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You extended a helping hand to me when I was at my lowest point in life, and now you do not hide your love for me. You... Toyokawa Shoko didn't think about it anymore. She was afraid that she would do something irrational tonight.

The light in the room flashed away, and the rental house fell into darkness again. In the darkness, Toyokawa Shoko knelt on the bed, bent down and grabbed Shirakawa Haru's hand, trying to pull him onto the bed.

Shoko Toyokawa's movements were a bit violent. She hadn't put on her coat yet, and the straps of her nightgown fell down her round shoulders. Fortunately, it was dim in the rental house, and she couldn't see part of her white chest exposed, otherwise she would definitely be so ashamed that she would commit suicide!

At this time, Shirakawa Haru thought that he might as well agree to sleep on the bed with Toyokawa Shoko, so he stood up with the help of Toyokawa Shoko's arm. But Toyokawa Shoko was still exerting force, and Shirakawa Haru fell towards her without warning.

Shoko Toyokawa didn't expect that Shirakawa Haru would press towards her, and it was too late to change her position!

In the darkness, the two hugged each other tightly. Shirakawa Haru and Toyokawa Shoko looked like a couple in passionate love, but one of them was only secretly in love with her.

During the hug, Shoko Toyokawa's body temperature was rising rapidly, her face turned red, and her earlobes were stained with blood. She felt her body was getting hot, as if she had a fever.

The cold wind rushed in from the window and blew past Toyokawa Shoko. She didn't feel the coolness at all. This cold wind was like adding fuel to the fire for her, but her body still shivered.

Shoko Toyokawa subconsciously reached out and hooked her hands around Haru Shirakawa's neck, bringing him closer and closer to her.

The two people's chests were pressed together, Toyokawa Shoko felt the hardness of Shirakawa Haru's chest, and Shirakawa Haru felt the softness of Toyokawa Shoko. That kind of softness was difficult to describe in words. Under this gentle caress, he felt that Toyokawa Shoko's bones were probably soft as well.

The hug doesn't last long. Although it seems eternal, it disappears as soon as it touches.

Shirakawa Haru took the quilt on the tatami and put it on the single bed. Toyokawa Shoko put the stuffed bear in the middle of the bed as a divider between the two sides. Neither of them talked about what had just happened to them.

He had done something so outrageous. Even if Xiangzi had a good relationship with him, she would still hate him, right? What should he do now? He had never encountered such a situation before!

Besides the fact that he didn't know why he ended up downstairs at Xiangzi's house, he only came because he thought she looked very tired. It was past midnight, and he didn't leave immediately because he could tell that Xiangzi wanted to keep him, to let him stay with her for a while longer...

Now not only was she sleeping in the same bed with Xiangzi, but she had also just hugged Xiangzi so tightly.

It was a testament to Xiangzi's excellent upbringing that she didn't slap him on the spot!

"Shoko..." Shirakawa Haru tried his best to suppress the trembling in his voice.

He was not afraid that Xiangzi would slap him a few times. If he was beaten, he might feel better. What he was afraid of was that Xiangzi would be sad and upset. If she cried, he really didn't know how to comfort her.

"Go to sleep." Toyokawa Shoko's tone was a little cold, but she actually liked the feeling of the hug just now.

"Oh..." Shirakawa Haru said dryly, "Good night."

"Good night," she said.

Chapter 100: If Ye Mu can't understand

When Shoko Toyokawa woke up, Haru Shirakawa was no longer in the rental house.

It was already early morning outside the window. Shoko Toyokawa got up from the bed and walked to the windowsill, opened the window, and in the sunlight, the morning in Tokyo was immersed in a thin mist.

A furry teddy bear lay horizontally in the middle of the single bed, with other smaller toys scattered on the bed. The potato chip bag and the plastic box that had once held oden were thrown into the trash can. There was a half-drunk can of drink on the body of the electric piano, emitting a faint smell of alcohol.

The tatami on the floor was a little crooked. Shirakawa Haru slept on it last night. He was too cold to sleep and rolled around all over the place.

Although he has left, the rental house is full of traces of him.

The blanket on one side of the single bed had some wrinkles and indentations. The faucet in the bathroom was not tightened and was still dripping, splashing ripples in the sink.

It's hard to believe that she would invite a boy to stay overnight at her house twice before confirming their relationship. It was only two nights, but she felt like they had been living under the same roof for a long time.

Originally, Shoko Toyokawa thought that sleeping in the same bed with Haru Shirakawa would create a particularly romantic atmosphere, but in fact it didn't.

It was too late and they were both very tired, so they fell asleep in bed and closed their eyes soon after.

Except... that hug.

Even now, Shoko Toyokawa can't help blushing when she thinks of the hug last night.

She had hugged Shirakawa Haru before, but she had erased his memory after that, and it was far less intimate than last night.

Toyokawa Shoko walked into the bathroom and took off her shirt and nightgown. She looked at herself in the mirror, completely naked. Her hands caressed her delicate breasts, slowly sliding down her waistline. "Would Qing like this body?" she asked. "I've heard that boys in high school are often interested in pretty girls. I'm pretty, right? Would he be interested in me?"

Am I beautiful enough in his eyes?

Shoko Toyokawa changed into casual clothes, cleaned the trash can, and when she walked to the door, the cell phone in her pocket suddenly vibrated.

She unlocked the screen, and on it was a photo of her and Shirakawa Haru. When they were discussing the contract in a clothing store, the owner of the store asked her and Shirakawa Haru to change into new clothes, and then took a few photos of them.

Toyokawa Shoko's phone screen is covered in cracks. She's reluctant to buy a new one, but the cracks look like beautiful patterns on the photo she's set as wallpaper. And then there's the message from Wakaba Mu: "Shoko, are you free today? I want to talk to you."

Why would Ruoye Mu send himself a text message at this time?

Toyokawa Shoko replied with a message: "I don't have time at night, but I should be able to come out during the day."

"Still the same as before?" Ruoye Mu sent a text message.

She has a strange way of speaking. She won't answer questions directly and prefers to tell others her thoughts in a roundabout way.

This sentence has two meanings. One is to ask Xiangzi where they meet, and the other is to ask Xiangzi if he wants to get some dessert.

"Well, it's fine as before." Shoko Toyokawa turned off her phone and left the rental house.

Shoko Toyokawa and Mutsu Wakaba agreed to meet at a cafe. A little before ten in the morning, Shoko Toyokawa arrived at the agreed cafe.

Wakaba Mutsu was once the guitarist of the band CRYCHIC. She sat by the French window, outside which stood a small rectangular flowerbed where she saw many vibrant flowers.

Toyokawa Shoko walked towards Wakaba Mutsu and sat opposite her.

The sunlight fell on Wakaba Mu's head, and his light green hair looked almost transparent.

She is not talkative and rarely takes the initiative to communicate with others. Even if someone talks to her, she only responds with a few simple words in a cold tone, making it impossible for people to feel her inner fluctuations.

There was almost no extra expression on Ruoye Mu's face. She seemed not to know what was "extra" and so she simply didn't make any expression.

Every time Toyokawa Shoko met with Wakaba Mutsu, she would look at her expressionlessly like this for a while.

"So, Mu, what do you want to talk to me about?" Xiangzi put down his handbag and took a look at the bill clipped on the tissue box.

She used to be a regular customer of this store, and it was she who invited Ruo Yemu to come here for the first time.

But now, she looked at the bill and thought that she could no longer afford the consumption here.

"Yesterday...Su Shi came to see me again." Ruo Ye Mu lowered her head and eyes. This was her subconscious action.

She didn't know whether she should talk about this topic with Toyokawa Shoko, after all, Toyokawa Shoko now hated Nagasaki Suyo.

"Huh... What did Nagasaki Suyo come to you to talk about this time?" Toyokawa Shoko's good mood early in the morning was completely ruined by the name "Nagasaki Suyo".

"Su Shi is very worried about you and wants to go to your house." Ruoye Mu spoke slowly. She looked carefully at Toyokawa Xiangzi's face, not missing a single expression. If Toyokawa Xiangzi showed dissatisfaction, she would shut up. If she was willing to continue listening, she would continue, "I sent you a message before, Xiangzi, but you didn't reply, so I didn't tell Su Shi."

"You've already told me about this last time." Toyokawa Shoko took a sip of coffee. "Mu, I'm sorry I didn't reply to your message in time."

"Not last time, but this time." Ruoye Mu said, "Su Shi came to ask me again."

"Mu..." Toyokawa Shoko took a deep breath, "Can I ask when she asked you this time?"

"Yesterday..." Wakaba Mu carefully raised his eyes to look at Toyokawa Shoko's face. Toyokawa Shoko lowered her head. "Su Shi said that the band is a community of shared destiny, and we must not leave Shoko alone. Something must have happened to her that I don't know..."

If Ye Mu couldn't see Toyokawa Shoko's expression clearly, she was already starting to worry if she had said something wrong.

"Yesterday!" Toyokawa Shoko subconsciously took a sip of coffee by the handle of the coffee cup. In her surprise and anger, she forgot the temperature of the coffee. Her tongue was burned by the coffee, and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes. "Did she really tell you this yesterday?"

"Hmm..." Wakaba Mu looked at Toyokawa Shoko's surprised face. She wondered why Toyokawa Shoko's mood changed so much after she knew that Nagasaki Suyo had talked to her yesterday.

"Really? I understand," Toyokawa Shoko said. "Mutsu, thank you for protecting my privacy. As for what Nagasaki Motoyo said about 'a band being a community of shared destiny,' just forget it. I've quit CRYCHIC and have nothing to do with it anymore."

"Xiangzi, Su Shi invited me to join her band." Ruoye Mu put the straw into the glass, her cheeks puffed up slightly, and the orange-yellow drink flowed up the straw.

"She even told you this kind of thing." Toyokawa Shoko's impression of Nagasaki Suyo became even worse.

"She said Deng and Li Xi were there too..." Wakaba Mu said.

"Did she tell me that there are five people in the band including her?" Toyokawa Shoko looked at Wakaba Mu with some heartache and pity.

"No...no..." Ruoye Mu's speech became slower.

It turned out that Nagasaki Suyo had not given up on the idea of reorganizing CRYCHIC. She had been completely used as a messenger by Suyo. When Ruo Ye Mu thought of this, her chest felt a little sad. Her golden eyes quickly dimmed and her eyes became dull. She looked like a broken and glued-together porcelain doll.

"Huh... Mu, thank you for inviting me out today. I'm very happy." Toyokawa Shoko looked at the faint lip print on the coffee cup. "I wish it had nothing to do with Nagasaki Suyo."

"Yeah." Ruoye Mu lowered his head.

"Mu..." Toyokawa Shoko looked into Wakaba Mu's eyes. She knew that Wakaba Mu's eyes were golden, but at this moment she was a little unsure. The golden color was becoming lighter and dirtier, with dust falling into it. "You need to smile more, then more people will like you."

"Xiangzi, will you come back to Moon Forest in the future?" Wakaba Mu said.

"There's no way I can go back." Shoko Toyokawa put the coffee cup back on the table with such a violent movement that some of the dark brown coffee was splashed out. It was hard to tell whether the expression on her face was depressed or sad.

Toyokawa Shoko's expression quickly relaxed: "That's unlikely... Even if I have the ability to return to Tsuki no Mori in the future, I probably won't go there to study."

"Why?" Ruoye Mu said.

"You won't understand even if I tell you." Shoko Toyokawa had a smile on her face.

"Is it related to the student council president of Hinomori High School?" Wakaba Mutsu said softly.

"Why...why do you think this way?" The smile on Toyokawa Shoko's face began to fade.

"The last time Xiangzi came to Yuezhisen, I saw you and the student council president were very close. Xiangzi, you talked to me about him before, and your tone was full of admiration."

"It's not like that." Shoko Toyokawa's eyes revealed anxiety, she wanted to hide this.

"I'm sorry." Looking into Toyokawa Shoko's eyes, Wakaba Mutsu lowered his head.

"There's nothing to be sorry about." Shoko Toyokawa took the bill and went to the front desk to pay.

"Would you like to sit for a while longer?" Ruoye Mu said.

"I don't have anything to do during the day, so I'll just...relax for a while."

"Okay. Xiangzi, can you tell me what kind of person the student council president of Hinomori is like?" Wakaba Mu ordered two pancakes with strawberry jam. This time she paid the bill first and pushed a pancake in front of Toyokawa Xiangzi.

Toyokawa Shoko couldn't refuse: "Next time, I will invite you back."

"We are very good friends," Ruoye Mu said, "We don't need to say these things to each other." Ruoye Mu's words were sometimes subtle and sometimes too straightforward.

Shoko Toyokawa knew that Wakaba Mu really cared about her.

"Can you tell me about the student council president?" Wakaba Mutsu was very interested in the student council president of Hinomori.

Whenever he is mentioned, Shoko Toyokawa's expression will immediately soften, and her eyes will become more moving and brighter.

"Ah... then there's a lot to talk about." Shoko Toyokawa took a knife and fork and cut the muffin into small pieces and put them into her mouth. The sour and sweet taste of strawberry jam and the eggy aroma of the muffin mixed together. Feeling the sweetness in her mouth, a look of happiness appeared on her face.

"Mu, I'm only telling you these words, so... please keep it a secret for me." Before speaking, Toyokawa Shoko turned her head to make sure if anyone was eavesdropping.

It is really hard to be the one with a secret crush in a relationship. You have to suppress your growing love and at the same time not let others know about your secret crush. Otherwise, once the secret crush hears about it, the relationship will probably end in failure.

Toyokawa Shoko has a crush on Shirakawa Haru. She thinks she is not qualified to like her yet, so she doesn't tell anyone that she likes Shirakawa Haru.

But hiding her feelings was too hard and too painful. There was a fire in Toyokawa Shoko's heart, and she had to suppress it and not let it continue to burn until she set herself on fire.

Shoko Toyokawa chose to confide all this to her only good friend whom she could talk to now.

However, she would not tell Wakaba Mu that she was secretly in love with Qingjun. She simply told Wakaba Mu what happened to her.

"President Shirakawa and I met at the interview at Hinomori Academy..." Shoko Toyokawa's voice was very gentle.

What kind of person is Shirakawa Haru? Shoko is the vice-student council president of Hinomori High School, appointed by Shirakawa Haru himself. She often says that Shirakawa Haru gives her too much work, and privately, she sometimes scolds him for treating her like a robot.

Wakaba Mu didn't know why this happened. At the beginning, Xiangzi hated Shirakawa Haru so much and even thought he was a hypocrite, but now when she talked about Shirakawa Haru, the smile on her face was so sincere.

"Thinking back, President Shirakawa has really helped me a lot. He was the one who lent me a hand when I was at my wit's end," said Shoko Toyokawa. "A few days ago, he took me on a 'business trip' to Chiba Prefecture for the local summer festival. He bought me tons of delicious food, taught me how to scoop up goldfish, and then we watched the fireworks together."

"Xiangzi, do you like President Shirakawa?" Wakaba Mu felt that Xiangzi was simply showing that he was in love.

"I can't take the Toyokawa family's Yamaha grand piano with me. If I want to play the piano, I can only use the old piano in Hinomori Academy. When Haru-kun went to Chiba Prefecture, he bought a Steinway piano and placed it in the piano room I often go to. That day he said he wanted to hear me play the piano, so I played, and we stayed in the piano room for a long time..." Toyokawa Shoko didn't notice that Wakaba Mu was talking, "He really likes listening to me play the piano. I didn't know that when I was playing the piano, there would be someone hiding outside the door and eavesdropping..."

"Xiangzi, you like President Shirakawa, right?" Wakaba Mu's tone was very affirmative.

"And..." Toyokawa Shoko stopped talking. At this moment, she was like a clock that had forgotten to be wound up. "No."

"You like him." Wakaba Mu said, looking into Xiangzi's eyes.

"Mu...I do like him." Toyokawa Shoko admitted.

As Mutsuya walked on the streets of Tokyo, she was a little confused as to why Xiangzi fell in love with Shirakawa Haru.

As a bystander, she enjoyed the drama performed by Shirakawa Haru and Toyokawa Shoko. Perhaps some of the scenes were romantic and touching, but she actually could not empathize with them very well.

Wakaba Mutsu cannot understand Toyokawa Shoko's feelings for Shirakawa Haru.

In this situation, she was even a little worried about Shoko Toyokawa.

A somewhat familiar figure flashed before Ruoye Mu's eyes.

Wakaba Mu recognized the figure as Shirakawa Haru. Just now, Toyokawa Shoko showed her a photo of herself and Shirakawa Haru.

So she now has a deep impression of Shirakawa Haru.