When making a wish, the girl turned off the lights in the living room. The starlight in the sky outside the yard and the reflection of the stars on the sea merged into a soft and dim light, barely illuminating the outlines of the objects in the living room.
The girl returned from the wall where the switch was installed, and her footsteps brought a breeze that blew behind Nan Youxi's ears.
The small candles on the cake were lit, and the candles of different colors burned with the same fiery red light, illuminating the girl's delicate cheeks, and the flames were reflected in her eyes like the night sky, like dots of stars. The girl turned her back to the starry sky in the yard, but the silence and brilliance of the starry sky, through the barrier of space, were fully displayed in the depths of her eyes and in Nan Youxi's heart.
He was lost in thought for a while, and when he looked again, the two starry skies had closed. The girl was sitting in front of a candle with her hands clenched, making her wish with a pious attitude.
The air exhaled from the girl's pink lips extinguished all the candles, and the girl's face returned to darkness, only the starry sky behind her was still shining.
"What wish did you make?" Nan Youxi turned on the lights, and the white artificial light filled the living room, driving away the starlight.
"I won't tell Yuxi." Moyou smiled and spread out her palm, stretching it in front of Minami Yuxi: "Where's the gift?"
Nan Youxi picked up the package beside her and handed it to the girl.
Although it was wrapped in a layer of black cloth, the appearance of the gift was too obvious; it was a painting.
Moyu unwrapped the cloth, and a painting half her height came into her sight.
In the painting, a girl in a light blue sailor suit stands under a sky covered with dark clouds. She kicks the stones on the ground with one foot, her head slightly lowered, her eyes looking to the side of her body, and she looks a little melancholy.
"Ah! That's when I went to the dock to pick up Yuki! At that time I didn't know it was Yuki who came, I was so worried!" Moyu recognized the scene at once.
"I almost didn't recognize you." Nan Youxi recalled the first time they met, and thought about tomorrow's flight ticket, feeling a little worried.
"When did Yuxi draw this? I have no idea." Mayu's mind was completely focused on the painting. She placed the painting on her legs and stared at it, as if she was holding it in her arms.
"You little liar!" Nan Youxi pulled out the candles on the cake and scolded with a smile.
Although he deliberately avoided the girl while painting, to say that the girl didn't know he was painting would underestimate her sensitivity.
“This is the art of speaking!”
Moyou pouted and gave the lie a new name. She didn't look at Nanyouxi, her eyes were attracted by the painting.
She first stared at her body in the painting, feeling a little shy and a little proud. She was so beautiful in the painting.
Then, she looked at the sky which was completely covered by dark clouds, and then at her blue sailor suit. She thought, the sky was not blue at all, and the only blue in the picture was on her body. Was this a metaphor
As the champion of the Sakuragaoka Junior High School painting competition, she knew that a real painter would just follow his inner feelings when painting and would not think about metaphors or images. In other words, the blue sky and the blue on her body were just a coincidence.
She also thought that this kind of painting that follows the inner feelings may not be a deliberate metaphor, but it can be a metaphor of inner feelings.
Isn't this even better
"Why are you grinning like an idiot?" Nan Youxi interrupted her, "Put the painting aside and eat the cake quickly."
He was also delighted to see the painting of the girl Xinyi. This painting was superior to his previous paintings "Maid Moyu Arranging the Tea Cabinet", "Moyu Planting a Map", and "Moyu Wearing a White Dress" in terms of technique and artistic conception.
He seldom painted portraits, but these few paintings are comparable to his landscape paintings of the same period. The girl liked this painting, which was a recognition of his painting skills.
To round it off, the girl is one of his little fans. It’s a beautiful thought to think about her being with her beautiful little fan.
However, this beauty becomes complicated when I think of Hongyi and Saki.
"Let me cut the cake!" Moyu saw Nan Youxi pick up the plastic knife and hurriedly stopped him.
Her brother had already prepared the meal, so if he was the one cutting the cake, wouldn't she have no sense of participation at all
She carefully rewrapped the painting and placed it gently on the ground.
After thinking about it, she felt uneasy again, so she stood up and put the painting farther away from the dining table.
"Give Yuuki a strawberry... ah!" She failed to place the cake properly on the plate, and the triangular piece of cake fell to the side. Although it did not fall to the ground, the cream on the tip stuck to the girl's fingers.
"It doesn't look good anymore." The girl muttered.
She wanted to put the cake aside and cut it again. Nan Youxi reached out and took the plate: "This one will do."
"Yuuki doesn't have the mood to argue." Mayu raised her hand and looked at the cream on the knuckles of her index finger.
The snow-white cream stuck to her pure white skin, and the cream suddenly lost its white and sweet feeling, and all the feeling was transferred to the girl's fingers.
Moyu stretched out her soft tongue and tried to lick the cream on her hands, but Nan Youxi lowered her head and didn't look at her.
Suddenly, he felt a chill on his cheek. When he looked up, he saw the girl's retracted hand.
Moyou looked at him with a smile. She smeared the cream on Minami Youxi's face.
"I remember you were an extremely frugal child when you were little." Nan Youxi looked around for tissue paper and teased the girl for wasting food.
"That's because my family had debts when I was a child, but now we don't have any. Although I think it's better to have debts." The girl supported her chin, staring at Nan Youxi, admiring her masterpiece.
She saw what Nan Youxi was looking for: "I put the tissue away, no need to look for it."
She supported herself on the table, stood up, stretched her slender arm across the table, and brushed the man's cheek again.
That touch of cream was on her hands again.
What will the girl do with this smear of cream
Nan Youxi looked at her retracted arm and felt a little uneasy.
With her butter-stained palms raised, Mayu sat back on the cushions, steadied herself, and stood up. She walked out of the living room and went along the porch to the kitchen sink.
Nan Youxi breathed a sigh of relief and secretly cursed herself for watching too many youth stories.
He scooped a piece of cake and put it into his mouth. The sweet and soft taste made him feel very good.
He looked toward the porch.
A gust of wind blew through the yard, and the shadows of the ornamental flowers planted by the girl swayed twice and then calmed down.
Moyu stood by the pool. Clear tap water flowed from the faucet, gathered into a pool at the bottom of the square pool, and flowed into the drain.
The girl put her butter-covered fingertips close to her lips.
"It doesn't feel anything special!" The girl grumbled in dissatisfaction, washing her clean fingers under the running water.
Turning off the faucet, she walked towards the living room with cheerful steps.
[The birthday dinner was very peaceful, there was no further attempts to persuade you to stay, no crying, no anxiety, but you still felt a trace of loneliness cast by the starry sky, lingering around you.]
[At night, Moyou came to your room again and wanted to sleep with you. This time, she brought her quilt with her. ]
[You spread two quilts in the living room and lie down, looking at the stars in the sky.]
[The next morning, when you woke up, she was no longer in the room. You walked along the corridor and came to the kitchen, where you saw her. She was preparing breakfast and lunch for you.]
[After breakfast, you picked up your luggage and went out normally, and she followed you normally.]
[At Utajima Pier, the girl caught up with the ferry. ]
[At the pier of the main island of Sakura Hill, the girl got into a taxi. ]
[In the airport lounge, the girl drank coffee with you. ]
[Under the cloud trail in the clear blue sky, the girl gazes quietly. ]
[You ate the lunch box prepared by the girl on the plane. After getting off the plane, you sent her a message to let her know that you were safe. You asked her what she did with the lunch box, and she said she would leave it with you.]
[After returning to Misaki, you immediately made an appointment with a tour guide and went to the small island at the equator. ]
[You never contacted the girl again. She often sent you some daily messages. At first, you responded seriously. Later, during a period of jet lag, you accidentally put aside the girl's messages for a long time. Since then, you have never replied. The girl's messages have gradually become less and less.]
[Entering the third year of high school, the girl's studies gradually became busy. Her art teacher wanted her to pursue painting, but she felt that she had no connections and no amazing talent, and she could not be admitted to Misaki Art College with certainty. On the contrary, her academic performance ranked first in the joint entrance examination of many schools.]
[She decided to go to Misaki University.]
[In the gaps between reviewing, she often thought of you, and she hung the three paintings you gave her in front of her desk.]
[Spring has arrived, and the university's acceptance letter has also arrived in Moyu's hands. ]
[She sent you a message to tell you that she was admitted to Misaki University and her parents allowed her to rent a house in Misaki by herself.]
[She didn't wait for your reply, but she waited for a package from you. ]
Memory scenes emerge.
"What are you looking at!" Rinka Ryuuguu pounced on Mayu's back, hugged her neck, and openly peeked at her mobile phone screen.
Mayu didn't cover her phone and waved it in front of her friend. "Let's see if Yuuki has replied to me."
"Xiaoyou, your behavior is not good!" Ryuugu Rinka frowned. "It's because that uncle has a good temper, otherwise he would sue you for harassment, right?"
"There's no way Yuki would find me annoying!" Moyu pinched her friend's cheek angrily, imitating the way Yuki used to teach her a lesson.
"It will happen next. When you get to Misaki, the online harassment will turn into offline harassment."
"If Yuuki doesn't want to, I won't continue to harass you!"
"Hmm? You won't continue harassing me? Are you admitting that you are harassing me?"
Ryuguya Rinka narrowed her eyes at her friend who had accidentally admitted to a crime.
"You really are a lot like Aunt Yuko, a bad-hearted person!" Moyu became angry and used more force than she originally pinched her face jokingly.
“It hurts, it hurts!” Rinka Ryuuguu broke free from Mayu’s hand, covered her cheek and took a step back.
She sighed in her heart. For some reason, her best friend in front of her had to stare at the handsome uncle. She could understand that the handsome, rich and talented brother who took care of her when she was a child would also make her feel tempted. As long as she could hold on to the other person's thigh, she could focus on eating, drinking and having fun in the second half of her life.
However, she cannot understand Mayu's emotional state.
In her own words, she was greedy for the other party's money and wanted to save herself several lifetimes of hard work; in her aunt's words, she was greedy for the other party's beauty and wanted to find a doll that could make them feel happy just by looking at it and could also meet their needs; the other little girls wanted a teammate who could make them love them, who loved them, and who could play the couple imitation show on TV with them.
But Mayu, what do you want
Rinka Ryuuguu felt that her friend was thinking of none of the above.
And... it's about as hopeless as it gets.
After meeting that man and hearing what Moyu said about that man, she felt that there was little hope for Moyu.
Without thinking about what Mayu's emotions are for the moment, what is certain is that Mayu's desire is manifested in reality as close companionship. Mayu wants to live closely with that man, just like the man did in the previous few months on Utajima.
This kind of companionship, in the relationship between men and women, often manifests itself as romance, and in social relations develops into a marriage contract, or turns into the situation of underground lovers. Therefore, it should be possible to make a prediction based on romance.
From Mayu's description of the man's past, we can learn that when Mayu was a child, the man had five female companions in Misaki who were on good terms with him and looked as good as Mayu now. The man's sister and parents were very concerned about his marriage, and there was even some unpleasantness because of the urging to get married.
Under such circumstances, the man did not accept any woman, nor did he let anyone accompany him in any form. It is certain that the man is an extremely difficult person to deal with, and Moyu... has no experience or advantages.
To put it in popular terms, this means that Mayu, who is still in the Novice Village, will defeat the final BOSS of the game!
How could this possibly succeed
She sighed again.
"Why don't you reply to me!" Moyu looked at her phone for a while and lay on the table in frustration.
"possible… "
As Ryuguya Rinka opened her mouth, Mayu turned around and looked at her with murderous eyes.
"Don't say anything sarcastic to me!" The girl clenched her fist and warned her friend.
Ryuguya Rinka took back her original words and said, "Maybe he can't reply to you."
"Why?" Moyu was interested. As long as the words were not a direct denial, she would listen.
"Because..." Rinka Ryuuguu thought, she deduced the possible process from the optimistic result, she didn't expect that she would really find a possibility.
She said, "Because he is like an older brother to Xiaoyou's parents, and he is a generation older than Xiaoyou. If I really accept Xiaoyou's closeness, it will be very troublesome, right? In terms of interpersonal relationships."
"That is to say, Yuki wanted to reply to me, but was imprisoned by society's concepts!" Moyu tapped her palms and suddenly understood.
Ryuuguu Rinka muttered to herself that she felt it was unlikely. Compared with the legendary Five Mizaki Women, Mayu had no special advantages at all. Why could Mayu do it but the Five Mizaki Women couldn't
However, times have changed. Perhaps the men the five women had at that time were different from the men today, and feelings cannot be rationalized.
"Besides, in his eyes, Xiaoyou is still a child, and children always like to lie. When facing a child, you absolutely cannot be too serious." Rinka Ryuuguu found another way to comfort her friend.
She used herself as an example: "When I was a kid, my sister and I agreed that when I grew up and had enough pocket money, I would take her to the amusement park. We even made a pinky promise. But when I asked her last month, she rejected me with an embarrassed look on her face. Fortunately, I didn't take this agreement to heart. I just suddenly remembered it. If I had been waiting for this agreement and working hard for it, I would have wanted to strangle her neck the moment I was rejected and betrayed!"
She looked at Moyu. Her friend, who had been depressed for several days, finally perked up. Her mood after failing the exam also improved a little.
She couldn't help but ask the question she cared about most: "What does Xiaoyou think of that man?"
What are Moyou's emotions like? She is obviously very popular in school. The seniors, juniors, and teachers in the school all have a good impression of her. Why does she have to cling to her childhood brother
(End of this chapter)