Zongman: Unknowingly trapped in the hatchet

Chapter 357 The Hero Returns Home

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"What are you doing here?"

After arriving at a coffee shop where Yui shared her location, Su Qing also met her.

She was observing something furtively at the moment and didn't even notice someone coming up to her.

"Xiaoqing! You scared me to death!"

Yui jumped in fright, revealing the frozen red tips of her ears under her scarf.

After seeing who was coming, he calmed his heaving chest with lingering fear.

"Mahiru-chan just received a phone call, and then she hurriedly took a taxi here. I saw that her expression was not right, so I followed her."

Su Qing nodded. The other party had already mentioned these situations on Line.

Yui chose the location very carefully. Even though it was only the back, she could still observe Mahiru who was sitting in the store by following her line of sight.

She moved her sight slightly back and saw a mature woman who looked somewhat similar to Mahiru sitting across from her.

As expected, it was Shiina Sayo - Mahiru's biological mother.

He had seen Mahiru's photo once when he was learning about her family background.

Through a layer of glass, Su Qing saw Shiina Sayo's lips moving slightly, but he didn't know what they were talking about.

"That woman just came a few minutes ago. Xiaoqing, do you know who she is?" Yui asked.

"Mahiru's mother, but that's probably just in the physical sense." Su Qing thought for a moment and said.

There is nothing wrong with this sentence.

Being a mother should not only be an identity, but also a responsibility, or a love.

But based on Su Qing's understanding and Mahiru's attitude towards her, Shiina Sayo was completely unable to do so.

"Huh? So their relationship is super bad?

No wonder Mahiru-chan had that expression when she received the call."

Yui suddenly realized, then looked at the woman in the window and stomped her feet as if to defend herself, "Damn bad woman!"

Su Qing retracted his gaze, glanced at the innocent girl beside him, smiled amusedly, but didn't say anything.

"So...what can we do for her?"

Yui pursed her lips, raised her eyes to look at Su Qing, and asked worriedly.

Su Qing was silent for a while, which was rare. "Pray? Or maybe it would be more appropriate to say believe."

"Eh?"

Yui was stunned and expressed confusion.

"She told me a long time ago that she wanted to make a clean break with the past.

So this is her decision, and all we have to do is trust…”

Yui stared straight at Su Qing, and saw that those eyes, which were always as clear as mirrors, now had a bit of indescribable color.

The girl lowered her head and hummed softly.

I don’t know what I’m thinking.

……

At the same time, inside the coffee shop.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Mahiru looked at the woman sitting opposite him, his biological mother in a certain sense, and spoke softly.

"Let's forget about the polite words, okay?" Shiina Sayo frowned, her tone clearly filled with displeasure.

"What was it that you wanted to talk to me about a while ago? You had to meet me to talk about it. I remember I told you at the beginning that you shouldn't contact me except for some necessary documents?"

"Yeah, that's indeed the case." Mahiru thought to himself.

Before Shiina Sayo went to the appointment, her heartbeat had been accelerating from the moment she received the call until just now.

Even if I try my best to control it, it's no use.

But when she heard this answer again with her own ears, this answer that she had thought of a long time ago, she suddenly felt more at ease and calmer.

"Before telling you what it is, shouldn't you apologize to me first?" Mahiru looked directly at Shiina Sayo and said calmly.

"Apologize?" Shiina Saya was stunned for a moment, then said contemptuously, "Why should I apologize to you?"

"Because today is not the time we agreed on, you disrupted my schedule. Don't you think you should apologize for that?"

Mahiru's face was calm, and she didn't care about the other person's expression changes at all.

"You're in college now, and you don't even know how to speak honorifics to me?" Shiina Sayo laughed contemptuously.

“When you called me that day, I actually didn’t want to come.

Logically speaking, we shouldn't keep in touch after you go to college. Even if you ask for living expenses, that guy should give it to you.

But I changed my mind and decided that it’s better to solve the troublesome things as soon as possible, so if you have anything to say, please say it now and don’t waste my time like that annoying guy, okay? "

"It's a troublesome... thing..."

Mahiru couldn't help but whisper, biting her upper lip, and finally asked a question she had always wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask:

"Did you ever treat me as your own daughter for even one moment?"

The girl's eyes did not move, for fear of missing even the slightest detail.

However, Shiina Saya's face changed from one of contempt to one of blank expression, "Just for something like this? Ha, how boring."

"Please answer this question seriously and don't evade it."

Mahiru seemed unwilling to give up. She pursed her lips tightly, leaned forward slightly, and asked in a tone that left no room for doubt.

"Escape? Haven't you been the one who has been avoiding it all along? Do I need to tell you the answer to this question in person?"

Shiina Sayo looked coldly at the girl in front of her. Her face, which had not yet completely lost its childishness, vaguely showed the shadow of the man.

It would be fine if she looked like her, but she looks like her father.

Thinking of this, there was a hint of real disgust in those emotionless eyes.

The silverware on the dining table refracted a cold light under the warm light, reflecting Mahiru's eyelashes that fluttered like cicada wings.

She continued to ask:

"Then...if you didn't like me from the beginning and never considered me your daughter, then why...did you give birth to me?"

"Do you think I want to?" Shiina Saya sighed helplessly, like the cold wind in a dry well, cold and ruthless.

"It was too late when we found out. The doctor said that if we abort the baby, we will never get pregnant again."

"Just... because of this?"

Mahiru laughed at himself, it turned out that the answer to the doubt that had troubled him for many years was really that simple.

So...what was she expecting in the past?

Sometimes, people can't even empathize with their past selves.

"You don't understand the value of fertility to women." Shiina Saya seemed to want to say something, but suddenly paused.

"Forget it, it's a waste of time, so just leave it at that. Don't contact me again in the future, understand?"

After saying that, Shiina Sayo stood up and was about to leave.

"Wait a minute."

Mahiru suddenly called out to the other person, and met that helpless and indifferent gaze, which was completely different from Su Qing's.

I don't know what kind of mood she was in, but she smiled calmly and asked:

"That is to say, no matter what I do in the future, even if I get married or something else, it has nothing to do with you, right?"

……

outside the store.

"Hey, Xiaoqing, that woman seems to be leaving."

Yui and Su Qing had been observing the situation in the store. When they saw Shiina Sayo was about to leave, Yui spoke.

Su Qing just said "hmm" lightly.

"But it seems that Mahiru called me again." Yui said again.

"What do you want to say?" Su Qing looked at the girl beside him and asked.

"Is it really okay to keep waiting like this?"

"Didn't I say..."

"But if you really believed that, you wouldn't have come here, right?"

Yui interrupted Su Qing, “Of course it’s okay to trust Mahiru, but what if she gets bullied by a bad woman?

Xiaoqing, even though you didn't say it, your worries are written all over your eyes!"

“No way…” Su Qing was helpless. Was it really that obvious?

But he really had no intention of barging in and intervening in all this.

As he said, this was Mahiru's choice.

“Then just treat it as nonsense from my point of view.” Yui curled her lips in disdain.

It's like this now and you still say no?

Xiaoqing is really super arrogant!

Then Yui smiled slyly, came behind Su Qing and pushed him forward despite his stunned expression.

"What are you doing?" Su Qing asked with a frown.

The girl didn't care and just kept pushing the car and talking.

"Whatever it is, you're almost done talking about it now, right? While the others are still here, now's the time for your boyfriend to save face!

And you guys don’t understand!

Even if girls don’t say it, they actually hope that a hero will come to save them at this time!

Well... girls are such troublesome creatures who say one thing and mean another."

"What about you?" Su Qing asked.

Where are you going?

Are you also such a girl who says one thing and means another?

Do you also expect such a hero to save you?

Yui just smiled as a matter of course:

"Of course I'm going home! Or should I stay and be a light bulb?

Come on, stop wasting your time on me.

So... go ahead, hero!"

At the end of her words, the girl pushed Su Qing forward with great force.

Su Qing walked forward several steps due to inertia. When he looked back, he just saw the girl standing on tiptoe and waving her hands enthusiastically, as if to cheer herself up.

"Be careful on the road."

Until the end, Su Qing didn't know what to say.

When Su Qing turned around, the girl's smile, as gentle as the last ice flower on the snowy field, remained unchanged.

Until the end, Yuigahama Yui's voice was still gentle and sincere, like a blessing.

[Keep going, my... great hero.]

……

When it comes to men, Shiina Sayo suddenly becomes interested.

"I was wondering why you suddenly came to me, so this is the case."

She sat down again, smiling intriguingly.

"You have found a boyfriend now, and you want to marry him in the future, right?"

"So what?" Mahiru asked instead of refuting.

"Well, nothing much. I'm just a little interested in what kind of man you found. Hehe, you should investigate his family background, right?"

"…It's not what you think."

Mahiru looked at Shiina Sayo with disappointment.

"Since I will decide everything on my own from now on, if you won't interfere, then we will have nothing to talk about in the future."

Mahiru didn't want to stay here for a moment, so she picked up her bag and left.

As the falling hair slid past Shiina Sayoya, she suddenly said, "I didn't have a choice at the time, but you at least had one thing, but you even have such a bad eye for men."

Suddenly, Mahiru's footsteps froze into ice.

She turned around and said in a calm, unquestionable tone:

"You haven't even seen him, so what right do you have to say he's not good?

Or do you find it rewarding to evaluate someone you've never met?"