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"That's really great."

Asakawa Yo breathed a sigh of relief and smiled slightly at Mizuki.

Mizuki breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The two sat in the dessert shop for quite a while, until the waiter came to ask them two or three times, "Is there anything else, sir?"

The two finally left the dessert shop.

However, the two simply found a shady spot under a tree in the park and sat down.

"Although it's not as cool as the air conditioning in a dessert shop, it's still quite pleasant here."

Mizuki sighed softly.

Asakawa Yo didn't comment on the environment; she just talked about her own situation.

"What changes do you think will occur in other people's lives when I return to school after my break? What kind of opinions will they have of me?"

She spoke as if she was very troubled.

But Mizuki found Asakawa Yo somewhat cute, adorably silly.

"Any girl with even a few friends can tell that she's showing off or asking for praise when she says that."

Asakawa Yo was unaware that her intentions had been exposed.

She just looked at Mizuki expectantly.

“I guess everyone would think you’re someone to be trifled with,” Mizuki thought for a moment. “Because all students are afraid of being suspended, but you’re not.”

"So, they probably won't target you anymore."

"But I won't be your friend either," Mizuki reminded her. "You might become very lonely."

"I'm not afraid of that kind of thing."

Asakawa Yo proudly raised her head.

—It wasn't because of Mizuki's approval, but because of Natsuki's approval.

Xia Wuzhao's words still echoed in her mind.

It made her feel excited and gave her a great deal of courage.

Meiyue looked at her and sighed.

"This child still craves recognition from others."

Chapter 456 You are a two-faced and delightful thing.

Asakawa Yo is a child who craves recognition from others.

—This is something Mizuki is absolutely certain of.

Just as inferiority and arrogance are two sides of the same coin, Asakawa Yo's inexplicable hostility towards others and her desire for others' approval are the same thing.

"Perhaps we should tell Xia Wuzhao. Maybe he can change something, and maybe he can do something for Asakawa Yao."

Mizuki held a tender green leaf in her hand, thinking to herself.

Hold the leaf up and look at it towards the sun.

The patterns on the back then seeped into the front, overlapping the patterns on the leaves.

"What are you doing?"

Asakawa Yo looked at Mizuki beside her with some confusion.

"Games we played when we were kids." Mizuki smiled. "We used to play games with our friends a lot when we were little, like seeing who could find a leaf with a stronger stem."

"How childish."

Asakawa Yo made a sarcastic remark.

"Because I'm a girl, no one played this game with me when I was little. After I found a leaf, I would hold it up high and observe the patterns inside."

"What's so fun about this?" Asakawa Yo also picked up a leaf, but found it unremarkable.

"Because this is the only game I can play," Mizuki said nonchalantly.

"Oh." Asakawa Yo tossed the leaf aside. "Don't you have any other friends?"

"No," Mizuki replied nonchalantly; "because I'm cuter and prettier than everyone else. So no one would seriously be friends with me."

"I see."

Asakawa Yo stopped talking.

After thinking for a moment, Mizuki said to Asakawa Yo, "Let's go to the school later. I'd like to take a look at the school."

"What's so interesting about school?" Asakawa Yo said stubbornly, "But if you really want to go, then go ahead."

This reply made Mizuki unable to help but smile.

When evening came and the weather turned cool, the two finally took the tram to school.

At this time, some school clubs had already finished their activities and were going home in twos and threes.

Asakawa Yo could occasionally see people from her class, but she just coldly raised her chin.

The girls snorted coldly and quickly left.

Occasionally, you can even hear the girls' inner grumbling.

But Asakawa Yo never cared about the time or the girls' murmurs.

Once inside the school, he led Mizuki around. Mizuki was good at creating atmosphere; whenever Asakawa Yo introduced things around the school to her, Mizuki would always exclaim in admiration.

"That's wonderful, you can't see anything like this in the countryside."

—She would always utter such exclamations, which made Asakawa Yo feel very satisfied and happy.

After going around in circles, the two ended up back at the club.

Xia Wuzhao sat at the table, the twilight sunlight casting a hazy glow on it, like that of an old-fashioned camera.

"What are you doing here?" Xia Wuzhao looked up at the two of them.

"Just browsing around." Asakawa Yo sat down and asked casually, "Isn't anyone else here?"

Who are you asking?

Xia Wuzhao looked at her.

“Asahi, Kirishima,” Asakawa Yo twirled a strand of her hair with her fingers. “If there were other people, I would ask them too.”

"They both have their own things to do. Asahi goes to the library, while Chiho goes to the company."

"He doesn't seem like a high school student at all."

Asakawa Yo said with some dissatisfaction, and then slumped onto the table again.

"Ah, I haven't thanked Asahi for what happened before."

Mizuki seemed to remember something and clapped her hands.

"What is it?" Asakawa Yo looked at Mizuki with some confusion.

With a light laugh, Mizuki waved her hand: "Asahi helped me a bit before, and I was looking forward to thanking her, but it's been hard to find a time to do so."

"Why don't we just go now?" Asakawa Yo asked, somewhat puzzled.

“Outsiders are not allowed in the library,” Xia Wuzhao said calmly.

"I see." Mizuki looked somewhat disappointed, then turned to Asakawa Yo: "Could you please ask Asakawa for a favor? Please!"

She pleaded earnestly, and Asakawa Yo felt a little annoyed, but still said, "Okay."

"Thank you so much, Asakawa," Mizuki said sincerely.

Asakawa Yo then left the clubroom and walked outside.

After a while, Mizuki smiled and said, "Thank you so much for earlier."

Xia Wuzhao glanced at her. If it were before, he probably would have denied it.

He turned a page of the book and simply said calmly, "Hmm."

"This person is indeed difficult to get along with."

She took a deep breath and decided to get straight to the point.

"Let's talk about Asakawa Yo."

The dim, yellowish sunlight fell upon her, blurring and dappling her face.

"pat"

Xia Wuzhao closed the book and placed it back on the bookshelf.

"What's the matter?"

“I just feel that Asakawa needs help,” Mizuki said, then looked at Natsuki Kiri: “Didn’t you feel that?”

“Is that so?” Xia Wuzhao said. “I don’t think so.”

He said, "Asakawa Yo is strong enough now. Even with the scars on her face, she doesn't cower. Even if she's bullied, she can bravely fight back."

"Moreover, she's cheerful enough. She even has a happy family and a loving mother. I don't think Asakawa Yo needs to change anything."

He looked at Mizuki across from him, as if she were a statue.

It carries a sense of coldness, rigidity, and inflexibility, even inflexibility.

"But don't you think Asakawa is a little too eager for others' approval?"

Mizuki frowned.

"Really?" Xia Wuzhao said dismissively, "I don't think so."

He said, "Asakawa Yo has never craved the approval of others."

Incidentally, he also mentioned a small matter.

"A long time ago, when Asakawa Yo first transferred here, everyone welcomed her and even pitied her, showing her concern and care."

"If someone craves recognition, they will likely make many friends at this time. They might even use their scars to elicit pity from others."

"But Asakawa Yo didn't do that. She hated that kind of pity and saw it as an insult."

"In the end, it ruined everyone's relationship."

"Do you think someone like that is someone who craves recognition?" Xia Wuzhao asked in return. "No, not at all. Qianchuan Yao is definitely not a weak person who craves recognition."

"I really like Asakawa Yo's approach and her personality."

Xia Wuzhao said calmly.

But Mizuki's expression turned into a confident smile: "You—you really do know everything, which is why you're deliberately denying it now."

Chapter 457 I will never betray myself

She spoke with certainty, convinced that Xia Wuzhao herself certainly understood.

Xia Wuzhao certainly knew.

Knowing that Asakawa Yo is a person who values ​​self-esteem and ego highly, she would deliberately do things that seem like "taking a detour" for the sake of such things.

I also know that deep down she really craves recognition, and these two things are not contradictory.

Rather, it is precisely because they crave recognition that they become sensitive, deliberately displaying their wounds and disregarding the pity of others.

"Ok, I know."

Xia Wuzhao looked at Mizuki and said calmly, "So?"

Perhaps it was because Xia Wuzhao's gaze was too intimidating that Meiyue touched her hair with slight embarrassment: "I thought you would find some other excuse to deny this."

"If it were me in the past, I would have done that."

Xia Wuzhao calmly tapped the table.

Mizuki paused for a moment, then sighed helplessly. She placed her fingers, which had been stroking her hair, on the table. "Has anyone ever told you that you're actually terrible at conversation, Natsumi?"

"No, but I know about it myself."

"It would be better to change it."