"I will never admit defeat to you, never."

"you……"

"You will be buried in the abyss by my current self, along with my weak self."

"..."

Liu Hao knew that what the girl on the other end of the phone said was not actually to him, but to herself. Although he had never even met her, Liu Hao could feel her mood - licking her wounds in self-pity, but having to stand up bravely and move forward. This reminded Liu Hao of the past, a long time ago, but still fresh in his memory.

"Private Marseille?"

"Your apology strikes me as hypocritical."

"No, please pay attention, I am speaking Japanese now..."

"I understand. I'm going to hang up now. I'm not trying to escape, but I won't pay any more attention to your harassment."

"No, it's Japanese. Don't you understand? Calm down. You can't just wait until I sing it out before you..."

Shoko Toyokawa took the phone from her ear and was about to hang up, but the singing coming from the receiver made her stunned.

"ゴキゲンな Butterfly になって, きらめく风に仱 Blind Tired 无工AE撙hissing 幛い chant Xiao ChangΑ�

(I want to turn into a happy butterfly and ride on the shining wind to meet you right now)

The singing was very immature and awkward, even the pronunciation had a funny feeling, but this soft chanting had an inexplicable power that made Toyokawa Shoko's heart resonate and tremble, and the finger on the hang-up button could not be pressed down.

"The dream of infinity, the world of the world, the love of the world, the love of the world, the negative love of the world, the negative dream..."⒋

(Behind the infinite dream lies this empty world. It is so pitiful that even longing seems to be crushed.)

Xiangzi released the ring, and his slender and graceful body seemed like a fluttering butterfly. Bewildered, he sat back in his seat, his red eyes filled with bitter tears.

This noise attracted some passengers' furtive glances, but Xiangzi no longer cared.

She involuntarily placed the phone back to her crystal-clear ear. The inspiring song made Xiangzi's vision gradually blur, and the figure of a girl with purple hair and red eyes gradually emerged in his mind - she held the microphone awkwardly, looked at herself in the mirror, and gradually sang out the voices of herself and the band.

It is tender yet contains profound energy, just like the man's singing beside me, which has the magic power to move people's hearts, because it is not a simple repetition, but a singing with his heart and emotions. It is because music can convey moods that it is so moving.

"Infinite dreams, no dreams, no worlds, no middle...Stay しそうOn My Love~"like

(Behind the infinite dream lies this empty world... Even if these wings, stained with indecision and still stiff, can still fly, thanks to my love~)

The long ending note was obviously out of breath. Liu Hao paused and then continued humming, which seemed a bit funny. But Xiangzi's stubborn eyes could no longer hold back the sour and hot tears. His vision blurred, and tears flowed across his fair and round cheeks, gathered on his pointed chin, and turned into butterflies that dripped down his legs.

After finally crying, Toyokawa Shoko no longer felt too bitter, but instead felt a sense of relief. Maybe it was just some nice words, but she had always insisted on this. Even if there was an empty world behind her dream, she would flap her wings, break through the clouds, and break through the shackles of fate.

Xiangzi's sobbing was very soft, but Liu Hao still noticed it. He walked into the school gate with his phone in hand. He estimated that the girl should have calmed down a bit before asking, "How is it?"

"Um……"

Shoko Toyokawa's cheeks flushed slightly. She thought about how she had persisted for a long time, cutting off ties with her old friends, trying hard to find a job that didn't require her to be in the public eye, and adapting to the common people's life that she had never imagined before with almost a bloody head. Even when she was hungry in the middle of the night, she bit her lips and never complained. But today, she lost control of her emotions and poured out her grievances to a stranger she didn't even know, and even cried. It was really too rude.

To hide his embarrassment, Xiangzi took a breath and tried to keep his tone calm as he said, "Not really. Don't think I'll be moved by your gentle behavior after harassing me. This playing hard to get trick is really too low-level."

Liu Hao smiled instead. He knew that the girl had indeed calmed down. “What I meant was, I was singing in Japanese just now.”

"Indeed, if your tone was a little off I would hardly be able to tell it was Japanese."

Xiangzi used a sarcastic tone to hide his true feelings, and for a moment he did not notice the problem.

"Well, after all, I'm self-taught in Japanese," Liu Hao said, "but what I'm speaking now is not Japanese."

"It's not Japanese, could it be...wait, it's definitely not Japanese..."

Toyokawa Shoko opened her eyes wide, and only then did she realize that she and Liu Hao had been communicating with each other in two languages, and it had been smooth.

Volume 3: Chapter Chapter With you, the world is not so scary anymore

It was a wonderful feeling. Although they were speaking two different languages, they could understand each other without any problem, as if they were listening with their hearts instead of their ears. It was precisely because of this unobstructed feeling of smoothness that Liu Hao and Toyokawa Shoko did not realize the language problem at first. Liu Hao also discovered it just now.

So Liu Hao sang this Japanese song that he was familiar with, even though it was also his inner voice.

Toyokawa Shoko asked, "Chinese?"

Liu Hao responded: "Yeah."

"So, you're really looking for your cell phone carrier's customer service?"

Xiangzi used a question mark, but in his heart he had already believed most of it.

"Of course, if the customer service number wasn't free, I wouldn't have bothered to spend so much time on it." Liu Hao paused and asked, "So you're really the Tokyo customer service representative?"

"Yes...but I'm using my own phone now. How did you call me?"

Liu Hao said, "I don't know. I'll call the customer service number here and get connected to your customer service."

Toyokawa Shoko frowned her small, delicate nose. Although what she was experiencing was very bizarre, she was now able to think about it calmly.

She glanced at her phone and said, "It's 4:2 PM Tokyo time on April 19nd."

Liu Hao understood and glanced at it, saying, "It's April 4nd, Beijing time here, also 2:19 PM."

"No jet lag?"

"Yeah." Liu Hao walked into the cafeteria. Since it was past the army's dinner time, the noise wasn't too noisy, which didn't affect their conversation. He asked, "Who is the Prime Minister of your country?"

"Fujiwara Chika."

"Where's the President of the United States?"

“Hillary Clinton.”

"..." Liu Hao sighed sincerely, "It's great that we are not in the same world."

"Why is it so good?"

An inexplicable bitterness arose in Toyokawa Shoko's heart. Is it a good thing that the two of them are not in the same world?

Liu Hao ordered a meat dish and a vegetable dish at the window. He watched as the auntie shook out almost half of the chicken nuggets on the spoon, leaving only large chunks of potatoes. Unable to get angry while on the phone, Liu Hao could only grit his teeth and say, "My man's intuition tells me that your world must be terrifying."

After a moment's silence, Xiangzi lowered his eyelids and said calmly, "It is indeed a terrible world."

"It's not that scary." Liu Hao changed his tone and said, "After all, you are still here."

Xiangzi couldn't help but smile, but he said, "What hypocritical courtesy."

"Where's the hypocrisy?"

"I am not a good guy."

[My existence might have made the world worse...]

Xiangzi clenched her right hand, and her mind flashed back to the members of the CRYCHIC band she had formed and then disbanded: the guitarist, the bassist, the lead singer, the drummer...

[I'm sorry, I really can't bear the burden of someone else's life right now... Forget me...]

"It's okay, at least the sound is nice."

Liu Hao took the free soup and found a seat in a corner of the cafeteria. He was not a person who liked to waste time talking to strangers, nor was he keen on unnecessary socializing. However, he was willing to talk more to this customer service lady whom he met by chance, perhaps because her shouting just now reminded him of his past self.

"He's also very dedicated and still answers work calls after get off work."

Toyokawa Shoko said indifferently: "Yes, I did all this voluntarily."

Liu Hao smiled and continued, "Look, we are from two different worlds, yet somehow we can connect with each other and communicate even though we don't speak the same language. This is so incredible that most people would probably be overwhelmed by it, but we accepted it all at once and even managed to chat and laugh. Do you know what this means?"

"what?"

"This shows that you and I, heroes, share the same vision. We both possess extraordinary talents and the ambition to uphold the heavens and earth. In the future, we will surely have a bright future, a future that is beyond the imagination of ordinary people."

"...You're just bragging."

"You've already heard all of this. Great minds think alike."

Liu Hao spoke in a seemingly perfunctory tone while eating. Xiangzi tried hard to purse her thin lips, but she couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth. She began to understand why she was reluctant to hang up the phone. In addition to the reason that she was infected by his singing, perhaps the more important reason was that the two of them were in two different worlds that had no intersection, so they didn't need to worry about the past and self-esteem, so they could be more unrestrained.

"What are you doing?"

"Eat dinner," Liu Hao said vaguely. "The potatoes weren't peeled, fail. The chicken was all necks, fail. The vermicelli and cabbage were watery, fail... but it's still edible... Why's that clanking noise over there?"

Toyokawa Shoko leaned peacefully against the seat, watching the lights passing by outside the window: "I'm on the tram, it's already dark."

"Haven't you had dinner yet?"

"No."

"thanks for the effort."

"Yes, I was harassed by you five times."

"No, including this time, it's six times."

"Are you quite proud?"

"You can't blame me...don't forget to eat dinner."

"Can't forget."

The two of them tacitly did not ask each other's name or age, just like two fish that accidentally swam into a puddle. After licking each other's hearts, they each went their own way. The situation is still unclear now, but after experiencing a lot, both of them tacitly agreed that this was an accidental encounter, which was wonderful and memorable.

Toyokawa Shoko stood up, clutching the hanging ring with her bag slung over her shoulder. Her other hand still held the phone tightly to her ear. She hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm almost at my stop."

"Well, I've finished eating too. I'm half an hour late, but I still have to go to evening study."

"Well, goodbye then?"

"Goodbye... Remember to have dinner."

"Ah."

It was a very ordinary conversation, but Xiangzi felt a little touched in his heart. When he walked out of the station, the slightly hot wind blew her light blue hair, and his nose became sore again.

Looking at the phone screen, which showed that the call was still in progress, Toyokawa Shoko couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you going to hang up yet?"

Liu Hao's voice came over immediately: "Waiting for you to hang up first."

"Is there any difference?"

"Be a bit more gentlemanly. Do you understand the value of China's etiquette?"

"Ah--"

"This time, it's really goodbye."

"See you."

Shoko Toyokawa hung up the phone on her own initiative. The Tokyo night wind blew across her heart, and she felt an indescribable numbness. She carried her bag in both hands and walked into the familiar convenience store as usual.

As expected, the most popular bento boxes were sold out as soon as a discount label was put on them. Xiangzi stood in front of the cabinet, concentrating on choosing carefully. In fact, she was waiting for the clerk to put a discount label on them again so that she could take it away in time. This was a skill she had just learned on the Internet.

After buying food for the day, Xiangzi returned to his rented house, which was still filled with the smell of alcohol and empty beer cans on the floor, just like before.

"I'm back... bastard dad..."

The drunk man in the room did not respond, only heavy snoring could be heard.

Shoko Toyokawa was already used to such scenes. She bit her lip, opened the window to get some fresh air, and ate some slightly hard bread from the convenience store. She also collected the beer cans on the ground and put them in the trash bag. She also had to take care of some basic hygiene, otherwise she wouldn't be able to spread out the bedding.

"The lunch box is in the microwave, just heat it up and you can eat it... I'll assume you heard it."

Xiangzi knew that her bastard father was actually conscious. After she tidied everything up, she sat down weakly leaning against the closet. The doll on the cupboard was as silent as its owner.

The simple house fell into silence again, with only the breathing of the father and daughter echoing each other.

Unable to help but take out her cell phone, Toyokawa Shoko did not reply to the message from her childhood sweetheart Mutsu Wakaba in the message bar. Instead, she gently stroked the seemingly nonsensical string of zeros in the call log. It was the singing and words of the young man behind the string of zeros that allowed her to vent the depression in her heart, but also added a sense of sadness.

[What a strange redemption... Is this also fate? ]

Just as Xiangzi was expressing his feelings, his cell phone suddenly rang, as if with telepathy, and the string of zeros came into view.

Her heart was pounding, and Toyokawa Shoko felt a little flustered for the first time in a long time. She took a few deep breaths before clicking to answer the call.

"Hey?"

As expected, it was the same reliable voice. Xiangzi's nose felt a little sore, and he tried his best to ask calmly, "What's wrong? You're bothering me again so late at night?"

"That's why," Liu Hao said truthfully. "I thought about it and decided to apologize. Although it wasn't my intention, I did disturb your work and life. I'm sorry."

Xiangzi pursed his lips and said, "What's there to apologize for? You and I are both victims of strange things."

"As long as you're not angry."

"Now that I know the truth, I won't be so unreasonable."

"Ah."

After finishing his evening study, Liu Hao stood downstairs in the dormitory and rubbed his nose. Although he was an experienced person, he didn't have much experience chatting with girls in this situation. Feeling the atmosphere was a little awkward, he had no choice but to ask, "Have you had dinner?"

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