Tokyo: Love Begins with Controlling the Rich Girl

“Mr. Thug clearly said before... he would confess.”

Her voice was soft, then suddenly tinged with a hint of grievance.

Shimada Sho clicked his tongue inwardly.

Her emotions are so changeable.

Instead of waiting for him to confess, he's changed his approach.

She wanted to use her vulnerability to get him to give in.

Unfortunately for him, Shimada Sho wasn't buying it anymore. "When did you say that?"

“Yesterday,” Yukine Kamishiro answered quickly. “You said you could tell me today.”

“…Oh, that.” Shimada Sho stroked his chin, pretending to think.

After a pause, she asked with a smile, "Yukine should already know, right?"

"I don't know," she immediately denied.

Shimada Sho said slowly, "Why don't you ask me now?"

Silence again.

The young lady seemed lost in thought.

Shimada Sho didn't bother to ask. He just leisurely sipped his tea and then said something that struck at the heart: "Actually, if you just asked me, I would have told you."

"..."

The young lady fell completely silent.

"Comfortable~"

Shimada Sho stretched happily.

I'll answer if you ask.

On the other hand, all the preparations she made beforehand, whether it was the covert investigation or the act she put on as soon as she arrived, were completely unnecessary.

Saying these words, which he had prepared long ago, made Shimada Sho feel incredibly refreshed.

"you……"

After a long silence, Yukine Kamishiro finally spoke, "Did you do that on purpose?"

She doesn't even call him "Mr. Thug" anymore.

Shimada Sho, seemingly oblivious, asked, "What do you mean, intentional?"

"...It's nothing." The young lady didn't ask any more questions.

After pausing for a while, she suddenly spoke up: "Since Mr. Thug doesn't want to tell me, then forget it."

Her words sounded like she was helplessly trying to give up.

"Then why don't you ask me?" Shimada Sho said innocently.

When asked to take the initiative, the young lady fell silent.

Is this because they didn't want all their efforts to be in vain at the last minute, and they wanted me to say it?

Shimada Sho couldn't quite understand her silence at that moment.

After thinking for a moment, he looked at the textbooks on the table and asked, "How's the tutoring going?"

"It's alright." That's the kind of response I got.

Shimada Sho continued, "If there's anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me. Although my Chinese and history are really terrible, I'm okay with the other subjects."

He added another point, essentially hinting at what the young lady had been probing earlier.

Even so, the young lady didn't seem to have any intention of asking him directly.

Shimada Sho waited for a while, but she didn't say anything more.

Shimada Sho glanced at the login time limit in front of him; he still had plenty of time.

However, since I promised Ayase Yuki I would go to keep the appointment, I can't just stay here and keep playing games.

So Shimada Sho said, "I'm logging off now."

"it is good."

Yukine Kamishiro gave a very straightforward response.

There was no emotion in his voice; it was just a casual, everyday greeting.

Shimada Sho, on the other hand, was somewhat uncertain.

"Don't you have any questions?"

Logically speaking, since he's made it so clear, even if the young lady is stupid, she shouldn't be unable to understand, right?

Besides, she is exceptionally intelligent.

But Yukine Shinji didn't ask anything, and simply replied, "No."

Her tone was incredibly calm, making it impossible to guess what she was thinking.

Sho Shimada, feeling helpless, had no choice but to be more direct in his reminder, "If you want to talk more about the boy sitting in front of you..."

"No need," Yukine Kamishiro interrupted him. "Since he's just an ordinary person, there's nothing special about him."

"..."

Shimada Sho opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

"I'm leaving."

"it is good."

She still didn't ask any further questions.

Before logging out, Shimada Sho heard her casually add, "Anyway, we'll see each other in the future. If Mr. Thug has nothing to say to me, he probably does."

"Huh?" Shimada Sho didn't understand what he meant.

When I tried to ask again, my consciousness had already left my body.

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His consciousness returned to his body, and a light screen popped up in front of Shimada Sho as a notification.

His gaze immediately fell on the character tag section.

The overcast skies above have disappeared, replaced by a sullen mood.

Actually, this label is exactly what it sounds like, and it's very easy to understand.

She was just a little upset because she hadn't admitted it herself.

But the fact that they have emotions proves that their guess was correct.

This girl was trying to trick him, but now that she failed, she's angry.

Are you feeling quite frustrated?

Shimada Sho shook his head with a slight chuckle as he recalled her clearly suggestive words before she logged off.

She hasn't given up on getting me to admit it myself.

Just then, my phone suddenly rang.

Upon picking it up, I saw that Yuki Ayase had sent another message urging me to hurry up.

Chapter 158 The Date is in Progress - Part 1

[Xiang is Wings: Where is Xiang-jun? I'm at the flower shop entrance here - location.]

[Xiang is Wings: Xiang-kun, haven't you left yet?]

[Xiang is Wings: Didn't you say you'd be here right away? Half an hour has passed already~]

[Xiang is wings: Where are the people?]

……

When Shimada Shoichi opened his phone, he saw more than a dozen messages.

It was all urging from Yuki Ayase.

It took him more than ten minutes to get up and wash, and another ten minutes to go online and chat with the young lady.

They did make people wait for quite a while.

[Conquer Tokyo Academy: Head out now.]

Shimada Sho quickly replied, then changed into a clean black T-shirt and casual pants and hurriedly left.

He first went to the bank and withdrew some money.

Of the total of 350,000, Shimada Sho put 50,000 into his wallet and the remaining 300,000 into a brown paper bag.

Fifty thousand yen is the activity budget for today, and the rest is to pay back Ayase Yuki's hospital fees.

I don't know exactly how much it cost during her last hospitalization, and she didn't say.

However, considering that there was a team of experts waiting in advance and the patient was in a private room with 24-hour care, the service must have been quite expensive.

Shimada Sho decided to take more.

Saturday in Tokyo lacked the hustle and bustle of a weekday, but there were actually more people out and about.

To save time, Shimada Sho chose to take the subway.

After squeezing onto the subway and waiting for quite a while, I finally got on the train and headed towards the hospital.

The location posted by Yuki Ayase is near the hospital from last time, in an area where commercial and residential areas meet, with many shopping malls and cafes nearby.

When Shimada Sho arrived, he could see her standing in front of a flower shop from afar.

Her light pink floral dress swayed gently in the breeze, her low ponytail brushed against her fair neck, and she radiated beauty in the sunlight.

She was holding a white daisy in her hand, and was gently smelling it, seemingly unaware of Shimada Sho's arrival.

Shimada Sho approached and stopped two steps away from her.

"Wait a long time?"

Yuki Ayase looked up, her eyes lighting up the instant she saw him.

With a smile on her face, she said in a light tone, "It won't be long, I'm glad Xiang-jun can come."

She put the daisies back in the flower bucket, walked up to Shimada Sho with her hands behind her back, and looked up at him.

Today, she is less sharp and more gentle than she was at school.

Without the school uniform and her student council position, she looked like an ordinary high school girl who had dressed up carefully before going out for a date.

"Xiangjun is dressed very casually today."

Her gaze swept over Shimada Sho, finally settling on the backpack on his back. "Did you bring anything else?"

"Um, this is..." Shimada Sho reached into his bag to take out some money.

Yuki Ayase didn't give him that chance.

She walked up to Shimada Sho and suddenly hooked her little finger around his hand that was hanging by his side.

"Xiangjun, walk with me for a bit first."