I save a pathological girl with a twisted love story.

"I know that Xia Wu will only be satisfied if I completely rebel against my mother."

"But I can't do that."

"I should hate my mother for what she did to me. But what do I have to hate? I didn't suffer any abuse in my life; in fact, she treated me very well."

"I have nothing to complain about; this is the life many people yearn for."

"But I have a right to hate."

"Because that's what Natsugiri thinks."

"But I felt no hatred in my heart, only sorrow."

"My mother was so tragic."

"However, this is truly foolish kindness. I actually want to die, yet I'm still pitying my own mother."

"He clearly wanted to die."

She thought to herself that.

Every day, Chiho would eat lunch with Natsugiri Kai at noon.

Xia Wuzhao's reward was a paper crane made of folded coins.

After receiving it, Chiho would carefully place it in a jar.

The girl would not bring it home because her mother hated such things.

—A daughter should only receive love from her own parents.

How can we obtain it from other places?

Chiho understood what her mother was thinking, so she would only put the origami cranes in the literature club's jar.

Just like the bouquets in the Literature Department and the ruins in the mountains.

She cherished these origami cranes immensely because she valued the sentiment behind them, not the money.

Chiho originally thought that as long as she kept doing this, she could become lovers again.

But that's not the case. The two are just good friends. Even if they send each other a lot of lunches and spend a lot of time together, they are still just good friends.

They are not lovers.

Summer vacation is just around the corner.

"During summer vacation, Natsugiri Kai will definitely return to the seaside town. But Asahi Aoi will also return to the seaside town."

"Will nothing really happen during a whole month of summer vacation? That's impossible. Asahi Aoi will definitely make a move. She might actually become Natsugiri Kai's lover."

"Because Aoi Asahi is now Natsugiri Kai's favorite girl."

"Self-reliant, hardworking, brave, and possessing great courage."

"She's practically radiating light right now, while I? There's nothing about me that shines."

"The only thing that can attract him is this body."

Chiho felt increasingly anxious; she worried that Natsugiri would be taken away by Asahiri.

I'm anxious about what my mother will do next.

There was so much unease in my heart, and this unease gradually turned into pain.

July 23rd.

Chiho felt so anxious and impatient.

It was lunchtime again, and she and Xia Wuzhao were eating their lunchboxes: "Where are you planning to go during summer vacation?"

“I’ll probably go back to the seaside town, or stay here,” Xia Wuzhao said. “Unless something unexpected happens, I’ll stay here. The house in the seaside town has already been rented to someone else, so if I go back now I’ll only be able to stay in a hotel.”

Chiho's eyes darkened.

This news should have been a cause for celebration, but Chiho felt even more pain.

—If Asahi Aoi manages to get Natsugiri Kai back to the seaside town, then she and he might be able to stay at a hotel together.

They might confirm their relationship that evening.

"Just thinking about that kind of future makes me feel suffocated."

"I felt so painful that I was dizzy, and I simply couldn't accept it."

"I was the one who started everything! I was the one who became your lover first!"

"But why is this happening?!"

She pursed her lips, and after a long while, she pretended to be nonchalant and said to Xia Wuzhao, "I've probably been sending her lunchboxes for a week now."

"That's right, so what?"

"Don't you feel happy yet?" Chiho said angrily, "I've already done so much."

The girl seemed somewhat resentful, her chopsticks constantly poking at the bento box, smashing a broccoli into tiny pieces.

Xia Wuzhao folded the banknotes into origami cranes and handed them to Qianhui.

Even though Chiho accepted the origami cranes, she was still somewhat dissatisfied.

Anxiety and impatience caused her to become somewhat emotionally unbalanced.

She said, "What do I need to do to make you my boyfriend?"

"Don't you know what to do?" Xia Wuzhao asked the girl in return.

"I don't know what to do," Chiho retorted. "If I knew, why aren't we dating yet?"

“Because even if you knew, you wouldn’t do it,” Xia Wuzhao said.

"Huh? Do I really know?" Chiho said in a puzzled tone, "But I don't think I know."

"If you didn't know, you wouldn't be in so much pain."

Xia Wuzhao said calmly, "Haven't you been saying you wanted to die? This is proof of your suffering."

"Even though you're in so much pain you can't walk, you're lying—hoping that you'll get better through this endurance. But your mind is so sharp that you can't deceive yourself with this lie."

"If you were any more foolish, you might not have realized this."

"If you were any more foolish, you might even thank your mother."

"But you are just too smart. You can clearly see why your mother loves you so much."

"You're smart enough to see that if you don't endure it, it will lead to a future where your family breaks apart. That's why you're enduring it."

"Your heart has become twisted, Chiho."

Xia Wuzhao said hurtful things.

“I’ve already made changes,” Chiho said stubbornly. “Don’t you know? Now I decide where I go after school every day.”

"However, I often go to cooking classes. Otherwise, how do you think I have such good cooking skills? It's all thanks to hard work and learning."

The more she spoke, the more confident she became: "When my mother asked me to go to tutoring classes, I refused without hesitation."

"Now, I can decide for myself when I'm out of school."

"Isn't this a change?"

She asked Xia Wuzhao a question in return, seemingly wanting to receive his praise.

Her heart was pounding, but she felt extremely unsure.

"Then why do you still go to tutoring classes?" Xia Wuzhao looked at Qianhui, his words piercing her heart like a dagger: "You say you want to take cooking classes or something, but you just don't want to anger me."

"You didn't want to disobey your mother, nor did you want to anger me. So you chose this compromise."

Xia Wuzhao chuckled and said, "Is this a change? It's just your innate intelligence."

"You're just running away."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ai asked Xia Wuzhao in her mind with a puzzled look: "Lord Xia Wuzhao, didn't you say before that this is also a form of resistance?"

"That happened a week ago," Xia Wuzhao silently replied in her heart. "Chiho is a girl who coldly watches herself sink into depravity."

"She has now adapted to this life and is even quite pleased with it."

Xia Wuzhao's answer left Xiao Ai speechless.

All she could do was keep an eye on Chiho.

Chiho's lips trembled slightly. She tucked her hair behind her ear and turned to look at Natsumi.

"Haha, you're making me sound like a tragic heroine, like Cinderella being abused by her stepmother." She laughed; "How could that be? I don't know how many people envy my life now, and I don't know how many people are jealous of it."

Upon hearing this answer, Xia Wuzhao simply finished her bento.

He placed the box on the table and prepared to leave.

Chiho was somewhat taken aback. She asked, "Are you leaving? Now?"

Natsugiri Kai did not answer Chiho's question.

However, before stepping out the door...

He then said, "Words can't change anything, because facts are facts."

"You can comfort yourself with all sorts of reasons, but what's the point?"

"Cinderella's carriage will disappear at twelve o'clock."

"But her shining past will never disappear, but what about you?"

Xia Wuzhao spoke heavily to Chiho in a soft voice, but did not hear a reply from Chiho.

"That's why I hate you, Chiho."

After saying that, Xia Wuzhao left the Literature Department.

Even with the windows open for ventilation, the Literature Club was still unbearably hot during the sweltering summer.

Chiho tilted her head back, sweat trickling from her temples, trickling down her cheeks and down to her chin.

It dripped and fell into the lunchbox.

How could he be so heartless?

Like an unmelting iceberg, it cannot be changed even a little bit no matter what.

The girl was almost in despair!

They could only watch helplessly as things spiraled into the abyss.

"I never used to care about these things."

"Even if I were to fall into the abyss before, I wouldn't care."

"But why am I in so much pain right now?"

"Do I—really not care?"

A strong wind suddenly blew in from outside the window, making the leaves sway.

The wind blowing through the open window may be due to the building's structure.

It emitted a continuous, somewhat sorrowful "woo-woo" sound.

Chapter 165 This Summer Doesn't Belong to Me

"Xia Wuzhao, what are your plans for summer vacation?"

Asahi asked, standing next to Natsugiri Kai.

“There are no plans,” Xia Wuzhao said; “but I’ll probably be staying here.”

"Oh~~"

Asahi hesitated for a moment, then said, "This summer, quite a few students at school wanted to go back to their seaside town. After all, they've been away for a month, and now it's a good time to go home and see their parents. They miss their parents, and their parents miss them too."

"So, you also want to go back?" Xia Wuzhao looked at Asahi Aoi, his gaze inexplicably cold.

Asahi frowned and said, "They want to go back to the seaside town because they miss their parents. The reason I went back to the seaside town is because the school is closed during summer vacation. The library is not operating during this month of summer vacation, and I don't need to work at the library anymore."

“If I go to work elsewhere, it will be extremely inconvenient to travel while living at school. So, I thought I might as well take a break for a while. I don’t have anywhere else to go, so I might as well go back and see what the seaside town is like, especially the school.”

"Anyway, I have nothing else to do."