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

"You're so confident." Soga Kirei's gaze shifted from the variety show to Ichiyo for a second.

“I’ve always been this confident, and this will definitely be the reality of the future. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have allowed you to join the high-heeled shoe research department. I know you like him, but I don’t care.”

Upon entering Chiyo's eyes, a proud rose stands tall.

“I don’t think you can win like this,” Soga Kirei retorted defiantly.

"I don't know what I have to lose with."

"I think if you confess to Shiraishi today, you'll be rejected," Soga Kirei said provocatively, turning her head.

"I've said it before, I won't confess. I'll wait until he comes to confess to me in person before we're together." Chiyo turned to meet Soga Kirei's gaze, responding to her provocation:

"So, I promise you, I won't confess to Shiraishi myself, okay? That way, when Shiraishi chooses me, you'll accept your defeat wholeheartedly."

“Then I also won’t reveal my identity as ‘Tokyo is so boring’ to him, in order to recall your ‘not confessing’.” Soga Kirei offered the condition she was willing to give up.

"You mean 'Tokyo is so boring'?" For the first time during this conversation, Chiyo's face showed surprise.

Shiraishi had told Ichiyo a lot about his life, so he naturally knew about the existence of his longtime online friend, 'Tokyo is so boring'.

"Yes."

Why didn't you tell him?

"How about this, if you don't confess your feelings, I won't reveal my online identity, how about that?" Suwo Wulian didn't seem inclined to answer the question, but continued.

"It doesn't matter. I don't care whether you reveal your online identity or not." After a moment of surprise, Chiyo regained her composure and smugness, and shrugged.

“I will never give up on Shiraishi,” Soga Kirei said.

"Do you really think I would?"

"Patients, the caregiver has prepared your meals." After placing the last dish on the table, Shiraishi Sawa said to the two girls sitting on the sofa.

"Then that's settled, the agreement is hereby established."

"No problem."

Chiyo and Soga Kirei got up and headed towards the restaurant.

--

On October 28th, at the villa of Kuramochi Sakura, in the evening, at the Chinese restaurant at the end of the corridor.

Thinking she was just instructing the two girls on how to make a cake, Takanashi Yuuko followed them into the kitchen.

All the ingredients and tools needed to make the cake were already laid out in the kitchen. The ingredients were enough to make at least one huge cake, and all the tools were of the highest quality.

Even though she was a little wealthier, Takanashi Yuko was seeing these things for the first time.

"President Su, and senior, feel free to ask me any questions you have about making cakes." Takanashi Yuuko smiled gently, but the spring breeze couldn't dispel the slight furrow in the brows of the other two girls.

Soga Kirei, who was closer to the door, closed the sliding door to the kitchen. With a crisp thud, the still fairly spacious kitchen fell into a moment of silence.

The sound of running water from the faucet seemed to lament the unease in the scene.

"What's wrong, President Su, and Senior Ichijin?" After noticing that the two girls were staring at her, Takanashi Yuuko touched her face and asked in confusion.

“I want to know,” Chiyo Ichiriki spoke first, breaking the frozen autumn snow, “what is your relationship with Shiraishi, Takanashi?”

Yuko Takanashi paused for half a second, then quickly smiled and said:

"Friends, classmates, and roommates."

“We don’t think so.” Chiyo Ichiri shook her head upon hearing this. “The force with which you hugged Shiraishi at the end of the music video was something we could all see off-screen.”

I know this doesn't mean anything, but Shiraishi...." Chiyo was thinking about her words.

"...To pull you from the muddy swamp to the shore? To lead you from darkness to light?"

"It is an eternal light in the darkness, something that one cannot give up. One wants to be close to it every minute and every second, to possess it. One feels infinite gratitude and love for it, and one doesn't want to think about anything else, only wanting to be with it forever."

Standing beside her, Soga Kirei added a rather unusually long comment.

"More or less." Chiyo nodded, then continued looking at Yuko Takanashi. "Then let's change the subject. Takanashi, do you like Shiraishi?"

"I like it." Yuko Takanashi lowered her head and admitted, then looked up, her voice slightly nervous:

"However, please don't worry about what I might do. I have no intention of fighting with you."

Chiyo, holding her chin, pondered for a moment and then said:

"So, what is the relationship between you and Shiraishi?"

"Just friends," Yuko Takanashi insisted, starting to break apart the cake flour on the counter.

“I don’t think you need to hide this from us,” Chiyo said as she stepped aside and began unpacking the other ingredients.

"Shiraishi will choose me as his girlfriend sooner or later..."

Noticing another intense gaze, Chiyo raised her beautiful eyebrows.

"...or there is a very small chance that they might choose Soga."

However, both she and I have noticed that there must be a strong connection between you and Shiraishi, and we don't believe that there is nothing between you and him.

Although my family is very capable, we are not yet able to know what is happening in your apartment at any time.

So once Shiraishi makes his choice, regardless of the outcome, you will become someone we need to pay close attention to.

We will definitely be careful to avoid contact between Shiraishi and you. The first condition for being together will probably be that he moves out of the apartment you live in.

It's better to explain now than to panic and make things difficult for everyone.

Chiyo continued to persuade her, but Yuko Takanashi remained silent, simply lowering her head to begin the steps of making the cake.

“Shiraishi will be troubled,” Soga Kirei said softly.

"Actually, Ichiru and I already have some suspicions about your relationship. If that's the case, the one who will be most troubled in the future will only be Shiraishi. But if we say it now and know in advance, there is a greater chance that the problem can be solved."

Takanashi Yuuko sighed, put down the flour in her hand, and without turning her head, said:

"Shiraishi definitely likes both of you, but I don't know who he likes the most, so you don't need to worry too much about my threats."

"You're content with your current situation, you're very happy," Chiyo said. "That's what Sakura Rei said, so the relationship between you two is..."

“It was all my request; Shiraishi didn’t want to do it. I used his gentleness and sense of responsibility to force him to accept me... as his lover.”

Takanashi Yuuko finally revealed the 'relationship' between the two of them.

"You don't even have a girlfriend yet, but you already have a lover, really..." Even though Chiyo was prepared, when she confirmed this answer, she still pushed the whisk into the egg mixture even harder.

“Shiraishi didn’t want to do this; it was me who insisted, so please don’t blame him,” Takanashi Yuko emphasized.

"How far have you gotten?" Soga Muren suddenly asked.

As soon as Chiyo entered, the whisk in her hand stopped spinning, restoring silence to the space.

"No...I didn't do that kind of thing." Although she acted that way in front of Shiraishi Sawa, a blush crept onto Takanashi Yuuko's face at this moment. Fortunately, she was facing away from them, so it wouldn't be fully visible.

"Please tell me, please," Soga Kirei persisted.

"It only reached the point of intimacy, nothing more happened." However, Takanashi Yuko hesitated for a second, unsure whether those things counted as "something."

"Did you stick out your tongue?" Soga Kirei's focus gradually became strange.

Yuuko Takanashi, who didn't want to answer, felt the intense gaze and remained silent for a few seconds before letting out a helpless murmur:

"It stretched out."

Soga Kirei frowned, seemingly lost in thought.

"How can I leave Shiraishi?" Chiyo's gaze swept back and forth between Takanashi Yuuko and Soga Kirei before she asked.

Takanashi Yuuko turned around, looking directly at Ichiyo Ichiriki, her eyes filled with determination, her voice no longer soft:

"Absolutely impossible, there is no such thing as 'what if'."

"What if Shiraishi gives up on you?" Chiyo asked, looking directly at Yuko Takanashi.

"He won't. He promised me he would never abandon me." Takanashi Yuko's face was filled with happiness and trust.

She then bowed deeply to both Ichiryu Chiyo and Soga Kirei, remaining there for a long time.

"I'm sorry to have caused you trouble."

"I'm sorry, I'll continue to cause you trouble." These were her words after she stood up.

......

"Are you done yet? Making a cake shouldn't take this long."

Shiraishi Sawa opened the tightly closed door and asked.

Chapter 247 How to Go to the Beach in Autumn

On Monday, November 1st, it stopped raining after Shiraishi Sawa used the [Weather Card].

I initially thought it would only be effective for one day, but it seems it will also affect the subsequent weather.

Last night's television news featured experts attempting to analyze the causes behind this phenomenon.

On his way to school, Shiraishi Zexiu even saw some girls wearing scarves, but considering the weather—which wasn't particularly cold—he didn't know if they were just trying to look cute or if they were genuinely afraid of the cold.

The boys, trying to look cool, left their jackets loose, revealing the sweaters underneath. Some wore school uniforms, while others wore their own clothes.

Power lines pierce the vast sky, and fifty-story buildings are ubiquitous on both sides of the road, their glass refracting mesmerizing light.

A gust of wind blew from afar, causing ginkgo leaves to flutter in the air, but Shiraishi Sawah ignored them, unlike the last time at the cultural festival when he flicked them with his finger.

I'm not in the mood.

As Yuuko Takanashi and I entered the classroom through the back door, we found three people in the back row staring intently at us. The other students also started whispering among themselves after noticing Hideaki Shiraishi's presence.

Kuramochi Sakura cheered for Takanashi Yuuko, then glared at Shiraishi Sawa Hide.

It had been a long time since he had experienced something like this. Shiraishi Zexiu sighed, and he had probably guessed the reason.

Sure enough, as soon as he sat back down in his seat, before he even had a chance to sit properly, Arisu Takeuchi and the others surrounded him.

"Shiraishi! Is it true?! You rejected President Su, and she's still pursuing you!" Although she tried to lower her voice, it was still quite loud, and the nearby students unconsciously quieted down.

"Well, if you put it that way, then yes." Shiraishi Sawah nodded, acknowledging the result.

"That's outrageous! You actually rejected President Su's advances!" Maeda Shusuke expressed his surprise. "Just how high are your standards for a partner? It's terrifying. No wonder you've been single all this time, you deserve it."