In the anime, who is not a childhood sweetheart?

"I'm not referring to this. I'm referring to the contact book you helped me get back."

"Oh, you mean the one where you and Mom exchanged your secret messages, and you acted coquettishly towards her..."

“No need to go into so much detail!”

Hayasaka Ai's chest rose and fell slightly.

In just a few minutes, her emotions were like dough, allowing the person in front of her to knead and change its shape at will.

But... unexpectedly not unpleasant.

"Anyway, thank you so much for that. Although it might not seem like a big deal from your perspective, that contact book is quite important to me."

At that time, Hayasaka Ai was only five years old and had just left her parents and was living with Shinomiya Kaguya.

Coming to a strange environment without her parents by her side, the contact book containing her mother's words of encouragement was a ray of light that comforted her lonely and uneasy heart, allowing her to survive that most vulnerable period.

She considered that period as her dark history, the time when she was a "crybaby" who loved to cry at the slightest provocation.

Yuan Qianye hadn't expected to receive such a formal thank you, but he didn't think about it for long: "Don't be so polite. You kept it a secret from the young lady you serve and sent flowers to her competitor. We're even now."

There was a noticeable change in his tone when he said this, his voice became more upbeat and relaxed, and it was clear that he had no special meaning behind it, he was just joking.

At this point, Hayasaka Ai finally let go of the last bit of worry in her heart.

Soon, Touma Yoko found the key and returned to the living room. From afar, she saw the two people having a pleasant conversation.

Um?what's the situation?

She tilted her head in confusion.

----

"……I will think about it."

"I'm sorry to bother you, so I'll take my leave now."

Touma Yoko gave a rather ambiguous response to Hayasaka Ai, who came to visit her specially today.

Only when Hayasaka Ai just left did she take off her maid status and chat with Yuan Qianye in a relatively relaxed manner for a while.

After waiting for Yaozi to come back, she instantly restrained her expression and became as polite as before, but she also made people feel inexplicably distant.

Having achieved her goal and gained an unexpected reward today, she stood up and said goodbye.

And when she felt that Touma Yoko seemed to have discovered something, she did not cast any extra glances towards Yuan Qianye when she left.

Her behavior was completely subconscious and she did it before any specific thoughts came to her mind.

She simply didn't want anyone other than her and Yuan Qianye to know about their long-standing relationship.

Maybe it was just to cover up her crybaby past.

Such a reasonable guess emerged in Yuan Qianye's mind.

However, Hayasaka Ai's behavior did dispel some of Yoko's more complicated thoughts.

She also had another guess about what she had just observed.

The focus shifted to Yuan Qianye.

Come to think of it, that maid was quite pretty. With that kind of face and that specially made exquisite maid uniform...

It's normal for him to act so familiar and enthusiastic.

Yuan Qianye didn't know that in Yaozi's heart, he had been labeled as a "uniform control" (to be determined).

After Hayasaka Ai left, he took the initiative to ask Yoko about her specific plans: "Aunt Yoko, do you want to teach that young lady piano?"

"Don't call me auntie, call me mom."

Yuan Qianye narrowed his eyes and looked at her speechlessly: "Some jokes are no longer funny after being told once."

Yaozi shook his head, indicating that he wasn't joking. "I'm already prepared. I'm waiting for the baby in your mother's belly to come out and become his godmother. So, based on the level of seniority, you have to call me mom, right?"

Well, that sounds reasonable and convincing... What the hell!

Yuan Qianye ignored her, resting his hands on his thighs. After all, he had already delivered the thank-you gift today and had expressed his intention at the entrance before, so he planned to go back directly.

"Wait a minute... kid, you really can't take a joke."

Yaozi pulled Yuan Qianye to sit down again.

Let’s get back to the original topic.

"I don't plan to teach that young lady."

The reason is very simple.

“Although the money is quite generous, the problem is that I don’t have the time to spare a day every week to go to their home to teach. Moreover, such a wealthy family has a lot of rules, which are what I hate the most.

Although the Shinomiya family is a behemoth, even if I want to have a good relationship with them, there is no need to achieve my goal in this way.

I will introduce some good friends to the maid later, so that it won’t be rude and won’t make her trip in vain.”

This is an answer that fits Touma Yoko's personality.

The little maid she was talking about was now sitting in the car on the way back, looking at the few people in the contact list on her mobile phone.

The vague and hesitant thought in her mind was suppressed instantly as soon as it emerged.

Don't ask for anything, everything is good enough now.

She put away her phone and thought so.

…………