Zongman: Even if I am reborn, I still want to live my daily life

"When did we become friends? Please don't get it wrong, or have you become so self-centered?" Her tone was as cold and sarcastic as ever, which Gao Yumo was already used to, after all, she had been like this for three years of middle school.

Gao Yumo exaggeratedly covered her mouth with her hand: "So we weren't friends? I've met your mother and sister, and I've been to your house. Doesn't that count as being friends? I remember my mother and I chatted a lot."

Yukino Yukinoshita's usually calm face was starting to crumble as she listened to this. It was because of this that she began to dislike the person in front of her, or rather, she disliked herself.

Ever since she brought this guy home that time, her mother has been urging her to get closer to him, which has led to her having very little contact with him afterward. Even though they were in the same class, they barely spoke a few words to each other during their third year of middle school. This was because she didn't want to listen to her mother and approach him with ulterior motives; she wanted something purer.

But she didn't approach him, and he didn't even speak to her much after that. She stopped paying attention to him altogether.

Now she's actually saying they're not friends? She has no friends!

"Are you thinking about what happened last year?" Gao Yumo asked. Even though Yukino Yukinoshita had guessed, she remained calm.

"So what?"

"Are you wondering why I'm not talking to you anymore? Are you still blaming yourself?" Gao Yumo asked, his smile unchanged, looking into Yukino Yukinoshita's eyes.

"What's there to blame me for? I don't think there's anything I need to blame myself for," Yukino Yukinoshita said calmly, turning her gaze to the book in her hands, but she could no longer concentrate on it.

"Aren't you blaming yourself? Then why haven't you spoken to me since that time? I thought we had become friends after two years of getting to know each other. After all, you agreed to your mother's invitation to your house, didn't you? Given your personality, you shouldn't have agreed." Gao Yumo continued, but Yukino Yukinoshita didn't react. She just stared at the book in her hand, as if Gao Yumo was talking to herself.

Gao Yumo took it that way and continued, "Your mother must have said something to you, right? My identity makes it so that I can guess what she'll say. So when you changed, the first thing I wanted to do was talk to you, remember? But you refused."

That's how it was back then. After that incident, Yukino Yukinoshita underwent a very obvious change. She dared not approach Takahashi anymore. She probably didn't even know why. She even refused Takahashi's request to have a proper talk with her, and more than once.

Last year wasn't the year Gao Yumo didn't interact with her; it was the year she kept rejecting Gao Yumo, to the point that she probably forgot why she was rejecting him in the first place.

"Now? Don't we have a great opportunity to have a good talk? Are you trying to kick me out?" Gao Yumo looked at Yukino Yukinoshita and made yet another request to have a proper talk.

Yukino Yukinoshita's expression remained calm, but Takahashi could see that she was thinking rapidly. Should she continue to run away? She had run away from home and moved out to live on her own, she had run away from her mother not letting her know where she lived, and her mother's words were no longer there. Should she continue to run away from this guy?

Gao Yumo looked at her calmly, his smile unchanged. He didn't urge her or say anything more. After all, this scene had happened many times last year, but every time he finished speaking, Yukino Yukinoshita wouldn't react. This time, however, she reacted the most. There must be something going on.

“Okay, what do you want to say? I’m listening.” She closed her book again and looked at Gao Yumo, her expression as calm as ever, but Gao Yumo could see from her eyes that a great drama was unfolding inside her.

But Gao Yumo just smiled and said, "No need to say anything. The fact that you're willing to listen to me means you've already figured it out, right? So please take care of me from now on, President?"

"Whatever, you're just talking to yourself." Yukino Yukinoshita gave a soft snort and opened her book again. This was the umpteenth time she had looked at her book in a short while, but this time she was truly absorbed in it. A smile, perhaps unnoticed by herself, played on her lips. This time, she didn't have to run away anymore.

Across from her, Gao Yumo was also smiling. Yukino Yukinoshita's personality was just like that, which was related to her experiences and the previous incident. Yukino Yukinoshita's mother was a strong person, and she also had a very outstanding older sister. Yukino Yukinoshita always felt that she was living in her sister's shadow. Under this pressure, it was not surprising that her personality gradually became strange.

Gao Yumo had already gotten used to her way of speaking. It was much better than when they first met. At least now she could talk to him normally, and not every sentence felt like a knife stabbing him. Well, she could be considered to be speaking normally now.

He used to be much more sarcastic when he talked to me; he's changed a lot now.

Chapter 154 Yukino: Are you a pervert? (1st update)

"Can't you talk to me for a bit? You've always been reading." Gao Yumo looked at Yukino Yukinoshita with some boredom, just like when they were in his club in middle school.

Although he was the only one in the club, Yukino Yukinoshita often went to his place to read because it was quiet. When he tried to talk to her, she would sometimes ignore him.

"What do you want to say?" This time, perhaps because the two hadn't spoken for a long time, Yukino Yukinoshita responded, but her eyes remained fixed on the book. Of course, whether she could actually concentrate on reading it was another matter.

"Well, let's talk about clubs then. What does your club do? It's not really the Cat Club, is it?" Gao Yumo said jokingly, even though she already knew, to ease the atmosphere after not seeing each other for so long.

Yukino Yukinoshita glanced at him, already regretting letting him know she liked cats, but there was nothing she could do that time; he would find out she liked cats eventually.

"It's the Service Department." She finally said it, otherwise this guy would definitely make some other unreliable guesses later, so she didn't want him to make wild guesses.

"Service Department? What does that do?" Gao Yumo asked curiously.

"To lend a helping hand to students who encounter problems, to accept requests from others and then help them." Yukino Yukinoshita explained the purpose of her founding this club. Of course, there must be a deeper purpose, but she only needed to say it like this.

"I see. Are you sure you're okay with your personality? Won't you drive away the people who come to ask for your services?" Gao Yumo said with a smile.

Yukino Yukinoshita glanced at Takayuki, thinking that this guy's ability to make people angry was second to none.

"I think I'm better than someone else. I feel like I'm talking quite normally, don't I?"

"Have you received any requests since the start of the semester?" Gao Yumo ignored the fact that this guy couldn't figure things out for her and asked curiously. She was genuinely curious about this question.

Yukino Yukinoshita paused for a moment, then said, "It will happen."

"Alright, anyway, I'll be a member of your club from now on. I don't have much to do at school, so I'll be dropping by here often." Gao Yumo stretched and stood up. The otherworld club was based at home, and there wasn't much to do at school, so he'd have somewhere to go soon.

Yukino Yukinoshita watched him as he seemed to be about to leave. She wanted to say something, but she didn't know whether to. In the end, she didn't say anything and just watched him calmly.

Gao Yumo watched her behavior; although she seemed to be reading a book, her gaze kept drifting towards him. Did she think he didn't notice? He smiled.

After stretching his body a bit, he sat down again, much to Yukino Yukinoshita's slightly surprised expression.

"You thought I was leaving, but I didn't. Aren't you disappointed?" Gao Yumo said with a smile.

"Indeed, so when can you leave so I can read in peace?" Yukino Yukinoshita said, her words contradicting her true feelings.

"Hehe, the more you want me to leave, the less I'll leave. Anyway, your grades are so good, and the teachers don't care whether you go to class or not. It's the same for me. So, isn't it nice for us to spend some more time together here after all this time?" Gao Yumo said with a smile, looking at Yukino Yukinoshita's face. This girl is actually quite pretty.

"Stay as long as you like, I'm leaving after class starts anyway." Yukino, who was being watched by Gao Yumo, ignored his gaze and continued reading her book. This guy had always been like this, and he wouldn't listen to her even when she told him to. So she just let him read whatever he wanted, since being watched wouldn't hurt him.

"Alright, let's talk about something else then." Gao Yumo waved her hand. It's quite difficult to get Yukino Yukinoshita to admit anything given her personality. "You live alone now, right? Are you getting used to it?"

"How did you know?" Yukino Yukinoshita's expression changed for the first time, looking at Gao Yumo as if she were a pervert. "You were following me?"

Gao Yumo quickly shook her head: "What are you thinking? Even if I knew, I wouldn't be following you."

“But I think you are very likely to do that kind of thing,” Yukino Yukinoshita said calmly.

"Okay, I really don't know what kind of image I have in your mind." Gao Yumo rubbed his head. "I heard it from your sister."

Upon hearing her sister's name, Yukino Yukinoshita fell silent again: "Sister?"

"And your sister, no, nothing." Gao Yumo wanted to talk about Yukino Yukinoshita's feelings for her sister, but after thinking about it, she decided against it; these things were not suitable to be said.

"No, you tell me, I also want to hear what you think of my sister." But Yukino still spoke up to let Takahata continue.

“Alright, if that’s what you want to hear.” Gao Yumo nodded. “The most basic thing is definitely admiration.”

Yukino wanted to argue, but she knew that it would be useless to the boy in front of her. He really knew her, so she could only remain silent and continue to listen.

"Then it's because Yang Nai is too outstanding that you think you are just her substitute, that you are inferior to her in many ways, and that you always live in her shadow. Moreover, your mother also favors your older sister more. So after your mother said those things to you that time, you chose to keep your distance from me. Under their pressure, you began to close your heart. Although I opened her up once, your mother's words made her close it again."

Yukino overheard Gao Yumo's words. Although he only asked her to talk about her older sister, he also mentioned her mother. She had to admit that he was right, though she wouldn't admit it verbally, especially since he had opened her heart to him. She would never admit that.

She really didn't expect him to see through her so clearly, as if he had no secrets left. He was indeed a terrifying character, just like her sister.

Seeing Yukino's silence, Gao Yumo didn't continue. That was enough; saying anything more would only be a further blow to Yukino.

"Yukino, lift your head." Gao Yumo walked over and sat down next to her. Yukino looked up and saw that Gao Yumo was already sitting next to her. She unconsciously moved her body to the side, then suddenly realized what she was doing and stopped moving.

"What's with this backing down? I'm trying to comfort you, why are you distancing yourself from me?" Gao Yumo complained, looking at her actions, and dramatically clutched his chest. "Do you know how much damage your backing down does to my fragile heart?"

Yukino watched the boy in front of her goofing around. His personality was so changeable, and most of the time he was very optimistic, as if he was confident about everything. She actually envied this kind of personality.

"Yukino, you are you. Don't worry about what your sister is like. It's pointless. Constantly comparing yourself to your sister will only make you feel worse. You need to learn to look forward." Gao Yumo tried to comfort Yukino in his own way, although it probably wouldn't be very effective.

"Do you and your sister keep in touch often?" Sure enough, she didn't listen to what Gao Yumo said at all, and instead asked about her sister.

"Yang Nai? Don't you two contact each other often? Anyway, when she talks to me, she often mentions you first. That's how I learned most of your information. As for contact, we contact each other a lot. She basically messages me every day." Gao Yumo said, taking out her phone. Just then, Yang Nai's message came through.

Yang Nai: Are you there? What are you doing? Are you free to come out? I'll treat you to a meal.

He showed his phone to Yukino, "Look, she sends me these kinds of messages every day to harass me. If I don't reply, she'll keep sending them until I do."

Yukino looked at Gao Yumo's phone; it was indeed her sister's. Why was that? He and his sister had only met once, right? The time she brought him home. Why would his sister act like this? Was it because of her? She had told her sister about her relationship with him once, and that they hadn't spoken in a long time. Could it be because of this?

But Gao Yumo's words shattered her thoughts: "There's something you might not know, and I've been wondering whether to tell you. Your sister probably won't let me say it, but I really want to. I'm asking for your opinion. Do you want to know? It's about you and your sister."

His words were very tempting, and Yukino was immediately caught in a dilemma.

"Tell me, I want to know." Yukino finally couldn't hold back and asked, sweating profusely.

"No problem. By the way, don't tell Yang Nai after you tell her, or she will definitely come after me."

"Say it!"

"Okay, okay, you're usually so calm, but you still have times when you get really anxious." Gao Yumo quickly waved his hand, saying that Yukino does get anxious when she encounters such situations, but she's just an ordinary girl who's a bit closed off inside.

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Chapter 155 Gao Yumo: Chestnut Curses Them. (2 Updates)

"You should remember what your mother said to you, right? It was definitely something like telling you to get close to me, right?" Gao Yumo said. Yukino was silent for a moment, then nodded. So he really guessed it.

"Do you completely disagree, no matter what your mother says, and even move out of the house to live on your own?"

"Ah."

"So do you think your mother will give up? Given her personality? And after you leave, who else can she let approach me and build a good relationship with me?"

Gao Yumo hadn't finished speaking, but Yukino had already guessed what he was going to say next.

"elder sister."

“That’s right, your sister.” Gao Yumo nodded and continued, but Xue Nai had fallen completely silent. “I ran into her on the street once. Since we had met once before, she talked to me about you for a while and we exchanged contact information. We’ve been chatting often since then, and she’ll tell me a lot about you. As for other things, she doesn’t seem to be doing anything like that. You can rest assured that she hasn’t completely followed what your mother said.”

"Are you thinking that if you agreed, your sister wouldn't have to go through all this?"

Yukino raised her head somewhat calmly: "Can you read minds?"

"No way, but your thoughts are pretty easy to guess. Let me tell you, let's not even talk about whether you'll agree or not. Even if you do agree, will your mother really let your sister off the hook? Even if it's not me, aren't there other people? She'll make your sister go on blind dates with those so-called rich kids. You should understand, right? After all, it probably started a while ago, didn't it?"

"So you're saying that since we're going to end up like this anyway, why not go with me?" Yukino looked into Takahata Momo's eyes.

“It’s not that I think this way, it’s that your sister thinks this way. Our usual interactions are her way of avoiding those kinds of things. As long as I’m around, your sister feels very safe with your mother, and you feel the same way. Haven’t you noticed that after you left home, your mother never looked for you? And when your sister went to look for you, she never mentioned asking you to come back? Do you think that’s why?”

Yukino looked at Takayuki, and from Takayuki's words, she had already guessed what was going on.

"What did you do?" she asked curiously. She knew nothing about these things. Did she, who wanted to be independent, end up being protected?

“I didn’t do anything. It was your sister who told your mother that I chose the place for you to live, and that her contact with me was very successful. In other words, in your mother’s eyes, you two are both my targets. I don’t think I have a very good image in her mind.”

Gao Yumo shook his head speechlessly. Yang Nai had told him all of this, and she had told her mother before informing him, which was very much in line with Yang Nai's personality.

Yukino already understood her sister's intention: to play along and appease both her mother and Gao Yumo, thus relieving her of some of her own troubles. She figured her sister wouldn't be called to any more social gatherings by her mother, right? After all, with Gao Yumo as a connection, those other connections were no longer necessary. She wondered what her mother would think if she knew her sister was just giving her the runaround.

After all, according to what he said, his sister's perception of their mother should already be that they are connected.

"So that's what you were thinking? You're into both sisters?" Yukino said calmly. Her words meant that she had figured it out and calmed down. Her sister wasn't troubled by this matter; on the contrary, it was a good thing for her sister, so she didn't need to blame herself.

"Let me correct you. It's just you. Honestly, I can't see through your sister. Her ideas are too unique. We usually just play around like friends. As for being all over everyone, it's not something I can just do as I please." Gao Yumo said very bluntly. Yukino blushed slightly upon hearing this, but quickly calmed down.

"If you don't find a way to build a good relationship with your sister, you might end up with none of them."

"Alright, it's your decision. I can go and build a good relationship with her after school today, since she already asked me if I wanted to have dinner together." Gao Yumo was holding his phone, ready to reply to Yang Nai that it was fine, but he was slow to act, and Xue Nai stopped him.

But Yukino only looked at him and hesitated for a moment before finally not saying no. What right did she have to say that? Yukino thought to herself.

"Okay, I've sent it. I'll pick you up after school. Don't run away, okay? Let's have dinner together." Gao Yumo said to Xue Nai without looking back, then opened the door and left.

Yukino was taken aback before realizing that she had been included. Looking at the book in her hand, she couldn't concentrate on reading again.

"Why did you appear again? I had already avoided you," she muttered to herself.

Gao Yumo, who was standing at the door, didn't leave. Instead, he listened to the sounds inside and then heard this muttering to himself. He smiled.

Hide away? We're still in the same school, where can we hide? We didn't even have the determination to transfer schools, so this is the inevitable outcome now.

With these thoughts in mind, he left.

"I have something to do today, you guys go home first," Gao Yumo said to Eriri and Kato Megumi after school.

"Oh, come back early, I'm waiting for you to cook." Eriri nodded, without asking anything, knowing that Gao Yumo would tell her if he wanted to.

"Be careful, Mo-kun," Kato Megumi reminded him.

"They'll be back in a bit, don't worry." Gao Yumo waved with a smile and watched them leave.

After waiting a while, he walked towards Yukino's class. She was in Class 5, and Gao Yumo had always known this, but she had been avoiding him, so he had never gone to find her. He had been waiting for this opportunity, and now, without any trouble, they had managed to get their relationship back to normal. It even felt better.

"Yukino is gone," Gao Yumo called out directly at the entrance of their classroom.

The students in their class who hadn't left yet all looked at him. Almost all of them knew him. Gao Yumo was probably the most famous person in the school right now.

The students in the class immediately looked at Yukino Yukinoshita, curious about how she knew this very famous, possibly exceptionally powerful young master.

One of the students from the same school revealed that Gao Yumo and Yukino Yukinoshita knew each other in middle school, but their relationship suddenly seemed to deteriorate in their third year of middle school for some reason. At least among the ordinary students, all sorts of rumors were flying around at the time.

But neither Gao Yumo nor Yukino Yukinoshita paid any attention to them, not even now. When Yukino Yukinoshita heard Gao Yumo's voice, she simply picked up her things and went over, completely ignoring the gossip of her classmates. She was used to it.

Gao Yumo naturally took the bag from Yukino's hand. This action had never actually happened before, since they spent most of their time together in the clubrooms and classrooms of middle school and rarely went home together. But now the action felt very natural, and neither of them felt anything was wrong.

Even with Yukino, Gao Yumo just gave it to her directly, and she probably didn't even know why. If it were before, she definitely wouldn't have given it to her.