"I went to university in Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku, and I had a boyfriend from university who was working in Tokyo..."

Without Xia Shu asking, she had already started to tell her story: "We rented a very small apartment, and we agreed to be DINKs, so we always left home early and came back late, but then one day I found out that he was cheating on me!"

Xia Shu nodded and interjected, "This is really too much!"

"But I chose to forgive him," Yukina Hatani said, "I think it might be because of work that we don't have much contact, so he behaved like that. I wanted to be extra nice to him, but he had already hooked up with a female colleague from the company, and he and that woman beat me up on the street."

As she spoke, Yukina Hatano's eyes turned red: "It was also at that time that Kitajima Junto saved me."

The story is more detailed than what Bei Dao told, but the overall difference is not much.

But this cannot explain why Kitajima, who was as handsome as Takizawa Hideaki three months ago, has become like this.

"At that time, I felt that Bei Dao was very handsome when he saved me," she said, wiping her tears with the back of her hand.

Xia Shuli was about to draw a paper and hand it over.

"Thank you!" He wiped his slightly red nose but didn't dare blow it, probably because he was afraid of pinching the prosthesis or something.

Yukina Hatani continued, "Then I took the initiative to treat him to a meal as a thank you, and after one or two encounters, we found that we had a lot in common, so we got together naturally."

There's nothing wrong with the story up to this point.

"You must be wondering why we, a man with talent and a woman with good looks, are so well-matched, but it turned out like this, right?"

Facing her question, Xia Shu nodded calmly.

"It's actually related to his family."

Yukina Hatani tried hard to recall: "Half a month after dating him, I was invited to visit his home..."

……

Three months ago, on the weekend.

Because she was going to visit her boyfriend's house today, Yukina Hataya wore a V-neck plaid wool vest and a carefully selected early spring petal-style long skirt. There was also a small bow decoration on the white headband that held her hair.

The overall design is simple yet full of spring vitality.

She carried her bag on one shoulder and came to the place where she had agreed to meet her boyfriend, Kitajima Junto: "Sorry, there was a traffic jam on the road, so I'm late!"

Bei Dao Junren is still dressed refreshingly, and under the spring sunshine, she looks like a leaf stretching its branches in the sun after being exposed to the dew, which is refreshing.

He shook his head: "Don't worry, my mother is a very good person."

The two held hands and came to the Kitajima residence.

It is a very quaint house with a cherry tree planted at the door.

"I like it very much. I feel that Junto's house is great and has a strong sense of history." Yukina Hataya looked at the cherry blossom trees, and the pink petals swaying in the wind waved to her.

Kitajima Junto also nodded proudly: "Our house has been passed down for hundreds of years!"

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed past her eyes. She turned around but saw nothing.

But then she felt uncomfortable all over her body, which made her feel suffocated and extremely uncomfortable.

Chapter 33 Hatotani Yukina

"Thump, thump!" The wooden clogs hit the floor.

A lady in a kimono who looked to be in her forties and had an expressionless face came out.

She had her hair tied up and pinned with an antique wooden hairpin.

Her whole body exudes the feeling of a woman from the Edo period in a Taiga drama.

"Mom, I brought Xue Na here!" Kitajima Junto introduced her to the other party happily.

Yukina Hatani also quickly bowed and greeted: "Hello, auntie, I am Yukina Hatani!"

The lady in kimono nodded expressionlessly, but her gesture of returning the greeting was very standard.

He is probably the type who appears cold on the outside but is warm on the inside. His etiquette is impeccable, which shows that the other party does not disrespect him.

"Mom, come and take a picture with us. Xue Na said she likes this tree very much."

Kitajima Junto waved to his mother and handed the phone to her casually, then, while Yukina Hataya looked stunned, he took her and stood under the cherry tree.

After taking the photo, Yukina Hataya thanked Kitajima’s mother, and the effect was very good. However, she felt something was wrong with her boyfriend’s attitude towards his mother.

"Excuse me~"

At the entrance, Yukina Hataya changed into slippers...or should they be called wooden clogs, which are already a very rare thing.

The old house with old wooden floors was filled with a faint smell of rotting wood, as if you could find mushrooms growing somewhere if you turned your head.

She found her own fantasies laughable; it was normal for an old house to have a decaying smell.

The two of them sat down in front of the tatami in the Japanese-style room.

The space is surrounded by sliding windows and partitions.

The sunlight shines through the paper partitions, creating a unique blurry feeling.

In the mysterious and bright environment, the two people who were alone felt a vague ambiguity, and they couldn't help but move closer and closer, closing their eyes and then their lips approached.

With a loud noise, the paper door was suddenly opened.

Bei Dao's mother was kneeling there.

"Ah!" Yukina Hatani was startled and immediately returned to her original position, put her hands on her knees, and lowered her head with a blushing face.

"Mom! What happened again?" Kitajima Junto was interrupted at the critical moment and was furious.

"I'm so sorry to bother you," Bei Dao's mother apologized repeatedly, and then pushed a plate of refreshments forward: "This is specially prepared for my future daughter-in-law, please enjoy it!"

"Mom~!" Kitajima Junto was very helpless. After taking the plate, he said, "Okay, go and do your own thing first. Don't worry about us!"

"I'm so sorry!" Kitajima's mother knelt on the ground until Kitajima Junto pulled the partition closed and her figure disappeared from Yukina Hataya's sight.

Yukina Hatani's cheeks instantly turned red: "Future daughter-in-law... or something."

The impact of those words just now on her was still too strong.

"My mother has always been like that, always saying things like what the ancestors said. Don't worry about it." Kitajima Junto placed the snacks in front of Yukina Hataya, then held his chin with one hand and looked at her.

The two did not do anything extreme in the closed room because Yukina Hataya always felt that Kitajima's mother was eavesdropping in a corner.

Sometimes she would suddenly turn around and see a figure with dishevelled hair reflected on the partition, tiptoeing on it. Sometimes he would squat on the other side, disturbing her.

"I want to go to the bathroom." Yukina Hatani drank a little too much tea.

Kitajima Junto, who was browsing on his phone, pointed casually: "It's over there, just go straight ahead. The bathroom door is always open when no one is there."

Yukina Hatani stood up, opened the partition and walked in the direction that Junto pointed, but suddenly stopped when passing a room.

It was filled with black and white photos, a rough count showed there were more than twenty of them!

All the people in the photos are men, and their clothing, facial features and hairstyles vary greatly.

It seems that what Kitajima Junto said was right, their family has indeed been passed down for hundreds of years.

Yukina Hatani bowed respectfully and was about to turn around and leave.

"I told you she was suitable!" a male voice came from inside the room.

"Yes, it's a very good-looking face," another male voice also sounded.

"She has a good personality too." "Will she be obedient?" "She will definitely be more suitable than that woman named Youzi. I told you not to marry her! Fortunately, Junren is very talented."

The room became very noisy.

Yukina Hatani plucked up the courage to look into the room, but it was empty and empty.

Do you want to go in and take a look?

She was about to step inside when she was suddenly struck by an indescribable feeling of uneasiness.

Maybe it shouldn't be called uneasiness, but rather the body's certainty that there is danger ahead.

To be precise, it's like facing a horde of zombies in a zombie movie, but deliberately jumping out and shouting.

It's like in the Jaws movie, where people deliberately wave at the exposed shark fin on the sea surface.

Her instinct told her not to go near that room.

But, there was no way that could happen. She suppressed her body's uneasiness with her rationality and walked in.

In the empty room, the table was covered with white cloth, on which were placed fruits and snacks.

There was nothing in the room except a stronger smell of rotting wood and a strong odor of old age. Was I hallucinating?

"Just choose her." "We must also respect the pure people. After all, women are just vassals of men." "Yes, if the pure people hate her and she doesn't give birth to a child, she can be discarded." "Let her learn to be a good daughter-in-law first."

Yukina Hatani suddenly felt a cold hand grabbing her neck, forcing her to bow towards the photos hanging on the wall.

"Ah!" she screamed.

My lower abdomen was paralyzed by fear, and the urge to urinate, which had already reached its limit, almost broke through my body.

She fell to the ground and looked at the photos on the wall.

In a trance-like moment, she found that the photos were all looking at her, and the empty room became very crowded, as if all the ancestors of the Kitajima family surrounded her... circle after circle.

……

……

Yukina Hatani said to Natsuki embarrassedly: "Maybe you don't believe in this kind of thing. After all, ghosts are too far-fetched. I was entangled by the ancestors of the Kitajima family. They asked me to obey Kitajima and listen to him, and of course become their daughter-in-law. I wanted to resist but couldn't find a way. I probably also understood why Kitajima's mother was humble. Why was he so casual with his mother, like ordering a servant."

Natsuki frowned. This did explain why Yukina Hataya was unwilling to leave Kitajima no matter what.

To others, it might sound like Yukina Hatano was lying, but Natsuki thought it was very likely.

"So, why is Bei Dao willing to break up with you?"

"Because I was crazy good to him." Yukina Hatani smiled like a thief, and it was quite cute: "I had no way to resist his ancestors, so I could only be good enough to scare him and make him leave me voluntarily. This was also the only way I could fight back. He finally couldn't stand it anymore and chose to break up with me."

As she said this, she placed her hands on her lower abdomen and bowed: "So, thank you very much for your help, Mr. Detective!"

"I didn't help much."

Natsuki still felt that there were crucial points that had not been explained.

Because in Kitajima's words, he wanted to break up, but Yukina Hataya kept pestering him. Yukina Hataya said that she was pestered by the ancestor of the Kitajima family, and she would not leave unless Kitajima Junto personally said he wanted to break up.

Neither side probably told the whole truth.

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