My daily life in love is too contrary to my character.

As night deepened, everyone returned to their homes.

--

Bunkyo District, Oki Taichi's home.

Taichi Oki happily punched the hanging sandbag several times, muttering "Nice! Nice! Nice!" to himself.

After doing a few more sets of jumping exercises to burn off his excess energy, Taichi Oki sat down on the ground, picked up his phone from the side, opened 'Shimizu Yoshiko', and pondered what to type.

Delete Shimizu, delete Miko, delete I miss you, delete.

"I'm so glad you said yes today." Click send.

Taichi Oki then gripped his phone tightly, waiting for a reply.

--

Azabu-juban, at Shimizu Yoshiko's house.

The robust young woman didn't practice taekwondo before taking a shower and going to bed as usual; instead, she held her phone, seemingly waiting for something.

Why isn't he here yet? If he doesn't message me soon, I'm not going to talk to him next time we go to the gym together.

After a long while, the phone finally started vibrating.

"I'm so glad you said yes today."

"I'm happy too." Click send.

The happy smile on the young woman's face seemed incongruous with her physique.

--

In Tahara, at Shiraishi Sawa's apartment.

"Good evening, Shiraishi-kun. Did you have fun today?" Takanashi Yuko greeted Shiraishi Sawahide as he walked in, but there was no response.

As if he hadn't heard anything, Shiraishi Sawa went straight back to his room, then took out his clothes to take a shower, looking conflicted.

Yuko Takanashi, noticing that Shiraishi Sawa was preoccupied, stopped talking, though she seemed a little worried.

I wish Shiraishi would tell me.

After taking a shower, Shiraishi Sawa returned to his room and tossed and turned on the bed. He glanced at the nine lavender flowers on the bedside table, took out his phone, and looked up how to make the flowers into specimens.

After thinking for a long time, I sent a message to Suga Muren:

"It's fine to continue the way we always have been."

"Good night."

He lay on his back in bed, staring at the ceiling, and let out a long sigh.

"How can we pretend it never happened?"

--

In the house of Soga Kirei, at Azabu-juban.

The girl used her fingerprint and key to open the door to her home. It was pitch black; her mother was probably working overtime again, and the nanny had already gone home.

She turned on the light, took off her shoes and laid them out, then walked into the bathroom.

She rubbed her cheeks, which were still slightly flushed, and encouraged herself in the mirror:

"come on!"

She's already one step ahead of Ichiyo.

After taking a shower and changing into her pajamas, Suga Kirei went back to her room and sat down at her desk.

First, I opened my phone and saw that someone I had been specifically notified of had sent me a message.

"It's fine to continue the way we always have been."

"Good night."

"I will try my best to do so."

"Good night."

Not being rejected is not the worst outcome.

After smiling for a long time, Soga Kirei finally pulled a book from the bookshelf, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," written by Haruki Murakami.

The bookshelf also displays many of Haruki Murakami's works, all of them brand new.

She remembered that Shiraishi Sawa's reason for climbing the mountain last time was simply because of a sentence from Haruki Murakami. He must have read a lot of Murakami's works, so she should read them too.

This way, we'll have even more topics to discuss in the future.

I flipped to the bookmark and wrote down the highlighted sentence in my notebook.

Never lose the one you love because of cowardice and a pointless sense of pride.

—Haruki Murakami.

And it was ticked.

Chapter 184 Hello everyone, my name is Kuramochi Sakura (Bonus chapter for the donation "Even the stars have fallen")

"Shiraishi-kun, are you planning to be late on the first day of school?" Yuko Takanashi, who was all dressed up, said from the doorway.

"It's okay. It's the first day, so there's no need to rush." ​​Shiraishi Zexiu took off his vest and put on his Mingchuan Middle School uniform. He took three steamed buns from the kitchen, put one in his mouth, and ran to the door to put on his shoes.

I ran a bit too much during my morning run today, which made me very tired when I got back. I took a nap, but ended up oversleeping.

"I just can't do anything with you," Takanashi Yuuko sighed. After Shiraishi Sawa finished putting on his shoes, she went over and straightened his collar, which wasn't turned up properly. "Let's go."

--

Shiraishi Sawah walked out of Kyobashi Station alone. Because he hadn't had soup that morning, he bought a bottle of water at a convenience store inside the subway station and went to the restroom, which is why he let Takanashi Yuuko go to school first.

There's no longer any need to deliberately leave at different times. Now, even if the two of them enter the classroom at the same time, it won't have any impact. In the eyes of their classmates, the two are already related.

As Shiraishi Zexiu stepped into the school gate, he was somewhat surprised; this was very unlike his own school.

Although they did carry out a targeted renovation during the summer, the current situation is vastly different from when they left during the summer.

There is more greenery, many flowers that weren't there before have been planted, the ground is cleaner, and the exterior of the teaching buildings has been renovated.

Could it be that the school was dissatisfied with the work done by the student construction team and had it redone?

Oh well, I've already got the money from my part-time job. The school renovation is a good thing for me as a student, so there's nothing to worry about.

However, when he entered his own teaching building, Shiraishizawa Hideaki found that there seemed to be too much decoration.

During the summer vacation, only the old teaching building was repainted, and the building where their class was located was obviously not among them. Now, not only have all the corridors been repainted, but the windows and railings have also been wiped clean and look brand new.

Moreover, the replacements were so thorough that Shiraishi Sawah discovered that all of his classmates were also new.

"Something seems off," Shiraishi Sawamura murmured, looking at the students who were all staring at him in a daze.

Especially since there was a complete stranger sitting in his seat.

That's the back row by the window, the hometown of the king, a seat most people wouldn't dare sit in.

"Is this Shiraishi from school?" "I think so, he's so handsome." "Did some boy in his class provoke him and he came to beat him up?"

.........

His classmates looked at him and whispered among themselves.

"Um, are you a new student?" asked a student sitting in the front row, closest to Shiraishi Sawa.

"Excuse me, is this the classroom for first-year students in Group A?" Shiraishi Sawa asked instead of answering directly.

"Ah, this is Grade 2, Group C," the student said, seemingly understanding. "The classrooms for each class have been rearranged for the new semester. You can check the class group chat."

......

"Sorry." Shiraishi Zexiu left the class and looked up to see that the sign read 'Grade 11, Group C'.

I took out my phone and opened the class group chat. As early as yesterday, Gennai Ichiro had already notified all the students that the classroom had been changed.

Shiraishi Sawah subconsciously blocks these kinds of group chats, so he was completely unaware of this situation.

I'm so embarrassed because I didn't check my messages.

Shiraishi Zexiu quickly walked to the new classroom location; it wasn't in a different building, and the distance wasn't far.

--

Shiraishi Sawa stood at the classroom door and checked the "Grade 1, Group A" sign twice before finally entering through the back door after seeing a classmate he was finally familiar with come out of the classroom.

Obviously, apart from the classmates, no one else in the classroom was familiar with it. The classroom was more like a recreation room, and it was 1.5 times the size of the old one. The space behind my seat suddenly felt much more spacious.

The desks, chairs, and teaching equipment are all the latest and highest-grade, and the quality is far superior to what it used to be.

Shiraishi Sawah tossed his backpack onto his seat and twisted his neck, feeling a little disoriented. The scenery outside the window had changed; a tree he had been paying attention to all last semester was now nowhere to be seen.

The three boys chatting in the Takeuchi Arisu area spotted Shiraishi Sawa Hide.

"Shiraishi, you're finally here! Class has been going on for five minutes already!" Arisu Takeuchi said.

"Does this classroom look like it's even been five minutes into class? If the teacher isn't here for the first class of the new semester, it's assumed there's no class."

Takanashi Yuuko wasn't in her seat; she didn't know where she'd gone. After explaining, Shiraishi Sawa asked in confusion:

"The school received donations from alumni, so why has it suddenly become so luxurious? Is this the kind of classroom we students should have?"

"We don't know either. We were just discussing it. When Gennai-sensei mentioned changing classrooms, he didn't say they'd be changing to such nice ones. It's really strange, but at least we're enjoying this, aren't we? How was your summer vacation, Shiraishi?"

“A shut-in.” Shiraishi Sawa didn’t intend to elaborate, though he was very busy, he still used the term 'shut-in' to cover it up.

"What a waste! Shiraishi, you're really squandering your face. If it were me, I would definitely go out with a different girl every day. Even if not every day, one a week, four during summer vacation wouldn't be too much!"

To some extent, Takeuchi Arisu's statement was quite accurate.

"Indeed, so what's your actual situation?"

"Homebody." "Homebody." "Homebody."

The three of them said in unison, then lowered their heads and fell silent.

"........"