And through the sticker

"Once is accidental, twice is coincidence, although three times really looks like intentional, but you have to believe me—"

"I'm really innocent, and I didn't mean to implicate you."

I hold a large bouquet of red roses in my left hand, and a pennant circled into a cylinder by me in my right hand. On my shoulder is a cloth bag filled with heart bento.

And very honestly stood in Jiang Gu Ling's office, and fired a sincere eye light wave attack at him in his seat.

A corner of the desk full of papers was cleared.

A pink barrel stood there silently.

"..."

I peeked furtively—it still had a bow attached to it.

I hesitated for a moment: "Have you... opened it?"

Jiang Gu Ling rested his chin in leisurely manner: "It's over."

He added slowly: "—the nourishment of love."

I immediately silenced: "..."

Forget it...let's give the delivery guy a good review...I'm a nice person...

Jiang Gu Ling comforted me very intimately: "It's okay, I know it's all a misunderstanding."

"!" I nodded, "Yeah, yah, you are really a good person who is considerate and full of energy!"

I beat around the bush and flattered, emphatically expressing "full of energy".

Jiang Guling: "..."

While talking, I handed out the red rose in my hand: "Flowers for beauties."

Taking the opportunity of handing flowers, I quietly observed the situation for a while.

Jiang Gu Ling looked very relaxed, unlike the previous two encounters with sudden embarrassment that contained a little embarrassment.

Didn't mean to tease me either.

"..."

What's going on, I feel a little weird instead.

He shouldn't be secretly holding grudges in the notebook in his heart, right?

……No way?

Suppressing the faint worries that arose in my heart, I unfolded the pennant with my other hand: "The pennant is for good people."

"...Mihua is a good person?"

Holding the red rose in his arms, Jiang Guling looked at the extravagant bronzing pennant, and hesitantly read the words on it.

"I drafted the inscription after deliberation for a long time. Is it suitable for you? You should be able to hang a pennant in your office. I will hang it in the most prominent position later~"

I responded casually, took out the bento box from the cloth bag neatly, and opened it in front of Fugu Ling like offering a treasure.

"Dang Dang Dang Dang! I have been making love bento for a long time!! There are a lot of bunny rice balls in it! And dog rice balls!"

"The above is the Christmas Eve surprise I prepared for you! Although it is still noon."

I looked at Fugu Ling with bright eyes, like a passionate dog trying to get a compliment.

Jiang Gu Ling solemnly put down the bouquet in his hand, reached out and patted my head.

"Thank you, Mengzi, you really put your heart into it."

His eyes are full of sincerity.

His strength was very gentle, and I was very comfortable being touched, and I couldn't help rubbing my head against his palm.

"..."

When I realized that I was a little ashamed of my behavior, I immediately raised my head and distanced myself pretending nothing happened.

Jiang Guling raised his eyebrows, he didn't make fun of me at this point, but just gave a small chuckle.

But I feel more and more weird.

What's going on... Why did Fugu Zero suddenly stop teasing me...?

A look of "looking at it with a calm smile no matter what happens".

It's like watching a movie spoiler in advance, knowing that there will be a big/climax/climax later, so I don't care much about the small twists and turns ahead.

Feeling like...the calm before the storm?

Forget it, don't think about it for now, and talk about it later.

I laughed a few times to cover up, and wanted to pull a chair and sit next to Jiang Guling.

I looked around, but there were no extra chairs in this office.

I scratched my head: "Do you still have chairs here?"

Jiang Gu Ling was looking down at the bento: "Only the one under me."

... Jiang Guling has only one chair in such a huge office.

I groaned, slandered a few words in my heart, and planned to go to the office area outside to move the chair in, and move it back later.

Just when I was about to turn around, Ling Gu Ling looked up at me: "My colleagues may come back from lunch any time."

The implication is that it is not good to move someone else's chair.

But I haven't said anything yet... Can he guess what I'm going to do?

I looked at Fugu Rei with some hesitation, he didn't intend to give me half of the chair seat at all, he just sat there like a rock.

I:"……"

Wasn't it very sweet just now?

Why don't you have any intention of helping me find a place to sit and rest now? ?

no solution anymore.

So, I silently moved to his side——

Sitting down on Furutani Rei's lap.

I tried to explain: "Because there are no chairs, and standing is very tiring."

Jiang Guling nodded clearly, with a very understanding expression: "I can understand."

He put his hands on his sides very gentlemanly, not touching mine.

Sitting on Fugu Ling's lap and looking at this office, it seemed a little strange.

"Looking at the past from this perspective, I feel like a powerful boss now."

I looked around curiously for a while.

"You must be a very gentle boss, right? But Kazami told me before that his boss is very strict."

I rubbed my chin and recalled the image of Jiang Gu Ling in my heart: "But I don't think you are fierce at all, you are very easy-going."

With my back facing Fugu Ling, I couldn't see his expression clearly at this time, I could only hear his slightly accelerated heartbeat.

He could still feel his chest rising and falling slightly with his breathing.

"..." Jiang Guling pondered for a moment, then reached for the cutlery on the table, "Really?"

He picked up the bento box in his left hand and the chopsticks in his right.

In an instant, I was surrounded by him in his arms as if nothing had happened.

I:"……"

This posture seems a bit inappropriate...

I thought about it, and planned to stand up: "Or I'd better..."

Jiang Gu Ling didn't seem to notice my movements, he picked up a dog rice ball and put it near my mouth: "Would you like a bite?"

As his hand moved closer to my mouth, his slightly bent arm directly stopped me on the way to get up.

I hesitated: "I have eaten, and this is for you."

I ate all the leftovers from making onigiri.

Jiang Gu Lingyun calmly brought the rice ball closer to my mouth: "If you make it for me, the right to control is mine."

He thought for a while, and added very carefully: "Eat more, replenish your strength."

I:"?"

Me: "Didn't you call on me to increase my physical strength through exercise?"

Jiang Gu Ling said very seriously: "It is still difficult to improve physical strength through exercise in the short term, let alone if you are too lazy to move."

I:"……"

was said.

My recent karate class has been stuck in three days of fishing and two days of netting.

I could only take a bite of the doggy onigiri.

Still delicious.

I wondered: "Why do you suddenly need to replenish your energy?"

It's a holiday recently, and I plan to go home and play otome games later.

Jiang Guling didn't speak, just ate his bento.

I:"……"

Forget it.

But this pose is really too ambiguous.

I pushed Tui Jiang Gu Ling's arm, wanting him not to block me from getting up: "I'd better not sit here, it won't be good to be seen by others..."

Jiang Gu Ling also took a bite of the dog rice ball: "No - you made it delicious."

Me: "..." Why not?Won't be seen or won't be bad?

Just when I was about to ask, Jiang Gu Ling took the opportunity to stuff another bite into my mouth.

Puffing my cheeks: "??"

He is upright: "Eating what you make will give you a sense of accomplishment."

I:"……"

I started another topic: "My craftsmanship is definitely not as good as yours. The food you made in Poirot before was delicious. Xueba is always very good at everything."

I pondered: "Is it possible... I actually like what you cook and eat instead of you... It's better to say that because I like what you cook and eat, I love you subtly... I like it Amuro Toru who can cook or Rei Furutani who can fight..."

Jiang Guling: "..."

I blinked sincerely, and opened my mouth: "Just kidding, I like all of you."

I have been sitting upright, not daring to lean back against Jiang Guling.

After this position lasted for a while, I felt too stiff and a little tired.

...So I leaned back quietly step by step.

Using Furuya Rei's body as the back of my chair, I relaxed.

At this moment, Jiang Gu Ling's amplified breathing suddenly came from his ear.

Shocked, I almost straightened up and bumped into his nose.

I heard Jiang Gu Ling's muffled laughter in my ear: "Almost."

I raised my hand in embarrassment to straighten my hair: "Why are you so close suddenly... It makes my ears itchy when I breathe..."

Jiang Guling pondered for a moment, then changed the subject: "Compared to what you prepared, my gift is much inferior."

I suddenly forgot what I was going to ask just now, and turned my face excitedly: "What, what!"

The tip of my nose brushed against Furutani Rei's.

I was stunned: "...Ah, this time is just right."

Get too close.

I can even smell the faint lemon scent in Jiang Gu Zero's hair.

It appears he uses a lemon-scented shampoo.

Jiang Gu Ling tilted his head and looked at me for a while, then smiled slightly: "Have you started your vacation?"

Afraid that someone would pass by the office, I was a little unaccustomed to being so close, so I moved back a little: "Yes, winter vacation, are you looking for me to play?"

I instantly listed a lot of items that can be played with Jiang Gu Ling in my mind.

For example, go to an amusement park to ride a roller coaster, go to a haunted house, go to a night market to eat barbecue, play games together...

I am happy to plan.

He didn't realize at all that the plan he listed was actually no different from a high school party.

"Play..." Hearing my words, Fugu Ling blinked.

He seemed to hesitate for a moment, but finally said frankly:

"A date, to be precise."

The tone is unhurried.

I don't quite understand the significant difference between these two words: "?"

"I've booked a hot spring hotel for three days, and other arrangements have been made, and I'm leaving tonight."

"That hotel is famous."

Rei Furutani approached me a little nonchalantly.

I could almost see my reflection in the other person's purple-gray pupils.

"Mengzi, are you going?"

I:"!!"

I was about to bounce almost instantly: "Go go go go!!!"

This is a hot spring trip that has been delayed for several months! !

I suddenly forgot that this was Rei Furutani's office, and excitedly hugged his neck: "It just so happens that we can play that otome game together!!"

Jiang Guling gave a "puchi" laugh, and there seemed to be some helplessness in his eyes:

"Okay."

About half an hour after Mengzi left, Jiang Guling went to the tea room to make tea.

The office area was empty, with no sign of anyone at all.

After he came out with tea, he happened to meet a large wave of colleagues returning from dinner in the corridor.

The junior who was walking at the front spotted him and stopped him excitedly: "Mr. Jiang Gu! It's a pity that you didn't come to the dinner just now! Everyone has passed!"

Jiang Gu Ling bent the corners of his mouth politely: "I'm sorry, I already have an appointment at noon."

The younger generation suddenly realized and nodded: "Oh! So that's the case! We were still wondering if you would be lonely eating bento here alone. Xiao Lin said that you went downstairs and got a bucket and came back."

Jiang Guling: "..."

He took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "No."

……

The younger generation went to Jiang Gu Ling's office to submit the report.

I found a large bouquet of roses on the table.

A pennant of "Mihua is a good man" hangs on the wall.

Junior: "..."

Junior: "..."

He suddenly seemed to know why the chairs in Mr. Jianggu's office appeared in the office area.

The junior walked out of the office silently, and when he was sure that he had reached the distance where "the voice could not be transmitted into the other party's office", he began to spread gossip:

"This is too much! It's really fake!! Let me tell you——"

When I was packing my luggage, I slipped the maid outfit in there too.

Rei Fuguya seems to be in a good mood today...

Maybe I'll be able to...

I secretly planned.

...and ended up packing it in the suitcase anyway.

That hot spring hotel is in the suburbs, a bit far away.

When Jiang Gu Ling drove me there, I was still happily planning what pool to soak in later.

"I haven't soaked in hot springs yet. I heard that there are usually many different pools, which can be changed, such as medicinal baths and milk pools."

I rubbed my hands together.

"I also brought a swimsuit, I don't know if there will be many people."

Jiang Gu Ling stared straight at the road ahead: "Well...it may be a little different from what you imagined, it will be very quiet."

I pinched the hem of my clothes in puzzlement: "?"

quiet?

Aren't hot springs full of buzz and crowds?It's like that on TV.

……

It wasn't until I got to the hotel that I understood what he meant by "there are some differences".

"Private...private soup?"

I stared blankly at the spacious hotel room.

In the small yard outside the glass floor-to-ceiling windows is a matching hot spring pool.

only one.

Jiang Guling pushed the suitcase, holding the room card between two fingers.

"Correct."

He tilted his head to look at me.

I froze and picked up the hotel introduction brochure on the bar.

"Dear guest, welcome to our hotel."

"This suite is a VIP room with private soup for couples."

There are a lot of things written later, but my sharp eyes focus on this line alone——

Couple private soup VIP double bed room.

"..."

All kinds of factors are superimposed, and I feel like slipping away with my suitcase for a moment.

I sneaked a sneaky glance at Furuya Rei who was inserting the room card by the door.

Noticing my gaze, he gave me a very sincere look: "What's wrong?"

The doubt in the tone was just right.

I:"……"

I:"…………"

Ah oh.

Is it... not quite right.