[You tried every possible way to cheer up the depressed Nakajima Reina. You sat in an empty park at night. Your closeness made Nakajima Reina sad. She felt that she had no right to be loved as she had little time left.]
[You kissed her, expressing your love to her with the burning heat of your lips. She told you about her illness, and your answer revitalized her withered heart, but fate played a little joke on her. After you confessed your love to her, she had a heart attack.]
[She is fine.]
[With the help of Ibuki Yuko, who had been spying on you for a long time, you quickly sent Nakajima Reina back to the hospital. The attending doctor rushed over, checked the examination report, gave the girl, who had recovered a little, some medicine, and told her to have a good rest.]
[The girl's illness occurred because of her intense emotions, which put a heavy burden on her heart.]
[The nurses helped you keep the night wandering a secret. You stayed in the ward and ran into Nakajima Yohei and Nakajima Honoka who rushed over after hearing the news.]
[Nakajima Yohei looked at you and Ibuki Yuko, then looked at his daughter lying on the hospital bed. His daughter has always been calm, even to the point where she made him a little worried. How could such a daughter be so emotional that she became ill?]
[It is already dark outside the window. Nakajima Yohei has agreed with you to discuss this issue with you in the ward on Friday night.]
[He said this only to reassure his daughter. After leaving the hospital, he asked Ibuki Yuko and Honoka to go home first and took you to the izakaya.]
[You apologized to Nakajima Youhei and confessed your affair with Nakajima Reina. ]
[Nakajima Yohei was surprised at first that you had secretly dated for more than three months under his nose. Then, he was a little dreamy. He often imagined that his well-behaved daughter could be a little willful. His fantasy came true, but he didn't expect that his daughter's first willfulness would be so shocking.]
A short dialogue screen appears.
"You could have left immediately after taking Reina back to the hospital. Since you stayed and waited for me, it means you are serious." Nakajima Yohei lit a cigarette.
"Yes." Nan Youxi became serious for a rare time. He needed to make Nakajima Youhei understand his attitude.
"Did the child tell you about her illness?"
The waiter came over to serve the food. Nakajima Yohei put down his cigarette, ate a piece of edamame, raised his beer and took a sip.
"I knew it a long time ago, but I just heard the details from her tonight."
"Why did you approach her in the first place?"
"Because I'm curious about Mr. Nakajima's daughter."
"What's going on with Yuko? What role does she play in this?"
When hearing Nakajima Yohei talking about Yuko, Minami Youxi knew that the core questioning was over.
He didn't know how to answer this question. Should he say in front of Nakajima Yohei that your stepdaughter interfered with the relationship between me and your biological daughter
“… About this, father, please ask Ibuki-senpai herself.” That was all he could say.
"It's the same whether I ask you or her!" Nakajima Yohei stared at Minami Youxi, trying to use his aura to force Minami Youxi to confess. This was a skill he had learned in school.
"Even if I answer you, you will still ask Ibuki-senpai again when you get home."
Nakajima Yohei frowned, wondering what Yuko had done. Judging from the words of the boy in front of him, what Yuko had done was hard to believe.
He took a puff of his cigarette and picked up some edamame to chew.
He suddenly realized something and frowned at Nan Youxi: "What did you call me last time?"
"I forgot." Nan Youxi refused to admit it.
Although he thinks highly of his daughter, he also has to admit another thing: the boy means more to his daughter's life than his daughter does to him. The boy can still have the next or even several relationships, but his daughter may only have this one chance.
To be honest, he felt a little guilty at the moment. He didn't know how their relationship developed, and he suspected that his daughter pursued the boy in front of him. After all, his daughter had shown a strong interest in the boy's existence before they met.
"Reina's disease is almost incurable." He changed the subject again.
"I know."
"Are you really ready?"
"Yes."
"What about Chizumi Chizumi?"
"She knew about Reina and me from the beginning."
"Ha, I didn't realize you were so honest." Nakajima Yohei said this with a contemptuous tone. In fact, he really approved of Minami Youxi's way of handling the situation.
"I want to marry Reina after graduation." Minami Yuxi said again.
"Oh, you want to get married before your hair even grows out!"
"I understand. I will tell Reina that father does not agree with our marriage."
"…?" Nakajima Yohei put down the wine in his hand, "Don't mention this to Reina!"
"It seems that my father doesn't know how to ask for help." The seriousness on Minami Yuxi's face disappeared, revealing a frivolous smile, "Not only what you said just now, but also what happened tonight. You lied to Reina and said we would talk the day after tomorrow, but you immediately arrested me and brought me to the izakaya at midnight to interrogate me."
Nakajima Yohei took a sip of wine, which tasted bitter. He knew he was in trouble. The boy had behaved so well in the ward and on the way here that he had completely forgotten that he was a difficult person. His admiration for him was noticed by the boy, who was no longer afraid of him.
"Father doesn't want Reina to know what happened tonight, right?" Nan Youxi pushed him into a corner.
"What do you want?" he admitted.
"There's a highly recommended set meal on the last page of the menu."
“That’s the most expensive set meal!”
[Nakajima Yohei was not angry. On the one hand, Reina's attack only looked scary, but it was not serious. On the other hand, he was much more mischievous than you when he was young.]
[He took advantage of your anxiety and guilt to find out your attitude. He is very satisfied with you and is glad that his daughter could meet you in the last few years of her life.]
[He was too obvious. You grasped his heart and used Reina as a lever to blackmail him into buying you the most expensive meal.]
[While he felt distressed, he also felt close to you for being so unrestrained. He began to look at you as a son.]
[After the set meal was served, Nakajima Yohei, who felt like he had lost, poured you wine to satisfy his desire to win and to better understand your thoughts.]
[You are a little timid. You have never drunk alcohol in this life, so you may not be able to drink more than a few glasses. You are ready to cheat, but you have never used it.]
[Li Ming, you sent the drunk Nakajima Yohei home. You didn't expect a man to be so shameful in drinking.]
(End of this chapter)