Honkai Impact, please stop imagining it.

"After this job, I'll be promoted to deputy captain of the fifth squad. Life is really strange. Some people are already happily married with children by the age of twenty-five, living a simple yet beautiful daily life with their loved ones. But some people, like me."

The officer downed the liquor in one gulp, looked up at the roof of the car, and thought, "Twenty-five years old, almost a senior colonel, the pressure is immense. I hope I don't become a general before I'm thirty. I'm not ready yet."

Lin Yu felt her mind go blank, her mood incredibly calm. Australians are so Versailles-like; she was actually worrying about something like this.

Inside the car, Lin Yu and the police officer chatted casually. Meanwhile, far away in Himeko's home in the headquarters complex, Himeko sat on the sofa, looking up at the ceiling, her slightly open mouth uttering no sound.

The lights in the room were turned on, and loneliness swept over her. Before, she felt at ease and comfortable living alone.

But now she is still alone in the house, and she no longer feels the openness and comfort she once did, but rather loneliness.

himeko sighed and didn't call Lin Yu, because Lin Yu's charger was still plugged into the power strip on the bedside table. He had been gone for so long that it must have run out of power. If it had power, Lin Yu would have called back himself.

himeko went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and surprisingly, instead of taking wheat juice, took a bottle of plum juice and put it on the table in the living room.

Instead of eating instant noodles, she ordered takeout. She remembered Lin Yu saying that if he wasn't home, ordering takeout would be much better than instant noodles.

Himeko knew, of course, that takeout tasted better than instant noodles, but instant noodles were faster to get.

At that moment, Lin Yu's expression was as if he were talking to me about something important, or sharing a secret that few people knew.

himeko told him that he had known about this since he was thirteen years old.

Lin Yu said he realized when he was ten years old that eating instant noodles all the time wasn't good.

himeko: "......."

If only I were three years older than him, that would be great. There's an old saying in China: "A woman three years older than him is like a golden brick."

If only I were three years older than him, that would be so wonderful.

himeko poured himself a glass of plum juice.

The plum juice tastes very sour; it's definitely a brand name product, and the high price reflects its quality.

While enjoying the sour taste of lemonade, Himeko suddenly saw the boy who had entered the password and walked in. For some reason, the lemonade in his hand suddenly turned sweet.

The first thing Lin Yu did upon entering the room was to put Himeko's shoes on the shoe cabinet before changing his own.

"So don't leave your shoes lying around. I came back so late and my shoes are still here."

Lin Yu's cheeks were slightly red, not from shyness, but from being pinched by the officer. The officer said he was helping the deputy instructor test how soft his chubby little face was, and it turned out to be soft and cuddly.

His forehead was a little red. Hmm, the car hit a tree. The officer was wearing a seatbelt, so he was fine, but the officer wasn't.

himeko didn't speak, she just looked at Lin Yu.

Lin Yu leaned closer and waved his small hand in front of Himeko, "Hey, hey, hey, did you drink too much again?"

Lin Yu picked up the bottle of plum juice and smelled it. "Liquor that tastes like plum juice? It's not some spoiled red wine."

himeko finished the plum juice in the glass, put the glass on the table, and hugged Lin Yu tightly.

"Welcome back."

Lin Yu: "...You seem a bit strange today."

himeko: "I got my period, so I'm a little sad."

People are usually irritable when they're on their period.

"So don't drink anything cold when you're on your period. Have you eaten? I'm late coming home today."

himeko shook her head. "Not yet. I was too lazy to cook, so I ordered takeout. What about you?"

Lin Yu's stomach growled, "I came back on an empty stomach specifically to eat with you."

I originally wanted to invite the police officer in, but after the car accident, he chickened out and didn't dare to come see Himeko, so there's nothing I can do.

himeko: "I ordered two servings."

"You're having two portions?"

"You get a share."

"What if I come back already full?"

"Then I'll throw the other one away."

Wasting food is a bad habit.

himeko released his hand. "You smell like a police officer. She brought you back."

Lin Yu: "Wow, you can smell that too?"

Can we smell it just by sitting in a car?

himeko twitched her little nose. "It tastes like vodka, a little sweet. She likes to drink vodka with sweetener. She spilled it on you, but you didn't drink it, so she pinched your cheek."

"Detective, you're right!"

himeko: "......."

"Himeko-nee, how did you guess?"

This makes sense; Himeko must have been watching the security footage.

Lin Yu was shocked.

himeko took out a small mirror she carried with her and let Lin Yu look at his face.

Lin Yu: "......."

Her cheeks turned red, and her forehead turned red too.

When I got up after hitting the tree, I looked in the mirror and everything was fine. The extended period of time is dangerous.

"Is she holding a grudge against you again?"

himeko said knowingly and understandingly.

Lin Yu nodded.

I'll remember this grudge. Himeko knew this sentence all too well. "This is the sentence she said to me the most. Well, she only said it after drinking. My talent is about the same as hers, but I have connections, so I became the commander-in-chief, while she could only climb step by step. However, I admire her, so I transferred her to the recruit training ground as a laborer, which would allow her to advance quickly."

"Next time you see her, tell her I've remembered this grudge." Himeko gently touched Lin Yu's flushed face, then pinched it hard, released it, and rubbed it again, speaking earnestly.

Suddenly I realized it's Friday. Hmm, yesterday's update was posted at noon.

Recently, some readers have felt that the updates for this book are too irregular, so from now on, updates will be scheduled for noon.

As for the reward, I didn't owe many chapters, so I'll round it up. I'm too lazy to calculate the exact amount, so I'll just settle it based on 100,000 words.

There's no need to worry about those three or five chapters. The subscription data is very stable. I used to ask the editor every Monday, but I don't need to anymore. Just check the subscription numbers.

If Hedgehog Cat released a new book release period where readers could see the backend data for follower updates, it would be great; then we wouldn't have to ask the editor.

I don't have many drafts saved up. I won't release a dozen or so chapters at once after it's published. Well... three or four chapters, the kind with more words. It's hard to calculate the daily income for short chapters. It's easier to calculate the daily income for 5,000-word chapters. Most importantly, I've gotten used to it.

So from now on, each chapter will be 5,000 words, unless there are special circumstances.

Please subscribe, I'm going to go write some more.

Chapter 53 Only You, Hua! You are the only one.

Lin Yu reluctantly ate dinner with Himeko, but it was already past ten o'clock, so it was practically a late-night snack.

After dinner, Lin Yu helped Himeko back to her room to sleep. Today, Himeko was lazy and just lay on the sofa without moving, so Lin Yu had no choice but to help her walk.

Although he wasn't drunk, he was practically intoxicated. Lin Yu tidied up the lunchboxes on the table and went back to his room.

The room door opened, and the huge piano in the middle of the bedroom immediately caught his attention.

The sound insulation material on the wall and the newly installed sound insulation have been completed.

Lin Yu had just told Himeko about her musical dream yesterday, and today she had already prepared everything.

Guitars and other musical instruments hung on the wall, some of which Lin Yu didn't even know the names of or had never seen before.

Lin Yu closed the bedroom door and strode to the piano. He was about to put his hands on it to test the tone when he suddenly remembered something.

Lin Yu first went to the bathroom in the bedroom to wash his hands before excitedly walking to the piano.

The sound quality is excellent; it must have been tuned by professionals.

Lin Yu tried playing "Take Me Hand".

Having not played the piano for a long time, he played the song without making any mistakes, but it was a pity that no one sang it and there was no audience.

After trying out the guitar one more time, Lin Yu finally lay down on the bed and went to sleep.

Music is something that only a very small minority can appreciate in solitude; humans are inherently social beings.

What was your initial motivation for learning piano?

SpongeBob SquarePants?

Yes, I saw a SpongeBob SquarePants video on Bilibili and suddenly thought this piano piece was great, so I learned it, posted a video, got some attention, and naturally started learning other piano pieces and instruments.

I've been slacking off in the Honkai world for almost half a year now, doing nothing. Aside from the story characters, I haven't even made many friends, nor have I brought about any changes.

Lin Yu lay in bed for a moment, thinking that since he already had the instruments, he might as well replicate the music from his previous life in this world.

The next day, Lin Yu, true to his word, grabbed a recording device and started recording himself.

Showing your face is one thing, but on the internet, what's right is relative, while what's wrong is absolute. Once you show your face, who knows if it will appear in the domestic section the next day or be photoshopped onto a wanted poster?

Lin Yu recorded two piano pieces this morning, sorted out the copyright details, and then released them on the music platform.

Choosing a stage name... well... after all, it's music copied from a previous life, so choosing a stage name for myself is a bit absurd. How about "All Stars"?

In my past life, the stars in the music industry were as outstanding as anonymous characters in a novel. They released their music for free, allowed promotion, and charged no fees. All they had to do was let people listen to them. Money was something that existed in the pre-collapsed civilization and was of little use.

The large screen advertisements on the music platform still show Eden's concert, only now she's no longer in the Far East, but in Europe.

Lin Yu uploaded the music with satisfaction.

He felt very free here in Australia, at least Himeko made Lin Yu feel very free.

Lin Yu went to find Hua. Of course, he decided against calling the police officer to pick him up; it would be ridiculous to take her polite words seriously.

Seeing that Hua was training, he sat in a chair feeling bored. The officer came over with a soft drink and placed it in front of Lin Yu. "Here, it's room temperature."

"I was drunk last night and didn't do anything to you, right? Um, Himeko isn't angry, is she?"