newbobooks Chapter 280: Crow Becomes Canary (Part 1)
Chapter 280: Crow Becomes Canary (Part 1)
Chapter 280 The Crow Becomes the Canary (Part 1)
[I've received a call from Xiao Mu. Su Shi, if you need any help, please let me know.]
When Su Shi heard this news from Xiangzi, her face became more and more haggard, as if she was a shaky brick wall that could collapse at any time.
But this haggard beauty finally breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe she can have a good rest tonight...
If I hadn't been taken out by my mother to meet that familiar yet unfamiliar man, I might have been able to have a good rest and sleep for three or four hours.
...The man named Ichinose.
Sitting beside the flower bed at the entrance of the cafe, Su Shi felt for the first time that cold weather was a bad thing.
Generally speaking, if there's no practice that day, nine o'clock in the evening is already time for a nice bath and bed. Looking at the heavy snow outside the window, wrapped in a soft and smooth goose down quilt, after saying goodnight to Saki-chan, I fall asleep warm all over, feeling the calm and gentle warm breath of the girl beside me...
It should have been like this...but now this happened.
Su Shi looked at the gray sky with some melancholy. It seemed that some snowflakes like catkins were falling from the sky. The information about the coming cold wave had been spread everywhere since a week ago.
Su Shi is not afraid of the cold, but is afraid of a cold heart.
I haven't had a rest for almost two days. I didn't eat properly today. Maybe the only source of energy is the sugar in energy drinks and jam black tea?
I’m so sleepy and hungry… Why did Aine start bombarding me with messages again? It’s so annoying.
I told you it wouldn't take long...
After hesitating for a moment, Su Shi answered the seventeenth call from Ain. As soon as he put the phone to his ear, Ain's unique yang-angled voice shocked Su Shi.
"Soyorin! Where are you? Your house is sealed off! The doctor can't find you at home!"
"I told you something happened at home..."
I still couldn't hide it from them. This would be troublesome. They would definitely call me day and night looking for me, right? If they found me, they would forcibly take me away and place me at Deng or Aine's house. In the end, I would be taken to a place where no detectors could find me, and forced by four people to live for the rest of my life...
Su Shi quickly shook his head, packed up those inexplicable things along with his pajamas, and threw them out of his mind.
No, no, what was I thinking?
"Where are you now? We came to look for you. I heard that the doctor went to Nara, so we will take care of you and your aunt. I have asked my mother, and you can stay with me... at home tomorrow... and take a leave of absence from school..."
My head... feels so heavy...
Su Shi felt dizzy and exhausted from the brain overload caused by not eating for a long time and staying up late. He fell to the ground like a harvested wild onion.
Fortunately, there was soft soil and green flowers behind her, so Su Shi was not hurt. Her dress, which was a little wrinkled due to long-term wearing, was only soiled, and some soil and stones inevitably got into her mouth.
"Pah... so dirty, so disgusting."
Fortunately, Su Shi had some tissues with her, and Neon's Greening Bureau did not use biochemical fertilizers. After wiping off the dirt on her tongue and mouth, Su Shi didn't care too much. She picked up the phone that had fallen on the ground in a daze and continued listening.
I'm really not awake anymore. I need to rest.
"...Hello? Soyorin, are you still listening? Hello?"
"Let's talk about it later... I'm fine."
Su Shi decisively hung up the phone, and the annoying buzzing sound like white noise began to ring in her ears again. She vaguely saw her mother in her eyes... It was indeed Mrs. Nagasaki.
"Su Shi, don't you want to go in and see your father?"
As soon as this urban beauty woke up, she went into an almost crazy working state, submitting resumes, meeting with clients to build up her network, and using this as a bargaining chip to contact companies with whom she had good relationships. At the same time, she also contacted the Real Estate Registry to seal up her house... It was exactly as the doctor said.
The adult world is so scary.
However, what made Su Shi very unhappy was that Mrs. Nagasaki actually contacted her father... What a strange word, it seemed like she hadn't called this word for a long time, and she hadn't seen the corresponding person for a long time.
"No, I don't want to see him... well."
Su Shi just shook her head. It was as if a bottle of water was hanging in her head. She felt dizzy and couldn't stand up straight. Mrs. Nagasaki quickly supported her daughter and they sat down together.
"After all, he shares the same bloodline with you. He won't delay you. I don't really want to ask him to take care of you..."
"I don't need him to take care of me. I can take care of myself."
Su Shi was a little angry. It seemed to be the first time that she was angry at her mother. What's more, Mrs. Nagasaki's condition was not much better. She didn't even have time to spare for a hangover. She simply relied on sedatives and painkillers to survive until now, and she had to beg her daughter to listen to her arrangements.
"Mom isn't talking about life, but... Never mind. You're still young and definitely won't understand. Listen to Mom and live with him for a while..."
How could he not understand? Of course Su Shi understood.
It was simply that his mother was unable to pay Yue Zhisen's high monthly tuition before she found her next job. After all, he knew very well what his mother did for a living - a financial practitioner. Those who played with money would inevitably be played with by money, and money came quickly and went quickly.
High tuition fees, property taxes that had to be paid on time every month even if I didn't live there, a busier work schedule than ever before, endless investigations and reports, frequent visits to the police station or tax bureau, and financial lawsuits with my former company...
Mom is spinning like a top.
Su Shi doesn't blame her mother, but...
Can't I help at all?
“…Does it have to be like this?”
The mother and son were silent. The sparse snowflakes in the sky set off the tragic atmosphere at the moment. The sky was dim and the hustle and bustle of traffic had nothing to do with the ordinary world. At this moment, her eyes could only hold her mother.
"...Mom doesn't care about anything else, Mom just wants you to be happy."
Mrs. Nagasaki smiled through her tears...or rather, she forced herself to smile, but this very girlish smile failed to touch her daughter as it had in the past.
It is obvious that neither of them is wrong. It is obvious that it was just a helpless act. It is obvious that as a mother, she just wants to take responsibility for her daughter's life.
But... I'm not happy.
...Forget it, if that's what mom wants me to do.
"Okay," Su Shi suddenly calmed down, nodded expressionlessly, and dignifiedly brushed off the dirt on his body. He took a deep breath, trying to keep his eyes as calm as possible. "Then I'll go."
When visiting someone's home, you should behave dignified and decent.
Su Shi turned around. The floor-to-ceiling windows of the cafe were one-way transparent. The frosted glass seemed to be covered with frost, blurring the strange yet familiar figure, and also blurring Su Shi's gradually lifeless pupils.
Warm light, the warm light that is getting closer and closer, is the same color as the light in the bedroom at home, making people drowsy.
But that's not home.
Getting closer...
"You two!"
A magnetic and deliberately high-pitched voice that attracted the attention of Su Shi and Mrs. Nagasaki was heard, accompanied by loud avant-garde jazz and the roar of an engine that was old in design but still brand new.
"Two beautiful ladies, would you like to have a drink?"
Su Shi felt somewhat relieved, as if he had suddenly fallen heavily from a high altitude into the soft cotton, sinking into an incomparable state of relaxation.
Wearing sunglasses late at night... Doctors are always so weird, narcissistic and self-righteous, always interfering in our affairs...
"Mom, let's go for a ride with the doctor!"
...They are going to spoil us all.