Chapter 258 The Torrent of Fate Cannot Be Stopped

Chapter 251 The Torrent of Fate Cannot Be Stopped

Kinomoto family.

In the backyard of a detached villa.

Touya Kinomoto crouched down, holding a water hose in his hand, and was continuously rinsing a car.

This is their family's car; they don't drive it very often.

Fujitaka usually takes the bus to university, which he says is environmentally friendly, reduces emissions, and saves a lot of money on gas.

He washed the mud off the tires, then stood up and began cleaning the surface of the vehicle.

Suddenly, a voice rang out beside him.

"Working so diligently."

Upon hearing that all-too-familiar voice, Touya immediately knew who it was.

This surprised him slightly. He turned around and looked at Xue Tu, only to find that Xue Tu was already standing not far away from him. He had been so focused on washing the car that he hadn't noticed Xue Tu's approach.

Although his five senses are usually exceptionally sharp, he can quickly detect when others approach.

However, he was washing the car just now, and the person who came was Xue Tu, so he didn't pay any attention.

"Ah Xue, what brings you here today? Did you come especially to see me?"

Touya straightened up, facing the warm sunlight streaming down from the horizon, a smile playing on his lips.

"Just checking in to see what you're doing." Yukito shrugged noncommittally, glanced down at the car beside him, and then teased Touya, "As expected of someone who worked part-time at a repair shop, Momo, you've washed it very well!"

"After all, I did a lot of work when I was an apprentice, and I learned a lot." Touya snorted lightly.

Just then, Fujitaka came out of the house, carrying two tied-up garbage bags. Seeing the figure standing next to Touya, he greeted him warmly, "Oh? Yukito's here! Good morning. Have you had breakfast yet?"

"Good morning, Uncle. I've already eaten," Yukito said politely to Touya.

However, as he spoke, he actually felt a little hungry again.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but lift his hand and show the two the gifts he had brought.

"Before I went back yesterday, Touya told me that you guys might have a big cleaning session this morning, so I brought some good food to treat you."

The box in his hand wasn't very big, but it wasn't particularly small either.

"Oh? Really?" Fujitaka glanced at his son and nodded. "Thank you so much. Is this a cake? Whether you made it yourself or bought it, it must have taken a lot of time. Thank you for your help."

"No trouble at all." Snow Rabbit shook her head, then honestly replied, "I bought this from a shop. Their cakes are really delicious, so I thought I'd bring them for you to try."

"Arigato." After sorting and disposing of the trash, Fujitaka washed his hands with a hose, then dried them on the pink apron in front of him before taking the cake box from Yukito.

"Hmm! I can already smell the delicate aroma of cream; it looks like it's going to taste delicious," Fujitaka exclaimed in admiration.

At the same time, he slightly raised his head, glanced at the weather, and then smiled at the two young people: "Actually, I'm almost done with my work, and there's not much to clean at home. Since you're all here, let's sit down and have a cup of tea together. I just brewed a pot."

Fujitaka placed the cake that Yukito had brought on a table in the yard, and then went inside to get some tea.

At this moment, Touya turned off the water hose. After the water stopped spraying, he temporarily placed the hose next to the car, then took the towel that Yukito handed him and wiped his wet hands.

Yukito glanced into the house: "Has Sakura already visited Tomoyo's house?"

"You mean that monster?" Touya snorted softly. "Yeah, she's gone to wreak havoc on other people's homes. If she were here, we might not have been able to finish our spring cleaning so quickly."

Snow Rabbit: "(???_????)"

This guy.

Of all his parts, his mouth is the hardest.

"That short-haired aunt seems to have a lot of issues with Uncle. If Sakura goes over there, there shouldn't be any problems, right?" Yukito was a little worried.

He witnessed the two arguing yesterday and heard some unpleasant descriptions from Touya, so he was a little worried about Sakura visiting Tomoyo's house.

He was afraid that the short-haired aunt would take her anger out on Sakura because of Fujitaka.

"I should... be fine." Touya shook his head hesitantly.

It's no wonder he wasn't sure.

Because of the situation he saw yesterday with his father and Aunt Yuanmei, I was really worried.

Whenever these two meet, they're either arguing or on their way to arguing.

There's no way we can have a proper conversation.

With such a strained relationship between the two elders, it's hard to guarantee that the child won't be affected.

"But looking at how Aunt Sonomi treated Sakura yesterday, it seems there's nothing to worry about." At this moment, Yukito thought again that although Sonomi was cold to Fujitaka yesterday, she was a completely different person when she treated Sakura, and her words were as gentle as a spring breeze.

Just then, Fujitaka came out of the house again with a cup of tea. He listened to their conversation, his tone calm, with a faint smile on his lips: "Don't worry, Sakura will have a wonderful weekend there."

"Sonomi won't hurt Sakura."

"Absolutely not."

"Alright, come and have some tea."

Fujitaka gestured for Touya and Yukito to sit down, indicating that the two should start eating quickly.

"Hi!"

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"Sakura-chan, you and Nadeshiko are so alike."

On the tranquil lake, Sonomi rested her chin on her hand, gazing at Sakura with sparkling eyes and an uncontrollable upturn at the corners of her mouth: "Nadeshiko was just as cute back then."

Wang Changsheng glanced at Tomoyo's mother and noticed that the expression on her face was exactly the same as the expression Tomoyo sometimes gave when looking at Sakura.

They all had the same infatuated expression.

At the same time, images flashed through Yuanmei's mind.

Before that stinky man Fujitaka appeared, Master would always stay with him, and the two would talk about everything.

Nadeshiko would always call herself sweetly—

"Sonomi-chan~"

She would also confide in herself about the various things that happened to her during the day.

Those were such wonderful days.

Sonoko's expression held a hint of nostalgia.

Until a picture suddenly popped into her mind.

One day, Nadeshiko suddenly called him to a cherry blossom tree, her smile radiating happiness and joy.

I had a bad feeling about it at that moment.

Sure enough, she was holding a bouquet of cherry blossoms in her hands, and said to herself with a smile, "Sonomi-chan, I'm getting married, to Kinomoto-sensei."

"What?!?"

Yuanmei is certain that her brain went blank for a long time after hearing those words.

Because her memory after that was a complete blank, as if she had been struck by lightning, she finally came to her senses only after Nadeshiko called her name repeatedly.

Nadeshiko changed after that.

She stopped clinging to him, stopped asking him questions, and he didn't even need to bring her food anymore...

"You filthy man, get out of here!"

A vein bulged on Daidoji Sonomi's forehead as she roared inwardly, but her face remained impassive.

After all, she didn't want to do anything that would damage her image in front of Sakura.

"Mom, what's wrong?" Tomoyo noticed her mother's expression and couldn't help but ask with concern.

Upon hearing her daughter's voice, Sonomi immediately snapped out of her daze.

She shook her head, scooped out a large piece of cake with a spoon, and stuffed it into her mouth.

"It's nothing, I just thought of a bad guy." Yuanmei swallowed the cake, then picked up her teacup and took a sip, finally exhaling a breath of stale air.

Bad guy?

What kind of bad guy could she be? She must be referring to Sakura's dad.

Watching Yuan Mei drink tea so heartily, Wang Changsheng glanced down at the teapot he was holding in his arms.

"How come there's so much tea in this pot? I feel like I've been drinking it for ages, and there's still more than half a cup left," Wang Changsheng said helplessly.

He's not a water buffalo!

And he doesn't even have cake to eat, he's just drinking tea all day, he's about to throw up.

"Sakura, may I call you that?" After eating a piece of cake and drinking some tea, Sonoko felt much better with something in her stomach, so she looked at Sakura and said gently.

Wang Changsheng, who had just placed the teapot on the table, looked puzzled upon hearing this.

No.

I said, Auntie.

You've been calling her "Sakura-chan" since yesterday, and now you're only asking if it's okay to call her that?

"Of course, no problem!" Sakura readily agreed.

"That's good." Sonoko smiled with satisfaction, then chatted with Sakura again, "Tomoyo told me that you're a cheerleader, and you're always in the center position during performances. You must have great athletic ability, right?"

"Actually, it's not that bad, it's not that exaggerated." Sakura shook her head shyly, humbly saying that she was only chosen to be in the center position because everyone liked her a little.

"And speaking of athletic ability, my dad is actually the best in our family."

Sonoko: "..."

Upon hearing Sakura's words, Tomoyo's mother's expression stiffened for a moment.

However, she immediately sighed inwardly.

It's just a fact, nothing to be angry about.

Then she thought of some memories about herself and Nadeshiko, and immediately put Fujitaka out of her mind.

"Speaking of which, your mother isn't very athletic."

When talking about someone she used to like, Sono's tone became a little lighter.

"What I remember most vividly is that one day when we came home from school, your mother was asking me something. Just as I was about to answer her, your mother suddenly fell down, which startled me. There was nothing on the ground, and she fell down without making a sound."

Yuanmei laughed heartily.

"When I turned around, I saw her lying on the ground. When I quickly helped her up, she looked at me with a confused expression and said that she had fallen down..."

Just thinking about Nadeshiko's dazed and innocent expression back then makes Sonoko feel like her heart is melting.

I have to say, she's so cute!

"Huh? Really?" Sakura was also stunned for a moment, blinking her eyes. She didn't expect her mother to be able to fall flat on her face. It seemed that she really hadn't inherited any of her mother's athletic ability.

"Wait, that's not right either. Every time I throw the stick into the sky, I sometimes get hit by it." Sakura suddenly remembered this.

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It seems I inherited some of my mom's athleticism.

"Could you tell me more about my mother?" Sakura chuckled to herself, then turned her gaze to Sonomi. Her dark green eyes shone with a hopeful light, clearly showing her great interest in her mother Mo's past.

"Of course, I remember too many." Yuanmei agreed without hesitation, and immediately added, "There was also a time when I made plans with her to go skiing together."

"Because we were all just getting into skiing back then, and had never tried it before, I was very careful when I was learning. I only dared to ski forward little by little. And guess what your mom did?" Sonoko looked at Sakura with a hint of a smile in her eyes.

"Huh? What's wrong with Mom? Is she skating very fast?" Sakura tilted her head, looking a little confused.

"Haha, she flew right past me. I was terrified. Your mother doesn't know how to brake. Luckily, there was a tree covered in vines that stopped her, and she wasn't seriously injured. Otherwise, I really don't know how I would have stopped her. If she had flown down the mountain, it would have been a huge problem."

Sakura: "(òωó?)!"

"And another thing, one day after I finished a school club activity, I went to find her, and I found her climbing a tree. She was covered in dirt, and it looked like she had tried two or three times but hadn't made it to the top."

"I asked around and found out that a little bird had fallen from its nest in the tree. I thought I would just take it back up, but she insisted on putting it back herself. Who would have thought that the little bird would go back to its nest, but she herself would mess up. She could only climb trees, but she didn't know how to get down. In the end, she slipped and fell down from the tree."

"Huh?" Sakura's eyes widened. "Won't Mommy be in trouble?"

Although it happened a long time ago, Sakura still felt a little worried when she heard it now.

"Oh, of course she's fine, because she fell right on top of Kinomoto-sensei..."

The words were abruptly cut off before they could be finished.

The smile that was on Yuanmei's face suddenly disappeared, and she even started gritting her teeth.

"Damn it! I should have just snatched that bird from Nadeshiko's hand, climbed the tree, and returned it. That way, it wouldn't have hit Kinomoto-sensei. If it hadn't hit Kinomoto-sensei, we wouldn't have had this strange encounter. And without this strange encounter, Nadeshiko definitely wouldn't have fallen for Kinomoto-sensei!"

"Why did Nadeshiko insist on climbing the tree herself? How awful!"

Thinking of this, Yuanmei felt so angry that her head started to ache. A surge of anger welled up in her chest, mixed with a bit of regret.

She felt that if she had been firmer with Fuko back then, and hadn't let her risk climbing the tree, things might not have turned out this way.

Yuan Mei thought so, but Wang Changsheng sat to the side, eyes closed and minding his own business, without uttering a single word.

The meeting of Sakura's mom and dad can be described as a clash of fates.

The little bird was just a pretext.

Even if there are no birds, there are still chicks, ducks, pigs, cows, and lambs.

Even if she did snatch the bird and climb the tree herself, wouldn't that just give the two of them a chance to meet under the tree?

This is an unsolvable problem; Sonomi alone certainly cannot change this fate.

The wheel of fate keeps turning, and no matter how hard Yuanmei tries, it's all in vain. She can't fight against the tide of the times, nor can she escape the predetermined outcome in the future.

Just like after Nadeshiko and Fujitaka got together, Sonomi challenged Fujitaka countless times, but in the end, she always failed.

Even Nadeshiko's great-grandfather couldn't persuade her, so Sonomi was naturally even more helpless.

She doesn't even know anything about magic, how could she possibly fight against his plans?