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She paused deliberately, looking at Miao Meng's slightly widened eyes, the curve of her mouth deepened, and she said with a little presumptuousness: "Or... do you want me to wipe it for you?"

"You dare?!" Miao Meng's voice suddenly rose, like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

As soon as she said this, she immediately realized that she had overreacted, and the blush on her face that had just faded suddenly became hot again.

Miao Meng glared at Aiyin angrily, the look in her eyes was more of shame than anger.

Then, she almost snatched the offending tissue from Aine's hand, her movements venting a bit of anger, but her voice dropped, with a hint of barely perceptible panic: "...I can do it myself!"

“Pfft…” Seeing Miao Meng’s shy, anxious, and hypocritical look, Aiyin couldn’t help but shook her head and laughed softly, her shoulders shrugged slightly.

Miao Meng held a tissue and turned her back, her movements showing the meticulousness typical of a beauty blogger. Although the light was dim, she still carefully and gently pressed the corners of her eyes to absorb the remaining tears.

After wiping, she crumpled the tissue into a ball and held it in her palm, then turned back around. Then, Meow Meng cleared her throat and looked at Aine with scrutiny:

"Hey...you...how did you find this place?" She deliberately made her tone sound calmer.

Aiyin blinked her grey eyes, and the corners of her mouth curved up: "Miaomengqin, do you want to hear the truth... or a lie?"

The ending of her voice rose slightly, with a hint of mischief.

Miao Meng's heart skipped a beat, and the ominous premonition she had just suppressed rose again. She looked at Aiyin suspiciously, deciding to test the waters first: "...Tell me a lie first."

“That’s a lie…” Aine drawled out her tone seriously, saying, “I searched for a long, long time, walked around the park several times, asked many passersby, and finally found the heartbroken Meow Mengqin under this big tree!”

This is obviously an exaggeration to appease children!

The corners of Miao Meng's mouth twitched uncontrollably, and she rolled her eyes at Aine: "...What about the truth?"

She actually already had the answer in her heart, but the remaining self-deceiving fantasy made her ask.

The smile on Aine's face deepened, and with a hint of calmness, she revealed the answer directly: "The truth is... I saw you running this way, so I followed you directly."

"..." Miao Meng felt that her last glimmer of hope had been ruthlessly shattered. She turned her head away and stared at the bare tree trunk beside her. Her voice was muffled, with a hint of despair: "...Then what I just said here alone... did you... did you hear everything?"

After asking this, she quickly added, as if she was afraid of hearing some terrible answer: "Aiko! I want to hear the truth! Don't lie to me!"

The smile on Aine's face froze for a moment, then turned into a hint of embarrassment. This... it feels so awkward to say it out loud.

She raised her hand and scratched her cheek uncomfortably, her eyes wandering for a moment, but she finally nodded honestly: "...Yeah...I heard it..."

boom--!

Although she had expected it, when she heard Aine admit it with her own ears, Miao Meng still felt a surge of heat rushing to her head, and her cheeks instantly turned red.

She turned her head abruptly and uttered a soft snort filled with grievance and accusation towards Aine: “Hmph! And you just… just now you were pretending to know nothing! And you even asked me what was wrong! Miss Aine, your acting is pretty good!”

She deliberately used honorifics, her tone filled with shame and anger at being "fooled".

Listening to Miao Meng's almost coquettish accusations and teasing, Aiyin was so embarrassed that she almost dug her toes into the ground. She could only cough softly to cover it up: "Ahem... that... I..."

Seeing Aiyin's embarrassed and speechless look, Miao Meng's grievance and shame in her heart suddenly disappeared for some reason.

Of course, she understood why Aine had just "played dumb"—to save her face, to prevent her from being further embarrassed when she had an emotional breakdown.

Chapter 445: The Attack and Defense Are Different

Miao Meng let out a long breath, as if to expel all the confusion and negative emotions just now, and her shoulders completely relaxed and were no longer tense.

A brief silence once again enveloped the two of them, but this time, the air was no longer filled with the tension and awkwardness of before. Instead, there was a subtle calmness.

After a while, Aine turned her head and carefully observed the profile of Meowmeng, and asked softly, "Feeling... better?"

Miao Meng didn't answer immediately.

She put the bag she had been holding aside, then deliberately crossed her arms, raised her chin slightly, and made a gesture of "I'm very unhappy", and her voice was deliberately stern: "Not good."

Aine tilted her head, her pink hair falling over her shoulders, her grey eyes filled with sincerity as she leaned closer and asked, "Are you still mad at me?"

“Of course!” Miao Meng answered firmly, but her eyes involuntarily glanced at Aine’s approaching face, “Except you…”

She paused, a hint of resentment in her voice: "...and Haizi, that nosy guy!"

Obviously, she was still upset about Hailing "betraying" her.

Ain looked at Miao Meng, who was obviously no longer angry but was still stubborn, and a knowing smile flashed in her eyes. This time, Ain did not retreat, but took a step closer, leaning forward slightly, almost getting in front of Miao Meng.

In the dim light, her eyes were surprisingly bright, and her voice was very soft, with a hint of coaxing, and her breath brushed against Miao Meng's cheek: "Then...what do I have to do to forgive me and Umirin?"

This sudden approach and direct questioning made Miao Meng's heartbeat, which had just calmed down, instantly become disordered again. She looked at Aiyin's face who was so close to her. Her gray eyes were so clear that they could reflect her panic at the moment.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Miao Meng's heartbeat suddenly became rapid and loud, almost bursting her eardrums in the quiet park. She felt her cheeks burning as if they were burned by fire, and her mind went blank.

She subconsciously wanted to reach out and push away the person who was too close and whose smile was too dazzling, as if this could push away the ambiguity that made her feel flustered.

"You...what do you want to do?!" Miao Meng's voice was trembling, and she stretched out her hand and pushed Aine's shoulder with a bit of bravado.

However, her hand was accurately caught by Aine in mid-air.

Aiyin's warm hand gently grasped Miaomeng's wrist, the force was not strong, even very light.

"!"

The sudden touch and the feeling of being controlled made Miao Meng stiffen all over, her face instantly flushed, and she subconsciously wanted to pull her hand back.

"I, I'll let go..." She said as she symbolically pulled back a few times.

But Aiyin's hand just held firmly, without applying more pressure, but also without any intention of loosening. The warmth transmitted from the palm of her hand seemed to carry an electric current, spreading all the way along the skin, instantly paralyzing Miaomeng's struggling thoughts.

Miao Meng froze there, her wrist held by Aine. She didn't know whether to pull it back or not. She could only turn slightly to the side and timidly glance at Aine with a mixture of shyness and panic in her eyes.

Aiyin took in all of Miaomeng's subtle reactions, and she knew she had made the right bet—Miaomeng's emotional storm had passed, and her panic at this moment was more of embarrassment and helplessness.

She held Miao Meng's wrist with her fingers and gently stroked the other's cold skin in a soothing manner. With an innocent smile on her face, she lowered her voice and asked knowingly, "I just want to know... What does it take for Miao Meng to forgive me and Umirin?"

"But looking at Meow Meng-chin's reaction now... it seems... like he's thinking of something else." Aine tilted her head slightly and paused deliberately: "Can you tell me? What were you thinking about just now?"

This blunt, almost teasing questioning made Miao Meng so embarrassed and angry that she wanted to find a hole to crawl into. She suddenly lowered her head, trying to cover her burning cheeks with the loose hair on her forehead. Her teeth gently bit her lower lip, and she muttered in a voice of shame and annoyance: "...You, you're teasing me again, right? Chihaya Aine, you...don't go too far!"

Seeing Meow Meng's fury, Aine finally couldn't help but let out a low laugh. She raised her other hand to cover her mouth, her shoulders shrugged slightly, "This isn't a tease, Meow Meng dear."

Aine shrugged. "I just... really want to know what Meowen-kun thinks, right?"

"...Hmph!" Miao Meng could only let out a light snort with a strong nasal tone, which was considered as reluctant acceptance of this statement.

She turned her face away, trying to make her voice sound calmer, with a condescending tone: "...If I want to forgive you and Haizi...huh, that depends on how you behave in the future!"

“It depends on how we perform…” Aiyin pretended to be in deep thought, frowning slightly, her tone sounding a little hesitant, “Then… this is a bit troublesome…”

"Hmm?" Miao Meng glanced at her doubtfully.

Aine raised her head, a bright smile blooming on her face again, her eyes sparkling in the dim light: "Because—hasn't the decision always been in Meow Meng's hands?"

After saying that, she gently shook the hand that was holding Miao Meng's wrist: "Then you will only forgive us when you want to. So cunning, isn't it?"

Miao Meng was speechless for a moment. She didn't think too much about it. She said this sentence simply because it was the only thing she thought of at that time.

When his eyes fell on Aine's self-assured smile, Miao Meng felt that he had no strength to use. Besides being annoyed, he also felt a little... helpless and funny.

She could only hum loudly once more, as if to agree with Aine's statement.

"But..." Aiyin looked at Meow Meng, who was obviously coaxed but still trying to save face, and the smile on her face deepened. Her tone was indulgent, "If this can make Meow Mengqin no longer angry... it seems pretty good, right?"

The dim light of the street lamp outlined the smiling profile of Aiyin. That tenderness and tolerance silently enveloped Miaomeng's still pounding heart.

Looking at this smile that was so close and seemed to be able to dispel all the haze, Miao Meng's heart skipped a beat.

An indescribable throbbing mixed with embarrassment surged in her heart. She quickly lowered her head and mumbled something in a voice only she could hear: "Slippery tongue..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Aiyin felt the finger holding Miaomeng's wrist, and clearly felt the sudden and violent beating of the other person's pulse.

Aine took back her hand from Meow Meng, she stood up, stretched lazily, turned her head, and looked at Meow Meng tenderly: "Let's go, Meow Meng dear, Umirin should have ordered the food and is waiting for us by now."

As she said that, Aine reached out her hand towards Meowmu again.

Chapter 446 Deceiving yourself and others

After saying goodbye to Miao Meng and Hai Ling, Aiyin walked alone on the way home. The cold wind seemed to be even more biting than when she came, and it felt bitingly cold on her face.

It was only one night, but she felt like it lasted for several days.

From the showdown and escape in the RiNG cafe, to Miao Meng's crying in the park, to the interaction on the bench full of temptation, teasing and subtlety... the amount of information was so huge that her brain was almost overloaded.

She wrapped her coat tightly around her, her mind replaying every moment of tonight uncontrollably:

Miao Meng's daze and questioning when her feelings were exposed in RiNG...

Miao Meng's curled-up figure under the tree in the park...

Miao Meng looked awkward when she took the tissue on the bench, and her disordered breathing when I deliberately approached her...

Aiyin sighed softly. The white mist quickly dissipated in the cold wind, and she felt an unprecedented confusion.

I can no longer pretend not to see Miao Mengqin's feelings. So...how should I face her in the future?

Should we continue as before, pretending to know nothing and maintaining the superficial peace of "good friends"? This seems too hypocritical and unfair to Miao Mengqin.

Take a step forward? But... this feeling of affection is already filled with struggle and pain for Miao Mengqin. Will she really agree? Moreover... the relationships around her are already complicated. If that happens...

Or... keep her distance from Meow Mengqin? As soon as this thought came to her mind, Aine felt an inexplicable bitterness and reluctance in her heart. She couldn't deliberately distance herself from the always energetic Meow Mengqin.

The three choices put her in a dilemma, and Aiyin felt a headache.

……

After watching Aine's figure disappear around the corner of the street, Hailing slowly withdrew her gaze.

She took a sip of the slightly cold coffee on the table, then turned to Miao Meng, who was holding her bag and seemed to be in a trance. "Are you still angry with me?"

This short sentence instantly ignited the shame and anger that had not yet completely extinguished in Miao Meng's heart.

"You!" Miao Meng turned her head abruptly, her beautiful cat pupils instantly igniting with flames. She stared straight at Hai Ling, her voice suddenly rising, "Haizi! How dare you ask?! Why did you betray me?!"

Her chest heaved with anger, and her fingers tightly clenched the strap of her shoulder bag: "This kind of thing! This kind of thing is obviously...wouldn't it be better to just keep it buried in my heart?! Why do you have to meddle in other people's business?! Why tell Aiko?! Do you know how much I..."

The following words were choked by a huge sense of shame. Miao Meng couldn't continue speaking. She just stared at Hailing with her dissatisfied, angry and aggrieved eyes.

Facing Miao Meng's anger, Hai Ling's expression did not change at all.

She put down her coffee cup and calmly met Meow Meng's gaze, her voice still steady: "Because Aine is also troubled. She noticed your abnormality and also noticed some... fluctuations in herself, and she wants to solve it."

She paused and looked at Miao Meng. "Besides, Ruomai, do you think you can keep your feelings hidden forever? Given your condition, Aine will find out sooner or later. Isn't that what happened to Chuhua and Lixi?"

Hailing's analysis accurately dissected Miaomeng's excuses for trying to deceive herself.

"Even so..." Miao Meng's momentum weakened a little, but she still stiffened her neck, but her voice became smaller and smaller, "...You can't just tell Aizi directly! How can I...how can I face her in the future..."

Thinking that Aine might have known all of her embarrassment and struggles, Miao Meng's cheeks burned uncontrollably again.

Hailing did not continue to dwell on this issue. She knew very well that Miao Meng needed time to digest it, and it was meaningless to argue about "whether to tell" now.

Changing the subject, Hailing posed a more realistic question that caught Miao Meng off guard: "What are you going to do next?"

"..."

Miao Meng seemed to have pressed the pause button, and the anger in her heart was instantly extinguished by this straightforward question.

She was stunned, the anger in her eyes replaced by confusion and helplessness. She subconsciously hugged the bag in her arms tightly, and her voice became lowered, with a kind of stubbornness that was almost self-hypnotic: "...I...I don't know...because I...I'm not Xi..."

After saying this, even she herself felt pale and powerless.

Upon hearing this, Hai Ling rolled her eyes at her without any hesitation: "You're already like this, and you still say you're not a virgin?"

Her gaze swept across Miao Meng's still flushed cheeks and evasive eyes.

"Me!" Miao Meng's cheeks flushed instantly. She snorted in embarrassment and forced herself to make excuses, "Anyway... in my opinion, I should be a person with a normal sexual orientation!"

Hailing raised her eyebrows slightly, leaned forward slightly, and fixed her eyes on Miao Meng. Her tone was calm but carried deadly force: "You also said, it should be, not definitely."

"This should, in itself, mean... you're not sure either, right?"

Miao Meng was choked by these words and her mind went blank.

Hailing's words were like a needle, accurately piercing her last bit of self-deceiving fantasy. The immense shame and anger of being seen through instantly overwhelmed her mind. She growled in rage and shame, "It's all because of you! You've been leading me that way!"

Faced with this groundless accusation, Hailing simply spread her hands innocently, shrugged slightly, and kept her expressionless face: "I didn't do that. You fell for it yourself."

The word "fall" was like a huge rock, hitting Miao Meng's heart hard. She froze completely, and her pupils dilated slightly.

Seeing Miao Meng's distraught and deeply troubled look, Hai Ling did not let Miao Meng go. Instead, she continued to raise the most core and most confusing question for Miao Meng: "Then why did you suddenly fall?"

“You clearly said so firmly before that you were not a girl, and… to be honest, you and Aine really didn’t have much contact.”

In fact, Miao Meng herself has asked this question countless times in her heart.

why?