In the third year of high school, I exchanged bodies with Yukinoshita

"...Well, I heard that Yui and Yumiko's relationships seemed to be helped by you, so I was wondering if you, Yukinoshita, also have a crush on a guy..."

"There doesn't seem to be any necessary connection. Just like no one who can write romance novels is married, pursuing a boy doesn't necessarily mean you like him. Ultimately, my advice is just from an outsider. Being an outsider, I can offer relatively clear advice."

"So there's no boy you like?"

“Well, that’s a hard question to answer…”

Because I'm not Yukinoshita Yukino, although I can roughly guess what Yukinoshita Yukino is thinking, this kind of question shouldn't be answered by me, but...

"It's hard to say which boy I like, but now I have a boy who is very important to me."

After hearing the answer of "Yukinoshita Yukino", Kurohime Yuto complained in her heart, isn't being very important to a boy basically the same as liking him?

"So... is that boy from our school?"

"...He's not in this country."

Out of this world to be exact.

Kurohime Yuito was a little surprised to hear this answer. This is a long-distance relationship... no, it's an international relationship.

Unfortunately, "Yukinoshita Yukino" woke up late today. She was probably chatting with that boy. However, because they were traveling across countries, one of them woke up in the early morning and the other in the evening.

"So, this answer will allow you to report to Miura Yumiko."

Zuo Yu suddenly said this, and Heiji Jiedeng followed her inner thoughts and said, "This much information should be enough."

After she finished speaking, she quickly covered her mouth, realizing that she had been tricked. She looked at "Yukinoshita Yukino" with a smug smile. She felt somewhat familiar, as that was the expression she had when she first met "Yukinoshita Yukino".

"As expected... Yumiko asked you to trick me."

Kurohime Yuito lowered her head silently, her expression already expressing her assent.

"Sorry, I..."

"There's no need to apologize. If you want to know something like this, just ask me directly. No need to beat around the bush. So how did you find out that I have a boyfriend I'm interested in? I'm very curious about this."

Zuo Yu flashed a foxy grin. The fact that Yukinoshita Yukino was suspected of having a crush on a boy meant that when he took over Yukinoshita's body, he had done something unbecoming of her. So, there must have been some details he hadn't paid attention to, and he needed to understand what flaws he had revealed from an outsider's perspective.

Zuo Yu learned about his omission from Heiji Jiedeng.

First of all, there was the matter of not coming to see Kurohime Yuto at 7 o'clock in the morning. He couldn't be blamed for what happened that morning. It was because Yukinoshita Yukino hadn't told him in advance that she had left such important information in the diary of the last two days. Zuo Yu read the diary in chronological order, so by the time he saw it, it was already too late.

As for the lunch issue and the disparity between his temperament and Yukinoshita Yukino, it was probably only Yuigahama Yui who noticed. Now that Miura Yumiko had given a reasonable explanation for these two issues, Yuigahama Yui's deep doubts were dispelled. All she had to do now was cook lunch according to Yukinoshita Yukino's taste.

It looks like I have to go find Yukinoshita Yukino tonight and ask her what she likes to eat and prepare a lunch box according to her taste.

After such a long performance, only these two problems were revealed. In this sense, my performance was still very successful.

Zuo Yu and Hei Ji Jie Deng said goodbye in front of their respective room doors.

Zuo Yu returned to Yukinoshita Yukino's apartment, picked up the game he bought last time, played it for a while, and then went to see Yukinoshita Yukino. He didn't know how his plan was going, or whether Fang Xuan had given her the impression that his grades had declined.

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Yukinoshita Yukino looked at the homework she had received and felt a little overwhelmed.

She had originally thought the amount of homework here wouldn't be much different from hers, and even if it was more, it wouldn't be much more. But now things had developed beyond her expectations. After the biology teacher handed out the homework early, some other teachers also handed out theirs early.

Some teachers even said considerately, "I know you won't be able to finish this much homework during the holidays, so I've assigned it in advance. This way you'll have plenty of time to finish it."

Yukinoshita Yukino was speechless about this. Since you know you can't finish it, why do you arrange so many things? I don't know what you are trying to achieve.

No wonder Zuo Yu wanted me to do more tests. He must be jealous of my life over there.

Yukinoshita Yukino was busy doing the test paper during evening study.

Speaking of which, I don’t know what Zuo Yu did today on my side. There was a student union meeting to be held there, and I don’t know if Zuo Yu did anything at that meeting.

Time soon came to the end of school. Yukinoshita Yukino stretched. She had been doing homework all night, and her eyes were a little sore and her back was a little painful.

This time she finished her homework very quickly. She guessed that it was because both she and Zuo Yu's bodies had developed a certain degree of adaptability, so she used more of Zuo Yu's brain.

However, she was unhappy that Zuo Yu had not come here yet.

Yukinoshita Yukino looked at the results of her night's work. It couldn't be that she was doing Zuo Yu's holiday homework here while he was staying at home playing games.

The more Yukinoshita Yukino thought about it, the more she felt that this possibility was very high. After all, Zuo Yu had done something like deliberately taking out a large number of test papers as a prank, so doing such a thing should not be a psychological burden for him.

"Yo, it looks like you've already helped me with one of my holiday assignments."

Just when Yukinoshita Yukino was thinking about Zuo Yu, Zuo Yu came. He spoke in a relaxed tone about Yukinoshita Yukino doing his homework for him.

"...You came so late today, you didn't come to my house to play games, did you?"

Zuo Yu was stunned when he heard this. How could Yukinoshita Yukino guess so accurately? However, anyone who was familiar with him could guess this level of guess.

She had come to understand this much about herself.

"That's right. After all, it's a game you paid for, so if you don't play it, you'd be missing out... Besides, you can play it whenever you want. It's good for relaxing."

As expected, Zuo Yu was playing games at home. This guy must have been holding it in at school for a long time... Forget it, let's not pursue this matter.

"Forget about playing games. I don't have that idea at the moment. I'm just thinking about one thing right now. It seems like you have a lot of homework for the holidays."

"Yeah, you can feel our vacation, right? Two days of vacation can fill you up completely. But the homework isn't enough for me, so I need to practice more."

Zuo Yu didn't know that his plan had been completely exposed, and was still thinking about dragging Yukinoshita Yukino into the trap.

"...Yes, it seems a little insufficient for you, but why should I be the one doing your homework?"

Yukinoshita Yukino asked.

Zuo Yu said calmly, "Let's go home first. It's time to go home from school."

Yukinoshita Yukino then remembered that school was already over, but no one in the class had any intention of leaving. They all sat firmly in their seats, concentrating on their holiday homework.

How is this going?

Yukinoshita Yukino was a little confused. She could have brought these homework assignments home to do, so why did she choose to do them all at this time?

"You definitely don't understand... I'll tell you after you leave the classroom."

Yukinoshita Yukino stood up, and Li Shu beside her also stood up tacitly to let "Zuo Yu" go out.

"Tell me, why are you so enthusiastic about doing your homework now?"

"Of course, it's to reduce the amount of homework we have to do during the holidays. We'd rather finish our homework at school than leave it for the holidays. After all, we usually bring a lot of books with us when we go on holiday, saying we're going to study hard during the holidays. And then we bring those books home and back to school the same way."

"So you guys don't do your homework at home, right?"

"That's what I mean. Everyone will choose to do their homework at school and have a good rest when they get home."

"But don't Yan Meng and Fang Xuan study at night?"

"That's normal, but the holidays are coming soon. You can't just lock yourself in the room and do your homework during the holidays."

Yukinoshita Yukino fell silent. Zuo Yu's words seemed to have touched Yukinoshita's sore spot. She did the same thing during the holidays.

"Ahem, let's not talk about this." Zuo Yu realized that he had stepped on a landmine and quickly changed the subject. "I won't be going back home for Mid-Autumn Festival this year, and I'm in my third year of high school, so this Mid-Autumn Festival, I planned to study hard. But now I've swapped bodies with you. My original plan has been ruined, so you have seen the test papers on my desk. Please finish them before Mid-Autumn Festival."

"It just so happens that you did it for me. You can also learn a lot, and what you learned will remain in my mind. This way, it's a win-win for both of us."

Zuo Yu was trying to fool people, but Yukinoshita Yukino, who had already left the school, didn't intend to pretend anymore. She wanted to point out Zuo Yu's conspiracy.

"You've been planning on making me take these tests from the beginning, you leg-control pervert!"

Upon hearing this, Zuo Yu realized that Yukinoshita Yukino was now angry.

It’s over. It seems that my plan has been exposed. What should I do now?

"As expected, you knew the timing of the body swap and wanted to take advantage of this information gap to get me to do those tests."

"You also know the time pattern of body swapping?"

Zuo Yu heard a very important piece of information. Yukinoshita Yukino knew the time pattern of body swapping, and she also saw through his little trick this time.

It seems that Yukinoshita Yukino's understanding of herself has reached a very deep level. Now Yukinoshita Yukino's understanding of herself can probably be compared with Ji Zanyue's.

"Yeah, that's not hard to guess. It's just about special time periods. For you, it's the start of school, holidays, and other important times for students. For me, it's the school festival and the sports festival. Am I right?"

"That's right."

"Then do you know the pattern of our ending? If we can know the timing of each body exchange, we can make more preparations."

"...have no idea."

Zuo Yu said this, and he was not lying. After all, there was no fixed time for the end of the body swap. It all depended on when Zuo Yu wanted to end it.

"Is that so? Then there's nothing I can do. Even you don't know."

Yukinoshita Yukino felt that since Zuo Yu didn't know, she probably wouldn't be able to find the answer either.

"So, you're not mad? About me wanting you to do more tests?"

Zuo Yu asked cautiously. After all, his body was still controlled by Yukinoshita Yukino. If Yukinoshita Yukino wanted to do something, he could only watch with his consciousness.

"Isn't this just a joke between friends? I won't get angry about something like this."

Although Yukinoshita Yukino was a little angry when she knew about this, what made her angry was not Zuo Yu's prank, but the fact that Zuo Yu did not tell her the time pattern of the exchange, and even planned to use this to prank her.

She herself felt a little secretly happy that Zuo Yu would play a prank on her. At least Zuo Yu treated her as a friend.

"Then don't be angry about what I'm going to say next..."

"You tell me, I'll decide based on the situation."

"Well, Miura Yumiko and the others suspected that you had someone you liked, and your answer was that there was a boy who was important to you."

Zuo Yu's words made Yukinoshita a little confused. What did Zuo Yu say next? What did Miura Yumiko and the others mean by suspecting that they had someone they liked, and who was the boy who was important to me? Yukinoshita first calmed down her inner fluctuations, then pushed open Zuo Yu's door, walked into the house, hugged Morgana and sat on the sofa, saying in a calm tone.

"Please explain things clearly instead of summarizing them briefly."

Chapter 123 Knowing the roots

Yukinoshita Yukino sat on the sofa in Zuo Yu's house. She put Morgana on her lap, gently stroked its back, and listened to Zuo Yu telling her about the little accident that happened today.

After listening to Zuo Yu’s account of the accident that happened today.

"So, it's because the lunch you made for lunch tasted different from what I usually make, and they noticed that Yukinoshita Yukino was different today than yesterday. Then they inferred that Yukinoshita Yukino had a crush on a boy, and wanted to make meals that suited that boy, so she was different from yesterday..."

".......Also, I didn't meet Kurohime Yuto on time this morning, so she thought Yukinoshita was chatting with the boy she cared about yesterday. Then they asked me if Yukinoshita had a crush on a boy. I could only answer that there was an important boy to her..."

Yukinoshita Yukino heard the words "important boy" again, "You... are so narcissistic, how could you say you are important to me..."

This is shyness, Zuo Yu listened to Yukinoshita Yukino's words that were not tough at all, "Then am I not important to you? I helped you reconcile with your sister, established your service club, and gave you someone to talk to in school. I have done so much for you, am I not important enough to you?"

"...Indeed, you have changed me a lot...You are indeed an important person to me."

"Just admit it frankly. So do you like me?"

"...How could you ask me...this question so frankly?"

"Just a reminder, don't fall in love with me. Even if you do, don't get too deeply involved... After all, our relationship only exists because of the body swap. If one day the body swap disappears, we'll truly be from two different worlds."

Zuo Yu said this, but when he asked this question, Yukinoshita Yukino had already revealed her love deep in her heart.

I hope she doesn't get too deep...

"...You're such a narcissist. Although you're from a wealthy family, handsome, and honest, you're a bit perverted, like your collection. That's why I don't... like you."

It's completely inconsistent.

But let her say whatever she wants. Zuo Yu pretended to be a little regretful and said, "That's really a pity. I thought you liked me. But this is also normal. After all, we know each other very well."

Zuo Yu was probably saying that when two people know each other's shortcomings, they can feel a sense of disillusionment. It's like the Japanese, upon arriving in Paris, can't accept that the Paris they see is different from what they imagined. However, Zuo Yu's words seemed to have more than just that meaning. Based on the Chinese context and the tone of his words, this must be a silly joke...

"I think your words have a deeper meaning... Um... what does it mean to know everything?"

"It means that we can not only see each other's strengths, but also each other's weaknesses. For example, you know I like to collect things, and I also know your physical flaws..."

This guy is definitely insulting me.

Yukinoshita Yukino no longer wanted to dwell on this issue. The more she talked, the more wrong she felt. She had to quickly change the subject, "Ahem, don't you think this is just your fault? You didn't pay attention to the details in your daily life, so they noticed something was wrong. I don't have that problem with you."

You were exposed on the first day. If Fang Xuan wasn't that reliable, everyone would have found out something was wrong with you long ago.

"Then the problems we face are different. You can just sit at my desk and bury your head in a test, or explain a problem to someone else without anyone noticing anything's wrong, while I'm having family gatherings and attending school festivals over there. We face different problems, so how can we compare?"

"The premise of a comparison is to ensure that only one factor is different, and the other factors are exactly the same. However, there are too many different factors between the two of us, so your conclusion is invalid."

After listening to Zuo Yu's long speech, Yukinoshita Yukino only extracted one useful piece of information from the words, which was that it was not his fault that the abnormality was discovered, but because the situation on Yukinoshita Yukino's side was too complicated.