MyGO? The string value monster craves the band girl!

MANA-chan, I still have several years left on my contract with the agency!

When I become successful, a rising star, and a free agent again, I want to experience the feeling of being able to argue with the president without losing!

Toyokawa Shoko looked at Chihaya Aine who was standing with her hands on her hips, and silently took out her cell phone to take a photo.

She seemed to have gotten some design inspiration from this outfit again.

"Xiao Xiang..." Chu Hua, who was standing at the back in a beige down jacket, looked at Xiangzi closing his eyes from time to time, feeling distressed and worried.

Xiaoxiang looked absent-minded since morning. After finishing the bread in his hand, he gnawed his fingers several times. He only came to his senses after being reminded.

Xiaoxiang, she was clearly in a normal mental state yesterday. Could it be that the news that Xiaomu and Xianjuanjun decided to date was such a big blow to her...

After the photo shoot, a ski slope suitable for beginners started.

Nagasaki Motoyo sat in the rest area next to the log cabin convenience store, smiling as she watched Chihaya Aine, who was wearing goggles, wave to her and then slid down the snow slope on her snowboard in a somewhat showy manner.

Although it is not the coldest season yet, the ski resort here can fully meet the needs of ski enthusiasts thanks to the artificial snowmaking machines.

Skiing in June... If you don't consider indoor ski resorts that are just for fun, you can only experience it in the Southern Hemisphere. It's impossible in Tokyo.

The filming work has been completed. Next, we just need to have fun at the ski resort and then go to the airport together to fly back to Tokyo in the evening.

Nagasaki Suyo doesn't like sports very much. Just now, Chihaya Aine came to tempt her with a snowboard for a long time, and claimed that she could teach her how to ski in just half a day.

However, although I didn’t immediately accept Aine’s invitation to go skiing together, but…

Nagasaki Suyo glanced at her skis and poles that were placed aside and easier to get started with.

[I can't do anything about her. I'll wait until she comes down the slope next time before I go skiing on my own. Otherwise, I feel like if I ski with her, she'll easily get close to me and we'll bump into each other.]

Xianjuan Wei didn't keep pestering Su Shi to invite her. She just asked her what pattern she liked and asked someone to send her a set of double skis and a set of single skis. She also asked her and Xiao Mu to have a good rest, and then ran to the advanced ski slope with the skis.

Nagasaki Suyo subconsciously looked in the direction of the advanced path, and just saw the figure of Genmaki Yui passing by.

Compared to Aine's showmanship in the beginner's level, even an amateur like Su Shi who is not keen on sports can see that although Genmaki Yui did not deliberately perform difficult moves, her basic skills and body control ability are much stronger than Aine's.

Yui-san does have a very developed motor nerve, but...

"Uh huh huh..."

A soft humming sound rang in her ears. Su Shi turned her head to look at Wakaba Mu, who was sitting at the two ends of a bench with her. He was swinging his legs and looking towards the direction of the advanced road with a smile on his face.

Xiaomu seems a little too happy today. With her serious personality, I've never seen her so relaxed before.

[Also, Wei asked about my preferences and even got me two sets of skis as a backup. Why did he ignore his fiancée, Xiaomu?]

"Ms. Nagasaki, here's the hot tea you ordered." A man in black walked up to Su Shi and said.

"Huh?" Su Shi came back to his senses from his reverie and blinked.

black tea?

When did I ask for black tea? Didn’t I just say to Xiao Mu in a casual chat that a cup of black tea would be very pleasant in such a scene?

There was a buzzing sound in the sky. Su Shi looked at the large drone slowly descending with a full set of afternoon tea, including a pot of black tea, tea sets, and snacks, and his misty blue eyes trembled violently.

Chapter 162 Exclusive Curse

Nagasaki Suyo held a cup of warm black tea in her hand, and her eyes swept over Wakaba Mutsu, who also held the steaming cup to his lips.

Something's wrong, something's very wrong. Xiao Mu seems a little overly emotional today...

What made Su Shi feel even more unusual was that the Xianjuan family prepared a full set of afternoon tea at the ski resort so quickly, and that the little cucumber who usually had a cold expression was actually kicking his calves excitedly and actively today.

At this time, Ruoye Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, took a sip from the edge of the teacup, looked in the direction of the advanced path, and showed a satisfied smile with confidence.

Nagasaki Suyo felt that the air seemed to be filled with a smell that made her want to leave.

"Su Shi, Xiao Mu...eh? What are you doing?"

When Nagasaki Suyo heard the sound coming from behind, she saw Toyokawa Shoko, who had just come up by cable car, put her skis and walking sticks aside and sat down next to Wakaba Mutsu.

"Xiaoxiang? Why are you here? Is Sumimi okay?" Su Shi asked.

"They are...there."

Shoko Toyokawa pointed to another snow trail nearby.

Mana was sitting in a tire painted like a donut. After being pushed hard by Chuhua, she let out a scream and slid down the snow track quickly.

The corner of Su Shi's eyes twitched slightly:

"Perhaps skiing is still too difficult for Mana?"

"Xiang."

Wakaba Mutsu held the teacup, just looked at Toyokawa Shoko and called out "saki", which made the latter's face blush and her facial muscles tense slightly unnaturally.

Seeing that Toyokawa Shoko's hand holding the teacup suddenly stopped in mid-air, Su Shi suddenly remembered the dark history last night when she was bewitched and dragged by her to eavesdrop, and was caught in the act together. She silently put the cup of warm black tea in her hand back on the table.

The three of them sat around, watching the figures sliding down the nearby snow trails one after another. After chatting for a while, Su Shi looked at Xiangzi, who seemed a little listless, and couldn't help asking:

"Xiaoxiang, what's the situation with uncle now?"

Xiangzi frowned slightly: "What do you want to ask about my father's situation?"

Su Shi rubbed his fingers. "Xiao Xiang said last time that he wanted to cheer up his depressed uncle and bring him back to the Fengchuan family. In this regard... has his uncle cheered up a little?"

"how can that be possible?"

Xiangzi looked at his reflection in the half-filled cup of black tea and shook his head helplessly.

"He wouldn't even..."

Halfway through his words, the instinct to protect his relatives came up again, and Xiangzi bit his lip to stop talking.

"Anyway, I've already spent a year with my father, but he's still the same. His condition has even worsened from the beginning."

"I can't expect to change him anytime soon, but I hope he can wake up and cheer up soon."

"All the hardships I've endured while renting a house with him...are nothing if I can bring my father back to the Toyokawa family."

Wakaba Mutsu, who had been very happy, looked at Toyokawa Shoko's depressed look and lowered his head slightly, as if he and Su Shi were infected by the low pressure brought by Shoko.

"But this kind of life can't last long, right?" Su Shi asked in a low voice.

"I'm determined to endure hardships alongside my father and impress my grandfather! Back then, I was just too young to apply for many jobs, but now I have no problem paying for my basic living expenses and can even make a living by writing songs for Sumimi..."

Su Shi was silent for a moment and shook his head slightly.

"I'm not questioning your determination and ability, Xiaoxiang, but... Xiaoxiang, you're an only child, right?"

"Eh? That's it, what's wrong?"

"Although the facilities at Hanaoka are inferior to Tsukinomori's, it's still a good school from the perspective of education and further studies. But as for university..."

Su Shi frowned slightly, with some worry in his voice:

"While I find it incredible that Xiaoxiang's grandfather would allow Xiaoxiang to be away for a year, at least Yuqiu is a prestigious school. But if Uncle still hasn't gotten over it by the time Xiaoxiang is in college, and allowed the education of the Toyokawa family's only daughter to be affected for seven consecutive years, that seems a bit too unbelievable."

"Xiao Xiang, if we can't make any progress on Uncle's affairs, are we going to live like this forever? Is it okay for the Toyokawa family to let their highly-anticipated heir wander around?"

Toyokawa Shoko's fingers, which were holding the teacup, turned slightly white. She closed her eyes in annoyance and exhaled a long breath of white air.

Ruoye Mu looked at Su Shi worriedly - if Xiang got stubborn, it would be hard to persuade him.

After a moment, Toyokawa Shoko shook her head vigorously:

"If you want me to go back and accept his arrangements, then you must also accept my father back."

"If my father can't pull himself together and win my grandfather's approval, I'll be my only bargaining chip... Well, I wouldn't say that. I guess from the beginning, I've only had myself."

"It's willful and a bit despicable to do this, but as a student, how else can I make my grandfather compromise with me?"

Su Shi pinched her fingers and lowered her head to look at the collar of Xiangzi's down jacket:

"So, Xiaoxiang is going to fight a long battle with your grandfather?"

Toyokawa Shoko picked up the teacup and gave Nagasaki Suyo and Wakaba Mutsu a beautiful and gentle smile. After taking a sip of the red tea, she smiled and said:

"Don't worry, it won't last long."

"Although I left home impulsively, after we parted at the funeral home last time, I gave it some serious thought. I actually underestimated the power I held in the bargaining chip between my grandfather and me."

Ruoye Mu asked in a low voice with some distress: "Or can you only use yourself as a bargaining chip, Xiang?"

"No, no, no, it's not that simple." Toyokawa Shoko stretched out her finger and shook it slowly: "Sushi."

"Eh?"

"Did you know?" Toyokawa Shoko said with a smile as warm as the winter sun: "In fact, the Toyokawa family has always inherited a curse."

"Curse?" Su Shi widened her eyes. Even though Toyokawa Shoko had ignored her for a year, it was difficult for her to associate such a word with the gentle Shoko in her earliest memory.

"Hmm." Shoko Toyokawa smiled while holding the teacup, as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her.

After a moment, looking at the person who came to them with skis in his arms, Xiangzi smiled and said, "You're here too, Genjumaki-kun."

"Since you're all here, I came to have a cup of tea." Xianjuan Wei nodded and sat down, looking at Xiangzi with a somewhat scrutinizing look: "Do you want to tell Su Shi about what happened to Auntie?"

"Yeah, nothing."

Toyokawa Shoko closed her eyes and said slowly:

"Actually, the Toyokawa Group's inheritance system is somewhat different from what many people imagine. Simply put, the Toyokawa family name is actually passed down through the maternal line from generation to generation."

"Relying on... the maternal line?" Su Shi murmured.

Xiangzi's eyes were unusually calm. "Yes, I told you last time that my father was chosen by my mother to be a son-in-law of the Toyokawa family. But actually... my grandfather wasn't able to take over the Toyokawa Group because he was the eldest son. The legal line that allowed him to become the head of the Toyokawa family came from my grandmother."

"Wait, Xiaoxiang, I'm a little confused!"

Su Shi held her forehead with one hand, and her self-doubting eyes showed that her brain was overloaded at the moment.

"Haha, there's nothing hard to understand." Shoko Toyokawa pinched a small biscuit and shrugged.

"Simply put, after the first generation of the Toyokawa Group, no male heir has ever lived to adulthood to inherit the estate. In reality, the Toyokawa family probably practices the primogeniture inheritance system..."

"No, no!"

Su Shi shook his head repeatedly, his eyes full of the meaning of "questioning first and then questioning again":

"If there are no male descendants who have survived to adulthood, then where did the Toyokawa family's branches come from?! Aren't all the branches of the consortium derived from the main line several generations ago?"

Su Shi looked at Xian Juan Wei again: "Is that so, Xian Juan-san?"

The corners of Xianjuan Wei's mouth twitched slightly. In his opinion, the inheritance method of the Fengchuan Group was indeed extremely explosive.

"That's right. For example, the Xianjuan family is not completely without branches. It's just that the initial capital for their business ventures was all saved from family dividends and other income. They also borrowed some connections, but overall it can be said that they didn't take much from the main family."

"The Xianjuan family only distributes money to each branch family on a regular basis, but never divides up production materials such as shares, ensuring control and execution when dealing with external parties."

Xian Juanwei rubbed his temples with his hands:

"Well... well, from an income perspective, the annual dividends received by the members of the branch family who are not too distantly related are probably not lower than Toyokawa Sadaharu's... or even Shoko's grandfather's income, but in essence, the inheritance system of the Genmaki family is actually just a little more normal than that of the Toyokawa family."

"If I hadn't been born, and if my parents had grown tired of their work and quit like their ancestors before them, it would have been Xin who would have taken control of the Xianjuan Group... I really don't know whether that would be a misfortune or a blessing for this world."

This was the first time that Genmaki Yui explained the inside story of the Genmaki family to the girls. Even Toyokawa Shoko's eyes showed some gossipy curiosity as she listened.

However, Xianjuanwei stopped there, turned her head to look at Xiangzi and elbowed her.

"Tsk, we're getting off topic, Xiangzi! Keep talking about where your branch of the Toyokawa family came from!"

Toyokawa Shoko chuckled to Sushi and said, "Isn't this very simple? That's how my father got the surname Toyokawa. That's how the first male of the Toyokawa family branch came from."

"This, this, this..."

Su Shi felt that the cognition in his mind seemed to be refreshed again.

In other words, the second generation of the Toyokawa Group, all the men with the surname Toyokawa, were completely...

Son-in-law Alliance!

It's a wonder they didn't tacitly divide up everything in the Toyokawa family back then? They were so loyal and united even without anyone to pressure them...

"For the earliest branches of the Fengchuan family, the surname Fengchuan also came from their mother's surname. Only later did normal male children appear. However, the direct line I represent has always relied on constantly recruiting sons-in-law and having sons-in-law adopt sons..."

As she said this, Shoko Toyokawa sighed deeply and put the teacup in her hand back on the table.

Xianjuanwei held up one side of his face, suddenly frowned, and looked again at Xiangzi who seemed to be about to talk about some heavy topics.

"Wait a minute, Xiangzi, I want to ask you a question."

"Please speak, Genmaki-kun."

"From the perspective of sex chromosomes, counting from the first generation of the Toyokawa Group, M and F, and only up to the fifth generation, without considering inbreeding, it is known that the paternal X chromosome of the female heir who carries the Toyokawa family lineage must have come from an outside male."