[Net King] Winter Snow

When she woke up the next morning, Yuriko Uemura could clearly feel dizzy.Rubbing her temples, the girl turned off the noisy alarm beside the bed.The sunlight outside dimly illuminates the room through the curtains, and the slightly sweltering summer brings annoying insects.

Walking all the way from the apartment to the part-time restaurant, Yuriko Uemura felt that she had some signs of heat stroke.The high temperature for several consecutive days made the girl's brain a little bit overwhelmed, and with the ups and downs of the tennis team's national competition a few days ago, Yuriko Uemura had to admit that her recent load was a bit excessive.

"Uemura, are you okay?" Looking at the obviously tired face of the girl with twin tails, the store manager Tian Ye was very worried.

"It's okay." Shaking her head, Yuriko Uemura gave a forced smile.

Fortunately, today's part-time job is only half a day, and I can call it a day and go home after three o'clock in the afternoon.Yuriko Uemura was thinking about the upcoming summer vacation arrangements while delivering the meal tray.The school is about to start, and the grades must not be dropped. It is almost time for the student union to do the final handover work. Although the restaurant wants to continue, I am afraid that sooner or later they will resign due to lack of time.Thinking about it this way, I felt that I really didn't have enough time, so I simply wiped the table after cleaning, and the girl took the menu and ran to the new customer to order.

"Hello, what do you need?" Showing a standard bright smile, Yuriko Uemura opened her eyes wide as soon as she finished speaking, surprised by the appearance of the person in front of her, "... Jiping?!"

"Long time no see, Yuriko." The boy wore thin-rimmed glasses, and he looked a lot more mature.The sharpness in the black eyes was covered by the lenses, and the original light brown hair color seemed to have been dyed again, becoming a bit tea brown.

"Although I heard that Hiroshi said you were back, I didn't expect to meet you here." Putting away her surprised expression just now, Yuriko Uemura lowered her eyebrows and revealed a nostalgic and gentle smile.

The boy sitting in the seat didn't talk to him, but turned his head to look at Yuriko Uemura carefully, holding his chin with one hand, and smiled inscrutablely, "Yuriko hasn't changed at all."

"It's you, you've changed a lot." Following Harada Yoshihei's words, the girl smiled softly, "You're so mature that you don't look like you anymore, and you even put on your glasses again."

"Well." Shrugging, Yoshihei Harada pushed his thin-rimmed glasses and ordered a few meals casually, "That's all I need. When do you get off work?"

"Three o'clock, you wait for me?" Yuriko Uemura joked casually after writing down the food on the boy's fingers.

"Okay." Yoshihei Harada smiled naturally, without any hesitation at all.Noticing Yuriko Uemura's surprised expression for a moment, the boy couldn't help laughing, "I'm just kidding, I have something to do later."

"Really, I was scared to death." She curled her lips, and the girl was obviously helpless at the other party's teasing character, "Then I'll go and place an order for you first."

Seeing Yuriko Uemura walking back to the kitchen wearing an apron, Yoshihei Harada's eyes darkened.There is no such a coincidence in the world, and he doesn't like to eat this kind of fast food, and he only appears here because he learned about Yuriko Uemura's part-time job from Hiroshi Yagyu.

It has been three years since he left. During this period of time, he has wondered more than once whether Yuriko Uemura still likes Genichiro Sanada, and also wondered whether the boy who has always been rigid and dull will be different. action.Harada Yoshihei was not unaware of the fact that the two of them liked each other, but at the time he always felt unwilling.He has finally realized that hard work does not necessarily pay off, and at the same time, he also understands that his own kind of love is basically a self-centered liking.

"It's been a long time, Bolognese Omurice." The girl's cheerful voice interrupted Harada Yoshihei's thoughts, and the boy looked up to see the other party's bright smile and the pair of eyes he had always liked so much.Stunned for a moment by Yuriko Uemura's smile, Yoshihei Harada stared at her for a long time before being interrupted by the girl's doubtful words.

"What's wrong, there's something on my face?" Yuriko Uemura reached out and touched her cheek as she said.

"No, it's nothing." With a concealed smile, Harada Yoshihei just picked up the spoon and was about to eat, when he saw the girl staggering forward a step.

"Lily?" Seeing the other party holding his forehead, the boy couldn't help frowning.He had noticed Yuriko Uemura's expression that was not quite right when we met just now, and now it seems that the situation is even worse than he imagined.

"Sorry, I have a slight headache." Trying to hold up her smile, Yuriko Uemura rubbed her temples while frowning as if she was enduring severe pain.

"...You are like this again." Knowing the girl's aggressive nature, Harada Yoshihira sighed, stood up and pushed Yuriko Uemura onto the chair, "Sit here and wait for me for a while."

"Jihei?!" Looking at Harada Yoshihei puzzledly, Uemura Yuriko saw him walking towards the store manager before he had time to say anything.The tea-brown-haired boy said something to the store manager, and the girl saw the store manager glance at her, then nodded, and answered and talked with Harada Yoshihei with a worried expression.

"I've told your shop manager that you can leave work." Yoshihei Harada said with a relaxed expression when he came back.

"...I never said I would ask for leave." Looking at the self-assertive boy with a headache, Yuriko Uemura found that even after three years, the other party still couldn't change his character.

"I know, the store manager said it's your normal hourly wage." Sitting down opposite Yuriko Uemura, the young man held his chin with one hand, "Go and change, I'll take you home."

"Ah..." Sighed lightly, the girl was quite helpless.It was not her intention to ask Harada Yoshihei to clean up the mess for her when they met for the first time after three years.

When she came out from the back door of the restaurant, the boy with tea brown hair was already waiting for her at the door.Harada Yoshihei seems to have grown a lot taller in the past three years. He was already tall enough to become more slender, and his appearance with glasses added a lot of scholarly air to the boy, which unexpectedly made people feel like a second Yagyu Hiro The feeling of a soldier—of course, much sharper than that young man.

"Let's go." Shrugging, Harada Yoshihei said so, and then took a step.

The two of them didn't talk too much along the way, and the three-year gap seemed to have never existed, and the original topics could still resonate with the two of them.When passing the vending machine, Yoshihei Harada made a gesture to wait a moment, and Yuriko Uemura saw the boy jogging past, as if he had bought some drink.

"Here, you like it." What was handed to the girl was a can of cocoa.

Holding the small light brown beverage can in her hands, Uemura Yuriko didn't know what to say for a moment.Yoshihei Harada still remembers all her hobbies, but she chose to avoid everything at that time.

"I always feel that I'm a little sorry for Ji Ping." Lowering her head, Yuriko Uemura whispered.

"It's okay." When Yoshihei Harada said that, the girl's eyes widened and she raised her head in disbelief.After seeing Yuriko Uemura's face, the smile on the tea-brown-haired boy's face gradually changed to helplessness, "I'm lying to you, idiot. It would be a lie to say I don't care, but I have reflected on my mistakes more or less. "

"But I didn't even say goodbye to you at the time!" said a little excitedly, Yuriko Uemura couldn't forgive herself for the regretful mistakes she made because of her timidity at that time, "I was the one who made the most outrageous mistakes..."

The girl who lowered her head could feel the palm of Harada Yoshihei gently stroking her head, and the boy said in a gentle voice, "Are you regretting?"

"Of course," Yuriko Uemura's voice was a little muffled, like a child who has done something wrong, "If I hadn't met Jiping today, the relationship for a lifetime might have been broken at that time."

"If you know it, why not be brave?" When Harada Yoshihei said this, the girl felt that there seemed to be some deep meaning in the other party's words, and when she heard the boy's next words, she was completely stunned. In the same place, "Now you are regretting why you were not brave enough to say goodbye to me three years ago, and you may regret why you are not brave enough to face Genichiro Sanada's love three years later for the same reason."

"Jipei...?!" Covering her mouth in surprise, Uemura Yuriko never expected that the other party would know about it, "Why would you know..."

"Yeah, why?" Yoshihei Harada's smile became a little doting and helpless, "Probably because you haven't changed at all from before to now. What you are thinking and worrying about is all written on your face."

Seeing the boy's expression like this, Yuriko Uemura felt that her tear glands were completely out of control.This extremely gentle boy in her impression has changed a lot. His capable and mature appearance makes people sigh that time flies, but at the same time, his gentleness towards her is still the same as before.

"Don't cry." The boy gently wiped Uemura Yuriko's tears, "Since you like him so much, don't always build walls for yourself."

"He did nothing wrong, you are very clear about this." The last voice in Uemura Yuriko's memory was Harada Yoshihei's words with a slight sigh.

Looking at the fainted girl in his arms, the brown-haired boy shook his head helplessly.To be able to pass out so straightly, what kind of bragging did she have to do?Touching Yuriko Uemura's hot forehead, Harada Yoshihei was about to carry the girl back to her residence, and the next second, as if remembering something, he took out the phone from his pocket.

The column in the phone book was a number he had never dialed. Harada Yoshihei's thumb hesitated for a long time on it, and finally made up his mind to press it.

"Hey, is that Sanada-kun?"

When the black-haired boy hurried over, it was less than 10 minutes since Harada Yoshihira called him.Seeing Genichiro Sanada carefully carry Yuriko Uemura on his back, Yoshihei Harada clenched his fists tightly, and then slowly relaxed to calm himself down.

"Aren't you going to say something to me?" Seeing Genichiro Sanada was about to leave, Yoshihei Harada couldn't hold back.

"...Thank you, Harada-kun." Genichiro Sanada spoke seriously, holding Yuriko Uemura firmly on his back.

"I owe one favor." Harada Yoshihei said so, and then changed his words again, "No, it should be two."

Genichiro Sanada frowned slightly without understanding the meaning of the other party's words, as if he was thinking.

"Forget it this time, I won't be so kind next time." With a provocative smile, Yoshihei Harada gestured to the person on the boy's back with his eyes, "It's not my style to be humble."

Seeing Genichiro Sanada leaving with Yuriko Uemura on his back, Yoshihei Harada received a call from Hiroshi Yagyu before he could take a step.

"Did you really call the deputy minister?" The boy on the other side of the phone was very surprised, and couldn't believe the content of the text message he had received before.

"More than that, he has already picked up my highness the princess." Saying so, Harada Yoshihira raised his head to look at the sky reflecting the setting sun.

"...It really doesn't look like something you would do." After a long time, Hiroshi Yagyu finally opened his mouth.

"I think so too." Looking at the birds fluttering in the sky, Harada Yoshihira showed a helpless smile, "But I made her cry today, so let's take it as self-punishment."

"You only come back once in three years, you really can think about it." And the purpose of coming back this time is obviously to see Uemura Yuriko.

"Anyway, we've met each other, so I'm not at a disadvantage." Pretentiously shrugging his shoulders relaxedly, Yoshihei Harada walked to the vending machine and pressed the girl's favorite cocoa.

"Three years ago, I couldn't believe it was you who said it, Ji Ping." Liu Shengbi Lu Shi's voice was obviously much calmer than before.

"About the definition of liking," Harada Yoshihei drank the cocoa in his hand in one gulp, "I have thought it through in the past three years."

That should be respectful, not selfish.