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Su Yin had nowhere to go, it was rare to have a vacation, and she didn't want to go back to Akashi's house so soon, so she simply visited Mrs. Hong after a long absence.

Mrs. Hong's mental state has always been quite stable, but she can't bear the stimulation of her husband's memory.Su Yin easily sneaked in to visit her many times, and Mrs. Hong already regarded her as a close "junior".

"What's the matter?" Mrs. Hong asked softly, "You don't seem to be in a good mood today."

"Hmm..." Su Yin forced a smile, "Because something happened."

Thinking of the past, she felt a little depressed, and after a long silence, she asked, "What kind of person do you think... I am?"

"Why did you suddenly think of this question?" Mrs. Hong asked suspiciously. The gentle voice made Su Yin, who was originally uneasy, feel at ease a lot.

"I've been thinking about this question." Su Yin tilted his head and blinked in confusion, "What kind of person do you think I am?"

"What kind of person do you think you are?" Mrs. Hong asked softly.

"...I don't know." Su Yin shook her head, "I think I have been working very hard to please people. No matter who I am, even if I only met once, I have the confidence to make him like me. But I feel that I am not me like that again, and I want to be self-willed and do some annoying things occasionally... At that time, they won't like me anymore. The relationship between people...is just so fragile .”

"Why do you think so?"

Su Yin was silent for a while, and then whispered uncertainly: "...Because, mom."

Although her mother's face has been blurred in her memory, she still remembers that she was a beautiful and powerful woman, proud and mysterious. Su Yin always imitates her mother unconsciously, wanting to be like her.

If it's a mother... She doesn't have to do anything, and there will be many people who love her to the core.

She once said to Su Yin that the first and most important thing to do in this world is to have self-knowledge.

A conversation ended without a problem, Su Yin had nothing more to say, bid farewell to Mrs. Hong, went out, and saw Hong Jiaodong standing not far away silently watching this direction, dazed, with a complicated expression.

She stopped, and began to think about whether she had come at an inappropriate time, disturbing the time between the two mothers and sons... But it seems that Hong Jiaodong has never gone in to see Mrs. Hong... Before she finished thinking, Hong Jiaodong lifted her foot , took a step back, and seemed to have no intention of visiting her mother at all.

... how strange.

She thought of the memory of Mrs. Hong that she had inadvertently glimpsed—a woman who couldn't bear the personality marriage and poured scalding hot water on her young child in a state of confusion and despair.

...will you resent it?

She hesitated and slowed down, and walked forward. Before Hong Jiaodong left, Su Yin couldn't help calling him: "That... Mr. Hong?"

Hong Jiaodong turned around and hesitated: "Hello. Do you know my name?"

"...Well, Mrs. Hong mentioned you."

"...Me?" Hong Jiaodong didn't seem to have much expectation for his mother's concern for him, so he didn't ask any further.

When returning to Akashi's house, Su Yin bumped into Akashi Seijuro head-on. He was holding a stack of papers, and he just put down the phone with a hurried look on his face... probably because of the trivial work of the student union.

Su Yin guessed.

Akashi also saw her coming back, nodded slightly to her, and went to work on his own affairs again. The moment before he stepped on the stairs, he turned around and called Su Yin as if he suddenly remembered something.

Su Yin looked up at him, not quite understanding what happened.

"About what happened last time, I apologize to you." He said, "I really shouldn't use my own thoughts to speculate on you."

Ever since he heard the story of her being orphaned since she was a child and later abandoned by her mother, Akashi Seijuro couldn't help but soften his heart towards her, showing some undue pity for her.

Thinking about it now, those sympathies and sympathies really disrespected Su Yin himself.

Su Yin was stunned, she didn't expect Akashi Seijuro to apologize to her so solemnly... She couldn't help but pursed her lips and laughed: "No, Master Akashi doesn't need to apologize to me, in fact, I still have to thank you that day , otherwise I will be scolded by Akashi-san for a while longer."

"I was rude." Akashi said lightly, "But I still have something to say, Su Yin, you really don't need my pity. You are already very good."

"I'm already very good... what do you mean?" Su Yin lay on the table, raised her hand, and stared blankly at the guard in her hand.

Finally, a familiar wave of spiritual power came from the guard, and Su Yin sat up in surprise: "Master Qingming?"

A phantom like white smoke floated out from the guard, it was Seimei who finally woke up.

Su Yin immediately forgot what he was worrying about just now, and said to Qingming: "Master Qingming, you finally woke up, it has been more than half a month."

"After all, I'm just a lingering thought, Su Yin," Qingming said helplessly, "I can't stay with you for too long."

Su Yin's smile dimmed, and she reluctantly replied:

"……Yes."

It was she who forgot her motto - as long as you don't expect too much, you won't suffer when you lose.

"I see..." she said in a low voice, trying her best to suppress her disappointment.

A hand lightly brushed the top of her head, Su Yin raised her head, Qingming smiled and said to her: "Okay, don't go into a dead end again."

"I didn't..." Without even thinking about it, she opened her mouth to deny it, but there was a trace of confidence in Qingming's smile that seemed to see through everything, and she couldn't help but slowly hoarse, unable to refute.

"You're confused, aren't you?" Seimei asked, "Have you met a member of the Tengu clan?"

"...Yeah. I've seen it."

Qingming sighed: "No wonder... I told Big Tengu a long time ago, and asked him to calm down and explain clearly to you, but he was afraid of offending you... After all, every time he appears in front of you, you would be unhappy."

"He, in fact, has been regretting it... When he made an appointment with me not to help Hei Qingming, he said goodbye to me, saying that he would go back and play a song for you first. But you seem to have not listened to his explanation... ...I never had a chance to listen to it afterwards.”

"The big tengu has always been thinking about you, Su Yin. It's because you don't believe in yourself."

Su Yin lowered her eyebrows and said nothing.

"I know that you are a good boy, kind-hearted, and able to read words and deeds... But it is precisely because of this that you live such a tiring life. No one will abandon you, Su Yin, you don't have to protect yourself so carefully."

The author has something to say: Ah, I caught up with the update on the [-]nd!