I save a pathological girl with a twisted love story.

She no longer hopes to find jobs that allow for long hours.

Second New Tokyo looks very big and very prosperous.

However, there are invisible cages that divide people and confine them to small cubicles.

Even if you've realized it, you still can't break free.

Asahi Aoi, on the other hand, needs to work at the library, just like before.

Immediately after Aoi Asahi left, Chiho blocked Natsugiri Kai at the school gate.

"Hmph, Xia Wu, are you going home now?"

Chiho looked at Natsumi with a smile.

"Otherwise what?" Xia Wuzhao said calmly; "What else would you do if you didn't go home?"

"I'll take you there."

Chiho blinked: "After all, if you go back by yourself, you still have to take a car."

Xia Wuzhao glanced at her: "Are you going that way?"

“No.” Chiho shook her head.

"Then why did you give it to me?"

Xia Wuzhao asked in return.

"Heh heh." Chiho chuckled. "Why do you look so scared? Do you think I'm going to eat you?"

She tapped Xia Wuzhao's shoulder: "You're a boy, I'm the girl."

"It doesn't matter, does it?"

Xia Wuzhao said this.

Chiho crossed her arms and sighed, saying, "I want to give Asahi a surprise, so I need to go to your house to decorate a few things."

Xia Wuzhao frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "Okay, since you're willing, then I'll leave it to you."

"Finally, they agreed."

Chiho sighed, "Really, you're too cautious."

Xia Wuzhao remained noncommittal.

"Being cautious is good, but being overly cautious can make you forget what's happening around you."

Chiho reminded her with a smile.

Xia Wuzhao said, "What are you talking about?"

"It's nothing." Chiho smiled. "Alright, let me take you home now."

She was walking side by side with Xia Wuzhao.

But suddenly, footsteps sounded behind me.

"Xia Wu, where are you planning to go?"

Aoi's voice came from behind.

Xia Wuzhao turned around and saw Asahi Himawari.

There were still beads of sweat on her forehead and her temples were still damp.

Judging from the looks of it, it ran all the way here.

"Aoi, didn't you go to the library?" Chiho's expression remained normal, as if she wasn't scared at being caught red-handed by Aoi.

"It only caused a short delay."

Aoi explained for a moment before looking at Chiho.

"What do you want to do, Chiho?"

Chapter 242 His cunning has put you in a dilemma.

Since returning from that summer vacation, Aoi Asahi realized one thing—Chiho now seemed as cunning as a demon.

She was as mature as an adult, and her methods were as despicable as an adult's.

In the past, Chiho, although she would hide her true thoughts, was more like a child; her attempts to conceal them were crude and easily discovered.

It's like covering it with a layer of paper.

"But now, Chiho's heart feels like it's locked in a metal box and sunk to the bottom of the sea. No one understands what she's thinking."

This afternoon, when Chiho was unusually well-behaved, Aoi Asahi had a bad feeling.

"Chiho already knows she has lost her memory, so she will definitely try to ask Natsugiri if she has amnesia. Perhaps she already knows that Natsugiri has amnesia."

"It's even possible that she speculated that I had also suffered from amnesia, and in the afternoon, she asked Xia Wuzhao about me, especially my memories of the seaside town."

"They've definitely started to have doubts."

"My attitude changed so drastically after I lost my memory and regained it; Chiho will definitely understand."

"She probably knows almost everything, the only thing she might not know is that she recovered her memories using a doll."

"But recently I've been staying at Natsugiri Kai's house. So she'll definitely think that the key to my memory recovery is at Natsugiri's house."

"This is a lucky guess. The key to regaining my memories is not in Xia Wu's house at all, but in that doll."

"But that doll is at Xia Wu's house."

"She must have made some moves when she left school today."

Aoi thought this way, so after school she pretended to go to the library, but actually just hid.

Seeing Chiho go to find Natsume, and witnessing their conversation, she quickly ran towards the school gate.

And they finally arrived.

She wiped away her sweat before politely asking Chiho, "Chiho, where are you all headed?"

Chiho smiled, her arms crossed in front of her: "Aoi, are you that nervous? I just want to go somewhere with Natsugiri."

"You're so nervous, it's like I'm about to take your place."

She spoke in an adult-like tone: "Lovers also need to give each other their own space. Being too aggressive will create cracks in the relationship. It's like a flame that dries up the relationship, turning it into hateful ashes."

Chiho warned Aoi Asahi in an adult-like tone, as if she had witnessed that scene firsthand.

But why would a sunflower be afraid?

She laughed and said, "But that's just the future, isn't it? It's just a possibility, not a certainty."

"Sigh, I just can't do anything with you."

She seemed discouraged, and her whole body relaxed.

"You're keeping a close eye on Xia Wu, A-Kui."

“Isn’t that obvious?” Aoi Asahi stroked her long black hair and said gently, “Because I like him, that’s why I keep a close eye on him.”

Chiho just laughed, annoyed. "Look at you. Aren't we friends? The way you're acting is like you're saying we're enemies."

Aoi just smiled gently and said, "We really are friends."

Chiho simply smiled at this, her smile unlike that of Aoi Asahi.

Aoi's smile is as gentle and tender as a Yamato Nadeshiko's, while Chiho's smile is a mischievous, quirky laugh.

She put her hands on her hips and said, "So what happens after that? After that, won't you still go to the library?"

She stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance: "There are so many people going to the library today. After all, most classes have finalized their activities for today. People are going to the library to look up information, and those who are putting on plays need to borrow classic books, so there should be a lot of people."

"If you don't go to work soon, it might cause a lot of problems."

She narrowed her eyes and smiled slyly like a fox; "This is the cultural festival, you know. If you miss the cultural festival, then even if Yokokawa Jun-sensei pities you, there's no way to keep your position as librarian."

"Isn't the librarian position very important to you? Are you willing to give it up?"

Chiho said to Aoi Asahi.

She put Aoi in a dilemma; compared to love, a job seemed insignificant.

However, this is not a morning drama.

The reality is that if Asahi Aoi loses her position as librarian, she will have neither a salary nor a place to live.

Tuition fees, rent, food, drinks, water, and electricity.

These will all be new expenses, enough to instantly deplete Asahi's financial reserves.

Aoi understood this perfectly well. She frowned deeply and unconsciously pursed her lips.

Chiho looked at Aoi Asahi and said to her, "What do you want to do?"

Aoi looked at Chiho and suddenly smiled.

"I will go back to being a librarian."

Chiho smiled too.

But then, Aoi said to Natsugiri Kai, "Help me, Natsugiri. I'm very busy at work today, so please help me."

Xia Wuzhao glanced at the Asahi sunflower.

Perhaps because she was Asahi Aoi, Natsugiri Kai simply nodded and said softly, "Consider it a return gift for all the help you've given me these past few days."

Chiho's smile froze for a moment.

Aoi smiled gently and said to Chiho, "We're not lovers yet, but we're still friends."

"If you're friends, isn't it common to help each other out?"

With that, she took Xia Wuzhao's hand and turned to walk into the school.

Chiho simply watched their backs as they walked away, then suddenly said in a completely emotionless tone, "Aoi, we've made it through today safely. But what about tomorrow? And the day after tomorrow?"

"I'm a very meticulous person. If I lose something, I have to get it back."

Hearing Chiho's words, Asahi Aoi turned to Chiho and said, "Isn't this wonderful?"

"Yes, that's good." Chiho smiled as well.

Asahi Aoi and Natsugiri Kai finally returned to school.

Chiho stopped looking at the two of them and nonchalantly returned to her car.

"Miss, where are we going now?" the driver asked.

"go to company."

Chiho stretched and looked out the window as she said this.

In reality, there are always some things that are more important than the soul.

As Natsugiri Kai and Asahi Aoi walked through the campus, their expressions and the atmosphere around them seemed completely out of place.

The faces of the other passersby were radiant with the color of youth, a color that was almost too much to bear.

It was so brilliant that no amount of exquisite craftsmanship could replicate it.

Summer Mist Kai and Asahi Aoi, on the other hand, are plain, as plain as water.

The others are like boiling water, while the two are like two distinct rivers compared to the others.

They walked very close, almost shoulder to shoulder.

This distance is too ambiguous for friends, and too distant for lovers.

Because they didn't hold each other's hands tightly.

They simply walked side by side.

"Have you been very busy with work lately?"

Xia Wuzhao said these words.

Asahi Aoi unconsciously smoothed her sideburns: "Yeah, it's pretty much what Chiho said. Because of the cultural festival, a lot of people are borrowing books."

"Are they all stage actors?" Xia Wuzhao asked. "Shouldn't the others prefer pop songs?"

"Because adults will be coming to see it."