There is something wrong with my infinite flow teammates!

Why did his son disappear, why did only Yukinoshita Yukino and the boy named Kitahara Sora return home, and why was Hayama Hayato among the people who disappeared forever?

We can't assume that there are malicious intentions. After working in the Yukinoshita family for many years, Tatsuya Hayama has already figured out Yuki's mother's character. If the head of the family has the ability to rescue his own daughter, he would never hide it from others and only save his own daughter.

Assuming that only two people can be saved, it will not be the return of Kitahara Sora and Yukino, because the head of the family does not know Kitahara Sora at all, and Hayato often came to Yukinoshita's house to play when he was a child, so he is at least an acquaintance.

The head of the family was too good to Tatsuya Hayama. She indulged his ambitions, gave his son opportunities, and allowed Hayato Hayama to communicate with her two daughters. She knew everything and pretended to know nothing.

"Yes, I was too indulgent towards you, because you were good enough, and because Hayato-chan seemed good enough, so I let you go. Perhaps... I shouldn't have let you go."

"Madam of the house."

At this time, Hayama Miko interrupted, forcing a difficult smile on her face and denying, "Even if you reject my husband's 'ambition', he will work hard in other ways to win your approval. I know him too well. It's not that Hayato will stop after he messes up. Our fault is that we didn't fulfill our responsibilities as parents."

Kitahara Sora on this side glanced at the housewife with a worried face, sighed slightly in his heart, but he agreed with her words very much.

An ambitious person will not have his inner desire erased by the intersection of fate. Hayato Hayama messed up once when he was a child.

Even he himself has given up, but Tatsuya Yeyama is still looking forward to it, looking forward to reconciliation, looking forward to a tiny hope. As long as Yukino forgives Hayato, then there is a high probability that Haruno will also forgive him.

This is also the reason why Hayato Hayama studied at Sobu High School, because Tatsuya Hayama learned in advance that Yukino, who had returned from overseas, would study at Sobu High School.

They are powerless to do anything about what happened to their son, and now they can only regret that they did not let their son feel warmth in his short life.

They only forced their son, endlessly, hoping that their son would become what they wanted him to be.

In the Hayama family, Hayama Hayato's life is not his own, but his father's. He lives like a puppet.

If Hayato Hayama was a normal child, the couple would only feel sad instead of feeling more self-blame and guilt.

"Only when everything is irreversible will people wake up..." Mother Xue sighed heavily, "How sad."

Tatsuya Yeshan picked up the cup tremblingly, put his lips close to the cup, took another sip of tea, and fell silent again. It was not until a minute later that he looked up and looked directly into Yuki's mother's clear pupils.

"Yeah, it's really sad. In fact, compared to revenge, what I can't let go of is what I did. Suppose Hayato really lived for 17 years and experienced life according to his own ideas..."

Tatsuya Hayama's shoulders suddenly trembled slightly. He took off his glasses and wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, then smiled and said, "If he had existed in this world for 17 years, I wouldn't be so miserable. Maybe to him, I'm scarier than the person who killed him..."

After putting his glasses back on, Tatsuya Hayama seemed to be relieved. He faced Kitahara Sora and Yukino and said softly, "Kitahara-kun, Miss, although you can't tell me your experiences, I can guess that it must be... painful. It's great that you can come back alive."

Looking at Tatsuya Hayama whose voice was a little choked up, Kitahara Sora sighed softly and Yukino also lowered her eyes.

The father in front of me has really changed. Perhaps he is such an excellent person, but he is blinded by desire.

If it were someone else, they would definitely ask hysterically, why did you survive but your son couldn't escape?

What secrets do you have?

Losing the most precious things often makes people crazy and desperate. Maybe he was like this at the beginning, but now he can hold back the grief and give comfort instead. It is really amazing.

"It's great that you guys are back alive. I'm not such a bad guy, after all. I am his father... I have my own ambitions, but I do this mostly for him, so that he can live a happy life in the future. But..."

"You did it for your own sake, and for the sake of your children's future, but you never thought that your children would have no future. You deprived them of their only life, you self-righteous father..."

Mother Xue glanced at her daughter, then reached out and took Xueno's delicate hand and placed it in her palm, stroking it gently. "It's normal. This is our 'common problem'. I thought so at first, until Xueno came home and I figured it out."

Xueno held her mother's hand and whispered softly: "Mother..."

"Mother, yes, Tatsuya, you are a father, and I am also a mother, but what are parents, and how do parents view their offspring?"

The lady looked at the couple in grief and said softly, "Parents always impose their own ideas on their offspring. Your ambition is actually... based on Hayato's future happiness. We always think that they don't understand, and always convince ourselves that they will understand in the future. We always use our status as elders to force them. We want them to be happy, but we don't consider whether they will really be happy in the future."

After saying this, Kitahara Sora couldn't help but look at Xue's mother's face, and the other party nodded and smiled at him slightly, then continued.

"They will never be grateful to us, just like I arranged Yukino's life without permission. My daughter will not be grateful to me, and she shouldn't be grateful to me. I should be grateful to my own children."

Be grateful to your children?

Miko Hayama became confused, and Tatsuya Hayama was stunned for a moment and then fell into deep thought. He thought about this passage quietly and only had a slight clue when Yuki's mother spoke again.

"We should thank them for coming into our world and allowing us to participate in witnessing their growth, because being able to witness their happiness is the greatest happiness for us as parents, and imposed 'happiness' can only bring misfortune to both parties."

Kitahara Sora frowned slightly and fell into deep thought as he looked at the mother and daughter in front of him.

Mother Xue gently touched Xueno's head, her eyes full of love, "Our children, they are not our children at all, they don't belong to us..."

She turned her eyes to Kitahara Sora and said with a smile, "They came into this world with our help, but they definitely didn't come because of us. All we can give them is love, not ideas. They have their own ideas."

"We can protect their bodies but not their souls, because their souls belong to tomorrow. We can try our best to become like them, but we must never let them become like us..."

After Xue's mother finished speaking, the entire tea room fell silent.

Yukino looked up in a daze, her eyes reddened as she looked at her mother, while Kitahara Sora was in admiration, admiration from the bottom of her heart.

What an open-minded mother she is.

This is the most sincere thought of parents. What they love most is their children, but most people do not understand this truth, nor do they know how to do it, including the Yeshan couple.

They think everything they do is for the good of their children, but it actually has the opposite effect.

When Xue's mother said that children will not be grateful to their parents, she did not mean it in a literal sense. Gratitude is a basic human ethics, let alone towards parents?

It's not that children won't be grateful to their parents, but that parents don't need their children to be grateful for their efforts.

'Children and grandchildren have their own blessings' is a common saying, but it contains a profound truth. The head of the Yukinoshita family fully explained this profound truth in just a few words.

Parents can correct their children’s mistakes and help them grow up properly, but they cannot correct their lives.

"Because their souls belong to themselves, their lives will not go backwards..."

Tatsuya Yeshan's eyes slowly widened, and he murmured in a choked voice: "Time...will not stay in the past...I understand, I have understood this truth for a long time...but it is meaningless now."

At this time, Beiyuan Kong finally couldn't help but sigh and said softly: "Uncle Ye Shan, if, I mean if he comes back, what will you do?"

"What if? Are there any what ifs in the world?" Ye Shan Tatsuya shook his head, "I never say to myself, 'What if' and 'If I had known this', I would..."

The father was stunned, and even his wife stared at Kitahara Sora blankly.

This morning, the housekeeper of the Yukinoshita family made three phone calls, saying that the head of the family invited the two of them to come and reminisce about the past, but each one was rejected by Tatsuya Hayama.

It was not until Xue's mother called and invited them in a semi-threatening tone that they came here reluctantly.

The couple did not need Xue's mother's comfort because they understood. The reason they didn't want to come was that they guessed that the other party would bring up this matter, and they didn't want this scar that would never heal to become hideous again.

But now, the "what if" of the young man in front of them made their hearts beat "thump thump"... What if...

There are no ifs and wherefores. The head of the Yukinoshita family doesn't like to hear "hypotheses". Whether it is business matters or trivial matters in life, she only looks at the results.

Although it was an unrealistic idea, his heart began to pound. He spoke tremblingly, "If...if I could meet him...I just want to say sorry..."

"Just sorry?" Kitahara Sora seemed to be in a better mood. He nodded and explained: "We have been through a lot, and we will go through more. And Hayato did die once."

He slowly lifted up the teacup and took a sip of the strong tea. "The reason why Auntie told you so much is to prepare you mentally and prepare you to accept the truth, because perhaps the future will be even more cruel..."

Tatsuya Yeyama stood up suddenly, his breathing became rapid and his legs were shaking a little.

Ye Shanda didn't understand either. His mind was in a mess, as if something was pulling him and pulling his thoughts in an unrealistic and ridiculous direction.

He didn't understand, but he really wanted to know what his classmate meant by "I died once".

But Beiyuan Kong shook his head and fell silent.

He turned his gaze to Yukino again, and the girl smiled at him without any intention of explaining.

So he looked at Mrs. Yukinoshita with hope.

"We parents always think we can do something for our children, but in the end, we can do nothing. Tatsuya, you should thank Kitahara-san. He is the one who brought you hope."

"Brought hope?" Ye Shan Tatsuya turned his gaze back to Kitahara Sora and asked in a trembling voice: "Brought... hope? What... hope?"

This strange young man, the young man who the head of the Yukinoshita family had clearly warned not to be disturbed by anyone, was just picking up the teacup and taking a sip of the strong tea.

Tatsuya Yeshan saw that although the man named Kitahara Sora had a stern face, his pupils were filled with a gentle smile.

It's like he has recognized me and his friend's father, but do I need his recognition? I am completely unrelated to him, right?

Ye Shan Tatsuya also saw that there was a tea stem standing upright in his teacup...

At this time, Mrs. Yukinoshita refilled her teacup with tea again. In the middle of the tea, there was a tea stalk swaying vertically until it stood upright in the middle of the teacup.

That is a sign of luck, and this rare occurrence indicates that good things are about to happen.

Ye Shanda also did not believe the legend circulating among little girls. He still did not know what that ambiguous sentence meant, and the people present did not seem to intend to answer him.

until……

The sound of the paper door of the tea room being stretched was heard, and he heard the familiar yet strange, crying voice "Father, Mother..."

The couple was stunned, thinking they were hallucinating. They didn't even dare to turn their heads around immediately, but instead stared blankly at the tea stems standing upright in the teacup...

"Father, mother..."

It seems like a lucky, no, a happy thing, really happened, and I feel a huge sense of happiness!

Because, this is indeed the voice of my son. How many years has it been since I last heard him call me? Not many years, maybe just a few months... How real this voice is, and yet how unreal it is.

"Hayato, how long has it been since you came to visit Auntie's house?"

Mother Xue looked at Hayato Hayama outside the door and smiled gently, "It's been almost four years, right? How about staying for dinner today? With your parents?"

The Ye Shan couple finally turned around tremblingly. They mustered up their courage and were ready to die...

What came into view was his son, a whole and complete son.

He was wearing a clean and tidy school uniform, and his posture was straight. His sunny and handsome face was so familiar, yet a little strange. His eyes were red, and he looked a little embarrassed, as if he was trying hard to hold back tears, and he seemed a little timid and didn't dare to face his parents.

Miko Hayama covered her mouth and tears as big as beans rolled down her eyes.

Tatsuya Yeshan couldn't help but let out a low sob. He lowered his head and shrugged his shoulders like a child who had made a mistake.

It really was, their son, the son they had been longing for.

They had tossed and turned countless nights, unable to sleep, and had also dreamed countless nights of their son appearing at the porch and saying to them as usual, "I'm back."

Then he woke up from his dream and found that his lover also had his eyes open, and then they hugged each other and cried.

Completely uncontrollable crying sounded in the tea room, and the parents rushed towards their son. The three of them hugged each other tightly and sobbed.

They expressed their thoughts for each other through their actions, and whispered about the sorrow of these days...

Mother Xue also wiped her eyes gently. This was only a temporary reunion, but Hayato no longer had any chance.

Is it more cruel to do this?

She looked at Yukino, then at her daughter and the boy she approved of.

After all, parents can do nothing for their children. They can only hold on to hope, wait, expect and watch.

Watching their happiness, or misfortune...

0 Chapter 4 Extra Tasks

The banquet hall of Yukinoshita's house is similar to a high-end family restaurant. Since there are quite a lot of people at the party, Yukishita's mother arranged for everyone to have dinner here.

The decoration is full of Japanese style, with warm-toned chandeliers and a dining table that can accommodate 10 people next to the cooking table similar to that of a buffet restaurant.

With the development of the times, Japanese cuisine, which is famous for its freshness and delicacy, has been brought to the extreme by chefs, especially the "freshness" of the ingredients, which is almost to the point of being harsh. This is why they have civilized the world with sashimi.

The table was filled with fresh and exquisite appetizers that looked like works of art. When the guests were seated, the chef was still busy preparing the main course, just like in a high-end restaurant, where the chef usually cooked while the guests ate.

The chef of the Yukinoshita family is about sixty years old, a kind-faced old man. He became deaf-mute due to a serious illness when he was young, and it was Yuki's mother who took him in.

Because of this special feature, Xue's mother was also confident in him taking charge of this occasion.

Tatsuya Hayama had been wondering why the head of the Yukinoshita family valued this boy named Kitahara Sora so much. After reuniting with his son and learning the truth that refreshed his worldview, he suddenly realized it.

I finally understood why Yuki's mother suppressed this matter and why she valued Kitahara Sora so much, because without him, Yukino would never come back.

Yuki's mother sat at the head seat at the table, with Yukino and Kitahara Sora on her left and right. Haruno was on a business trip to Osaka and had not returned home yet, so the girl who liked to stir up trouble was not here today.

Next to Kitahara Sora is a short-haired girl named Kato Megumi, and next to her is Kitahara Sora's sister Kitahara Suzune.

Mother Xue invited everyone here today. This is a celebration banquet and also a welcome party for Hayato Yeshan. Some things also need to be explained.

It is worth mentioning that when Suzune came to sister Yukino’s house for the first time, she seemed a little restrained, as she had never seen such a big house before.

It was not until Xue's mother took her hand, touched her head affectionately, and whispered to her for a while that she relaxed.

The Ye Shan couple sitting opposite still had red eyes. After learning the truth, they pulled their son and knelt down in front of Beiyuan Kong without saying a word. After being forcibly pulled up, they still bowed deeply and did not get up for a while.

"Everyone, let's eat. Just treat it as a family dinner so don't be too reserved."

Mother Yuki smiled and greeted them, and said to the Hayama couple, "Tatsuya, Miko and you too, things have come to an end for the time being, so stop crying."

The Yeshan couple looked at each other, nodded to Xue's mother, and then nodded slightly to Kitahara Sora, and then everyone picked up their chopsticks.

Kitahara Sora picked up a piece of salmon sushi, dipped it in the sauce and put it in his mouth with an admiring look. The soft and glutinous rice perfectly matched the firm and full texture of the salmon.