Am I being simulated by their love affair?

Many of the people in the seats were missing; everyone must have gone to visit other places. Jun Matsueda returned to his seat, put away his exam paper, and looked at the girl sitting next to him.

Tomatsu Yuka sat alone in her seat, quietly watching him—it seemed that even if an earthquake struck now, the walls collapsed, and the classroom was stained with blood, her honey-colored sweet eyes would not change at all.

Is she pressuring Jun-kun to break up with his girlfriend?

The boy nodded. "Let's discuss it at lunchtime."

"Okay~" The girl smiled nonchalantly, "I was wondering if Mochizuki would have forgotten about this."

"How could that be?" Jun Matsueda blinked helplessly.

"Even if she forgets the common exam, she won't forget this."

So after lunch, the boys and girls started discussing it around the table—

"Should I delete the post I made?" Tomatsu Yuka asked, holding a cup of barley tea.

“Of course I want it.” Sitting across from her, Mochizuki Haruka swallowed the last bite of her sushi roll and said resolutely.

"Who doesn't delete their social media posts after a breakup?"

"Hmm." The girl, her smile unchanged, swiped her phone. "There are a lot to delete..."

The girl, with a stern face, lowered her head and drank her miso soup. "Who doesn't know you love to show off your relationship?"

"I'll change it to be visible only to myself," Tomatsu Yuka said, putting down her phone.

"Not only that!" Mochizuki Haruka glared at her. "Post an update announcing that you and Matsue have broken up!"

The girl blinked, feigning difficulty, and looked to her side.

"But when I was with Tsun-kun, we didn't make it official on social media."

"..." Jun Matsue, who was eating udon noodles, nodded. "That's true."

Although Tomatsu likes to show off her love, she's not the kind of naive high school girl who would deliberately post a status update or write a love quote.

Mochizuki Haruka gave a heavy snort, "You really don't need to do this."

"—After all, if you kiss at the graduation ceremony, the whole school will know."

The boy could only awkwardly put down his chopsticks and wipe his mouth with a tissue.

Looking up, he quickly noticed the dining table not far away—Natsumi Imokawa was sitting opposite him, craning her neck and spying on the situation like a clumsy spy.

"In short, simply hiding your relationship status isn't enough!" Mochizuki Haruka tilted her head to block his view.

"We need to let everyone know that Songzhi has a new girlfriend."

"Tsunku and I never officially announced our breakup back then, and we don't want to announce it now either." Tomatsu Yuka calmly clenched her hands.

"Besides this method, there must be other solutions, right?"

Listening to their conversation, Jun Matsue watched as Natsumi Imokawa picked up the tray and got up—before walking away, the girl gave him a fist bump, which probably meant "Good luck, Jun Matsue."

It's unclear whether Imokawa is referring to exams or romance... The boy crumpled the tissue in his hand into a ball.

“Of course there are other ways.” Mochizuki Haruka’s expression was somewhat amused.

"After school, Songzhi will send me a picture of us kissing or hugging, and I don't need to do anything else."

“Then a bunch of curious people will definitely come and ask you—and of course, some will ask me too.” The girl licked her lips.

"Anyway, we can each give our own interpretation, as long as we don't get the basic facts wrong."

"So what are the basic facts?" Tomatsu Yuka raised her hand slightly, asking the question like a student in class.

"Matsueda Jun and Tomatsu Yuka broke up, and he's with me now." Mochizuki Haruka's words were particularly forceful.

"It's that simple."

The dining table was quiet for a moment, the sunlight outside the window silently dappled the tabletop, and Jun Matsue coughed softly twice.

"That's it?"

“…I think it’s feasible.” Tomatsu Yuka nodded.

"But I have one request—don't take your photos at home."

Mochizuki Haruka changed her sitting posture and revealed a smug smile.

"You don't want everyone to know that I slept with Songzhi, right?"

The girl did not refute, "Tsun-kun has already seamlessly transitioned. If the background of your filming is too intimate, it will greatly affect his image."

The boy cleared away their dishes, saying, "My appearance doesn't matter to me..."

“No problem,” Mochizuki Haruka readily agreed.

"I don't care about such trivial matters."

"However, I won't be at school all the time during this period, because I need to prepare for the entrance exam for Keio University."

She looked at the boy sitting across from her and said, "Although I'm not at school, please make sure you two, who have already broken up, keep a proper distance by then."

"It doesn't matter what happens in private, but on the surface, I am Songzhi's lover."

"No problem." Tomatsu Yuka smiled, took the boy's arm, and rubbed against him vigorously.

"Then I need to hurry up and enjoy the last bit of treatment as the official girlfriend."

At 2 PM, the answer checking and score estimation session for Class 3-6 ended.

Jun Matsue scored 980 points, ranking first, and Yuka Tomatsu scored 966 points, ranking second.

"Such a high score?!" Yami Maki's voice sounded particularly surprised through the phone receiver.

"Is the maximum score still 1000 this year? Then Tsun-kun only lost 20 points, right?"

"It's just an estimate." Facing the sunlight, Jun Matsueda smiled as he walked down the school's main road.

"The actual score should be a little lower than the estimated score."

After checking the answers, Mochizuki Haruka left Yugaoka High School. He had just seen the girl off at the school gate and took a moment on his way back to the classroom to call his senior.

"This score would be the highest among applicants to the University of Tokyo..." Yami Maki said with some emotion.

"As expected of Jun."

"After all, the common exam isn't that difficult..." The boy looked at the line of students walking out of the teaching building.

They left school early not to relax, but to find private tutors or private tutors to prepare for the entrance exams of various universities.

“I don’t think it makes any difference to Jun-kun,” the girl replied without hesitation.

"After all, you're a genius~"

"Thank you for the compliment, senior." Jun Matsue's lips curved into a particularly pronounced smile.

Being praised by someone you like is always a happy thing, no matter how many times.

At 7 p.m., Mochizuki Haruka returned to Mitaka-dai—the first thing she did upon entering room 507 was to grab the boy's hand and walk out the door without looking back.

"Hey!" Yosuke Kurusu, who was sitting on the sofa, turned his head.

"Why are you doing this all of a sudden!"

Jun Matsue turned to her with an apologetic smile and followed the girl.

"I made an appointment with Mochizuki to go out for a while, and I'll be back soon."

"..." Miss Idol watched the two walk out the door.

"Then bring me some oden when you come back!"

The footsteps of the boy and girl descended the stairwell, illuminating the motion-activated lights on the ceiling. Jun Matsue looked at the little hand holding his—Mochizuki's back—and his eager joy was evident.

"Shall we go take pictures now?"

"Okay." Mochizuki Haruka turned and glanced at him. "Post the photos of the pine branches on WeChat Moments as soon as you're done."

"Have you and Tomatsu Yuka thought it through? How are you going to explain your breakup?"

The boy smiled and quickened his pace to go downstairs with her.

"After falling in love, I realized that it's better to be good friends. Actually, I had planned to break up before, but I chose to announce it after the exams so as not to affect each other's interpersonal relationships and school life."

How about this explanation?

"It's alright." The girl gripped his hand tightly, not allowing the warmth of the night to penetrate.

"It sounds reasonable, but it's just too businesslike, like those celebrity announcements."

Matsueda Jun laughed again, "How did you know it was Kurusu who gave the suggestion?"

Wang Yueyao rolled her eyes at him and pushed open the unit door on the first floor.

A cool night breeze swept through, ruffling a few strands of the girl's hair. She glanced around casually, finally settling her gaze on the streetlights in the distance.

"Or just film it there."

"...Isn't this a bit too casual?" The boy blinked. "These are the photos that reveal our relationship."

He quickly changed his mind—

The dim yellow light from the streetlights overhead created a nice atmosphere, and the girl's kiss under the light was even sweeter than he had imagined.

"The photos are pretty good." Mochizuki Haruka nodded at herself in the photo, looking at the picture of herself kissing her boyfriend.

"Just send it like this." She sent the photo to the boy.

"Send it directly?" Jun Matsueda glanced at his phone.

"Xiaoyao, do you want me to edit the photos?"

The girl raised her head with satisfaction.

—Before the relationship was even made public, Songzhi had already changed her tune.

"It's okay, just send it like this."

The boy pressed the send button.

A few minutes later, his notification list was filled with private messages and comments.

The next morning, the news that "Matsueda Jun has changed girlfriends" spread throughout the school even faster than his 980 points.

Chapter 866 "New Classmate"

January 20th, Tuesday, was Jun Matsue's first day of "seamless transition".

At 8:30 in the morning, when he and Mochizuki Haruka walked through the back door of the classroom, all the students in the class turned around and looked at them.

Their gazes fell on the young lady of the Wangyue family holding the boy's arm—the girl remained expressionless, only letting out a soft hum.

"What are you looking at?"

Most people obediently turned their heads back, while the rest looked at Tomatsu Tomoka, who had arrived at the classroom early as usual and was sitting upright studying.

However, the girl did not show the expression of an ex-girlfriend as they had imagined; instead, she smiled at the boys as if nothing had happened.

Good morning, Jun-kun.

"Good morning," Jun Matsue greeted him with a smile.

Mochizuki Haruka, who was beside him, tightened her grip on his arm and her gaze shifted slightly.

The girl did not correct Tomatsu Yuka's overly intimate way of addressing her; she simply walked naturally to her seat by the window.

The expected scene did not unfold, and the crowd then looked away and whispered among themselves.

"They're really together..."

"They really broke up..."

"How could this be fake? Didn't you all ask the parties involved?"

"I did ask, but this was so sudden..."

Jun Matsue sat down between the two girls—the table in front of him was empty, allowing the whispers and curious glances to flow freely towards the boy.

Sure enough, quite a commotion... He sighed inwardly and took out his workbook from his bag.

Ever since he posted the kissing photos last night, his phone has been flooded with messages—

Ken Sakamuro, Miya Mizushima, Kou Tsushima... his friends who were usually on good terms with him sent him private messages one by one, and comments from people he wasn't familiar with also surged rapidly under his photos and posts.