Chapter 181: Jiang Qizhiye's heart beats [asking for monthly tickets]
After returning to Ginkakuji from the cafe, Sawayama Haruno noticed that the bodyguards who had been standing at various entrances and exits for security had returned.
Needless to say, it was arranged by Suguha Ezaki.
Thinking of her behavior last night, although he felt a little helpless, Sawayama Haruno still decided to go and see her.
His hand strength is far beyond that of ordinary people. Even without mentioning this, his physical fitness alone is much better than that of ordinary people.
What's more, it was the first time for Suguha Ezaki.
If it wasn’t for last night when Mine Shiori’s knot was finally untied, allowing him to receive the system reward, one can’t imagine what the consequences would have been.
With an inexplicably heavy heart, Sawayama Haruno walked towards Ezaki Suguha's courtyard.
The scenery inside Ginkaku-ji Temple is pleasant. Even when walking through the forest path, you can see lush pine trees on the side that are in their prime season. The air is filled with a fresh natural scent, which also makes Sawayama Haruno's mood a little better.
But when he was about to turn the fork in the road, his pace slowed down a lot.
On another road, someone was walking towards him.
"Haruno?"
Mine Shiori saw Sawayama Haruno from a distance.
After getting closer, she asked in surprise, "Did you go out just now?"
"Yes, Ms. Morikawa wants to see me."
Sawayama Haruno stopped and smiled helplessly: "It's related to this competition. Has Shiori eaten yet?"
"I've already eaten. I was just taking a walk around here."
Mine Shiori pursed her lips and said in a slightly cheerful tone: "The lake behind is very beautiful. Has Haruno seen it?"
Even bystanders could clearly see that this petite girl was very excited at the moment.
Not only did his eyes no longer have the sleepiness of the past, but his tone also became a little faster.
When you notice the beige knitted coat she wore today, with a white dress underneath, and the pure white Roman sandals faintly visible under the hem of her skirt, you can see that she has almost completely changed her usual gloomy style, and looks a bit like a young girl next door.
It seems like she doesn't know what she did, but she seems very happy.
"I haven't been to the lake yet, but I have been to the hill."
Influenced by her, Sawayama Haruno also smiled a little, which was rare.
Looking at the other person who had untied his knot and became inexplicably cheerful, he felt unprecedented relaxation.
Well, it's not all bad.
At least Mine Shiori's problem has been solved perfectly, and some hidden dangers in the future should have been resolved.
Even if it is not resolved, Mine Shiori should be able to play some role and "eliminate" it, right?
"Really? You can go over there in the evening. Maybe you can even see the sunset."
"I see."
"Talk about it"
Mine Shiori paused and asked curiously, "What is Haruno planning to do now? Has everything about the book been settled?"
"I"
Hearing the other party's question, Sawayama Haruno hesitated for a moment.
However, he quickly regained his original expression and said calmly, "I'll go see Suguha. I haven't seen her today."
"so."
Mine Shiori immediately responded and said enthusiastically, "Suguha seems a little unwell. I was planning to go look for her after I finished touring around Ginkaku-ji Temple. Do you want to come with me?"
No. Please don't come with me.
Zeshan Haru sighed inwardly.
But it would be strange to refuse the other party here. Even if I refuse to go visit Suguha together, I have no suitable reason to stop Mine Shiori from going to see Ezaki Suguha alone.
In this case, we might as well go together to avoid any strange things happening in a place we don’t know about.
Thinking of this, Zeshan Haruno looked at the other party and said softly: "Then let's go together."
"Ah."
The smile on Mine Shiori's face grew even brighter.
In the past, it was rare to see her smile, and even if she did, it was just a faint smile.
Most of the time, the other party is more of a gloomy literary girl type, but it is obvious that today is a little different.
As for why, Zeshan Haruno still knew.
There was one more person in the visiting team, but it didn't affect anything. After passing through the forest path and entering the courtyard belonging to Ezaki Suguha, Sawayama Haruno deliberately walked a few steps faster, leaving Mine Shiori not far behind.
Then he rushed to the sliding door outside the room and whispered directly inside: "Suguha?"
"Are you okay? Shiori and I are here."
Tell her in advance that Mine Shiori will also be coming along, so that at least Ezaki Suguha can be mentally prepared.
Given her sensitive intuition on such matters, she should cooperate with me and pretend to be confused in front of Mine Shiori.
Sure enough, after hearing Sawayama Haruno's call, Ezaki Suguha's calm voice soon came from the room.
"Please come in——"
"excuse me."
Sawayama Haruno said softly, then carefully opened the door.
Mine Shiori had already walked over and was standing next to him.
As the sliding door slowly opened, a faint fragrance wafted out of the room. The short white curtains on both sides of the window were slowly fluttering, and Ezaki Naoha was staring at the scenery outside the window in a daze.
"Suguha?!"
What brought her back to reality was Mine Shiori's exclamation.
The latter looked at her with concern, and said hesitantly: "Your neck."
"this one?"
Suguha Ezaki turned around and subconsciously touched the thing wrapped around her neck.
After staring at Zeshan Haruno and remaining silent for a few seconds, she slowly said, "I accidentally hurt my neck when I went out to play yesterday. This is a medical bandage to repair muscle damage." "You..."
Mine Shiori was somewhat speechless.
As expected, Suguha did not surprise her at all.
In the morning, she guessed that the other party had gone to discuss kendo with friends yesterday afternoon.
Now that I look at it, it turns out that he sprained his neck. The intensity of the communication was a bit too strong.
"Are you okay?"
Sawayama Haruno at the side asked in a low voice.
His eyes kept scanning Ezaki Suguha's neck with a slightly worried look.
He knew very well that it was not a muscle injury.
The medical bandage may be real, but its real purpose is to cover up the pinch marks left by accident last night.
"Nothing."
Hearing Sawayama Haruno's concern, Ezaki Suguha couldn't help but smile gently.
But when she realized that Mine Shiori was right beside her, she quickly suppressed the slightly raised corners of her mouth.
"I've applied cold compress, so I feel much better."
"Is it really to the point of using cold compresses?" Mine Shiori, who didn't know the truth, couldn't help but ask again, "Do we need to go to the hospital?"
"No, it's just a strain. This has happened many times during training before."
"Is this so"
Seeing that Suguha Ezaki said this, Mine Shiori felt it difficult to continue insisting.
But after slowly sitting down on the tatami with Sawayama Haruno, she couldn't help but take a few more glances at the medical bandage on Ezaki Suguha's neck.
bandage
It seems to look pretty good just wrapped around the neck like this?
Mine Shiori's face suddenly turned red.
The reason for this was very simple. She once imagined that Sawayama Haruno would give her a collar with a small bell.
However, since her main fetish is still about pain, she is not very obsessed with this aspect.
If you think about it, there seems to be a way for girls to play with bandages?
The whole body is just wrapped in bandages, without any extra clothes.
Ugh, if only Haruno could grab a bandage and tie himself up.
Shiori Mine became more and more embarrassed, so much so that when Haruno Sawayama and Suguha Ezaki started chatting nearby, she didn't dare to look up at them, but lowered her head and didn't dare to speak.
"Are there any other injuries on your body? Have you applied any medicine?" Sawayama Haruno couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
"It's all painted, don't worry."
Ezaki Suguha was a little embarrassed to look at him, so she could only look away in a panic and said softly, "It will probably be fine in a few days. My body recovers very quickly."
I dare not look at you at all
As soon as I look into the other person's eyes, my heartbeat will inexplicably speed up.
It was pounding inside my body.
Even the face and body will feel slightly warmer.
There was a feeling of shyness that made my toes wiggle restlessly.
It's a really novel experience
She thought to herself, is this what love is?
Although it was just an underground relationship, a master-servant relationship, this sweet feeling still made her unable to stop.
Even after I forced myself to look away, I couldn't help but sneak a peek at the other person's face, and then look at it again. As I looked at them, I felt like crawling over and giving them a kiss.
No.
The master is still here, I can’t think about such things.
Ezaki Suguha took a few deep breaths and forced a smile, "The preliminary round will begin this afternoon, right? Will Haruno be nervous?"
"I'm fine."
Sawayama Haruno smiled helplessly, "Actually I went out for a while at noon today, and Ms. Morikawa asked me to take a look at the manuscripts of other authors in the group."
“There are probably only one or two people who make me feel a little uncomfortable about this?” he added.
"Yeah."
Ezaki Suguha pursed her lips.
She knew that Sawayama Haruno was probably being humble, but when it came to this kind of competition, it certainly wouldn't be that simple.
Although it was unclear what the four major publishing groups were thinking internally, Ezaki Suguha still knew who the sponsor of this competition was, and he also knew that the four major publishing groups all wanted to make each other happy.
Honestly speaking, it's not impossible to go through the back door, but I'm worried that Haruno will be unhappy.
She hopes to make the other person happy, and winning is the best way to do that, but she doesn't want to embarrass the other person.
After thinking for a while, Suguha Ezaki finally found her own way.
"I still have confidence in Haruno, even though I haven't read much of the book yet."
Ezaki Suguha paused for a moment, smiled and said, "But I like it very much."
like you.
She added internally.
Of course, there are ways to make the other person happy without embarrassing them.
Instead of using backdoors to let Sawayama Haruno win the title, she should find a way to increase the chances of letting Princess Ishizawa see her book.
As long as the other party can see it first, or take a few more glances at it, leaving a deep enough first impression, the chances of winning will be greatly increased.
And Ezaki Suguha has also figured out what to do.
As long as he could signal the top management of Otowa Group and pretend to accidentally tell others that she had come to Kyoto with them, the Ishizawa family would naturally be curious after hearing about it and would pay more attention to Sawayama Haruno.
A perfect plan.
At least that's what Suguha Ezaki thought.
"Thank you, Suguha."
Not noticing her thoughts, Zeshan Haruno thought she was encouraging him, so he smiled and said, "I'm still confident. At least in the top five. If I didn't want to appear too complacent, I would actually say top three."
He felt that he was being low-key by saying he was in the top three. If it weren’t for the sponsor, who else could have taken first place if not him?
Let Natsume Soseki be reborn into this parallel world and compete with him.
(End of this chapter)
