[Comprehensive] Reasons for not being in love

This is a story many years later...

Timeline: Tomei's last year at Kyoto University after dating Akashi

Since the beginning of winter, the weather has been getting colder every day.In the past few years in Kyoto, Tomei has also gotten used to this kind of climate, although most of the time, she always huddled in the heated room.

In the last year of university, there are more and more things to be busy. Tomei, like other students of the same level, started to look for jobs everywhere in decent formal clothes-because she didn't want to rely on her cousin's help. relationship, easily get a pretty decent job.

The relationship between her and Akashi is also terribly harmonious. Ever since she disclosed to Atobe that the two are dating, she and Akashi seem to have reached a long-term tacit understanding. What will happen, sometimes Akashi will engage in a little romance—although it is not an earth-shattering feat, but as Tomei who accepts this romance, he is always moved speechless, even if he cannot see each other for a long time His complaints probably dissipated in an instant.

Dongmei's residence is in a student apartment not far from Beijing University. In the past few years, she has rejected her cousin's request to live in a suite specially bought for her, because Dongmei really doesn't want to be like her gorgeous cousin. Everything is high-profile and noticeable.

It's just that in such an ordinary place, things like power outages have happened several times this winter.

Then, within a few hours of losing the heat, Tomei was caught cold.

Originally, he thought about not telling Akashi about his illness so as not to worry the other party, but after a phone call, Akashi immediately noticed the nasal sound in Toname's tone.

I got sick?That's what Akashi asked.

No.

Of course Tomei denied it immediately, and Akashi on the other end of the phone didn't have any special emotions. After a pause for half a second, he said in a clear voice: Don't be brave, pay attention to rest, and I will come to see you when I have time.

That night, Kyoto ushered in the first snow of the year.After a few days of freezing, the snow finally fell.

Under the reflection of the night light, the crystal clear snow is beautiful.Staring out of the window through the glass window for a while, Tomei still chose to close the curtains.

The night view is just good-looking, not to mention that there is only one person watching it, and Tomei has no interest in it at all.And to be honest, Tomei doesn't really like snow days because it's too cold.

The heater was turned on in the room, and Tomei curled up in the kotatsu.There is a computer on the desk, and on the screen is her unfinished thesis.

The cold has not improved for several days, although the body feels a little heavy, but it's just this situation, Tomei feels that he can still hold on and complete the task set for himself today.After all, Tomei has always acted well and planned, and she has a bit of perfectionist obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Why do I suddenly hope that someone is by my side to take care of me...

This is the idea that Dongming suddenly popped up at this moment, she who has always been an excellent woman actually wants to act like a baby sometimes.The eldest cousin is far away in Tokyo, so Akashi...is he busy?It's better not to bother.

Although Akashi said on the phone during the day that he would come to see him when he had time, but... the possibility of that is very small, right?Tomei was still very clear about how busy Akashi was.

The fingers typing on the keyboard became colder and stiffer, so that the typing speed became slower and slower.

In the silent room, the frequency of the only sound of the keyboard that was moving gradually slowed down. The sound was like a lullaby, and Tome, who was sitting in front of the computer, also began to fall asleep due to physical discomfort, until the sharp doorbell suddenly woke her up. stand up.

Who will come to her after this time?

Tona rubbed the center of his brows, and reluctantly crawled out of the kotatsu, his legs that touched the air outside the kotatsu felt like they were frozen.

She has considered everything from the apartment manager to the property owner to the students from the same school next door. There should be no reason to come to her at this time.

And the most unlikely possibility happened.

Through the cat's eyes, the figure zoomed into the small viewing hole made Dong Ming startled.

The red hair color is probably the warmest color in the night, and the pair of gentle red eyes seem to carry the warmest power in the world.

Tomei couldn't wait to open the door, his eyes scanned up and down, using the fastest speed to confirm whether the figure in front of him was real.

Standing at the door, Akashi still had a few flakes of snow on his shoulders that hadn't completely melted. He raised his hand and casually patted off the snow on his shoulders, and walked in from the door. Then he took the briefcase in his hand and the coat he took off directly Handed it to Dongmei, as if he was used to it.

The corner of Akashi's eyes glanced at Tomei's slightly astonished face, and he spoke lightly, with a bit of softness in his cold voice: "You want to ask me, why did you come here?"

It's like this again, this person is always clear about what he is thinking.

Dong Ming nodded, hung his coat on the coat rack, and then asked, "Aren't you going to have a meeting tomorrow? The meeting about the new project you told me about before..."

"Well, yes."

"Eh?"

Then there is still time to run to her?

Dong Ming was wondering, but the figure in front of him suddenly turned around and took a few steps towards her, and then put his warm palm on her forehead.

"It's not bad, I don't have a fever." After confirming the temperature, Akashi breathed a sigh of relief, "It seems that your complexion is not very good."

"Well, it's a little uncomfortable."

Tomei turned out the mask from the drawer while talking, she was really worried that she would infect Akashi with the cold.For this busy man, his health is more important than anything else.

"Mr. Akashi hasn't told me yet, why did you come here suddenly?"

The cover of the mask made Tomei's voice sound muffled, her gaze was still fixed on Akashi, and the figure of the other party was reflected in her pupils.

"I didn't say that, I will come to see you when I have time."

"Have time……"

Tomei repeated in a low voice, what he said on the phone not long ago was that he would come over when he had time.

But this so-called time... Dongmei didn't think that Akashi really had much time, she even thought that this busy man might tell her in a second, um, he was leaving.

"Mr. Akashi, don't you need to sort out the materials for tomorrow's meeting?"

"Preparation is the same here."

After all, Akashi took the briefcase and sat down in front of the kotatsu quite familiarly, directly opposite the seat where Tomei had sat.Then, he took out his laptop from his bag and said that work is work.

"Eh?!"

Before Tome realized what was going on, he saw that the usually indifferent person in front of him really started to turn his back on her, and buried himself in his work without saying a word.

Suddenly, the quiet room was broken by a rhythmic keyboard sound.

"Eh!?? Are you going to be here tonight?"

"Ah."

"Oh……"

After being surprised, Tomei's reaction was much calmer than Akashi imagined. He raised his eyebrows and glanced at the former, and asked in a deep voice, "What's wrong?"

"No……"

Is this really here to see her?Ah, I really can't laugh or cry... So the emotion of seeing Akashi suddenly come to find me before is gone, so I hate business elites the most!

Of course, the complaints of these little girls Tona just pent up a few times in his stomach.

When the atmosphere returned to a new balance, Tomei also felt that he was thinking too much.How could it be possible that Mr. Akashi is not someone who has no arrangements? Her worries seem to be unnecessary.

So the two wanted to sit on the kotatsu face to face, and they were also facing the computer screen, doing their own things.

It's really hard to imagine that this is the way couples get along, but it's just like this, it's the special way these two get along.

The two people who were engaged in work were surprisingly similar in this aspect. Neither of them spoke, and then the time passed by like this.

Not only was the room so quiet that the air had solidified, but even the neighborhood outside the window sank into the silence of the night.

What broke this calm was the power outages that have occurred several times recently.The originally bright space suddenly became dark, and the only light source was the laptop screen.

The sudden situation caused the two of them to stop typing on the keyboard at the same time. After a few seconds of silence, the two called each other's name in unison.

"Mr. Akashi."

"Koga."

Then, both of them had a meal, and they both took their attention away from the computer.Then, they looked at each other's faces sitting directly opposite, illuminated by the faint light of the screen.

Akashi broke the brief silence first: "You go ahead."

"I want to ask if it will affect you. I can't continue working on tomorrow's meeting materials, right?"

Akashi snapped the laptop closed, and at the last moment when the screen fluorescence disappeared from his face, what Toname saw was a face as indifferent as ice.

Is he angry?

The light from Tomei's own laptop shone directly into her face, so she couldn't see clearly what was behind the computer.It just felt like Akashi stood up from the kotatsu, and then...

Tomei's laptop was covered, and it was truly pitch black at the moment.

Before his eyes could adapt to the current darkness, Toname really couldn't see anything.

"Since the power is out, don't continue." Akashi's gentle voice sounded close to his ear, "You too."

In the darkness, Dongming only felt that the familiar aura was constantly approaching her, until she was drawn into a warm and firm embrace.She habitually rubbed against that embrace, as comfortable as a kitten begging for favor.

Thought he was upset about not being able to continue working...

"I'm not upset."

As if seeing through Tomei's thoughts, Akashi directly answered Tomei's concerns.

"So I'm thinking too much?"

"Is such that."

"..."

After just cutting off the heating for a few minutes, Tomei began to feel a little cold. She sniffed and asked the person who was hugging her at the moment: "Won't Mr. Akashi be cold?"

"will not."

"Okay, I'm cold."

After speaking, Tomei buried his body in the kotatsu and lay down on the tatami.She tugged at the corner of Akashi's clothes: "Let's go together, I'm cold."

Akashi complied with Tomei's request and lay down in the kotatsu with her.He held Tomina's palm, just as Tomina said, his fingertips were cold because of the cold.

Akashi has always known that Tona is afraid of the cold, to an exaggerated degree.

"Would you like to come closer?"

"Eh?"

Regardless of Tomei's reaction, Akashi hugged Tomei directly.

His words were never requests, but orders that could not be disobeyed