They are happy.
Xu Chang'an tilted his head, watching the cat in his arms purr comfortably as he scratched it, thinking that happiness is actually such a simple thing.
Xu Chang'an sat down in the black-and-white chess pavilion, holding the cat, and looked at this often-used pavilion with a chessboard that had faded.
He could roughly imagine that during breaks, the girls at the Flower Moon Building would play chess here, with others playing the zither, chatting, or petting cats nearby.
Maybe there was even a certain senior who, despite being an elder, was often teased by the girls in return for her pranks.
He placed the drowsy Li Hua on his lap, picked up a chess piece, and gently placed it on the board, then started to play by himself.
"This place is really nice," he mused to himself as he played.
