Chapter 41: The Gorgeous Confession

  Just after dinner, Yafeng was pulled to the backyard by Hisami. Looking at Hisami who was standing in front of her with a tense expression, Yafeng asked softly: "Hisami, what's going on that you brought me out here so late?"

  Just then, Yafeng heard a few words, opened his mouth several times but did not make a sound, and was only hesitantly clutching the hem of his own clothes.

  "Does Kumiko have anything to say? I'm scary or something? Kumiko seems to be really afraid of me?" asked Masumi in distress.

  "No." Kumiko hastily explained, seeing Yuka misunderstand.

  "Yet, Kumi called me here after that and hasn't spoken a word, looking very tense... Is it possible that Kumi is afraid of me?"

  "No, I'm not afraid of Yafeng." Kumiko hastily explained.

  Yahiko's mouth corners have completely lifted up, he's really a simple kid.

  Tense Kumiko kept her head down and didn't see Yafeng's triumphant smile, only to hear in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Are Yafeng and Shūsuke together?"

  When she heard her words, Yafeng was stunned for a moment before thinking that when he watched anime before, it seemed to have introduced that Kumiko really liked Nii, but she didn't think that Kumiko would still like him until now. She couldn't help but feel that Nii was really lucky to have such a pretty and cute girl liking him. Yafeng's mouth curved into a smile as he rubbed the head of the person who was about to lower his head to the ground, his voice filled with obvious teasing: "Kumiko is so tense, it seems like she really likes Tsubasa."

  Hisami looked up at her immediately after hearing this, but soon lowered her head again, and her face turned even redder as if it could bleed.

  "Hehe," Kumi's cute expression made Yafeng chuckle lightly, "Hey, Kumi, Zhou Zhu and I are good friends."

  Kumiko let out a sigh of relief, but still felt a bit uneasy and said: "But Shūsuke is very good to Yafeng, and he's happy when he's with Yafeng."

  Yafeng rubbed her hair again and said, "That's because we're allies, we're the same kind of people so it's inevitable that we'll be a bit more relaxed when we're together, but we're not a couple, oh, Kumiko likes Zhou Zhuo then she has to strive for it herself, Zhou Zhuo is a very good person, will be very popular."

  Hisami lifted her head and asked seriously: "Isn't Yafeng and Zhouzhugong really a couple?"

  "It's really not."

  Yafuu finally managed to convince Kumiko that she and Nii were not a couple, and with a light heart, she returned to her room, but didn't see Shinobu, only a note on the desk:

  Tonight at 8 o'clock, rose garden in the backyard, see you there or never meet again.

  Yafeng was a bit puzzled by this unsigned note, wondering what matter couldn't be discussed in the room and had to go to the backyard. Moreover, it was still Mr. Ato's rose garden? However, Yafeng still arrived as scheduled despite her doubts.

  Looking at the dark rose garden in front of her, Yafeng began to suspect that someone was deliberately fooling her. However, since she had come this far, not going in to take a look seemed out of character for her, so after weighing it up, Yafeng steeled herself and went in anyway.

  When Yafeng just walked to the middle of the rose garden, she heard a "pa" sound and then the trees next to the rose garden lit up. The neon lights hanging on the trees were colorful and flashing, looking very beautiful. Just as Yafeng was staring at those trees in a daze, the middle of the rose garden, right in front of Yafeng, also emitted a strong light that drew her gaze back. On the ground, a heart shape made up of neon lights appeared, with the words "I like you" spelled out in roses inside the heart.

  Looking at Yafeng who has already become infatuated, standing on Aixin's side, Sekibetsu laughed with great joy, "Are you intoxicated by my magnificent confession, ah huh?"

  Under the sound of Tsuba's voice, Yafeng finally regained her composure. When she saw Tsuba, who was wearing a silver suit and looked handsome, opposite her, she asked with a gloomy face: "Tsuba, are you looking for me to practice your confession? Who do you like? I didn't know that! But this confession is very luxurious, it's suitable for the luxurious Tsuba-sama, isn't it?"

  Yasaka's complete lack of awareness caused Tsubaki's mouth to twitch unattractively, but retreating like this didn't suit his aesthetic sense. He calmed down a bit and called out in his charming voice, "Yasaka."

  "Ah." Yafeng's little heart skipped a beat, her mind unsure of what was wrong with Zhi Bu, after all, she had known him for two years and he had never called her anything but "unremarkable woman", but now he was calling out her name with such deep emotion that it made her feel strange.

  "This old man likes you, be this old man's woman, ah huh?"

  "This is really elegant and beautiful, she just heard something! Elegant Traces-sama is actually confessing to her? After a while, Yafeng finally found her thoughts and said to the obviously impatient Traces: "Traces-sama, are you joking? How can I, this unattractive and unrefined woman, fit your elegant aesthetic? And we've been fighting since we met, how could you possibly like me? Don't you have masochism?"

  Listening to Ya Feng's increasingly strange words, Huo's anger rose to his throat, but he forcibly suppressed it. He took a deep breath and said: "I don't have that kind of unromantic symptom, I like you just because I like you, there's nothing strange about it, I just want to be with you."

  Masumi looked at Tsuba's serious expression and began to believe that this wasn't a joke, but he really hadn't thought about confessing to her, so she said: "Um, Tsuba-san, you see, you're only 17 now and I'm only 14, it's not right for us to be in love."

  "In Japan, you can get married at 16 and many start dating at 14, so don't think you can brush me off with such an unconvincing excuse."

  Yah Feng couldn't help but furrow her brow, thinking to herself how she had forgotten that Japan was a country where early marriage was allowed. However, although she had the body of a 14-year-old, her soul was already in her twenties. She just couldn't bring herself to flirt with a boy in his teens.

  "That's right, although it's not early love, I never thought I'd fall in love so early, and I'm sure you also know that the Sanada family has strict rules, they definitely won't agree with me falling in love at such an early age."

  Yafeng's brow furrowed as he obviously sensed an excuse, "If you don't like me, just say it straight out, no need to find that kind of unconvincing reason."

  Looking at Tsuba's tightly furrowed brow, Yafeng couldn't help but feel a pang of guilt and self-reproach. Someone as proud as Tsuba would probably be really hurt if rejected, but he just couldn't convince himself otherwise. "Hey, Tsuba-san, I'm glad you think highly of me, this unglamorous person, but honestly, I don't have any plans for romance right now, so... sorry."

  "No need to apologize, since you said you don't have that kind of plan now, then I'll wait until the day you have that kind of thought."

  "It's just a forehead." Saying I'm not moved is a lie, but...

  "Suit yourself, I'm leaving first." Yafeng said and ran away hastily.

  Yafeng immediately shrank into the quilt as soon as she entered the room. Rinso couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth at the sight.

  Hey, although you haven't succeeded yet, Yafeng has already put you in her heart, this result is already very good.

  With a smug expression, Ren couldn't help but send a text message to Ken: "Hey Ken, your plan to bring Yafeng to Osaka might not work out after all. I've found an even better candidate for Yafeng."

  While Yafeng shrank into the quilt, she was naturally not calm. Facing a nearly perfect person like Tsuba, it was impossible to say that she wasn't moved at all. However, the five-year gap between them (Yafeng was 20 when she came over and now two years have passed, making her 22) was still there. Moreover, he was a character from an anime she used to like. Although she had already adapted to this world, people like Tsuba were still just fictional characters to her. It seemed that she didn't have the ability to accept someone like him. Of course, there was another important reason: she liked a peaceful and calm life, while Tsuba was destined to live in a complex and hypocritical world of luxury. It was really difficult for two people like them to be together. Now, she just hoped that Tsuba's feelings were just a temporary infatuation and would forget about her after a couple of days, then things could go back to normal between them.

  Afterwards, Tsubasa always showed his tenderness to Yawara in a subtle way. Yawara could only avoid him in various ways, and as Tsubasa would say, it was too unglamorous.