“Keep up the good work in the new semester.”

"I understand!" Matsueda Jun's expression was firm, and Kominato Shoko couldn't help but giggled twice.

Walking along the busy corridor, the snow outside the window was heavier than when Jun Matsueda came to school. The sunlight from outside passed through the glass, leaving a long strip of light on the ground, and his shadow and the shadow of the snow shuttled through it.

Putting down the form in his hand, Jun Matsueda looked out the window. The late girl walked towards the school gate step by step, leaving a trail of footprints on the white road.

A snowflake drifted across her cheek, and the girl, feeling something, looked up and met the gaze of Jun Matsueda by the window. Behind him, students chased each other, forming a constant stream in the background.

Mochizuki Haruka took off her scarf and gave him a smile as pure as snow.

The short white semester has officially begun.

Chapter 185: Respective Directions

"Why did you come to school?"

Jun Matsueda looked at the girl in front of him. She didn't have a bag and wasn't wearing a school uniform. She didn't look like she was going to class.

"Didn't you say that if I came to school, you would tell me what to do if I liked someone?"

The girl's smile seemed to be against him. Matsueda Jun frowned, and Mochizuki Haruka continued.

"I just came to get my textbook."

He watched the girl walk into Class 1's classroom, and the noise inside immediately grew louder.

After returning to his class and posting the new form on the bulletin board, Jun Matsueda pulled out a chair and sat down. The girl next to him asked him curiously.

"Why is it so noisy next door?"

"Their eldest daughter has shown up."

Is Mochizuki Haruka back? Tomatsu Tomoka blinked and took out her textbook from the drawer. The bell had already rung.

During morning reading time, Xiaominato Shengzi walked into the classroom. She looked around and confirmed that no students were absent, then nodded with satisfaction.

"The last semester of your first year of high school is very short, so everyone should cherish it."

"When you become a sophomore, you'll be reassigned to new classes, and the academic burden will be even heavier than it is now."

"At the end of January, the school will participate in Kawai Juku's mock exams, so I hope everyone will not let down their guard."

She ignored the wailing from the audience and walked out of the classroom.

"Matsueda-san will choose liberal arts, right?" asked Tomatsu Tomoka.

"Didn't you ask that before?"

"Just in case, let me confirm it again." The girl smiled sheepishly.

"liberal arts."

"That's good." She nodded reassuringly.

During lunch break, Jun Matsueda passed through the corridor. The familiar figures were no longer in Class 1's classroom. He took out his cell phone and sent a message to Haruka Mochizuki.

"Back to the hospital?"

The girl replied quickly, "I'm sleeping on the bed in room 506. I think the quilt still smells like you."

Matsueda Jun ignored the second half of her sentence and said, "Don't fall behind in your studies."

"No." She sent a voice message, her tone rebellious, "Anyway, I can live well without going to school."

This guy… He put his phone in his pocket and walked towards the event building.

Pushing open the door of the news department, I saw a girl sitting in front of the computer in the office, her posture seemed familiar.

"Yukawa is here so early again, have you had lunch yet?"

He moved a chair and sat next to the girl, watching her edit a video on the computer, which happened to be a scene of him participating in the Winter Cup.

"I bought some bread."

Natsumi Imokawa stared intently at the screen, then grabbed some bread and milk from a plastic bag beside her, intending to eat them while she cut them. She tore open the bread's packaging and took two bites of the butter bread, her eyes still fixed on the screen, not even glancing at him.

"It's only the first day of the new semester. Is there any need to rush?" Jun Matsueda has always believed that meal time should never be saved.

"Finish the first draft as soon as possible, as we'll need to revise it later." The girl was a little thirsty, so she picked up the box of milk and handed it to him.

"Please help me with the pine branches."

Jun Matsueda took the milk, inserted a straw and returned it to her. The girl kept swallowing, and soon the milk carton was sucked dry and made an empty sound.

"Tsushima-senpai and the others will be here for a meeting soon."

The girl then looked at him, then saved the file with the milk carton in her mouth, turned off the computer, and sat down at the conference table with him.

"There's still cream on the corner of your mouth."

Natsumi Imokawa's face turned red. She stuck out her tongue, licked the white stains from the corners of her mouth, and looked at Jun Matsueda with a questioning look.

"It's gone now."

At the first news department meeting of the third semester, Tsushima Kou announced a good news: the filming was basically completed and the next step was post-production editing.

Natsumi Imokawa stayed in the club room to edit the video, while Jun Matsueda was walking alone on the way back to the classroom. The snow outside the window had not stopped yet, and there were people playing in the snow on the playground. They looked like a couple.

The two classes in the afternoon passed quickly. There were no library classes scheduled today, so it was time for the long-awaited free time after school.

Jun Matsueda watched Tomoka Tomatsu leave the classroom with her saxophone. He was a little uncomfortable going home so early.

After sitting in his seat for a while, he took out the real biology competition questions from his bag and walked towards the third floor.

"Because I didn't know where to go after school, so I came to attend the competition training?"

Sitting in the corner, Yamami Moki looked at the boy next to her, with a little surprise in her calm eyes.

Matsueda Jun nodded and said, "I'd feel a little guilty if I just went home like this."

"Matsueda-san is too tense." The girl said softly. She raised her head and glanced at the teacher at the podium. The woman did not notice the two people in the corner.

Jun Matsueda looked at Yamami Matsukori without saying anything. The girl pretended to be calm at first, but after a few seconds, a shy blush crept up from her neck to her cheeks.

"Why are you staring at me, Matsueda?" She picked up the test paper on the table and covered the lower half of her face.

"Sometimes, you and Tomatsu-san really look alike, Senior."

Jun Matsueda looked away at the blackboard. What the girl had just said was similar to what Tomatsu Tomoka had said at the Setagaya Literary Museum.

“Is that so…” Yamami Moki’s face turned even redder.

Jun Matsueda didn't know, but the girl remembered that he once liked her junior.

Saying I look like Tomoka or something... Yamami Maki moved the test paper in front of her upwards to cover her entire face.

After two classes, all the students in the classroom left, leaving only two people sitting by the window.

"The snow is really long today."

The girl looked out the window. Snow was still falling from the sky, seemingly endless. Although the snowflakes were not as big as those in Hokkaido, it was still a rare surprise for Tokyo residents.

"The news says the cold front is stronger this year."

Junzheng Matsueda lowered his head and looked at the questions on the test paper. These were the difficult questions left by Yamamimi Maki during the winter vacation, and they were left for him to solve.

"By the end of this semester, Yamami-senpai will be a third-year student too."

"That's right, I want to be the big sister in the school." The dignified girl tried hard to imitate the tone she heard from TV dramas, but it still seemed a little cute and clumsy.

"Senior, have you set a goal?" He put down his pen and looked at the answer on the back of the test paper. It was the same as the result he calculated.

"Well...it's settled, I guess."

Jun Matsueda raised his head and looked at the girl, waiting for her to speak.

"Ochanomizu University."

"I'm not surprised. To be honest, I'm actually quite surprised that Senpai isn't sitting at Ochanomizu High School right now."

"Really?" The girl smiled. Perhaps because of the falling snow and dark clouds outside the window, her smile was not as bright as usual.

After explaining the question, the two left the second activity room. Matsueda Jun followed the girl through the corridor on the third floor, Yamami Maki walked into the classroom of Class 4, Grade 2, and he continued to go downstairs.

"Matsueda-san." The girl standing at the classroom door called him.

The girl's smile crossed the long corridor, adding a touch of bright color to the gloomy winter day.

"If you're confused, just try everything."

Chapter 186: A Love Story Behind the Wall

The first week of the new semester came to an end with the cessation of heavy snow.

"In the end, I still haven't found what I want to do."

Jun Matsueda walked out of the bedroom and stretched. He was only wearing a thin shirt. The heater was on in the room, and a drowsy magic filled the air.

Kurusu Yoshi was watching TV in the living room. She was even more outrageous than Matsueda Jun. She changed into a short-sleeved shirt and hot pants again, and held a popsicle stick in her mouth.

Jun Matsueda sat at the other end of the sofa, resting his hands on the backrest, looking at the green outside the window. The dense letters made his eyes a little tired.

"Don't worry, Matsueda-san. Not having a goal isn't a terrible thing."

"Just treat this time as a little vacation for yourself."

These were the words Tomatsu Tomoka left for him when school was over on Saturday.

There is a difference between the girl and her senior. Yamami Maki likes to encourage others to try things naturally, while Tomatsu Tomoka's words have the magic to tempt people to sink into it.

"Holiday..."

Matsueda Jun turned his gaze from the window back inside. A romantic drama seemed to be playing on the TV. A pair of lovers were reluctant to part. The girl smiled, her eyes like crescent moons, and suggested that they turn around and walk away.

"Why are you watching a romance drama?" He had never seen a romance drama being shown in the Qiyang world before, this was the first time.

Kurusu Yoshi sighed, "My agent said the production department has a good song coming up that can be included on my album."

"and then?"

While the girl was talking, Jun Matsueda stole a few cheese spiral crisps from the bucket in her hand. This is the most popular snack in 711-Eleven convenience stores.

"And it's a love song, a love song about being in love, not a breakup song!"

"I tried singing a few times but wasn't satisfied, so I just watched some TV dramas to get a feel for it."

Kurusu Yoshi released the popsicle stick from her mouth and threw it into the trash can. The girl threw it so hard that the empty trash can shook.

"Didn't you also sing a love song when you were in the group?"

Jun Matsueda was looking at the TV screen. The two young people had agreed to turn around and leave without looking back, but they turned back at the same time and threw themselves into each other's arms.

"It's different now." The girl frowned. "Before, it was all stage performances, and there were so many people. As long as the visual effects were good enough, like the lighting, expressions, movements, etc., the audience wouldn't care too much about the quality of your song."

"But now that I'm preparing for the album, they can only understand me through listening, so I have to sing movingly enough!"

Lai Qi Yang Shi was fully aware of the situation. She poured the remaining spiral crisps into her mouth and continued to watch TV attentively.

"By the way, Songzhi has never been in love, right?" the girl asked vaguely, her mouth bulging, and she hadn't swallowed the spiral crisps yet.

"Talked."

"As expected..." Kurusu Yoshi was halfway through his words when he suddenly sat up from the sofa and crawled in front of Matsueda Jun.

"You've been in a relationship?! Don't say that just to save face, okay?"

"I can't do such boring things."

Hearing his answer, the girl's slender eyebrows raised up, and after a while, returned to their original position.

"Damn it, let's just talk about it. It's about the future anyway..." She muttered softly, then put her face close to Matsueda Jun.

"Matsueda, I want you to help me experience the feeling of love!"

"........Are you serious?"

Jun Matsueda looked at the girl in front of him. The blush on her face was warm, her lips were plump and shiny, and her eyes were as bright and charming as ever, making it difficult for people to have the courage to look directly at her.

The girl's long hair cascaded down from her shoulders like waves, covering the open neckline. The pink ends of her hair bounced in the air. Several months had passed, and her original pink hair was almost faded away.

"Of course I'm serious! I'll leave as soon as I finish watching the TV series. You are not allowed to run away, do you hear me?"

Kurusu Yoshi watched Matsueda Jun stand up and walk towards the entrance.

"Don't run away!"

Walking into the entrance of 506, there was no light in the living room, only the whirring sound of the heater vents.

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