When Xian Juanwei left the box and closed the door, the atmosphere in the room seemed to suddenly become... a little awkward.

Ms. Nagasaki put down her chopsticks and looked at her daughter, who made her extremely proud, with mixed feelings.

Because we are friends, does that mean we should transfer the other person's parents to a leisurely, high-paying job to make up for the lack of family affection?

This kind of thing sounds too good to be true...that's why it's even harder to believe.

Ms. Nagasaki would rather think in another direction that is more in line with normal people's thinking.

"Su Shi..."

"Mom, I..."

Su Shi put his hands under the table, and his fingers rubbed them quickly and nervously.

Although Mom can rest in the future, the scene of Wei and Mom meeting is not the "bringing to meet the parents" that I imagined before, but now Mom and I have an extra intersection because of Wei...

A little, embarrassing.

"Sushi…" Ms. Nagasaki sighed again.

"Are you and Genjumaki-kun really friends?"

"Really! We're really good friends!"

"Mom knows... Does Sushi want to be friends with Genmaki-kun?"

"Why do you say that, Mom? Does Wei have some problems that I don't know about? Why don't you want to be friends?"

"Mom, are you saying that what Sushi wants is to always be friends...just friends?"

"sodayo!"

Chapter 125 Ichinose Mother and Daughter

Ms. Nagasaki looked at Su Shi's determined eyes, feeling mixed emotions and not knowing what to say to her daughter.

Although she has been busy with work and has little time to take care of her family and daughter, Su Shi now insists that "she just wants to be friends forever" is really...

The show has a hilarious effect.

But when this happened to my own daughter, I couldn't laugh.

"Su Shi..." Looking at her daughter's current appearance, Ms. Nagasaki seemed to see herself more than ten years ago.

"If the man's promise is trustworthy, then even two girls can have a child."

"Don't trust a man's reliability. No matter how capable or eloquent a man is, he's not as reliable as you."

A look of pain flashed across Ms. Nagasaki's eyes. The expectant look in her daughter's eyes just now reminded her of the man who abandoned his wife and daughter.

Many years ago, I also believed in another man's promise about the future, but in the end I was forced to embark on this path of becoming a strong woman.

"promise?"

Su Shi looked at his mother with a little doubt in his eyes, and shook his head slightly after understanding what she meant.

Is it credible? Is it reliable?...would I not know?

"Mr. Wei never promised me anything, and I didn't ask anything from him."

Su Shi lowered his head and looked at his blocked toes.

Ms. Nagasaki looked at her daughter shaking her head and not daring to look at her. She felt a pang of pain in her heart for a moment. She put her hand on her chest and her voice trembled.

"Su Shi, you..."

She was originally wary of Xianjuan Wei's background in the consortium. After knowing that he knew her daughter, she was afraid that her daughter would be deceived by sweet words and unrealistic promises and get hurt. She would rather her daughter live a more relaxed and ordinary life.

But... you've never even made a promise like "I will definitely marry you"?

Is it because the other party is too perfunctory in his attitude towards his daughter because he thinks she is too easy to deal with, or is it because he really misunderstood the relationship between the young man and woman?

After working in the workplace for so many years, Ms. Nagasaki felt that the possibility of her misunderstanding the relationship between the two was almost negligible.

Just because they were "friends", he promoted the other person's mother twice in one month, from general assistant to president, and then promoted her to the high-paid and leisurely position of president of a monopoly enterprise where she just sat there and collected money?

It is possible that a young master from a consortium would be kind-hearted because of his friends, but it is unlikely that a young master from a consortium would be kind-hearted just because they are friends.

Ms. Nagasaki used her normal way of thinking and felt that today's arrangement for her could only be explained as a part of Genmaki Yui's pursuit of his daughter.

Su Shi heard her mother's voice, which contained a meaning that made her reluctant and dared not think about it too much. She lowered her head, avoiding her mother's gaze, but she couldn't help but think of another figure who was always watering the cucumber field alone.

After Xiaoxiang left suddenly, Xiaomu was the only one who could contact her; but when I asked her to meet Xiaoxiang again, she always gave me disappointing responses.

Wei suddenly burst into my life, making me want to make a real friend again. Then, Xiao Mu came back, making me worry about her lifelong happiness after getting engaged. But then it was suddenly revealed that the person she was engaged to was someone I once again wanted to date seriously...

It's really too high and mighty, it's like this every time.

I can't get what I want, but you seem to be able to enjoy it without doing anything. It's not fair, not fair at all! Why...

"Su Shi, I'm sorry, Mom hasn't had much time to accompany you these years."

Ms. Nagasaki said this, her eyes slightly red. She reached out to wipe the corners of her eyes and continued with sadness in her eyes:

"But, you're making mom feel bad."

"Mom has never wanted to trade your happiness for anything. Everything I do is so that you can have a happy life... But forgive me for being so talkative. From a family like ours, marrying into a wealthy family is rare, and even fewer can truly be called happy in their later lives."

"Mom really...hopes you just want to be friends with him."

Su Shi felt as if his throat was blocked by something invisible, causing his emotions, which had been fairly well controlled, to gradually spiral out of control.

Mom, I feel really bad too.

Su Shi's voice was a little choked:

"I just want to be friends, I really just want to be friends! Can't mom trust me a little more?"

"Mom... what do you want me to do now? Tell Wei that you're so nice to my mom, so I'm done with you? Or should I just ignore his care for my mom, thinking it's what he deserves, and just enjoy it peacefully?"

"That kind of thing, that kind of person... I envy them but I hate them. I can't learn from them."

Su Shi raised her eyes, turned her head, and looked at her mother with sparkling eyes.

"And Mom is happy with her new position, right? I always have been. Even if I had to leave Tokyo with Mom and open a small shop in the countryside, I was happy with it. After a few years of living a prosperous life, I couldn't bear to go back to my old ways. I'm not that spoiled. After all, everything I have is given to me by Mom."

"Mom, do you want me to stay away from Wei, even though he's always been kind to me? If that's the case, I'm afraid Mom will be implicated and won't be able to continue in her current position..."

"As long as Mom is willing to let go of everything now, I will listen to her and accompany her wherever she goes. But I don't think Mom will do something like quitting her job."

Ms. Nagasaki looked at her daughter's red eyes and felt as if her heart was in a knot.

"Su Shi, how could Mom be willing to let you suffer?"

"Mom wouldn't begrudge money. If resigning could buy my baby peace and happiness in the future, Mom wouldn't hesitate. But if your friend used the energy and thoughts that could easily transfer Mom to a promotion to take revenge on Mom and you who ran away, I can't imagine what would happen..."

"Su Shi, the power of the Xianjuan Consortium is not as simple as revealed on search engines. You have no idea that when a consortium is serious about cutting off the future path of a helpless individual, every path is a precipice. If the instigator doesn't intervene and simply gives it another push, how dark will that person's life become..."

Su Shi wiped his eyes after hearing this, but the rise and fall of his chest gradually calmed down, and the look he gave his mother became firm again.

Mom... said so much to me, but in the end she still had no solution. She was afraid that I would continue to get along with Wei, but she didn't dare to just take me away.

My mother, who always protects me from the wind and rain, becomes so weak when faced with a situation where she is stuck.

"Mother……"

Su Shi held her mother's hand, looked at her, as if to convey her determination in her eyes, and said softly:

"If you can't refuse, why don't you enjoy it? Before I sent me to Tsukino Mori to study, I always hoped that I would make more friends. Why did I get scared when I actually made friends? This is brought to you by my daughter who knows how to make friends, why would you refuse..."

"Don't worry about me, or about future happiness. I can get along well with everyone even in a place like Moon Forest. There's no reason for me to think I can't get it, right?"

"Besides, Mom is really overthinking it. I just want to be good friends with Wei because he already has a fiancée, and she's also my friend. I know some of these things are immoral, so as long as I'm their best friend and stay with them forever, I'll be satisfied..."

As Ms. Nagasaki listened to Su Shi's narration, she felt a blackout and a dizziness as if she had a hypoglycemic attack.

What... a married man?

If Su Shi had just said, "Even though it's extremely difficult, I still want to give it a try," as a mother, I would definitely support her with all my strength no matter how pessimistic I am.

But what does it mean to be “satisfied just by being their best friend and staying with them forever”?

"Su Shi, my daughter, my baby, my pride, how could this happen, how could this happen..."

Su Shi hurriedly stood up to support her mother, and at the same time, the door of the room, which had been quiet for a long time, made a sound again.

The door handle turned downwards, and Xian Juanwei, who had disappeared for a long time, came back at this moment.

"Wei-san! Sorry, Mom might be a little tired recently..."

Nagasaki Suyo held her mother's shoulders and explained hurriedly with a gentle and concerned voice.

Ms. Nagasaki rubbed her forehead and smiled bitterly, as if the previous conversation had never happened.

"Sorry, Xianjuan-kun, maybe I've been busy for too long, and I'm a little uncomfortable with the sudden relaxation today..."

Xian Juanwei nodded silently, as if he didn't notice the unusual emotions of the mother and daughter in front of him, their watery eyes, or their trembling voices.

"Mr. Sushi."

"Ok?"

"Have you ever used the name Ichinose Suyo before?"

"Eh? Yes, but... why do you ask?"

Xian Juanwei's gaze swept over the mother and daughter again.

"Do you want to say goodbye to the name Ichinose that you once used?"

"The body of Ms. Nagasaki's late husband and Mr. Suyo's late father has been transported from Myanmar to a funeral home in Tokyo. If you want to say goodbye, please do so as soon as possible. In this weather, it won't be very storable and will spoil easily."

Chapter 126 Why did Zhongdeng fall?

"Dead father? Body? Farewell? Wei, what are you talking about... I don't understand."

Su Shi lowered his head slightly and murmured softly, as if he didn't understand the information revealed in Xian Juanwei's words just now.

But her expression seemed dull and wooden, and as she looked down at her toes, her voice sounded vague, as if her soul was wandering in space.

It was just like... she was just immersed in the joy of her mother's promotion, but suddenly received the news of her father's death. It was impossible for her to seamlessly switch between the heaven and hell that these two pieces of news brought her.

Or perhaps, it seemed as if I was a little confused by this sudden news, and my brain fell into a self-protection state of unwillingness to accept reality.

Xianjuan Wei walked quickly to Su Shi's side, looking at her tense muscles, sweat dripping from her forehead, and her originally rosy face gradually turning pale.

Su Shi's arm, which was originally supporting her mother, became stiff, and Ms. Nagasaki no longer cared about the topic of relationship issues that she was originally discussing with her daughter. She just stared at Genmaki Yui with her eyes wide open and her pupils slightly shrunken.

"Mr. Xianjuan, you said, my ex-husband, he, he..."

Xianjuan Wei lowered her head and looked at Ms. Nagasaki sitting on the chair, nodding expressionlessly:

“It’s literally.”

The soles of Su Shi's shoes made a sound of rapid friction with the ground. Her feet slipped, her eyelids half closed, and she seemed to have lost all her strength at once. Her body fell limply to the ground.

Fortunately, Xian Juanwei, who had been prepared, was quick-witted and quick-handed. He hugged Su Shi and carefully helped him to a chair nearby.

Ms. Nagasaki blinked slowly in slow motion and moved her lips slightly, but no words came out.

After Xian Juanwei put the limp Su Shi on the chair, he was about to pull his arm back, but Su Shi held him down with his hand.

Su Shi closed his eyes and took two deep breaths to calm down a little, then he trembled and whispered softly:

"It's my father... Why does Wei know about him?"

"And... why were the remains returned from Burma?"

Xianjuan Wei looked at Su Shi's misty blue eyes, which seemed a little empty at the moment, and then glanced at Ms. Nagasaki beside her, and sighed:

"Well, it's a long story to explain. Let's get in the car first. I'll tell you on the way to the funeral home."

After a long silence, Su Shi pulled Xian Juanwei's arm, and slowly stood up with his calves still a little weak, his eyes slightly out of focus.

"...Then, I'll leave it to you, Yui-kun."

After nodding to Su Shi, Genjumaki Wei looked at Ms. Nagasaki, who was also in a bad mental state, and stretched out the arm that was not held by Su Shi, and pulled Ms. Nagasaki up.

After slowly pulling the distracted mother and daughter out of the restaurant, Xianjuan Wei first helped Ms. Nagasaki to one side of the back seat of the Maybach, and then took Su Shi to sit on the other side facing her mother.

Although Ms. Nagasaki was a little dazed by the sudden and explosive news, she was at least able to fasten her seat belt by herself.

Su Shize stared at the seat belt buckle in a daze for two seconds. When she pulled the seat belt towards the socket with her hand, her movements were not only slow but also shaking uncontrollably. In the end, she had to rely on Xian Juanwei to help her fasten the seat belt.

"Mr. Wei..."

Su Shi lowered her head and looked at her toes. She had been holding Xian Juanwei's arm since they were walking, but she still hadn't let go.

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