Can Lixi look at me alone?

Why do you still want me to be your toy after you have everything I don't have?

Is it because your surname is Toyokawa and mine is Chika?

No matter how precocious or how patient one is.

She was just a little girl who was still learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Unable to quell her emotions, she quickly lost her composure and made… an 'incorrect' decision.

She ran back to her room and locked herself in.

She didn't know why she had to do it.

But she...did it, it was that simple.

By the time she realized she had done something that Xiang hated, it was already too late.

She wasn't that pink doll; she was just... a defective product.

It's just a defective product in the trash can.

But she was treated as a perfect doll that should be placed in the human world, and used her incomplete body to accompany other dolls.

"Why...why me?"

She muttered to herself as she huddled in a corner of the room, and casually drew the curtains.

She has always hated sunlight, and if it weren't for Xiang liking it... she would never want to open the curtains in her entire life.

She hated the way her pink hair reflected the sunlight; it was pink...unclean, neither as pure as Mu's nor as beautiful as Xiang's...

She was just a defective product, a red one mixed with white.

No matter how much I tell myself or comfort myself, I can't change the fact that I'm a defective product.

She heard Mu's voice, opened the door, and hugged Mu tightly.

I failed.

Looking at the perfect doll in front of her, Yuzuki smiled helplessly.

I was originally thinking of continuing to endure it, like a perfect toy, to be Xiang's friend for life, and never have to worry about being thrown into the trash can again.

But she failed; she couldn't bear it; she was a defective product.

I'm sorry, I can no longer protect Xiaomu.

She gently pushed Mu out of the room.

Unaware of what had happened, Mu was brought before the adults by the anxious Xiangzi.

She wanted to reject Xiang's suggestion to let the adults solve the problem.

but…

"Muto, you see? Yuzuki is completely problematic right now! Only an adult can solve this kind of problem!"

There's a problem with the billing...?

She hesitated as she recalled Yuzuki reading in the dark that day.

In the end, she... agreed to Xiang's suggestion.

……

Yuzuki was very happy, she was really happy! Because she saw her parents come to pick her up.

Although she didn't understand why her parents bowed down to apologize to a woman... at least her parents came to pick her up.

Why? Where is this?

Why won't you let me go home... Why won't you keep me with you?

I'm a good girl, I'll be obedient...

Or…

This is my punishment from my parents for failing to fulfill my role as a chess piece.

She sat in her luxurious hospital room.

Thinking about all of this.

If I were perfect, would none of these things have happened?

Could I... create a perfect version of myself?

No, I don't need to... I don't want to go near Xiang anymore.

Here, at least my reflection in the mirror keeps me company. The toys chat with me too… and I can even learn how to cook…

Why, why aren't Mom and Dad coming to pick me up?

Am I a discarded pawn?

Mom and Dad went to find new chess pieces, right?

Well, what can I do? I'm a defective product.

After a long time, Yuzuki, who had attempted suicide in the hospital room, was taken out of the room by her parents.

This was also the last time she met Xiang and Mu.

Or perhaps this was the first time Xiang and Mu had come to see her.

Mu couldn't remember many things, but she remembered one thing in particular... that day, Jieyue's hands... were very cold.

There was no hysteria, nor did he do anything embarrassing; he simply chased after Xiang with a small knife and slashed at him for about ten seconds.

Yuzuki left their lives.

It's okay, even if I'm defective... it's my life...

"Sorry, our school does not accept mental patients."

"I'm very sorry... Ms. Yuzuki's condition is difficult for our students and teachers to care for..."

"I'm sorry... you cannot enter our school."

"Feel sorry."

"..."

Yuzuki didn't understand why, why this was happening.

She just wanted to go to school, to learn, to make friends, and to have her own life! Why…

I can't do it...

She found the document bag containing her information and tore it to shreds, bit by bit.

She thought that this way, others wouldn't find out she was a patient.

But she could still feel the stares from the street every time she went out.

They were all saying…

"You're mentally ill."

"You are a defective product."

"You're not a normal person."

……

I may be defective, but... I don't want to live this kind of life.

Mom and Dad are busy again, or they've been busy all along.

But that's okay.

She... she has something to do.

She needs to learn how to pretend to be a perfect, normal person.

How to make more friends of your own.

Be gentle.

You need to learn to disguise yourself as a gentle person.

Be polite and well-mannered.

She has to be good-looking, know how to act cute, and know how to get jealous.

You also need to be generous, cook for your friends, have special skills... and learn to play the piano.

These are all the characteristics that she judged from Xiang, all the characteristics that a normal person should have.

She hoped that if she did that, she would be able to have her own toys, just like Xiang.

She will definitely take good care of her toys.

But she...did not.

There never has been.

No matter how much you try to disguise it, it will be of no use.

No one will come to keep her company, because everyone knows she is mentally ill.

She didn't want to keep playing with her reflection in the mirror.

wanna die.

She deliberately stood on the road, waiting for a vehicle to take her to another world.

On that very day, her life underwent a dramatic change.

She found the purpose of disguise, and she also found the meaning of living.

My biological parents abandoned me, I was bullied at my friend's house, I was sent to the hospital and survived by suicide, and I stayed at home alone, constantly thinking about how I should die...

But then you appeared, and you pulled me... out of there.

That's how I fell in love with you wholeheartedly.

Since I fell in love with you, the whole world has become so wonderful, so happy, so lovely…

As long as I love you, I don't care about any of this. I've found my happiness... Please, please let me drown in this happiness... even if it means drowning...

She met the right person at the right time.

If it weren't for that girl who was willing to stay by my side and care for me...

Yuzuki may have already chosen to leave this world.

Dividing line

Actually, they have this kind of relationship.

And Li Xi is the right person.

No one else could have done it.

Hai Ling and Su Shi will help Jie Yue, but they don't need Jie Yue to provide them with any value. In other words, subjectively, neither of them will actively approach Jie Yue.

Big Meow? It's good enough that you're not broadcasting the accident scene live, meow.

Chuhua and Xiangmu are both unacceptable.

The light? The light needs to be saved.

So, the only person who needs and wants to gain approval from Yuzuki, and who can't help but want to get close to her, accompany her, and take care of her.

That's the right person, meow.

Volume 1 Crychic! (4000 words) Chapter 156 Who is the truly unreasonable one?

"Of course I allow you to worry about me... but I've said it many times already. It's unnecessary."

That concern was unnecessary and wouldn't make Xiangzi's life any better.