Am I being simulated by their love affair?

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"Matsueda-kun, I didn't mean to discourage you."

Ikuka Yamami stood in the middle of a sea of ​​purple flowers, looking at the man taking pictures of her not far away.

“My husband must have been much happier before he married into the Shan Jian family.”

She smiled and waved to the man, then continued talking to the boy on the other end of the phone.

“He lost his surname, his hobbies and career, and spent a lot of time learning how to become a proper cog in the Yami family before finally integrating into this old and huge family.”

"To be honest, I'm starting to regret bringing him into the Yamami family now."

"If I say this, will you have any doubts? Is it really worth going through all that trouble to go to Kyoto just to make that girl from the Yami family smile a little more?"

Matsueda Jun continued walking towards the apartment without stopping. "May I hear Ikuka's love story?"

"I'm busy right now," the woman said curtly. "I'm going horseback riding with my husband later."

"However, I can tell you a brief story about my husband."

"He used to be a movie actor, and his dream was to win an Oscar and a Kinema Junpo Award."

"However, after we officially started dating, he never appeared on screen again."

Jun Matsue stopped at the entrance of the apartment building. He put down his parasol and looked up at the blazing sun high in the sky.

The sun is a bit too hot today.

Chapter 370 Love and Eating May Be No Different

When Jun Matsueda returned to his apartment, he received a message from his senior.

"I've already gotten off the plane~" The girl sent a picture of the airport sky, which was cloudless and sunny.

Jun Matsue stared at the photo for a moment. It seemed that the senior was standing at the very back, and she could see the backs of men and women in front of her and the old man leading the group.

"It feels even hotter than Tokyo. Now we're taking a bus to the city center, and after lunch we'll visit the elderly."

The girl sent a tongue-out emoji, "What is Matsueda-kun doing right now?"

As Jun Matsue walked up the stairs, he opened the plastic bag in his hand and took a picture. "Just finished buying groceries. It's incredibly hot in Tokyo today."

After chatting with his senior for a couple more minutes, he stood at the door of his apartment and took out his key to open the door.

The cool air from the air conditioner mixed with the sweet aroma of shaved ice wafted through the room. The game music in the living room was loud. Jun Matsue quietly walked into the living room, and no one noticed him.

The television screen shows a kitchen on the water, with vegetables rolling haphazardly on the floor. Several iron pots are emitting high-temperature warnings as they are cooking. The pink lizard controlled by Yosuke Kurusu and the gray mouse controlled by Haruka Mochizuki are fiercely colliding in a corner, trying to push each other into the pond.

Jun Matsueda glanced at Aya Miyamura, who was single-mindedly chopping vegetables while controlling her character. It seemed that the nature of this game had changed; some people were playing free fighting, while others were playing a part-time job simulator.

He walked past the girls and put the ingredients into the kitchen, where a rice cooker was steaming and cooking rice for sushi.

Jun Matsue sat back in his usual spot on the sofa. "The vegetables were on sale at the supermarket today, so I bought a lot."

The game countdown ended just as Yosuke Kurusu put down the controller and watched as his lizard pushed Haruka Mochizuki's mouse into the water.

"Game paused! I'm going to cook!" The girl strode confidently toward the kitchen like a victorious general.

Mochizuki Haruka remained silent with a tense expression. Matsueda Jun guessed that she was gritting her teeth in secret. He took out a box of watermelon from the refrigerator and said, "Eat some watermelon to calm down."

The watermelons in Japan weren't very sweet, and they weren't cheap either, but the two girls seemed quite satisfied. Matsueda Jun took a symbolic bite and then went back to his room.

He threw himself onto the bed and glanced at his phone. Yamami Ikuka had sent him an address in Kyoto City, which seemed to be where his senior lived.

My older sister also posted a photo of herself riding a horse, indicating that she was very busy and would not be disturbed for the time being.

"Marrying into the family..." The young man listened to the sound of chopping vegetables coming from the living room and thought about their conversation on the way to the grocery store.

He originally thought that in a family like the Yamami family, which had no shortage of heirs, being a live-in son-in-law was at most just a lack of ambition, but judging from what his older sister said, it was clearly not that simple.

Is there a requirement for the profession? Or is it that one must contribute to the development of the Yamami family?

Furthermore, when Yuka and her husband officially started dating, they were already adults who had entered the workforce, while he is still a student. Will the Yamami family treat them differently?

Matsueda Jun felt a headache coming on. He sat up in bed and saw Mochizuki Haruka tiptoeing into his room.

The girl sat in the chair at the desk, turned to face him, and asked, "Which woman are you thinking about now?"

"I want to eat lunch." Jun Matsueda turned off his phone screen, got out of bed, and opened the bedroom door that the girl had secretly closed.

"He's definitely lying..." Mochizuki Haruka thought to herself.

So be it, the girl thought back to her aunt's teachings: the more lies a man tells, the heavier his guilt will be, and that guilt will turn into affection on its own, even if you do nothing.

Mochizuki Haruka climbed onto the bed and switched places with the boy. She looked around at the room she knew all too well. The simply furnished space had hardly changed, which made the girl feel somewhat relieved.

"Where did those two members of the wind band go?" she asked, looking at the boy by the window.

"Aren't you all in the same group? Why are you asking me?"

Jun Matsue sat in the chair, scrutinizing the girl on the bed. The exposed ecchi territory beneath her short skirt, coupled with her youthful twin tails, gave him a feeling that he was committing a crime.

As Mochizuki Haruka shifted her position on the bed, attempting to further seduce the boy, she heard approaching footsteps coming from the open bedroom door.

"Why is the living room almost empty?" A wary Yosuke Kurusu poked his head in.

She first saw Matsueda Jun sitting in a chair; the girl's expression was relatively calm. Then she looked at Mochizuki Haruka on the bed, and her eyebrows immediately shot up.

"What are you all doing in the room?!" Kurusu Yosei's tone was like a mother scolding her children. "Matsue, come help me in the kitchen! Making a meal for four takes too long!"

"Yes Yes."

Matsueda Jun looked at the kitchen knife in the girl's hand, which was still covered in minced meat, and he followed the chef out of the room.

"What a nuisance," Mochizuki Haruka muttered irritably, watching the boy casually close the bedroom door.

She turned over, buried her head in the blanket, and took a deep breath.

"The smell of pine branches..."

At lunchtime, Jun Matsue looked at the large bowl in front of him. It contained rice treated with sushi vinegar, topped with shredded egg, shrimp, cucumber, various vegetables, seaweed flakes, and grilled eel.

So-called scattered sushi is sushi that is not wrapped. The eel was ordered by Mochizuki Haruka, and the shrimp was what Miyamura Aya wanted to eat. All the girls' requests were fulfilled.

"Isn't this just bibimbap..." Jun Matsueda scooped up a spoonful and put it in his mouth. It tasted good and was much more enjoyable than sushi.

"By the way, has Yoshimi-nee been taking a break lately?" Miyamura Aya chewed on the sweet shrimp meat, her eyes squinting happily.

"I see that your schedule has been mostly empty lately."

"I had too many performances recently, so I'm taking a break."

Yosuke Kurusu watched Mochizuki Haruka across from him, who was eating with her head down, to prevent her from making any small moves against his pine branches.

"In that case, how about we all go out and have some fun together?" Cai Jiang blinked. "Chun-ge said he can reimburse my travel expenses, and I feel like I'd be letting him down if I didn't go."

Mochizuki Haruka looked up and said, "I can reimburse you for that too."

Jun Matsue, sipping his miso soup, glanced at her. Times have really changed; even something as simple as paying for a meal is being taken from him.

The girls discussed the issue of going on a trip for a while. Yosei Kuraki and Aya Miyamura got more and more excited as they talked, while Haruka Mochizuki shared her travel experience. The atmosphere was much more harmonious than when they were playing in the kitchen earlier.

It seems the trip is about to be decided. Jun Matsue put down his empty bowl and looked at the girls discussing where to go.

"How about going to Kyoto?" He poured himself another bowl of soup.

Although the future that his older sister presented seemed fraught with difficulties, Jun Matsueda's idea of ​​giving his senior a surprise remained unchanged.

The future is distant and unpredictable, which is why we should cherish every moment that brings happiness.

Eating is like this, and so is falling in love; Jun Matsueda's values ​​are that simple.

Chapter 371 Departure, Kyoto

On the afternoon of August 12th, inside the film crew of "Things Have Come to This".

Jun Matsue unpacked the popsicle in his hand and handed it to the girl next to him. Natsumi Imokawa stood under the shade of a tree, her face flushed with a mixture of excitement and heat.

"Imokawa, I'm going to Kyoto tomorrow and won't be coming to the set for the next few days."

"Huh?" Natsumi Imokawa, who was taking stills, looked up. "Is Matsueda going to Kyoto?"

"I'm going with Aya and the others, and we'll probably stay for three or four days."

"I see." The girl nodded blankly. "If you have more time, you can go to Nara. My grandfather's house is in Nara."

"Nara?" Jun Matsueda opened his phone's map and looked at it. "I might want to go check it out if I have the chance. The deer in Nara are quite famous, aren't they?"

"Yes!" the girl exclaimed, a little more excited. "You can even see deer on the street!"

She talked about Nara and deer for a while until the melted sweet water fell to the ground, then she lowered her head and ate her popsicle.

"Speaking of which, does that mean there's no time left for the music video we talked about making for the band?" Natsumi Imokawa suddenly remembered this question.

"I guess we'll have to wait until after school starts." Jun Matsueda glanced at his phone. "Izumi's arrangement is finished, but she's still not satisfied with the lyrics she wrote."

"Oh..." The girl nodded again, her expression somewhat regretful, as she realized she had one less chance to see Songzhi.

As the sun began to set, Jun Matsue left the film crew first. The girl looked up, raised her camera, and the boy's back gradually disappeared into the distance in the viewfinder.

"So what Songzhi was talking about last time was indeed himself, wasn't it..."

Although he said he wanted to give Yami Maki a surprise, Matsueda Jun still called his senior the night before he left.

"What does Matsue-san want to tell me?"

Listening to the girl's soft and gentle voice, Jun Matsueda stood on the balcony of his apartment, with the neon lights flashing and the restless night scene before him.

"Senior, I'm leaving for Kyoto tomorrow."

"Huh?" The female voice on the other end of the line echoed, seemingly coming from the bathroom.

"Is Matsueda-kun coming to Kyoto? Alone? How long will he/she be staying?"

"Yes. Aya wants to come to Kyoto, and Kurusu and Mochizuki will come with us too."

Four people... Yamami Maki breathed a sigh of relief. If Matsueda had come alone, the girl would have felt flattered.

“It’s great.” The girl’s tone became a little more lively. “Kyoto is quite different from Tokyo. It’s definitely worth a visit. People here don’t use honorifics much, and the locals are quite interesting.”

"But I've been accompanying my parents to various events, so I probably won't have much of a chance to meet Matsueda-san..."

Matsueda Jun thought for a moment, "What about the day of the Five Mountains Fire Offering?"

The girl blinked. "That day, it should be at an outdoor viewing spot."

"So we can meet up?"

“Hmm…” Yami Maki walked out of the bathroom and looked at the night sky outside the window. “I’ll find an excuse to go a little further away, and I should be able to meet Matsueda-san.”

"Then I'll try to break away from the main group and meet up with my senior."

"But it might not go that smoothly..." the girl said cautiously.

“We’ll talk about that later.” Jun Matsueda turned around, leaning against the railing, and met the gaze of Yosei Kurusu, who was observing him from the living room.

"Just traveling to Kyoto would be nice, and if I could meet my senior, that would be a wonderful surprise."

The girl laughed. She wanted to chat with the boy about her experiences in Kyoto over the past two days, but a new message on her phone forced her to give up the idea.

"Is it convenient for you to call now, senior?" Tomatsu Yuka asked in a message.

"Um, Matsueda-kun, I have to hang up now."

"See you in Kyoto after that."

"Good~"

Yamami Maki hung up the phone, looked at the night sky for a few seconds, took a deep breath, and then clicked on the rabbit avatar in her message list.

"Hello? It's been so long since I heard Yuka's voice—"

Ten minutes later, Tomatsu Yuka hung up the phone, walked out of the hotel, and brushed past her colleagues in the corridor.

The nights in Ome City were much cooler than in Tokyo, and there were more stars in the sky. She sat on a bench in the green space by the roadside, scrolling through the chat history on her phone.

Tomatsu Yuka has never forgotten the scent she caught on her senior at the train station.

Even though reason clearly told her that the scent was different, as her memory began to fade, it inevitably overlapped with the scent from Jun Matsueda.

As a result, after Tomatsu Yuka arrived in Ome City, she called her senior classmate almost every two days, and kept her updated on everything until Yamami Maki went to Kyoto, at which point she felt a little relieved.

"I should focus on practicing..." The girl sighed, left the bench, and planned to go back to her room to get her instrument.

"Let's chat with Songzhi before practice and recharge a bit..."