I suddenly became a yakuza boss.

Li Xuan's eyelids were heavy as he shared this realization with the bewildered girl who habitually gave him 1,000 yen.

"...And you, senior, since you know these principles, what is it that makes you so frustrated?"

Yui Yuigahama looked somber and asked.

The one I long for is far away...

Li Xuan said.

The daughter of a politician, far away in England.

"The people I feel guilty towards can never be forgiven."

Li Xuan continued.

The sight of the second young lady leaving left Li Xuan feeling helpless.

"My benefactors, my companions, are all in danger..."

The last words his father passed on to him, and the young master and his companions who were being hunted down.

as well as......

Li Xuan slowly bent down, and finally, feeling dizzy and exhausted, he knelt on the ground, gripping the railing tightly with both hands.

The gunshot wound on his shoulder was only given a simple bandage. Gunshot wounds cause great damage. In addition, he drifted a long, long way on the river in the snowy weather, stepped on the icy shore, and was able to quickly change into new clothes and burn his police uniform. His extraordinary willpower supported his actions.

He should go and get treatment.

He should be the one who most needs to wallow in self-pity.

However, due to unforeseen circumstances, Yui Yuigahama seemed a bit off, which ultimately delayed his plans.

He could no longer hear Yui supporting him and saying what to him.

—[Early this morning, more than 20 remaining members of the Ashikawa-gumi criminal gang, which operates in the Chiba area, were arrested. Additionally, reports indicate that the 87-year-old veteran yakuza leader, who was detained by police, sustained serious injuries during the arrest, and his health deteriorated again tonight; he has been admitted to the emergency room for treatment…]

In the darkness, an open-air television across the river broadcasts news of the police raiding a gang's headquarters.

"He should just die already! Why bother saving this kind of scum?"

"Good job catching them! This way, there will be fewer social parasites!"

Couples watching the news applauded and cheered.

Feverish Li Xuan seemed to hear the whispers of demons. He knelt beneath the dark sky, blood dripping down his arm...

Finally, he lost consciousness, collapsed to the ground, and knew nothing more.

Chapter 132 The High School Girl Who Harbored a Wanted Criminal

At nine o'clock, my father was still working overtime and had not returned home, while my mother went to her parents' home.

After confirming several times that her father had not returned, Yuihama dragged Li Xuan little by little towards the door of her house.

"Senior, you're so heavy..."

After Yui Yuigahama finally managed to hide him in the room, the completely exhausted girl sat on the wooden board, panting and covered in sweat, looking at him and complaining.

While they were chatting, Li Xuan suddenly collapsed to the ground with a "thud," startling Yui Yuigahama. Yui then discovered that Li Xuan had a fever and a deep wound on his left shoulder, clearly a bullet wound. She quickly realized that her senior was involved in a dangerous incident. This kind of injury could neither be taken to the hospital nor left untreated. After much deliberation, Yui Yuigahama had no choice but to take him back to her home for the time being.

On the way back, whether explaining to passersby or taking a taxi, Yui always said that her senior was drunk. For the rest of the journey, she used all her strength to drag the injured gangster home.

His back had been pressing against her chest the whole way, so his large size was a bit of a hindrance, making Yui somewhat embarrassed.

Putting all that aside for the moment, Yui gently placed him on the bed, covered him with her own blanket, and brought out the first-aid kit from the house, busily taking care of the unconscious young man.

They placed a cold towel on Li Xuan's forehead and gave him fever-reducing medicine; they did everything they could.

"Phew..." Yui Yuigahama breathed a sigh of relief after realizing that Li Xuan's body temperature had not risen any further.

However, she didn't know how to treat the next wound.

But if he really was shot, it means that this gangster might have been in a shootout with someone before. If she saved him, would she and her family also be involved in such a dangerous incident?

Yui Yuigahama felt conflicted and deeply worried.

But this person had saved her at a crucial moment, and... he had been eager to leave, yet he had endured the pain to listen to her troubles. How could she possibly leave him to die...?

Yui Yuigahama was in a state of confusion, but now that she had brought it back, at least she had taken a quick look at the bleeding arm and wasn't sure what kind of injury it was. Just to be on the safe side, she wanted to check the injury again and apply some disinfectant to try and stop the bleeding.

"Anyway, we have to bite the bullet and go for it..." Yui reached out to unbutton Li Xuan's outer garment.

However, her posture and direction made it difficult to unbutton Li Xuan's clothes, so she simply climbed onto the bed to forcefully rip off his coat.

Surprisingly, even knowing that she was caring for and saving someone, undressing someone, especially a member of the opposite sex, was a very sensitive matter. Each button she unbuttoned represented a step closer to the other person's body, and the constantly exposed flesh made the girl, who had never touched a male body before, feel her heart race and her nerves become heightened as she leaned down to look...

"Oh no, isn't this only happening between men and women? Calm down, you're a girl, don't get excited for no reason, Yui Yuigahama..."

Yui couldn't help but encourage herself in this way, thinking to herself.

However, she secretly thought that this was the person Xiaoxue liked.

He has an eccentric personality and a mysterious identity. One moment he's a college student, the next he's a caring older brother to his sister, then he's the manager of a host club, and then he becomes a legendary yakuza in Chiba... But he's not a bad person. He's just a twenty-year-old young man carrying many contradictions... He's a strange guy who, for the sake of "1000 yen," carries an emotional burden far heavier than hers, and despite his wounded body, extends a helping hand to her and guides her through her thoughts.

He appears happy and carefree on the outside, but he is actually a person full of constraints and sorrow.

Is this the kind of person who made Xiaoxue cry?

Nevertheless, she understood why Xiaoxue liked this person so much.

The howling wind outside the window made the street unusually quiet. It was a cold night. Inside the warm room, Yui Yuigahama looked down at Li Xuan, her gaze dimming.

Just as her mother said, this boy is a rare and good man.

Yui finally confirmed that it was a wound caused by a sharp weapon penetrating cleanly, but the bleeding had stopped. She wiped the wound with disinfectant, applied hemostatic medicine, and then wrapped and secured it with clean and breathable gauze. She followed the instructions online and believed that as long as the wound did not become infected, there would be no problem.

"...Don't ever appear again...Why did I leave...."

While running a fever, Li Xuan was delirious and talking incoherently, seemingly having a nightmare.

Yui Yuigahama sat to the side, looking at this senior who was both familiar and unfamiliar with her with concern. Suddenly, she felt that he was the most pitiful person. She put a hand on his cheek and comforted him, "It's okay, Gen-senpai, everything will pass... Please sleep well."

Just then, there was a click downstairs; someone had returned home. Yui Yuigahama, still focused on taking care of the young man, was startled by the noise.

A father's voice came from outside the door: "Yui, are you in your room?"

"Yes...yes! I've been in my room the whole time, Dad."

She sat on the bed, looking somewhat flustered, but tried to remain calm as she responded to her father's words.

“It’s good that you’re here. Have you had dinner?” her father continued to ask.

"I've already eaten. I'm still chatting with someone online, Dad."

Upon hearing this, Yui Yuigahama made an excuse to avoid addressing her father's concerns about his daughter.

The disappointed father went downstairs, wondering if he had been too busy with work, which was why his well-behaved daughter had become increasingly rebellious lately.

"Phew, they're finally gone." Yui Yuigahama finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, a high school girl hiding an injured yakuza member is definitely headline news in Chiba! This is a serious blunder...

If her mother comes back, she will definitely go to her room to clean, and if she is discovered, she will probably be in a very bad situation.

How exactly can this man be perfectly hidden?

Yui Yuigahama pinched her chin with her fingers, nervously and earnestly considering a way to deal with this provocative and immoral situation...

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In fact, caring for someone in a coma is much more complicated than you might imagine.

After being shot, Li Xuan floated in the icy water for more than an hour, suffering great physical and mental trauma, which eventually led to a fever.

Yui Yuigahama slept on a wooden plank bed next to him every night. Her temperature was checked in the morning and afternoon. Li Xuan woke up a few times during the night, but he was still confused and couldn't tell what was going on. He drank some porridge and soup. When Yui checked that no one was home, she helped him to the toilet and took good care of him.

The fever subsided, but the emotional wounds remained. It was as if the battle-hardened demon had finally entered a long-awaited period of emptiness, a deep, slumbering sleep within a dream, a dream within a dream, of his former life, his family, of his father, the young master, and the officers reunited, only to gradually vanish in a cycle. There were also the ethereal figures of Haruno, Yukino, and Isshiki, figures he couldn't speak to, couldn't reach. He searched endlessly for Hina, but could find his lost sister no matter how far he wandered…

Suddenly becoming a powerful figure in the underworld was fortunate; he encountered people who were once invaluable in his life.

He was also unfortunate, losing his original ideal of becoming a teacher. In order to give up his ideal, he turned around, but the people he cherished left him one after another.

After taking care of Li Xuan for two days, Yui Yuigahama still found that Li Xuan had not recovered.

The following day, Yui Yuigahama saw on a notice board near the school that Gen Nitta, the fourth member of the Ashikawa Group, had been re-arrested...

However, Yui had no way out and could only pretend not to see it and hurry past.

To take care of her, she has recently started to doze off in class and has become less active in club activities, returning home early to visit the "guest" in her room.

He always has nightmares and has a hard time sleeping.

It's unclear why, but Yui Yuigahama doesn't seem to find this kind of thing annoying.

This period was the most painful time for her. This senior was in much more pain than her, but seemed much stronger. So, in comparison, Yui felt that she was too childish and could not be so depressed. In order to cheer up, she turned around and took care of this senior who was in trouble. Recently, she has been focusing her attention on him. Before she knew it, she felt that time was passing very quickly.

At night, Yuihama was once again awakened by Li Xuan's sleep-talking, and she groggily opened her eyes.

Late at night, she saw the wind and snow howling outside, and it seemed that it would continue to snow the next day.

She wiped her eyes, covered Li Xuan with the blanket, and then checked his forehead temperature. There was nothing seriously wrong. But for some reason, although his temperature wasn't very high anymore, it kept fluctuating between hot and cold. It probably wasn't a fever; she felt that he had suffered a severe emotional trauma.

Yui Yuigahama felt quite sorry for her former eccentric senior who had become like this.

"Xiaoxue's older sister has passed away. You seem to be in great pain as well, senior."

Yui Yuigahama looked at the sleepy face, still half-asleep, in the darkness and said with sympathy.

“I’m not as tormented as you are… It seems my relationship is just ordinary, not as intense as yours.”

In the snowy night, Yui Yuigahama whispered, "You're the first guy to say I'm pretty and have my own unique strengths. Don't worry, get well soon."

We share the same plight, but the senior's actions command our utmost respect...

However, just after Yui Yuigahama lost her own bed and took good care of Li Xuan for two days, she learned from her father that her mother would be returning the next night.

This news, which she overheard at the dinner table, caught Yui Yuigahama completely off guard.

She stood there, chopsticks in her mouth, stunned.

"You haven't seen your mom for days, you must miss her a lot, right?"

While eating, Dad knew that Yui-bin liked to cling to Mom, and asked...