My wife believes me; how could I be a cuckold?

Even when he was with Konno Yuuka, he felt his legs were sore that he didn't want to take a single step.

But when he was actually alone and could go home to rest, he wanted to go out for a while longer.

"Let's just turn around a couple more times..."

Asano Makoto decided to go for another stroll by himself.

Without hesitation, he first went back to where he had parked, stuffed all the clothes he had bought into the trunk, and then returned to the very large commercial street.

Since he wasn't very hungry, he didn't go to eat. Instead, he declined the attempts to strike up conversations with him and wandered around aimlessly.

Halfway through his shopping trip, he suddenly saw a movie theater and had a sudden urge to watch a movie.

Entering the movie theater, he randomly chose the movie with the earliest opening time, bought two tickets and two popcorn combos under the ticket seller's surprised gaze, and then summoned Lilith, whom no one else could see, from the system space and brought her into the theater with him.

The movie he randomly picked was a short romance film, but he couldn't finish it because the plot was so clichéd...

Oh no, he meant: classic.

Because the plot is predictable, there's not much to see.

Lilith, on the other hand, cried buckets of tears while watching the movie, which left him speechless.

After patiently watching for half an hour, he began to reflect on why he had suddenly gone crazy and started this aimless wandering.

Isn't it better to go home and play video games?

However, he had to finish watching the movie he had chosen, even if he had to kneel down. In addition, Lilith was also watching it with great interest, so he finally suppressed his urge to leave and sat there, but his mind was not on the movie at all.

After watching for about ten more minutes, around 7:50 pm, the movie entered its second half, and the plot reached its climax.

Suddenly, the notification sound of "[Konno Yuuka Stability -1]" started ringing wildly in his mind.

However, gradually, Konno Yuuka's stability value decreased at a slower rate and has been hovering between 65 and 68.

Ultimately, it settled at 67 points, showing no further fluctuation.

It's worth mentioning that, in addition to the expected changes in the stable value, Konno Yuuka's favorability rating also inexplicably increased by several points, almost breaking through the 70 mark and reaching 69 points.

The result was even better than expected, which made Makoto Asano breathe a sigh of relief.

He took out his phone, turned the brightness down to the lowest setting, and glanced at the chat app.

Konno Yuuka didn't send any messages.

It seems that although things were resolved smoothly and her mental state is fine, the breakup with her boyfriend of many years still makes her want to spend some time alone.

But no matter what, the problem was finally solved, and Makoto Asano was completely relieved.

With nothing else to do, he started watching the movie that hadn't finished showing yet.

Then he discovered that it was surprisingly a very good movie.

Although he hadn't read the earlier parts and knew nothing about the plot, he really liked the ending.

The male and female protagonists went through many hardships to be together, and no one was hurt along the way. It was a happy and fulfilling ending, which was very good.

At 8:30 p.m., the movie, which was only 80 minutes long, came to an end.

When the credits started rolling, Makoto Asano grabbed Lilith, who was already crying uncontrollably, and dragged her out of the movie theater.

After leaving the movie theater, he took out his phone again and checked it. Konno Yuuka still hadn't sent him a message.

However, he wasn't too worried, because after watching the movie, Konno Yuuka's stability value hadn't dropped at all; in fact, it had even increased slightly.

He put away his phone and suddenly felt a little hungry, so he randomly found an izakaya and got some food to go.

He wasn't planning to eat there, but rather take the leftovers home, because there were still some leftovers from lunch at home, and adhering to the principle of not wasting food, he had to finish them off.

Most importantly, seeing the crowds that had grown many times larger than before he entered the movie theater, he suddenly didn't want to stay there any longer.

It's a well-known fact that Shinjuku gets more crowded as the night goes on.

The noise from the dense crowd around him was giving Asano Makoto a headache, so all he wanted to do was go home.

It took him five minutes to squeeze through the crowd to get to the parking lot, and then another ten minutes to drive on the somewhat congested road before he finally got home.

After taking the late-night snack and a pile of clothes out of the car, he took the elevator back to the ninth floor.

Then, after exiting the elevator, he suddenly saw a very familiar figure at his own door.

Because he didn't expect her to appear here, Asano Makoto was stunned and looked over in disbelief.

She sat on the floor, by the door, with her long, straight legs bent, her hands wrapped around her knees, her head, with its long, gray hair cascading down, buried in her knees, lost in thought.

However, the sound of the elevator doors opening did elicit a reaction from her.

She subconsciously looked up.

Makoto Asano noticed her expression immediately.

Calm, as if nothing had happened.

However, the next second, upon seeing Makoto Asano step out of the elevator, an embarrassed expression immediately appeared on her face.

She sprang to her feet instantly, instinctively opening her mouth as if to say something, but the words caught in her throat.

She didn't know how to explain why she was there.

In the end, not knowing how to start the conversation, she could only scratch her head, give Asano Makoto a somewhat embarrassed, even shy, smile, and stand there awkwardly laughing.

"Long time no see, Asano-kun, hehehehehe..."

"puff--!"

Seeing her completely different from her previous carefree and clever self, now looking silly to the point of being like a foolish beauty, leaving one unsure how to describe her, Asano Makoto finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Chapter 260 If your presence is in the future, it will surely be a happy future (Bonus Chapter 9/69)

Although he couldn't quite keep his expression in check, he quickly coughed twice to regain his composure.

Then, he let out a long, helpless sigh, as if talking to himself, "Speaking of which, don't I still owe this stupid woman a meal? Hmm, it seems so..."

After nodding to himself again, he looked back at the pretty girl who was still standing there awkwardly smiling, raised the late-night snack in his hand, and said with a smile, "Well then, miss, would you like to come in and have a late-night snack with me?"

He didn't ask the other party how things went, nor did he ask why the other party was there.

He didn't ask anything, he just asked if the other person wanted to have dinner together.

"I bought some food. There's some fried chicken left over from lunch, but considering you probably haven't eaten dinner, it might not be enough. But you can order takeout, or I can cook for you. If you're feeling tired, you can just rest at my place tonight, but..."

He paused for a moment, then suddenly grinned mischievously, "I've heard you're stupid, clumsy, and easily fooled, so I'm going to trick you into staying at my place all day tomorrow, so this single guy can experience what it's like to have a beautiful woman living in his house."

Konno Yuuka stood there, frozen, her silly grin still on her face.

Then, her eyes instantly turned red, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably the next second.

The silly grin on her face disappeared, replaced by a slightly pouting lip and a contorted expression on her face.

she cried.

This might be the first time in all these years that she has cried like this.

At first, she learned that her boyfriend was a complete scumbag and that she had been deceived and betrayed for several years.

Although she felt incredibly wronged and sad, and even to the point of despair, wanting to leave this world, she did not cry.

Later, she was comforted by Makoto Asano for a long time and even ate the best fried chicken in the world, but she still didn't cry.

This morning, when Asano Makoto told her he hated her and she thought she was going to break up with him, she wanted to cry.

But all I wanted to do was cry.

Before she could even shed a tear, she was immediately soothed by the sweet words of the person who had made her want to cry, and was so overwhelmed by the comforting words that sounded like a confession that she even forgot to cry.

As for the tears that flowed from her eyes after being pushed down by Makoto Asano, that doesn't count as crying.

But only this time, when she felt no sadness at all, and even felt a sense of relief from being freed from constraints, Asano Makoto's two sentences and an offbeat joke made her burst into tears instantly.

She knew why.

As Konno Yuuka told that scumbag who was late even tonight about all the bastard things he had done, broke up with him, and then threw an iced Americano at him in his rage before leaving the coffee shop, she felt only relief.

After leaving the coffee shop, she walked down the street and carefully recalled the four years she had spent with that scumbag, four years she had been deceived, and gradually she sorted everything out in her mind.

She suddenly realized that in the four years she had been with that scumbag Yoichi Shida, there seemed to be no happy memories worth mentioning. In fact, she could say that she hadn't been happy for a single second.

Shortly after they got together, she went to a modeling agency for training. When they had a few days off, he had to go to school, so they rarely had time to be together.

After the two of them became independent, graduated, and started working, she was still very busy. Even when she had time to meet up with him during her occasional holidays, the place where they met most often was... the gym?

And after I arrived, this scumbag was actually flirting with those women right in front of me?

What's even more outrageous is that she actually believed what he said, thinking that he was just trying to do his job well, and then she obediently watched him mess around with those women.

Honestly, saying these things is so stupid it's laughable.

As for my feelings for this scumbag...

Perhaps at the very beginning, on the very first day we got together, after he suddenly confessed his feelings to me, I did have some feelings of attraction, otherwise I wouldn't have accepted his confession.

But upon closer reflection, when he lied to me, who was still a minor, on the second day of our relationship, saying, "Want to go to a hotel and do something fun?", my already limited goodwill towards him completely vanished.

Honestly, how could I have been so stupid back then? I could have seen through his bad intentions, but I didn't break up with him directly. As a result, I wasted so many years of my life with him.

Thinking about this, Konno Yuuka couldn't help but regret the four years she had wasted.

In those four years, she wasted her time and couldn't even see a glimmer of a future.

Therefore, she didn't feel sad at all when she broke off her relationship with that scumbag Yoichi Shida tonight.

As she poured out the iced Americano, she felt a sense of relief, even regretting that she hadn't ordered a hot coffee.

But at this moment, she burst into tears.

If the person who made her cry was Asano-kun, then it's clear that it was tears of joy.

Konno Yuuka instantly defined her personality for this matter.

As for why she felt happy, she wasn't really sure.

but……

Perhaps it's because she finally saw her future.