You are Toyokawa Shoko, then who am I?

Li Xi is still the best in the world.

"Right, you should have agreed. Come, let's continue eating."

The middle-aged man smiled triumphantly, picked up a piece of stir-fried pork with green peppers with chopsticks, and put it into his mouth, chewing it carefully.

In his grand plan, as long as he could achieve the strategic goal of deepening the relationship between his daughter and Toyokawa Sho, it would be considered a success.

As for the rest, it doesn't matter at all.

The middle-aged man has absolute confidence in his daughter.

He believed that as long as his daughter entered the track, no matter who her opponent was, she would definitely win in the end!

As for the black-haired girl next to him, Takamatsu Yuji had indeed noticed her. She was indeed a very beautiful girl in terms of appearance.

But he felt that this boy could not cause any waves.

It's clear at first glance that this child is the type who can be completely controlled by the person she likes. What will happen even if she is given the chance to be in the same room with him?

Could she even eat Toyokawa-kun?

You worry too much!

100

The answer to Chapter 100 is Takamatsu Deng!

The soft sound of dishes colliding was like raindrops hitting smooth celadon, and the leftover food and oil were washed into the sink by the clean water and detergent foam.

After dinner.

Because he didn't want to stay in the living room and appear idle and uncomfortable, Toyokawa Sho took the initiative to take over the task of cleaning the kitchen and washed the dishes slowly beside the sink.

Originally, he wanted to take Lixi with him to wash the dishes. When visiting someone's home for the first time, the thing he feared most was standing alone and not knowing what to do. Playing with his phone would seem impolite, but doing nothing would make people think he was too nervous and restrained.

However, Lixi was left in the living room by Takamatsu Yuji. The old father, who had only a vague idea of his daughter's current situation because his daughter could not speak, was really eager to know what Takamatsu Deng was doing on a daily basis.

Do you have any good friends around you?

What happened to that band called Crychic?

Has our daughter caused you a lot of trouble?

Takamatsu Yuji was just like that relative who comes to visit during the New Year and is eager to eat up all your information. He pulled Lixi into the living room and started questioning him.

Toyokawa Sho originally thought that classmate Riki would die. Not everyone has as much experience in dealing with things as he does and can become friends with his friends' parents skillfully.

But what was unexpected was that Li Xi was able to have a back-and-forth conversation with Takamatsu Yuji. Not only did he answer Takamatsu Yuji's questions, he even asked further questions in return.

For example, what was Takamatsu Deng like when he was a child? Was he not very good at socializing with others like he is now? Besides stone penguins, are there any other things he likes?

This question really hit the nail on the head for Takamatsu Yuji.

The old father, who was obsessed with his daughter, immediately took out the photo album and began to recount everything that had happened to Takamatsu Deng since he was a child.

Li Xi was listening with his eyes wide open, and from time to time he would sigh that Deng had done something like this before.

I feel that they are both better than the beautiful girl JC and the middle-aged Lao Deng.

It's more like two crazy fans of the same character exchanging experiences with each other...

In response to this, Master Xiang, who has always taken integrity as his own principle, expressed his shame to be associated with her. How could a man of eight feet tall like him indulge in the joy of gossip like the old lady at the village entrance?

Think about it.

Someone secretly opened the door a little bit, activated the corridor of life to enhance hearing, and eavesdropped on Gao Songdeng's dark history in the kitchen without changing his expression.

I didn't expect there was a version I hadn't heard of.

not bad.

This visit was not in vain.

Toyokawa Sho nodded with satisfaction, and at this moment, he saw Takamatsu Deng walk into the kitchen.

The girl lowered her head so low that her expression could not be seen, but the tip of her left ear was flushed red. It was obvious that she was embarrassed by the two cooks in the living room, so she ran to the kitchen for shelter.

But compared to the kitchen.

Wouldn't it be better to run back to your room?

"How...can I help?"

Gao Songdeng asked in a low voice.

Oh.

It turned out that he was worried that I would get bored staying here alone.

So you came specially to accompany me.

Toyokawa Sho quickly understood what Takamatsu Deng meant, so he smiled and said to her, "There are still a lot of dishes to wash. Deng, come over to me and help me wipe the washed dishes clean with a rag."

“Yeah, I understand…!”

Takamatsu Deng nodded seriously, then walked to Toyokawa Sho, took the rag and dishes and began to wipe them slowly.

During this time, every time she took a washed bowl from Toyokawa Sho, she would turn her head slightly to look at Toyokawa Sho, her gaze evasive, but because she was not very good at peeking at others, she seemed a little clumsy and slow.

Her rosy and lovely cheeks were flushed with a barely visible blush, as if she had something in her heart that she wanted to say but was too embarrassed to open her mouth.

"Don't worry, I didn't hear what they were saying."

Toyokawa Sho could still easily read Takamatsu Deng's thoughts and knew that the other party was secretly looking at him, actually wanting to ask him if he had heard about his dark history as a child.

"……Really?"

Takamatsu Deng stopped wiping the dishes and looked up at Toyokawa Sho.

"Of course it's true. I lied to you like a puppy."

Someone showed his true colors as a scumbag, deceiving innocent girls without batting an eyelid, and speaking sweet words as if they were free, speaking them casually.

Although his acting skills had reached perfection, the girl could still tell that he was lying, so she lowered her head in frustration, and the embarrassed blush on her face became more obvious.

It's normal to think about it.

No matter how much Takamatsu Deng feels that he is different from others, that is just a kind of adolescent self-reflection. In fact, he is still a confused 15-year-old junior high school student.

Of course I would feel embarrassed when I heard my father blabbering on and on to his friends about his past embarrassing moments.

No matter who it is, they would find it difficult to adapt to this kind of thing, and it is normal to want to find a place to hide and escape from this world.

Fengchuan Xiang saw Takamatsu Deng's embarrassment, so he changed the subject to attract his attention and said, "Deng, are you interested in listening to my side of the story?"

as predicted.

After hearing these words, Takamatsu Deng's beautiful eyes quickly turned to curiosity. She even stopped wiping the dishes and looked intently at Toyokawa Sho's profile.

"You seem quite interested. I'll let you decide what you want to hear."

Toyokawa Sho slowed the flow of water, "I can tell you anything I know."

"……Um……"

Gao Songdeng lowered her head and thought for a long time, as if she was very troubled by this question. After about two or three minutes, she raised her eyes again and said seriously, "I... want to know, what does Xiang... think of me?"

"How do I see it?"

Toyokawa Sho pondered for a moment, then jokingly said something, looking forward to Takamatsu Touma's reaction. "What would you think if I said I liked you?"

Gao Songdeng blinked his clear eyes, and it seemed like it took him a while to realize the meaning of this sentence.

Under Toyokawa Sho's expectant gaze, the girl opened her slender lips, but did not show the blushing or shyness that one might imagine. Instead, she spoke in a somewhat serious tone.

"...Like, what kind of like?"

"I... used to wonder why I was the only one who couldn't cry, but after joining the band, I gradually understood that the reason I couldn't cry like everyone else was because... I hadn't encountered anything important."

Gao Songdeng whispered, clasping her two small hands together, "If you meet... someone important, you'll definitely feel sad when they leave, but you'll also definitely feel happy when they're together. Is Xiang's love also... this kind of love?"

"It really sounds like something a lamp would say."

Toyokawa Sho was surprised by the girl's frankness.

"Ah, hug, sorry..."

Gao Songdeng thought he had said something wrong, so he lowered his head and started wiping the dishes uncomfortably.

Toyokawa Sho looked at her with a somewhat lost expression, handed her another set of washed dishes, and then said slowly.

“I first saw the lights when I was in the second grade of junior high school.

At that time, you were squatting next to a bush, fiddling with stones, and I happened to be sitting on the bus. The classmates around you passed by you and said a lot of gossip that even I could hear, but you didn't seem to care and continued to do your own thing seriously. Out of curiosity about you, from then on, every day when I took the bus to school, I would check to see if you were picking up stones.

“…Second year of junior high school…”

Takamatsu Deng was a little surprised by the timing, but he didn't care too much. After all, Toyokawa Sho had just said in the living room that there were many differences between him and Toyokawa Shoko.

Thinking of this, Gao Songdeng silently put the cleaned dishes aside.

It was also at this moment that she felt a slight sense of weightlessness, as if she had missed a step when going down the stairs. She subconsciously closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she found that the scene in front of her had incredibly turned into the scene that Toyokawa Sho had just described.

Flashing red light with numbers.

A refreshing and warm morning.

A young man leaning against the window in a car.

And there is myself, busy picking up stones.

Takamatsu Deng opened her mouth slightly, looked to the side, and found Toyokawa Shoya standing with her.

The two people were like Dorothy who accidentally came to the Land of Oz in The Wizard of Oz, or like the audience in a movie theater eating popcorn and drinking Coke, standing not too far away, not to be noticed by anyone, quietly, as if in a dream, watching the story slowly turn to the next page.

"...Don't you think I'm...weird?"

Gao Songdeng looked at herself who was constantly picking up stones in front of her, and the strange looks from the people around her, and her tone couldn't help but feel a little lonely. This was the first time she felt so clearly that she seemed like an abnormal person.

"It's really weird."

Toyokawa Sho nodded in agreement.

"..."

Gao Songdeng lowered her head, as if a dark cloud had floated over her head.

"But isn't it nice to have something that's a little different from everyone else?"

Toyokawa Sho said, "I just thought Deng was an interesting person, so I got together with Deng and became good friends who could talk about anything."

"Together……"

Takamatsu Deng murmured softly, her voice seemed to be biting on the word that made her feel a little longing, and the scene before her began to travel faster and faster, passing through a year of spring to winter, and finally stopped at the day when she and Toyokawa Sho officially became friends.

She saw herself doing a lot of things with Toyokawa Sho.

Let’s look for beautiful pebbles by the river together.

Together we played with coins at the roadside claw machine to grab dolls.

They went to a restaurant that looked very high-end, as if any single dish on the menu would cost her an entire year's pocket money.

Even though he was just watching from a distance, Takamatsu Deng could feel it clearly.

I was smiling happily at that time.

Look at her smiling so happily.

Gao Songdeng gradually felt his heart become sweeter.

It was as if someone had put a spoonful of honey in it, or taken a cloud from the sky. When I realized it, the corners of my mouth had already unconsciously formed a tiny curve.

"One time, because I had to go pick up Mu and it was raining heavily that day, I thought you had already gone home, so I didn't go to the place where we usually met to meet you."

Toyokawa Sho sighed, "But I didn't expect you to be waiting for me there. If the driver hadn't just happened to pass by this place, I wouldn't dare to imagine how long you would have been waiting here... It must have been very uncomfortable."

Takamatsu Deng silently looked at himself holding an umbrella and quietly waiting for Toyokawa Sho, and naturally felt his mood at that time.

She shook her head, her delicate voice like a marshmallow floating on hot milk, soft, warm, yet revealing a firmness, "...No."

"Ok?"

Toyokawa Sho looked over curiously.

"The me in that world... must be very glad to have met Xiang... because she is also me, so I can understand... I won't feel sad. Even if I can't see her... it doesn't matter. For me... the time I stood in the rain was also the time I experienced with you."