hotmtlnovel Chapter 107 Sister, you wouldn't also...
Chapter 107 Sister, you wouldn't also...
"Who said there aren't any left?"
Although Sato has a somewhat boyish and carefree personality, she still has a vanity deep down as a woman.
Upon hearing Yumi's words, she instinctively retorted, raising her voice several decibels.
"If that guy didn't like me that day, why would he force himself on me..."
She was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly realized what she was going to say, and her cheeks flushed bright red. She wished she could disappear into the ground.
But Yumi, standing to the side, clearly wouldn't let her off so easily.
"Huh? Which guy? Miwako, you better explain yourself! What do you mean by 'strong'...strong what?"
Sato became increasingly embarrassed by the questioning. He glared at his friend but couldn't say a word. He could only turn his head to the side and pretend to be focused on the case files on the table.
……
Inside the Xiulv Flower Shop in Mihana Shopping Street, the warm yellow light still illuminated the room full of fresh flowers, but Orikasa Midori's mood was extremely bad.
She stared intently at the two people embracing on the TV screen, her hands clenched into fists, her face full of grievance and anger.
Just now, she was full of anticipation, hoping that Eri Kisaki would accept the brown-skinned man's advances, so that she might still have a chance to get closer to Hideaki Hayashi.
But who would have thought that Lin Xiuyi would suddenly appear and shatter her illusions with a grand rain of roses, which also deeply hurt her heart.
What angered her most was the rose petals falling from the sky.
Midori Orikasa remembered clearly that at noon today, the young lady surnamed Hanai rushed over and immediately asked for 9,999 roses.
Although she immediately accepted the big deal, she was full of doubts.
These roses are definitely not the kind of flowers that ordinary people would give as gifts.
It's worth noting that Japan doesn't have a tradition of giving roses on Valentine's Day, and her florist simply didn't have that many in stock.
To gather nearly 10,000 roses, she was extremely busy, calling other flower shops on Mihua Commercial Street one by one for help.
After much persuasion, she finally managed to get everyone to come up with the required amount, leaving her so exhausted that she didn't even have time to drink some water.
She naively thought that the other party was buying so many roses because they were hosting some kind of large event or company celebration.
But to her utter surprise, these roses, which represented her entire afternoon's effort, were actually just a romantic gimmick concocted by Lin Xiuyi to please Eri!
"That wretched Senior Lin!"
Midori Orikasa bit her lip, thinking angrily to herself.
"Even if you wanted to give it to Fei-senpai, you could have just told me! I know you two might be together, why would I refuse to sell it to you?"
"Yet you still insist on going through all this trouble, having someone else buy it for you, all this secrecy—isn't that clearly a sign you don't trust me?"
"Do you really think I'm that petty, that I'd get angry and deliberately make things difficult for you just because you bought flowers for Senior Fei?"
The former delinquent felt increasingly aggrieved as she thought about it. Her nose tingled, and tears welled up in her eyes, but she forced herself not to let them fall.
……
In the pharmaceutical company's laboratory on the outskirts of Tokyo, the stark white lights remained cold.
Shiho Miyano sat at her desk, holding her phone, still talking to her older sister Akemi Miyano.
However, her brows gradually furrowed, and a hint of doubt appeared on her face.
She wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but ever since Lin Xiuyi, with his tall, handsome, and mature appearance, appeared on television,
The older sister on the other end of the phone sounded a bit strange, as if she were constantly on edge.
Sometimes she would say several words, but her sister wouldn't respond, as if she was lost in thought.
"Sister, are you listening to me?"
Shiho Miyano couldn't help but ask, her tone tinged with dissatisfaction.
"You don't actually have a crush on that guy on TV, do you?"
She deliberately made a joke to test her sister's reaction.
"If you really like him, tell my sister. Maybe I can even find a way to bring you two together."
"Shiho, don't talk nonsense!"
On the other end of the phone, Akemi Miyano immediately and subconsciously scolded him, her tone somewhat hurried, with a hint of barely perceptible panic.
Then she suddenly realized the problem in her sister's words, her heart skipped a beat, and she anxiously pressed for an answer.
"Shiho, you...you know this man named Hayashi Hideichi?"
"Of course I know them, what's so strange about that?"
Shiho Miyano's tone was full of disapproval.
"When I was studying in the United States, this guy donated a lot of money to our school to fund the school's research projects, and the school even held a grand banquet to entertain him."
"As an outstanding student representative of the college, I also attended that banquet and saw him a few times."
"So that's how it is..."
Akemi Miyano visibly relaxed on the other end of the phone; the tension in her voice lessened considerably.
"So, you know him, but he doesn't know you, right?"
"I think so."
Shiho Miyano curled her lip, her tone full of disdain.
"How could a guy who only cares about money and beautiful women possibly remember an ordinary student like me?"
"And this guy is no good at all. At the school banquet, he kept staring at a hot blonde girl, and the two of them were exchanging glances."
"Later, when I returned to my dorm after the banquet, I saw him with his arm around that girl, getting into a black car together. He was clearly not a decent person," Shiho Miyano said indignantly. "The only good thing about this kind of person is that he's rich. Other than that, he's good for nothing."
"Shiho, don't talk about him like that!"
Akemi Miyano on the other end of the phone suddenly interrupted her sister, her tone tinged with displeasure and protectiveness.
"Maybe you've just misunderstood him? Perhaps he and that girl are just ordinary friends, and it's not what you think."
"How could I possibly misunderstand him! I saw it clearly!"
Shiho Miyano subconsciously retorted to her sister, but a sense of unease grew within her.
"Sister, what's wrong? Why are you taking his side all day? You don't actually know this man, do you? Have you been deceived by him too?"
"Shiho! What are you thinking!" Miyano Akemi said, both amused and exasperated. "Mr. Hayashi Shuichi is so outstanding, there's no way he could know me. We have no relationship whatsoever, so don't make wild guesses."
There's no way he could know you.
Shiho Miyano frowned, pondering her sister's words repeatedly, feeling that something was off.
The older sister only said that Lin Xiuyi did not know her, but did not explicitly deny that she knew Lin Xiuyi, which is definitely suspicious.
Strange, what exactly is the relationship between my sister and Lin Xiuyi?
Why deliberately hide it?