Still on the top floor, in the ward that he was already very familiar with, he pushed open the door and walked in.

There was an extra bed in the room. The girl was curled up in the quilt, motionless. She was wearing a suspender-style pajamas, and the fallen straps revealed the smooth and white shoulders.

Jun Matsueda moved the chair to the girl's bedside. There was no light in the room, so he couldn't read. He had to take out his cell phone and put on headphones to read the operating procedures of the biological experiment.

Wang Yueyao woke from her dream. She didn't move, but just lay quietly in bed, looking at the other bed in front of her. In the darkness, she couldn't see the woman's face, only the shape of the quilt.

The girl turned over and discovered the presence of Jun Matsueda. The cold light of the mobile phone shone on his face, making him look gloomy, which was very consistent with the atmosphere of the hospital.

"Did you come here on purpose to scare me?"

Mochizuki Haruka's voice is very hoarse, which sometimes happens when he doesn't speak for a long time.

"Didn't I send a message saying I would come over?" He put away his phone, and the only light in the room disappeared.

Obviously, Mochizuki Haruka had long been accustomed to the darkness, but after Matsueda Jun came, she felt that she was not used to it again.

"Really? I forgot."

Mochizuki Haruka lifted the quilt and sat up. Songzhi Jun reminded her slowly: "Your shoulder strap is slipping, remember to put on your clothes properly."

The girl didn't move. Matsueda Jun looked at her in confusion, but of course he couldn't see anything.

"I'm going to change clothes."

Jun Matsueda walked out of the room consciously. Outside the corridor, he could see the road in front of the hospital. The cold wind ripped the trees on the street apart, bringing out the falling leaves.

He waited until the light in the ward came on and the girl knocked on the window before he went back in.

Mochizuki Haruka changed into a sky blue base shirt, with a sea blue knitted vest on the outside, and an everyday plaid skirt on the bottom.

The girl frowned slightly. The light from above made the shadows on the sides of her nose and under her eyes darker. It might also be because her face was thinner.

Jun Matsueda looked at the elegant woman sleeping on the bed, then looked at the pale-faced girl standing beside the bed.

"Who is sick anyway?"

Mochizuki Haruka glared at him weakly.

"Come out to dinner with me."

The girl didn't say a word and followed Matsueda Jun out of the door silently.

Before he came, she was a willful and domineering tyrant. When he came, she could only be a kitten with the back of the neck pinched.

"What should we eat?" The two walked into the autumn night of Setagaya, and Jun Matsueda tried to get the silent girl to interact with the world.

But the girl did not respond, and Matsueda Jun was too lazy to argue with her and started to perform a monologue.

"In autumn...how about eating saury? I think it's something I can eat even without an appetite."

The destination was relatively close, so Matsueda Jun led Mochizuki Haruka on a walk. On the side of the road was the Kitaoriyama Citizen Green Park. Yellow leaves kept falling in front of the girl's eyes. She quickened her pace and walked in front of Matsueda Jun.

Stop at the intersection ahead, and on the right is where the two of you will have dinner today - a Japanese restaurant called "Shofuen".

There is a sign on the wall of the store saying "The store is packed with distinguished guests", and the orange light makes people feel warm as soon as they sit down.

Two plates of grilled saury with white rice were served quickly. There were also some other side dishes in the set meal, in red and green colors, which made the eyes enjoy it before the tongue.

Jun Matsueda first picked out the fine bones with chopsticks, and then put the fish meat into his mouth. The oily back meat of the saury, together with the skin, had a rich taste and filled his mouth with the aroma of oil and meat.

"Cough cough cough..." Matsueda Jun's happy eating process was interrupted by the girl opposite him who was coughing non-stop. He raised his head and saw Mochizuki Haruka's face looking very painful.

"Can this also be choked by a sting?"

After a series of beatings and pouring water, the girl's frown finally relaxed. Matsueda Jun fed her some water, and the water flowed from the corners of her mouth to her collar.

"Can you please find fault with me?" Matsueda Jun looked friendly, as if he was facing a kindergarten child.

However, the girl just stared at the grilled fish in front of her without saying a word.

"I give up..." Matsueda Jun held his forehead and sighed, "If you don't want to eat, just tell me earlier."

Wangyue Yao glanced at him, picked up the fish meat from his plate and put it into her mouth.

"...You pay for this meal."

He placed the plate in front of the girl in front of him, picked out all the bones from the fish with chopsticks, and then put the divided fish meat into her bowl.

Looking at his impatient expression and the careful movements of his hands, Mochizuki Haruka couldn't help but rub her little feet gently around the tip of Matsueda Jun's shoes under the table.

Saury are phototactic, and the girl felt like she had turned into a saury, unconsciously swimming towards Matsueda Jun.

"Pine branches," she began.

"What? Don't even think about making any more requests." Matsueda Jun was not very happy. He had just taken two bites of his meal.

"I just want to tell you that saury is delicious."

Chapter 110: Ruthless Guy

After going through a lot of hardships, Jun Matsueda finally finished his dinner.

The uncle at the next table was also eating saury and drinking ice beer in big gulps, while the two people who were still in school could only choose to drink barley tea.

No, Matsueda Jun remembered that the girl had dropped out of school and he was the only one studying.

After Mochizuki Haruka paid the bill without saying a word, the two of them walked out of the restaurant, this time with the girl leading the way.

As they passed the park, Matsueda Jun slowed down a bit. "Would you like to take a walk or sit in the park?"

The girl who was walking quickly paused, shook her head, and continued walking towards the hospital.

He followed her and didn't say another word until they entered the hospital elevator.

"Are you angry?" In the bright elevator, the girl asked with her back to Matsueda Jun.

"Of course I'm angry," she began, answering her own question. "You came to see me, and I gave you the cold shoulder. I even asked you to serve me during dinner. Anyone would be angry, right?"

"Stop." Matsueda Jun stopped the girl from complaining. "I'm not angry. I just took your car to invite you to dinner. You don't even have to pay for the meal. What could I be dissatisfied with?"

"Then why didn't you speak?"

"What should I say?" he asked helplessly. "Ask you how you're doing? There's no need to ask. I can tell at a glance."

"How about I tell you about school? You're on leave now, so you wouldn't care about these things, would you?"

Mochizuki Haruka fell silent when asked. The elevator reached the fourth floor and the two returned to the ward.

"I thought... you would persuade me to go back." She looked at the woman on the hospital bed.

"This is your own choice. Why should I try to persuade you?" Matsueda Jun laughed. "Will your life be ruined if you don't go to school? Even if you eat and sleep every day, the Mochizuki family can let you live like this for hundreds of years. I don't think it's my turn to worry about you."

"Everyone is responsible for their own choices. I just came to see how you live your life now, that's all."

"But since you think I will come to persuade you, is it possible that you want me to persuade you?"

Wangyue Yao didn't say anything. She sat at the head of her aunt's bed, combing the woman's hair with her fingers.

The girl's heart was restless when she was not with her aunt, but now that she was with the woman, she felt no more at ease.

Looking at the girl in front of him, Jun Matsueda recalled the first love story he had once told Tomatsu Tomoka.

It's the same principle. When there is only one person left in a person's world, the balance of the mind will naturally be difficult to maintain.

What's more, Mochizuki Haruka was facing a person who was in a deep sleep.

"I do have other things I care about, but the one I care about most is my aunt."

"I don't want to be like last time. My aunt woke up, but I missed the chance to meet her."

"I don't have the confidence to keep going like this, but I will wait until the day when there is no hope left."

For some people, hope is really not a good thing, Jun Matsueda sighed in his heart.

The girl turned around and looked at him, "Matsuzhi, please come visit me more often in the future."

In fact, Mochizuki Haruka really hopes to pay money to buy Matsueda Jun's time and let him take a leave of absence from school together, so that the days of waiting will be much better.

But she knew that was impossible.

"Once a week, maybe. I'm busy too, unlike you who have so much time on your hands."

Mochizuki Yao raised the corner of his lips. He could always make serious things sound so light-hearted.

Jun Matsueda is ready to leave.

"Don't always eat the meals delivered by the hospital. They use less oil and salt to consider intake and risk, and the ingredients are cooked so soft that they lose your appetite just by looking at them."

"How about ordering takeout?"

"Also, turn on the lights more often. You won't feel good if you stay in the dark all the time. Do you hear me?"

The girl nodded to him standing at the door, and the boy walked out of the window and disappeared from her sight.

Haruka Mochizuki stood in the corridor and watched Jun Matsueda walk out of the hospital gate without looking back.

"Heartless fellow," she muttered softly.

It was almost seven o'clock when he arrived at the apartment building. Jun Matsueda took his bicycle out of the trunk. After the black car left, he saw Kurusu Yoshi standing across the road.

The girl watched him push his bicycle over. She leaned in and sniffed. "It smells like a sweet, stinky, stinky smell, like disinfectant and barbecue."

"I went to the hospital and had dinner nearby." He parked his bicycle downstairs and went upstairs with Kurusu Yoshi.

"You're eating delicious food without taking me with you, right?" She looked at Matsueda Jun angrily as he took the key to open the door.

"How's your work going lately?" he began to change the subject.

Kurusu Yoshi entered the entrance hall before him. She lowered her head, raised her legs, and took off her short boots.

The slightly twisting hips and raised calves, the extremely seductive lines disappeared as the girl stood up and kicked her boots aside.

"It's both smooth and not smooth. The operations department is planning to let me leave the group and go solo."

"But?" Jun Matsueda knew that she hadn't finished speaking.

"But the way the people in the group look at me has changed. I feel like I'm being secretly excluded by them lately."

"I can't help it," Lai Qi Yang Shi laid down on the sofa, "If I shine too brightly, my companions will not tolerate me."

Matsueda Jun pushed her up from the sofa and said, "Don't put your sweaty feet on the sofa. Can you take a shower first?"

"You actually despise me..." Lai Qi Yang Shi walked towards the bathroom dissatisfiedly, "It's good enough that I don't sell you this pair of original white socks. I also have to change socks and shoes at the company!"

After the girl came out of the bathroom with her long white legs exposed, Matsueda Jun walked in immediately. He had to wash off the smell on his body as soon as possible.

After changing clothes, Matsueda Jun looked at the girl lying on the sofa again. Her posture became more arrogant, as if she was demonstrating to him.

He didn't sit down, but just stood aside. "So are you just going to let them exclude you now?"

"What else can I do? I'm leaving soon anyway. It's just a matter of having less screen time in the group. It doesn't matter to me anymore."

Laiqi Yangshi's perspective is quite open, perhaps because her attention is already focused on the TV.

Matsueda Jun ignored her and returned to his desk in his bedroom. In September and October, he could still hear the chirping of cicadas and other insects outside the window, but now they had basically disappeared.

He took out "General Biology" from his bag. Biology competitions were ridiculed as memory competitions, so it was relatively simple for Jun Matsueda, but it also required the most reading.

It took him three hours to finish reading the rest of the book. He took a break and took out his phone to check the messages.

The penguin avatar in the chat box began to flash. Natsumi Imokawa rarely sent him messages, so Jun Matsueda clicked on the avatar.

"Matsueda-san promised to go to Meiji Jingu with me. Did you forget?"

He recalled that after participating in the national competition, the girl seemed to have said this while they were walking in Omotesando with Natsumi Imokawa.

The long sentence in the chat box doesn't seem like her style. It should be divided into at least three sentences. Is she angry?

"Yumi! What did you send from my phone?!"

On the other side, Natsumi Imokawa looked at her best friend in the room with a blushing face, and Yumi Seshita giggled.

"You've been talking about this a lot lately, so I told Songzhi about it for you."

"Yumi——"

The two girls started fighting on the bed, and Imokawa's phone was thrown aside, with a reply from Jun Matsueda on the screen.

“This week for sure!”

Chapter 111 Dangerous Contact

Ken Sakamuro watched Jun Matsueda washing his hands at the faucet in front of the bathroom.

The slender fingers are crossed, the back of the hands and the round nails are shiny under the water, and the distinct joints attract the attention.

"Matsuzhi, how come you're so stylish even when washing your hands?"

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