“As you may have heard, Chairman, I was originally planning to study abroad in high school,” Chihaya Aine said, “but I had some problems, so I returned home.”

Chihaya Aine tells Shirakawa Haru about her life abroad.

She was under great pressure in the international school because of her poor oral English. Her classmates laughed at her and her teachers deliberately ignored her because of her poor oral English.

Although her roommates have been concerned about her mental state, she really does not have the strength to continue living in that high-pressure environment.

“So you’re a deserter?”

“Chairman, how can you say I’m a deserter!” Chihaya Aine said gloomily, “In that situation, what would the chairman do?”

“Don’t plan what to do, just do what you should do. I won’t take the initiative to cause trouble, and others had better not mess with me. My world is not big, and there is only room for a few people in it. If you always care about other people’s eyes, these malicious eyes will tear you to pieces one day.” Shirakawa Haru said.

“But I can’t do it like the chairman.”

“If you can’t do it, then you can’t do it. Don’t be too hard on yourself.”

Shirakawa Haru said that this is all in the past and there is no point in bringing it up again. And if you want to avoid it, then so be it. As long as you feel you haven’t made the wrong choice, it’s fine. After all, you can’t expect others to be responsible for your life. You’ll encounter many things along the way. Some people come and go, some leave and meet again. Some people say they want to be with you through thick and thin but leave along the way. Some people may seem to hate you to death, but they’re the ones who stay with you the longest.

These people will influence your life, but your life belongs only to you, so never make choices for others.

Only you are responsible for your life.

“Chihaya, if you want to run away, just run away. Don’t let your future self who regrets you catch up with you.” Shirakawa Haru said.

“Thank you… Thank you, Chairman.” Chihaya Aine scratched the side of her face with her fingers. “If you hadn’t come to my defense just now, I would have run away again. I still feel like I’m living in a dream.”

“Ah.”

“What does ‘hmm’ mean?” Chihaya Aine said shyly.

“‘Hmm’ means ‘hmm’.” Shirakawa Haru said helplessly, “How are you going to resolve the conflict in the band?”

“I don’t know. Chairman, please help me think of a solution.”

Chihaya Aine said this with a troubled expression on her face. Her eyes quietly fell on Shirakawa Haru and she found that he was sending a message on his mobile phone.

Shirakawa Haru looked up at her, then lowered his head again. He told Chihaya Aine that the members of her band were all asking about her situation.

“Everyone is worried about you. Please report your safety in the group first.” Baichuan Qing said.

Chihaya Aine sent a message as instructed, and then the band’s group chat became lively. She turned off her phone after a simple reply.

“Your biggest problem right now is that you can’t keep up with the pace. Give me your hand,” Baichuan Qing pointed at the band-aid on her hand, “Your attitude is impeccable and you deserve praise.”

“But my strength just can’t keep up~” Chihaya Aine’s voice became a little crisp and soft, “My fingers hurt so much, can you praise me, Chairman?”

“You’re getting more demanding.” Shirakawa Haru looked at Chihaya Aine who was smiling beside him, not knowing what to say.

This girl is actually quite cute, always looking silly and happy.

“Then Chairman, can you just call me ‘Aine’ from now on?” Chihaya Aine looked at Shirakawa Haru with expectant eyes.

“Aine.” Shirakawa Haru said.

Chihaya Aine was stunned when she heard this.

“What’s wrong, Chairman?”

“What are you doing tonight?”

“……no?”

“Well, your guitar should still be in RING’s music room, right?” Shirakawa Haru stood up and placed the bottle of soda he had drunk on the lid of the trash can. “We still have some time. I’ll take you to RING to practice guitar.”

“Ah?” Chihaya Aine was shocked. She looked playful and cute. She tilted her head, her small mouth slightly opened, and the light shone on her face, adding a soft halo to her.

“Aine, do you have any questions?” Shirakawa Haru looked at the dazed Aine.

“No, no!”

“Then let’s go.”

“Chairman, please go ahead. I’m going to throw a bottle and will catch up with you soon.”

Chihaya Aine picked up the glass bottle of boba soda and shook it. Shirakawa Haru nodded to indicate that he understood, and turned to walk towards RING. Chihaya Aine followed Shirakawa Haru’s example and placed the glass bottle on the lid of the trash can. Then she turned her head to look in Shirakawa Haru’s direction. After making sure he wasn’t looking at her, she hid the two glass bottles on the trash can in the bushes where they would be difficult to find.

She didn’t know what she was doing. By the time she realized what she was doing, she had already hidden the two glass bottles of soda.

Looking around, she found that no one noticed her actions. Chihaya Aine ran away quickly towards Shirakawa Haru, as if she had done something wrong.

The RING sign was very bright at night. When Shirakawa Haru and Chihaya Aine walked in, a kitten took advantage of the gap when he pushed the door open and ran out.

He also heard the sound of someone coming up the stairs.

“I can practice guitar with you for an hour,” Shirakawa Haru turned on the light in the piano room, and Chihaya Aine’s guitar was indeed still there, having been put away in its case.

“That’s weird!” Chihaya Aine said, “Why would the chairman want to practice guitar with me so late at night?”

“Everyone has seen your hard work, but you must not forget one thing,” Shirakawa Haru said. “Your guitar skills really can’t keep up with the overall level of the band right now.”

“I want to see how you practice guitar by yourself.” Shirakawa Haru pulled a stool and sat down in front of Chihaya Aine. “Don’t waste time, just start practicing.”

Chihaya Aine held the guitar, pressed the strings with her left hand and plucked with her right hand, and started playing while looking at the music sheet.

She didn’t know if it was because Shirakawa Haru was sitting in front of her watching her, but she felt that the guitar practice tonight was very effective. She had only practiced for less than half an hour, but she felt as fulfilled as if she had practiced for a whole day.

“Aine, stop!” Shirakawa Haru stretched out his palm and waved it in front of Chihaya Aine.

“Eh?” Chihaya Aine stopped playing the guitar.

“Have you noticed that when you play guitar, the fingers of your left hand tend to collapse a bit?” Shirakawa Haru said. “You need to remember to keep your palm perpendicular to the fretboard and naturally bent. Otherwise, your left hand will get very tired when pressing the strings. You also need to get close to the frets, but not touch them. This will make your sound clearer.”

“I already know all these techniques.” Facing Shirakawa Haru’s instruction, Chihaya Aine puffed up her face and said dissatisfiedly, “These are very basic requirements.”

“Just because you know it doesn’t mean you can do it,” Baichuan Qing said, “I just took a picture. Do you want to see what your hand gestures look like?”

“Chairman, let me see the photo.” Chihaya Aine said.

Shirakawa Haru took out his cell phone and opened the photo album to show Chihaya Aine.

“How’s it going? Are the actual gestures a little different from what you imagined?” Shirakawa Haru commented. “Pay attention to these and remember to correct them. Rest for ten minutes now, and then practice for a while later.”

“Okay.” Chihaya Aine said softly.

Looking at Shirakawa Haru who was constantly operating her mobile phone, Chihaya Aine had a growing doubt in her heart.

She thought about it for a while and felt that if she didn’t ask this question, she would definitely not be able to sleep well today.

“Chairman, why are you helping me to this extent?” Chihaya Aine asked, “Why are you helping me resolve the conflict between me and the band?”

“What do you mean?” Baichuan Qing frowned, a little confused.

“What I mean is, there’s no need for the chairman to go to such lengths for the band and me, right? It was me who used some fabricated, self-righteous misunderstandings to coerce the chairman into helping me form the band,” Chihaya Aine said. “You don’t need to spend so much energy on us.”

“Even if I was forced to do so, I have invested my feelings in this band. I cherish my feelings very much, so I will not watch them being wasted,” said Shirakawa Haru.

“Wow! That sounds so heavy!” Chihaya Aine stood up from her stool and stared at Shirakawa Haru with a look of surprise, as if she had just seen a giant panda, as if she had just met him for the first time. “So the chairman’s arrangements and views on relationships are so heavy!”

“Aine, what are you talking about?” Shirakawa Haru sighed, pulling out her phone to check the time. “Ten minutes have passed. Start practicing guitar right now. I’ll be watching and correcting your form.”

“Well! Then please keep an eye on me, Chairman.”

“I will.” Baichuan Qing nodded.

The sound of guitar was heard again in the music room.

The silver-haired wild cat with heterochromia stood at the door of the piano room, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, as if she had heard something interesting.

“Interesting man.”

Chapter 6000 Yuki’s Observation ()

Shirakawa Haru didn’t get home until after nine o’clock in the evening.

Although he initially told Chihaya Aine that he would only accompany her to practice guitar for about an hour, he stayed for another half an hour because of Chihaya Aine’s request.

Perhaps the events related to the Hinomori Academy Festival in the past two days had consumed too much of Shirakawa Haru’s energy, and now he just wanted to quickly return to his room and go to bed.

He entered the house and changed into his indoor shoes at the entrance, but when he turned the corner he found his sister sleeping soundly at the door, her body curled up like a small ball of cotton.

Of course, it was not possible for Yuki Suho to sleep at the door, so Haru Shirakawa bent down, picked her up horizontally, put her on the bed in her room and covered her with a quilt.

After doing all this, Shirakawa Haru opened the curtains, and a ray of moonlight from outside the window shone on Suho Yuki. She looked like a princess while sleeping, well-behaved and quiet, and her white pajamas were like a milky white mist surrounding her.

“Huh…” Shirakawa Haru breathed carefully, afraid of waking up the sleeping Yuki Suho.

But Yuki Suho probably felt a sense of security that could only be felt when Shirakawa Haru was by her side. Her eyebrows trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes, raised the corners of her mouth, and her eyes were a little confused.

“Good evening…Qing, what did you have for dinner…dinner,” she tried hard to express her thoughts, but the words that came out of her lips seemed unclear, “Have you had dinner?”

“Not yet.” Bai Chuanqing said. He turned on the wall lamp on the bedside table. Warm orange-yellow light shone down, like a star appearing in the room. “What did you eat tonight? It wasn’t those snacks I bought earlier, was it?”

“Those snacks must be saved for midnight snacks. It’s only a little after nine now, right? I’ll wait for you to come back for dinner.” Under the light, Zhou Fang Yuxi woke up. She yawned and threw back the quilt, then fell on Shirakawa Haru as usual, her hands hooked around his neck, her two white and tender thighs tightly hooked around Shirakawa Haru’s waist as if to kill him.

“You didn’t have dinner?” Bai Chuanqing asked with a frown, “Aren’t you hungry?”

“I’m hungry! I was starving when I got home from school this afternoon.” Feeling that he was gradually sliding down, Yuki Suho climbed a little further up Shirakawa Haru’s body like climbing a tree. “You have no idea how much trouble it was to mobilize the junior high school students these past two days and ask them to decorate the classroom and the club. They’re just a bunch of little brats. It’s such a hassle!”

“Then you should eat well.” Shirakawa Haru walked towards the kitchen. When passing through the living room, he wanted to throw Yuki on the sofa, but he failed because Yuki was holding him too tightly.

“But dinner is more fun when we have it with our family.” Zhou Fang pinched Shirakawa Haru’s waist and then laughed strangely, “Or do you not want to have dinner with me?”

“Whatever you want to eat tonight?”

“Just keep it simple.”

“How about fried tempura and curry rice? And miso soup and grilled saury.” Shirakawa Haru finally threw Suho Yuki onto the sofa.

He first covered her mouth and then pinched her nose to prevent her from breathing.

Yuki Suho’s face became redder and redder due to lack of oxygen, until she could no longer hold it in and let go of Shirakawa’s hand that was lightly covering her mouth.

Things were very simple after that. Yuki Suho’s upper body was lying on the sofa on its side, and Shirakawa Haru just slid his fingertips up along Yuki Suho’s thigh. Light pink lines appeared where his fingers had rubbed, like the texture of the finest salmon, so beautiful and appetizing.

After being teased by him, Yuki Suho’s thighs, which were tightly locked around Haru Shirakawa’s waist, immediately softened.

Shirakawa Haru took this opportunity to quickly escape from the living room and went into the kitchen.

“You can watch TV for a while. Dinner will be ready soon.”

“Okay.” Yuki Suho raised her eyes and then looked at the anime on TV.

The show she was watching was called “Too Many Loser Heroines,” a recent romantic comedy. She loved it because the male lead’s gentleness captivated countless women, many of whom were exceptional in every way. They liked him and had a soft spot for him. However, she felt that only his sister could be with him, and that his so-called sister-in-law was just a puppet she had chosen.

Yuki Suho feels that the protagonist’s sister is very similar to her, and likes to hide her little thoughts in places that are difficult to detect.

For example, when the male protagonist’s sister was writing a novel, she wrote that the heroine had a slightly bulging belly. It was obvious whose child it was: it could only be her brother’s.

The hero’s sister also likes to secretly follow and monitor the hero. Yuki Suho couldn’t do it before, but since she got the modifier, she can do it too, and it’s more covert and unknown.

Let me take a look at what my brother did today in places where I can’t see~

Suho Yuki lightly waved his arm, and as the air rippled like ripples on the water, several “mirrors” with different perspectives began to play a day in Shirakawa Haru’s life.

Oh, my brother is so handsome.

No matter from which angle you look at him, he is so perfect. I really don’t know how those little girls in school can resist confessing their love to such a brother…

Ah!

It turns out that my brother has no interest in dating at all!

There have been girls in my life who have fallen for my brother, but of course, I am not included in this category.

In the morning, Shirakawa Haru was passing small notes to each other with Takamatsu Touma and Goto Ichiri. Occasionally, Chihaya Aine would ask her friends around her to pass notes to chat. The few of them were having fun using notes or paper balls to pass messages, just like elementary school students.

After looking at it, Yuki Suho said it was nothing.

Among these three girls, one has no idea what love between the male protagonists means; one is naturally introverted and seems to have nothing to do with love; one is the positive star of the class, but she seems to be indifferent to Shirakawa Haru and only wants to be in the spotlight and play in a band.

Wait! Suho Yuki’s eyes suddenly became as sharp as a sword.

She was originally lying lazily on the sofa, but after seeing this scene, she straightened her back and sat up straight.

Her eyes were fixed on the program on TV, but only she knew that she was watching the surveillance footage.

A cluster of blue irises, so beautiful that even Suho Yuki couldn’t help but praise their beauty, popped out from the corner of the classroom window. The owner of the blue irises stared intently at Shirakawa Haru, who was passing notes to Takamatsu Touma and Goto Ichiri, with her amber eyes.

Tsk… why is it this guy again?

Yuki Suho thought that she was in such trouble. Among all the women who coveted Shirakawa Haru, Shoko Toyokawa was the one she despised the most, hated the most, and was the one least qualified to like Shirakawa Haru.

She felt that Toyokawa Shoko was too childish. She clearly had a pair of hands carved and kissed by God. As long as she was willing to spend time and energy, she could be another “Mitsuko Uchida” in Japan. In some possible world, she might even be the Mozart or Chopin of Japan.

But people with such talents cannot seize opportunities and cannot see their future.