I'm not a womanizer for Chihaya Aine

Su Shi looked closely at the silly face covered with milk foam and wanted to remind her to wipe it off, but at the same time, Qing's figure blocked Su Shi's way and said, "It's common sense to wipe your face after drinking a drink like milk coffee, right?"

Then Su Shi saw Qing raise his hand and wipe Aine's face a few times. After that, Qing put a napkin on the table, turned around, took out his mobile phone, quickly added Su Shi's line, and then returned to his seat and picked up his schoolbag.

Qing's movements were done in one go, and Su Shi was a little stunned. She came to her senses and looked at Aine in front of her, and found that Aine was looking down at the napkin that Qing had just used on her, her face flushed with embarrassment.

It turns out that this pink-haired girl can also show such a cute expression, Su Shi couldn't help but think so.

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Suddenly I found that "Su Qing" seems to be easier to pronounce than "Qing Su". Is it my illusion? It must be an illusion? 3

Also, how come the word “diao” in “diao nan” is also considered a sensitive word?

23 Jealousy, Pride, and Youth

In front of the station, the four girls said goodbye to each other, and the girl with black hair and short ponytail and the girl with pink hair got on the train together.

"I didn't expect Qingqing that you would really send me home. I thought you were just talking." The pink-haired girl Chihaya Aine found an empty seat and sat down while talking to Qing who was with her.

Qing followed closely and sat next to Aine, still with no expression on his face, and said, "I'm not the kind of person who would talk casually, or does Aine think that I should talk casually?"

Aiyin leaned back in her seat and turned her head to look at the scenery passing by quickly outside the car window, and answered nonchalantly, “Not really…”

After that, the two of them fell silent. Aiyin just looked at the scenery outside the window, not knowing what she was thinking, while Qing closed his eyes as if he was resting.

When the train arrived at the station, a couple got on. Aine looked at their interlocked hands and the way they talked and laughed. Thinking of how Aoki had been a little too intimate with her in the past two days, her thoughts flew away again as the train moved on.

Why does Qing show so much concern for me? I should be no different from other girls in the class who want to get along with her. Is it just because I happened to know her before entering school? Is Qing's attitude towards girls like this normal for her? Or is it just towards me?

Aiyin secretly glanced at the distance between her seat and Qing's. There was a distance of thirty centimeters between them, a very safe distance, a distance that was neither close nor distant. The distance between the two was determined by Qing, who sat down behind them.

If Qing really wanted to be closer to me, would she sit closer, or was this the distance she deliberately maintained?

"sorry."

Just when Aiyin was secretly watching Qing thinking about something, Qing apologized in a cold voice.

"Eh? Qingqing, did you say anything just now?" Because Aiyin was distracted when Qing just spoke, and her face still had her eyes closed when Qing just spoke, Aiyin immediately suspected that she might have heard it wrong, so she asked for confirmation.

Qing opened his eyes, turned to look at Aine, and said seriously: "I'm sorry."

Realizing that she had not misheard, Aiyin asked in confusion, "Why did you say sorry to me?"

Qing turned his head and looked forward, and said in a voice that seemed to be softer than usual: "I just asked you to go and look at the recruitment information by yourself, but I was sitting there drinking tea with Deng and Su Shi. I'm sorry. Also, when we were sitting at the table drinking tea just now, I was busy dealing with Su Shi and ignored you. I'm sorry."

Aiyin didn't expect Qing to apologize for such a thing, so she quickly waved her hands and said, "No need to apologize for such a small matter, I'm not such a petty person. Besides..."

Besides, long before Aine came back from reading the recruitment information, she had already adjusted her mood, and her dissatisfaction had long been thrown out of her mind. But this was something that could not be said, because if she really said it out loud, wouldn't it mean that Chihaya Aine was really angry about those little things? And for some reason, Aine felt that if Qing knew that she was really angry about those things, she would feel inexplicably embarrassed.

Qing didn't care about what Aine said after she stopped talking abruptly, but started to explain: "I did that for a reason. Su Shi is not a simple person. I think she joined our band for other purposes, so I have been testing her just now."

Aine asked curiously, "Did you know Suyo-san before?"

Qing shook his head slightly and said, "Today is the first time I met her, but I immediately noticed that Su Shi has always been wearing a social mask when talking to people, showing the temperament of a young lady. Ai Yin, you should be quite susceptible to that, right? Even if I tested Su Shi here today, I guess you will still have a good impression of Su Shi, right? If I don't make it clear here, you will definitely be easily controlled by Su Shi."

Qing was giving Aine a shot of defense. In the anime plot, although this aspect was not described too much, it is a fact that Aine seems to have a natural affection for the young lady. In addition, when they first met, Motoyo was willing to ask about Aine's quarrel with Riki, which made Aine always have a good impression of Motoyo before the Kasuga Shadow incident, and even respected her as a senior.

What Qing needs to do is to break this filter of goodwill for Aiyin, so that he won't be used as a tool and still speak for the other party. When the time comes, put the truth in front of her, and she will be forced to quit the team without being defensive.

However, after Aine chewed and analyzed Qing's words carefully, the taste seemed to become completely different.

How did Qing find out that I had no resistance to the young lady's tricks? How did she know that I had a good impression of Su Shi? She even described Su Shi as a bad woman. Could it be that...

Aiyin asked in disbelief: "Qingqing, are you...jealous?"

After saying that, Aine felt that she shouldn’t have said it so directly, but she couldn’t stop the teasing smile on her face.

Qing had a puzzled look on his face, not understanding Aine's train of thought at all. However, compared to figuring out what Aine was thinking, it was more important to prevent Aine from getting attached to Su Shi, so Qing said seriously, "I suspect there's something wrong with your brain. How could you tell from what I said just now that I was jealous? Besides, jealousy doesn't apply to me. I don't care what you think, you have to be careful of Su Shi. If you are unprepared for her, she will definitely take advantage of you."

After hearing Qing's rebuttal, Aine did not feel that she had misunderstood Qing, but was more certain that Qing was jealous. After all, after spending the past two days together, Aine could sense that although Qing was a straightforward person, he was sometimes not frank about his feelings. This was more obvious in his feelings towards Deng. Qing was relatively frank with Aine, but sometimes he would refuse to admit it.

In short, Yanagisawa Aoi is a tsundere. So at this time, Aiyin needed to hear the deeper meaning of Aoi's words: I was watching you just now, and I noticed that your eyes looking at Su Shi were not right, but that Su Shi must be a bad woman, so don't get close to her.

Thinking of this, Aiyin couldn't help laughing, her little canine teeth were exposed, and she responded with a smile: "Okay, I will keep my distance from Su Shi-san in the future, Qingqing, don't worry!"

Seeing the stinky pink-haired girl's sloppy look, Qing asked in a cold and somewhat unhappy voice: "What are you laughing at?"

Aiyin touched the back of her head, smiled awkwardly, and explained with the same words that Qing said when she saw Su Shi’s face: “Sorry, I just remembered something happy.”

Qing was too lazy to pay attention to Aine and was about to close her eyes and rest again, but at this time Aine tugged at her sleeve. Qing opened her eyes and looked at Aine. At this time, Aine was looking at Qing with expectant eyes, like a big dog hook that wanted a reward, very cute.

"Qingqing, I sent my guitar to the music store for maintenance yesterday. Can you come with me to pick it up?"

Qing naturally wanted to satisfy his desire to push alone, so he nodded and agreed: "Okay."

"That's great, thank you, Qingqing." Although it was late, Aine's smile was still as bright as the sun.

Then Qing looked down at the distance between the two of them, and found that they were less than ten centimeters apart. Qing turned his eyes away as if nothing had happened, and saw a loving couple leaning against each other. In the end, Qing chose to close his eyes.

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There will be more later, it will be quite late, actually it shouldn't be divided into sections, but I really want to go for dinner.

24 Guitar, Sun, Gift

Inside the music store, the owner handed a turquoise guitar to Aiyin and complained with some dissatisfaction: "You haven't played this guitar for a long time, the strings are already rusty. Really, even if you don't play it often, you should take good care of it. Your guitar is not cheap, isn't it a pity to let it gather dust like this?"

Aiyin took her guitar with a wry smile and said, "Okay, I understand. I will cherish it in the future."

As she said that, Aiyin wanted to put the guitar into the bag, but the boss stopped her: "Wait a minute, you don't even want to try playing it?"

After being reminded by the boss, Aiyin hung the guitar on herself to try to play it, but found that she didn't bring any picks. The boss sighed, grabbed two picks and handed them to Aiyin, saying, "Take it, just think of it as an extra gift. You don't look like you can play the guitar at all. Is this guitar really yours?"

Aiyin took the pick awkwardly and said, "I haven't played guitar in a long time, and I only played on stage once before."

After saying that, Aiyin glanced at Qing who was standing beside her and helping her carry her schoolbag. This made Qing see her embarrassing side. But the embarrassing situation was not over yet. Later, during the sound check, Aiyin tried to wake up her memory of the chord pressing method, but it was not going well. No matter how her fingers pressed, it felt awkward, and the sound she played was not good.

After trying a few chords intermittently, Aiyin put away her guitar as if she had completed her mission. The boss had completely understood the fact that Aiyin was a rookie, and without saying anything more, he just watched Aiyin and Qing leave.

After Aiyin came out, she put her guitar on her back, then held out her hand to signal Qing that she could return her bag to her, and asked, "How do you feel about seeing my guitar skills?"

Qing glanced at the palm that Aine stretched out, and finally handed Aine's schoolbag to her, and commented tactfully: "It's not very exciting."

Aiyin said speechlessly, "I always feel that you might as well just say that I can't play well. It's even more sad to be spoken to with high emotional intelligence by someone like you who likes to speak bluntly."

Qing shrugged and said, "At least he's better than me. I've never played the guitar before."

"Huh? You've never played it before? Do you have a guitar?" Aine asked in surprise.

"Not yet. I was planning to buy it during the Golden Week." Qing told her original plan.

“I thought you wanted to be a guitarist, since you’ve played guitar at some point… but if you’re going to have to learn it all over again, why not choose keyboards or drums?” Aine asked with some regret, obviously considering the current composition of the band.

Qing looked at Aine's profile as she walked and said, "If Aine wants me to learn another instrument, then I will learn it."

After hearing what Qing said, Aiyin immediately realized that what she had just said was a little inappropriate, and quickly said, "No, no, no, I was just saying it casually! Qingqing, just do what you like."

Qing retracted his gaze to the road ahead and asked, "Aine is worried about the composition of the band? I don't think you should worry too much about that."

Aiyin asked curiously, “Why do you say that?”

Qing put one hand on top of the other and pinched his chin, and said with a reasoning look, "Because Su Shi said, 'Our current team needs a drummer and a keyboard player, I will try to help find them.' I think she must have had someone in mind when she said this, but I don't know if she can successfully invite them."

Seeing that Aiyin was still staring at her with curious eyes, Qing continued, "Although Deng has always said that Crychic disbanded because she didn't sing well. But Su Shi, as a member of Crychic, obviously has no intention of blaming Deng. Combined with the fact that you also heard Deng's strength when we went to karaoke this afternoon, we can draw a conclusion..."

"The reason why crychic disbanded was not because Deng didn't sing well, but for other reasons." Aine subconsciously blurted out the answer that she had deduced in her mind.

Qing nodded seriously and continued, "That's right. So Deng's relationship with her former teammates shouldn't be as bad as we expected. Su Shi is willing to join our band for Deng, so the other members of Crychic may also join us because of Deng and Su Shi."

After listening to Qing's analysis, Aiyin couldn't help but applaud and praised: "It's amazing that you can deduce such a reasonable result from these details. But if this is true, it would be great. We don't have to worry about recruiting people."

Qing, however, did not show any joy, but asked calmly, "Ain, do you really think it is a good thing for Su Shi to bring in the people from Crychic?"

Hearing this, Aiyin fell into deep thought. Soon she discovered the problem and said, "Indeed, this is not necessarily a good thing. Deng finally made up her mind to start over, but these people who should have been in her past have been haunting her. With Deng's personality, she is likely to dwell on the past again."

Hearing Aine's words, Qing looked at Aine in surprise and said, "What you said is also true, but I originally thought that you were thinking that the crychic members would form a small group and marginalize our position in the band."

Aiyin looked ahead and said in a nonchalant tone, "Because Qingqing has always been concerned about Deng, I thought you would definitely consider it from Deng's perspective."

Qing looked at Aine's smiling face as usual, and had no idea why the topic turned to the fact that he cared about Deng, but Qing knew that it would be dangerous if he didn't answer this question well. It seemed that it was right not to talk about other women when talking to his push, but Qing only talked about Deng and Su Shi just now for the purpose of analyzing for Aine, so there was nothing he could do.

"There's nothing like that. Deng and I have always been just ordinary friends."

Deng wasn't there anyway, so Qingda could just deny it outright. With Aine's personality, she definitely wouldn't tell Deng about it.

But Aine obviously didn’t believe it.

"Hmm? Ordinary friends... You've been carrying the stone that Deng gave you, right? It's just a useless stone, right? If you were just an ordinary friend, would you carry the gift from the other person with you?"

For some reason, even though Aine's tone was very nonchalant, Qing felt an inexplicable pressure and was sweating profusely.

Why did Qing take the stone with him? Qing himself didn't know. He just saw the stone on the shoe cabinet when he was about to go out in the morning, and took it away. At this time, Qing also wanted to have some reason to take the stone with him, but unfortunately he didn't have any.

So Qing could only bite the bullet and find an excuse: "In fact, I found that the stone feels pretty good to the touch. It's very suitable for touching it when I need to think. It can help me concentrate."

“Hmm?…” Aine squinted at Qing, still not quite believing it, “You’re playing with stones even when you’re thinking? It seems like you really like this gift from the lamp!”

Ah this... Qing wanted to concede defeat and say you are invincible, kid, but she chose to continue struggling: "Actually, I wanted to put the stone in the fish tank, but I don't have a fish tank at home, so I just played with it."

Seeing Qing was using weak reasons to explain, Aiyin stopped, sighed, and said with a helpless smile: "Qingqing, you don't have to explain so seriously. I'm not the kind of girl who will forget how good you are to me just because you're good to Deng. I know Qingqing is very good to her friends, to me and Deng too. I'm very happy that I can be Qingqing's friend."

Yes, the series of torture-like questions Aine asked just now were not because she was jealous of Qing caring about Deng, after all, she was not Ji... But even as friends, it seemed that there were girls who would be jealous of friends of friends, but at least Aine was not that kind of girl.

Why was Qing so good to her? This question always lingered in Aine's mind. Sometimes her heart would even beat faster when she thought about it.

But when she saw how Qing successfully resolved Deng's various emotional knots, Aine realized that Qing's feelings that made her heart beat fast were not just for her.

So, probably in Qing's eyes, she just treats every one of her friends very seriously, and values Ain and Deng very much. Ain shouldn't have any expectations of Qing beyond just friends.

Besides...

"Qingqing, you and I got to know each other because of Deng, and we became friends, right? If you didn't care about Deng, we might never have talked to each other, let alone become friends. So, I can only be grateful to Deng, Qingqing, you don't have to say anything against your will to take care of my feelings."

Yes, this is the state their relationship should be in, because being too close to friends and blushing is not right and should be restrained. Just be like friends, just be like friends.

Qing just listened to what Ain said quietly, and finally raised his head, without looking at Ain's expression. After a few seconds of silence, Qing pointed to a star in the sky and said, "Ain, do you see that star in the sky?"

Aiyin looked in the direction Qing pointed, and indeed saw a lonely star hanging in the sky. Even the moon was quite a distance away from that star.

Aiyin sighed and said, “How strange, there is only one star, no more, no less.”

Qing said: "Actually, you can't see any stars at all normally, but today the weather is good and we can barely see one star."

Aine retracted her gaze and asked in confusion, “So what does this have to do with the topic we were just talking about?”

Qing still looked at the night sky, and spoke softer than usual: "You know what? In fact, whether we can see the stars or not, the stars will always be there. We can't see the stars for various reasons. Maybe we need the right time to meet a star, or we can work harder and use a telescope to find the star we want to meet."

Having said this, Qing retracted his gaze, the corners of his pretty mouth slightly raised, his delicate eyebrows slowly curved down, and he looked at Aiyin tenderly.

“And Aine, you… are the sun.”

An abstract sentence with a Nietzsche style came out of Qing's mouth, leaving Aiyin stunned.

“No matter what the weather is like, no matter what the light pollution is, no matter if I’m using a telescope or not, when the sun comes up it will shine on me.”

The poetic words entered Aine's mind. Although Qing did not directly respond to what she had just said, Aine no longer wanted to continue the conversation on this topic. She looked away and started walking again, with Qing following behind her silently for half a body length.

The two walked in silence, and when they reached an intersection, Aiyin stopped and turned back and said, "This is almost my home, you can just drop me off there."

Qing nodded silently and turned to leave, but was stopped by Aine.

"Wait a minute. Give me your hand."

Aiyin took two steps back until she was half a step away from Qing. Qing turned around and stretched out his hand with some confusion.

Aiyin took out two picks from her pocket that the owner of the music store had just given her. The two picks were exactly the same in style, only in color, one was pink and the other was blue.

Aine hesitated for half a second before taking the pink pick and placing the blue pick in Ao's hand. She then raised the pink pick in her own hand and said, "This pick is a gift to you. I'll use this."

Qing glanced at the blue pick in his hand, then glanced at the pink pick in Aine's hand, and finally looked into Aine's gray-blue eyes, and said seriously: "Thank you, I will always use this one too."

"Okay! See you tomorrow!" After saying that, Aiyin turned around and trotted back home. She didn't know if she heard Qing calling "See you tomorrow" behind her.

Aiyin trotted back to the door of her house, panting a little while supporting herself on her knees. The girl's heart was beating wildly from the not-too-intense exercise.

"It seems that I need to exercise my physical strength."

After all, I had only run a few steps and my heart felt like it was going to jump out at any time.

25 Lonely Star, Persuasion, Bloom