Am I being simulated by their love affair?

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"..." The boy's eyes showed a hint of surprise—this was not something Mochizuki would ask.

"I'll send her a message."

A few minutes later, the two people leaning against the street quickly spotted a figure coming from the opposite direction in the crowd.

"Pine branch——"

Yosei Kurusu walked through the crowd, tiptoed, raised his left hand high, and waved it vigorously. Under the lights on both sides, he looked like a joyful fish leaping out of the water.

Miss Idol approached the two of them, hooked her finger around the mask draped over her nose, and flashed a bright and enthusiastic smile.

Shibuya is so lively today!

“Shibuya is always so lively,” Mochizuki Haruka retorted, then looked her up and down.

Why are you dressed like this today?

"What's with this outfit?" Lai Qiyang looked at his light yellow cotton-padded jacket and pure white casual trousers.

"Songzhi told me to wear more clothes, so I wore them."

The eldest daughter of the Mochizuki family glared at the boy beside her, then turned back around.

I meant your hairstyle and glasses!

The idol girl tied her long pink hair into twin braids and draped them over her shoulders. She also wore a pair of thick, round black-rimmed glasses, which gave her a simple and honest look, like a good-natured high school girl who was focused on her studies.

“This is a disguise!” Yosei Kurusu stretched out his hand to make the figure eight shape, proudly resting his chin on his hand.

"There are so many people in Shibuya, so changing my style will make me less likely to be recognized~"

"It's quite cute, actually." Jun Matsue smiled and turned to look at the crossroads not far away.

"Will 'Happy End' be playing there later?"

“That’s right!” Miss Idol pointed her index finger at the intersection. “It’s the most famous intersection in Tokyo.”

With a daily foot traffic of 500,000, it is surrounded by towering skyscrapers and cultural landscapes, and serves as a filming location for countless movies and animations...

"—My face is about to be placed on it!"

"It's all thanks to my money..." Mochizuki Haruka pursed her lips.

"It's not your money, it's the firm's money!" Yosei Kurusu immediately corrected her.

"Besides, didn't you all earn back the money you spent on me in the end?"

The haughty young lady turned her face away, and Jun Matsueda shook her arm, glancing at the time on his phone.

"It's almost time, shouldn't we head over?"

"Mmm!" Miss Idol pulled up her mask, her lively eyes crinkling.

"A new crepe shop just opened over there at the intersection. I heard it's really good. I'll treat you guys to some!"

The three of them then walked toward the wide crossroads not far away.

The shimmering, colorful lights magnified before the eyes of the young boys and girls. The night was no match for the city's light sources, shattering into a bustling, vibrant scene of color and noise.

Standing in front of the crepe shop at the intersection, taking a bite of the thin, soft crepe filled with sweet fruit and whipped cream, Jun Matsueda stood among the girls, watching the digital clock on the screen of the building across the street strike six o'clock.

There are many large screens at the intersection. The largest screen went dark briefly, and then snow began to fall from the top of the shopping mall building.

"It's snow!"

Someone exclaimed in surprise, and the crowd on the street slowed down and looked up at the swirling winter sunlight spots in front of the dark screen.

The familiar intro, so familiar to the young boys and girls, began at the crossroads, and the dimly lit giant screen lit up.

Yosei Kurusu's perfect face appeared on the screen, her brows furrowed with sorrow as her gaze slowly swept over the crowd at the intersection.

"Come to Qiyangshi!"

A plain-looking pink-haired girl with pigtails and glasses was the first to call out her name. She was then pulled away by two people next to her and disappeared into the crowd.

"It's Yoshi-chan!"

The crowd then realized what was happening, and even those who didn't know the name started walking across the green light towards the screen, holding their phones.

Whether it's true or not, it's still a rare sight to see snow in Tokyo in December.

As if responding to the crowd's enthusiasm, the girl on the giant screen trembled slightly and spoke slowly under the snowy sky.

The words of farewell stuck in my throat.

Instead, there was a soft cough and a "I understand"...

Searching his pockets for the next words~

"In the end, I only found the me who liked you..."

And so, this most bustling intersection in Tokyo was captivated by Yosei Kurusu's affectionate eyes as snow fell.

Tonight's Shibuya was like a microcosm; people later realized that the girl on the big screen took away more than just their emotions—

It's not just Tokyo, but the entire month of December.

Chapter 799 Gazing at Christmas, the answer is not clear.

From Monday to Wednesday, in just three days, the "Happy End" music video unsurprisingly garnered over a million views.

"That's so exaggerated..."

Tomatsu Yuka, sitting by the window, watched a video on her phone and murmured to herself in amazement.

"What's so exaggerated?" a boy next to her asked.

The girl zoomed in on the video and waved her phone at him.

"I'm seeing Yang Shi-san trending on social media—there have been events for her new song in Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Roppongi these past few days, and a lot of people have gone to take photos and check in."

"A snow-themed big screen, right?" Jun Matsue looked at her phone screen.

"This promotional campaign is really good."

Tokyo is a city that rarely sees snow, with less than ten days of snowfall each year. Naturally, the people living here are excited and thrilled by the rare snowfall in December.

Although it was artificial snow, the heartwarming moments of taking photos with friends in the snow felt so real.

"It makes me want to join in the fun." Tomatsu Yuka naturally leaned towards the boy, her fingers continuing to swipe across the screen.

"I saw from the fan statistics that the single 'Happy End' has been played more than five million times?"

When they arrived at the coffee shop, they heard the melody of Yosuke Kurusu's new song outside a dessert shop on the street.

Jun Matsue looked out the window. "About that. According to statistics from various music platforms, it probably broke five million plays by noon today."

As for why the boy's information was so accurate, it certainly wasn't something he compiled himself—the idol girl excitedly sent him a voice message while he was eating lunch in the school cafeteria.

"Pine Branch, five million views! Five million!"

"Happy End is spreading at the speed of light!"

The speed of light isn't that slow... Of course, Jun Matsueda wouldn't reply so disappointingly—

"Congratulations! You deserve to eat an extra bowl of rice at lunchtime!"

"What a powerful momentum..." The girl sitting next to him put away her phone and picked up a pen.

"We can't just keep lamenting Yang Shisang; we should get back to our studies."

It's four o'clock in the afternoon. After school at Haneoka High School, Jun Matsueda didn't go home with Haruka Mochizuki. Instead, he studied with Tomoka Tomatsu at the library near the station.

As she wrote, perhaps because the orange sunlight streaming across the street was too languid, the girl looked up again, rested her chin on her hand, and gazed at the boy's bangs as she looked out the window.

"Time really flies..."

Jun Matsue pressed down on the workbook with his arm, then looked up.

"It seems like Yuhua has been lamenting the passage of time a lot lately. You're not at the age where you're feeling sentimental yet, are you?"

“There’s nothing I can do about it…” Tomatsu Yuka looked at the pen in her hand and spun it around.

"When I first met Yang Shisang, she was Chun Jun's inexplicable roommate. My impression of her was just that she was pretty and had a lively personality."

"And now we can see her on the big screen in Shibuya..."

She imitated the pen-spinning gesture that her crush had seen countless times in class, but her unfamiliar movements still caused the white pen to fly away in the sunlight.

The boy promptly reached out and caught the pen, placing it back in the girl's hand and gently tapping the back of her hand with the pen cap.

"Back then, I never imagined that I would be sitting next to Yuka like this, shoulder to shoulder, leg to leg, studying together."

"..." Tomatsu Yuka's face showed a slightly smug smile. She tilted her head and snuggled against her lover's shoulder.

"Looking at it this way, it seems my achievements are still greater~"

Jun Matsue slowed down his writing and answering speed so that Tomatsu could lean back more comfortably.

After happily finishing the stickers, the girl sat up straight, picked up her pen to do her homework, and spoke in a relaxed tone.

"It's not that I'm being sentimental, it's just that time really does fly by~"

"Today is the 3rd, and there are only a dozen days left in this semester."

"The shopping district is already preparing for Christmas activities, and right after Christmas comes the New Year."

"As soon as the New Year holiday ends and I return to school, the common exam is on the 17th..."

"After two days of exams, high school life is basically over."

"Isn't this incredibly fast?"

"That does sound true." The boy put down his pen and nodded slightly at the newly added circle on the answer.

"But no matter how fast we go, we have to take it one step at a time."

“That makes sense~” Tomatsu Yuka held a pen in one hand and silently wrote down the paper with the other.

She guided her beloved's hand, caressing it back and forth in the bare space between her skirt and thigh-high stockings.

"So Christmas is just around the corner, how does Tsunkun plan to spend it?"

Jun Matsue's gaze swept over the exercise problem smoothly but quickly slowed down—Tomatsu's problem was much more difficult than a math problem.

"Does Yuka have any thoughts?"

He turned his head to the side, deciding to test the cunning girl first.

"Hmm..." Tomatsu Yuka frowned slightly, gazing at the increasingly warm sunlight outside the window as she pondered.

"Does Jun-kun want me and Mochizuki Haruka to spend time with you?"

The girl stopped guiding the boy's hand to stroke her soft thigh; she didn't want her words to sound too provocative.

"Let's forget about it," Jun Matsue replied quickly.

"Although this is definitely my ultimate goal in the future, it feels a bit strange to have the two of you spending Christmas with me right now."

Just like those fireworks at the beach that almost shattered the relationship between the three of them...

“I think so too~” Tomatsu Yuka smiled sweetly.

"For Christmas, I should go home to spend the night with my mom. She definitely needs to rest."

"After all, I might not be able to go back for Christmas once I go to university, so I'd better spend it with her this year."

Her implication was obvious, and Jun Matsue blinked.

"So Yuka wants daytime?"

"Hmm~" The girl nodded and continued to hold his hand, reaching between his tightly pressed thighs to feel the delicate, soft flesh pressed against his palm.

"I'll take care of the daytime, and Wangyue can have the nighttime, how about that?"

"It's a very reasonable arrangement." Although he said this, the boy's tone left room for maneuver.

Tomatsu Yuka's eyes flickered. "Jun-kun is thinking about Yosei-san?"

Jun Matsue looked surprised, while the girl smiled sweetly.

"Is Yang Shisang finally going to fall? That just splits Christmas in two, which doesn't seem like enough."

The boy did not deny it, but simply pulled his hand out from between her legs and placed it on the paper to let the soft warmth dissipate.

"We have to take things one step at a time. There's still a lot to do before Christmas."