Laid-Back Life in Tokyo: I Really Didn't Want to Work Hard-Chapter 774 - 463: Unexpected Visitor

This morning felt a bit different.

When Uesugi Sakura woke up, his instinctive action was to reach out beside him until he touched nothing and realized that he had changed rooms last night and his wife wasn’t beside him.

Honestly, sleeping alone isn’t a big deal, but it always feels like something is missing.

Uesugi Sakura tried to shake off this thought, sat up from the bed, and headed to the bathroom to start his morning routine.

Sunlight fell on his face, and as he stretched lazily in the corridor, Uesugi Sakura let out a breath of relief, came to the washbasin, turned on the faucet, placed his hands under the stream to test the water temperature, and when it felt about right, he cupped some water and splashed it on his face.

"Phew~"

Uesugi Sakura wiped the hot water off his face, propped his hands on the sink, and looked at himself in the mirror.

His hair was slightly tousled, his face wet, and he looked quite handsome.

He gave himself a rather confident smile, reached for the towel beside him, and wiped the hot water off his face.

Just as he put the towel down, Uesugi Sakura suddenly noticed Hanamaru Hanabi standing at the bathroom door, still wearing a thick autumn fleece shark pajamas, and he smiled at her:

"Good morning."

"Good morning," responded Hanamaru Hanabi instinctively, her curious, somewhat dazed violet eyes looking at him.

"What’s up with you?" Uesugi Sakura stretched out his hand to flick her forehead, but suddenly remembered the rules of the dating game from yesterday and pulled back his hand.

"Sakura-kun..."

Hanamaru Hanabi pointed to a bottle of facial cleanser that had just been opened beside the washbasin, "Sakura-kun used Hanabi’s facial cleanser."

"Huh?" Uesugi Sakura obviously didn’t see a problem with it, his eyes darting between the facial cleanser and her face, "Can’t I use it?"

"Well... it’s not that you can’t," Hanamaru Hanabi said, "but... if it’s a couple who just started dating... they would probably ask each other first, right?"

Uesugi Sakura understood her point, and replied, "They would carefully ask the other person, not just take it and use it like I did?" 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Yeah." Hanamaru Hanabi nodded.

Hearing this, Uesugi Sakura realized he really was quite careless.

Every morning, he would use his wife’s facial cleanser; he never bought one himself.

"So," Uesugi Sakura asked her in a soft voice, "can I use it?"

"Yeah." Hanamaru Hanabi nodded, "It’s fine."

...

The air was silent for a few seconds.

Neither of them spoke.

Standing inside, Uesugi Sakura inexplicably felt the atmosphere was a bit strange.

"I’m done, let me pass through," he said.

"Alright." Hanamaru Hanabi stepped back a bit, making room for him.

Around seven o’clock, Hanamaru Hanabi finished her morning simple grooming and walked from the bathroom to the living room.

She saw that Uesugi Sakura was already sitting at the living room table with a breakfast plate in front of him, with bread and a boiled egg that had just been taken from the pot.

"Is that all Sakura-kun eats for breakfast?"

"Yeah, after all, we agreed that I would make breakfast for myself every morning." Uesugi Sakura only knew how to make these.

Hanamaru Hanabi looked at his simple breakfast combination and felt a bit worried, "Why don’t... Sakura-kun cancel the rule of eating separate breakfasts every morning."

I want that too!

Uesugi Sakura thought to himself, but outwardly he spoke with a tone that assured her not to worry: "It’s fine; bread and boiled eggs are great, they’re completely filling and nutritious enough."

"It feels like..." Hanamaru Hanabi mumbled, "it feels like Sakura-kun is just trying to show off."

"Why would I, Uesugi, show off, don’t worry." Uesugi Sakura said with a full smile, eating the granola bread he bought last night.

Wearing her shark pajamas, Hanamaru Hanabi nodded and didn’t say anything more. Instead, she headed to the open kitchen next to the living room to start preparing her own breakfast.

She placed the frying pan on the stove, turned on the gas, put in a piece of butter, turned to open the fridge, and took out the minced meat she had prepared last night, washed lettuce, bread, pickles, and cheese slices from the refrigerator.

She shook the frying pan evenly until a whole piece of butter melted and spread across the skillet, using a spatula to slightly move it around.

Sizzling, two pieces of bread were laid out on the hot buttered pan.

Using a spatula, Hanamaru Hanabi turned the slices over until both sides were fragrant and golden, set them aside, then made the minced meat into sticky patties with flour, egg whites, warm water, and various spices, dividing them into three parts to cook on the pan, while sealing and storing the rest back in the refrigerator.

With patties, lettuce, cheese slices, bacon, and pickles all placed sequentially on the bread slice, Hanamaru Hanabi smiled and put the other piece of bread on top, clapping her hands together happily:

"Beef bacon sandwich, done!"

She seemed to remember something.

"Oh right, there’s also milk!"

After reheating a cup of milk, Hanamaru Hanabi sat down in front of Uesugi Sakura with her breakfast.

The aroma wafted over immediately.

Uesugi Sakura couldn’t help but glance up at the other side.

Specially spiced beef patty...

Black pepper + chili powder + cumin powder mingling with the beef aroma...

Honestly, since Hanamaru Hanabi began grilling the patties, Uesugi Sakura had smelled the scent of beef and was already craving it, and now that he saw her beautifully presented sandwich...

Uesugi Sakura felt that the boiled egg in his mouth... instantly lost all flavor.