Living in Tokyo, all I want to do is laze around.

Uesugi Kai pointed to the girl's black-stockinged foot that was tucked into her stomach.

"Kai-kun".

"what?"

"Hanabi has changed her mind."

"what?"

"Not now."

"What...it's not allowed again?"

"Does Kai-kun agree with the statement that 'there's no sense of accomplishment in achieving things that can be done easily'?"

“That’s true, I don’t object.” Uesugi Kai pondered for a moment.

"So, it's not possible now."

Hanabi Hanabi's purple eyes were half-closed. She withdrew her slender legs from the black stockings, put her feet together again under the bed, straightened her skirt, and covered her thighs again.

"Really not working?"

“Da~me”.

"..."

"Alright, Kai-kun, now get out of here, Hanabi needs to start working." Hanamaru Hanabi picked up the iPad again. "You'll definitely bother me if you're around."

"You want to draw?" Uesugi Kai asked, sitting cross-legged on the bed.

Hanabi Hanamaru, sitting on the edge of the bed, held her iPad in both hands and looked at him with resentful, purplish-red eyes. "Don't you even know who it is because of?"

Hanabi Hanamaru suddenly picked up her scarf and threw it at him.

"what happened?"

Kai Uesugi caught it and smelled it.

It smells so good, it's the scent of Hanabi.

"If you're going for a walk, Kai-kun, remember to wear a scarf so you don't catch a cold."

......

It was 7:30 p.m., and we had already eaten lunch.

The sunset had long since vanished, replaced by a deep blue cloud and a gray sky shrouded in a cold hue.

Kai Uesugi, wearing a windbreaker that had just been dried and a scarf that smelled of fireworks, walked out of the hotel.

Unlike Tokyo, where skyscrapers abound, Hakodate's urban area is characterized by orderly and evenly distributed buildings throughout the region.

The roof was square and covered with snow.

Standing on the street and looking into the distance, you can see the Hakodate mountain range.

"It's a bit cold," Uesugi Kai said, exhaling white mist.

Across the street from the hotel is a bustling market, and right in front of it is a restaurant selling buckwheat noodles.

The house was a two-story bungalow. The second floor was probably where the shop owner lived, and you could clearly see the clothes hanging inside the window.

The street in front of us was described as a large market, but it felt more like a market in a small town.

The buildings were spread out, with a wide road in the middle covered in snow, and even the telephone poles were covered with long, triangular snowflakes.

With a leisurely stroll in mind, Kai Uesugi walked slowly.

I walked past a cafeteria, a sushi restaurant, and a seafood restaurant.

He discovered that Japanese residential restaurants all share a common characteristic.

They all use warm-toned lighting at their entrances to attract customers, and blue curtains cover the upper part of the wooden door screens. They use Japanese-style wooden sliding doors with very clear wood grain on the top, giving them a small-town feel, typical of privately-run restaurants.

Walking directly across, you can still see the heat from inside the restaurant mixed with the lights escaping from inside to outside, flickering indistinctly.

This little bit of light and the aroma of food gave the restaurant a more lively and welcoming feel on this snowy day.

Because it was a snowy day, there was a thick layer of snow piled up on both sides of the entrance to each shop.

A few pedestrians walked by sporadically on the road.

After observing for a while, Uesugi Kai noticed that apart from some elderly people who were wrapped up tightly, most of the passersby were couples.

"Why don't we go back? It would be better to take a walk with Hanabi."

After walking in that environment for more than ten minutes, he felt a chill in his body.

He pulled his hand out of his pocket, lifted his sleeve, and glanced at the watch face.

"That's about enough. We should go back and call them to have dinner together."

Kai Uesugi glanced at the lampposts that stretched into the city, then turned around and started to return to the hotel along another nearby road.

The streetlights rustled, and the wide streets covered in thick snow unintentionally added to the lonely atmosphere of Hakodate in the snow, but the restaurants on both sides and the passing travelers and passersby added a touch of human warmth to the city.

Walking halfway through the snow, Uesugi Kai suddenly noticed a young man huddled on a roadside bench under a telephone pole beside an empty street. He was hugging his knees and holding his phone in his hand.

A homeless person?

Uesugi Kai didn't think so, because the man didn't look much older than her.

He seems more like a man who has just broken up with his girlfriend.

Heartbreak is something that people who have never been in love can never truly understand.

Out of concern, Uesugi Kai went over and greeted the man who was curled up with his legs tucked in.

"Are you... alright?"

The man looked up when he heard the sound.

Kai Uesugi finally got a good look at his face. As he had expected, he was very young, looked like a college student, wore square-framed glasses, had short, choppy hair, and a few sparse bangs on his forehead.

The other person, breathing warm air, noticed someone caring about them and said in broken Japanese:

"I'm sorry, I don't understand Japanese."

Kai Uesugi switched to another language: "What about English?"

The other party immediately replied in English: "Barely...not bad, just a little rusty."

Kai Uesugi looked at him; he had a typical Asian face.

So they started guessing what country he was from, and deliberately probed him in Chinese: "Chinese?"

Upon hearing this very proper Chinese, the young man's listless expression immediately brightened:

"You're Chinese too?!"

Kai Uesugi understood immediately: "Not really, it's just that my current nationality is Japanese."

Hello.

The young man assumed he was some kind of overseas Chinese, licked his dry lips, and stood up, patting his clothes, which were covered in snowflakes.

Uesugi Kai glanced at him, then switched to Chinese and asked, "Are you here on a trip? Did you get separated from your companions?"

“No, no, I’m not here for tourism,” the young man said sincerely. “I’m here to find someone.”

"Looking for someone? From within the country?" Uesugi Kai assumed he was visiting relatives.

"Ah."

"You've come all the way from China to Hokkaido. What are you doing here, huddled by the roadside?"

"I..." the young man paused, somewhat embarrassed, "I've run out of money..."

"You must have brought a lot of money with you to Japan, right?"

"I didn't bring much... I'm just a junior in college. I've been saving money by living frugally, and I've saved over 10,000 yuan. I spent 10,000 yuan on the plane ticket to get here... The accommodation and food costs were another 1,000 yuan, and now I'm out of money..."

"Where are the relatives?"

"No..."

The young man was holding a phone with a black screen.

"I used to rely on this photo translation app to ask for directions. Now that it's out of power and I'm out of phone credit, I'm too embarrassed to ask strangers from other countries for money or to charge my phone."

Uesugi Kai remained silent for a while, then looked the bespectacled man over carefully again: "So... you came to Hokkaido looking for someone without any preparation?"

"Yes......"

"Who to look for?"

"Looking for a wife..."

###Chapter 494 The Man Who Abandoned Everything to Find His Wife in Hokkaido###

Living in Tokyo, all I want to do is laze around.

Looking for a wife?

"Well... she's not exactly my wife, since we're not married yet, but she's already agreed to be with me..."

Unexpectedly, the other person was actually squatting here because of a breakup.

Uesugi Kai looked him over again, then asked him with a puzzled expression, "You...a college student, spent all your savings to come to Hokkaido from China, even only prepared enough money for a week's worth of food, and traveled through several cities, just to find a girlfriend?"

"Isn't it ridiculous..."

Wen Yinlin chuckled self-deprecatingly. His down jacket was still covered in snow, and his tone, which sounded like a lament, made his current situation seem quite miserable.

"...In China, there's a type of person online called a 'simp.' I used to watch their videos and enjoy it, but when it actually happened to me, I realized that they just hadn't met someone they liked yet. If it weren't true love, who would be willing to travel thousands of miles to be a 'simp'?"

Kai Uesugi could understand that word; his words sounded more like a joke.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Wen Yinlin, Wen as in culture, Yinlin as in ginkgo forest."

“Uesugi Kenshin, the character 櫂 is relatively uncommon. Its original meaning is a paddle used for rowing a boat.”

"棹? A character with the wood radical and the character 卓?"

"The traditional Chinese character for 'that'."