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Chapter 440 - 208. New Year in Iwate Prefecture: His and Her Morning (5)

Chapter 440: 208. New Year in Iwate Prefecture: His and Her Morning (5)

Dubian Che fixed his tousled hair and finished preparing breakfast.

"Little Che, go upstairs and wake Meiji," Mrs. Dubian said while setting the breakfast on the table.

Thinking about Jiutiao Meijie’s usual morning grumpiness, and the fact that his family didn’t have the custom of saving breakfast, Dubian Che said, "I’ll take it up to her."

"Eating in her room?" Dubian Zhi asked in surprise, "Then I’ll save it for her and she can heat it up when she wakes."

"No need to go through that trouble."

The breakfast consisted of hot milk, toast with strawberry jam, fried eggs sprinkled with salt, a mixed vegetable soup, and roasted pancakes.

Carefully, Dubian Che placed all these on a wooden tray and cautiously carried it upstairs.

"Meiji, breakfast is ready."

Entering the bedroom, Jiutiao Meijie was curled up under the blanket.

The bedding for Kiyono Lin, which was originally beside her, was now neatly folded and stored in the closet.

Dubian Che, holding the tray, knelt beside Jiutiao Meijie’s pillow.

The oversized blanket only covered a small portion of her; the rest she clutched in her arms.

Her head rested on a corner of the blanket.

"Meiji?" he bent down, gently sorting out her bangs with his hand.

Jiutiao Meijie’s flawless profile sparkled in the morning light filtering through the window.

Dubian Che touched her forehead with his finger and traced the perfect curve of her nose down to the tip.

Seemingly ticklish, Jiutiao Meijie rubbed her nose against the blanket and made a slight noise of displeasure, "Hmm~~."

Dubian Che couldn’t help but smile.

He gently pinched her pretty petite face, "Wake up, have breakfast, then go back to sleep."

"Hmm—" meaning she didn’t want to eat and to leave her alone.

"I brought it up for you; you just have to sit up to eat."

Jiutiao Meijie didn’t move.

In order to finish work quickly and return home with Dubian Che, she probably hadn’t had good sleep these past few days.

Dubian Che set the tray down at his feet, then carefully lifted Jiutiao Meijie into his arms.

"Hmm—" which meant what are you doing, this is annoying, it’s really cold.

Dubian Che let her lean against him, then pulled the blanket over her.

"Here, have some hot milk first."

In the few seconds it took him to lift the hot milk from the tray, Jiutiao Meijie was almost asleep in his arms.

Dubian Che held the cup to her lips for a while before she finally took a sip.

He set the milk aside and picked up a fried egg with chopsticks.

"Fried egg, ah—"

With eyes closed, Jiutiao Meijie ate the fried egg, then while preparing to doze off, she chewed.

Once she had nearly finished chewing, Dubian Che picked up the steaming vegetable soup.

He picked up a piece of white radish soaked in soup broth, blew on it twice, ready to feed Jiutiao Meijie.

Before the radish even reached her mouth, just smelling it made Jiutiao Meijie turn her face away, burying it in his chest.

"Don’t want radish?"

She didn’t respond.

Dubian Che ate the radish himself, then picked up a soft-cooked carrot.

"This time it’s carrot, sweet, here, ah—"

Jiutiao Meijie bit off a small piece, not wanting the other half.

Dubian Che ate the remaining half of the carrot.

"My beautiful princess, my revered queen, next up is the soup," Dubian Che said as he blew on the edge of the bowl.

The hot white steam from the bowl drifted upwards, seemingly warming the room along with it.

Jiutiao Meijie had no aversion to the soup, drinking three small sips.

"Next dish, toast." Dubian Che tore off a tiny, soft white piece, "The jam is homemade, it’s delicious."

Jiutiao Meijie put the toast in her mouth, her cherry-colored lips mechanically moving.

"Have another sip of milk!"

"Good girl, Meiji, then more toast!"

"And pair it with a small bite of vegetables for balanced nutrition!"

She ate a little less than half of the toast, biting into the vegetables just once, with Dubian Che eating the leftovers.

Throughout this time, Jiutiao Meijie kept her eyes closed, her head resting on Dubian Che’s chest.

"Next is the aromatic roasted pancake, freshly baked~"

Dubian Che tore the thin roasted pancake.

The heat encapsulated within the pancake released all at once, along with the aroma of flour seared by charcoal.

He first threw a small piece into his mouth.

"Mmm, tasty."

He fed a bit to Jiutiao Meijie, she ate it; the second spoonful, she didn’t want.

The remaining pancake, he tore into small pieces and soaked it in the vegetable soup.

As they soaked up the broth, he used a spoon to feed Jiutiao Meijie.

While she chewed, Dubian Che noticed her long eyelashes sticking to her porcelain-white skin.

It was probably due to tears from drowsiness.

Jiutiao Meijie, such a candid, vivid, uninhibited, relaxed figure, was perhaps only ever seen by Dubian Che.

With the spoon in his hand, he straightened his little finger and gently lifted her eyelashes.

After this small task, as Jiutiao Meijie stopped chewing, he fed her another mouthful.

After she had finished most of the breakfast, not wanting to eat anything else, she just buried her face in his chest.

Dubian Che put away the dishes and gently placed her back onto the bed, covering her with the blanket.

"Sleep well, when you wake up, I’ll take you for a stroll around the village."

Whispering this by her ear, he couldn’t help but kiss her soft lips once more before Dubian Che, holding the tray, left the room.

With the awake person gone, the bedroom returned to silence.

After a while, the sleeping figure wrapped herself even tighter in the blanket, burying her face within.

At the window, beams of light on a winter morning intermingled with the floating dust.

Dubian Che returned to the living room.

Mrs. Dubian and Kiyono Lin were leisurely enjoying their breakfast.

Mr. Dubian had finished his separate breakfast and left before Dubian Che went to deliver the mail.