I won't be a loser.

“Ah! Ah——”

With a scream, Mari Fuuokana fell to the floor. She had never expected that the other person's bed was so small. She just dodged slightly and fell down. She didn't feel much pain and she regained consciousness. She supported herself on the floor with one hand and looked at her clothes in panic with the other hand.

"Are you finally awake?"

When Mari Kazeoka was feeling uneasy and panicked after encountering those TV dramas and some rumors and thinking about the bad things, a familiar voice sounded. She couldn't help but restrain her confused heart, and slowly looked at the boy who sat up on the bed with uneasy eyes.

"Your saliva is all over my face, Mari. I wanted to get up early, but you held me so tightly I couldn't open my eyes. I struggled, but you held me even tighter. Have you ever considered finding a boyfriend?"

"What's going on? Why am I..."

Looking at Kento sitting on the bed, Mari Fukaoka vaguely remembered what happened last night, but most of her clear memories only stayed on the part where she complained about work and her love life. The rest was a blur and unclear no matter how she thought about it.

She stared blankly at the bed. Xianren, who was in pajamas, crawled up from the bed, came to her and extended his hand. She hesitated and stretched out her hand.

He held the other person's delicate hand tightly. Even though she was mature and not young, when holding her hand, Xianren found that her hand seemed to be no different from Setsuna and Saionji Sekai's hands, but was even more delicate.

He pulled her up from the ground, looked at Mari Fukazaki who was observing the room, and then Xianren slowly picked up the tissue on the desk and wiped his cheek.

"Is this... your home?"

"Last night, you were drunk. Since I didn't know where your home was and I asked but didn't get an answer, I took you back to my house."

Looking at Xianren standing by the desk and watching him wiping his cheeks, Mari Fukaoka remembered some things that happened last night and the dream she had just had. Her pretty cheeks instantly turned red, full of the shyness of a little woman. She bit her lips lightly with her teeth and her eyes suddenly dodged.

"S-Sorry....for causing you trouble."

She never thought that she would show such an inappropriate side in front of a high school student, and even need him to take her home to take care of her... She felt that her shame was about to explode.

"No, it's not a big deal. I was just about to prepare breakfast. Want to join us?"

After sobering up, Mari Fukaoka's mind was still somewhat numb from the shock of the facts. She responded subconsciously, and when she came to her senses, she saw Xianren taking out ingredients from the refrigerator and preparing breakfast. Mari Fukaoka's cheeks turned red again. She asked where the bathroom was, then avoided Xianren and went into the bathroom alone. She closed the door, sat on the toilet, and sorted out the information she had learned.

"Last night, I originally wanted to invite him to have dinner with me, hoping to leave a good impression on him and relieve my boredom. However, during the meal, he complained to himself and got drunk. He was taken home by a high school student of his...

There was no doubt that she was unqualified as an adult. Mari Fukaoka couldn't help but cover her cheeks with her hands, immersed in the intense shame. She sighed miserably, and her mood calmed down a little, and she thought of other things.

"Being taken care of is fine, but last night... I think I even slept in the same bed with him?"

hiss--

Mari Fukaoka, who had never slept in the same bed with a boy since she was a child, bit her lips tightly and clenched her fists. She never thought that her "first time" would be given to such a high school boy. She felt a little depressed, but also a little regretful.

"Um?!"

Sensing a hint of regret in her heart, Mari Fukaoka became alert, realizing that her thoughts seemed a bit dangerous. Why did she have such thoughts?!

but.......

Looking at the mirror not far away, she could vaguely see her side profile. Mari Fukaoka was a little confused. Even though she was immersed in work on weekdays and had no time to think about things like love, she still had a relatively clear understanding of herself.

Even in the entire publishing house, her appearance is at least above average, right?

Boys who have already entered high school cannot possibly not know anything. Seeing those news, not only high school students, but even middle school students have become popular with dating, as well as those messy things...

"If it's him... well... what am I thinking!"

When she thought about how she had kissed a high school boy who was seven or eight years younger than her while she was asleep, Mari Fukaoka couldn't help but feel ashamed again.

When Xianren prepared breakfast and saw Mari Fukaoka coming out of the bathroom with a rosy face, if he hadn't heard any strange noises inside, he would have suspected that she had done something strange in the bathroom.

"Breakfast is ready."

"Um... I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble and asking you to help prepare breakfast."

After calming herself down, Mari Fukaoka realized that she was an adult in society after all. She looked at the young man in front of her and thanked him as calmly as possible.

"Nothing, I had to prepare breakfast anyway, it's just the difference between one person and two people."

After bringing the breakfast to the table, Mari Fukaoka looked at Xianren with some surprise at the sumptuous breakfast in front of her. She didn't expect that the young man had such cooking skills. She slowly sat down at the dining table and saw Xianren sitting down as well. The two looked at each other, and Xianren smiled at her, then quietly started to have breakfast.

"Well, I'm starting."

Watching the wise man enjoying his breakfast, Mari Fukaoka also picked up her chopsticks and ate in silence...

"Do you live alone?"

"Ah."

"yesterday......."

"Huh? Yesterday? Oh, the person I notified was my girlfriend. She lives nearby. I came back a little late that night, and she might be worried, so I contacted her."

After hearing Mari Fukazaki's question, Xianren thought for a while and remembered his contact with Mai Kiyoura yesterday. He gave an answer with a smile, which surprised Mari Fukazaki, but also made her feel it was natural.

Even though it was just a brief contact, Mari Fukaoka saw many characteristics in Kento that attracted women. It would be surprising if a guy like Kento was not popular and had no girlfriend. She felt a little regretful in her heart because of the age gap between them. She looked at Kento who was cleaning the table and looked around the room carefully again.

"Oh, yesterday's bill!"

"I paid. The bill is on the desk."

Mari Fukaoka, who was sitting at the dining table, stood up and walked to the desk. She saw the receipt and her bag on the desk. She looked down at the price on the receipt, blinked, was silent for a moment, took the receipt in front of her, and carefully looked at the price again.

The prices of the dishes were normal, no different from what she knew. But when her eyes fell on the drinks and saw the price of the red wine, she couldn't help but close her eyes, then slowly opened them again -

"......"

The price hadn't changed at all; she wasn't mistaken.

She closed her eyes, sighed softly, covered her forehead, and then silently looked down at her bag. She took out her wallet and rummaged through it... The cash seemed... not enough?

At the same time, she looked at Xianren, who was still cleaning up the dishes, with some confusion. She didn't understand how the boy could afford such a high price and pay for it.

"Um...I don't have enough cash...can we wait until tonight?"

"Hmm? Yeah, that's okay."

"Um....sorry."

She had already forgotten how many times she had apologized to this boy today. As an adult, Mari Fukaoka's self-esteem had suffered a considerable blow.

After glancing at the time on the desk, she looked at Xianren, asked about the nearest subway station, clasped her hands together in apology, and said that she would deliver the cash to him tonight, then hurriedly left Xianren's apartment and rushed to work...

I didn't tell my mother about Xianren, but over the weekend, my mother seemed to have noticed something.

On a weekend evening, Sekai Saionji returned home with Oko Saionji and was left in the living room and questioned about a series of things concerning Kento. With her perfunctory and evasive answers, Oko Saionji was rarely angry with her.

She also said that if Kento could not be guaranteed to be with her and appear in front of her before the weekend of next week, then she would interfere in the relationship between Sekai Saionji and Kento.

Troubled by this matter, Saionji Sekai didn't know how to deal with it, nor how to face the wise man...

As usual, Sekai Saionji came downstairs to Setsuna's house and waited for Setsuna to go out. Looking at Kento's apartment, she wanted to meet Kento and be intimate with him, but she didn't know how to talk to him about meeting Yuko, so she stood there in a dilemma.

When he was considering whether he should tell his mother the truth directly, tell her in front of Saionji Yuiko that he and Kento had broken up, and then maintain their relationship in private to resolve this trouble -

"Who?"

She stared blankly at a strange woman in business attire walking out of Xianren's apartment. Her face was full of surprise and confusion, and she stared at her with blank eyes. She walked all the way from Xianren's apartment door to the opposite side of the road. She seemed to notice her and nodded slightly at her, then walked away and disappeared in front of her...

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It's so cool to use the self-destruct deck to brush the event

Thanks to Mo Gushang, you are a monster for your monthly ticket! Thanks to everyone for the recommendation votes!

Cherry Blossom Season: 166. Sleepy Strawberry Soda!

"Yeah, good morning."

Coming out of the apartment, not long after Mari Fukaoka left, Kento also walked out of his own apartment. He saw Sekai Saionji standing in front of Kiyoura's house on the roadside. He smiled and greeted her as usual, but he saw that the girl rarely looked up to respond to him.

After looking at the other person with some confusion, the wise man came to the girl and waved his hand slightly at her. The distracted Saionji Sekai finally reacted and looked at the wise man in front of her in surprise.

"Xian-Xianren? Why...when?"

"I greeted you just now, but you didn't respond at all."

"Sorry, I was thinking about something else. Um... someone just came out of your apartment..."

"Mari? She's my editor. She had something to discuss with me, so she came here early."

"H-I see... I thought... No, it's nothing. Um, good morning."

Saionji Sekai was a little surprised, and thought that the other party had some relationship with Kento. It was not that she did not trust Kento, but Kento looked too unsafe. Even if some mature women took the initiative to attack Kento, it was not impossible for her to do so.

So, when she saw Mari Fukaoka walking out of Kento's apartment, she kept guessing about her identity and whether she had any feelings for Kento.

"Well, good morning. I'm going to school first."

"Ah."

After the usual greetings, Xianren, who did not take the same route to school as Saionji Sekai and Setsuna, waved slightly to the girl in front of him, said goodbye, and walked towards his own school.

Looking at the figure of the wise man leaving, Xiyuanji World couldn't help biting her lips...

"Everyone, clean up your desks. Today is the test. Get ready and start."

Shin Fukuhara walked into the classroom and said something expressionlessly that made all the students in the classroom feel uneasy. Xianren raised his head slightly, glanced at Shin Fukuhara standing on the podium, and then silently withdrew his gaze.

Compared to other people in the classroom, he was not unfamiliar with such surprise tests and had long been accustomed to them, so he did not feel much uneasy.

"Everyone, be quiet for a moment. If you're ready, we'll start distributing the test papers. Please pass them to the back."

Shin Fukuhara looked at the students in the classroom, cleaned up the desks, then silently distributed the test papers and glanced at the time on his watch.

"Well, get ready, let's get started."

......

"Mari, where did you go last night? I didn't see you come home. Did you secretly get a boyfriend and stay over at his house?"

At noon, Mari Fukaoka sat in the rest area, holding a coffee cup in one hand and her mobile phone in the other. Listening to the teasing of her roommate on the phone, she couldn't help but recall her embarrassment in the early morning and couldn't help biting her lips.

"So what?"

"Hmm, it doesn't look like she has a boyfriend. Did she go to a place like a bar?"

"I don't go to those places. I just spent the night outside. Is there anything strange about that?"

"There's nothing strange about staying overnight, but if you're someone who works all day and lives a routine life like a robot, and you suddenly don't come home for one night, it's still a little curious."

Mari Fukaoka couldn't help but grin, her facial expression became a little depressed, and she felt a little self-conscious in her heart, but when she heard with her own ears the evaluation of herself by the person she lived with, she couldn't help but feel a little disgusted.

"Don't you have a boyfriend too? Yuanzi, instead of teasing me here, why don't you think about your own affairs as soon as possible, okay?"

Sitting in her office, Machida Sonoko did not expect that Mari Fukaoka would "fight back" against her. Thinking about her own affairs, she couldn't help feeling depressed. She pursed her lips and changed the subject.

"So, what happened last night? Why didn't you come back all night?"

"No, nothing, just got drunk and spent the night at someone else's house."

"stranger?"

"A high school student I know."

"A high school boy?"

Machida Sonoko smelled the scent of gossip and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. She suddenly became curious about the fact that Mari Fukazekawa did not come home last night.

"Ah."

The faint humming sound of a mosquito was responded to softly, but it immediately aroused Machida Sonoko's greater curiosity.

"What happened?"

"No, it's nothing special. Let's talk about it when we get home in the evening. It's working hours now, and I should go to work."

"Wait--"

Without waiting for Machida Sonoko to speak, Mari Fukaoka hung up the phone, sighed at the phone, stood up silently, looked down at the coffee, picked it up, and walked towards her office.

Thinking about meeting with Xianren in the evening, Fuuokana Mari felt that she needed to work hard and finish her work as soon as possible...

His nose felt a little itchy, but he didn't sneeze after wiping it. Xianren glanced at Futaba Rio in front of him, then looked down at the pink transparent liquid in front of her.

"what is this?"

"Strawberry carbonated water."

Futaba Rio's answer made Xianren stunned for a moment. He glanced at the girl's expression and confirmed that she didn't seem to be joking before returning his gaze to the "carbonated water" in the beaker.

"self made?"

"Ah."

A little surprised, he stretched out his hand and picked up the beaker.