Am I being simulated by their love affair?

"understood."

Jun Matsueda watched the black car leaving two tracks on the snowy road as it drove away.

Miyamura Aya, who had disappeared for the entire afternoon, appeared beside him. "A guy like Jun-nii is what's called a womanizer, right?"

"What? You went to the shrine yesterday, and now you've awakened your divine power and can see other people's physiques?"

Jun Matsueda spun his umbrella, and the snow and water on it splashed everywhere. The girl screamed and dodged away.

"Just play with your phone."

He returned to the welfare home and lay back in his chair. He would be going back to his apartment tomorrow afternoon, so he had to take advantage of this opportunity to enjoy some quiet time alone.

Aya Miyamura sat on the chair next to Jun Matsueda and recorded a video of him resting with her mobile phone.

The young man was sitting on a recliner, with a dark red charcoal fire flickering at his feet. The background was a long corridor and flying snow, blowing his bangs.

The girl felt that she had mastered the essence of photography - just pick good-looking people to take pictures of.

On the afternoon of January 2nd, with the charcoal fire on the corridor and the wind and snow outside the eaves, Jun Matsueda's New Year finally calmed down.

Dinner was cream stew, and Jun Matsueda was eating a bowl full of broccoli, which was specially given to him by Caijiang. The girl didn't like to eat this green thing.

As he put the last bite of broccoli into his mouth, Jun Matsueda received a call from Kurusu Yoshi.

"Hey?"

"Matsueda, I'm going back to the apartment tomorrow. How about I come to the welfare house to play with you?"

He could hear another woman mumbling on the other end of the line. He swallowed the broccoli in his mouth and took a sip of the stew.

"It just so happens that I'm going back to the apartment tomorrow."

"Ah? Okay..." The girl's voice was a little regretful, but then turned excited. "When will you be back to the apartment tomorrow?"

"afternoon."

"Well... then buy less food."

"Are you still at Mount Fuji?" Jun Matsueda took the bowl into the kitchen and returned to the corridor. The wind had stopped, leaving only snowflakes slowly spinning in the air.

"Yeah! I'm about to take the bus back to Tokyo. There's a lot of snow on Mount Fuji~"

"It's snowing quite a bit here in Mitaka."

The two people who looked up at the sky at the same time across the phone felt similar to the feelings of youth.

"Then I'll see you tomorrow afternoon. We'll see if we can build a snowman or something."

"See you tomorrow."

Jun Matsueda put down his phone, and Caichan, who was sitting on a recliner playing mobile games, looked up at him.

"A girl again?"

He didn't say anything, which was considered as his agreement. The girl sighed and shook her head.

"Brother Chun's life won't be ruined by a woman..."

Matsueda Jun thought for a moment and said, "If it must be destroyed, it's better to destroy it at the hands of a woman than a man, right?"

"sophistry!"

On his last night in the welfare home, Jun Matsueda summed up his past year, and every single event flashed through his mind.

It's been a complicated year...

For a child, a year would seem so long that it would make one faint. For an adult, a year would pass by in the blink of an eye. But for Jun Matsueda, a year was just the right length.

Time passed by in a hurry but was ever-changing. Good things and bad things rushed towards him without stopping, and were finally left behind.

"In short, just like life, the future will always come, and the present will always pass. No matter whether it is good or bad, long or short, we can only accept it for the time being."

"What weird nonsense are you talking about again?" Kurusu Yoshi opened the door of the apartment and looked at him standing at the door.

"It's nothing. Seeing you still look like this, I feel relieved."

Jun Matsueda dragged the cheap suitcase into the living room. The sound of the pulleys became lighter on the wooden board, leaving two wet marks.

"Songzhi, you're back just in time. Come build a snowman with me!"

"No, I have to clean up my room first." The boy's voice came from the bedroom.

"Then I'll wait for you. Leave the cooking and dishes to me at night!" The girl supported herself on the back of the sofa with one hand, jumped into the familiar position, and let out a comfortable moan.

While Matsueda Jun was mopping the floor in the living room, Kurusu Yoshiyo played a rerun of "The Birth of an Idol" on TV. The girl who had been shining brightly on the stage was now singing the same song in the living room.

"Even if we walk into the dark night of sorrow~"

"Please continue to shine brightly without wavering~"

The girl turned around and lay on the back of the sofa, looking at the boy who was mopping the floor under the dining table.

"Matsueda, I'm so handsome!"

"Indeed." He nodded and put the mop back in the bathroom. "You can go out now."

"Great!" the girl jumped up from the sofa, "I want to build a huge snowman!"

The two stood downstairs of the apartment building, and Kurusu Yoshi looked at the thin snow on the grass.

"I can't even build a big snowman..."

"After all, the snow stopped last night." Matsueda Jun rubbed his shoes against the ground. "The snow on the ground and the road has also been swept away."

"hateful......"

Finally, a small snowman was erected on the corridor fence at the door of Room 507.

Chapter 184 White Semester

"This is the book you borrowed. Please return it within two weeks."

Jun Matsueda bowed his head and sent the gorgeously dressed girl in front of him away.

"Matsueda-san, that girl is definitely interested in you, right?"

Tomatsu Tomoka walked from the neatly arranged bookshelf to the counter and looked at the girl's back as she left.

"Maybe she just likes reading?" He shrugged and continued to organize the books on hand.

The girl puffed up her cheeks and looked at him. "We've only been working for three days since the New Year, and that girl has been borrowing books every day."

"I'm free to help her, but she insisted on waiting for you to finish organizing the bookshelf and come back to do it for her."

"If this isn't liking you, what is it?"

The boy sighed, "That's probably right. So what? Should we chase her away?"

"Mr. Matsueda is just too nice to her." The girl returned to the counter and sat down, continuing to look at the English exercises in her hand.

"I treat all visitors the same way," Matsueda Jun said, lowering his head to sort out the books in his hands. "If you show a bad attitude, you'll get a complaint."

"That's right..." Tomatsu Tomoka nodded, "It feels like time has passed so quickly. School starts tomorrow."

The Setagaya Literary Museum opened on the 2nd of this month, and the Neon Library is open on Saturdays, Sundays, and statutory holidays throughout the year, ensuring that citizens always have a place to read during their rest time.

Jun Matsueda came to the literary museum the day after he returned to the apartment, and as for Tomatsu Tomoka's arrangements, they were of course synchronized with his.

"It seems like Matsueda-san is particularly relaxed lately." Tomatsu Tomoka put down the pen in her hand and looked at the boy next to her who had finished his tidying work.

"Is there?" Jun Matsueda asked while lying on the table. The girl laughed at his lazy posture.

"Hmm, Matsueda-san always gave me a very tense feeling, as if there was a goal that had to be completed within a time limit."

"Especially at school," the girl added.

Jun Matsueda didn't say anything. He lay on the table and looked at the ballpoint pen in his right hand, the black pen body flying between his fingers.

Maybe Tomatsu Tomoka was right, he really did feel relaxed recently.

Previously, during a meeting in the news department, Jun Matsueda once said that his goal was to raise a bunch of children.

But he actually knew very well that the children in the welfare home did not need him to raise them, and everyone would eventually leave there and pursue their own lives.

All Jun Matsueda could do was provide a little more help before they left.

However, thanks to a certain young lady, this goal seems to have been achieved ahead of schedule.

"Mr. Tomatsu's observation skills are a little too good." Jun Matsueda sat up and casually opened a book to read.

"After all, I sit next to Matsueda-san." The girl said proudly with her chest puffed out.

The quiet afternoon was spent with the sound of turning pages of books and the rustling of pens.

"It's not enough to just be alive," Matsueda Jun read the words on the book. "You also need sunshine, freedom, and a little fragrance from flowers."

Maybe so, but Jun Matsueda feels that he is more suited to a life with clear goals.

"What is Tomatsu-san writing?" He looked at the girl beside him who had been writing furiously all afternoon.

"The real test questions from the English proficiency test." Tomatsu Tomoka picked up the test paper on the table and showed it to him. "Matsueda, do you want to take the test with me?"

"Yingqian?"

"The English proficiency test will give you extra points when applying to university~"

"Then it seems necessary to take a test." Matsueda Jun flipped through the textbook handed to him by the girl, and felt that it was a bit similar to the CET-4 and CET-6 exams.

"Until Matsueda-san finds a new target, let's just use this as a temporary solution."

"How come you know it again?"

"Because I'm Matsueda-san's desk mate~"

The smile in the girl's eyes was like a butterfly, fluttering its wings in the winter sunshine, ready to fly.

On the last night before school started, Matsueda Jun sat at the dining table while Kurusu Yoshi was still eating and watching TV. With one less person at the table, the girl's smile brightened a little.

"Matsueda, the agency said my debut single has a lot of plays on YouTube, and TBS also said the ratings for our last show were good!"

"Is it the song 'When It Shines'?"

"Hmm! So far, it can be considered a great success!"

"The first step on the road to becoming an idol is going smoothly." He drank the last mouthful of seven-herb porridge in the bowl, and warmth spread from his stomach to his whole body.

"My next plan is to prepare my first album, perform on music stages and music variety shows, and then see if there's an opportunity to sing the theme song for a TV series or web series..."

After having eaten and drunk his fill, Jun Matsueda sat in his seat, watching the girl put down her spoon and count off the plans one by one on her fingers with great interest.

It’s better to have a goal after all.

Besides working to earn money, it’s time to think about what else to do.

The next morning, Jun Matsueda put on a beanie and gloves, turned up his collar, and rode his bicycle fully armed, heading towards Haneda High School.

The third semester at Haneda High School began with heavy snowfall. A cold wave swept across the Kanto region, and snowy days became more frequent in Tokyo.

Pushing the carts into the school gate, students walked in groups of two or three, talking to each other about their whereabouts during the New Year and the New Year's money given by their parents, with uncontrollable happy smiles on their faces.

Walking into the classroom from the back door, Tomatsu Tomoka was still sitting in her seat as usual.

The girl took off the scarf from her neck. She seemed to have just arrived in the classroom, and her face was still slightly flushed from the cold wind.

"Matsueda-san, please take care of me in the new semester~"

She took out a stack of stapled papers from the drawer and handed it to Jun Matsueda. He looked down at it and it seemed like something he had just seen in the library yesterday.

"This is the material for the Eikan exam. Didn't Matsueda-san feel the need to take the test?"

"There's a lot of relevant information online, and it doesn't cost any money. I've sorted it out myself before, so I thought I'd print out an extra copy for you."

Jun Matsueda had just sat down in his seat at this time. He hung his schoolbag on the side of the desk and carefully looked at the materials in his hand.

"Is this a gift for the new semester?"

The girl didn't answer, but just lifted her hair from her ear and smiled at him.

"Thank you, Tomatsu-san." He stuffed the information into the drawer, and the girl's smile became brighter.

After knocking on the office door, Kominato Shoko turned around and waved to Matsueda Jun.

"This is the new semester's duty schedule and some class schedule adjustments. Songeda, remember to post it on the notice board when you return to the classroom."

Xiaominato Shengzi handed him the form in her hand and said, "There are also new textbooks. Please ask a few classmates to get them."

"Ok."