Tokyo, there are too many beautiful girls imitating me

Completely unaffected by your negative influence, your five-year-old daughter Tachibana Aihua is lively and cheerful, well-behaved, sensible and eloquent, and is deeply loved by children of the same age, teachers and neighbors.

Not only her appearance, but every aspect of her looks resembles the younger version of her mother, Chika Tachibana, making her a true heartthrob.

The only thing about her that's like you is probably that she loves Chika Tachibana so much.

Aihua sticks to her all day long, day and night, making you feel embarrassed to be too intimate with Chika Tachibana, which has prevented you and your wife from having a second lovely daughter.

But you are not angry, nor jealous. Whenever you see the mother and daughter being so close and playing happily, your heart is always filled with boundless happiness.

Gentle and loving, Chika Tachibana has always been with your daughter Aihua during her growth process. She has given your daughter the wonderful childhood that you yourself have never had, and endowed her with all the qualities that make people like her.

My daughter loves flowers. She is a lucky girl who is born with happiness and will surely have the ability to pursue and grasp her own happiness in the future.

I hope she won't meet someone like you again in her life...

Whenever you see the mother and daughter happily going out, and your daughter Aihua turns to you, wanting to grab your hand but ultimately giving up in frustration, hiding her disappointment and forcing a smile, you always think this in your heart.

"Aino Mama!"

Because both parents are female, in order to distinguish them, the daughter will always add a name prefix when calling you.

You also tried to teach her to call one mom and the other mother, but your daughter replied, "Mother is too formal. Mother is more intimate. Aino's mother and Chika's mother are both my favorite mothers!"

Hey, this child always speaks all kinds of sweet words that make you happy. They are so sweet that you would be willing to let her take away a lot of Chikako Tachibana's love.

Now, after accompanying Chika Tachibana to look after the bookstore again and being sent home early at noon by a familiar neighbor, your daughter Aihua immediately called your name excitedly.

You know, she wants to share with you some interesting things that happened while she was watching the store.

"Mom, mom, a boy confessed his love to me outside the store today!"

With the beauty genes of you and Chika Tachibana, your daughter Aihua is as delicate as a piece of jade, and her big watery eyes are even more charming. At only five years old, anyone can see that she is an incredible beauty. Coupled with Chika Tachibana's personality, it is almost inevitable that she will be liked by boys.

You knew your daughter would be able to handle this well with her cleverness, so you weren't worried. You hugged her delicate body and let her sit on your lap. You asked her:

"Aika is so cute and charming. She's so young but already has so many fans. So how did you respond to her?"

"Of course I refused! I don't want to be with a boy. When I grow up, I want to find a girl as cute and beautiful as Aino's mother to marry!"

Not looking for a girl like Qianhua’s mother, but looking for a girl like you.

My daughter Tachibana Aika is good at talking and can please you.

You always thought that your daughter liked Qianhua more, but you didn't expect that she also liked you so much in her heart.

You should be happy about this, smile sweetly, apply lipstick on her smooth face, and reward her with one or more kisses.

But in fact, you were stunned, stunned, and even subconsciously pinched your daughter Aihua's thin shoulders with your hands, almost screaming at her.

"no!"

No, it can't be someone like you.

"Mother?"

Being pinched so hard by an adult like you, my daughter Aihua must be in great pain. Her pretty cheeks shrink in pain, but her voice calling you is not sharp. It is not reminding you to relax, but reveals more worry, worry for you.

You were crying, and your tears couldn't stop flowing, which made your daughter Aihua a little overwhelmed.

The young girl couldn't understand why the words that should have made you happy instead made you so painful and broke down in tears.

Beneath the surface of your sweet and happy life, the gloomy mood that had been accumulating in your heart for years completely exploded. You let go of your daughter's shoulders but didn't bother to comfort her who was in pain. You covered your face with your hands, unable to suppress your voice and burst into tears.

"No, not someone like me."

Your daughter gently pats your back with her palm, stands on the sofa and holds your head in her arms with her little chest, trying her best to give you warmth, quietly accompanies you and hopes that your mood will improve.

Chika Tachibana is so gentle, and your daughter is also so gentle, but this gentleness is like poison at this moment, which only makes your heart more painful.

You are very happy to have Chika Tachibana and your lovely daughter Aika Tachibana, but you have always been passively accepting the happiness they give you, but you have never been able to give them the happiness they want.

The freedom that Chika Tachibana wanted, the music that she loved, and the picture of a family of three walking together under the sun that her daughter had always hoped for, you selfishly never gave them to her.

So, how could it be someone like you?

Do you really deserve to enjoy the happiness you have now?

This is not a difficult question that you have been thinking about for years, and now, amid your sorrowful tears, you finally get a definite answer.

Meeting her will fill your life with happiness.

After meeting you, Chika Tachibana's life is full of misfortunes. 】

For a long time, the text on the simulator panel stopped scrolling.

"Ah~"

Her chest felt like it was being pressed by a huge rock, filled with foul air. She leaned against the headboard in silence for a long time, then let out a long sigh.

On the other side, at the very end of the corridor and in the very back of the room, Qiuyue Aina must be curled up in the quilt, sobbing and shedding tears.

Through the simulator, she clearly saw her future. She thought a ray of warm sunshine would appear in the gloomy sky. She thought she had obtained a ticket to the ship of happiness, but this was the result...

She is gentle and kind-hearted at heart. Even though she calculated and did despicable things out of selfishness, she still cannot sit back and enjoy the fruits of victory with peace of mind. She cannot accept the painful situation that she has to force herself to smile after giving up music, career, and her bright life.

Ever since the guilt began to grow in her heart, the self-blame has been constantly tormenting the cousin in the simulation.

Until the end, she was hit hard by the warm words of her daughter Tachibana Aihua, and completely realized her own despicableness and how she had turned the life of her beloved into a mess. The cousin in the simulator completely collapsed, her defenses were completely broken, and she was completely desperate.

And that collapse and despair, expressed through words, probably also had a greater impact on Aino Akizuki who was undergoing a simulation in reality.

Can she still hold on? After this, will my cousin lose even the last bit of courage to change?

Her heart ached slightly, and Chika Tachibana couldn't help but worry about the condition of Aino Akizuki in the other room.

At this time, the text on the panel continued to scroll, and began to deduce the final ending of this love simulation.

Chapter 62: The Daughter Who Accurately Stepped on a Landmine

[About natural inheritance, about hobbies, about future dreams.]

She has infinite love and tenderness for her daughter. Even though she is the continuation of her own life, Chikako Tachibana has never thought of imposing her dreams on Aihua.

She did not tell her daughter about her glorious past, nor did she talk much about music with her. As for her guitar, she had kept it away since entering the University of Tokyo and would never play it in front of her daughter.

She hopes that her daughter Aihua can grow freely, and she doesn't even have too many expectations of her academically (even though Aihua has never gotten a place other than first since she started elementary school). She just hopes that she can freely choose her life path and freely choose the precious things that are worth pursuing throughout her life.

But even so, my daughter chose the same path as Chika Tachibana, or to put it more broadly, she chose the same path as you.

At the age of sixteen, on the second night of school at Changsheng High School, Aino suddenly asked you.

"Chika Mama, Aino Mama, I've found what I want to do in the future. I want to join the school's light music club, then form a band and unleash my youth!"

"...The light music department, Chang Sheng still maintains this department to this day."

Overly sensitive to such topics, you subconsciously paid attention to Chika Tachibana's reaction the moment you heard the word "K-ON".

You clearly saw that Chika Tachibana's hand, which was picking up food from Aihua's bowl, suddenly paused, her eyes widened, and the corners of her mouth opened, revealing extreme surprise. Then, after realizing that this might make you feel uneasy, she immediately lowered her eyes and adjusted her expression, pretending to sigh slightly inadvertently.

She does care after all, and she hasn't let it go after all, but what's ridiculous is that she is so concerned about your feelings that she doesn't even dare to express it directly.

"Not yet, but I plan to get my friends to rebuild the club. I have so many friends in Changsheng, so I can ask them to help me find members easily."

Yes, yes, what Aihua said is absolutely correct.

The threshold for admission to Changsheng Affiliated High School is extremely high. Without special connections, one needs an extremely high deviation value to enter.

Besides these stringent requirements, there were also other school selections. For Aihua's junior high school, in previous years, it was considered a blessing if five or six students from a class could get into Changsheng. But this year...

Well, it created a historical record, a unique one. Half of the children in the class miraculously entered Changsheng, and the enrollment of several other classes in the same grade also increased greatly.

If you think about it carefully, you may get some rather "weird" results, but in short, if Aihua wanted to set up a club, not to mention a light music club, even a wind instrument club could be easily formed. There might even be surplus personnel, and it would be impossible to squeeze in even if you tried your best.

"Have you contacted the consultant yet? If there's no one to choose from right now, you can go find Li..."

"I've found our music teacher, Asuka Reimiya. I don't know why, but she was so welcoming to me the first time she saw me. She even treated me to a delicious parfait after school.

There are also other older teachers like Matsuda, Oiwakawa, Watanabe, etc. They are all very kind to me, and I almost thought I had unlocked the special achievement of "Friends of Middle-aged and Elderly Teachers."

All the high school classmates have gone their separate ways and started their own lives, but Chika Tachibana has always stayed in this apartment. This is what happens when you live in an overly fixed environment. Even the people my daughter meets are all old acquaintances.

Hearing her daughter uttering the names that were so familiar from the past, Tachibana Chika laughed lightly but did not reveal the past. She just waited for the day when her daughter discovered it herself before raising her head high.

Then I announced to her: I am the most popular [Friend of Middle-aged and Elderly Teachers]!

Seeing through Chika Tachibana's "evil intentions" at a glance, you couldn't help but lower your head and cover your mouth with your hands to laugh.

When you looked up, you met Chika Tachibana's smiling eyes, so you both couldn't help laughing out loud, which made your daughter Aihua completely confused. She looked dazed and sat there like a bright light bulb of several thousand watts.

"Should I step aside and leave the living room to you two stupid bitches and goblins to fight?"

"What are you fighting for? You're talking without any restraint."

With a laugh and a scolding, Chika Tachibana gently stroked the hair of her daughter who was about to embark on a career in music and gave her instructions.

"Having an idea is a good thing. Since you're interested, just give it a try. If you want to enroll in a class, you can tell me openly. I'll ask someone to find the best teacher for you."

"How good is it?"

"It's as easy as it gets."

"Then I want the internationally renowned pianist Miss Song Sheng, whom I admire the most, to teach me! She also graduated from Changsheng..."

Thinking it was just a joke, Aihua casually mentioned the name of the most outstanding musician she knew. Your heart skipped a beat and you hurried to check on Chika Tachibana's expression. Her smile was frozen.

Just hearing that name, tears welled up in her eyes.

You can understand that it is not that she is reminiscing about her old friends, or the youthful love she once had, that she married you. Chika Tachibana has already cut off all other emotional ties and has absolute loyalty and love for you.

She just heard the name that she had avoided again and again, and a huge gap appeared in her heart, and too many regrets emerged, making it difficult to control the welling of her tears.

In stark contrast to her image as a humble senior who would do anything for the light music club in high school, Miki Matsuoka continued her studies after entering the music university, delving into the depths of music and winning numerous international awards. Today, she is known as an internationally renowned master and a precious national treasure of Japan.

They parted ways at a crossroads in life. One remains unknown, living an ordinary life by running a bookstore, while the other has achieved international acclaim, becoming a master writer and the idol of his daughter...

Although you cannot empathize with the gap and pain, the pain in your heart is heavier and more piercing than Chika Tachibana's in terms of guilt.

"Okay, it's a deal then. I'll order a piano for you in a couple of days, and then send you to Mei...Master Song Sheng to study every weekend!"

"No way, seriously, could it be that you, Chika Mama, really know Miss Song Sheng?"

"It's true, and if I ask, she probably won't refuse."

She is as good at handling things as Chika Tachibana, and can guess Chika Tachibana's thoughts as clearly as you can.

I could glimpse something from these words, from the changes in Chika Tachibana's expression and tone when she spoke, and her eyes shifted subtly to your cheek, and Aihua immediately changed her words.

It can't be said that she changed her words. She just mentioned the piano as a joke, and now she is just expressing her true feelings.

"Then please don't bother me. It's too late to start piano practice in high school. My mind is actually wavering between guitar and drums right now.

I haven't decided yet, but if my mom could invite either the guitarist Marin Mizuki or the drummer Yui Hanasaka from the currently popular ihua band to be my teacher, I would make the choice immediately!

Uh, this expression... Qianhua's mother, you can't really invite her.

Mizuki Marin? Hanasaka Yui? Or both?"

These words seemed to depress both mothers, and their voices became smaller and smaller.

At this moment, Tachibana Aihua deeply doubted her life.

Isn't my mom just an ordinary bookstore owner? How come she knows so many music superstars!?

Chapter 63: A sudden downturn

[I have the impression that she is too pretty, too educated, and too popular.

Although almost perfect, her life is quite ordinary. Qianhua's mother, who runs a physical bookstore that is almost obsolete in this era and spends her days leisurely, actually knows so many music stars and can easily let her become the apprentice of one of them.

She almost immediately realized that there must be something fishy going on. She even said that considering the age and the fact that Miki Matsunami and the others were still unmarried, the truth of the matter might really be the kind of bloody development she imagined. The gossip-loving Tachibana Aika suddenly became alert -

Your daughter has a completely correct and true understanding of Chika Tachibana's charm. She doesn't think it's weird or impossible that Miki Matsunaga, Marin Mitsuki and Yui Hanasaka were all in love with Chika Tachibana, either openly or secretly.

Excitedly, she asked Chika Tachibana about their relationship, and almost said it to your face, "Tell me more, tell me more. I want to hear about the romantic and complicated love story between Chika's mother and them."

"Zhen Ling lived in the room across from ours back then. She would come over to have dinner with me every night and was my best friend. In fact, the apartment still belongs to her, but she has never returned to live there.

As for Yui, huh~ Mom was her savior back then, and her best friend besides Mayin."

"What about Miss Song Sheng?"

"Miki, well~ she's my senior, the one I admire the most."

"Hmm, what about Ms. Tachibana Aino?"