It's like standing on a cliff, looking for an answer that will push you to a dead end in order to have the courage to jump off.
Ming Hai frowned slightly. Although he didn't understand why she suddenly went crazy, since she wanted to make a decision about everything, he would not hesitate at all.
Why not just send her off right here?
A free and easy path where you no longer waste your emotions on yourself.
"Yes, I like her."
He put down his bowl and chopsticks, looked at Nagasaki Suyo seriously, and said in a resounding and unquestionable voice: "From the moment we first met, I fell in love with Toyokawa Shoko, and now I love her more deeply than anyone else."
"I won't fall in love with any girl except her."
"This is not directed at you. I would answer this question no matter who asked me."
——That’s right, except Toyokawa Shoko.
The only thing he could never say to Toyokawa Shoko in person was this sentence.
Otherwise, everything accumulated so far will completely collapse.
"..."
After meeting his eyes for a moment, as if she could no longer bear the determination in his eyes, Nagasaki Suyo lowered her head and bit her lips tightly.
Her shoulders trembled slightly as if she was sobbing.
Her messy long brown hair covered her expression, as if she wanted to let all the sadness and despair be swallowed up by the shadows, stubbornly not letting him see any corner of it.
Suddenly, the girl pushed away the chair, stood up, covered her face with her forearms, and walked quickly towards the bathroom.
"…Sorry, I'm going to wash my face."
Her voice was low and hoarse, and no emotion could be heard.
Ming Hai did not answer, but just retracted his gaze and looked at the food on the table that no longer seemed delicious. He couldn't help but push away the bowl and chopsticks and sighed.
After a while, Nagasaki Suyo walked back slowly with red eyes. Her slightly wet hair stuck to her cheeks, adding a bit of sadness and embarrassment to the girl after the breakup.
She seemed to want to hide all her loss and pain. She had a faint smile on her lips, and looked at him with clear and gentle eyes, and said calmly:
"Are you full? Once you're full I'll start cleaning up."
"……Row."
Ming Hai stood up and walked to the sofa. He didn't want to see her forced smile, but he didn't regret his choice.
This time, he really left no room for her, forcing Nagasaki Suyo to face the reality and completely cut off her feelings for him.
——Now that I’ve made it so clear, maybe starting from tomorrow she will become discouraged and distance herself from me?
Instead of keeping a distance with unfounded expectations as before, enjoying the ambiguous feeling of being treated with tolerance.
To be honest, Ming Hai thought there was a tacit understanding between them.
No matter how obvious the emotions are expressed, as long as they are not spoken out, there is still room for turning a blind eye, and you can still get along as easily and naturally as usual.
That's why he couldn't understand.
Why did she have to break that window paper now and force herself to face the reality that he didn't say it out loud because he was thinking about her?
Are you really that pessimistic?
"Adolescent girls are really hard to understand..."
Listening to the sound of washing dishes coming from the kitchen, Ming Hai scratched his head in annoyance for no reason, lay down on the sofa with his mobile phone in his arms, opened a PVP game, and vented the unspeakable depression in his heart by killing opponents indiscriminately.
Not long after, he heard the sound of water disappear and footsteps coming towards him.
"Ming Hai..."
Ming Hai thought she was going to say that she was leaving and would not come again, and that she was breaking off all ties with him.
But he didn't expect that the long legs would quietly walk to his side, and the fingers seemed to touch the ends of his hair.
"Didn't you say you wanted me to give you a massage? Stop lying down and playing games. It will be easier for me to massage your shoulders if you lie down."
Ming Hai subconsciously raised his head, ignoring the fact that the character in the picture was killed by the five people on the opposite side, and looked at her calm expression with surprise.
"Aha?"
"Your tone is very similar to Riki-chan's." Nagasaki Suyo said nonchalantly, half-kneeling in front of the sofa, her slightly cool fingertips touching his shoulders, "If you don't lie down, I can only press like this."
"I was joking."
"I didn't take that as a joke."
"..."
After a brief silence, Ming Hai turned over and lay on the sofa. He waited for the character to revive and then ended the battle as quickly as possible, turned off the game and put down his phone.
The girl's slender and cold hands pressed lightly and heavily on her shoulders through her clothes, and her nails occasionally brushed across the skin on her neck, always bringing a tingling sensation that gave her goose bumps.
"Hmm~"
She exhaled softly as she exerted force, her breaths were as gentle and charming as the sound of a sheng, and she seemed to hum out boiling heat, which seeped into his body through her fingertips.
But Ming Hai was still confused.
While enjoying the girl's service, he didn't have any romantic thoughts in his mind. He just frowned with a puzzled expression on his face.
"I said, Sushi."
After a moment, he carefully chose his words and spoke, his tone becoming unusually hesitant.
"What's wrong? Over here, do you want me to use more force?"
"Oh, sorry... No, that's not what I want to say." Ming Hai said with a complicated expression, "I have made it so clear, don't you plan to... make some changes?"
"Don't worry, I'm not that fragile." As if it was a little funny, she pressed his shoulders and said lightly, "I just brought out the things I knew before. After crying, I was almost relieved. What else do you want me to change? I don't want to lose my best friend."
"Well... I hope you really think so." Because she was lying down, Ming Hai couldn't tell any clues from her expression, so he could only believe it.
"I'm not forcing myself. This is what I think from the bottom of my heart." As if she knew what he was struggling with, Nagasaki Suyo calmly emphasized her tone, and her fingertips inadvertently stroked the kiss mark on his neck.
Where Ming Hai couldn't see, she showed a sneering and mocking smile, which was quickly covered up by a relaxed and happy expression.
"Or do you not want a friend of the opposite sex who has a crush on you to stay by your side?"
"As long as you don't cause me any trouble, it doesn't matter." Although Ming Hai said this, he still couldn't let it go. "I'm just wondering why you suddenly became so direct? You are so frank now that I'm a little uncomfortable with it..."
"You've already said it so clearly. If I continue to deceive myself, it will only bring you trouble, right? In order to avoid being driven away by you, this attitude of 'forget it, it doesn't matter what happens' is the best choice... isn't it?"
Ming Hai couldn't deny it, so he could only sigh, put aside the groundless doubts in his heart, and make his tone lighter.
"Indeed, if you had thought of this earlier, we wouldn't have made the atmosphere so awkward today."
"I'm really sorry, but I'm not the kind of woman who would just give up after a breakup." Nagasaki Suyo said jokingly, "Maybe I'll keep clinging to you until you decide to give up on Xiangzi-chan?"
"Hahaha, then you probably won't see that day."
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This chapter is two in one.
Volume 67: Chapter Chapter Can Everyone Have a Happy Ending?
Seeing that Ming Hai had let down his guard, he seemed to really think that he had helplessly accepted the fact.
Nagasaki Suyo smiled quietly and asked him some questions as if nothing had happened.
such as……
"Narumi, I have some cute pictures of Shoko-chan, do you want to see them?"
"No, you can keep it yourself."
"What about the accidentally exposed photos?"
"…Do you think I'm a pervert? If I really want to see it, I'll ask her if I can take the picture myself."
"Well, this is a bit perverted..."
Another example...
"Ming Hai, have you ever thought about your future with Xiangzi? If the Toyokawa family agrees to your relationship, will you get married right after graduating from high school?"
"Why do you care about this?"
"You two are my friends, so you should be prepared to receive wedding invitations in advance. Of course, if you just want to have fun and don't want to marry her, just pretend I never said anything~"
"I don't know, maybe. Don't worry, if that time comes, we will definitely ask you to be the bridesmaid."
"Oh? It's my pleasure. (gritting teeth)"
And finally...
"Narumi, have you ever given Shoko-chan a gift?"
"Student Su Shi, you're just giving me a massage, why are you asking so many questions?"
"Too much silence will make the atmosphere weird... Even though I can still laugh now, my heart is actually filled with sadness from the breakup. If I don't distract myself, I might cry the next moment, and cry on your chest."
"Oh, okay, go ahead and ask. Just ask anything you want, today only."
"When did you first think of it? Did you take the initiative or did Xiangzi-chan take the initiative?"
"Well, I haven't given her any gifts yet, but she did give me a penguin stuffed animal."
"..."
"..."
"Tsk."
"Hey, did you click your tongue just now?! We are both fifteen-year-old girls, but why is it that Xiangzi doesn't understand anything, while you are the only one who thinks about these nonsense every day?"
"Hmm~ Maybe I matured early? The Internet world is unexpectedly vast. If you play with your phone often, you will accidentally click on strange web pages. Besides, the pure Xiangzi-chan can even bite the neck without any instruction. In your eyes, I have an impure mind, but I have never even held a boy's hand properly. Don't you think it's strange?"
"What's so strange about the difference between theorists and practitioners? To be honest, both of you are equally bad by nature."
"Same? So, is it possible that you will fall in love with me just like you love Xiangzi-chan?"
"Give up, there is no such possibility."
"..."
As if struck, Nagasaki Motoyo fell silent and ended this headache-inducing Q&A session without permission.
Ming Hai was also relieved, thinking that no matter how big the blow was, it would not be as big as the previous sentence "I like her", so he didn't even say a word of comfort, just closed his eyes and enjoyed the pleasure of the girl's soft and slender hands pressing and wandering on his body.
Of course he didn't know that the brown-haired girl who had been devastated and feeling sad had narrowed her eyes into crescents and was revealing a sly smile that showed she was confident of victory.
'really……'
"I'm not interested in photos of the person I like, I haven't thought about our future together, and I haven't even taken the initiative to give a gift..."
"When I gave Ming Hai a tie clip, he returned the favor, why didn't he do the same to Xiangzi-chan?"
'Why was it that only Xiangzi-chan bit his neck and took the initiative to hug him, but Minghai himself did nothing? '
'It was Narumi who was 'pursuing', and he could have simply rejected other women for Shoko-chan...but in all the things he said, it was Shoko-chan who took the initiative, not him who seemed to be affectionate.'
'Is he too reserved in his feelings? Or is he too afraid to make a move on Xiangzi? Or is he too pure in heart and only talks about platonic love?'
No, neither.
In Nagasaki Suyo's heart, a little brown-haired girl dressed as Sherlock Holmes, wearing a deerskin hat and smoking a small pipe, raised the brim of her hat and raised a smug smile of seeing through the truth.
'There is only one answer!'
"——What Ming Hai wants is not love at all, but a relationship with Xiangzi-chan!"
She was so excited that she subconsciously pressed harder on Ming Hai's back, causing the boy on the sofa to let out a strange groan, and then praised:
"Oh~ That's great, you have a talent for massage."
"Thank you for the compliment."
Nagasaki Suyo replied casually, her fingers continuing to press mechanically, still immersed in the pleasure of digging out the truth.
Based on her observations during this period and the conclusions drawn from those questions.
——Ming Hai really values Toyokawa Shoko, and is even extremely determined to be with her and become a couple.
But there wasn’t much affection between men and women in that… There was no so-called liking or love, and even less was there any expression of him immersed in happiness and sweetness.
