After rebirth, I became Tokyo Sentimental

Chapter 236 235 The snow on the mountains will eventually melt.

Chapter 236, page 235: Thousands of mountains and snow will eventually melt.

"You've really become a winner in life this time."

Suzumiya Saka stood on the snow, pulled her scarf up around her neck, and said softly with a calm expression.

There was no sign of anger on her face.

Of course, he didn't seem happy either.

Even the most immature person, as long as they have received education and possess cognitive abilities, will not feel happy watching their legal husband hold a wedding with someone else while they themselves are still a part of it.

This is undoubtedly a great disgrace.

Don't mention divorce.

Even if he harbored resentment and wanted to tear him to pieces, it would be understandable, and Haruno Tsukasa couldn't find any fault with it.

However, she did not.

Not only did they not, but they also acted as if nothing had happened and led others into the venue. Even after so many days, they showed no intention of settling scores with him.

Only those who have wronged you know how aggrieved you are.

The same reason.

Only those who have wronged you know how sad you are.

Haruno Tsukasa didn't think that his previous trip to Aichi Prefecture to save her gave him any real credit. After all, saving her was a husband's duty, not a reason to claim credit or even trample on his dignity and face.

Stepping on the soft, fluffy snow, making a soft crunching sound underfoot, Haruno Tsukasa walked from the room to the observation deck and stood beside her, saying, "It's just to make up for a ritual for them, you shouldn't blame me, right?"

"What do you say?"

"That would be strange."

"But you still did it, didn't you?"

"Life is a collection of regrets. I used to really not want to have any regrets, and I still do now, and I will do even more so in the future." Haruno Tsukasa said this with exceptional firmness.

Suzumiya Saka glanced at him sideways and said seriously, "People who are too greedy often don't have a good ending."

“Who can say for sure?” Haruno Tsukasa retorted first, then laughed, “If my wife is a virtuous wife and capable of managing other people, I don’t think my fate will be too terrible.”

"Are you starting to morally blackmail me?"

"I can melt you too."

"Dirty!"

“Even the coldest ice will eventually melt if you hold it in your hand, just like now. Even if the snow on the mountaintop doesn’t melt in the spring, it will melt when summer comes.” As Yuan Ye Si spoke, he raised his hand and picked up a small pile of snow that had accumulated on the stone railing of the viewing platform. He gently rubbed it with his fingertips, and soon the pure white snow pile melted into transparent water in his palm.

“Even in summer, snow on mountains over 4,000 meters above sea level is hard to melt.” Ryoumiya Saka had no intention of going easy on her. After saying this, she lowered her gaze to his hand and said meaningfully, “As for ice and snow, even if it melts when held in your hand, it can still cause frostbite.”

"How can you be so heartless?"

"It's not that I'm heartless or not; it's an absolute objective law that is not subject to human subjective will."

"Then let me try and see if your objective laws can freeze me." Yuan Ye Si smiled, not minding her saying that, and instead moved closer to her, taking one of her hands that was hanging down at her hip.

My fingers are cold.

The skin on my joints was frozen and dry.

But my palms were slightly warm.

However, it has reached a level that can be ignored.

Even the slightest physical contact between an old married couple feels like going to the bathroom or eating. Yuan Ye Si took her hand and brought it to his mouth, covering her hand with his own, then opened his mouth and gently blew warm air on it.

The breath in the mouth turned into white mist.

Although the winter in Hokkaido took away some of the heat, most of it still ended up in her hands.

"Hmm..." Suzumiya Saka felt a ticklish sensation in her heart, a shy impulse to pull her hand away, and she felt really embarrassed when she had this thought.

However, she ultimately did not pull her hand away.

Instead, I gradually felt my palms getting warmer.

After the temperature of the three hands was roughly equal, Yuan Ye Si didn't let go immediately. Instead, he unzipped the down jacket, put her hand inside, and forcibly turned her body around by holding her shoulders. He then grabbed her other hand and repeated the action until he looked into her eyes and said, "It is indeed a little cold, but not enough to cause injury."

Suzumiya Saka remained silent.

His actions did not seem to cause any disturbance.

However, her rosy earlobes and the faint blush that had crept up her once snow-white neck betrayed her.

silence.

Still silent.

Only the sound of the wind and the tiny snowflakes falling on Tsukasa Haruno and Saka Suzumiya's hair, eyelashes, and clothes made the whole world seem quiet.

After a long time.

Suzumiya Saka whispered, "Could you set aside some time each year to make ice by yourself?"

She pursed her crimson lips slightly and then said:

"Not long."

Setting conditions means that the ice has been broken for the person who is impervious to swords and spears and water and fire. Although they are still aggrieved in every way, they have finally come to their senses.

Haruno Tsukasa breathed a sigh of relief.

Then I was moved.

After all, no normal woman could accept his current state, unless she was a wicked woman who could be appeased with money. However, Suzumiya Saka is superior in terms of appearance, family background, and career, so there is no need for her to compromise for her own sake.

However, she maintained this for a full ten years.

Now they've opened their hearts even wider.

Completely choose to integrate into this environment.

Compared to the kind of woman who, even when pregnant with another man's child, tries to extort money from her and feels she has made a great sacrifice if someone glances at her chest, her magnanimity and the love she hides beneath the surface are worlds apart.

"No problem, you name the time, that's all."

Haruno Tsukasa solemnly agreed.

"That's 365 days a year."

Suzumiya Saka raised her eyes and said.

"..."

"Just kidding, why did your face suddenly fall?" Seeing him with his mouth slightly open but unable to speak, Suzumiya Saka felt a sense of amusement in teasing him.

"Hehe." Haruno Tsukasa chuckled dryly twice.

"Three hundred and sixty-four days."

“Saya…”

"It cannot be less than one month."

"I promise you."

After everything was settled, Suzumiya Saka seemed to have a long-standing worry lifted from her heart, and she seemed much more relaxed. Her hands, which had been reluctantly placed inside Haruno Tsukasa's down jacket, now quietly wrapped around his waist inside the lining.

Harano Tsukasa hugged her.

Then he lowered his head slightly and kissed her.

Now in their thirties and forties, their kisses are no longer as passionate as when they were young, when they wanted to devour each other. Instead, they are as calm as flowing water, but the kisses last for a long time.

After a long time, their lips separated.

Just then, the thin clouds in the distance were broken by the dawn, and golden beams of light shone through the gaps onto Mount Asahidake, which was covered in ice and snow, making the mountain shine with golden light, as if the snow that had existed since ancient times had melted away.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

Whispering sweet nothings close to their ears, they freely expressed their love, embracing each other for warmth in the cold wind.

The snow on the mountains will eventually melt.

The mountains and snow are not physical objects.

It's just a barrier in people's hearts. Breaking through this barrier is sometimes more important than breaking through the physical barrier. This spiritual closeness made the heavy feeling that Yuan Ye Si had been carrying for many years, as if he were carrying thousands of mountains, disappear. Although his hair was still very white, he seemed to be ten or twenty years younger.

My stay in Hokkaido was not very long.

After all, Haruno Tsukasa's vacation is indefinite, Suzumiya Saka and Kurosaki Orizuki still need to go back to work, Sato Mie and Shimizu Yuko also have many business matters to resolve after the New Year, and even Shigeshige Shio has to go back to a meeting to decide on some issues of the foundation.

As for Chiyo Shihōin…

She plans to find a job herself, and if she can't, she'll become her daughter's study companion. Although Miyuki Shihouin is still on vacation, Chiyo Shihouin clearly doesn't want her to relax her studies and plans to start her up from a young age.

Haruno Tsukasa disagreed with this approach.

It also expressed strong criticism.

When it comes to learning, just do your best. Forcing someone to learn is clearly not a good thing; it's bad for both the child and the adult.

Moreover, he's so rich that he might not even be able to spend all his money by the time his daughter's great-grandchildren are born. Before he became rich, his children had to work hard and be ambitious. Now that he's rich, his children still have to work hard and be ambitious. Wouldn't that be a waste of his wealth?
But Chiyo Shihōin wouldn't listen to him.

Instead, after a small argument, she pulled him into her room that night, turned off the lights, and comforted him.

In the end, they could only reluctantly agree.

However, the intensity of study should not be too high.

My Hokkaido trip has come to an end.

But then something unexpected happened.

Perhaps because the mental illness that had plagued him for years had finally been resolved, Haruno Tsukasa suddenly developed a high fever on the first day after returning to Tokyo from Hokkaido. His body, which had never even suffered from a minor illness in all these years, suddenly collapsed, and he fainted as soon as he got home.

The children were crying out in frustration.

Suzumiya Saka and the others were also quite frightened.

When Haruno Tsukasa woke up again, it was three days later. The first thing that rushed into his nasal cavity was the familiar smell of disinfectant from the hospital. However, the first person he saw after opening his eyes and regaining his senses was Chiyo Shihouin.

"You're awake!?" Seeing that Haruno Tsukasa's eyes were gradually regaining their light and that he was even raising his arm to prop himself up, Shihouin Chiyo immediately pressed the button on the electric rocking chair next to her to raise the hospital bed higher. As the motor slowly started, she also reached out and put her arm around the back of Haruno Tsukasa's neck to provide some support: "Is there anything that's bothering you?"

Yuan Ye Si felt weak in his limbs, and his body was feeling unwell with alternating chills and fever. Even the effort he had just made to sit up had caused him to break out in a light sweat: "I just feel a little weak."

"Then you should lie down quickly."

What's wrong with my body?

"The doctor said you caught a cold and developed a high fever, which reached 40 degrees Celsius, and was still 38 degrees Celsius last night."

"Me? High fever? Forty degrees?" Yuan Ye Si was stunned. He could accept that he had lung cancer because he had started smoking again in recent years, but he never expected to get such a minor illness as a fever.

"I'm sorry," Chiyo Shihōin said, bowing her head.

"How should I apologize?" he asked, snapping out of his daze.

"If I hadn't pestered you that night to promise to let Miyue go to tutoring classes, and then failed to do so in the end, leaving you to calm down on the snowy terrace in the middle of the night, you wouldn't have developed such a high fever..."

Haruno Tsukasa paused for a moment, recalling that night after their minor argument, when Shihouin Chiyo pulled him into her room to discuss the origins of life in depth, intending to comfort her with her inner strength.

Chiyo Shihōin had no chance of winning.

After all, Haruno Tsukasa's physical abilities are what they are.

However, her strong will allowed Haruno Tsukasa to see her determination, so after she stepped down from the highest peak, she endured the torment and served him for a while before Haruno Tsukasa called a halt and stood alone on the terrace outside the room, using the cold snow and wind of the winter night to cool herself down.

Except for the moment it was a little cold when I went outside.

It will be cool for the rest of the time.

But now it seems that those were all illusions. Even if Haruno Tsukasa were made of iron, he couldn't withstand such a sudden change from 37 degrees to minus ten degrees. Moreover, his body temperature at the time was definitely more than 37 degrees. Thinking about it this way, it makes sense.

"I see." Haruno Tsukasa accepted this explanation, but seeing that only Shihouin Chiyo was in the ward besides him, he couldn't help but ask:
"What about the rest?"

“Saka has gone to work, Mie has a contract to sign, Xiaoxi and Shimizu-nee have gone home to get you a change of bedding, and Zhiyue is upstairs seeing patients. These past few days, the six of us have been taking turns in three groups to take care of you. Today it’s me and Zhiyue, and the children are playing in the nearby shopping mall downstairs. I sent a message to Yuyi when you were about to wake up. I haven’t called the doctor or nurse yet. If you feel uncomfortable, I’ll ring the call button.”

Haruno Tsukasa didn't necessarily want everyone to stay by his side because he was sick. It was just that his feelings for Shihouin Chiyo couldn't compare to those for others, but since she was here to take care of him, he asked, "No need to call me, I'm fine. We can wait for the children to come back."

"Ah."

"Thanks a lot."

"It's all what I should do..."

"That…"

"Dad! My dad!" Before Yuan Ye Si could even finish speaking, the tightly closed door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and a familiar petite figure rushed over in a flurry of activity. She slid down to her knees and buried her head in the blankets beside the bed, shouting, "Please get well soon! It hurts me so much to see you lying in this hospital bed. It hurts so much that I can hardly breathe!"

Haruno Tsukasa's face immediately darkened.

But before he could speak.

Two more figures rushed in from outside the door.

With identical sliding kneeling movements and cries reminiscent of Qi Ling, Haruno Taki and Haruno Yutaro respectively lay on the middle and tail edges of the hospital bed, shouting loudly.

"Father! Your unfilial son has come to see you one last time! You can close your eyes in peace now!"

How could you bear to let us leave alone!

"Waaah! I swear I'll listen to you and be an upright person. I'll never again hide in a dark corner at night to watch those kinds of movies like Uncle Takizawa did, and I'll never go to those kinds of places Uncle Takizawa took me to!"

Damn it!

What movie did you watch?

Where did they go this time?

As Yuan Ye Si lay half-reclined on the hospital bed, watching the scene of filial piety unfold before him, he felt an urge to pull out his belt for the first time, something he had never considered when it came to disciplining his children. But unfortunately, he didn't.

Seeing them crying harder and harder, wiping their snot and tears all over their blankets, Yuan Ye Si couldn't help but scold, "You bastards! I'm not going to die!"

The crying and shouting stopped abruptly.

Haruno Taki looked up in astonishment, subconsciously wiping away tears from the corners of his eyes: "Dad, you're not going to die?"

"Yes, you're not dead?"

Haruno Yutaro was also stunned.

At that moment, Yu Yi, who was standing nearby, suddenly stood up, looking down at him with an indignant expression, and loudly questioned, "Why did you two come in saying that Dad was about to die! What evil intentions are you harboring! Speak!"

"Didn't you say Dad was dying?"

"Yup!"

"Nonsense! When did I say that?"

"Just now, you said that Aunt Shihōin sent you a message saying that Dad's health is about to give out."

"You're making baseless accusations! Do you have any evidence?"

"The message I sent you, just show us your phone, okay? I get it, Yuan Ye Yu Yi, you just want us to annoy Dad so he'll hate us and only like you!"

"I didn't! Don't talk nonsense!"

"Then take out your phone and look!"

"that is!"

"My phone died and shut down."

"Then let's see what Aunt Shihōin has."

"you…"