Uneasy daily life

"...Yes, I'm an actor!"

“That’s right. You’re an actor. Whether you play a doctor or a patient in the story doesn’t matter. What matters is how you act.” Bai Ying asked again, “How much do you still remember?”

Muraki Naoki paused for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise, "I've forgotten everything!"

"Good! It's done!"

Bai Ying stood up briskly: "Director, action!"

"On your marks—!"

Okita shouted, and the crew immediately sprang into action, turning on the lights, getting the cameras in place, the supporting actors in their positions, and the male lead entering the set still looking a little dazed.

When filming began, Muraki Nao quickly got into character, sometimes appearing as a composed yet slightly silent, occasionally thoughtful, ordinary artistic youth, and at other times as a free-spirited, impulsive, and eccentric artistic youth. From the director's shining eyes and occasional silent nods, it was clear that Muraki's performance was to his satisfaction.

"She's quite quick to learn. Compared to a certain big star who's good at playing pretty faces but whose surname is Sakurajima and who prefers to remain anonymous, she learns much faster."

"My sister's acting is much better!"

After pointing and commenting from afar, Bai Ying also took the opportunity to praise Yukino Yukinoshita: "Your performance when you suddenly barged in and stole the show was passable, but it was still a bit abrupt. Logically, you should have checked my condition first before screaming. Of course, you're also quite perceptive. Are you interested in learning to cook with me?"

Yukinoshita Haruno chuckled and said, "Learn to cook? Shouldn't you be learning to act?"

"Let go!"

"Oh dear, you've already decided it's trash, yet you still subconsciously rummage through the trash can? You feel uncomfortable throwing things away, like you're losing out—isn't that just being pretentious?" Bai Ying enthusiastically promoted, "So come learn to cook with me! Let me teach you braised tofu, tender and spicy! Braised pork belly, savory and melts in your mouth! Boiled pork intestines, crispy and numbing!"

“I’m not very interested in cooking, and my cooking skills aren’t that great.” Yukinoshita Haruno shook her head, and then pressed down on the bouncing Toyohama Kazuka with a little force. “Yukino-chan’s cooking skills are quite good, aren’t they? It’s a pity that Yukino-chan never includes things like this, where she is clearly better than me, in the comparison.”

"The skill of a hero, to put it simply, is to make your mouth taste bland."

Bai Ying vividly described, "Mapo tofu is a relatively famous foreign cultural product of Japan. The enticing aroma, the white tofu, the red soup, and the green scallions are a visual feast. With one bite, you can feel the heat dancing on your lips, and you can't help but exhale a few breaths as the spicy sensation spreads across your tongue, stimulating your taste buds. The tender tofu, flavorful and easily broken apart by your teeth, releases a delicious taste that fills your thirsty taste buds. You can't help but shovel a mouthful of rice to chew on, the soft and sticky rice grains, the delicate tofu, and the crispy minced beef..."

goo~

Shiroki and Yukino looked at Toyohama and Hana.

"..."

Feng Bin and Hua were silent for a moment, then decisively kicked the white figure.

The white figure leaped backward to dodge: "Go eat if you're hungry! Why did you kick me?!"

"You deserve to be kicked!" Toyohama and Hana tried to get closer to kick, but Yukinoshita Haruno held them firmly, kicking wildly from a distance that seemed within reach but was actually out of reach. "Damn it! You tricked me into coming here! You made me miss lunch! Damn it! Damn it!"

"Oh, what does this have to do with me? You can't take it out on me just because your sister dislikes you, can you? If you have to take it out on me, then your sister must be 99% wrong and I'm only 1% wrong—if you kick me, wouldn't it be fair to kick your sister into the river?"

"So annoying! Baka!"

The white figure retreated to dodge a kick, took a small step forward to deliver another kick, and then retreated again to dodge another kick.

Feng Bin and Hua were furious. She kicked out straight out, stopping less than ten centimeters from Bai Ying's chest. She gritted her teeth and glared, pulling her toes forward with all her might—at least leaving a footprint on this bastard!

"No wonder he's a dancer, his flexibility is amazing."

The white figure gave a thumbs up.

Toyohama Kazuka: #!

"Oops, I missed."

Yukinoshita Haruno smiled and loosened her grip.

Feng Binhua suddenly took a big step forward, twisted her waist and turned to the side, and swung her left foot to kick Bai Ying's shin. However, Bai Ying lifted her foot to avoid Feng Binhua's foot, and then forcefully closed her legs together, trapping the other's ankle between her calves.

"Let go!" Feng Bin and Hua tried to pull their feet away, but couldn't. They growled angrily.

Bai Ying said, "Hey, you started it, you should at least say 'Please let go', right?"

Toyohama and Hana hopped on one foot to get closer, preparing to attack with both hands.

Bai Ying jumped back to create distance, but Feng Bin and Hua hopped on one foot to close the gap again.

Ahhhhh!

Feng Bin and Hua's rationality evaporated somewhat.

Are you playing some kind of elementary school game?

Mai Sakurajima, holding a lunchbox, looked helplessly at the two hopping around: "Wahana is too old... no, you two are more like your age."

"Let me go!"

Feng Bin and Hua were stunned, then regained their composure and shouted in a disordered manner.

"Hmm?" Bai Ying raised an eyebrow slightly. "It seems you intend to invite Bai Ying a third time? Then I will graciously grant your request..."

"Please let go!"

Chapter Eighteen: Tsundere Sisters

"okay!"

The white figure loosened her legs, took a step and stood next to Sakurajima Mai, pointing at Toyohama and Hana, saying, "Look, look! To take anger out on others is resentment; to start a fight out of anger is violence; to act coy in surprise is cunning—don't understand? Let me translate for you! Taking your anger out on me after your sister criticized you is absurd and immoral. Losing your human thinking ability when emotions run high is tyrannical and cruel. Discovering that your sister pretends to be a good girl is treacherous and dishonest..."

"shut up!"

Feng Bin and Hua stomped their feet in embarrassment and shouted.

Bai Ying didn't stop. He even spread his arms wide, took a deep breath, and made a gesture as if he were giving a loud speech, before suddenly taking a step to the side.

Mai Sakurajima instinctively stepped into empty air. Wait! Kazuka is still watching...

Feng Bin and Hua were indeed watching, their eyes widening involuntarily, their expressions filled with confusion. Was their sister close to this bastard? Why would she step on him? No, no, no, why would their sister step on someone else?! Was their sister actually someone who liked to get physical? But they'd never heard of that before!

"..." Sakurajima Mai calmly pretended nothing had happened, handing over a steaming, fragrant lunchbox. "Hungry? Here you go."

Could it be that my sister didn't dislike me just now, but went to heat up her lunchbox? No! My sister doesn't welcome my visit to the set... It's probably just a 'eat quickly and go back' move!

Kazuka Toyohama stretched out her hand, muttering, "I'm not hungry..."

"Great, I'm starving."

Bai Ying reached out and grabbed one end of the lunchbox, happily tugged at it, and then noticed that Sakurajima Mai hadn't let go. She said strangely, "Your sister isn't hungry. I haven't eaten yet. From a social justice perspective, you should give me the lunchbox, right? Hero Plus."

"If you don't want flowers, I'll feed them to the dogs." Mai Sakurajima glanced coldly at the white figure. "A guy who's always causing trouble for others doesn't deserve fair treatment."

Bai Ying said seriously, "My nickname is Dog—I smell it! There's fried fish in today's lunchbox!"

goo~

A subtle sound came from the side.

Feng Bin and Hua wanted to turn around and escape from this place that had brought them countless painful memories.

"Alright, get out of here." Sakurajima Mai snapped, snatching the lunchbox back. "Wahana, stop being so stubborn and saving face. Come and eat first."

"Anyway, there are restaurants here, right? I can just go to a restaurant."

Feng Bin and Hua turned their heads away angrily.

Mai Sakurajima frowned: "Don't be so hard on your body when you're throwing a tantrum."

Toyohama Kazuka's momentum faltered, and she muttered, "Anyway, it has nothing to do with Sakurajima-san..."

"Start arguing! Start fighting! Pull ears! Pull hair! Poke noses!"

Toyohama Kazuka: #!

Mai Sakurajima: #!

Bai Ying, like a bystander observing a chess game, kept pointing fingers: "Toyohama! Your words weren't impactful enough! You should have said 'Leave me alone!' and slapped the lunchbox away—wouldn't that have been more powerful?! Sakuragijima! Your attitude wasn't strong enough either! Just throw the lunchbox on the ground and say 'Eat it or leave it,' wouldn't that have been better?! You guys are putting on a show of being hostile and having a lot of worries, which really lacks the exciting conflict. Just fast forward, I want to see a bloodbath..."

"Get up right there!"

"Shut up!"

A heavy blow to the calf!

Smash with your toes!

Bai Ying quickly turned and ran, not forgetting to throw out a couple of clichéd villain lines to save face: "You just wait! Once I've eaten and drunk my fill, I'll definitely send you all to the hospital!"

"Hey jerk, let's go to town for dinner."

"I definitely have to eat. I'm not the kind of person who would skip meals just to save face."

"Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to find the Mapo Tofu you're talking about outside."

I'll send you a recipe later.

"Let me do it?"

"I'll bring my mouth and my money."

Shiroki and Yukino Yukinoshita strolled away from the film set.

That hater! But Hua… I might have misunderstood her a bit. This half-sister really didn't have any malicious intent, she was just unusually young, which made her seem unreasonable and childish in my eyes—she came all this way, and I just told her to go back, so it's only natural that she would be angry.

Just reading those letters isn't enough to understand a real person.

Calm down, get to the bottom of this by spending time with them.

Mai Sakurajima sighed deeply and said, "We'll talk about whether you go back or not later. But don't take it hard on your body... don't make people worry."

Feng Bin and Hua were staring intently at the white figure's back when they heard this, and they were taken aback.

My sister is worried about me! She cares about me! She's already sending me back home!

Emotions, like warm sunshine illuminating snowflakes, flowed through her heart like gentle spring water. Feng Bin and Hana unconsciously smiled, reaching for the lunchbox, muttering with a hint of lingering arrogance, "I'm really not that hungry... Miss Mai, you're definitely playing the lead role this time, right? What's this drama about?"

"Although she's the female lead, the main scenes still revolve around the male lead." Mai Sakurajima led her to a place with tables and chairs. "As for what exactly she's acting out, that's a secret of the job... But I can still say something about the genre. Let's just call it a youth campus type."

Kazuka Toyohama said unsurprisedly, "Miss Mai will definitely have it easy acting in this kind of movie~ I'll definitely go see it when it's released!"

To paraphrase that hater, people my age don't have my acting skills, and people with my acting skills aren't my age...

Sakurajima Mai muttered a few words to herself, sat down to study the script, and glanced at her half-sister eating small bites, which made her feel a little headache.

How can I possibly explain things to Kazuka? My mother might return to the film set at any time, and what would happen if she bumped into Kazuka? There are situations that have never occurred before, and it's impossible to guess... Honestly, I still need to find a way to get Kazuka to go back obediently.

“Arguments happen all the time,” Mai Sakurajima said. “What did you and your aunt argue about?”

"nothing."

Feng Bin and Hua gave a vague reply and continued eating.

Mai Sakurajima sighed: "If you say there's nothing, then there must be something, right? That kind of statement isn't even a lie."

“…It’s really nothing.” Feng Bin and Hana took a bite of their fried fish, then suddenly became alert. “You still want me to go back?!”

Mai Sakurajima tried to organize her thoughts: "Kazuha, your aunt remarried that man, and my mother divorced that man... Your mother is on the set. What do you think her reaction would be if she saw you?"

What kind of reaction could there be?

Feng Binhua lowered her head and muttered, "Anyway, she's not like my sister..."

"?"

Sakurajima Mai was completely baffled. What did this have to do with being the same or different? At times like this, she almost missed the hater—at least he could probably tell what Kazuka was thinking. Asking him for help… no way! Kazuka was the one who lured her here!

He's probably ecstatic right now, isn't he? You hater!

Mai Sakurajima felt her phone vibrate, took it out, and glanced at it.

Mai Sakurajima Fan Club

[Bai Liang Bai Ying: Hooray! I've finally found Mai Sakurajima's weakness, hahaha! Today I've successfully moved beyond criticizing her acting skills and now I'm criticizing her interpersonal relationships! That's satisfying!]

[Crow: Dong Xiangguo's daily victories (1/!)]

[Wooden Fish: What stories did the manager create today? Bring them up!]

[Bai Liang Bai Ying: Have you ever heard of tsundere?]

[Wooden Fish: Hmm? The kind of person who says one thing and means another?]

[Crow: No, no, by definition it's a compliment. It usually refers to someone who, when doing good deeds or feeling happy, always expresses a negative feeling on their face and mouth—if you really want to put it, it's a label for someone who can't honestly express their feelings.]