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Kitagawa Ryosaku hugged Hoshino Hitomi's slender waist tightly and refused to let go. His handsome face was faintly revealed with a bit of crazy and paranoid possessiveness.

Kitagawa Ryotsuru leaned close to Hoshino Hitomi's cute little ear and said in a faint voice: "Didn't you say you don't understand me? It's okay, I can slowly tell you everything about me..."

The boy's clothes still had a faint orange scent left after being washed and dried with detergent, and the warm breath sprinkled on Hoshino Hitomi's neck.

Hoshino Hitomi lowered her eyes slightly, waiting quietly for Kitagawa Ryosaku to say next.

Although the boy's voice was very calm, Hoshino Hitomi could still vaguely hear emotions mixed with sadness and resentment in his voice.

Kitagawa Ryotsuru spoke slowly with a cold expression: "Oda Ryoko, this... is actually my sister's name."

"I once had a twin sister, but her health was not very good. She had been weak and sickly since she was born. My family members loved her very much, and I was no exception."

Once? If that's the case...his sister should have died too.

Considering how much Kitagawa Ryokaku hates his parents, it is probably because his parents treat Kitagawa Ryokaku as a substitute for his sister, which is why he gradually develops resentment towards him.

At this time, Hoshino Hitomi had already vaguely figured out Kitagawa Ryosaku's life experience, and a hint of complexity flashed in her eyes.

Kitagawa Ryotsuru narrated his experience with a half-smile, and said in a sarcastic tone: "Ever since I could speak, I had to give in to her in everything. No matter what it was, as long as she liked it, even if it was originally meant for me, I had to give it all to her."

"This didn't mean much to me at the time. At that time, as long as my parents thought I was well-behaved and sensible enough and didn't get annoyed with me, I was satisfied."

Kitagawa Ryotsuru changed the subject and said, "I thought life would be peaceful until Oda Yoshiko was just four years old. Her condition suddenly worsened and she couldn't even walk or breathe normally. She could only lie in bed day and night for treatment, but the hope of recovery was very slim. Even though my parents are both pharmaceutical scientists, they were powerless. In the end, we sent her to the best hospital in Japan for treatment, but her condition did not improve."

"My parents think that my sister has been weak and sickly since she was a child because of me, the calamity star. The reason why they say I am the calamity star is also ridiculous, because my physique is different from my sister's. My physique has always been good. They think that I absorbed my sister's nutrition before I was born, so she is weak and sickly."

"So my parents often left some ugly scars on inconspicuous parts of my body to relieve their hatred."

After saying this, Kitagawa Ryotsuru took off his white shirt again, revealing his back covered with scars.

Unlike the cold white skin on other parts of the boy's body, the scars on his back were like a cruel picture, which was horrible to look at.

Whip wounds, burns, knife wounds...all kinds of scabbed bright gray scars are like dug and abandoned gullies, reminding him of the injuries he had suffered.

Moreover, each scar on the boy's back was very deep, and even with the best medicine on the market, it was impossible to completely remove the scars.

Even someone like Hoshino Hitomi, who is accustomed to seeing horrific scars, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when she saw the scar on Kitagawa Ryokaku's back.

This level of injury would be extremely painful for an adult, let alone Kitagawa Ryosaku who was not even five years old at the time.

There actually are such vicious parents in the world... Hoshino Hitomi thought secretly.

Kitagawa Ryotsuru was just about to put on his white shirt again when he felt a cool and soft touch on his back.

"Don't move." Hoshino Hitomi said in a calm voice.

At some point, Hitomi Hoshino took out a small bottle of scar removal cream, dipped her slender fingers in the cream, and gently applied it to the boy's back.

Hoshino Hitomi said calmly: "Although I can't completely remove the scars on your back, I can at least make them lighter. This can be regarded as a small reward for your healing for me."

Beichuan Lianghe was silent for a long time, and asked in an unclear tone: "Aren't you afraid, sister?"

Hoshino Hitomi frowned slightly and asked in confusion: "Afraid? Why should I be afraid?"

Kitagawa Ryotsuru explained calmly, "When I was studying abroad, I had to take off my clothes and change into swimming trunks for swimming lessons. When I came out after changing into swimming trunks, a few girls saw the scar on my back and were frightened to the point of turning pale, but they didn't say anything to my face."

When Kitagawa Ryotsuru said this, a trace of loneliness flashed in his eyes.

Although this incident happened more than ten years ago, it has always been a hurdle in his heart that he cannot get over, and the scar behind it is also the source of his inferiority complex.

Compared to those people's strange looks, he was actually more afraid that the girl he had always liked, Hoshino Hitomi, would feel disgusted or nauseated with him because of this...

"But after the boys saw the scar on my back, they all thought I was some kind of weirdo or something. There were even some weird rumors circulating in the school. Soon after, no one wanted to play with me anymore, and I stopped going to swimming lessons."

Hoshino Hitomi opened her mouth slightly to say something, but was interrupted by Kitagawa Ryosaku's action.

Kitagawa Ryosaku slowly turned around, lowered his head and looked at Hoshino Hitomi with a gloomy expression.

The boy's slender hands with visible light blue veins gently grasped Hoshino Hitomi's slender right wrist, and there were thin calluses on the boy's fingertips.

A gentle smile immediately appeared on Kitagawa Ryosaku's face, and he silently rejected Hoshino Hitomi's kindness.

"Sister, keep your scar removal cream for yourself and don't waste it on me. My scars cannot be removed. I have tried scar removal before but it didn't work, so I know this better than my sister."

Hoshino Hitomi looked up at Kitagawa Ryotsuru, her eyes full of an expression that would not tolerate rejection, and she said indifferently: "I still have scar removal cream, you can use this bottle first, try it more, the scars will eventually be removed."

Kitagawa Ryosaku was slightly stunned. After a while, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a smile from the heart.

"Thank you."

after a moment

After applying medicine to Kitagawa Ryotsuru, Hoshino Hitomi asked softly, "So, why did you go to school under your sister's name?"

Upon hearing this, Kitagawa Ryotsuru raised his lips into a mocking sneer.

"Because I longed for my mother's love since I was a child, even though my parents quarreled and divorced because of my sister's illness, my sister's custody was given to my mother, and I lived with my father, I would often visit my mother."

"Although they are divorced, they still see each other from time to time because of work."

"When my mother first saw me go to her, she was quite gentle to me. At that time, I didn't know that she was just pretending. Until one day, she asked me to pretend to be my sister and attend a banquet hosted by a noble lady. Although I hesitated for a moment, I finally agreed. My father knew about this but didn't say anything."

"But at that time, my father told my mother that as a condition for me to pretend to be my sister, he had to visit my sister often. In fact, my father still cared about my mother and sister, but my mother was very stubborn and refused to forgive him."

Beichuan Lianghe smiled with an ambiguous meaning: "The three of them seem to be a family, and I am just an insignificant tool for them, who can occasionally use me to beat and scold them to vent their anger."

"Then when I was six years old, my sister died of illness, and my mother became insane and became completely crazy."

"On the day of Oda Yoshiko's funeral, my mother almost collapsed and pulled me aside, saying that Oda Yoshiko was not dead, and that I would be Oda Yoshiko from now on. I would live on in her place because I owed her that."

"My father also turned a blind eye to my mother's behavior. Even after my sister died, he beat and scolded me more often. Most of the injuries on my back were caused by him."

Kitagawa Ryosaku's tone was very calm, sometimes a little self-deprecating, as if what he was talking about was just a trivial matter.