Yukinoshita's Correction Method

"The baby can't drink alcohol or smell cigarettes."

"I...I didn't take care of it?" The sound of a lighter rang out, and Shizuka Hiratsuka let out a long sigh, "If I were really asked to take care of it, I would definitely quit smoking and drinking."

Dong Yunshan said earnestly: "Taking care of a baby is not as easy as you think. It is not a happy experience. It is really exhausting both physically and mentally."

"Of course I know about that, but taking care of a child is a very rare experience. At least for me, it's almost..."

Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't continue speaking. She took a sip of wine and puffed on her cigarette.

The pain in my heart is beyond words.

"Ha~" Shizuka Hiratsuka said with a half-laugh, "And learning cooking and being responsible for three meals a day, what's going on?"

“It’s literally about learning how to cook, and then testing the results by making three meals.”

"Yukinoshita eats at your house every day?"

"I had dinner at her house."

"Isn't that so... isn't this the same thing?"

Dong Yunshan: “Same?”

"We're all together anyway, it doesn't matter whose house we're at." Hiratsuka Shizuka sighed and took the last puff of her cigarette. "You guys have been stuck together all spring break, so the correction must be going smoothly."

What does it mean to be stuck together?... Dong Yunshan wisely didn't correct Chinese teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka's choice of words, and explained the situation truthfully: "We have indeed achieved some results, but it can't be said to be smooth sailing."

"Are you encountering any obstacles?"

"I met her sister."

"Hina..." Hiratsuka lit another cigarette quietly, "What kind of person do you think she is?"

"I think..." Azuma Yunshan thought carefully about her time with Yukinoshita Haruno, "She's a part-time worker who never leaves work or has a day off."

"You should know that she is the eldest daughter of the Yukinoshita family."

"I'm not talking about profession, but feeling." Unlike when he discussed with Yukinoshita Yukino, when facing Hiratsuka Shizuka, Azuma Yunshan was more likely to adopt a more mature mentality. After all, to some extent, he and Hiratsuka Shizuka were of the same age.

Including this life, she is more than one generation older than Shizuka Hiratsuka.

"Within a defined position, relying on outstanding abilities, one receives corresponding rewards and recognition." Dong Yunshan looked toward the right secondary bedroom. His gaze seemed to penetrate the wall, catching sight of Yukinoshita Haruno leaning against the window, gazing out. "It's like being in a high-rise building, gazing out at the bustling city, and then accidentally catching your own face reflected in the glass, and suddenly feeling incredibly unfamiliar."

"As the eldest daughter of the family, she has been trained as the heir since she was young." There was a certain complexity in Shizuka Hiratsuka's voice. "She needs to complete the tasks assigned to her by the family and those that will be assigned to her soon, and she has completed those tasks very well... She has done a great job, and it would be difficult to do better."

"She responded well to the expectations of others, but was unable to respond to her own expectations." Dong Yunshan also experienced such a period when he was a middle-level leader.

On the one hand, you must complete the tasks assigned by your superiors, and on the other hand, you must be considerate of the hard work of your subordinates.

Work and business must be handled well, and interpersonal relationships in the workplace must also be handled well.

Through his efforts, he became a reliable subordinate, a respectable leader, and an excellent partner.

But I spend almost all my time and energy on this, and I rarely have time to be alone.

I'm busy as soon as I open my eyes, and exhausted as soon as I get home.

When he finally got what he wanted and became a competent worker, he couldn't even tell whether he was a human, a machine, or even an ox or a horse.

This is when his work and life can be separated.

After all, no matter how busy you are, you still have to go to get off work and come home every day, and occasionally take a day off.

But Yang under the snow is different.

Her work is her life, and her life is her work; the two are completely inseparable.

"If we want to correct Yukino, we can't get around Haruno's problem," Hiratsuka Shizuka asked. "So, what are you going to do?"

"I had no idea before, but now I suddenly have a good one." Dong Yunshan looked out the window, "Let the workers become bosses."

Volume 4: Chapter 145: Top-level understanding

"I heard you guys went on a date to a cat cafe?" Hiratsuka Shizuka's voice on the phone sounded like she was enjoying the fun. "So there's this kind of correction method?"

"I knew you didn't know much about dating, but I didn't expect you to be this ignorant." Yukinoshita Yukino put on her headphones, freeing her hands to type on the keyboard. "Do you think that helping Yuigahama make up for her childhood regrets and overcome her fear of cats—does that constitute dating in your eyes?"

"Gu..." Shizuka Hiratsuka was choked and speechless. She asked with reluctance, "You are taking care of the baby with him, experiencing parenting life in advance, right?"

"Excellent people have an obligation to help the poor. Xixi, who was entrusted to Dongyun's care, is undoubtedly someone who needs help." Yukinoshita Yukino paused her typing, her eyes shifting to the small bib beside the pillow on the bed. "In contrast, I'm very curious. Since you are a friend of Dongyun's mother, as a mature adult, why don't you help? Is it because you don't want to?"

"Gu..." A chaotic sound came from the other end of the phone. The seemingly mature adult was knocked to the ground by the cold words, "You...you still let Dongyun cook three meals a day for you!"

"Learning cooking requires combining theory with practice. Without diligent practice, you won't see any substantial improvement in a short period of time." Yukinoshita Yukino's slender fingers danced across the keyboard, and the "Continuous Cooking Improvement Plan" on the screen was constantly being improved. "In my opinion, your cooking skills have a lot of room for improvement. If you also want to improve your cooking skills, you can wait until Dongyun finishes his studies and the room is free, and then come to me for further training - although I don't think this will increase the success rate of blind dates."

"Who would take culinary classes just to have a successful blind date?" Shizuka Hiratsuka's voice sounded like she was about to cry. "Who would go to your place...eh?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka paused, then almost screamed: "He lives with you?!"

"Didn't he tell you?"

"He didn't even tell me!"

Yukinoshita Yukino looked through the information at hand: "Maybe she's worried that you might mistake this for a date."

"You call this a date?" Hiratsuka Shizuka was incredulous. "We're already living together! The popular term these days is probably trial marriage..."

"That statement hasn't been popular for a long time." Yukinoshita Yukino sighed softly, "He's just here to learn how to improve his cooking skills. Otherwise, if he were to learn on his own, he would probably be out handling commissions after a short while."

"So you let him live in your house and spend time with you day and night just to help him improve his cooking?" A specific scene emerged in Shizuka Hiratsuka's mind. "The aroma of breakfast woke you up from your sleep. You walked into the kitchen with sleepy eyes, tasted a bite of the dish he was making, and gave your own comments and suggestions. After breakfast, you curled up on the sofa together to discuss what to eat for lunch. In the afternoon, you took a nap and exercised a little. There was a sumptuous dinner and flickering candlelight. The mist in the bathroom and the light pajamas..."

"It seems that Shinonome made the right decision not to tell you about this." Yukinoshita Yukino interrupted Hiratsuka Shizuka's overly detailed description, "My sister is also at my house."

"She sleeps in the same room with you?"

"of course not."

Hiratsuka Shizuka: “Oh~~~”

"Shinobu and I don't sleep in the same room either." Yukinoshita Yukino added, "Besides, I'm busy right now. If the teacher just wants to find someone to chat with, I think Shinobu is a better choice."

"I wanted to ask how your correction is going." Shizuka Hiratsuka muttered softly, "I can't see you guys during the holidays, and I don't know what you guys are doing all day long."

"First, eliminate the attachments, then delete the part you imagined. You already know it clearly." Yukinoshita Yukino pursed her lips. "The correction has begun to take effect. He no longer stays on the superficial surface, but has begun to actively seek the truth. He can now look at his failures correctly and strive to make new attempts."

"Hasn't this been corrected?"

"Not really." Yukinoshita Yukino frowned slightly as she recalled what happened before. "In fact, it could be even worse."

"what?"

"It's possible that instead of me finding a way to correct him,...he found a way to deal with me."

"That is to say..." Hiratsuka Shizuka followed Yukinoshita's train of thought, "He's one way in front of you, and another in front of others. He just changed the way he interacts with you, but he hasn't changed his true nature."

"So we can't take it lightly."

"That's what you said..." Shizuka Hiratsuka noticed the problem, "but how can you tell whether he has changed his way of getting along with others, or whether he has truly changed fundamentally?"

"I don't have to judge."

"what?"

"What I don't agree with is formalism, not the form itself." Yukinoshita Yukino explained while checking for omissions, "There is a theoretical basis for the idea that certain rituals can affect psychological states."

"I know this. It's like the same dinner, with candlelight and without candlelight, the feeling is completely different!"

"I'm referring to sports." Yukinoshita Yukino pressed her forehead lightly, as if suffering from a headache. "Data shows that athletes who have a pre-game ritual have a 22 percent lower error rate in stress tests than the control group."

“Is it that precise?”

"Psychologically, rituals help athletes shift their focus through repetitive behaviors, reduce anxiety about uncertainty, enhance concentration and confidence, strengthen a sense of control, and trigger the brain into focused mode. Physiologically, specific movements can warm up and activate neuromuscular memory, strengthening the automaticity of movement." Yukinoshita Yukino tried to pull Shizuka Hiratsuka's thoughts away from her longing for a candlelight dinner. "Ritual is a form that helps adjust the body and mind. But if energy is wasted on rituals instead of self-improvement, it is useless formalism."

Hiratsuka Shizuka suddenly understood: "So what you mean is that whether Dongyun really received your correction or found a way to get along with you that suits him, as long as he maintains this model, his problems can be corrected imperceptibly?"

"That's right." There was obvious relief in Yukinoshita Yukino's voice. "Although the correction is beginning to show results, this is not the end, but just the beginning."

"Oh~~~" Shizuka Hiratsuka quickly understood what Yukinoshita Yukino meant.

Although Azuma Yunshan seems to have learned his lesson now, Yukinoshita Yukino still cannot be separated from him.

We have to continue to be together like this.

Volume 4: School is about to start: Chapter 146: Revealing the flaw

"It's been a while since we last contacted each other~" Yukinoshita Haruno said expressionlessly, as if she was laughing, "Xiao Jing."

Hiratsuka Shizuka snorted coldly on the phone: "Don't call me that."

"Okay, Shizuka." Yukinoshita Haruno flipped the pages of the book. "No problem, Shizuka."

"...You weren't listening at all, were you?" Hiratsuka Shizuka sighed helplessly, "You're living with Yukino now?"

"That's right." Yukinoshita Haruno had a smile on her face, but her voice was clearly distressed. "I don't know who gave a boy to my sister for correction. Yukino has a stubborn personality and always strives to be the best. As she was being corrected, the boy ended up living with her."

"I don't deny what I've done." Hiratsuka Shizuka said in a serious tone, completely different from the relaxed manner she showed when facing Azuma Yunshan and Yukinoshita Yukino. "Although I didn't expect this situation to happen, I don't think it's a bad thing. The Servant Club is indeed a very suitable place for them."

"The Service Club? It's a fancy name for accepting students' requests and helping them..." Yukinoshita Haruno, leaning against the headboard, put down her book, adjusted her posture, and looked up at the ceiling. "In the end, it's just an isolation ward where problem children who can't adapt to society are locked up together."

"...Maybe." Hiratsuka Shizuka smiled, "But they are all very interesting, I like them very much - maybe I just want to keep these people around me."

"You're still doing this kind of boring thing..." Yukinoshita Haruno raised her hand and gently rubbed the light callus on her middle finger. "Because you can't hold on to the past, are you repeating what you did when you were younger and pretending to be young?"

"Gu..." Shizuka Hiratsuka made a sound of being hit.

These two sisters are really good at hurting people.

but......

"That's rare," Shizuka Hiratsuka said, her smile growing wider. "To find such genuine resentment in the voice of a perfect young lady, it seems you've been through a lot of interesting things lately."

Yukinoshita Haruno lowered her eyes slightly: "...Isn't this what you want to see?"

Yes...Hiratsuka Shizuka's thoughts were drifting.

At that time, Yukinoshita Haruno was not yet the perfect young lady she is today.

She was just a good student who tried hard and was clumsy in hiding her helplessness.

But at that time, Shizuka Hiratsuka was not the mature teacher she is now.

Failed to provide proper help to Yukinoshita Haruno.

I can only watch her become more and more outstanding and perfect.

So perfect...that I can no longer see her true appearance.

"Yes, that's what I want to see." Hiratsuka Shizuka's memory was already fuzzy. "Form can affect psychological state. There's a theoretical basis for this. So it doesn't matter if I complain a few more times, even if it's fake."

"It seems that it's not just age and body that have matured, but also your thinking." Yukinoshita Haruno's voice suddenly became low. "Do you think your method really works?"

"At least it's working well now."

"It's only having some effect now." Yukinoshita Haruno's voice turned cold. "You and I are both very clear about Yukino's problem. At first, everyone praised her integrity and excellence, but in the end, they became jealous and resentful of her, and they excluded her, no longer interacting with her, leaving her alone."

"Dongyun is Dongyun, and everyone is everyone."

"Then let's talk about Dongyun. Do you think he is suitable?"

"Isn't it appropriate?"

"I lack the ability, I'm too ambitious, and I can't stand stimulation." Yukinoshita Haruno spread out her palms and admired her nails. "In high school, I was able to thrive thanks to my superior thinking and social experience. But after graduation, I'll probably just become a decent employee, doing my job diligently and responsibly, and eventually fade into obscurity."

"I feel good about this."

"If he had been ordinary from the beginning, it would have been fine." Yukinoshita Haruno sneered, "But you took him to the isolation ward and made him see things he shouldn't have. How do you expect him to accept mediocrity in the future?"

"How can you be sure that he will be mediocre in the future?"

"Because he's wasting his youth. When he should be working hard for his future, he's playing house with a young lady who doesn't have to worry about the future." Yukinoshita Haruno glanced in the direction of the master bedroom. "I'm here now. If she were here instead, do you think Touno would still be so relaxed? Do you think that's the pressure he should face?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka was silent on the other end of the line.

"Now that things have come to this, we can only think of other solutions." Yukinoshita Haruno didn't wait for Hiratsuka Shizuka's response and continued on her own, "I will try to cultivate his abilities. I'll leave the second year vacation to you."

"Okay." Hiratsuka Shizuka lit a cigarette. "I understand what you mean."

“This is the best way to do it right now…”

"I was wondering why the perfect young lady would suddenly reveal a flaw. It turns out you did it on purpose." Hiratsuka Shizuka interrupted Yukinoshita Haruno. "You deliberately created a flaw to make me think you were expressing your true feelings and that you were really thinking about him. But in fact... you came to steal him."

Yukinoshita Haruno chuckled softly: "Rob someone? From you? Or from Yukino?"

"From Dongyun's youth." Hiratsuka Shizuka said seriously, "You saw his abilities and wanted to train him, but you were worried I'd get in the way, so you greeted me first and asked for my cooperation."