nana had betrayed him.

  "That's not true. Don't overthink it, Rulu. Come on, let's eat breakfast," Nana said with an awkward smile, no longer asking C.C. about Rulu's past.

  After breakfast, Rulu said he had something to discuss with C.C. Then he hurriedly pulled C.C. away from the basement and up to the house on the ground floor.

  "C.C., don't go too far. If you keep talking nonsense in front of Nana like you just did, you can't stay here anymore," Rulu said seriously.

  "But didn't you say we should make it look authentic so Nana wouldn't get suspicious?" C.C. replied, somewhat dissatisfied.

  "What you said earlier was completely made up! You even said I called you 'big sister.' Does that make any sense?"

  "But I was trying hard to make it sound real," C.C. muttered.

  "I don't care about that. What matters is that Nana is very important to me, and I don't want to cause her any trouble."

  "Fine, I'll be more careful in the future and try to speak less."

  Rulu's serious expression softened a bit: "That's better. Now go back and tell Nana I'm going out for a while and won't be back for lunch."

  "You're going out? Let's go together. I want to look around outside too."

  "No, C.C. You're being hunted by the Sanctuary right now. Your appearance is too conspicuous—you could be recognized by Sanctuary people at any time," Rulu said as he took out black-framed glasses and a cap from his pocket and put them on to disguise his appearance.

  C.C. replied casually: "Don't worry about that. In Blue Sea City, the only people who know about me and what I look like, apart from you, are probably just that newly arrived Prince Su Wen. You should worry more about yourself than me."

  Rulu recalled what Prince Su Wen had said earlier—that C.C.'s matter was top secret, and no one should know about her appearance or situation. He nodded and said: "Alright then. But just to be safe, you should still disguise yourself like I am."

  "That works," C.C. said as she went back into the house. She borrowed some hair ties from Nana, put up her long hair, then covered it with a purple scarf and round sun hat to hide her green hair.

  After informing Nana, Rulu and C.C. left the cemetery grove and went to a nearby shopping mall in the city. Rulu first bought some groceries and daily necessities at the mall, then they went to a clothing store where Rulu bought some women's clothing and underwear for C.C., so she wouldn't have to keep wearing his clothes.