"..."
Wow, there are really people doing things in karaoke.
It's understandable that they dirty the microphone, but what about malicious use? Is the microphone also part of their play?
"We are minors, please rest assured."
In front of outsiders, Ming Hai is used to being gentler and friendlier.
The female clerk didn't say anything, but just nodded slightly apologetically, as if she hoped he wouldn't misunderstand.
But that look seemed to say—
I know you are minors, but we must guard against minors.
Toyokawa Shoko watched their conversation in a daze, completely not understanding what the deep meaning behind it was.
"Let's go."
But when Minghai pulled her hand, she didn't think any more and followed him obediently into the quiet and independent singing box.
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Volume 58: Chapter Chapter Xiangzi: I choose to forget
KTV box is a great place for conversation.
It is private and quiet enough, you can sing after talking, you can drink water and go to the toilet at any time, and as long as you avoid the surveillance cameras, you can do some intimate things quietly without worrying about being seen.
Of course, there must be a certain degree of affection before you can ask a woman out to sing KTV alone, otherwise you will easily be rejected and labeled as frivolous.
Bringing Toyokawa Shoko into the box, Ming Hai put down his bag and filled two glasses of cantaloupe soda first. He then used the song-ordering tablet to randomly order a few pop songs as background music, and then returned to the girl.
Sitting obediently on the sofa, Toyokawa Shoko couldn't help but speak as she watched him move so skillfully and casually:
"Mr. Ming Hai..."
"Your next question is, why are you so skilled?" Ming Hai leaned back in his chair, thinking about his next 'strategy', and answered her with a surprised face, "Didn't you go to the KTV to practice singing for Takamatsu-san? After I knew about this, I made a special effort to find out... Of course, I just collected other people's experience on the Internet. This is the first time I came here in person and with someone."
"So don't worry, this 'first time' is also yours."
Toyokawa Shoko was speechless at first, then her cheeks gradually puffed up and she stared at him with some dissatisfaction.
"I haven't said anything yet, please don't speculate on my thoughts without permission, okay? Am I such a self-conceited, self-righteous, and superior woman in your heart?"
Is not it?
Ming Hai turned his head and looked into her stubborn and serious eyes, and the two of them stared at each other silently for a few seconds.
He is not good at speaking, so this time he decided to follow his heart.
"Isn't it? You have a bad nature, Toyokawa-san."
Toyokawa Shoko suddenly stood up and looked down at him with a cold expression, like an arrogant and unapproachable noble princess.
Ming Hai raised his head and let those cold amber eyes seal him in them without blinking.
Quietly, the big screen in the front started playing the MV.
The hot music echoing in the entire box could not blend into the icy air between the two people.
After a while.
She shook her long hair, sat back on the sofa with a depressed look on her face, picked up the cantaloupe soda and took two big sips, then turned sideways with her back to Minghai as if unwillingly.
"Yeah, Narumi-kun has an equally bad nature."
Although it was very noisy around him, he could hear clearly the muttering of acknowledging the reality.
Ming Hai couldn't help but laugh.
"Knowing that I'm terrible, why don't you stay away from me and reject me harshly?"
Gently pushing the dangling hair behind her ears, Toyokawa Shoko spoke in a sad tone that seemed full of resentment.
"You are the one. Why are you getting closer and closer to me, making me more and more inseparable from you?"
"good question."
Ming Hai thought about it, reached out and touched her sky blue hair, letting the soft hair entangle his fingertips.
"Because of fate, I met you at the beginning."
This is the truth.
If it wasn't for fate, he wouldn't have been approached by Toyokawa Shoko in the park; if it wasn't for the mission, he wouldn't have left her contact information at that time; if it wasn't for the guidance of the system, he wouldn't have known how to contact this fifteen-year-old noble lady.
Because it was her in the beginning, so now, in the future... it will always be her.
This is the script arranged by fate.
The leading actors who went on stage were willing, and the lines were delivered with disguised sincerity.
"Do you think this kind of talk can make me happy?"
She fell onto his shoulder, but still faced outside so that he couldn't see her expression.
After a brief hesitation, Ming Hai gently rested his chin on her head, and only the faint scent of gardenia remained in her nose.
The slightly warm hair feels better than any fine silk.
Ming Hai seemed to hear her heartbeat and breathing, which became rapid and heavy at this moment, but as if she was afraid that he would distance himself from her, she endured and did not make any obvious reaction.
"Unhappy?" he asked softly.
"I'm very happy."
Her body was limp, but her voice became calm instead, as if she was talking to herself.
"It's because I was so happy... that I started to feel scared."
"afraid of what?"
"I'm afraid that I won't be myself anymore, and that Toyokawa Shoko will become strange."
Toyokawa Shoko smiled softly, a little self-deprecatingly: "Being jealous, being envious of friends... isn't that terrible? Why can't I just happily watch your relationship improve and even feel happy about it like I did in the past?"
"Gentleness is obviously your strong point, so why would I want you to not be so gentle to Deng-san?"
"So... am I such a selfish guy?"
Just like a pure white canvas, it is gradually stained with other people’s colors.
The colorful mood did not paint a beautiful painting full of hope, but a selfish and jealous self...
Toyokawa Shoko's pride made it impossible for her to accept this fact.
She did not resist the gradually shortening distance between her and Ming Hai, and she also had various fantasies and hopes for the development of the two of them; in order to be able to face him and the future calmly, she also actively sought answers to those unknown emotions, indulging in pure happiness and attachment -
But what she didn't realize was how her mentality would change as he became more and more important to her.
"I got angry and upset with you, I became jealous of Deng, and I got used to my own twisted self..."
Toyokawa Shoko lowered her head, her thin white fingers curled up tightly together, her body trembled slightly, and her voice seemed to be sobbing: "It's like this even without a relationship. I can't imagine how terrible I will become after dating you..."
It's not as simple as being jealous.
She could feel that if she finally officially got together with him, the emotions she was experiencing now would be magnified countless times - she would no longer be patient or reserved, and would definitely do something more serious than pinching her palms to vent her anger.
Then, he completely hurt Deng-san, Suyo-san... and Narumi.
Rather than facing a miserable future of being hated by everyone, it is better to learn to stay away and forget before everything begins.
At least, she can go back to the original Toyokawa Shoko who could smile at anyone.
"That's why you want to push me towards Takamatsu-san."
Ming Hai suddenly realized and, unsurprisingly, wanted to laugh, but he didn't really laugh out loud.
He simply adjusted his posture so that the back of her head could rest on his chest, and then gently held her slender, soft waist.
You can feel the subtle changes in the muscles, which stiffen for a moment and then quickly relax.
He used his relaxed tone to ease the girl's depressed mood.
"What if I leave you alone and go visit the planetarium with Takamatsu-san?"
“…Bless you.”
My goodness, the voice suddenly became cold and distant.
Fortunately, he found out quickly, otherwise if he really let her go back, it would not be so easy to win her back.
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Volume 59: Chapter Chapter Giving the Shackles to Each Other (Additional Update)
Ming Hai shook his head and rubbed his chin on her head.
"Isn't it that I don't appear to be sad on the surface but I cry secretly, and I want to let it go but I always feel upset about it?"
"Then don't ask questions when you already know the answer."
She bumped his chin gently, too lazy to deny it anymore.
"Okay, let me change the question." Ming Hai stopped playing tricks, "What should I do to make you believe that I will always be by your side and will never leave you no matter what you become?"
"I believe you and have never doubted you." Toyokawa Shoko said seriously, "This uneasiness is not directed at you, but at myself and others..."
Ming Hai interrupted her: "So, as long as you are with me, this uneasiness will not disappear?"
"..."
After a moment's silence, she sighed softly with disappointment.
"Perhaps, that's the case."
"Then we won't be together."
"Eh?"
Toyokawa Shoko was stunned for a moment, then turned around in surprise.
Ming Hai, who answered in such a straightforward tone, smiled brightly and proudly at her, like a student who had just found the answer by chance.
"It has nothing to do with you. I just want to tie this heavy feeling to you...so it doesn't matter if we don't get along."
"Anyway, I will keep watching you, and hope you can keep watching me."
He pointed to the left side of his chest, where his heart was.
"Don't worry about me being nice to other people, because this place is small. After housing a selfish, jealous, and sentimental young lady, there is no room for anyone else."
After saying that, Ming Hai stretched out his hand and gently touched her cold cheek.
With a smile on his lips and a serious look in his eyes.
I looked at her slightly opened eyes, with a faint gleam of water in them, until those eyes were filled with only me.
"how about you?"
He asked softly:
"What do you want to do to me?"
"..."
A song ended quietly.
In the sudden silence, in the dimly lit box.
Toyokawa Shoko blinked, and the warm tears finally fell down her cheeks. He gently wiped them away with his thumb before they fell to the ground.
But one after another, crystal tears continued to condense and fall from those amber eyes, like the never-ending spring drizzle.
——It is said that the feeling of liking someone is that you can't help crying when you think of him.
No matter whether I am crying out of sadness or out of joy, these tears shed because of him are the proof that I miss him.
and so……
"...You said that my feelings are also heavy, right?"
Toyokawa Shoko's eyes were red and her eyes were filled with tears, but she spoke to him with a very beautiful smile.
