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

……

Kotone felt superfluous and silently walked from backstage to the stage. She returned to her original position on the left side of the stage and faced with Miki's smiling face, she had no energy to respond.

She was unwilling to accept it, and suddenly turned around to look at the stage. Kudo Sayuri was flanked by a perfect couple, and fragmented memories that did not belong to her resurfaced in her mind.

I've never understood why fate would arrange for two people who are destined to be apart to meet.

The regret of that cold winter night fell on the piano's sound, carried by snowflakes.

Amidst gasps of surprise from the crowd, Qin Yin looked up at the sky.

"Snowing."

Chapter 126 The Story of Ouran High School

Li Zhu's previous worries came true.

The weather took a sharp turn for the worse within a month, and just as the competition was ending, snowflakes began to fall gently from the boundless night sky.

The crowd gasped in surprise, all delighted by the first snowfall of the year.

Senior Lily stretched out her palm in surprise, and snowflakes as soft as goose down slowly fell into her hand and quickly melted away.

Xun, taking advantage of the chaos, secretly glanced at Li Zhu, her face still flushed.

Li Zhu stood frozen in place, staring at the night sky, her expression silent, letting the snowflakes fall on her head.

"Is it snowing?" he murmured.

"Yes, it's the first snow of the year. It wasn't heavy, but it looked like willow catkins being blown by the wind. It was very beautiful," said Little Lily beside her, thinking she was being asked.

Is it beautiful?

How many years has it been since I last saw snow?

That winter night, after Haiyin left, Lizhu also had some conflicts with Kui, and the two broke up.

Li Zhu moved several times under the pretext of avoiding Kui, but each time she deliberately avoided the city where it snowed.

Even though every winter I have to experience the damp cold unique to southern cities and endure life without heating, I remain steadfast.

Whether it was because seeing the object reminded him of someone or not, he simply didn't want to see snow anymore.

-

Not long after.

The crowd below the stage was drawn to a certain spot.

Located on a large open space by the lake next to the fountain square, several bonfires can be clearly seen burning in the distance from the stage.

Suddenly, a dazzling firework exploded in the tranquil night sky. Fireworks continued to rise and bloom in the air, like golden chrysanthemums in autumn, their petals beautiful and enchanting, blooming in the night sky with fleeting beauty.

The fireworks went off together, like colorful fireflies falling from the sky.

Everyone instinctively stopped and looked up, the light from the fireworks casting flickering shadows on their enraptured faces.

"They're actually having fireworks this year!"

"So beautiful! So amazing!"

A couple smiled at each other and snuggled together.

"Does this mean I'm going to find a girlfriend this year?!"

"Although it's already evening, I still suggest you lie in bed and dream."

"Damn it, I don't care, I just want a girlfriend! You have so many girlfriends, can't you find me one?!"

"You idiot, I wouldn't give you any more, you idiot!"

"Hey, do you have to keep yelling at me like that?!"

There are always bickering lovers.

"I need to make a wish while the fireworks are at their most spectacular!"

"Are you stupid? You can only make a wish on a shooting star!"

"Okay~"

The silly junior got scolded by the senior who pointed at her head again.

"Are fireworks viewed from below or from the side?"

"Who cares what others think? It's fine as it is now."

"Oh~"

The boy adjusted his glasses after being nudged by the girl's elbow, abandoning his rational thinking. The two were just standing together casually, yet there was an unspoken understanding between them.

zizi——

A faint hum of electricity was heard.

"Please get ready for the final event of tonight: the bonfire party." It was the mirror's voice.

It seems we need to get down to business.

-

"Hey, Li Zhu, what are you standing there for? The competition is over." Xiao Baihe was about to step off the stage when she noticed that Li Zhu was still standing there, staring blankly at the dazzling fireworks in the night sky.

"It's over, can we go home now?" Li Zhu nodded and asked casually.

"Not so soon, there's a bonfire party too, and everyone'll hear the midnight bells ring at the end," Little Lily laughed. "Do young people these days go to bed so early?"

"No, it's not that, I just really want to go home."

"Pfft, alright, alright, you miss home even though you come home every day. Let's go take a look."

Li Zhu followed her, with Xun following behind.

"Wait, you two aren't just coming with me like this, are you?"

"?"×2

Seeing that both Li Zhu and Xun looked completely bewildered, Xiao Baihe couldn't help but laugh.

"Aren't you going to change your clothes? Or are you planning to put on a show for everyone?" she asked, pointing to Li Zhu's clothes.

"Oh~"

Upon hearing this, the two exchanged a glance and silently returned to the small building to change their clothes.

"Even their reactions are exactly the same. These two juniors are a perfect match, a match made in heaven." Sayuri couldn't help but smile like an aunt as she watched the two of them walk away.

……

As time went by, thankfully the snow gradually lessened, leaving only a few scattered white flakes drifting down.

Although everyone had to stay tonight, some people don't like crowded places, so the area under the trees, on the playground, and at the fountain square was full of pedestrians.

About two-thirds of the people gathered around the campfire, forming several large, harmonious circles, the rising yellow flames bringing warmth to the students.

"Everyone, let's proceed as usual, starting with the school song!"

"Good~"

We are all members of the Ouran High School Host Club family.

Always forge ahead, no matter what.

[The spirit of Ouran High School Host Club will never be extinguished]

Face any predicament with composure.

[Ouran High School Host Club's elite members never give up easily]

[...]

Everyone sang this school song, which has been performed for nearly fifty years, with genuine pride and enthusiasm.

Only Li Zhu, like a slacker, just lip-synced.

'Damn it, they're singing the school song at the bonfire party? They don't even do that at the sports festival. Is this party more official than the official one?' he thought to himself.

The problem is that he's not really familiar with this song; he's only sung it twice since the start of the semester.

These specially admitted students, after all, didn't come directly from Ouran Junior High School, so they didn't really understand things related to campus culture, let alone any sense of campus identity.

However, the school did not say that it favored its own students and ignored specially admitted students. The principal and several leaders valued ordinary students like Xiang Lizhu very much.

To put it bluntly, the purpose of elite schools recruiting top students from across the country is to obtain superior genes and to absorb outstanding new blood into their families.

It's important to understand that no family that remains stagnant can last forever. The large families that have stood the test of time are those that value the addition of fresh blood more than any ordinary person or even some wealthy individuals.

Why is Ouran High School Host Club able to surpass other prestigious schools across the country, big and small? Some of those schools have a longer history, while others are rising stars with unlimited potential. It is precisely because of their model of recruiting outstanding students from all over the country that Ouran High School stands at the top.

Other schools wanted to do the same, but the concept of nobility was not a burden that could be easily discarded, let alone the way commoners and nobles could coexist.

Currently, the school most comparable in strength to Ouran High School Host Club is the neighboring private elite academy. Behind them stand various powerful families such as the Tachibana family, the Nishikujo family, and the Kazama family, all of which intertwine to form this renowned and long-established aristocratic school.

In terms of both campus size and historical heritage, there is simply no one that can compare with it.

Within Ouran High School, the Kujo and Hyuga families still hold the most influence. While other families may have joined in the past decade as Ouran has risen to prominence, the original two families still maintain absolute dominance.

Ironically, this school was originally established when the two families were fiercely competing. To avoid national turmoil, the three families, along with the Hyuga family, held a private mediation meeting and ultimately decided to jointly establish this academy, which served as a kind of bond, to promote healthy competition.

The Kujo and Hyuga families initially had a simple goal: to bring their children in to compete and see whose descendants were the most outstanding.

Later, when a certain family discovered that its descendants were not up to par, it began to recruit students widely, even bringing in 'outside help' from all over the country, in an attempt to compete in teaching quality, educate outstanding commoners, and incidentally expand the family's fresh blood.

Although it sounds far-fetched, this is the origin of the first batch of special admissions students.

Later, after so many years of development, Ouran High School Host Club gradually grew bigger and stronger. The school was no longer like a breeding ground for family children, but instead moved towards a pure path of mutual learning and teaching, transforming into a high-class academy that combines education with entertainment.

It can be said that from the very beginning, this aristocratic school did not have the strong aristocratic atmosphere of traditional aristocratic schools, nor did it follow the path of slowly accumulating its heritage.

After years of development and improvement, the model of mutual integration between commoner students and aristocratic students has gradually matured. On campus, they are almost equal and treated the same. Moreover, the aristocratic students of Ouran High School Host Club rarely discriminate against or bully commoner students anymore.

If you put a group of ordinary students into a private elite academy, wouldn't everything fall into chaos?

Just think about it: commoner students want to defend their dignity, while some arrogant aristocratic students feel that their class has been challenged and they confront each other head-on. This is bound to cause trouble.

However, this brand-new model is unique to Ouran High School Host Club, and other schools cannot learn it yet; at least they will need to explore it for a long time.

However, every April, other schools will come to Ouran High School Host Club under the pretext of exchanging teaching experiences to see how commoners and nobles interact, attempting to analyze and simulate new paths for the new era of school models.

-

After singing, everyone started to go in groups to find their favorite girl or boy.

In Li Zhu's view, a bonfire party is like a large-scale social gathering. People may engage in some ambiguous behavior under the influence of dopamine and hormones in the atmosphere of the party, perhaps due to impulse.

"You weren't singing the school song seriously just now, were you?"

Xun walked over with her hands behind her back and stopped about two or three steps away from Li Zhu. Even though she had gained his approval in the beauty pageant, she did not lose her manners and took it upon herself to make physical contact with Li Zhu.

Of course, if Li Zhu made the request herself, she wouldn't necessarily refuse those impolite requests.

Thinking about it this way, the sweetness in her heart was overtaken by that shyness. Fortunately, it was night, and the dim campfire illuminated everyone's faces in the same way.

"No way, I sang it seriously, okay?" Li Zhu still stubbornly insisted.

In short, he would never admit that he couldn't sing and was just slacking off.

Hearing Li Zhu's words, Xun covered her mouth and smiled, saying indulgently, "Alright then, I misunderstood you~"

"Was the fireworks beautiful?"

"It's good; it will make me feel much better after watching it."

"Right? I just made a wish too~"

"Making a wish while watching fireworks won't work."

Xun asked casually, and Li Zhu answered nonchalantly. The two chatted idly, while the girls and boys around them could only watch them longingly, secretly giving up on a certain idea in their hearts.

The reason is simple: the harmony between the two makes it difficult for outsiders to interfere.

"Li Zhu, I have something very important to tell you."

As a result, an uninvited guest barged in.

……

Chapter 127 Who is your favorite person?