I created a foundation

at last.

The man who had been like a statue, silently accepting everything from beginning to end, moved.

Lin Qing didn't look back.

He didn't even try to pull Eriri's arms away from him.

He just leaned back in his chair, slightly tilted his head, and the "innocent" expression on his face had disappeared at some point.

Instead, there was a faint smile that was all-seeing and a bit playful.

His voice was not loud, but it was clear enough to cover all the noise.

"Your plan is very interesting."

He lowered his head, put his lips close to Eriri's ear, and whispered softly so that only the three of them could hear.

"As a reward, I approve."

This lightly spoken sentence was like a thunder of judgment, exploding simultaneously in the minds of the two girls.

Eriri's green eyes, which had been blurred by the drug, instantly regained a trace of clarity, but were then replaced by deeper shame and embarrassment.

He...he really knows everything!

He was watching the show from the very beginning!

Look at myself and Kasumigaoka Utaha, like two clowns, fighting wits and courage in front of him!

As for Utaha Kasumigaoka, she felt as if every last bit of strength in her body had been drained away.

"Approved..."

These three words are more hurtful than any humiliating words.

It is a kind of condescending charity and gift from the one in absolute control.

It seems to be saying: I am very satisfied with your little tricks, so I decided to continue playing with you.

In Eriri's eyes, filled with shame and anger because her plan was seen through.

In Kasumigaoka Utaha's complex gaze, which was a mixture of shock, shame, resentment and despair.

Lin Qing stretched out his hand, not to push away, but to embrace the warm and soft body behind him.

He stood up.

The chair slid back with a slight sound.

With a standard, irresistible gesture, he lifted up the limp, blushing blonde girl in his arms and carried her sideways.

A standard princess hug.

Eriri let out a cry of surprise and subconsciously wrapped her arms around his neck even tighter, burying her hot face deeply into his chest, never daring to lift it up again.

Lin Qing hugged her and turned around.

His eyes calmly swept across Kasumigaoka Utaha's pale face, which had lost all color.

There was no mockery, no pity, or even the slightest emotional fluctuation in those eyes.

It's like looking at an insignificant roadside display.

Then he took a step forward.

Step by step.

Calmly and unhurriedly, he walked towards the bedroom that belonged to the girl with blonde twintails and was full of girlish charm.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's gaze followed his back uncontrollably.

She saw him walk to the bedroom door.

She saw him easily turn the doorknob with one hand.

The door was pushed open.

In an instant, the slightly sweet aroma belonging to Eriri's room, mixed with the unique scent of various painting supplies, wafted out.

The scene in the room flashed by.

Pink wallpaper, piles of figurines, and a big, soft bed covered with lace sheets.

Lin Qing held Ying Lili in his arms and walked straight in without any pause.

His figure disappeared behind the door.

next second.

"Click."

A soft sound.

The bedroom door was gently closed from the inside.

"Click."

The sound of the door lock falling was slight, but like thunder, echoing in the silent restaurant.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's body trembled slightly.

She sat there stiffly, maintaining an upright posture, but her eyes were fixed on the tightly closed, white bedroom door.

ended.

everything is over.

That door, like an insurmountable chasm, cruelly split her world into two.

Outside the door, it's her.

He is a pathetic bystander who experiences extreme humiliation and complete failure.

Inside the door is their world.

As the victor, he was enjoying the spoils that she had personally presented to him.

She lost.

She lost to the blonde loser whom she had always looked down upon, a loser who could only disguise himself with tears and incompetence.

No.

Perhaps from the very beginning, I never really saw that opponent clearly.

The one hidden beneath the tsundere and weak exterior is the true face of Eriri Sawamura Spencer.

Cunning, bold, and unscrupulous.

In order to achieve her goal, she would not hesitate to use herself as a pawn, shame as a weapon, and put everything on the table.

And I, the self-proclaimed chess master, became the most important card in her gambling game.

How ironic.

Kasumigaoka Utaha slowly lowered her head and looked at the blood-red liquid in the cup that had not been finished.

In the wine, her pale, bloodless face and a pair of empty eyes that had lost all their luster were reflected.

She felt no anger.

I don't feel unwilling either.

When the feeling of humiliation reaches its peak, all that is left is a cold, numb, and dead blank.

She just sat quietly.

It's like an exquisite doll with its soul taken away.

……

In the bedroom.

The air was filled with the unique scent of a girl's boudoir, a mixture of light fragrance and painting tools and pigments.

Lin Qing's footsteps made no sound on the soft wool carpet.

In his arms, the hot and delicate body was still trembling slightly.

Ying Lili buried her face tightly in his chest, like a frightened ostrich, not daring to look or listen, and even her breathing became cautious.

It’s over.

It's all over.

He knows everything.

From pretending to be drunk, to the arrival of Kasumigaoka Utaha, to his final "confession", everything was under his watch.

I was like a lousy actor, performing a one-man show in front of him that I thought was perfect.

And he, the only audience member, just enjoyed his own performance with a playful smile from beginning to end.

Until the very end, he dealt himself the heaviest and most shameful blow with the understated words "I approve".

That is not acceptance.

That's alms.

It is a tiny reward given by the controller to the challenger for his courage to overestimate his own abilities.

The feeling of shame was like a flood that broke through the dam, instantly drowning her reason.

Yinglili felt that all the blood in her body was rushing to her cheeks crazily, and the burning sensation almost set her on fire.

Now she just wants to find a crack in the ground to crawl into and never come out again.

Lin Qing held her in his arms and did not go directly to the conspicuous large bed covered with lace.

His steps were calm and steady, as if he was patrolling his territory.

[Heart Network] had already covered this huge mansion like an invisible tide.

The huge Sawamura family was empty at this moment.

Apart from the doll in the restaurant that was already heartbroken and the blonde kitten in his arms that was about to faint from shame and anger, there was no trace of a fourth life.

Lin Qing's footsteps paused slightly at the entrance.