After rebirth, I became Tokyo Sentimental

Chapter 120 119. Mistakes are temporary, but missed opportunities last a lifetime

The next day, the morning light spread from the edge of the sky.

Suzumiya Saika slowly opened her eyes.

After Tokyo and Osaka, the city of Yokohama became the third place in her life where she felt the targeting firsthand and was deeply impressed.

Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama.
The location is different every time.

It can be said that it is a move to another place.

But she didn't like it.

Just like everyone needs a home.

A place like home can give people a sense of security and possession. The reason is simple, just like in a trench on the battlefield, if the machine gunner and the ammunition loaders cooperate well and only set up their guns at a fixed shooting point, they can get into the state better and devote all their energy to dealing with the enemy.

But if you keep changing locations, even though the sense of targeting is the same every time, it will definitely take time to get used to.

And Suzumiya Saka also understood something.

Missing this kind of thing.

It can only be done sometimes like a wink.

But only meet.

Only then can it foam like glue.

Although Suzumiya Saka has a more traditional view on this matter, and like her parents believes that one cannot live together without marriage or engagement, since she has given up her most precious thing, this concept has naturally been pierced like a piece of paper, so she can no longer bear to continue living apart.

Even though the two places are very close.

So close that it’s only a few thousand meters away.

But after returning from Osaka a few days ago, when she returned to the empty apartment after get off work, Suzumiya Saka felt as if she was thousands of kilometers away from Harano Tsukasa.

However, this kind of thing should be proposed by men, but Suzumiya Saka has been waiting for so long and she can't help but get anxious. She plans to solve this problem on the way out of Yokohama.

As for now…

Suzumiya Saka used her slender fingers to hold the knife and cut off a piece of steak, silently replenishing her strength.

And the other two people at the table.

Especially Yuko Shimizu.

Obviously no appetite.

Compared to Suzumiya Saka, who looked rosy and radiant as if she had received a hydrating injection, Shimizu Yuko's pretty face was extremely gray, and her whole body looked wilted like a flower blown crooked by a strong wind. She stared at the air with empty eyes, and cut the steak with a dinner knife in a mechanical and stiff movement, as if nothing in the world was worth lingering on anymore, and she was like a walking corpse.

Only when Suzumiya Saka, who was sitting diagonally opposite him, glanced at him would he force himself to stay alert.

This behavior is like dealing with an inspection.

Suzumiya Saka felt that Aunt Shimizu didn't seem to want her to see that she was tired, or she didn't want her to feel that she was weak all over.

Very strange.

It's not right.

Even though she had believed Harano Tsukasa's logic last night, she still felt something was wrong.

Because right now Yuko Shimizu's condition is as if there is something important weighing on her heart, and she is as depressed as if she had just experienced a major event of life and death. But apart from a small incident during dinner yesterday, nothing special seemed to have happened.

"What's wrong with Aunt Shimizu?" After dinner, while Shimizu Yuko was on the phone, Suzumiya Saka asked.

Harano Tsukasa could see what she could see and what she couldn't see, but he didn't expect that Shimizu Yuko would misunderstand the investment he mentioned yesterday as compensation for severing ties. While thinking about how to explain it later, he casually replied, "You didn't get enough rest."

"Didn't you go to bed early last night? Aunt Qingshui also went back to her room early. How come you didn't get enough rest?"

"Start-ups are full of problems, and it's normal to be anxious when something unexpected happens. What's more, Aunt Qingshui is a woman, and she is under a lot of psychological pressure."

“That’s really hard work.”

“If you want to succeed, you have to pay the price.”

"That's true, but you weren't joking when you said you wanted to invest an additional 1 billion yen yesterday, right? With this money, she shouldn't be under so much pressure, at least not in the near future."

"How do you know they must have it?"

"This..." Suzumiya Saka choked. She had never thought about this matter. She thought carefully about the scene last night. Shimizu Yuko did make an attempt to refuse. And then, after listening to Harano Tsukasa's explanation of why others were so nice to him, she suddenly felt that she was judging others by her own standards.

In order to avoid being considered a woman who always cares about every little thing, Suzumiya Saka looked away, stopped talking back to him, and began to change the subject: "That's right... When are we going back?"

"Wait a minute, I didn't drive, so I just happened to take your car back together. But I'm going to talk to Aunt Shimizu first." Yuan Ye Si stared at the exit of the restaurant.

"About investment?"

"Correct."

"Why didn't you say it just now..." Suzumiya Saka muttered again, but swallowed her words back halfway through. After hesitating for a moment, she pretended to be relieved and said generously: "Then you go, I'll go to the basement to drive first."

"Okay." Yuanye Si replied.

A few minutes later, when he found Yuko Shimizu in a secluded corner outside the reading room of the hotel lobby, she was leaning against the wall with her shoulder, a cigarette that was about to burn out was pinched between the fingertips of her left hand.

She didn't smoke much, and the ash stuck to the cigarette butt was one centimeter long, most of which had spontaneously combusted.

Hearing the approaching footsteps, and realizing from the corner of her eye that the person coming was Harano Tsukasa, Shimizu Yuko was stunned for a moment with a gloomy look on her face. She then hurriedly threw away the lady's cigarette, subconsciously stepped on it with her foot, and then wanted to take out her cell phone from her pocket and pretend to make a call, but before she raised the phone to her ear, he stood in front of her.

"Xiao Si, I just was..."

"Didn't you get enough rest last night?" Yuan Ye Si interrupted her and asked in a gentle voice after just smiling.

Yuko Shimizu's lips moved slightly.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Yuanye Si gradually moved his gaze downwards. He reached out his hand and rubbed the small amount of cigarette ash that was stuck to her fingertips when she was smoking just now, and removed it with a few strokes.

Seeing this, Yuko Shimizu bit her lower lip.

Even though she thought that Harano Tsukasa's intention of making additional investments was the same as last time, in order to achieve the goal of severing contact with him as compensation, and even though she had been unable to sleep the entire night and kept asking herself why, and had accumulated a lot of resentment, she had no energy at all when she really met him face to face.

Just thinking about how Harano Tsukasa and Suzumiya Saka went back to the same room after dinner last night, Shimizu Yuko felt so depressed that she couldn't breathe from last night until now.

She looked at Yuanye Si's face, bit her lower lip and remained silent for a long time before she uttered a word of concern:

"Were you tired last night?"

"Fortunately."

Shimizu Yuko's heart was bleeding when she heard this. She only regretted that she was not the one who made him tired last night, but she could only keep such words in her heart. At this moment, she also suppressed the discomfort in her heart, and forced a smile on her face and said: "You must control your body when you are young, otherwise when you reach my age, the child may be fine, but your body will have no vitality."

She felt sad when she said this.

Obviously, that barrier has been broken.

But now she felt that there was a barrier between her and Yuanye Si that was wider and thicker than the sky and the earth.

"I see."

Harano Tsukasa responded with a wry smile.

Seeing his bitter smile, Shimizu Yuko thought he didn't want to say anything more to her. The bitterness in her heart was even stronger than before. She couldn't help but said softly with red eyes: "I want to say a few more words, can I?"

"You can say whatever you want."

Yuan Ye Si wanted to explain the original intention of the additional investment yesterday, but he had to wait until she had vented all her emotions. "You may think that Auntie is nagging, but I just want to say a few words. I won't waste your time, nor do I mean to make you misunderstand, and I don't intend to slander anyone."

Yuko Shimizu took a deep breath, suppressed the sadness in her heart, and forced a smile with a hoarse voice.

"Xiao Si, you have to take good care of yourself in the future. Although that child is very outstanding, I can clearly see that she is not very good at taking care of others. This is not something that Auntie deliberately said badly, but children from wealthy families are all like this. But I can see that she loves you very much, so she will definitely change herself for you."

"In fact, there are many conflicts in life. Sometimes you may quarrel over a small matter, but you must remember to be more tolerant and understanding. Even though I have never been married, I know from all the years I have been around people that those who can go far are those who respect each other like guests."

"After we part today, I will no longer appear in your life, nor will I have any contact with Sister Chun, so as not to disturb you. I don't even hope that you can still remember that I have been with you, but I just hope that you can take good care of yourself, don't drive after drinking, eat less raw, cold and spicy food, and rest in time if you are tired, and don't overdraw your body..."

Perhaps it is because older people always like to talk a lot, or perhaps they thought this was the last time they met and they would not contact each other again, so Shimizu Yuko had a lot to say and could not finish it all in a short time.

It's like he's making arrangements for his final affairs.

The more she talked, the more she broke down. Harano Si could even see tears welling up in her eyes.

He sighed inwardly.

The debt was getting bigger and bigger, but it was not a moral issue. As for giving it up, he had tried it once before. But he was a complete ruin, so he had no resistance to a woman who was at least sincere to him, and he couldn't help but feel fraternity.

But before speaking.

He glanced at the wish list out of habit.

[Wish object: Yuko Shimizu]

[The wish list is as follows]

[1. What about Suzumiya Saka? This rich lady is definitely not good enough. She will probably get divorced within two years of marrying Xiao Si. Even if they don't get divorced, I curse them to get divorced! When the time comes, I just need to appear by Xiao Si's side when he is sad. He will hug me and shout that Aunt Shimizu loves me the most (Purple)]

[2. Want to strangle Suzumiya Saka (purple)]

[3. I can't stand it. I can't stand it at all. When I get back, I will write to the mayor's mailbox every day from today on, reporting Suzumiya Saka for bullying the people (white)]

Yuko Shimizu performs steadily!

This is what a veteran actor is!
Very powerful!
To be honest, seeing the sparkling tears in Shimizu Yuko's slightly red eyes, Harano Tsukasa almost believed what she said this time. But now it seems that it is hard to change human nature. Although Aunt Shimizu is not a real green tea, her nature of telling little lies is probably something she will never be able to change in this lifetime.

There is no need to say anything else.

Even if Yuko Shimizu is not really sad, Harano Tsukasa intends to end this meaningless farce.

"So what you mean by saying so much is..."

Yuan Ye Si interrupted directly.

Shimizu Yuko paused, her heart skipping a beat, thinking he was impatient, and hurriedly explained, "I'm not trying to gain sympathy, nor am I pretending to be pitiful with you, I just want to tell you..."

"I will find a Mitsubishi Bank to transfer the 10 billion yen to your public account after I return to Tokyo."

Harano Si interrupted her again.

"That was not what I meant!"

"Stand closer."

"what?"

"Well…"

Before she could react, the face reflected in Shimizu Yuko's eyes quickly moved closer, so close that they could see each other's pupils clearly, which had been oxidized to brown since birth, and a strong masculine scent that made her subconsciously forget to breathe.

Because it's not just the closeness of cheeks.

And at the wings of her nose, one could clearly feel the hot breath exhaled from the side and the lip prints that looked like stamps.

After a long time.

The tightly pressed lips separated.

"My mouth smells like smoke..." she said subconsciously.

"It's okay." Yuan Ye Si smiled.

"Xiao Si, you, you are..."

Yuko Shimizu asked with a slightly stunned look in her eyes.

"Do you think that the additional 1 billion yen investment I said yesterday was compensation for severing ties with you last time on the Yokohama Yokosuka Expressway?"

"No... isn't it?"

Yuanye Si stroked her face and said, "You said last time that you were sober when we first met. As a person with basic cognition, even if it is a betrayal to others, it also violates the generally accepted moral values of society. But what reason do I have to give up?"

"So... so what you mean is..."

"That night I asked you why you wanted to be with me. You couldn't tell me at the time, but you said it was because of your conservativeness and possessiveness. Although I'm not a very conservative person, I am also possessive."

Harano Tsukasa wiped away the tears from her eyes with his thumb:
"After all, feelings are something that can be cultivated day by day."

This sentence is obviously ambiguous.

Yuko Shimizu heard it.

But instead of feeling disgusted, she felt somewhat fortunate in her heart, fortunately for having added another experience on the Yokohama Yokosuka Expressway that night. Otherwise, without the high winds and waves that day, perhaps Harano Tsukasa would not have changed his mind at that time.

But listen to him say this now.

Yuko Shimizu seemed to have guessed something.

It seems that I misunderstood something yesterday.

"So..." she asked tentatively.

Harano Tsukasa didn't keep the secret. He looked at Shimizu Yuko in front of him, who looked like a young girl who was waiting for a reply after confessing her love to someone she liked, and said bluntly, "I just wanted to do my best to help you when you needed help. How did that mean I was severing ties with you?"

"I…"

“And I also understand one thing.”

"Wh…what's the reason?"

"Mistakes are temporary, but missed opportunities are lifelong."

Hearing the voice beside her, Yuko Shimizu's body trembled slightly and she felt like her heart was melting.

Just in a moment.

She had that uncomfortable feeling of sweating again.

If before she felt more reluctant because of preconceived notions, then now it really touched her soul.

The ups and downs from the valley to the sky made her tremble all over, and she couldn't help but clench her toes.

And beyond that.

Yuko Shimizu also has a mentality.

He spent so much money on me.

You must love me very much, right?
Even if we can't be together in the future, as long as we can be together, that's what I want most. Besides, at my age, I'd be lucky if I could give birth to a child for him!

　Two chapters in one
　　
　
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