[Usually, your wife would always listen to your ideas unconditionally, but now, she shook her head without hesitation. Your heart trembled.]
[She quickly realized that she was exposed through your expression, and she nervously held your arm and placed it on her legs, trying to divert your attention.]
[This trick that has always worked has no effect now. ]
[You asked her if she didn't like Mayuri, and she nodded slightly and looked at you cautiously.]
[You can't blame her. Blaming can only hurt people. She is the person you love the most. You didn't mention this matter again.]
[Yuko thought she had upset you, and tried to please you for several days. When she confirmed that you did not mean to blame her, she breathed a sigh of relief and stopped pretending.]
[Except for necessary feeding and cleaning, she doesn't care about Mayuri's crying. Once you pick up your daughter, she will stick to your side and compete with your daughter for your attention.]
[You are preparing for the civil service exam under your father's arrangement. You don't have much time to take care of your daughter. Yuko's clinginess also makes you unable to cope. You finally made a decision.]
[Mother and father came to the house and took Mayuri away. The couple loved this little granddaughter very much, and your request to hand Mayuri over to them was exactly what they wanted.]
A short memory flashed by.
Under the gloomy sky, Nan Youxi and Nan Xizi stood at the door of their home, watching their parents holding their daughter and walking towards the car on the other side of the road.
At her grandmother's teasing, Mayuri giggled. There was a blue flower planted on the windowsill of the house across the street. The daughter raised her little hands and kept reaching for the flower in her sight, but she could only grab the empty air.
The father opened the car door and the mother placed Mayuri in the baby seat at the back. Mayuri sensed something was wrong and she looked around but couldn't find you. She grumbled anxiously and kicked her legs in resistance.
The mother went up from the other door to comfort Mayuri, and after the car started, Mayuri's crying voice quickly passed in front of you and went into the alley under the dark sky.
"Yuxi." Nan Xizi took a step forward and grabbed her husband's hand nervously.
Nan Youxi turned his head and looked at his wife's delicate face. On that fair and pure face, her long eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and there was a flicker of anxiety in her eyes.
Compared to when they first met, his wife's face has many more expressions, although these expressions only appear because of him.
Nan Youxi touched her face, stroked her slightly cold cheek with his slightly warm fingers, leaned down, and kissed her bloodless lips.
"Come home, willful mother Yuko." Nan Youxi took her hand.
"Yeah." The wife smiled faintly.
[Mayuri is a small detector. She reminds you of Yuko's abnormality all the time. Now that she has left home, everything seems to have returned to normal. There is something strange hidden in every relationship. As long as you avoid detection, you can say that it does not exist.]
[Ibuki Yuko noticed your loss. Parting with your daughter was a big blow to you. She comforted you in her own way. At night, she called you dad.]
[From now on, you have an additional name.]
"…?"
Nan Youxi had not yet recovered from the sadness in the memory scene, and suddenly saw such a turn of events. She felt mixed feelings of sadness and joy, and didn't know which side to lean towards.
[You and your wife prepared for the exam together, passed the exam together, and became government employees. Your father used his connections to allow you and Yuko to stay in the same institution and sit in the same office.]
[Mayuri is growing up. Every weekend, her mother will bring her to your house so that you and Yuko can meet her. In front of her mother, Yuko behaves like a good mother.]
[When Mayuri started kindergarten, her mother felt that she should no longer take care of her granddaughter and that Mayuri should return to her father and mother. This was not out of annoyance, but out of consideration for Mayuri's feelings. The girl asked her more than once why she didn't stay with her father and mother like other children.]
[Mother thought that you and Yuko gave Mayuri to her because the baby was fussy. Mayuri, who is in kindergarten, has developed the basic ability to take care of herself and will not bother you anymore.]
[You took Mayuri back with a try-it-out attitude.]
[Things are not going well. After a few years, Yuko's condition has not improved, but has become even worse. She treats her daughter as air and never takes the initiative to talk to her. Mayuri approached her several times and was met with indifference. She no longer wants to get close to her and wants to stick to you, but Yuko always pulls you away and interrupts her intimacy with you.]
[Mayuri stayed at home and did not suffer from material shortages. On the contrary, Yuko was happy to use new toys and new clothes to stop her daughter from bothering her. There were many more valuable things in her room.]
[But material things never give people true satisfaction. Mayuri wants your and Yuko's love and care, but this is something she can never get.]
[The girl who was originally lively and cheerful gradually became quiet and taciturn. ]
[The mother who comes once a week has noticed the changes in her granddaughter. She thinks you don’t know how to raise a child, so she wants to communicate with you.]
[Ask her to take Mayuri back.]
[The mother began to realize that something was wrong.]
[Three days later, she came with her sister. Her sister sent Xizi away. She talked to you and asked you the reason.]
[You didn't tell her, you just said that you and Yuko were not suitable to take care of children. ]
[Mother angrily asked you, when will it be suitable, when Mayuri is in elementary school? When she is in junior high school? You did not answer. ]
[Yuko realized that her mother already knew something. She observed her mother's attitude and found that the old lady just sighed about it. Gradually, she stopped pretending to be a good mother on the weekends when she met Mayuri. Not only that, she also began to look at you with pleading eyes, preventing you from getting close to Mayuri.]
Looking at the simulated text, Nan Youxi covered her forehead with her hands, feeling angry and amused.
This petite senior student was very good at judging the situation and taking advantage of the situation. She tried her best to hide the truth at first, but she couldn't hide it anymore. When the truth came out, she found that everyone still loved her and were very tolerant of her, so she simply gave up on saving face.
If Nao Asano is an honest cat, then Yuko Ibuki is a cunning little fox.
[You can't refuse your wife's plea. Mayuri only gets disappointment every time she comes. You are not as close to her as the couple next door.]
[Mother reduced the number of times she brought Mayuri over.]
[You were worried about your daughter, so you hid it from Yuko and secretly met with Mayuri. Such a meeting was bound to be hasty and short. Mayuri was looking forward to your arrival, but also complained about this insignificant care.]
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