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Chapter Thirty-Four: Haven't you had enough of this?!
The night was as dark as ink, and the evening breeze carried a slight chill.
Chihaya Aine tiptoed out of the house, her canvas shoes barely making a sound as she stepped on the ground.
Her heart was pounding in her chest, afraid of waking her parents.
After all, the Chihaya family has always had a good family tradition, and their daughters are generally not allowed to go out in the middle of the night.
Her destination was clear: the slightly old apartment of Banami.
As for the purpose... it's naturally to prevent problems before they occur!
The thought of Toyokawa Shoko's strong and stubborn personality gave Aine a headache.
Given Xiangzi's obsession with Banami, it's hard to guarantee that he won't sneak over to "ambush" her in the middle of the night. And that soft-hearted boy, even if he initially refuses, will probably agree half-heartedly if Xiangzi says a few sweet words.
Because of this concern, Ai Yin's awareness of preventing ganks was at its peak, and she rushed over overnight to wait for the enemy to come.
But as soon as Aine reached the bottom of the Banami apartment building, before she could even catch her breath, she caught a glimpse of a familiar figure standing at the apartment entrance—blue twin tails that stood out against the night sky, and the girl seemed to be hesitating at the door.
"Toyokawa Shoko!" Aine instantly bristled, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and rushed over, pointing at the other person and shouting, "You really were here! You really came to ambush Hachiman, right?"
However, Aine wasn't the only one who got angry. Hearing her voice, Xiangzi whirled around, his blue eyes instantly blazing with fury, and retorted without flinching, "You're the one! Why are you here? You clearly wanted to ambush Banami! You treacherous cat!"
"Stealing...stealing fish?!" Aine's cheeks flushed red, both angry and anxious. "You and Hanami are already divorced, you two have nothing to do with each other anymore!"
"Then what's your relationship with Banami?" Xiangzi raised an eyebrow, her tone dripping with sarcasm. "I'm his ex-wife; at least we were husband and wife. And you? Are you his girlfriend?"
"I...I'm his friend!" Ai Yin retorted stubbornly, but her voice unconsciously weakened.
"Hahaha," Xiangzi sneered, looking her up and down with disdain. "A 'pure friend' who wants to kiss him, feed him, and even sleep with him?"
"My friendship with Banami is pure! Don't use your filthy thoughts to speculate about us!" Aine immediately jumped up, but she felt a little guilty as she said this.
"Oh, really?" Xiangzi said with interest. "You said you came to be wary of me, but if I don't come tonight, will you obediently turn around and go back?"
These words struck a nerve with Ai Yin, leaving her speechless and unable to utter a rebuttal.
After all, she has never been good at lying—if Xiangzi wasn't around, she would naturally take the opportunity to sneak into the apartment and have a good chat with Banami. Thinking of this, Aine's lips unconsciously curled into a slightly infatuated smile.
Seeing this, Xiangzi's anger intensified. "I knew it! I made the right decision to come here tonight!"
The two women stood at attention, their chests heaving with anger, their eyes filled with mutual wariness. They tacitly agreed: it was fortunate they had come, otherwise the other would have taken advantage of their misbehavior!
After arguing for a while, the two finally remembered their business and walked together to the door of Banami's apartment. Xiangzi reached out and twisted the doorknob first, but the door didn't budge. Aine reluctantly stepped forward and knocked on the door hard. The "thump thump thump" sound echoed in the quiet corridor, but there was no response for a long time.
"Could she have gone out to work?" Aine frowned, muttering to herself in confusion. After all, she knew that Banami had been working part-time to supplement her family's income.
“He’s my follower now, he has to obey my orders all day long, why would he need to work?” Xiangzi immediately retorted, his tone filled with unquestionable certainty, then added somewhat uncertainly, “…I don’t think so.”
The two waited at the door for another ten minutes or so, but there was still no movement from inside the apartment. Finally, Ai-yin pulled a key from the threshold and proudly waved it: "No choice, this is the only one we'll have!"
Upon seeing this, Xiangzi's eyes widened instantly, filled with disbelief.
"It was Hanami-kun who told me." Aine raised her chin, her tone carrying a hint of smugness, as if she had won back a round.
Xiangzi gritted his teeth in anger, but didn't say anything more. Aiyin quickly opened the door.
The apartment was pitch black, filled with a faint, refreshing scent that belonged to Banami.
Aine reached out and turned on the light switch by the door. The warm yellow light instantly illuminated the entire room—but the room was empty; Banami was not inside.
"Where did he go?" Aine frowned and looked around, searching the living room, bedroom, and kitchen, but there was no sign of Banami.
Xiangzi's face darkened. He pulled out his phone, found Banami's number, and dialed it. The phone was answered after only a few seconds of ringing, but instead of Banami's familiar voice, a woman's breathless voice came through the receiver.
"Hello...who is it?" The voice was languid, yet also carried an inexplicable urgency, as if someone was doing something physically demanding.
"Who are you? Where is Banaijian?!" Xiangzi exploded instantly, shouting into the phone. She subconsciously pressed the speakerphone button, so that Aiyin next to her could hear it clearly.
"Ah, it's Saki-chan." The voice on the other end of the phone paused, then a light, flirtatious laugh followed. "Hanami, he's right next to me, hee hee..."
"You are... Su Shi?!" Xiangzi finally recognized the familiar yet unfamiliar voice, her pupils suddenly contracted. How could she be with Bana?
“Oh right, it’s me, Saki-chan.” Suze’s voice was still heavy with rapid breathing, even more so than before. “Ahahaha… Ahahaha…”
"Soyorin! Where's Hanami-kun? Why is he with you?!" Aine panicked and shouted into the phone before Shoko could react.
Hearing Suze's unusual panting, Aine's mind instantly conjured up some inappropriate images, but she immediately shook her head forcefully, forcibly denying the thought—after all, Suze hated Banami the most! How could they possibly…
"Ah, why is he next to me...? And why are you next to Saki-chan...? Ahahaha..." Suze drawled out, her tone ambiguous, "We...we were going for a run. Ohhhhhh...you, you be gentle..."
"night……"
"Ohhhhhhhh..."
"I..." Xiangzi was about to continue questioning when he was interrupted by Su Shi's continuous voice.
"Ohhhhhhhh..."
"Are you fucking done yet?!" Xiangzi was driven to the brink of madness by the annoying voice, and he roared through gritted teeth at the phone.
But the call was abruptly cut off with a click. Only the cold, jarring tone of a busy signal remained on the receiver, jarringly loud in the quiet apartment.
"She said they were jogging at night, do you believe her?" Xiangzi was like a volcano about to erupt.
"Uh..." Aine lowered her head guiltily, her cheeks burning. She remembered the last time she was with Hanami, they were caught by Souyo, and in a moment of panic, she lied and said she was jogging at night...
"So what do we do now?" Ai Yin looked up at Xiangzi with helpless eyes.
"What else can we do?" Xiangzi suddenly raised his head, his eyes firm and his tone righteous. "Of course, we'll catch them in the act!"
At this moment, she had completely forgotten the fact that she had already divorced Hanami, and her mind was filled with the drama of the wife fighting against her best friend's mistress.
Chapter Thirty-Five has ended.
Xiangzi drove frantically toward the Nagasaki Su family. Originally, she didn't want to bring Chihaya Aine along, but the reasons given by the other party were quite convincing.
"If it weren't for me, would you even know where the Su family is?"
This reason is quite brilliant, because Xiangzi genuinely didn't know.
This made Ai Yin's eyes look complicated. The person she had secretly loved for four years, the person he liked, didn't even know where she lived.
Longing is the emotion furthest from understanding, and Aine inexplicably thought of this sentence.
But I don't know any of that right now. The important thing is that, for Aine, the person she has a crush on right now and the person she currently has a crush on are having sex!
“Miss Xiangzi, do you believe that Banami would do such a thing behind your back?” Aine asked.
Xiangzi, who was playing a live-action GTA game, was a beat slow to realize the question. She quickly understood and exclaimed in surprise, "You mean..."
Aine said with a somewhat complicated expression, "Compared to Suze, I... trust Banami's character more."
Hearing this, Xiangzi also found it hard to stay calm. But it was true. In a sense, Xiangzi was also a victim of Su Shi's stubborn personality.
Aine is even more so, since she already knows the truth about renting a boyfriend.
"You mean, if the two of them really did that kind of thing, it could only be..."
“It was Su Shi who used tricks, that must be it,” Aine asserted.
Even Su Shi probably didn't expect that the two people she liked (why are you two so in love?) would actually reach an agreement before even meeting.
This only made them look more anxious, like husbands who knew their beautiful wives were about to be violated by their fat boss.
The part about the incompetent ex-wife.
Xiangzi drove all the way to the location Aiyin had pointed out, running countless red lights, and arrived at the Su family's door in just fifteen minutes.
"Fifteen minutes...it still took fifteen minutes!" Xiangzi couldn't help but shout.
As if her brain had gone blank, Aine blurted out, "Uh, Hanami-kun... it shouldn't be that fast, right?"
Xiangzi couldn't help but turn around and glare at her, shouting, "Are you an idiot?!"
Ai Yin shrank back and couldn't help but stick out her tongue. The security here used to be quite good, and strangers weren't allowed to go up. But Ai Yin wasn't a stranger; she had been coming and going here for several years. So, unsurprisingly, the security guards let the two of them in.
They took the elevator as fast as they could and arrived at Su Shi's floor. When they reached the door, they found that it was not closed. Perfect timing! The two of them immediately opened the door and went inside.
However, the two found that the dark apartment was unexpectedly quiet, and there was a faint, familiar scent in the air.
That's... the smell of hormones.
Xiangzi's eyes were red, and the nightmarish images in his mind seemed to be becoming reality.
She immediately went through the entryway and into the living room, but the two of them saw an unexpected scene.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, silvery moonlight spilled down, like a veil draped over the naked girl. She sat on a blanket like a goddess, while a sleeping boy lay on her lap.
Nearby, their clothes lay disheveled on the ground, and the blanket was stained with layers of red, whether from wine or something else, it was unclear.
"Nagasaki Motoyo!" Shoko and Aine seemed to be losing their minds.
However, Suze herself seemed to be enjoying the afterglow of the moment, and was not at all surprised by the arrival of the two. She said in a gentle voice, "SAKI-chan, or Anon-chan, you've come..."
Unfortunately, it's all over now.
After saying that, Su Shi revealed a slightly maternal smile, and even gently stroked her belly, as if she was hinting at something.
Xiangzi's head buzzed, and he immediately went over and grabbed her by the neck, scaring Ai Yin into trying to pull her away.
"What have you done? What have you done to my Banami!" Xiangzi shouted.
However, Su Shi looked at her coldly. She never thought that one day she would look at the person she once loved the most with such eyes.
"I did everything you could imagine or had never imagined."
When I saw him, even though he was drugged and had lost his mind, he was still very gentle. I gave him my first kiss and my first experience, hahaha... hahaha..." Su Shi's laughter had a sense of loneliness and emptiness.
Hearing this, Aine was also deeply shocked. She looked at Suze, then at the sleeping Banami, and felt as if her heart was being clenched.
Why is her love life so bumpy, every single time?!
"Su Shi, what you've done is too much!" Ai Yin almost burst into tears.
Xiangzi gritted his teeth and shouted, "Why did you do this? Give me a reason!"
With her last shred of reason, she said, "Just as Minato-chan guessed, this is Nagasaki Motoyo's conspiracy."
Upon hearing this, Su Shi's eyes flashed with hatred. She said, "Even now, are you two still pretending to be stupid?"
Xiangzi was slightly taken aback, then angrily said, "What do you mean by pretending to be stupid? What are you talking about?!"
"That's right, I did all this to get revenge for your betrayal!"
That's right, both I and Banami have been utterly betrayed by you two!
If that's the case, what's wrong with me staying with him for mutual support?
What is there for you to criticize?
After saying that, Su Shi forcefully shook off Xiangzi's hand, becoming more and more righteous as she spoke, her eyes filled with the pleasure of revenge.
Xiangzi and Aiyin both looked astonished; they couldn't understand her persuasion at all.
What do you mean by saying that Su Shi and Banami were betrayed by them? It's as if she had some strange relationship with Aine (Miss Shoko).
Seeing the two of them still pretending to be stupid, Su Shi showed a disgusted expression and said, "You're still pretending, it's disgusting. Toyokawa Shoko, you divorced Hanami just so you could be with Chihaya Aine, didn't you?"
The two of you were working together, making me think I still had a chance to pursue you, Saki-chan, which led me to abandon Aine.
"You've achieved your goals; you can be together openly now. But don't treat me and Banami, two poor souls, like fools!"
Su Shi fiercely condemned the other party's conspiracy, her heart filled with pleasure. She had never felt so good in her entire life.
However, the two of them looked completely bewildered.
"What nonsense are you spouting, Nagasaki Motoyo!" Shoko shouted, nearly startling Motoyo.
"Why are you yelling so loudly? I'm not even angry yet!" Su Shi yelled back after a moment's hesitation.
Ai Yin quickly said, "Su Shi, what are you saying? What do you mean I'm with Miss Xiangzi? How is that possible? What are you misunderstanding?"
Su Shi immediately revealed a contemptuous expression and said, "Chihaya Aine, I originally thought you were a sincere person, but I never expected you to have become such a despicable person. I saw it myself, right in front of the Toyokawa family's house, you kissed Saki-chan!"
Su Shi proudly pointed out his evidence, "Let's see what else you have to deny."
Shoko and Aine were stunned for a moment. Shoko immediately shouted, "That's because Chihaya Aine stole a kiss from Hanami! I'm going to steal Hanami's kiss back from her!"
Xiangzi roared even louder, and Su Shi widened her eyes slightly, looking at the angry Xiangzi and the slightly embarrassed Ai Yin beside her.
Neither of them seemed to be lying; that kiss... wasn't it a passionate kiss between lovers?
Also, Aine... likes Hanami?!
Su Shi felt a slight tremor in her heart. Had she... made a mistake about something so basic?
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