My girlfriend is a bad lady

Slides, seesaws, locomotives, and mazes made of ropes.

"Do you want to go out and play?" Miki Kujo asked Xiaolian.

Xiaolian was concentrating on eating her ice cream cone. After hearing her words, she raised her head and looked at the park.

"Sister Meiji, do you want to play with us?" she asked.

"Let your sister Rin accompany you." said Kujo Miki.

Xiaolian turned her head and looked at Qingye Rin.

Qingye Rin was too tired to say anything and just shook her head quietly.

Xiaolian looked at Kujo Miki again.

"Let your brother accompany you." Miki Kujo glanced at Toru Watanabe.

Xiaolian looked at Watanabe Toru again.

Just as Toru Watanabe was about to speak, a group of fashionably dressed children came over and chatted.

When they were almost at the forest park, they started running and laughing, rushing towards the toys one by one.

In a blink of an eye, the children's facilities that were originally empty were filled with children.

Xiaolian looked at them blankly. This was the first time she saw so many people of her age.

"After we finish eating the cones, let's go play too," said Toru Watanabe.

Xiaolian ate the egg cone quickly.

At this time, Kujo Miki said, "Xiao Lian, if they ask you where you are from, just say Tokyo. If someone asks you where you live, just say the forest villa on the 'Firefly Road'."

"Okay, I understand, Sister Meiji."

After Xiaolian finished her egg cone, she immediately jumped off the chair and looked at Watanabe Toru eagerly.

Toru Watanabe stood up and walked towards the park with Xiaolian.

After walking a few steps, he turned around and said to the young lady who was still slowly eating her egg cone, "Watch out for the good stuff."

Miki Kujo said nothing, but just waved her hand.

After watching the two go away, Kujo Miki said, "Getting closer to Xiaolian, is this your way of getting closer to Watanabe?"

"Not entirely." Qingye Rin looked at the ice cream in her hand.

The sunlight shining through the leaves overhead made it look very warm.

"Guess whether Watanabe has seen through your despicable tactics." Kujo Miki said with a smile.

Qingye Rin looked at her calmly.

"The decisive reason why I treat Xiaolian well is because she is Watanabe-san's sister. Do I need to see through this?"

After saying that, she laughed: "If you want to say that I am indifferent, Watanabe-san likes girls like me, no, he just likes me."

Miki Kujo looked at Rin Kiyono for a long while before she sighed:

"Sometimes I really envy you. Why am I always winning, but you are still worried about this and that and can't be optimistic?"

“Because you know you’re going to lose.”

Kujo Miki sneered: "I can't be as inexplicably optimistic as you, but I am confident that I will never lose. Kiyono Rin, who never lies, tell me, do you really think you can beat me?"

"No matter what, I won't lose." Looking at Toru Watanabe playing on the seesaw, Rin Kiyono thought of the starry night over the Pacific Ocean.

As I was lost in thought, I suddenly felt a chill on my fingers.

The cone in her hand melted because it had been in the sun for too long, and a drop of it fell onto her snow-white, slender fingers.

After staring at it for a while, she took out a tissue and wiped it off gently.

The two stopped talking and looked at the park.

Toru Watanabe and Xiaolian were playing on the seesaw, and a little girl in a princess dress was standing by and watching them.

Toru Watanabe said something to the little girl and made way.

Xiaolian didn't say a word at first, but soon started playing with the little girl in the princess dress.

The two played on the seesaw and the slide, and finally sat on the slide without getting off, and studied the big-eyed dragonfly doll together.

They also seemed to compliment each other's sun hats and skirts.

Xiaolian danced with joy. The little girl in the princess dress occasionally said something, and Xiaolian stood there stupidly.

Then, Xiaolian spoke loudly with a serious face.

The little girl in the princess dress said something again lightly, and Xiaolian was stunned again.

Judging from Toru Watanabe's expression, the two children were not arguing, but were chatting happily.

The little girl in the princess dress suddenly pointed at Toru Watanabe under the slide and said something, then Toru Watanabe turned around and came back.

"What's wrong?" asked Miki Kujo.

"Children in the city mature so precociously." Toru Watanabe sat down on the chair.

After a while, Xiaolian slid down the slide and ran over here.

A little girl in a princess dress followed her.

Xiaolian ran up to the three of them, clenched her fist in front of her eyes with the hand that was not holding the doll, and asked Watanabe Toru excitedly:

"Archer, Santa Claus, doesn't exist?!"

Before Watanabe Toru could speak, the little girl in the princess dress behind Xiaolian said proudly:

"Ren-chan still believes in Santa Claus in her first year."

"Archer! Santa Claus, does it really not exist?!" Xiaolian asked loudly.

"There's no such thing as a perverted big brother standing under the slide and peeking at girls' underwear?" the little girl in the princess dress said to Toru Watanabe.

She pinched the beautiful sleeves of her princess dress and twisted her body in a proud and arrogant manner.

Watanabe Toru turned his head and said to the two young ladies, "Did you see it?"

"So? Did you see it?" asked Qingye Rin with a smile.

"Who would pay attention to that kind of thing!"

"Archer! Santa Claus!" Xiaolian shouted.

Watanabe Toru was a little embarrassed: "Go back and ask your mother how she is?"

"That doesn't exist, Xiaolian." said Qingye Rin.

Watanabe Toru: “…You are so strict.”

Xiaolian stood there with her mouth open.

The little girl in the princess dress was so happy that she seemed to want to dance. Then she took Xiaolian's hand and said:

"Lian-chan, even if Santa Claus doesn't exist, you can still ask 'the perverted big brother who stands under the slide and peeks at girls' underwear' to deliver the presents."

Xiaolian's eyes lit up again and she looked at Watanabe Toru: "Really, Toru?!"

"Really." Watanabe Toru nodded seriously.

"This is incredible." Xiaolian murmured, "My life almost changed."

"Lian-chan, shall we go back and continue playing?" said the little girl in the princess dress.

"Yeah! We want to play the Shinkansen!"

"Eh~~ That's boring, it's just a model train. But if you want to play with it, Ren-chan, I'll play with you."

"Thank you, Kaori-chan!"

Two little girls held hands and ran towards the train.

Xiaolian played the role of driver and conductor, and the sun hat became a work hat.

The girl named Kaori, along with the dragonfly doll, played the role of a passenger.

The two of them were playing very seriously, selling tickets, getting on the bus, announcing stops, and arriving at their destinations in an orderly manner.

When the two ladies came back, Xiaolian waved goodbye to the girl in the princess dress:

"Kaori-chan, goodbye!"

"Bye, Ren-chan! Let's play together tomorrow, and I'll take you to see the dragonfly that can land on your finger!"

"It's agreed!"

"Ok!"

"You've made a friend, Xiaolian." Mrs. Kujo pressed Xiaolian's sun hat.

"……Um."

On the way back, Xiaolian rode her bicycle with a dragonfly doll in the basket and rode forward.

Green shade, sunshine, birds singing, the wind blew her hair again, and light flashed in her clear eyes.

Back at the villa that blends in with the forest, Mrs. Kiyono begins cooking dinner.

Use bonito and kelp as the base, then add pork slices, mushrooms, tofu and cabbage.

The pot was bubbling and boiling, and other ingredients, dipping sauces, and drinks were placed around it.

"Does anyone need rice? I've soaked the rice for twenty minutes in advance." said Toru Watanabe.

"Give me a bowl." said Qingye Rin.

"We want some too!" Xiaolian handed over her bowl.

Miki Kujo handed the bowl over without saying a word. Toru Watanabe struggled for a second and chose her bowl.

Mrs. Qingye picked up a piece of meat from the food plate, cooked it in the boiling soup, dipped it a little in the dipping sauce, and placed it in Xiaolian's bowl.

"Xiao Lian, try it."

"Thank you, Aunt Youzi." Xiaolian ate the meat along with the rice.

"Is it tasty?"

"Mm, delicious!" Xiaolian also cooked a piece of meat and passed it to Mrs. Qingye, "Aunt Youzi, this is for you."

"Thank you, Xiaolian." Mrs. Qingye couldn't help but pinch Xiaolian's little face.

Even though her face was pinched, it did not stop Xiaolian from putting the ingredients into the pot.

In a wooden villa, with warm lights, six people were enjoying delicious food at an exquisite dining table.

"Xiao Lian," Mrs. Jiu Tiao asked halfway through the meal, "Is it more fun here or in the countryside?"

Xiaolian lowered her head, lost in thought, not knowing how to answer.

Watanabe Toru looked at her and said:

"Xiao Lian, you may think the countryside is good because you missed your mother and everyone else after leaving Jianze. Or you may think it's fun here because it's your first time in the city and you haven't seen anything. Don't jump to conclusions."

Xiaolian raised her head and looked at him.

"Each kind of life has its own fun. Only after trying them all can you know what you like. Xiaolian, you can choose any kind of life you want, but you can't look down on or despise another kind."

"Okay, we understand." Xiaolian nodded obediently.

Watanabe Toru rubbed her little head and continued:

"You can catch fish in the fields of Mizawa Village and ride a bicycle in the forest of Karuizawa. You treat both equally, Xiaolian. You are already an amazing elementary school student."

"We want to be the most amazing elementary school students!"

"Yeah, just like your brother."

"Is this Watanabe-kun's way of education?" Mrs. Kiyono said with a smile, supporting her chin with the hand holding the chopsticks.

"What kind of educational method? I just say whatever I think of, and I won't force Xiaolian to do anything." Watanabe Toru replied.

"I don't force others to make a choice, but I influence them subtly." Qingye Rin said to himself while eating.

Watanabe Toru picked up a large bottle of drink from the ice bowl and asked everyone, "Who wants one?"

After eating and taking a shower, Xiaolian went to bed early because she had been sitting in the car all day and walking for a long time.