Am I being simulated by their love affair?

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It wasn't Natsumi Imokawa's reply, but a message from Aya Miyamura.

"Is Chun-ge home now? I'm back to pick up some things~"

"When?"

"About an hour later, I'll still be on my way back~"

"no problem."

He continued working on his problems, and forty minutes later, a knock came at the door in the small room.

"Jun-ge, open the door~" His younger sister's voice was quite energetic. Matsueda Jun put down his pen, got up and walked towards the entrance.

"Open the door~" Another knock sounded, and the girl's excited voice made the boy pause in his steps.

Why is Kurusu here too?

After a brief moment of thought, Jun Matsueda still gripped the handle.

Although we agreed to keep our distance, it doesn't mean we can't meet. Besides, Aya-chan needs to get something, so there's no reason not to open the door.

He pushed open the door and saw beautifully dressed young women standing in front of him, greeting him with their colorful attire.

"Ta-da! Good afternoon, Chun-nii~" Miyamura Aya jumped up and down twice. "Have you had lunch yet?"

"I just finished eating." The boy smiled and looked at the girl standing behind him.

"Why is Kurusu here too?"

Yosei Kurusu smiled playfully and brightly, with a large expanse of clear blue sky behind her, outlining her shimmering silhouette.

"I came back with Aya-chan~ Didn't she tell you?"

"I forgot!" Aya stuck out her tongue, her apology seeming like a mere formality.

"Just let us in, it's so hot outside!"

"..." Matsueda Jun turned to the side, and the girls walked past him with light steps, bringing with them a breeze carrying different fragrances.

The quiet, cramped room was filled with chattering noises. He closed the door and returned inside. The girls made no attempt to be polite; one sat on the bed, and the other at the table. The boy looked around, then had no choice but to sit on the cushioned floor.

"Did you go out together this morning?"

Jun Matsue looked at Yosei Kurusu sitting at the foot of the bed. The girl was wearing a simple short-sleeved shirt and denim shorts today, and her fair legs were right in front of him, crossed and swaying—the sunlight outside the window flowed on her skin, alluring and dazzling.

"Hmm~" The idol took off her sunglasses and tentatively stretched out a small foot in front of the boy, only to be slapped away unmoved.

"I'm going to secretly visit my manager and take Aya-chan out for some fun."

"Which agent? Your previous one?"

"Hmm~ Because Ms. Mochizuki doesn't want to hand over the operations and management to YM, she wants me to poach her former manager."

“That’s good.” Jun Matsue nodded. “His character and abilities are trustworthy.”

"She was really interested after we talked this morning~ There shouldn't be any problems!" The girl winked, hoping he would be interested too.

"..." The boy ignored her eager gaze and looked at Miyamura Aya, who was sitting at the table with her back to the two of them.

"You haven't had lunch yet?"

"There are so many people in the store, it's inconvenient for Yang Shi-jie." Cai Jiang opened the paper bag, picked it up, and turned to face them.

"One of the most popular burger joints in the port area! Their super popular item! Honey Mustard Chicken Burger!"

As if celebrating the birth of some great invention, the girls clapped their hands, then picked up their hamburgers and eagerly tore open the wrappers.

Jun Matsue stood up, and the smooth, long legs in front of her transformed into shimmering pink hair. "Don't eat in bed, or the sauce will drip down and stain the blankets."

The two switched places; he sat at the foot of the bed, watching his idol sit cross-legged on the carpet, taking a big bite of her hamburger.

"Pine branches! Delicious!" the girl mumbled, her chubby cheeks making her look especially adorable.

"Be careful not to choke." The boy's eyes lit up with a smile. "There's still milk in the fridge."

"A hamburger definitely needs a Coke!" Yosuke Kurusu took a Coke from a bag and took a sip, squinting his eyes in satisfaction.

"Pine branch! How wonderful!"

"Is it really that delicious?" Jun Matsue asked with a smile, looking at the sauce smeared on her cheeks.

"Really!" Aya Miyamura leaned back in her chair, munching on a hamburger.

"Brother Chun, would you like to try some?" she said with ill intent.

Before the boy could refuse, the girl sitting in front of him had already leaned her upper body towards him, with a carefree and easygoing demeanor.

"Don't take too big a bite! I'm starving!"

Jun Matsueda shook his head. "I already said I've had lunch. You can eat by yourself."

"Tch—" The girl gave him a disdainful look. "I knew you'd say that!"

She took a box out of the paper bag and placed it on the boy's lap. "This is pudding from the dessert shop next door. You can keep it for this afternoon."

"It tastes even better after being put in the refrigerator for a while!"

The girls came and went in a hurry, leaving the apartment after lunch. Besides the conditioner that Aya wanted to take, Yosuke Kurusu also took the trash bag for the boy when she left.

Matsueda Jun looked at the room, which had quieted down again, but he could still hear the sounds of the two arguing in his ears.

"Like a gust of wind." He shook his head helplessly and picked up the pudding on the table.

"Honey lemon cheese pudding..." the boy read the name on the packaging, walked to the refrigerator, and put it in.

The pale yellow pudding looked absolutely gorgeous in the light from the refrigerator, and Jun Matsue was looking forward to tasting it that afternoon.

After closing the refrigerator door, he returned to his desk and sat down, staring blankly at the sunlight streaming through the window.

Perhaps the scrambled eggs and beef at noon were indeed fine, the boy suddenly remembered.

It's just that eating alone is definitely not as enjoyable as having someone with you.

Come to think of it, before moving to Caijiang's place, it seemed like he hadn't eaten alone for a long time.

At home, there's Mochizuki Kurusu; at part-time work, there's Tomatsu; and at school, besides the girls, there are friends like Sakamuro...

So that very evening, Jun Matsueda conducted an experiment—

Dinner was cold udon salad with shredded chicken, cucumber, and carrot. He added some scallion oil and sesame seeds to the sauce and topped it with a fried egg.

The aroma filled the windowless room as Jun Matsueda ate his noodles, imagining himself and a certain girl leaving Tokyo and flying away together.

Looking at the distant moon, Hu Songyouhua, come to live in the sun world...

He stopped halfway through his imagination.

It was utterly boring.

Chapter 682 "A Fool's Love," Lessons Learned

August 13th, the third day since Jun Matsue moved out of the Mitakadai housing complex.

At 8:20 p.m., the Setagaya Literature Museum was quiet and dark, with only the corridor in front of the library still lit up, like a scene from a ghost story anime.

The boy sat alone behind the counter inside the store, resting his head on his hand, looking at the few people sitting in the lobby.

A bored expression appeared on Jun Matsue's face. He ignored the girl sitting nearby who was secretly looking at him and glanced down at his phone.

With forty minutes left before he was to leave work, he turned his gaze back to the book laid out in front of him—"Foolish Love," the book he had read in his university classroom during yesterday's nightmare.

The impressionistic style of the river and cherry blossoms on the cover is exactly the same as the one in his dream.

It seems this book was registered before, which is why it appeared... Jun Matsue flipped back to the page and found the content he had just looked up at.

"The more I thought of her as a foolish woman and a helpless thing, the more I was seduced by her malicious beauty."

"People often say that 'women deceive men,' but in my experience, it's never the woman who 'deceives' first. It's the man who willingly 'falls for the deception.' Once he has a woman he's infatuated with, he finds her words adorable, regardless of whether they're true or false."

The boy smiled. A grown man tries to tame a poor girl but is captivated and tormented by her charm. This is "Naomi", known as "the Lolita of the East".

It's actually just a story of "conquering" failure... He took a sip of the jasmine tea in his cup.

I always feel like this book appears in my dreams, like a cautionary allegory.

However, a dream is a dream, a story is a story, and reality is reality.

Yesterday's lackluster dinner made Jun Matsue realize that he did not intend to be like Naomi in the book, "just staying with her like that, letting the small boat carry us to a distant, endless world."

So, to conquer... The boy closed his book and stared blankly at the empty night outside the window.

Regardless of whether it's genuine or not, Tomatsu might indeed be open to coexistence, but the girl's scheming nature might not necessarily be curbed as a result.

As for Kurusu... he recalled the idol girl who had appeared and disappeared like the wind yesterday, with a bright smile.

She wanted to be a unique sun, to be his favorite, a demand that was indeed a bit difficult for a boy who had feelings for multiple people.

But since he said he would never let himself off the hook in this lifetime, there should still be room for negotiation, right?

Jun Matsue took the book from the girl at the counter, looked down to avoid her expectant gaze, and quickly scanned the code to register.

Although the night shift is less busy, the few visitors give the young woman in love more courage to pursue romance.

After decisively rejecting his advances, he continued to ponder the practical challenges of winning over young women.

As for Mochizuki's words... Matsueda Jun recalled the words and actions of the eldest daughter of the Mochizuki family before, and sighed in his heart.

I have a bit of a headache.

As if what he feared most had come to pass; when the boy picked up his vibrating phone, a message from Mochizuki Haruka popped up on the screen.

Is Songzhi home?

"Still at work." He pointed his phone out the window and took a picture of the hazy night view of the Setagaya Literature Museum.

"How much longer until we get off work?" the girl asked immediately.

Half an hour.

"Then I'll take you home."

The sentence was retracted and resent, but there was no difference except that the period was changed to a question mark.

...So, after Kurusu comes Mochizuki? Jun Matsue thought of the girls who came to "visit" him yesterday.

"Thank you, Miss." He picked up a book from the table and sent a positive reply to Mochizuki Haruka.

Half an hour later, the soft "tap-tap" of low-heeled black sandals echoed on the library tiles as she walked against the flow of people leaving the library toward the boy behind the counter.

Jun Matsue took off his staff apron and smiled and waved to the stern-faced girl.

"good evening."

"..." Mochizuki Haruka pursed her lips slightly, unmoved by his smile.

"You got off work so late today?"

The boy tidied up the things on the counter, put the unfinished book into his bag, and walked over to the girl.

"We changed shifts to avoid clashing with Tomatsu's schedule."

The girl raised an eyebrow. "You really haven't seen her?"

“She had already closed when I arrived at the Literature Museum.” Jun Matsuoka walked to the door, pressed the switch on the wall, and the lights in the hall full of bookshelves went out one by one.

Of course, although he didn't meet him, Tomatsu still left him a jasmine tea bag and thoughtfully wrote down brewing tips.

Mochizuki Haruka nodded reservedly, took the boy's hand, and walked towards the exit.

Standing outside the Literature Museum building, Jun Matsuoka looked towards the entrance not far away, but there was no sign of any cars on the road.

How do we get back?

"You came by bike, right?" the girl asked, looking at him. "I'll sit on the back of your bike."

"Where's your car?" the boy asked, somewhat surprised.

"Because my aunt was in the car, she said she would get angry if she saw you, so she told the driver to drive the car away."

"..." He turned and walked towards the bike shed. "Then I'll ride a bike."

Pushing the cart out of the literature museum, Jun Matsue turned around to look at the girl following behind him.

"Be careful when you come up."

"I know."