Why are all the heroines falling for me, the villain?

But then, tons of trouble came.

Li Zhu attracts attention wherever he goes. Every day, people try to get close to him, confess their feelings to him, follow him, and even collect things he has used. Among these obsessed people, there are quite a few boys...

It has to be said that the world is more lusting after his body than Li Zhu imagined.

For example, she might bump into a high-earning female white-collar worker at an intersection and be warmly invited to her home, or a lonely young woman driving a Ferrari with one hand and threatening to buy her virginity at a high price, or be blocked by a group of delinquent girls at the alley entrance... Needless to say, Li Zhu never imagined that walking to and from school would be so "exciting".

It's fair to say that if he hadn't been cautious and honest, he would have been some rich woman's "toy" under a steel wool ball.

In this strange world, Li Zhu enjoys the convenience that good looks bring... as well as countless troubles and annoyances.

What else can be done now? Li Zhu rejects all other people's enthusiasm. After all, he already has such a lovely girlfriend as Yuko, how could he possibly accept a second person?

Hinata Kotone: Meow meow meow? (What are you saying?)

"...Okay, I admit I'm a shameless bastard. I don't want to give up either Yuko or Kotone." A guy who accidentally cheated on his girlfriend with two women said unrepentantly.

The day Li Zhu woke up in the hospital, Qin Yin, who was lying by the bedside, instinctively raised her head as soon as she heard him make a sound.

Then, Li Zhu saw Qin Yin's red and swollen eyes and her haggard face.

The two blinked at each other, and Qin Yin seemed like a heroine in a silent film who had finally found happiness after suffering, with an indescribable emotion rising in her eyes.

"you…"

Qin Yin stared blankly at Li Zhu's hand, and within seconds, her expression changed from joy to tears, which flowed like a spring.

after awhile.

"You look ugly when you cry," Li Zhu said softly.

A single sentence interrupted the emotions she was building up.

"Mind your own business, even if it's ugly, it's your fault!" Qin Yin burst into laughter through her tears, puffed out her cheeks, and raised her fist but couldn't bring herself to do it.

Looking at the girl's pretty face, which had stopped crying and started smiling, Li Zhu was somewhat dazed. Fragments of memories flashed through her mind and appeared before her eyes.

Around junior high school, Haiyin suffered a heart attack and had to be hospitalized in a coma. When Lizhu, who was by her bedside, saw her wake up, she laughed and cried at the same time, just like a girl.

"You look ugly when you cry," she said with a mischievous grin.

Haiyin's face looked a little pale, but she smiled faintly and took Lizhu's hand with her delicate hand that was receiving an IV drip.

"Mind your own business, it's your fault for being ugly!" This sudden action startled him, and he quickly withdrew his hand. After realizing what had happened, he pretended to wipe his nose to ease the awkward atmosphere.

At the time, he didn't know what he was afraid of. Maybe he had always thought of her as an older sister, so he subconsciously pulled his hand away. They never held hands again after that.

Li Zhu was inexplicably moved. At that moment, he thought with regret, "So that's how much Sister Haiyin needed me back then, but I..."

"It's alright, I'm fine now." He smiled and took Qin Yin's hand, as if he were holding a fine piece of jade, a hand he would never want to let go of for the rest of his life.

This time, he took the initiative to hold Qin Yin's hand, and he would never let her slip away from his grasp again.

"Yes, I'm fine."

In fact, he was overthinking it. Qin Yin responded by holding his hands tightly; she was even more reluctant to let go than Li Zhu.

The two exchanged a smile, and soon after, carefree laughter filled the ward.

It seems that Rinju and Hinata Kotone are now bound together for life.

The zither music was no longer the original Haiyin, and Lizhu was no longer the original Lizhu, but the long-lost sense of reunion made him smile and his eyes redden.

There were no conventions, no prior preparations; everything happened so naturally. In countless intersecting times and spaces, perhaps there really were two identical flowers.

Does it really matter whether she is Haiyin or Qinyin? She can cry and laugh now, and she is alive and healthy, isn't she?

"Hey, we've arrived." A very pleasant voice brought Li Zhu back to reality.

A look of confusion flashed across Tachibana Mamiya's large eyes. What was this idiot spacing out about?

"Oh, thank you." Li Zhu quickly got up, took her luggage, and got off the bus with her.

The station wasn't big and looked quite old. Being a small town, it had far fewer people than in the city, and most of those waiting inside were simply dressed students.

There were also some more fashionable guys who probably came back from the city specifically for the Spring Festival, which was just a few days away.

"A-Zhu, over here, over here." Mom Rinako waved from not far away.

Riki and Tachibana Mamiya walked over together, pulling their luggage.

"It's been so long since I've been back. Nothing's changed at all, wait, it seems a bit more spacious, and the roads are much smoother." Mom was excited, noticing the girl beside Li Zhu. "Oh, who's this child?"

"Tachibana no Makoto." Before Riki could speak, she answered herself, and even bowed neatly.

Dressed so warmly, the scarf is more effective than the mask; looking a bit silly, yet strangely cute, Li Zhu quickly judged in her mind.

"So it's Mamiya-chan! Don't you want to come home with us?" Risako instantly took a liking to the child.

“No problem.” Tachibana nods.

"?" Li Zhu.

"Wait, wait a minute, Mom, this isn't a good idea. We've only just met, and you're inviting a complete stranger home? What if they're a bad person?" he said hurriedly.

Did they turn to go home after just two sentences? Am I too conservative in my thinking, or is the world abnormal?

"How can you talk like that? Mamiya-chan is such a cute and polite child, how could she be a bad person?" Risako glared at him, then hooked her arm around Tachibana Mamiya, who was a head shorter than Risako, and hugged her.

"Mmm." Tachibana nods in Risako's arms.

"..." Li Zhu felt that they were the real family.

that's it.

At 3 p.m., Li Zhu and her two companions successfully arrived at the small village at the foot of White Fox Mountain.

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Chapter 167 Arranged Marriage from Childhood?

Entering the village.

From afar, I could see two elderly people standing in front of a house. My mother rushed over and hugged a kind-looking old woman.

The two elders must be Li Zhu's maternal grandparents.

"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back." Li Zhu's grandmother smiled and kept comforting her mother, who was crying her eyes out.

Grandpa leaned on his cane, wanting to say something, but he just smacked his lips and tapped the ground with his cane.

"Dad, I'm home." Ayako looked up, her eyes filled with tears.

"Hmm." The old man stopped tapping and nodded, clearly pleased.

He then turned his head and said, "Hmph, what are you standing there for, brat? Come over and call him Grandpa."

Li Zhu walked over, pulling her suitcase, looking a little flustered. "Um... Grandpa."

"Good, good grandson." The old man could barely suppress his joy when he was talking to Risako, but now that he was talking to his grandson, he lost all composure.

"Grandma," Li Zhu then greeted her grandmother.

"Good child, Azhu has grown so tall." The old woman pulled Lizhu closer and looked him up and down. "He's really handsome, but a little thin. He must have suffered a lot outside."

“Yes, Mom has really worked hard all these years.” Li Zhu nodded, the sense of closeness that came from blood ties made him less nervous.

Upon hearing Li Zhu's words, Mom burst into tears. She hugged Grandma and Li Zhu, wanting to say something, but she was already sobbing uncontrollably.

"This is what family is like." Li Zhu was somewhat moved.

"Who is that child?" Grandpa looked at Tachibana Mamiya, who was standing alone not far away.

"Maybe she's A-Zhu's girlfriend?" The old woman cast a friendly glance at her.

"So you brought your girlfriend back this time, you brat... Ah Zhu, hurry up and invite her over."

"No, she's not my girlfriend. I met her on the bus, and since she had nowhere to go, I invited her to my home," Li Zhu quickly explained.

Damn it, why did Grandpa and Grandma make such a dangerous statement? This kind of misunderstanding is usually the beginning of a relationship between a man and a woman, so Li Zhu has to explain it clearly as soon as possible.

"Nothing here has changed at all, that's wonderful." Tachibana Mamiya walked over and said slowly in a nostalgic tone.

Every brick, tile, blade of grass, and tree in this village is so familiar to her. This is where she had an unforgettable childhood and her sweetheart; this is where she grew up.

And the Li Zhu she had been longing for was undoubtedly the Li Zhu standing before her, and a huge weight was lifted from her heart.

At that moment, she firmly believed that whether she met him or got to know him, everything was predestined.

"Long time no see. Perhaps you don't remember me. Please allow me to introduce myself again. My name is Tachibana Mamiya, and my father is Tachibana Kenjiro." She walked up to the crowd, pulled down her scarf, and bowed slightly.

"Are you Kenshiro's daughter?" Grandma asked in surprise.

"You, you're the granddaughter of that old man from the Ju family?!" Grandpa seemed to remember something, and his eyes narrowed suddenly.

The mother was still sobbing softly, but she was also trying to recall something. In fact, she felt that the name Tachibana Mamiya sounded familiar as soon as they met, otherwise she would not have agreed to bring her back.

Only Riki was completely bewildered, like an outsider, and glanced at Tachibana no Mamiya a few more times.

A superficial conclusion was drawn: Ah, this woman is really beautiful. No wonder she was hiding her face the whole way. With that kind of looks, she would easily attract stalkers on the street.

"What do you want to do after you come back this time?" Grandpa stepped forward and asked her, slightly blocking Li Zhu from view.

"To keep my promise," Tachibana Mamiya said frankly.

“We don’t care about any promises. Ever since that brat Tachibana Sosuke abandoned Riki and her son, our Riki family and the Tachibana family have had no connection whatsoever. Go back to where you came from.” Grandpa’s tone became somewhat impolite. Mentioning Riki’s father, he stomped his cane three times in anger.

He feared that Tachibana no Masamichi's visit would once again harm his family.

"I am truly sorry about what happened to Uncle Sosuke, but Father said that we cannot be like Uncle Sosuke, abandoning our integrity and breaking our promises for the sake of power. In fact, we are very willing to make amends for Uncle Sosuke's mistake."

"Oh? How are you going to make it up to me?" Grandpa said irritably.

"As you know, Li Zhu and I were engaged before we were even born. After we were born, we became childhood sweethearts, inseparable since we were little. We vowed to be together forever. Li Zhu and I promised that we would get married when we grew up." She was firm and confident, looking intently at Li Zhu.

"So I kept my promise."

"An arranged marriage from childhood?" Li Zhu found this sudden turn of events hard to accept.

"Ah."

"Childhood sweethearts, inseparable since childhood? I don't remember..."

Strangely enough, just as Riki was about to say that she had no connection with Tachibana Mamiya, she realized that...

But this thing seems to be triggered only by specific NPC plots. The strange yet familiar memories in my mind gradually became clearer, and my time with Tachibana Mamiya felt as clear as if it happened yesterday.

"Holy crap, I really have a childhood sweetheart as my fiancée?!" Li Zhu felt like a million grass mud horses were galloping through her mind.

Looking back, he realized he might have been bragging, but the girl probably took it seriously... At the time, Li Zhu was sitting on the swing with her, his arm around her shoulder, pointing out the world and saying that their wedding would definitely be held at Meiji Shrine.

"Damn, was I already flirting with girls when I was that young? That damn Li Zhu." Don't get me wrong, he was cursing the original owner of this body.

It's not that wives who come to you for free are bad, but as Yuko and Kotone's boyfriend, how could he dare to even think about such things?

He still doesn't know how to resolve the issues between Yuko and Kotone, and now Tachibana Mamiya has appeared. He has a feeling that if he's juggling three relationships, his body might end up in a scene where he's cut into three pieces.

“I remember now, that’s right,” Li Zhu’s mother said in surprise.

“Back then, we even said we'd become even closer through marriage, but…” Her eyes dimmed as she spoke, “we couldn’t find you who still remembered us and was willing to accept Li Zhu.”

"Humph~"

The old man probably thought that Tachibana no Miyako was alright and worthy of Asuka, so he remained noncommittal and turned to enter the house.

"It's cold outside, let's come inside and chat." Grandma then invited everyone to come inside and chat.

Everyone went back inside, but Tachibana Mamiya stood still.

"Miya-chan?"

"Girl, aren't you coming in?"

"No need," said Tachibana no Miyako, "I have another purpose for coming back this time. I'm going to help out at the shrine for a while. Don't worry, I'll pay you a visit when I have time."

After saying that, she gave Li Zhu a meaningful look, then pulled her suitcase and walked towards White Fox Mountain.

"What are you standing there for? Go see her off, help her with her luggage. White Fox Mountain is quite high, and her luggage is so heavy. Are you just going to let the girl walk up alone?" Riko glared at Riko, who tiptoed into the house.

"I don't want to go." He didn't want to do things that would increase his popularity anymore.

Sometimes he even felt that his mother was just looking for trouble, always pushing any pretty girl she saw into Li Zhu's arms.

There are already several like this. Don't think that Li Zhu doesn't know that her mother is still in contact with Jingzi and Xun.

If this continues, my son will be killed by a machete!

"A-Zhu, go and see them off. It wouldn't be good if something happened to your daughter on the way."