When she answered this question, she thought about how Saito Hiko spent time helping her with her studies, and her desire to beat him up in revenge faded a little.

“Just qualified… I don’t understand you…” Saito Hiko stopped talking after saying the previous words.

‘I don’t understand why you spend so much time on tutoring but your grades still don’t improve.’

He wanted to ask Hoshino Ai this.

“You have managed to complete your studies, rehearse and perform, and still pass your studies. You’re already great.” Saito Hiko changed his tone and praised Hoshino Ai.

Chapter 209 I think…

“Hiko-kun, the transition to compliment is a bit awkward, but thank you anyway~” Hoshino Ai heard the first part of Saito Hiko’s change of words.

“I really admire your perseverance. For all this time, you have never complained to me, saying that you don’t want to do it or don’t want to study.” Saito Hiko said seriously.

He has seen how hard Hoshino Ai has worked during this period. Even though there are physical potions to replenish physical strength, mental fatigue will still occur. He has also drunk mental potions, but the effect is only temporary.

In the past few months, she has either been studying or practicing songs, dances and preparing for performances.

“How can an idol give up so easily?” Hoshino Ai replied with a smile.

Although Hoshino Ai is troubled by her idol career and studies and her time is fully scheduled these days, she feels that this is much better than the days when she was alone before.

“I didn’t ask you this question… What I wanted to ask is… forget it.” Saito Hiko originally wanted to ask Hoshino Ai a sensitive question, about whether she was satisfied with the past and the present.

But after thinking about it, I decided not to continue because asking this question could easily lead to a pitfall.

After touring the villa, he and Hoshino Ai walked towards the backyard of the mansion.

The sky was filled with red clouds as they walked along a path in the woods.

“Well…if I’m not mistaken, you want to ask me if I was too tired compared to now, right?” From Saito Hiko’s question, Hoshino Ai guessed that he probably wanted to ask something like this.

“It’s almost the same question.” Seeing that Hoshino Ai had noticed it, Saito Hiko did not deny it.

Hoshino Ai showed an indifferent expression and said: “I am very satisfied with my current life. Although it is a bit tiring, it is much better than before.”

“I only started being an idol in February, and only five months have passed, but it feels like years have passed.”

“I originally thought that the president and I would only be formal guardians. He became my guardian out of necessity because I was a child from an orphanage and if I wanted to perform, I had to get a guardian’s signature. In order to allow me to perform, he became my guardian out of helplessness. The relationship we formed was only on paper.”

“But after getting to know each other, even though the president is a bit careless, he still fulfills his duties as a guardian…”

The girl smiled as she spoke to Saito Hiko: “During this time, I am most grateful to Kyoko. She had no obligation to take care of me, but she still took care of me in every possible way. If I hadn’t insisted on making my own lunch, she might have also made it for me…”

As Saito Hiko listened to Hoshino Ai’s narration, he felt that she had found the right time to share her feelings during this period.

However, as he was listening to Hoshino Ai’s narration, he suddenly remembered a picture.

In the dim night, Hoshino Ai stood on the roof. The dim environment made it impossible to see the expression on her face. She opened her hands.

“Lies piled on lies, no matter how painful and sad it is, as long as you stand on the stage, you can sing happily’

What a joyful job this is.”

Shrouded in darkness, Ai Hoshino forced a smile and spoke in a somewhat crazy tone.

“But I also want to be in a place where I can feel happy, even if no one notices…”

Hoshino Ai said with a regretful tone.

As she spoke, she looked up at the sky, the starlight shining on her face, revealing a lonely look.

Didn’t what Hoshino Ai said in that scene also express her loneliness and helplessness?

‘No matter how painful or sad it is, as long as I stand on the stage I can sing happily.’

If it were an ordinary person who had not experienced hardship, he would probably say something like “I feel happy to be able to stand on the stage and sing”, and would not say something like the above.

“Yanjun, thank you for your care during this period…”

Saito Hiko heard Hoshino Ai’s words of thanks, which brought him back to his senses.

“You’re welcome.” Saito Hiko replied simply.

“So you don’t have to worry about my condition. Even if my schedule is packed, I will just feel that my life is fulfilling.” Hoshino Ai did not notice that Saito Hiko was distracted and continued.

“Life is fulfilling…” Saito Hiko repeated the girl’s words, thinking of the words that just popped up in his mind. He felt that he should make her life richer so that she wouldn’t have to study and practice all day long.

Now he is not in a hurry to accumulate points, so he can just change the performance schedule back to once a month.

This way, the amount of practice can be reduced.

And with his current interpersonal relationships and money, which school can he not get into?

Thinking of this, Saito Yan asked, “Summer vacation is coming soon, is there any place you want to go?”

“Shouldn’t we seize the time in August to practice more and perform more?” Hoshino Ai was a little confused when she heard Saito Hiko’s words.

“The previous performances were uploaded to YouTube, and the songs were well received. My YouTube account now has 130,000 followers. We should hurry up and perform more and record songs.” The girl felt that Saito Hiko didn’t quite understand the format, and reminded him, “If we don’t take advantage of this popularity, there won’t be that many people following us later.”

“You will be popular in the future. The most important thing is to combine work and rest. You are still growing now. Too much practice and performance will only burden your body and may affect your development~”

Saitohiko said seriously, “An idol’s height is enough to affect his career. You don’t want your body to stop growing due to excessive training, right?”

Hoshino Ai saw Saito Hiko’s serious look and thought about her current height of 1 meters. If she stopped growing…

“Is this true?” Hoshino Ai thought about her continuous training some time ago and felt a little worried. Would all her hard training before result in her not growing taller?

“Will the extra training I did before prevent me from growing taller in the future?” the girl asked Saito Hiko worriedly.

“Proper exercise can promote development. If there’s no problem, just pay attention to it in the future.” Saito Hiko replied.

“That’s good. I was really worried that I wouldn’t grow taller.” Hoshino Ai patted his chest in relief.

“So what are your plans for the summer vacation?” Saito Hiko asked Hoshino Ai again.

“I think……”

Chapter 210 My family is quite big

When Hoshino Ai heard Saito Hiko’s question, she immediately responded, “I don’t have any plans.”

The two walked to the backyard of the mansion. The backyard was almost as Saito Hiko had imagined, but the difference was that the space in the backyard was larger than he expected.

The backyard is larger than the front yard and the villa combined, and there are mountains and water.

There is also a pavilion built by the water.

“Why don’t you come to my place? My house is quite big.” Saito Hiko said when he saw how big the backyard was.

“Definitely next time.” Hoshino Ai did not accept Saito Hiko’s invitation.

“I didn’t say now.” Saito Yan glanced at the situation in the backyard. Although the mountains and water were beautifully matched, he didn’t have any special feeling about the scenery.

‘nice.’

Take a few more glances, then look away.

Hoshino Ai and Saito Hiko walked to the pavilion in front and sat on the stone bench inside the pavilion.

Hoshino Ai observes the scenery in the backyard from the pavilion.

After looking at the scenery, Saito Hiko looked at Hoshino Ai with one hand on his face out of boredom.

“Aren’t you here to inspect the villa? Why are you staring at me?”

As soon as Hoshino Ai sat down and looked around, she felt Saito Hiko staring at her.

I originally thought that he was just observing the rocky scenery behind her, but after waiting for a while, Saito Hiko still didn’t shift his gaze.

Why are you still staring at me?

Hoshino Ai waited and waited, and finally couldn’t help but said, “Why are you staring at me? Aren’t you here to inspect the villa? Why are you staring at me after you sit down?”

“I’m almost done with the inspection. There’s nothing interesting about the scenery in the backyard. I’d rather look at you. You’re much more beautiful than the scenery.” Saito Hiko praised Hoshino Ai.

Hoshino Ai originally thought that the backyard was beautifully decorated.

Hearing Saito Yan praise her like that, she felt a little embarrassed. She wanted to say something, but she opened her mouth and only uttered two words, “Thank you.”

“Now that we’ve finished our tour, let’s go back.” Hoshino Ai felt that if he continued doing this here, Saito Hiko would still be watching him, so he suggested ending this inspection.

Well, since you said so, let’s go back.

Saito Hiko nodded in agreement to what Hoshino Ai said.

The two stood up and walked together, through the forest path back to the front yard, and got into the taxi waiting in the yard.

“Don’t you live here?”

Seeing that the two were still going back together, the taxi driver asked with a smile on his face.

He acted relaxed, as if he was just curious.

He waited here for about an hour and didn’t see anyone else in the mansion.

“We just came here to hang out with friends. His family is at work and hasn’t come back.” Saito Hiko answered the other party’s inquiry.

When he was patrolling the yard just now, he noticed that, apart from the three of them, there was no one else in the mansion.

To be cautious, he did not want to reveal the real information to the other party.

This is to prevent drivers from kidnapping on impulse.

After all, he and Hoshino Ai looked very thin, while the driver was a strong adult man.

Hoshino Ai was confused by Saito Hiko’s answer, because that was not what he had just said to her.

He was obviously the owner of the mansion.

But she was not stupid enough to ask Saito Hiko now.

Hoshino Ai calmly continued the conversation with Saito Hiko: “Just now he clearly said that we should go to the backyard to play together, but when he sent us to the first floor, he said he had a stomachache and asked us to go to the backyard by ourselves…”

“I just had a stomachache, there’s nothing I can do about it.” Seeing Hoshino Ai adding the details that the two of them went to the backyard without a third person, Saito Hiko also followed suit.

Chapter 211 Loss

“It seems that your friend trusts you so much that he even gave you the key to his house.” After hearing this, the taxi driver suddenly mentioned that Saito Hiko took out the key and closed the door when he came in just now.

“He just gave me the key in advance because he thought it was troublesome to open the door.”