The man rescued from Kabukicho

In mid-March, approaching the vernal equinox, it is time for the weather to warm up.

Jacques Chini is a French dessert shop that has been very popular on ins recently. The store is located in a high-end shopping mall in Tokyo. Each dessert is expensive. Even so, it has not stopped the enthusiasm of sweet tooth lovers to come here to take pictures. .

Takao-kun held his chin and whispered: "Ah, the current social trend is like this. People rush from one online celebrity shop to another with their mobile phones, and the time to take pictures is longer than the time to actually eat. I really don't understand .”

Although what he said made sense, Cilang, who was busy packing takeaway desserts, couldn't help complaining to Liaison Mai: "If the back kitchen is not busy now, don't stay there, come and help."

"My arm hurts a lot."

"What's wrong?"

"Hahaha I lied to you, hey~ hey~ since Nakamura-san said so, I will naturally follow my orders~"

Takao-kun, who responded with a laugh, ran out of the back kitchen under Cirou's alias, quickly changed into a new mask, walked behind the cash register, and greeted the customers waiting in a long line: "Customer Sang has been waiting for a long time, I'll pay for you now, please hand me the tray."

In this way, the two of them checked out one by one and packed the other, and finally managed to cope with this wave of customers.

This dessert shop takes a refined and high-end route. It was originally envisaged that there was not such a large customer flow, so after becoming popular on ins, it was impossible to recruit suitable new employees for a while, which not only made the full-time shop assistants very busy, Jiro and Takao, who are salaried workers, were also asked to work overtime.

It's a coincidence that I will work here.

The painting course that Cilang participated in is a professor from a well-known American University. In order to help young people who want to embark on the path of picture book creation, he specially contacted three picture book masters to co-found a teaching project.The project is very targeted. There are six lessons a week, and the homework is not too heavy. However, because Cilang also has a foundation consolidation course taught by a young teacher recommended by Master Hanada Kiyoshi, it will take a lot of time. energy.

Naturally, the tuition fee is also expensive. Of course Cilang is impatient and wants to finish his studies as soon as possible, but he also knows that if he chooses this path, he will not be impatient.

With no time to find a full-time job, Cilang can only plan to find an hourly job first, no matter how little the salary is, he can still support himself.

But hourly wage jobs are not so easy to find, especially because Cilang is a criminal, and his working hours cannot conflict with painting courses.

Although he was mentally prepared, Cilang's process of finding a job was really not smooth. On the one hand, as mentioned before, people will inevitably put colored glasses on ex-convicts, and even Cilang himself is very concerned about this.

On the other hand, the election of the governor of Tokyo is entering a fierce stage. Although the public has the consensus that Moriyama Yoichi has won the victory, other electors have not given up struggling, especially Makoto Kishio, whose reputation has been corrupted. It seems that Lian is planning to follow the black and red line of variety shows, and frequently explodes shocking remarks. In this case, the previous huge loan incidents have been repeatedly dug up by the media to make irresponsible remarks. Some media not only released Cilang’s previous video photos, Fortunately, it is a good thing to remind the audience that this miserable handsome guy has been released from prison, and he might meet him on the street.

As a result, Cilang was not only very worried about being recognized by people on the road, but he also encountered a tragic incident in which the shop owner who interviewed him secretly called the TV station, and the TV station quickly brought people to film.

Even though Ijuin sent bodyguards who followed him from afar, he left the store in time after receiving the notification from the bodyguards, this incident still left a shadow on Cirou.

Especially when Cilang saw on TV that the shopkeeper appeared in the program link, spitting and saying, "It's that handsome guy, that's right, his face and photo haven't changed much, tsk, I think he's very comfortable in jail, Even the prison guards can't bear to beat him, right? You say that woman is a witch, but I think this man is also a witch. As far as I can see, he doesn't seem to have suffered at all. He is also dressed in bright clothes now, maybe I was taken care of by someone" and other random speculations, and the guests laughed bursts of laughter.

Why is this gibberish aired as a TV show?Why are people so eager to dig up an ex-con who's already out of prison?Is it curiosity, or do you want to see some tragedy?

Cirou couldn't understand.

But just when he flinched, Yijuin, who had never objected but was not enthusiastically supported, said to him: "Just do what you want."

Such a simple sentence supported Cilang's shaky confidence.

Cilang understood that Yijuin was not so enthusiastic before. Yijuin himself said that if it was just to pay back the money, then Cilang would spend his time working part-time instead of drawing two more pictures to practice, because Yijuin has no shortage and is not in a hurry to ask him to pay back the money, but if he is If you want to be self-reliant as soon as possible, then there will be no obstacles.In fact, Cilang had two reasons, and Yijiyuan must have seen it long ago, so he just didn't stop him.

But when Cirou was hit by the society and wanted to shrink back, Yijuin explicitly encouraged him to do it.

And the hidden message of this sentence is to let Cilang not have to be afraid of any bad consequences.

To put it naively, Cilang seems to have experienced for the first time in his life what it is like to be a spoiled child with the support of his parents.That is the absolute trust and love that cannot be destroyed by outside wind and rain.

Yijuin is a gentle person, this is the fact that Jirou has come to realize more and more.

Perhaps it was a turn of events, and Cilang, who had regained his strength, soon encountered good news.

That day, Cilang covered himself with a baseball cap and a mask as usual, and when he was going to a private school run by a professor at the University of the United States, he was hooked around the neck enthusiastically on the way.

"Yo~~Long time no see~~Handsome boy~~~"

Cirou, whose heartbeat almost stopped in shock, didn't recognize who it was at first, and just kept throwing him away, only to realize after he got away that it was Takao-kun, a college student who had worked part-time at a convenience store together.

This coincidence happened because the private school where the professor opened the course was located near the University of the United States, and Takao-kun turned out to be a student of the University of the United States, studying fashion design.

Takao-kun, who knows Jirou's name and previous convictions, must have known that Jiro is the Mr. M that is often mentioned on TV, but Takao-kun has a slightly frivolous and carefree personality, which makes him seem to not take it seriously at all.

While Cilang was worried about the child's heart, he was relieved at the rare and relaxed atmosphere of getting along with each other.He didn't know how long he hadn't had such an easy and ordinary communication with ordinary people.

After the two chatted, Cilang learned that the convenience store where they had worked part-time was accused of copyright infringement because of the signboard of a well-known copycat chain, and the owner Zhongjing simply closed the store and returned to his hometown in the countryside in despair.

And the French dessert shop Takao-kun is currently working in was introduced by seniors from the school, the salary is very good, and it is just opening for hourly workers, so it has certain requirements for the image of the shop assistants.

So, thanks to Takao-kun, Jiro not only got a new job under the pseudonym "Nakamura Kazuya", but also under the guidance of Takao-kun, he integrated into the current youth trend, cut his hair short and dyed it dark chestnut, and got paid After that, I followed Takao-kun, who is very good at finding bargains, and bought retro frames that looked expensive but were actually super cheap, as well as a few simple and unfancy clothes suitable for this season, but still in line with the aesthetics of young people.

In this way, Cilang, who wears a mask and frame, and is dressed in a youthful way, walks on the way to private schools or dessert shops, and if he doesn't look carefully, he looks like an ordinary college student chasing trends.

Yijiyuan didn't seem to like it very much, but Fengzao's mother-in-law just laughed outright, saying bluntly, "You two walk together like this, it's like the young master taking care of a handsome college freshman", which made Cilang very embarrassed.

But because of the obvious effect of dressing up and camouflaging like this, Cirou didn't intend to change it.

Within a few days, Yijiyuan replaced the vintage frame Cilang was wearing with a pair of super light black frames, and didn't say anything else.

Not only Granny Fengzao commented that "this frame is a bit dull", but Takao-kun smiled from ear to ear when he saw him wearing a new frame. Jirou thought it was not bad, and tried his best to avoid thinking about the price of this pair of frames. Fixed this camouflage maintained.

Then, I studied and worked without incident until now.

When changing shifts, Cirou changed his uniform, bought seven freshly baked basil lemon tarts, and specially selected the color of the ribbon for packing, causing Takao-kun to ask in a low voice: "Wow, it's a big deal, it was packed for that person." A dinner date?"

Takao-kun also shook his little finger narrowly, hinting at his lover.

Jirou, who has received a lot of care, did not tell Takao-kun Ijuin's identity clearly, but confessed that he was dating the junior high school classmate who rescued him that day, that is, men and men.However, Takao-kun said carelessly that he is a double, so he doesn't care about this kind of thing, which made Jiro even more worried about how this child grew up safely with such a big heart.

Because I have been working for more than a month, although Jiro never took off his mask because of hay fever, other employees in the store, especially young female employees, still pay close attention to him. It was Takao-kun who told them that Jiro has a fiancee of a famous lady , they were flabbergasted, but in this situation when they noticed that Jiro seemed to be about to mention his girlfriend, they strained their ears to listen to what he had to say.

"It's not just that," Cilang smiled, although he couldn't help but feel uneasy because he was going to the Yijiyuan mansion, "I'm going to have dinner at the mansion tonight, so it's a gift for the parents and older brothers and sisters-in-law over there."

Unexpectedly, it was the content of this kind of harmonious family banquet that was obviously already talking about marriage, and the girls who eavesdropped were in a gloomy mood.

Takao-kun exaggeratedly sighed: "Wow, this is the margin of a handsome guy with a stable relationship. That's great."

Embarrassed to say anything, Cilang took the exquisite dessert box and bid farewell to everyone: "Everyone has worked hard. Then I will go first."

The clerks responded, "Goodbye Nakamura-kun~" "See you tomorrow Nakamura-san~~", but Takao-kun yelled "Go, it's up to you, handsome beast!", making everyone laugh.

With a helpless but relaxed smile, he walked two streets away with Cilang.

When getting in the car, in order to prevent spoiling the presentation of the desserts, Cirou handed the packing box to Yijiin before he got in, picked up the suit prepared by Yijiin and began to change.

Yijuin noticed his mood: "Nervous?"

Really nervous.

In the past two months, Yijiyuan has been very busy, and I have been abroad on business. Even in the first month of the New Year's reunion, Yijiyuan has never been to the Yijiyuan mansion. Listening to Fengzao's mother-in-law, she said that the mansion has a lot of complaints about Yijiyuan.

So in this way, this dinner was the first time the two of them returned to the Yijiyuan mansion since the night Yijiyuan rescued Cilang.

And Mrs. Yijiyuan sent the contract... Cilang didn't even dare to think about how she would react if she knew that they were dating.

Thinking of Takao-kun referring to Yijuin as his "fiancee of a famous young lady", if you want to say this, it means that a man with an ex-convict came to meet the wealthy father-in-law... I am even more nervous!

There is nothing wrong with admitting to Yijuin, Cirou nodded his head.

Yijuin said indifferently, "Don't be nervous."

How could it be possible not to be nervous? These words sounded a little ignorant of the sufferings of ordinary people. While buttoning his shirt, Cilang glanced helplessly at Yijiyuan.

Yijiyuan caught his gaze, hugged Cilang who hadn't finished changing his clothes, and said solemnly and indifferently: "I'll help you."

Believe in you.

Being hugged on his lap, Cilang grabbed the back of the chair with one hand to stabilize himself, and grabbed Yijuin's left hand with the other hand, but couldn't hold his right hand. He almost collapsed: "Don't make trouble!!"