You are Toyokawa Shoko, then who am I?

But what she didn't know was that if Toyokawa Sho was like someone who suddenly fell from heaven to earth, and only managed to avoid falling into hell by grabbing the last straw, then what she was about to say would be the despair that broke the last straw.

"I'll go back home and get you some medicine! Xiang, let's go home first, okay? I'm really touched today... I feel your kindness. Don't worry, we will face the future together, but your health is more important now. Let's go home first, okay?"

"Go home and get medicine...?"

Toyokawa Sho murmured in a low voice, and there was a hint of pleading in his eyes as he looked at Toyokawa Shoko, which was an escape from not wanting to hear the next answer.

"There's no heart disease medicine at home, right?"

however.

In Toyokawa Shoko's view, this look was a sign that the other person was showing his or her vulnerable side.

Only those with a truly deep relationship would reveal their vulnerability to each other. She mistakenly believed that Toyokawa Sho had completely opened his heart to her, and at the same time mistakenly believed that their situations were exactly the same, so she exposed the sinful flower that must never be revealed to anyone.

Delivered to reality personally.

"Of course there's nothing in the rental house, but there is something at Toyokawa's house, Xiang... You really are feeling very unwell. Have you forgotten that we're just leaving with that bastard dad, and we're not really being kicked out of Toyokawa's house? Come on, give me the guitar, I'll carry it for you, and you can go down the ladder first."

Rumble.

Rumble.

This sentence was almost like a thunder that split the sky and earth, extinguishing Toyokawa Sho's last hope into ashes.

No debt.

What this means is that Shoko Toyokawa did not have to bear the huge sum of billions.

She doesn't need to worry about being harassed for debts.

There is no need to be afraid that every time you see a mobile phone call, you will think that it is the bank collecting debts.

You don’t have to come home to your rental house every night to find it covered in difficult-to-clean graffiti and the words “Pay back the money quickly” written all over it.

There is no need to see those debt collectors kidnapping your new friends and threatening you to pay back the money quickly. Afterwards, your friends become strangers and start making up stories on campus, forcing you to transfer to a new school again.

There is no need to approach the person who least wants to see you like this... in a humble, painful, and almost self-respecting manner when you can no longer bear it all, and seek her help...

And you can also enter and leave the Toyokawa family freely.

What this means is that you have not been expelled from the Toyokawa family, you still enjoy the inheritance rights of the Toyokawa family, and you can still take what you need at any time.

As long as you want.

You can always go back to being your eldest daughter.

In other words.

All the hardship you are going through now...

All one by one

Not really… ?

Just because your self-esteem won't allow it.

Just because your face won't allow it.

So you left home with your father out of spite.

And as long as you are willing to bow your head later, you can always return to the protection of the Toyokawa family...

do you mean this?

I was actually worried that knowing the truth about your family would affect your mood...

I was actually worried that I would leave you too far behind, so I deliberately went to see Su Shi to keep her by your side...

Is it true that all this is just my wishful thinking?

You don't need my help at all.

You and I...

It’s different…

Toyokawa Sho got down the ladder and staggered, almost falling to the ground.

Seeing this, Shoko Toyokawa, regardless of her fear of heights, hurried down the ladder and helped Sho Toyokawa who was scratched by the stones on the ground.

"Sho! Are you okay!?"

Facing the concern of Shoko Toyokawa.

Toyokawa Sho actually subconsciously felt resistance.

Facing the other person's amber eyes, the same as his own.

He laughed.

It was a polite, yet fake smile.

"It's okay, it's okay. It might be low blood sugar, haha. After all, it's been a tiring day today... Let's go home!"

"...Hypoglycemia? It doesn't look like the symptoms. I think I should go back to the Toyokawa family first—"

"No, that would be too much trouble. Besides, it's already this late, it wouldn't be nice to go back and disturb them, right? It's okay, let's go back to the rental house."

Toyokawa Sho chuckled softly. The place he used to call home has now become a rental house.

Shoko Toyokawa was just confused, but that was all. She reached out and supported Sho Toyokawa, and took him out of the shrine.

period.

Naturally, Toyokawa Sho carried him down the stairs.

When riding back on the bike, I naturally sat behind Toyokawa Sho.

Shoko Toyokawa thought she was overthinking it.

The moment she helped Toyokawa Sho to stand up, she seemed to see deep confusion in Toyokawa Sho's eyes. Although it disappeared in the blink of an eye, she did see it.

But now she felt that maybe she was overthinking it.

If Toyokawa Sho really had a barrier in his heart towards her, how could he have said so much to her on the rooftop? And he took her for walks, took her on bike rides, carried her like a princess, and exchanged sincere words with her under the moonlight—

This, this, this——

This is exactly the kind of relationship-level stuff you see in novels and comics...!

night.

After returning home.

Shoko Toyokawa could hardly sleep all night.

Her mind was filled with the image of Toyokawa Sho playing guitar under the moonlight, the way he looked at her with such deep affection, and the way he said so many things to her, so many things that made her feel embarrassed just thinking about them...

Can't sleep.

Can't sleep.

This went on all night until dawn.

Shoko Toyokawa got up in a daze, only to find that it was already twelve o'clock noon.

and many more.

Twelve o'clock noon! ?

She quickly turned over and put on her shoes, but remembered that it seemed to be the weekend and she didn't have to go to school, so she straightened her clothes and carefully combed her hair in front of the mirror. After making all the preparations for her appearance.

She stepped out of the room and popped her head out.

Quietly checking to see if anyone is home.

"Sho? Sho? Um...are you there?"

"Ah, Xiangzi, you're up."

"I wasn't talking to you, you bastard dad. Didn't the beating you received yesterday hurt enough?"

Toyokawa Shoko glanced coldly at a jerk who seemed to have cheered up and even dressed a bit like a human being, "Didn't you see Xiang?"

"Oh, you're yelling so intimately?"

The asshole dad chuckled, then thought for a moment, "He must have left this morning. There's a prepared breakfast on the table. He must have made it specially."

"What about breakfast?"

"Father is hungry, so—"

The bastard father was punished by his daughter on the spot and screamed in pain.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts! Xiangzi! Xiangzi! I know I was wrong. I, I'm going out for a job interview today. Can you please stop locking my neck...!"

"...Going out to work?"

Toyokawa Shoko was a little surprised, "You have some conscience."

"Isn't it like I suddenly have a son... Even though it's magical, I'm a father of two after all. I can't be as decadent as before, so I decided to come back and work hard to make you and Xiang live the life we used to live!"

"Okay, if you have time to brag, why don't you come and help me..."

Shoko Toyokawa's words suddenly stopped. She stared blankly at the thing on the table, her amber pupils shrinking to the smallest size.

Memories of last night began to flash before my eyes like a kaleidoscope.

[From the moment you gave me the ribbon, my heart was shaken.]

【This ribbon is my witness, this ribbon is my bond.】

[So, I won't be moving out. From now on, please give me your guidance.]

Those gentle words still ring in my ears as if I had just heard them.

But now she saw it on the table.

But it was the ribbon she gave to Toyokawa Sho.

"……Eh?"

33

Chapter 33 The weak Xiaoxiang is resurrected again.

Waking up from a dream is always painful.

In the system of semiotics, dreams are always linked to the deepest desires in human consciousness, sometimes complex and sometimes superficial.

Influenced by Freud's famous psychoanalytic theory, it believes that dreams symbolize the desires of the self and are fantasies that are suppressed by the self and cannot be expressed.

Therefore, waking up from a dream is always equated with pain and struggle.

It symbolizes that people have once again escaped from boundless fantasy, and once again, and again, fallen into the hole called reality.

Toyokawa Sho was prepared for a sleepless night, but perhaps because he had used the Corridor of Life too many times today, or perhaps because he was really tired deep in his soul, he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Open your eyes again.

The dawn was breaking, and it was already daybreak.

He had a dream, in which he saw Toyokawa Shoko bathing in the moonlight last night.

He sat quietly beside Toyokawa Shoko, his eyes not looking at the bright moonlight, but silently gazing at her profile.

The youthfulness and familiarity felt from her were like strands of fine silk radiating gorgeous brilliance, moving in the air like the shadow of a swimming dragon, intersecting, and finally weaving together in a gorgeous texture.

Those thin threads seemed to have an extremely vigorous vitality, which closely connected his heart with Toyokawa Shoko's. After talking under the moon tonight, their fate will be inseparable from now on.

Then, time began to accelerate.

The calendar on the table turned page after page at an astonishing speed, and the small potted plants on the balcony also changed their posture at a trend visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.

Over the past ten years, he has been by Shoko Toyokawa's side, accompanying her and understanding her.

When she came home from get off work, she would always reluctantly let this guy put his arms around her waist and hug her for a while at the entrance. After saying words like "I'm back" and "Welcome back" which were almost habitual, he would put the shoes on the shelf, put on the pink apron that he had used for who knows how long, bring the hot dishes to the table, and enjoy them with her.

At New Year's Day, he secretly bought a well-fitting yukata for Toyokawa Shoko and gave it to her as a New Year's gift. The two of them had a rare day off from work and rode their bicycles to the shrine to watch the moon.

As usual, we spoke out our complaints, and then sang or chatted about some ordinary interesting things. When we left the shrine, we found that there was a temple fair going on downstairs, so we put on sunglasses and went into the crowd to watch the gorgeous fireworks.

At this time, a message came from the mobile phone.

When they took a look, it was Su Shi asking where they were. Everyone had already arrived except them, so they called a taxi and came to the agreed hotel. There was a huge banner on it: