Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 354 Escape
The next morning, Hongzi was woken up by a phone call.

"Mother……"

"We're home. Is Hongzi coming back?"

"Uh... eh?"

She fully opened her eyes and was much more awake, "He's back already?"

Looking at the window, the curtains were tightly drawn, and it was difficult to tell the time. She took a look at her phone again, only to find that it was almost ten o'clock in the morning.

"Hongzi won't wake up until now after sleeping?"

The person on the other end of the phone was replaced by my sister Qingzi, "What did you do last night, it couldn't be with Mr. Zonggu... It hurts, hurts, hurts! Mom! My ears are about to fall off!"

"What nonsense?"

Mrs. Yoshikawa took back the phone again, "Let's go home for lunch. I brought back a lot of fruits and vegetables from grandma's house, all of which are Hongzi's favorites."

"I see……"

After hanging up the phone, Hongzi stared blankly at the time on the phone for a while, then looked away.

This is the room upstairs, and Akane Kirino is nowhere to be seen and has already gotten up.

When did she come up last night?

Hongzi had no recollection, only remembering that she stayed alone in the living room below till late at night.

After getting up and changing clothes, she walked out of the room, and when she passed by the next door, she heard the sound of conversation inside.

Kirino Akane is inside.

After hesitating for a while, Hongzi still opened the door of Soya's room.

"..."

The two looked over at the same time and stopped the conversation just now.

So close.

Sitting too close.

Already confessed?
No, it can't be so fast.

What is Qian laughing at? Could it be that she was talking about her just now?

Pretend to like that when they both know it well...

Hongzi shook his head, clearing away the distracting thoughts that popped up in his head.

"Good morning……"

"It's still early, it's almost ten o'clock." Sogu looked at her, "But you don't seem to have had enough sleep yet."

"It's okay." Hongzi walked into the room, "Mom called and woke me up."

"Has Hongzi's family returned yet?" Kirino Qian looked at her.

"Um……"

Hongzi smiled at her, "I'm going home later, come back after lunch."

Akane Kirino nodded.

The two looked at each other, and she tilted her head again, "Huh?"

"..."

With this look, he probably hasn't confessed yet, right?
Hongzi shook his head, "It's fine."

"Are you hungry, go down and eat something casually." Soya said.

"it is good."

The three of them went downstairs, Soya went to the kitchen, Kirino Akane and Koko sat in the living room.

"..."

There were a lot of paper towels piled on the table, which were soaked in tears last night, but now they were completely dry.

Why are you still here?
Hongzi tidied up quickly and threw everything into the wastebasket.

Akane Kirino looked at her, "Hongzi..."

"It's all right!"

Hongzi threw away the last ball of tissues, "It's easy to get sentimental at night, and I accidentally cried for a while... I'm really fine now."

Kirino Akane expressed understanding.

"Don't tell Soya."

"Eh……"

"It's embarrassing."

"But he already knew."

Hongzi pursed her lower lip and looked at her: "Did Qian tell him?"

Before she woke up, the two of them must have been talking about her in the next room.

"No." Akane Kirino shook her head, "Soya saw it himself."

She nodded on the table, "Hongzi, do you still remember that I fell asleep here last night? Sogu carried you up."

Hongzi was stunned for a while, "Is that so?"

No wonder she didn't have the slightest impression of going upstairs by herself.

"--That's it."

Sogu came over with a plate of snacks, "You fell into a deep sleep, and you didn't wake up when you carried me upstairs."

"..."

Hongzi looked at him for a while, "Morning?"

"It was around one o'clock in the morning." Akane Kirino said, "I was already asleep at that time. Soya came in with Hongzi in his arms, but I didn't wake up. He told me this morning."

Zongya put down the plate and pushed it in front of her: "Eat whatever you want."

Hongzi picked up a piece of snack, "Did Soya still sleep at that time?"

He glanced at her, "Ling said that you are downstairs."

"..."

Hongzi didn't speak, he stuffed the snack into his mouth and chewed dryly.

"I'm going to get a drink." Akane Kirino got up and went to the kitchen.

"What happened last night?" Soya asked.

"..."

Hongzi pretended not to hear.

"When I carried Hongzi upstairs, you cried while calling my name."

"Impossible!" she blurted out.

"So, what happened last night?"

"..."

She stopped talking again.

Akane Kirino returned to the living room with a drink, and she quickly whispered "Leave it alone".

Sogu raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything.

After eating a few pieces of snacks and drinking half a glass of drink, Hongzi said he wanted to go home.

"Don't forget to bring Alps home," Soya said.

Akane Kirino also reminded, "There is also Alpine dog food."

"Ah."

Holding the Shiba Inu by the hand, Hongzi was about to pick up a bag of dog food on the side, when Soya stretched out his hand first.

"It's heavy, I'll take it back for you."

"..."

She did not refuse.

"Soya, remember to go home later." Akane Kirino sent the two of them out, "Otherwise I won't have lunch."

"Then why don't you come to Hongzi's house for lunch?"

"It's kind of embarrassing to come here for lunch..."

"Then you'd be kind enough to let me come back."

"Who let Soya stay at my house... Ah." Akane Kirino suddenly remembered what Hongzi said last night, "Soya is going to live at Hongzi's house today?"

"Ok?"

"Cancelled!" Hongzi said hastily.

Soya glanced at her.

"Cancelled?" Akane Kirino asked.

The more Hongzi explained, the more powerless he became, and he had to pretend not to notice Soya's gaze, so he could only perfunctory: "Let's talk about it when I come over this afternoon..."

"Ok."

Leading Alps away from Kirino's old house, Soya grabbed her as soon as they turned the intersection.

"I want to live in Hongzi's house?"

"……just kidding."

"What a joke."

"Don't worry about it."

Soya dropped his hand and held her hand together, "But I will care."

At one o'clock in the morning, Chao Wuling told Hongzi to be alone in the downstairs living room, but what he saw when he went downstairs was her lying on the table crying, half of the table was piled up with tissues to wipe her tears.

"Hongzi's eyes are swollen from crying."

"..."

She immediately raised her hand to touch it, her fingertips touched the fundus of her eyes, and she closed her eyes again due to the pain.

"Is it obvious?"

"Ah."

Hongzi hesitated, "I can't go home..."

The dog leash in his hand was already stretched, and Alps looked back at the two people who stopped in front.

"Then go back."

Sogu let go of her hand, took the dog leash from the other hand, turned and walked back.

After walking a few steps, he turned his head again, and Hongzi was still standing there.

"No... let's go home."

Glancing at her, Soya came back again.

After walking a few steps, Hongzi also followed, tailing behind.

"Did she say anything to Hongzi?"

"No."

"Then you cried so badly."

"Crying, I am not nice to people."

Soya looked up at the sky.

After walking around the next corner, she stepped up quickly and took the dog leash from him.

"When I get home later, I'll say it's a problem with the colored contact lenses, so don't say anything."

Soya was noncommittal.

After walking for a while, Hongzi turned to look at him: "What were Akane and Sogu talking about in the room before?"

"Nothing to talk about."

"..."

"Do you really care?"

She turned around, "It's fine if you don't say anything."

"Talked about Hongzi."

She stopped again.

Zong Gu just looked at her, and didn't intend to continue talking.

He didn't speak, and she looked at him for a while without asking, and then walked forward.

"She said Hongzi..."

"You're so naughty!"

Startled, Alps stopped and looked back.

"Can Hongzi understand my mood now?" Sogu came over and held her hand, "I don't know anything, but I also care."

"..."

She bit her lip, her eyes were red again.

"I didn't say anything to her, just chatting." Soya said, "There's not much talk about Hongzi, Kirino just said that he cares about your state..."

Hongzi lowered her head, and said after a while, "Qian hasn't confirmed her intention yet."

He was not surprised, "Yeah."

"What Akane wants to do now is to confirm whether she likes Soya's feelings... and then consider the matter of confession."

He hummed, and Hongzi heard another faint "fool".

She looked up, and he was also looking at her: "Then how is she going to confirm?"

"do not know."

Sogu thought for a while, and met her eyes: "She will say that, but she still doesn't know Hongzi's intentions."

"..."

Hongzi pursed her lips tightly.

"I see."

He almost got it.

All kinds of bad predictions that were once ignored are now being realized one by one, and in front of Akane Kirino, Hongzi chose to give in as if evading.

"Let's go."

She turned around and left, leading Alps to move on.

Soya also quickly followed.

Walking out of the alley, Yoshikawa's house is in front.

Hongzi stopped at the entrance of the alley, took out his phone as a mirror, and looked at his face, especially his eyes.

"It's not very obvious..."

The redness and swelling in the fundus of her eyes was not as exaggerated as he said, and she was slightly relieved, but it still hurt a little when she touched it.

"If you don't want to go there, I can take it myself." She wanted to take the dog food in his hand again.

Soya shook his head, and hid his hands back.

Hongzi didn't say anything, put away her phone and walked home.

When he came to Yoshikawa's house, Alps regained his freedom and turned around in the yard where he had been away for a few days, smelling every strange smell.

"Just put it here." Hongzi pointed to the door.

Zonggu put down the dog food and was about to say something when the door suddenly opened.

"Mr. Zongya..."

Mrs. Yoshikawa was a little surprised, "Long time no see."

"Long time no see, Mrs. Yoshikawa."

She looked at her daughter again, and quickly frowned, "Hongzi, why are your eyes swollen?"

"It's not because of Soya."

"..."

Soya looked at Hongzi, and she looked at him too:
"Soya got a pair of colored contact lenses from somewhere, and insisted on letting me try them on. But after putting them on, my eyes were itchy and painful, and tears kept flowing...it became like this."

It turned out to be on his head.

Soya didn't say anything else, bent over to apologize, "I'm really sorry."

"..."

Mrs. Yoshikawa looked at the two children and didn't really want to talk to them.

"It doesn't matter, Hongzi will shed tears because of Soya-kun sooner or later, I have already foreseen it."

"..."

Just as Zongya wanted to straighten his waist, he bent down again, and lowered his head a little.

"mom!"

Mrs. Yoshikawa just smiled at her daughter, "Come in, Soya-kun too."

"No." He straightened up anyway, "It's almost time for me to go back."

Hongzi looked at him and said, "I still won't go in the afternoon, let's talk about it tomorrow..."

Zongya looked over, she avoided his sight, and looked at her home: "What did mom bring back from the countryside, I'm sure she can't finish it, give Zongya half of it."

"Half of something..."

Telling him to wait a while, Mrs. Yoshikawa turned and went to the kitchen.

"Are you sure you won't come this afternoon?"

"Ah."

She likes her friend's smile, but she is afraid to see that smile bloom the moment she confirms her heart.The feeling of waiting for fate to execute made her feel extremely tormented, and staying at her own home would at least make her feel a little better.

"Awaited."

Mrs. Yoshikawa came out carrying a large bag of vegetables, "It's a bit heavy, can Soya-kun handle it?"

Sogu took it immediately, his hand sank immediately: "Too many..."

"Just take it, you're welcome."

"thanks……"

Looking at Hongzi again, he mentioned the vegetables and said goodbye to Yoshikawa and her daughter.

"Mr. Soya has gone far."

"..."

Hongzi closed the door and went back into the house.

"What happened?" Mrs. Yoshikawa asked, looking at her daughter.

"It's nothing." Hongzi didn't stay downstairs, and went back to her room directly.

"Hongzi—"

The door of Qingzi's room was open, and when she saw her sister go upstairs, she yelled, "Pour me a glass of juice, please."

bang.

My sister went straight back to the room.

"..."

Qingzi stretched his head to look, got up again and came out, knocked on the door of Hongzi's room, "Hongzi?"

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing, just come here to care about you."

The door was not locked, but as soon as she opened it to go in, her younger sister said "don't come in".

Of course she wouldn't listen.

"What's the matter, are you in a bad mood?"

Hongzi lay on the bed, hugged the pillow and turned her back to this side, ignoring it.

"Sure enough. But Hongzi has already been rejected by Soya-kun, is there anything worse than this?"

"..."

She threw the pillow over, "Get out!"

The pillow that flew out, "crashed" halfway.

Qingzi didn't even blink, he glanced at the pillow, then at his sister, "I really have nothing to do but study."

"..."

"Although I have a pretty face, I can't fall in love at all."

"..."

Picking up the pillow and throwing it on the bed, she also sat down, "The first love was a boy like Soya-kun, and he failed. Hongzi will be doomed in this life."

"..."

"Why don't you think about girls, don't tell mom. I think Xiaoqian is pretty good, she looks very cute, and she seems to be able to fight, just enough to protect Hongzi. Had a fight..."

Hongzi turned over and kicked over.

Qingzi dodged it easily, grabbed his sister's ankle again, and dragged her to the front.

"Well, Hongzi's eyes..."

Hongzi struggled a few times, but couldn't break free.

"Crying so badly, is it because of Soya-kun again?"

She doesn't speak.

"Has Hongzi never seen a handsome guy?" Qingzi was a little helpless, "Why do you insist on holding on to Mr. Zonggu, and you haven't known him for a long time?"

Hongzi finally spoke, and continued to struggle: "I've never seen anyone prettier than Zonggu."

"That's because you don't know much. There are many in Tokyo...not many, at least a few."

"none of my business."

"oops."

Qingzi let go of his sister's feet and lay down beside her, holding his head.

"I said, Hongzi might as well go to Tokyo with me."

Hongzi looked at her sister in surprise.

"There is a good high school near my house. It is convenient for commuting, and it is also a famous school for further education nearby. With Hongzi's academic ability, it should not be a problem to transfer to that school."

The more Aoko talked, the more he thought it was a good idea: "If you stay in Tokyo for a year or so, Hongko will forget Soya-kun. If you want to come back then, you can go to Kyoto University, and if you want to stay there, you can go to Tokyo University. It shouldn't be a problem for Hongzi."

"Don't go."

Hongzi turned over again, with her back to her sister, to show that she had no interest in going to Tokyo.

After staring at the edge of the shorts exposed from her younger sister's waist, Qingzi suddenly asked, "Did Hongzi do anything with Sogu-kun?"

"...I'm going to tell my mother that you harassed me."

"You love him so much that you haven't done it yet?" Qingzi was very surprised, "If you did, wouldn't you still want to marry him?"

"Mother--"

Mrs. Yoshikawa's voice came from below, "What's the matter—"

"My sister is harassing me!"

"Qingzi!"

"Damn girl." Qing Zi pinched his sister's buttocks, got up and went out.

"It hurts... close the door."

Boom!
The door was shut heavily, but Hongzi still turned her head to confirm, and then hugged the pillow thrown out just now into her arms.

The doors and windows were closed, and the mobile phone was thrown away, temporarily separating her from the outside world.

She is stuck in a corner, but time will not stop flowing.

"Soya should have been home long ago..."

When he got home, he would be alone with Sue, just as he had been in his room in the morning.And now that the person who might disturb her has left, Qian should also start her actions.

But how will she confirm her mind?

Deliberately bringing yourself back must be a way that is inconvenient to show in front of other people-even a "best friend" is inconvenient to be present.

Do you use your body...

"..."

Hongzi hugged the pillow tightly, unable to think about it any further.

She closed her eyes, and only hoped that when she woke up, she could get a final result that omitted all the processes.

"Don't think about it anymore..."

Hongzi murmured, took off her glasses, and buried her face deep in the pillow.

"...the eyes hurt."

On the other side, Soya, who had returned to Kirino's old house, was processing a large bag of fruits and vegetables brought back from Yoshikawa's house in the kitchen.

"Soya brought back so many ingredients again." Akane Kirino also walked into the kitchen.

"It's all from Hongzi's mother."

"really."

She came over, looked at the vegetables in the bag, and then at him.

"Is Soya doing something this afternoon?"

"..."

Pausing for a while, Soya didn't look at her, "I'm going to the shrine."

"Don't go."

Akane Kirino held his arm and looked at him.

"I have something to tell you."

(End of this chapter)