Crossing over, and then being blocked by a rich JK.

Chapter 549 So, can you pretend to be my boyfriend?

The following day, a weekend, at nine o'clock in the morning, Watanabe Yu and Yasuhara Risa left home on time.

"I have enough clothes."

Sitting in the passenger seat of the red sports car, Watanabe Yuu, dressed casually, turned his head and looked at Yasuhara Risa, who was fastening her seatbelt, and asked a pointed question.

The latter was dressed quite casually today, wearing a white down jacket, a black turtleneck sweater underneath, white pants, and white sneakers.

But the thought that she had slept at his house last night, and that she had changed into these clothes after breakfast, made him a little uneasy.

You'd rather speed around in the morning than go home to rest at night, right?

No, you don't have enough clothes!

After fastening her seatbelt with a 'click,' Risa Yasuhara turned to look at him and said those words in a very assertive manner.

Unfortunately, this tactic won't work on that particular person.

"So what exactly is going on?"

Seeing her like this, Watanabe Yu stopped beating around the bush and directly asked the question that was on his mind.

He believed she would buy him clothes, but he didn't believe she would say that when she actually wanted to buy him clothes.

Knowing Risa's personality, if she really wanted to buy him clothes, she wouldn't waste any time with words. She would just say, "Come out with me tomorrow," and that would be it. At most, she would add, "I'll buy you clothes," when he asked what it was for.

The way he spoke yesterday was clearly problematic.

Or rather, it carries an implied meaning.

"To buy you clothes."

Risa Yasuhara tossed him the car keys and then pressed the start button.

The red 911 smoothly drove out of Watanabe's parking space and onto the road in the residential area.

"Do you think I believe it?"

Watanabe Yu asked a question in return, then took the car keys and examined them carefully.

He'd seen plenty of 911s, but this was the first time he'd ever seen a 911 car key.

To be honest, this car key is indeed exquisitely made. Its overall shape is the car's exterior, and it only has three buttons: unlock, lock, and open the trunk. The Porsche logo is on the hood, and it feels alright to the touch.

"I think you believe it."

Risa Yasuhara could hear the stubbornness in her voice, but she still wanted to persist a little longer. What if? What if she actually convinced him? What if he stopped asking questions?
"If you don't tell me the real reason, I'm getting off the bus and going back right now."

Watanabe Yu issued an ultimatum.

He knew Risa's temperament all too well. She wouldn't shed a tear until she saw the coffin. No, her mental fortitude was even better. Even when faced with the 'coffin,' she would still argue a bit. Only when there was truly no way out would she truly 'surrender.'

In a sense, she does have backbone, though not much.

"Then I won't stop the car."

Risa Yasuhara stubbornly retorted.

She herself knew that this matter was probably impossible to hide, but was it really that obvious?
Or have they been together for so long that she can no longer even tell a coherent lie?
“Okay, we’ll just spend the whole day in the car.”

Watanabe Yu gave a calm and measured answer.

While others might be afraid of crying, making a scene, or threatening suicide, he isn't.

After all, he really didn't have any dramatic, tantrum-making people around him.

And frankly, he wasted his breath.

If he were truly a troublemaker, he wouldn't have spent so much time with them.

Even the most patient person will eventually run out of patience with these people who like to "act up," and then there will be nothing left to talk about.

"...No, shouldn't you back down a bit at a time like this?"

After a long silence, Risa Yasuhara uttered those words with a wry smile.

Although she knew that Watanabe Yu was just like that, she still found it hard to explain.

"Why should I back down?" Watanabe Yu retorted. "Besides, you've made it so obvious. If I don't seize the opportunity to move forward, wouldn't I be a fool?"

So-called 'gentlemanly manners' can appear in anyone, but not in him.

More accurately, his 'gentlemanly conduct' is reserved only for those close to him, and it is also limited to certain times.

Right now, he wouldn't have the slightest bit of 'gentlemanly manners'.

He knew her too well; if he let her continue to "deceive" him, it would be too late to turn back once the time was right.

—If you take something from someone, and that person makes a request of you, and it happens to be something you can do, would you help them or not?

Most importantly, based on what he knew about Risa Yasuhara, if she was going to use deception, it certainly wasn't for the usual things, but for something more subtle.

He was currently chatting with Aunt Anyuan, and he didn't want to cause trouble. The feeling of being caught by the other parent for doing something 'bad' was too unpleasant.

"My college classmates are having a reunion soon."

Seeing that she could no longer hide it, Risa Yasuhara finally laid her cards on the table.

"So what does this have to do with today's events?"

Watanabe Yu still didn't understand... No, he understood!
Damn it, it's probably about that lousy boyfriend again.

byd!

The classic storyline is still captivating me!

"You're not suggesting that since they've always said you're the same person, you're going to slap them in the face after all these years, are you?"

Despite having a premonition, he still clung to a sliver of hope.

What if?
"That's true... That's why I need someone to pretend to be my boyfriend. After thinking it over, you're the only suitable person of the opposite sex around me."

Risa Yasuhara slowed down, scratched her cheek, and looked a little embarrassed.

Logically speaking, as an adult, she shouldn't be so childish, but the problem is that she feels uncomfortable whenever she thinks about that person's harsh words.

Although she had already fiercely criticized the student council last time, and that person with harsh words didn't dare to say anything to her face again, the latter's contemptuous look still made her very angry.

Even though she did feel that the class reunions were getting less and less interesting as time went on.

As people get older and start families, they can no longer see the clarity they once had; all they see are so-called interests.

But she still had to go, because she had reasons why she had to go.

"Then why did you still participate?" Watanabe paused. "Excuse me for being frank, but if you really have a very close friend or roommate, you can meet privately. There's no need to choose this time."

To put it bluntly, some class reunions aren't about exchanging feelings with each other, but rather about showing off and talking about trivial, unrelated things.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be the saying that middle-aged people attending class reunions break up couples one by one.

“If I could, I wouldn’t want to participate either, but…” Risa Yasuhara gently stepped on the brakes, and the car stopped in front of the pedestrian crossing with the red light on. “When I was in college, I had a very close friend.”

"She only has time to go back to China during her classmate reunion, because that is her beloved grandmother's birthday."

"We've invited each other out privately, but out of all these times, it's only happened once. The other times, either I suddenly have to work overtime or she suddenly has something to do and can't get away."

"She holds a fairly high position at her current company, and every day she has endless phone calls, work to do, and social engagements to attend."

Even though she's so busy with work, they still chat every day, and sometimes when they have free time, they chat for two or three hours straight. "If you're just here to meet her, there's no need to stay at the class reunion. Just bump into her, and then you two can leave."

Yu Watanabe offered a sound piece of advice.

Since things had come to this point, he didn't want to refuse anymore. He simply felt that if he were to bring himself along, Risa wouldn't be able to have a pleasant conversation with the other person.

"If you bring me along, the two of you will have a less enjoyable conversation; to be precise, your friend will find it a bit strange."

Even the most outgoing and cheerful person will become more reserved when they find a stranger in a conversation with a familiar friend.

“There were other friends of hers at the class reunion.” Risa Yasuhara sighed. “She’s an outgoing person like me, so relatively speaking, there are a lot of people who want to chat with her, and a lot of people who want to curry favor with her.”

"But since these were all her former classmates, she couldn't refuse and could only let it go."

In a sense, this can be seen as a prime example of how one is often caught in the web of power and influence.

"Actually, I originally wanted to tell you all this after I bought you the clothes."

She shook her head and stepped on the gas again.

The red 911 sped across the deserted pedestrian crossing.

The traffic light has changed from red to green.

"At least by then you had already accepted the gifts, so your attitude would have been more conciliatory."

At this point, she couldn't help but laugh.

She was quite self-righteous, as if she were putting her 'schemes' into the open and then laughing it off.

"you……"

Watanabe Yu shook his head, then laughed in exasperation.

Risa hasn't changed at all, at least not in this attitude, and that smile that she herself couldn't keep up is truly unique.

Didn't you ever consider that I might not agree?

Admittedly, the fact that he asked the question implies that he agrees to help, but the question is, what if he doesn't agree? What if he refuses outright?
“I have thought about it.” Risa Yasuhara paused. “But what can I do? The situation is already laid out before me, and even if I don’t accept it, I have no choice but to accept it.”

She's acting all high and mighty even though she's not entirely in the right.

But everything she said was true. Even if Watanabe Yu didn't help her, the things that needed to be done still had to be done.

At worst, I'll just have another argument with that mean-spirited jerk.

But if she could, she wanted the latter to feel jealous from the bottom of her heart.

The more sarcastic a person is, the clearer they are about what they lack, but they just can't get it. So, when faced with provocation from such a person, the worst course of action is to resort to such tactics, but she had no other choice before.

She knew the best course of action was to make it clear to the latter that she was doing better than them.

And she could probably guess why that person always made sarcastic remarks about her; it was nothing more than jealousy of her family and abilities. That person's academic performance was not as good as hers, the school he went to was not as good as hers, and his teaching ability was not as good as hers.

Later on, that person quit his teaching job and found a woman with a little money to be a stay-at-home wife.

In a sense, this person has fulfilled what she said during her university years: to strive for upward compatibility through various means.

“Alright, I’ll help you then.” Watanabe Yu didn’t say anything more and nodded in agreement. “But you have to find a way to make me look a little ‘older,’ at least about the same age as you.”

If it turns out to be a case of an "old cow eating young grass," that would be bad.

He's thick-skinned and can handle it, but Risa might not be so lucky.

Especially when someone is already deliberately 'targeting' her, isn't this just actively giving people something to gossip about?

"I'll find a way to do this."

Risa Yasuhara breathed a sigh of relief.

Although she could roughly guess what he was thinking, she still felt uneasy.

After all, unless someone utters a definitive answer, to put it bluntly, everything is just 'unfounded speculation'.

"After the class reunion, will you have another chat with that friend?"

Watanabe Yu turned his head away, never expecting that he would experience this classic scene.

That's fucking outrageous.

However, it was still a stroke of luck amidst misfortune; at least he wasn't forced to try and steal a bride again, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to hold back.

"Definitely."

Risa Yasuhara gave her answer without hesitation.

"If nothing unexpected happens, she will stay at my place for another night, and then she will have to go to the airport the next day."

It's no exaggeration to say that people really do seize every second.

This is why she doesn't want to take over family affairs. Once you actually reach that position, it seems like you have more choices, but in reality, there are only a few.

Most importantly, if you want to advance your career, you can't miss any of the dinner parties and social gatherings you attend, or the invitations you give out.

Even if you don't want to move forward, and you feel that this is enough, that protecting your family business is all that matters, there will still be a lot of trouble.

As long as you have a "circle" and rely on it to maintain your position, you'll still need to attend just as many social gatherings, just not as many.

"It really is a salmon."

Watanabe Yurui commented.

"Why salmon?"

Risa Yasuhara was somewhat puzzled.

"Because the return migration is only for very important matters. Once these matters are settled, they will immediately return to their work and life."

As Watanabe Yu spoke, he gazed thoughtfully out the window.

As the car moved forward, the street scene outside the window kept receding, and for some reason, that classic song came to mind.

"She's the same as me."

Suddenly, Risa Yasuhara blurted out something out of the blue.

"What's the same?"

Watanabe Yu then chimed in.

"They are all still single."

Risa Yasuhara provided an answer.

"..."

No wonder they can play together.
—But isn't it a bit inappropriate to think like that?

Watanabe Yu shook his head, dismissing the thought, and looked out the window again.

The progress at Yuna Company is going smoothly. Perhaps it won't be long? If things go quickly, it will be by the middle of next year; if things go slowly, it will be around the year after next, and we will be able to completely take over the Amamiya family.

At that time, Ayana's 'inner demon' will be completely gone.

(End of this chapter)