Why wasn't I the one who got the male lead's script?

"You mean to say... Amami-kun is the mastermind behind all this?"

"It's just a feeling. I don't have any strong evidence to prove it. If you don't believe me, you won't believe me no matter how much I say it."

He shook his head indifferently, and quickly looked away as if he had never placed any hope on Shiyu.

There should be no one who can help me at this time.

Then there is no need to drag more people into it.

"But senior, sometimes only by discarding those unrealistic fantasies can you see the truer face of some people."

He added this slowly, then waved goodbye casually.

"--I know."

However, just when he took a few steps, Shiyu's call from behind stopped him from leaving.

"How could I possibly forget the loss I suffered?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha was still standing there, but she spoke out to stop Hoshimi who was about to walk away slowly.

She looked at the boy who gradually turned around with a puzzled expression, and the smile on her face took on a hint of bitterness.

"It's just that subconsciously... I still don't want to think the worst of Amami-kun. But, if I have to trust someone——"

She slowly took a step or two forward and looked into the eyes of the slightly stunned boy.

"Who else can I trust besides you, Hoshimi-kun?"

"—"

A ray of light quietly appeared in the boy's eyes, but it quickly disappeared in a flash and could no longer be found.

"So, I will definitely help you, just like you helped me before."

Shiyu didn't care about this tiny detail. She held the boy's wrist, as if she wanted to convey some emotion eagerly.

Kasumigaoka Utaha is definitely not a hypocrite who does not repay a favor.

"Clarify it to everyone, and I'll help you."

How could she let go of the opportunity to repay a favor that had finally come her way?

"...So, what are you going to do, Senior?"

Xingjian felt the warmth from the girl coming through the fabric on his wrist, raised his head slowly, and persuaded her with a tone that was gentle but not too serious.

He neither denied it outright nor agreed with Shiyu's statement.

"Explain to everyone that I plagiarized your work to save your career?"

But even if they tell the whole story, the issue of "plagiarism" still objectively exists.

"...As Kasumi Shiko, I will explain that the plagiarism issue is of no concern to me."

"A man of justice doesn't care if plagiarism is insignificant to you."

Xingjian pointed out a misunderstanding in Shiyu's thinking very clearly.

"Most of them are simply beating drums to protest their unsettled sense of justice, not caring about the attitude of the person involved. When faced with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how could they let it go so easily?"

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Without further ado, I'm back at the hotel tonight. I'll update once more before taking off tomorrow. I'll give you another update if I have the chance~

So everyone fly, fly, fly, fly——!

Xing Jianqing Can't Be Alone Again: Chapter 2: The Cat Returns (Part 2)

"........."

Shiyu shut her mouth silently. She really hadn't considered this aspect.

Not everyone puts the victims' feelings first.

"Besides, revealing Kasumi Shiko's identity might not be a good thing for either you or me. Remember the rumors about us that were circulating for a while last semester?"

Xingjian sorted out his thoughts bit by bit in a calm tone, and finally analyzed them to Shiyu in a very organized manner.

"Back then, there were rumors that you and I had been dating for a while. If you had revealed your identity and cleared my name, I believe you can guess what the final result would be."

"Even now, Kasumigaoka-san is still speaking up for that kind of person... She's the one whose work was plagiarized, so why is she still so stubborn and trying to protect the person who stole her idea?"

This is the legendary PUA, right? This kind of person who hides his true nature always uses strange methods to make girls fall head over heels in love with him, even going so far as to hurt themselves and lower their status to cut off ties with him...

"In short, because everyone has already formed a negative impression of me, no matter how I correct it later, they will only associate it with negative things. Even if you come out to defend yourself, they might even stigmatize you as well."

Xingjian promptly pulled Shiyu back from her expanding thoughts with additional explanations. As the person involved, he seemed calmer than Shiyu.

"Alright, alright, don't worry. I've been through this before and I'm used to it. The gossip and slander from others will be at least half as effective in my case, so don't worry about me."

He waved his hand, wanting to end the topic with these words.

"... Hoshimi-kun, do you mean to keep the status quo and not change anything?"

However, his words made Shiyu a little stunned. She didn't expect that someone with Xingjian's personality would take a non-action attitude on this matter.

"Any reckless action could affect you. If I want to avoid involving innocent people, it doesn't matter if I stay as I am."

Xingjian sighed, and his fingers holding the schoolbag gently rubbed the shoulder straps.

"and……"

He paused, a dull and solemn look flashing across his eyes.

"—I've tried so many times before, and I've never failed even once."

Even he would feel powerless to fight against the "atmosphere" of everyone around him on his own.

Xingjian was originally just an ordinary teenager, but his ability to withstand pressure in these matters was a little stronger than that of ordinary people.

“…I’m asking you, Hoshimi-kun.”

Shiyu accurately captured the boy's subtle changes in expression, cleared her throat, and her wine-red eyes were filled with incomparable solemnity and seriousness.

"Did you expect a similar outcome when you helped me?"

“…Interesting question.”

The young man raised his head and met Shiyu's gaze neither humbly nor arrogantly, completely hiding the slight gloom that had just appeared in his eyes.

"I'd be lying if I said I hadn't imagined it. I have thought about the worst-case scenario, but I think trading the low probability of a bad ending for someone else's 100% happy ending is a worthwhile thing to do."

"………I see."

So this is also the true meaning of Xingjian’s promise, “You will definitely be fine.”

Shiyu lowered her head slightly.

He took on all the risks that might befall Shiyu in a different way.

what.

what is this.

No wonder he said "I need your unconditional trust".

Do you just want to keep yourself in the dark and take on everything by yourself without saying a word?

"Well, so let's keep it like this—"

"Don't be so self-righteous, Xing Jianqing."

Xingjian, who originally thought that Shiyu had accepted the current embarrassing situation calmly, had not yet finished his words because everything came to an abrupt end because of Shiyu's sudden interruption.

Kasumigaoka Utaha let go of the boy's wrist, raised her slender hand, and looked directly at the stunned Hoshimi with a rare sharp gaze.

"Where does this hero complex come from?"

Her tone was so serious that it didn't seem like that of Kasumigaoka Utaha, who always used sarcasm to make Eriri angry and almost cry.

"I can't accept it—I can't accept the existence of a tragic hero like you who's willing to sit back and wait for death. This kind of self-righteous third-rate character is only good enough to appear in tragic comics or novels, but if he really appeared in my life... I absolutely couldn't accept it."

She pointed at the face of the boy who was only about two or three meters away from her. The boy's originally childish face had been stained with a lot of gloom in recent days.

Looking at the face of the young man who always had a gentle smile on his face, Shiyu frowned and felt angry for no reason.

"You're just a high school student, so just enjoy your youth like a normal boy, you bastard."

Who took away his daily life?

Among the culprits, I must have a legitimate place.

"—Would you like to make a bet?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha narrowed her eyes slightly, and the corners of her eyes curved into a somewhat dangerous arc.

"I will definitely pull you, Hoshimi-kun, out of this boring and disgusting malice."

She tried every possible way she could think of.

"...I've stressed this repeatedly before, don't get yourself involved without permission. Someone like you, accustomed to being surrounded by love and kindness, simply can't imagine how disgusting it is when those seemingly glamorous individuals unleash their malice."

Xingjian, having regained his composure, frowned, expressing a rare resolute rejection. He usually wouldn't directly reject someone else's decision like that.

"So I said, this is a bet - you can understand it as my repayment of a favor."

Shiyu nonchalantly lifted her long hair that was scattered in front of her, completely ignoring Xingjian's strong opposition.

"It's okay if you still insist on your own opinion and refuse help from others. I will follow my own ideas and see who is on the side of truth in the end."

"...Senior, you know there's no way to decide the winner this way."

There was a hint of obvious displeasure on Xingjian's face, which was too much of a contrast for him as he usually had a smile on his face.

"I don't need a winner, I just need your problem to be solved."

The black-haired girl shook her hair neatly, then walked past the boy without any hesitation and passed him by.

——It seems like just now, Kasumigaoka Utaha said something very cool.

Xingjian was slightly stunned when he realized this, and at the same time, the girl's whisper echoed in his ears.

"...And don't you realize it yet? You are completely different now than you were back then."

"...?"

"Taking the same decision as before at this point will only cause more people to be sad."

By the time Xingjian understood the meaning of Shiyu's words, the latter had already quickly walked to the corner and disappeared into the stairwell.

At the same time, after school, the science laboratory was illuminated by the same setting sun.

The only difference was that this time, the person facing Futaba Rio in the laboratory was no longer a black-haired boy - but a blonde, blue-eyed girl.

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A guy guessed it right before.

In the past, Xing Jian helped those around him without asking for anything in return. Now it is their turn to lend a hand to Xing Jian.

It would be nice if something like this could happen in real life orz (dog head)

Xing Jianqing Can't Be Alone Again: Chapter 3: The Cat Returns (Part 3)

Today, Ms. Rio Futaba's science laboratory welcomed a guest that she had never had before.

She was holding green tea, which she was not very used to, and she stood in front of the podium, looking down at the blonde girl sitting at the laboratory table with a strange look in her eyes.

——During the break today, she had no mood to do experiments or solve difficult problems. As soon as she had some free time, she found a boy named Xing Jianqing and planned to ask him about what happened during the day.

But when that guy saw her, he would hide, as if he was deliberately avoiding her.

Whether it was in the corridor or at the end of physical education class, even though Futaba took the trouble to find the boy, he would always stay away from her because there were other classmates in the distance, and even left a cold warning of "Don't come near me in school."

The more I think about it, the angrier I get.

"Has that guy been hiding more and more things from me lately?"

Miss Futaba Rio became more and more annoyed the more she thought about it. She skipped classes for the entire afternoon and stayed in the laboratory alone, sulking. She tried to calm herself down by doing experiments or immersing herself in calculation formulas - but the result was of course obvious.

After tormenting herself in the laboratory for an hour or two, she finally couldn't stand it anymore before school was over in the afternoon, and tried her best to find Xingjian's homeroom teacher to ask what had happened.

However, even the teacher was vague about the matter concerning Xingjian, and only left an ambiguous sentence "I have contacted Xingjian's family" and said no more.

Without any hesitation or worry, Futaba found this "family of Hoshimi-san" and invited him to the science laboratory.

She is a young, beautiful and youthful blonde girl. If Futaba guessed correctly, this should be the "sister" that Hoshimi mentioned before.