[Net King + Black Basket] Seijuro, your mother calls you to go home for dinner!

When Xunli rushed home, he happened to meet Seijuro's meal time.The young master, who had hardly slept all night, sat listlessly on the chair, like a wilted little flower.He sent rice balls to his mouth mechanically, with his little head hanging down, feeling a little out of sorts.

"You're finally back!"

"We almost sent a car out to find you!"

It was the old butler who first noticed that Xun Li had returned home, and she rarely found a different mood swing from his poker face.Katase even exaggeratedly took out a small handkerchief and wiped the corners of his eyes.Xunli's disappearance even alarmed the uncle gardener who came to watch after hearing the news (Xunli made him reluctantly pick and cut a lot of good flowers not long ago).

It seems that no one believed Xunli's poor excuse of "busy at work".They subconsciously thought that she and Masashi had fallen out and planned to go out alone for a while.Fortunately, those who are good at observing words and expressions know how to keep their mouths in check.

"You're worried."

Her heart warmed up, and she couldn't express her sincere apology other than that.

It would be a lie to say that she was not moved. It turns out that there are still a group of people around her who miss her all the time, which somewhat gives her a sense of belonging.

Katase's loud voice caught the attention of a certain young master.He dropped the knife and fork, trotted all the way to Xunli, hugged her in full view and refused to let go——

Kaoru easily hugged him to the position of her chest, and Seijuro buried his head deeply in her neck in this position.She realized that this was a sign that the child was going to cry, but he didn't want others to see his embarrassment.

"What's the matter? I haven't seen you for a long time." She curled her lips, "It's so embarrassing to hug her at such a big age."

She deliberately complained a few words, and then laughed to herself.Her smile couldn't completely hide the tiredness on her face.

Xunli can fully understand the excessive nervousness of children, not to mention that Seijuro is only four years old, and even ten-year-old bears will ask their parents where they are if they don't see their parents in sight for a short time.

"I..." I was just worried that you would just disappear without a sound.

Seijuro didn't talk about his inner monologue and said it directly, he didn't want his mother to worry about him.For him, his mother is also the only "Sunshine" that can penetrate dark clouds and disperse rain.

Xunli blamed herself for her momentary willfulness, she put Seijuro down, wiped his slightly red and swollen eyes with a tissue, hugged his forehead and slapped him hard on the forehead.Since kindergarten, she has rarely done this kind of intimacy except for the necessary goodnight kiss every night.

"Quick, go to school!"

"……Yes."

The little red-haired boy hugged his head, and his whole face suddenly flushed like a ripe little apple (Huo Huo Huo Huo Huo Huo... I sang unconsciously: D).

Before leaving, Seijuro did not forget to whisper a word to Shichuan.From the eyes that unconsciously aimed towards Xunli's direction, one can read his little thoughts.It was probably saying something like "I'm afraid my mother will disappear again, please take care of her butler Zhichuan".

"Okay, my little guard, I will stay at home all day today." Xun Li smiled.The well-organized little adult Seijuro is still so cute.

Sending away the suspicious Seijuro, Kaoriko ate the leftover wakame and some rice balls on the child's plate to fill his stomach, went back to his room, took a quick shower, and locked himself in the room.

She now needs an absolutely quiet and comfortable environment to sort out the messy information in her head.

……

The bathroom was filled with mist, and the hot water from the shower sprayed on the cold skin exposed to the air. She liked to adjust the temperature to a range that ordinary people could not bear. The feeling of burning her skin made her sigh comfortably.

Xunli closed her eyes, letting the drops of water roll freely on her smooth face.

This reassuring atmosphere brought her thoughts back to a hot summer many years ago——

【Memories】

Although Seijuro was a product of feudal family marriage, Masashi and Kaoru did not meet on that serious occasion.

Xunli, who had just finished her freshman year, had a whim and wanted to take a quick trip during the summer vacation.She took a travel bag with her, hurriedly bought a sightseeing train ticket and boarded the train across the continent.

This sounds like a novel experience. With the train going far away as the background, so many wonderful encounters and romantic stories have been staged here—Xun Li, who boarded the train with a girlish heart, thinks so.

On the third day of the journey, Xun Li was so bored that he was on the verge of going crazy, and he castigated in his heart why he made such a stupid decision——

No matter where you go, there are only slight changes in the fleeting scenery outside the window, usually fields that can't be seen at a glance, and cows and horses lazily wagging their tails and grazing.

However, on a sunny and drowsy afternoon on the way, Xunli met the Soulmate she thought she was destined for.

The red-haired young man seemed out of place in the chaotic train corridor, no matter from his face to his clothes, and his demeanor.He was holding a simple black travel bag in his left hand. Xun Li estimated that he was a passenger who got on the train at the previous station.His appearance was of pure oriental blood, well, but he was more handsome and handsome than most oriental people she had ever seen.

Most of the travelers on this train were middle-aged and elderly people, so it was expected that two young people would meet and chat by chance in a certain carriage.The other party didn't give his full name, but asked Xunli to call him "Fumimasa (文正)". Hearing that the young man was from Japan, she liked him even more because he had half Daiwa blood in his blood, so he talked to him directly in Japanese.

The young man was well educated by a large family, which can be easily detected from his behavior.But Xun Li was not interested in his past and background, and the two occupied a secluded compartment, leaning against the window and chatting face to face about the world and the world.A young man named Wen Zheng knew everything from astronomy to geography. When she asked about his major, Wen Zheng said that he had double majored in business and politics.

"Why do you want to travel to North America? You don't look like... well." Xun Li didn't know how to ask in the most appropriate way.

"I visit others too much, so I will take a vacation for myself by the way."

When he said this, he turned his head slightly to avoid her probing eyes. He seemed unwilling to mention more, and she didn't insist.When one of them is tired, they will be silent one after another, sitting quietly in the car to enjoy the scenery and listen to the wonderful noise made by the train itself.

In just ten days of contact, Xunli developed a good impression of this strange young man, which is called "like".

Even though they hadn't dated each other for too long, she was attracted by Wen Zheng's every move - calm, wise, restrained, and gentlemanly considerate. He was different from any opposite sex she had ever come into contact with.

As a result, when the train was about to arrive at the station, Xunli had a strong desire not to get off the train.She would rather the train keep going and not stop until the end of the world.

"so be it."

"Wen Zhengjun, there will be a date later."

although……

Although, until the moment of parting, she didn't have the courage to ask for contact information.

She resisted the desire to cry bitterly, pretended to smile and said goodbye to Wenzheng, and watched him go farther and farther in the opposite direction with his luggage.

Xun Li's heart was struggling with pain and obscurity, and his figure became dim in the blurred vision.The disappearance of the red-haired youth announced the end of her unrequited love that lasted only ten days.

【End of memory】

"How stupid."

Xunli turned off the faucet, her long wet hair stuck to her back, and the warm water dripped down the hair tip.

She murmured in a low voice, and only she knew the bitterness hidden in her words.

Only one year before the train journey, Xunli was kidnapped and tricked to Japan by the people sent by the Songyuan family on the grounds that "need to talk", and then experienced a series of encounters that she could never have dreamed of (such as Said to meet Dianzi), and three months later, Xunli was told that her father’s family had arranged an inexplicable marriage for her—the so-called forced marriage, which she thought could only be found in novels and historical biographies. Terrible reality.

Omitting the engagement step, the marriage between Akashi and Matsubara's family is a bit rushed to the shelves, and there is no delay.On the day of the wedding, Xunli also ushered in the biggest lie she has experienced in her life.

"Your marriage partner is Akashi Masashi."

Xun Li, who was extremely angry, didn't take this name to heart at first, but when she was standing in front of the hall in Bai Wugou, she couldn't sit still and wait for death.

"Fumimasa... Masafumi (Masafu)? I see."

Xun Li recognized it at a glance, this man with the same appearance and temperament as the red-haired youth he met on the train must be the same person.

"I was designed."

It's not that Xunli never thought of accepting the marriage arranged by her father calmly, after all, the other party is her sweetheart who she had longed for for a long time.

When they first got married, the two got along well. Xun Li didn't expose his experience on the train or question him, and spent the most difficult first half of the year in an awkward atmosphere.The one who broke the deadlock was the unformed child in Xunli's womb. The mother-to-be was immersed in subtle joy for a moment, and suddenly an optimistic idea of ​​"raising the child with Masashi and living happily as a family of three" emerged in her heart.

Everything is going in a good direction——

What was the trigger that caused her temperament to change drastically after giving birth to Xiao Zheng?

The pitiful exchanges between the two sides, the living environment full of strange tastes, the differences in cultural differences between the East and the West?

……

Kaoru rubbed her hair carelessly with a towel, and vowed to go out to get her hair trimmed when she got her salary—no matter how much Seijuro liked his soft chocolate-colored hair, she insisted on cutting it to chest length .

To be honest, the opportunity that gave her the idea of ​​running away was so simple that it was unbelievable—when I visited Matsumoto’s house, I passed by the study and accidentally overheard the conversation between Haizhi and his wife, which made her blood coagulate all over her body in her early twenties. The memory is still fresh.

"Are the Akashi family satisfied?"

"We have a successor, so we shouldn't be holding on to our family's money laundering anymore."

"Huh... I can finally rest assured."

"But you still have to be vigilant. I wanted to rely on the daughter born to that woman to contain the Akashi family. Who knew she was so weak and cowardly. Masashi Akashi is not an easy character to deal with."

"Well, he who is young and vigorous and only cares about the family's glory doesn't need any good wife at all, right? Didn't he agree to the marriage for the sake of cultivating heirs early on?"

……

In the final analysis, Xunli is just an insignificant tool in their eyes. It is not difficult for Patriarch Akashi to throw it away when it is used up. It is just a matter of a divorce contract.

The overheard conversation that day became a tumor in her heart, and over time it began to spread and exert terrible effects.After that, Xun Li often stayed alone in the room, leaning against the cold wall, hugging his shoulders and licking his scars, sucking his own pain.I thought that I could only rely on myself in Japan, but I didn't know if I could survive this nightmare life.

"Run away—"

Naively, she came up with such a ridiculous idea, and burst out the greatest dissatisfaction in such a way that only weak people would use.

Xunli's story four years ago is almost over, and some plots that she deliberately ignored are kept deep in her heart, and she wisely chooses not to look back.

The irony is that Xun Li was the one who caused their relationship to become rigid—after all, she had never really heard hurtful words from Yashi, maybe he just kept the ugly words in his heart, or he just simply I want to get along with her as a normal couple.

No one needs to be blamed. As for Songyuan Haizhi... He is her biological father, so he can't bear any hatred.

"Idiot... there is no cure!"

Xun Li scolded herself angrily. After realizing the truth hidden in her memory, a sense of powerlessness swept over her limbs like a tide, making her unable to move.

At that time, she made a judgment that she regretted when she was young and ignorant. What she wants to do now is to make up for it, let the barrier between husband and wife disappear as much as possible, sit down face to face again calmly, and talk about Seijuro's education as a parent.

**

The room was quiet and silent, only the gentle breathing of the other party could be heard.

Xunli, who was lying on the right side of the big bed with his back to him, held his breath and pulled the quilt up again.She has never been able to shake the emotions of this man who always walks in a straight line, even for a long time, but she still can't help but want to give it a go.

——In the form of a letter, take advantage of the opportunity of intercourse every half a month to explain everything to him.

Including the reasons for the previous thought of running away (she omitted what she heard from Haizhi, but gave a vague reason), the subsequent psychogenic amnesia, and the hangover last night, etc.She did not believe that Masashi would be so cold-blooded that he would remain unmoved.

……

"Seven typos and five sentences have language problems."

What! ?After she wrote the [-]-word long essay, she double-checked it twice!

"Eh?"

Xunli trembled all over, quickly got up and turned to stare at Masashi with a puzzled look on his face.

"At this level, I still want to work as a translator. I doubt it." Masashi, who was sitting on the bed and unfolding the letter paper, continued to complain, completely disregarding her face.

"...Hey! QAQ" Don't change the subject!

"First, I never used you as a pawn—to be honest, you are completely useless." Yashi was so frank that she wanted to cry, "Second, it is my bottom line not to interfere with each other until Xiaozheng is brought up. "

"And after that?"

"Afterwards, stay as you like." This was his ultimatum.

Xunli thought about it, and this condition did not harm her, not to mention that she could see him again after Seijuro became an adult, but she had to move out of Akashi's house to live elsewhere, which was exactly what she wanted.

"Thank you." Thank you from the bottom of my heart.