He walked forward, moved his mouth, and was about to say something to persuade her, when a clear and calm voice suddenly sounded.
"I think it was Sakishima Yamada who told you that Miss Guiyan and I were together."
——So, are you going to make an excuse?
Ye Shichi muttered to himself with disdain, and looked back at the young man. When he was about to make a few sarcastic remarks, the other's indifferent eyes made him stunned on the spot.
There was a sense of inexplicable depression in the silence.
His heart suddenly felt a little flustered. He turned his eyes away and for a moment he didn't dare to look the boy in the eye.
Qingyou smiled slightly at Ye Sichi's reaction, but that smile didn't feel any warmth. "So, you would rather listen to the slander of an outsider than trust me as a brother, right?"
The voice was very soft, so soft that it was scary, but when it fell into Yesi Chi's ears, it felt like a thousand-pound rock squeezing his heart, suffocating him and making him unable to breathe.
He gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, trying to calm himself down.
"Yes, so what!"
Ignoring the pain that felt like his soul was being cut by a knife, he hardened his heart and tried to make his tone sound colder.
Qingyou smiled again, but it was a forced and tense smile that revealed a sense of irony and sadness.
"Okay, I see."
He nodded without any unnecessary movements, "Then it's as you wish. From now on, we will just be strangers."
He closed his eyes, his calm tone gradually becoming hoarse, hiding an unspeakable tiredness.
"The road ahead is long, and we owe nothing to each other."
Chapter 51: You and I are so far apart, yet so far apart (Part 2)
In the afternoon, Qingyou did not climb over the wall to sneak out of the campus as usual. Instead, he waited until most of the students had left the school after the school bell rang before packing up his things and going home.
He did not go with Genping and the others, and he even had no interest in going to the Internet cafe to play games.
Walking towards home alone in the afterglow of the setting sun.
"Master Tong, do the young lady and I really look like a couple?"
Walking on the deserted sidewalk, Qingyou couldn't help but ask the system in his mind, thinking of what Chi said to him on the rooftop.
[Host, although you and Miss Gui Yan are close friends with pure friendship, you are of opposite sexes after all, and your interactions seem so intimate. Any normal person would think that you two are a couple. Who would think of you as good friends?]
After hearing the system's analysis, Qingyou sighed, "That's true."
There is no pure relationship between men and women in the world, unless, of course, your friend of the opposite sex is a homosexual, and he happens to be best friends with a lesbian. Needless to say, their friendship is definitely not pure.
But, others don't think so, especially Chi's brain is a bit stupid
Tsk, if it weren't for the fact that Miss Gui Yan's current condition was not good and her sexual orientation was not suitable to be made public, he would have told Chi on the rooftop that the girl was a lesbian.
"It's obviously just a simple matter, why make it so complicated?" Qingyou rubbed his eyebrows, feeling a little annoyed.
As for Chi, let's leave him alone for a few days. He's too emotional right now. Let's talk to him after he calms down a bit.
"Uncle Tong, speaking of besties, I want to ask, is this really how girls get along with each other?" Qingyou was still a little confused when thinking about the way he got along with Miss Guiyan.
How come it's like raising a daughter? Isn't it too intimate?
[Host, you are asking me such a stupid question? You can find out by searching online.] I replied disdainfully.
[Here, take a look at the women's clothing stores in the southeast and southwest. ]
Qingyou turned her head and looked in the direction it said, and saw two girls holding hands, talking and laughing while shopping.
After a moment of silence, he looked in another direction. In the clothing store, groups of women were choosing clothes together. Some even picked up their chosen clothes and walked into the dressing room together.
Seeing this scene, You was silent again.
[Look, other girlfriends are holding hands and walking, eating a crepe together, and some are changing clothes together. Do you understand that? What you are doing is just a drizzle.]
The system thinks he is making a big deal out of nothing
[Let's put the young lady's affairs aside for now. Don't pay too much attention to them. The host should think about how to quickly complete the side quest. ]
"Oh, I see."
Qingyou put his hands in his pockets, breathed on them to keep warm, and continued walking towards home.
"Uncle Tong, you have to speed up the matter of the family members. Once you have selected them, report to me immediately."
[Okay, it’s OK, host! ! ]
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Two days had passed since the incident on the rooftop. Since then, Ye Sichi had never contacted them again, and the former group of four had now become a group of three.
We no longer climbed over the wall to eat together at noon. I went home alone after school in the afternoon, and used my free time in the morning to tutor Nishiyama Genpei and Hanyu. Life went on as usual, but something had changed.
The breakup with Chi made them feel uncomfortable, as if something was empty.
Up to now, the only thing that can make Qingyou feel relieved is that the system has finally selected the most suitable relatives to adopt the Hanyu siblings.
That night, I called the couple to explain the situation and emphasized how to deal with the matter of Yuzyu Keidō to prevent the couple from refusing to adopt the child because of this.
After hearing Qingyou's repeated assurances, the couple hesitated for a moment and finally decided to agree.
They asked to call Hanyu Reizuki first to understand her intentions. If everything was true, they could take a bus that day and rush over from another city as quickly as possible.
After the matter was settled, Qingyou came to school early and told Hanyu Reizuki about it.
"Third Aunt...?"
In the library, the girl was obviously surprised when she heard the news.
There was no other reason. It was just that it was too sudden. She never thought that any relative would express the willingness to adopt the child at this time.
Firstly, she and her brother were both older and not little children; secondly, the man in the family would never let them be adopted into another family for nothing.
Thinking of that greedy and ugly face, Hanyu Reizuki tightly grasped the pen, and a heavy feeling of powerlessness emanated from inside to outside.
"Senior Hanyu, don't think too much." A clear and pleasant voice came into my ears, "Don't use the worst result to deny the possibility of you and Xiaoyu living a new life. Nothing is as bad as you think."
Looking up, she saw a handsome young man smiling at her. That smile seemed to carry with it the light of morning light, which slipped into her heart and accelerated the beating frequency of her heart for no reason.
"Tada-kun..."
"Let's call, Hanyu-senpai." He took out his phone and held it in front of the girl, and lowered his voice, "How do you know if it works if you don't try it?"
As he spoke, he stretched his hand forward again, "Come on, give it a try."
The movements were gentle, without any sense of force, and the soft voice invisibly dissolved the heaviness in the girl's heart.
Looking at those encouraging eyes, Hanyu Reizuki was stunned. After hesitating for a moment, he slowly picked up the phone in Qingyou's hand.
She clicked on the number and dialed it, putting her two little hands to her ears. While waiting, the anxiety and nervousness on her face were obvious.
After a while, when the call was connected, the tension became more obvious.
My palms were sweating, my mind was in a mess, and I opened my lips but they were too dry to say a word.
"Senior Hanyu." Qingyou made a gesture of encouragement and said briefly, "Come on," in a very low voice. Hanyu Reiyue loosened her grip on the phone and looked at the young man in front of her with gentle eyes. Her originally uneasy heart inexplicably calmed down a lot.
After a pause, she took a few deep breaths to calm herself down. The tension on her face gradually faded away. She nodded to the boy, holding the phone, and said softly, "Hello, Third Auntie, I'm Hanyu Reizuki..."
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"The road ahead is long, but we never owe each other anything"
It has been three days since Qingyou and the others broke up on the rooftop.
Wednesday, what an ironic number.
Until now, the words that the boy said to him kept ringing in his mind.
The voice was flat without any ups and downs, and no emotion could be heard. The eyes looking at him were very calm, as if he was looking at a stranger.
He felt a little nervous for no reason. The determination in the boy's tone made him panic and at a loss.
He turned around and tried to leave the place as quickly as possible, but with every step he took towards the rooftop door, his heart became heavier, as if his heart was being tightly grasped by a giant hand, suffocating him and almost fainting.
Isn't this exactly what I want? But why can't I be happy at all?
He covered his chest and asked himself blankly, his empty emotions turning into turbulent waves rolling wildly in his body.
Unspeakable discomfort, depression
In this confused state, Ye Sichi returned home and lay powerlessly on the bed. He even lost interest in his daily routine of staying in the room filled with Gui Yanxinmei's photos.
I just want to lie there motionless and not go anywhere.
He stared at the ceiling in a daze. The words the boy had said to him on the rooftop kept circling in his mind. The suffocating feeling of a giant hand grabbing his heart came over him again.
It was so uncomfortable that he couldn't breathe.
His condition started to get worse day by day. The insomnia every night aggravated the dark circles under his eyelids. His temperament became more and more decadent and listless, like a middle-aged unemployed vagrant who was drunk and dreaming all day long.
Compared to his dejection, the boy was as handsome as ever, with an unchanging calm and indifferent expression on his face. The three of them sat together from time to time to discuss something, and the atmosphere was cheerful and energetic.
Looking at them secretly, Ye Sichi couldn't help but wonder if there was a one in ten thousand chance that what they were talking about was about him.
Is there a one in a hundred thousand chance that they would like to reconcile with themselves?
...
Life goes on as usual
The three of them were still the same as usual, going everywhere together, talking and laughing, as if they didn't care at all that there was one less person in the original small group.
Come to think of it, it doesn't matter whether he is there or not. They can still climb over the wall to eat together at noon, and then go online to play dungeons together in the afternoon. The fun is still there and it is not affected at all.
And I am just a dispensable tool...
What qualifications does he have to occupy a place in the hearts of the three of them?
I laughed at myself in my heart, but somewhere I felt like I was pricked by a needle and it hurt so much.
——Have I really been abandoned by them?
He returned home in a daze and walked into the room filled with Gui Yanxin's beautiful photos, hoping to calm down.
The strange thing was that when he looked at the gorgeous face of the girl on the wall, he couldn't feel the same surprise and obsession as before.
Not only did the emotion not help at all, but I felt that my behavior was too boring and stupid.
"Just like a disgusting, sick, stupid idiot." He said to himself mockingly, but was stunned after cursing.
——Ah, why do I... think so?
Ye Shichi was somewhat confused
And why would you scold yourself like this...
Suddenly thinking of something, he subconsciously took out his phone and turned on the screen. The original exquisite picture of the girl on the screen saver had been replaced by a photo of the four of them taken in the arcade.
The four teenagers squeezed into a narrow space, raised their scissors hands and smiled, bright, cheerful, and from the heart.
Ye Sichi was stunned, looking at the group photo wallpaper on the phone screen, the expression on his face gradually became a little complicated
——At least, I was really happy when I was with them
Turning off the screen, Ye Ji Chi left the room that had once filled him with obsession without even looking back.
Winter vacation is just a few days away. Then I will transfer to another school and leave here.
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At noon, Ye Sichi sat in his seat, eating bread with his head down. The aloof temperament surrounding him became more and more obvious. At this time, two figures walked up to him.
"Have you had enough of the breakup game, Chi?"
Xishan Gen asked him calmly.
"Nishiyama-san?" Nojichi looked up and saw Hanyu and Nishiyama Genpei standing in front of him. He was silent for a moment, put down the bread, and said in a dry and hoarse voice, "Is there anything?"
"Xishan....ha." Hearing the name he was addressed, Xishan Genping sneered, "Chi, you still want to continue playing this game, right?"
Ye Sichi was silent, lowered his eyebrows and said nothing.
"Noshichi!" His acquiescent attitude ignited the nameless anger that had been pent up in Nishiyama Genpei's heart. He stared at him with a pair of eyes, as if sparks would fly out. "You still want to play, but the brothers don't want to play anymore. How long are you going to be so willful?!"
