Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 640 Breaking News

On Thursday, July 17th, during lunch break, Jun Matsue was drinking yogurt while flipping through his notebook of mistakes, preparing for his math exam in the afternoon.

Whispers drifted from the front; a few restless girls were gathered around the podium, reviewing their answers to the morning's exam, their expressions as varied as comedians.

The first semester for third-year students is in its final week. Final exams started yesterday and will continue until Saturday, after which it will be summer vacation.

The boy lowered his head again and circled the question number in front of him, indicating that he had completely mastered it.

Closing his notebook, Jun Matsue crushed the yogurt container in his hand and got up from his seat.

Walking to the trash can, the boy tossed the cardboard box down vertically. As he turned around, he was met with Sakamuro Ken's disappointed gaze.

"Songzhi, where's your cool basketball shooting form when you throw away the trash?"

"It's a yogurt container, after all." He chuckled. "It wouldn't be good if some yogurt spilled out if I threw it at the wrong spot."

“That’s right.” The girl sitting next to Ken Sakamuro suddenly looked up.

"Sakamuro, last time you insisted on showing off by throwing that coffee can, and now the area around the trash can is covered in coffee!"

He walked past her incessant nagging, returned to his seat, and stuffed his notebook into the drawer.

The girl sitting to his right turned her head and blinked in surprise. "Tsun-kun already reviewed the wrong answers? That was fast."

Jun Matsue twirled the pen between his fingers. "I have a pretty good memory, you know."

He developed the habit of keeping a mistake notebook after receiving math tutoring from Tomatsu; otherwise, given his memory, there would be no need for him to keep one.

However, with the girl's insistence, the boy still wrote it down. Perhaps it was psychological, but the error notebook did seem to be somewhat helpful.

After all, searching through a vast sea of ​​questions to recall the wrong answers takes time, and of course, it's possible that his memory is deteriorating.

"Hmm..." Tomatsu Yuka frowned slightly, her expression gentle and lovely.

"Would you like to see my error notebook?" She took out a delicate pink and white notebook from the drawer, with a rabbit head sticker on it.

Jun Matsue thought for a moment, "That works too, there's still some time before nap time."

As he reached out to take it, the boy remembered another question, "Don't you need to see it yourself?"

The girl tilted her head. "I didn't get many questions wrong. I already looked at them during lunch."

The weather was hot and humid, and with exams to prepare for, the girls ate lunch in the classroom. Only one girl, who couldn't stand the cold lunch, went to the cafeteria alone without hesitation.

Before opening the girly notebook, Jun Matsue glanced out the window and placed it on his desk.

Mochizuki Haruka was hunched over the table, looking at her textbook. Her hands were folded together, supporting her chin, and her sleepy eyes blinked repeatedly. It was impossible to tell how much she had actually absorbed.

"Go to sleep if you're sleepy," the boy leaned over and whispered to her.

At this time of day, the girl would usually be fast asleep, nestled under her cat-shaped pillow.

Mochizuki glanced at him and said, "I know."

She lifted her chin, yawned, and turned another page of the textbook.

The girl usually listens to lectures when she's interested and does her homework diligently, so she's considered hardworking. To make her aunt even happier, she doesn't mind cramming a little more before the exam.

"Speaking of pine branches, how do we solve this problem?"

The two leaned their heads together and began to whisper to each other. Tomatsu Yuka, on the other side, looked over, gripped her pen tightly, and stared at the boy's back.

After explaining the questions to Mochizuki and reviewing Tomatsu's mistakes, Matsueda Jun stretched and gently placed the notebook back beside the sleeping girl's arm.

Most of the students in the classroom were already asleep, and the boy had also slumped over his desk, taking out his phone from his drawer.

Before taking a nap, he glanced at the messages in the chat box.

"I went to the supermarket to buy groceries this morning and bought bread at Asahiya. For lunch, I made my own mashed potato sandwich."

Matsueda Jun slowly typed with his left thumb, "Okay, I won't go grocery shopping when I get back." The message didn't show as read immediately like before, but the boy was used to it. He put his phone back in the drawer, buried his arms, and closed his eyes.

It had been three days since she went to karaoke with Yosuke Kurusu. The next afternoon, the girl returned to her apartment, looking completely nonchalant.

However, something has indeed changed.

It's like becoming a real roommate—

They agreed to take turns cooking breakfast and dinner, with whoever was free buying groceries.

The boy had to go to school and work during the day, so the two only interacted in the evenings. Their time together in the evenings was limited to one or two hours in front of the television. Mochizuki Haruka would sit with him, while Kurusu Yosei would sit a little further away. The girl's languid reclining posture was gone, replaced by a polite and proper sitting posture.

Of course, it's more likely that she's not on the sofa, but in her bedroom with the door closed, listening to music, watching dramas, and doing yoga by herself.

She remains energetic and optimistic, but she is less proactive when facing Jun Matsueda.

The girl showed him her lunch and daily schedule reports every day, as if she really regarded the boy as her guardian. Apart from that, there was no further communication between the two in their chat box.

In conclusion, this sense of distance is clear and beneficial to both parties, and Wangyue Yao is happy to see it happen.

So Junya Matsueda also chose to adapt to this relationship, but he wasn't very proactive in adapting—after all, Kurusu would be leaving the apartment soon anyway.

So when he woke up and heard the name of Yosei Kurusu appear again in the discussions around him, the boy was extremely surprised.

Jun Matsue blinked, making sure he wasn't dreaming.

"What's wrong?" He turned to look at the girl on his right.

Tomatsu Yuka frowned as she looked at the messages on her phone. "Yoshi-san updated his status half an hour ago."

Yosei Kurusu's official account hasn't posted any new messages in a long time, so Jun Matsueda immediately took out his phone from the drawer.

The message was short and concise: Yosei Kurusu has been taking a break from her entertainment activities due to health issues caused by a recent high-intensity tour, and apologized to all her fans and supporters.

But the lunch that Kurusu sent him at noon was two sandwiches that were full of food. How could there be a problem with her health?

He opened the girl's chat window and typed rapidly with both hands.

"What's with the recent post from your official account? Did the operations department post it without authorization?"

"No, it was sent after the company communicated with me." Lai Qiyang replied quickly this time.

"After I finished lunch, I lay in the air-conditioned room and thought for a while about what to say. I decided to let the company send it for me."

"What do you mean?" Jun Matsuoka almost mistyped.

The girl's tone became clear, "I don't want to talk about it on the phone. Let's talk about it when Songzhi gets home from school."

"...".

The boy opened the comments section of the post and browsed through them. They were all speculations about "retirement" and "being blacklisted".

The bell rang, signaling the end of lunch break. Students in the classroom stood up, grabbed their exam supplies, and quickly left.

"What kind of expression is that, Songzhi?"

Wang Yueyao stood beside him, rubbing her eyes sleepily—the girl had just woken up and hadn't had time to check her phone yet.

Jun Matsue took a deep breath.

"...It's nothing. Just wash your face to clear your head and head to the exam hall."

He desperately wanted to run out of the teaching building right now, hop on his bicycle, and rush out of the school gate as fast as he could to get back to his apartment and ask Ryusei Yosei what was going on.

But he still had to take the exam, so the boy walked toward Tomatsu Yuka who was waiting outside the back door.

All those wrong answers were a waste of time.

(End of this chapter)