I save a pathological girl with a twisted love story.

"Because if I answer this question, everything I have will collapse."

Chiharu Tokisaka glared at Kai Natsugiri, her voice fierce: "You keep saying things like 'deception,' 'deception,' as if you're accusing me? Are you saying that everything you've said to others is true?"

"Are you saying you've never told a lie?"

"Yes, I have never lied." Xia Wuzhao said firmly.

"Pshaw, liar."

Chiharu Tokisaka seemed to have caught something red-handed. She raised her chin and scolded Natsugiri Kai, "Liar."

“If that’s what you want to think, then so be it.” Xia Wuzhao looked at the leaves still covered in water droplets. “I won’t be like some people who insist that even if something is fake, it’s real.”

Are you talking about me?

Chiharu Tokisaka retorted, clenching her fist: "You keep saying that I lied to you, so tell me exactly how I lied to you."

“I—I just overheard your parents’ and teacher’s conversation.”

The girl's face suddenly turned deathly pale.

"You were following me?"

She was somewhat resentful.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Xia Wuzhao had a rather insincere expression. "After all, I'm really curious about what a three-way meeting is like."

He looked at Chiharu Tokisaka: "Senpai, there seems to be a significant difference between your mother and the mother you described."

The malice on Xia Wuzhao's face was all too obvious.

Such malice shattered Chiharu Tokisaka's self-esteem.

It was as easy as piercing a piece of paper.

Chiharu Tokisaka took a deep breath and tried her best to calm herself down.

She tilted her head to look at the sky and city outside the tree, and said with a touch of sadness, "My mother, she was really just a very ordinary person."

"She's stingy, extravagant when she's poor, and outdated. She always views things in the present through the lens of the past. Like today, she asked me for the teacher's phone number because she wanted to treat the teacher to dinner."

"It looks stupid, right?"

"But, she did this for me."

"She always thinks she's doing it for my own good, but it always makes me uncomfortable. Like today, she insisted that I walk to school, saying it was to get some kind of exercise."

"This behavior is really stupid. It is indeed painful and annoying."

"But ultimately, it's all for my own good."

“She is my mother. She always says inappropriate things and does things that make people sad.”

"The number of things she has done that have hurt and saddened me is countless."

"But her kindness and love for me are also countless."

Chiharu Tokisaka looked at Natsugiri Kai in front of her: "So, in my eyes, my mother is a very good mother."

She smiled, a radiant smile.

It's as if all the previous pain, sadness, and grief have vanished.

It was as if she had returned to her mother's love.

It seems as if nothing ever goes wrong.

"What a good kid, Tokisaka-senpai."

Xia Wuzhao chuckled; "It's truly touching, truly admirable. It almost makes one want to cry."

"If only you really thought that way."

"It's fun to deceive yourself, isn't it?"

Suddenly, it started raining again.

The damp, continuous rain poured down. A gloomy, damp atmosphere permeated every corner of the space.

Water droplets splashed everywhere, and streams of water flowed recklessly down the slope.

Wash away all the broken branches and withered leaves.

“If you truly felt that way, then you wouldn’t have acted that way.” Xia Wuzhao squinted at the rain outside. “It’s shameful, isn’t it? It’s humiliating.”

"It must feel embarrassing."

Xia Wuzhao then looked at Tokisaka Chiharu, whose face was pale and whose lips were pursed.

“Before, you were clearly ashamed of your mother, you thought your mother was a disgrace, right?”

"Because—I saw it."

"You really are arrogant." Tokisaka Chiharu racked her brains for words to attack Natsugiri Kai, clutching at the last straw: "Your ego is excessive. You seem to think you're some kind of amazing person."

She mimicked Xia Wuzhao's tone: "But who do you think you are?"

"I'm just Xia Wuzhao." Xia Wuzhao didn't care about Tokisaka Chiharu's attack: "A student from Midori School, you should be considered a familiar stranger to me?"

"People who know the true face of the so-called 'happy family' that you want to hide and conceal."

"Actually, you were terrified the moment I saw you, weren't you? Because it meant that all the lies you told were about to be exposed."

“At that moment, you were actually very insecure. Because your mother was neither better than others, and there was nothing to show off. She was also different from ordinary parents, just like everyone else.”

"You know some of the things your mother says are outdated, ridiculous, and nonsensical. If someone saw them, they would definitely laugh at you."

"Moreover, this kind of ridicule is so irrefutable. Because it's not mocking your wealth and job, but mocking something more equal, something that everyone can do without paying a price."

"You understand, right? That's what they call 'love'."

"Your mother torments you without restraint, belittles you in front of others without restraint, and scolds you without restraint, causing you pain and unease."

"She doesn't care about you at all, not about your dignity, not about your social life, and not about your friends. She only comes to school once, but you're going to live here for three years."

"Her brazenness makes you feel ashamed too."

"But you still insist on talking about 'love' and such. Don't you find that ridiculous?"

Xia Wuzhao looked at Tokisaka Chiharu in front of her: "Am I wrong? You always say that your family is very happy and that your parents love you very much."

"But it seems your parents didn't do much. Of course, you can consider raising you and sending you to school as 'love.' But, that's how all parents are."

"Of course, I'm not denying this kind of love. But when you grow up and they get old, won't you have to take care of them?"

"At this moment, my heart feels like it's being pierced through."

"But I don't want to admit it. Because that would be like me losing."

"But what if we lose?"

She looked at Xia Wuzhao and said softly, "What do you take 'love' for? 'Love' is something that doesn't need comparison, and 'love' is something that doesn't need reciprocation."

"But even so, I don't want to lose."

Chiharu Tokisaka looked at Kai Natsugiri: "'Love' is 'love,' no matter what you say, it can't be changed."

“It’s so sad, Tokisaka.” Natsugiri Kai’s clothes were partially soaked by the rain, making her look somewhat disheveled. “I’ve never seen a child who is loved by their mother have to steal a bento box that’s thrown away at a convenience store, nor have I ever seen a child who is loved by their mother have been afraid to call home.”

"I have never seen a child who is loved by his mother feel inferior because of his mother."

"Tokisaka, you're lying."

"It's you!"

"You're always smiling happily and energetically. Isn't that just a way to hide your true feelings? You always portray yourself as a happy child, isn't that because you have doubts about happiness?"

"You always say you are happy, isn't it because you know you should be happy? But the reality is that you are often in pain and often shed tears?"

Are you deceiving yourself, unwilling even to expose the deception yourself?

"Tokisaka, you're disgusting."

Xia Wuzhao stared coldly at Tokisaka Chiharu: "I hate people like you who deceive themselves, pretending not to know when they are in pain."

"Tokisaka—you!"

"Stop talking!" Tokisaka Chiharu suddenly stepped forward and shoved Natsuki Kai to the ground, punching her in the face and body repeatedly.

"Who do you think you are! What gives you the right to speak to me like that, making such disgusting accusations?"

"What I've done has nothing to do with you?"

"Don't barge into my life!"

"Don't talk to me like that!"

Who do you think you are?

"You're the most disgusting one! Xia Wuzhao!"

She screamed, gritting her teeth.

His lips were trembling, and his eyes were straining.

He kept punching Xia Wuzhao.

The rain intensified, like a phantom white curtain.

Who do you think you are?!

She screamed desperately.

Chapter 334 Under the Quiet and Gentle Rain [4k]

The torrential rain poured down harder and harder, splitting the world apart and leaving only this gray place under the tree.

Small and damp.

Rainwater flowed down the asphalt road. Chiharu Tokisaka pressed Kai Natsugiri to the ground, glaring at her with anger and resentment.

There was little difference between a growl and a wail.

Who do you think you are?

"What right do you have to say such things to me?" the girl shouted angrily. "He's just a stranger, don't get too cocky! Xia Wuzhao!"

"Don't give me those completely useless pieces of advice!"

The monster tore through the old constraints, and its once cheerful smile was completely twisted into a hideous face.

Her strength was so great that it still retained the warmth of her labors on the land.

He tightly gripped Xia Wuzhao's throat, slowly cutting off the oxygen she could breathe.

His chestnut-gray hair hung down in a messy, dangerous way, like a snakeskin that had been shed. His pupils gleamed with a dangerous, brilliant light in their golden hue.

"You don't understand anything at all! Xia Wuzhao!"

"You know nothing about me! You understand nothing!"

She hissed, complained, and raged.

"You're just condescendingly criticizing me, you're just looking down on me!"

"What do you mean, 'I've never lied!'"

"It's all fake! It's all fake! I remember every single lie you've ever told!"

"You've told countless lies in front of Kirishima Chiho! In front of Asahi Aoi!"

"Don't pretend to be so righteous, Xia Wuzhao!"

"You are clearly the first, most disgusting! Lowest! Most repulsive! Worst person!"

"What kind of justice are you pretending to be?"

"No! Don't be so arrogant, Xia Wuzhao!"

Chiharu Tokisaka shouted angrily, finally able to unleash the pent-up rage within her.

She spoke incoherently and recklessly, venting her resentment towards Xia Wuzhao without restraint.

However, Natsugiri Kai simply looked at Tokisaka Chiharu calmly and quietly.

Raindrops trickled down her damp, chestnut-brown hair and landed directly on Xia Wuzhao's eyes, stinging so much that she couldn't stop blinking.

But Xia Wuzhao just kept her eyes open with all her might.