Why are all the heroines falling for me, the villain?

But the woman was like a drunken eel, her head limply resting on Li Zhu's shoulder.

"Help... Someone save me~, ugh—" The woman mumbled incoherently, and as she spoke, she vomited up some more "rainbow candy".

Li Zhu couldn't dodge in time, and some of the liquid splashed onto her, the strong smell of alcohol hitting her face.

"Can't you wake up!" he said, even more disgusted, turning the woman's head back against the bench. "Tell me where you live, or I'm leaving! I don't care about you anymore!"

"Don't you have your own home? You're so eager to come to my house as a guest, but my house isn't comfortable at all..."

The woman wore a completely unguarded smile, and her face was no longer as pale as before. She stared at Li Zhu with her eyes half-open, looking as if she hadn't fully recovered after vomiting twice.

“…Then I’m leaving.” Li Zhu said helplessly.

Maybe she just doesn't want to reveal her home address. Judging from her condition, she'll probably sober up after a while. I carried her from the woods to the bench, which is more than enough.

Li Zhu convinced himself of this, picked up the package, turned around, and left.

"Luckily, she met someone as upright as herself. If she had met one of those men who couldn't control their desires, she probably wouldn't have kept her virginity. After all, this woman is quite pretty..."

In the dead of night, when no one is around, a beautiful woman who is drunk and helpless is most likely to harbor the darkest thoughts in people's hearts...

He hadn't gone very far when his mind started to wander, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he felt. It was as if two little people were fighting in his head.

[What if something really happens to the person I leave there?]

[Damn it, she's nobody to me, what she does is none of my business!]

Finally, he turned back...

Seeing that the woman was still lying safely on the bench, Li Zhu breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm unlucky to have run into you."

Li Zhu helped her put on the coat she was wearing, her tone slightly disdainful.

"In the end, I was just worried about you, a girl, being stranded on the streets. It's too dangerous."

The woman tilted her head, looking at Li Zhu with a dreamy smile.

"Never mind, I'll carry you home first. It's just a pity about all this food." He looked at the package on the ground and sighed softly.

Li Zhu chose to give up the food, carried the woman of unknown origin on her back, and walked towards her home.

"go home."

What Li Zhu didn't know was that after hearing those words, the woman on his back instantly cleared her dazed eyes.

"go home……"

The faint voice, like a dream, brushed past Li Zhu's ear.

……

Chapter 138 Childhood Memories

"Phew~ I'm finally home."

"This thing is quite heavy." Li Zhu put the woman down and let her lean against the wall. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and pressed the doorbell.

"Mom, I'm home."

Not long after Li Zhu spoke, a series of hurried slipper slaps came from inside, and her mother, Li Caizi, opened the door.

"You little rascal, you're finally back! I thought you went to that girl's house tonight again."

"You mean Yuko, right? She moved recently, so I won't be able to see her for a while. Besides, how could I just go and spend the night at a girl's house?" Li Zhu pouted, somewhat dissatisfied with her mother's inappropriate words.

"Oh, I see. I had a good impression of that girl. What a pity."

Risako and Yuko had met once and thought she looked cute and charming, just like Risako back in the day.

"What are you waiting for? Come in."

"Wait, there's someone else we need to deal with." Li Zhu turned to help the woman.

At this time.

The woman, supported by Li Zhu, slowly woke up.

"Huh?" She stood up straight, looked at Li Zhu's mother, and froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.

"!"

Then her eyes widened as if she had seen a ghost. About three seconds later, she hurriedly turned around and ran down the stairs.

"???"

Li Zhu and her mother exchanged a glance, both somewhat bewildered.

"Ayumi, who is this?" Risako asked curiously. "Could it be that teacher you've been longing to see?"

"Mom, don't talk nonsense. I don't know who she is either." Li Zhu shook her head.

After watching the woman get into a taxi from upstairs, Li Zhu went inside and told her mother about what had happened at the park.

As for why she suddenly ran away after waking up, that remains unknown.

The mother and son talked about the woman in surprise for a while, but eventually stopped paying attention to her. After all, she was a stranger, and it was fine as long as she woke up.

"If you're hungry, just eat the bowl of noodles on the table."

Mom had been waiting for Li Zhu for so long. She was still sleepy and yawning constantly. Finally, she could go back to sleep. She seemed to have work tomorrow.

-

Ever since the day my mom said she was going to work overtime, her working hours have gradually increased. Li Zhu had tried to dissuade her, but my mom was surprisingly stubborn about it.

Out of desperation, Li Zhu said he would also take a job in his spare time to help ease the family's financial burden. However, his mother pointed at his head and scolded him, saying that no one would hire a minor like him to work as a child laborer.

Li Zhu is confident that she can find a good job, but her mother's attitude is very firm.

Finally, after discussions between the two, she allowed Li Zhu to only find a job during the holidays, and to study hard during the rest of the time, play when she wanted, and not to run around.

Riko doesn't want her child to have no time to rest or play outside of school. Her son has to go out and work for her, which goes against her wishes.

She works so hard so that her son can have a better, freer life, and not have to work as hard as she does. She doesn't want to see her son being pointed at by his classmates and said, "Oh, this kid stole someone else's lollipop, how awful..."

Speaking of that incident, it remains a wound between the mother and son.

At that time, Li Zhu was still in elementary school, which was also the most difficult period for his family. He secretly took a lollipop from his female classmate's drawer because he was greedy. As a result, he was discovered. His classmates surrounded Li Zhu and called everyone except his female classmate over to humiliate him.

You can't imagine that those harsh and hurtful words could come from such innocent little faces. In the end, something touched Xiao Lizhu, and he got into a fight with the person who said it.

This matter eventually escalated to the point where the parents had to be called in.

Because of her boss's harshness, Li Zhu's mother arrived a little late and only saw the teacher pleading with the parents of the two children who had been beaten to stop them from hitting Li Zhu.

"This brat not only steals other people's things, but he also dares to hit my son! Are you tired of living?!" the burly father said viciously.

"Dressed so filthy, looking like a beggar, could he really be a child picked up from a trash can? No wonder he has no manners." The heavily made-up mother stood with her hands on her hips, her shrill voice echoing throughout the office.

Xiao Lizhu lowered his head and hid behind the teacher, trembling. With each word they said, Lizhu's thin body trembled more. At this moment, the only person he could rely on was his homeroom teacher, who usually made him stand in the corridor as punishment.

Actually, Li Zhu already had a burning mark on his face at that time, which was from that classmate's father. The teacher didn't expect that an adult would be so cruel to a child, so she came over to protect him.

Even so, Xiao Lizhu did not cry. He was waiting, waiting for his mother to come and save him.

In addition, he wanted to prove that he was no longer a child picked up from the trash can, that his clothes were not dirty and that his mother had washed them very clean, that the candy was rightfully his, and that the child who spoke ill of his mother deserved to be punished.

In short, he felt he had done nothing wrong!

Fortunately, in the end, my mother did come.

But all he saw was his mother with a forced smile, constantly bowing and apologizing to the homeroom teacher and those two incredibly annoying adults, and even demanding compensation for medical expenses.

As a child, he felt that he was the one who deserved the most care, and that his mother must have made a mistake!

However, after dealing with them, it will be Li Zhu's turn.

“Mom…” Li Zhu’s eyes lit up.

Snapped--

A slap landed on Li Zhu's face, interrupting him from speaking. The half of his face, which had been hit twice, visibly swelled up.

"Well, you actually dared to steal from your classmate! And you even dared to fight! How have I been teaching you?! Did I teach you to steal from others?!"

"I work so hard, three jobs a day, just so you can have a better life, a carefree life, but why can't you give your mother a break?!"

"All you do is get complaints from teachers about not handing in your homework, skipping class, and being late. Now you're even stealing and hitting people. You say you can change? Is this how you change?!"

After that, Li Zhu couldn't hear anything clearly.

The increasingly bright red marks on his swollen face were like branding marks, and a strong ringing in his ears echoed in his mind. He just lowered his head, tears streaming down his face, pressed his lips tightly together, and clenched his clothes, without saying a word.

At that time, he felt that what others said was like a cold wind blowing on his face, with no power other than coldness.

But her mother was different. Others could say whatever they wanted, but not her. Her words shattered all of Li Zhu's expectations and fantasies.

"Apologize properly to the other person! Do you hear me?!"

"Look up and speak!"

That day, Risako suddenly took leave, and her boss called halfway through, firing her on the spot. But before she could even try to keep her, she rushed to the school. She had to apologize to the parents of the child who had been beaten and pay them compensation. In the end, she had to watch her own child act "stubbornly" and refuse to admit it.

Helplessness, repression, pain, and the pressures of an impoverished life are like rolling stones from a high mountain, relentlessly chasing this family, as if they would rather fall to the bottom of a valley. Under such circumstances, even the strongest woman would be unable to hold back her outburst.

"I'm sorry, yes, I'm so sorry..."

The child, head held high and eyes red, was clearly the one most hurt, yet he still apologized to the person who hurt him again and again.

"Ha! This kid's apology is so soft, I can't see any sincerity or remorse at all. Keep your son in check, if he dares to lay a hand on me again, don't blame me for being impolite!"

"Exactly! This child's clothes are so dirty. He even stole other little girls' lollipops. I really don't know how his parents raised such a child. Don't play with people like this, you hear? He'll tarnish the Kira family's reputation." The mother tugged at her son's hand.

With a considerable sum of money for medical expenses and their son who was barely injured, the two parents didn't forget to make sarcastic remarks about Li Zhu and her son before leaving, seemingly unconcerned about the apology.

Riko's mouth hung open, unable to utter a single word in rebuttal; those hurtful words were far sharper than knives.

Walking home on the deserted streets, a light drizzle began to fall, fittingly for the occasion, and they hadn't brought an umbrella.

Who would have thought that so many terrible things could happen in one day? An adult's breakdown can happen in an instant.

Seeing Li Zhu crying helplessly, she finally couldn't help but shed tears as well. She felt that she was probably the culprit who had caused things to turn out this way, since her son couldn't even afford a piece of candy.

How can you not blame yourself for this?

-

Later, she transferred schools with her son and went to a new place to find work.

Things have indeed improved a lot. After all, once you've hit rock bottom, no matter where you go, it's always upwards.

From then on, Li Zhu became much quieter, he really became very well-behaved, and his grades improved by leaps and bounds.

Despite the challenging environment, he was admitted to the best public junior high school in the country, and eventually entered the best private high school with a score among the top three in the country.

With his long hair and aloof personality, he became the "other people's child" in everyone's eyes, outstanding and dazzling.

At home, Riko and Riko sometimes exchange less than five words a day. As soon as he gets home, he locks himself in his room. The teacher said that Riko is withdrawn at school and doesn't talk to others.

He seems to have shut down his playful and mischievous self.

During the time when Riko was in junior high school, Riko regretted more than once thinking that if everything could be done over, if she could go back to that day, she would hug her crying son and say one thing.

"I'm sorry, Mom is late."

What will happen next?

We don't need such an outstanding son anymore. We just want an ordinary child who isn't so gloomy, who is happy, and who grows up normally.

Perhaps Heaven saw how much this mother had suffered and endured, and finally opened its eyes.

After entering high school, Riyu became much more cheerful. He stopped isolating himself and seemed like a different person. Moreover, because of Riyu, Riyako also got a stable job and a house.

Because it came out of thin air, she cherishes this dreamlike and wonderful state of being even more. She tells Li Zhu to remember the kindness of others, which is also a reminder to herself.

……

The noodles were still warm, but Li Zhu quickly ate a couple of bites and then went to take a shower.

Then around 2 a.m.

Li Zhu tossed and turned in bed, scratching herself here and there, turning over in bed, her sighs fading into the empty room.

"Damn it, the moment I close my eyes, all I see is Hinata Kotone's mouth coming close to mine. What's going on?"

Li Zhu was getting a little frantic; he was having insomnia again.