fictionpage Chapter 518 The Hustle and bustle of Tokyo
Chapter 518 The Hustle and bustle of Tokyo
Chapter 518 The Hustle and bustle of Tokyo
Kaoru Uesugi stood at the bar of the coffee shop, stroking the blue cat named Coco in his hand.
"You've gained weight recently."
"Meow~ (The humans here are all my servants.)" Coco squinted her eyes, and put her furry head on the palm of his hand.
Kai Uesugi stared at the fat cat in his arms:
"Coco, tell me, what does it feel like to be a cat?"
"Meow~ (Conquering the world is our mission.)"
"So are you moving toward that goal?"
Ke Ke suddenly got out of his arms, and stood on the bar, next to a potted prickly pear plant: "Meow (boss doesn't seem very happy)"
"Me? I'm fine."
"Meow (No, the aura emanating from the boss is not very good.)"
"Meow~ Meow~~ Meow! (Boss! Boss!!)"
Kaoru Uesugi ignored Ke Ke in front of him, because he saw Hanamaru Hanabi coming in from the door of the store. The girl pushed the door open, activated the quiet wind chime on the door, and was politely saying hello to the colleagues in the store.
"Meow! Meow! (Boss!!)"
Uesugi Kai pushed Keke away with one hand, watched Hanamaru Hanabi say hello, and came in front of him.
She raised her small face and was looking at herself.
"Hanabi. Me."
"Good afternoon, Kai-kun." Hanamaru Hanabi smiled brightly like the sun.
"good afternoon"
But it was this kind of smile that seemed to be able to warm people's hearts, and Uesugi Kai felt that he was ashamed of her.
Even if you have a reason, if you do it wrong, you do it wrong.
Just thinking about Hua Huo Jiang's careful preparation of a room full of surprises, but staying alone all night, he felt as if he felt the sting of a bee needle in his heart.
Hanamaru Hanabi saw his expression staring at her, and smiled with her hands behind her back: "It seems that Kai-kun knows that he was wrong, so Hanabi doesn't have to worry about it."
After so many days of getting along, Uesugi Kai already knew that the "Hanabi" she is talking about now refers to another self.
"Secretly tell Kai-kun, Hanabi intends to take the initiative to bring up the idea of reconciliation with you." Hanamaru Hanabi covered half of her mouth with her left hand, and whispered to him while smiling.
Uesugi Kai understands that Hanabi is such a girl
No matter how much she failed her, she could still swallow the suffocation in her stomach.
"It's my fault, it shouldn't be Huahuo who came to me—"
"Then Kai-kun expects Hanabi to do this?"
Kai Uesugi stared at her silently: "I hope. I don't want it either."
"Ok?"
"It means that for things like apologizing, I have to show my sincerity in person. Asking you to take the initiative to apologize is not the right choice at all."
"Sure enough, this is the answer."
Hanamaru Hanabi suddenly turned around, turned her back to Uesugi Kai, and smiled slightly at the corner of her mouth:
"Since Kai-kun has said so, then Hanabi also agrees to Kai-kun—on the day of formal reconciliation, Hanabi will hold a birthday party for him alone."
"Make up a birthday party?" Kai Uesugi shrank his pupils.
Hanamaru Hanabi did not continue his words.
"Even if I do hate Kai-kun sometimes, why would Hanabi like him?"
Hanamaru Hanabi murmured.
"Once you like someone, hating him becomes the ups and downs of love. As long as he shows even a little bit of kindness to Huahuo after doing something wrong, Huahuo can't help it." Choose to forgive him. Never hate him."
Kaoru Uesugi was also aware of this.
"Mr. Zhao, you have to understand that when we get married, both of us are living happily. No matter what the two parties did wrong, we should move towards reconciliation, instead of making the love of 'Huahuo' appear more humble."
Hanamaru Hanabi said these words in a light voice, she put her hands behind her back, raised her head with a smile, and walked briskly towards the staff room.
Kaoru Uesugi soon saw her back disappear from his field of vision.
In the evening, the whole coffee shop became quiet.
Kai Uesugi glanced at Hanamaru Hanabi who was holding a book next to the bookshelf, and when the front desk was cleared up, he said to her:
"See you tomorrow."
"Well, see you tomorrow." Hanamaru Hanabi closed the book in her hand and smiled at him as usual.
From the perspective of Uesugi Kai, the setting sun outside the window is reflected behind her, and layers of halos make her extremely beautiful.
For the past two days, Huahuo has been staying at her mother's house.
You don't need to think about it to know that your mother-in-law must be talking about you in private, even if you say something like "married men are unreliable", it is not surprising at all.
On the contrary, Kai Uesugi was a little embarrassed to face the two parents.
After all, I was reprimanded by them only once in Hokkaido, and I have only been here for a week.
Kaoru Uesugi hung up the apron of the coffee shop.
"See you tomorrow, Uesugi-kun." Xiaoqiao Lihai bowed his head in front of him.
"See you tomorrow."
After saying goodbye to Akaerina and Tashiro sisters.
Kaoru Uesugi walked down the second floor of the coffee shop and came to the streets of Tokyo.
He looked up at the not-so-hot winter sunset in the sky, and suddenly thought in his heart—it's already December.
It will be another year soon.
Year after year, the years are constantly passing by.
Uesugi Kai has never been a nostalgic person, but ever since he met Hanabi, he can't help but miss the past and fear the future.
He would think, what should he do if one day he and Huahuo get old.
Is there really an afterlife?
Even if there is an afterlife, do you still remember Huahuo at that time?
What should I do if I forget her by then, and when she still remembers me, I fall in love with another woman without knowing it?
Kaoru Uesugi will not excuse himself, he just feels sorry for Hanabi.
There are some emotions that some people will never understand.
It's like ridiculing people who have lost their love on the Internet. They verbally comment on what a relationship is, and at the same time they stand in the upper hand and condemn you, so you might as well use this energy to study.
They didn't put themselves in their shoes, didn't experience it personally, they just spoke indiscriminately.
Messy thoughts swirled in Uesugi Kai's mind, making him so restless that he couldn't calm down.
He stared at the road ahead, the narrow sidewalks in downtown Tokyo.
An indescribable emotion drove his body, causing him to run forward unstoppably.
With his feet on the solid ground, and trembling calves climbing up his body, Kaoru Uesugi passed one after another strangers who had nothing to do with him, and in the whistling wind, he exerted his physical strength to the limit.
In his eyes, only the ground under his feet was emitting light, like a lighthouse on the sea, guiding his way forward.
While running wildly, the smell of the wind permeated his whole body through his skin, and white mist in the cold weather was continuously spit out from his mouth,
He could feel the rhythm and breathing of other passers-by, as well as the eyes they looked at him——when Kaoru Uesugi finally exhausted his energy, he realized that he had come to a strange place.
Along a river in a city.
A long-lost enthusiasm spread from his chest, Uesugi Kai propped up his legs and kept panting.
He looked at his sweaty palms, and then he became aware of his habit of venting his emotions by running.
This feeling of pushing yourself to the limit can break your lazy thinking.
Uesugi Kai propped up his legs, and stood up straight as soon as he got up. He exhaled hot air, and looked back at the cherry blossom trees on the shore that had not yet bloomed.
There is a reopening day, and no one is young.
Once again, the boy himself is no longer the boy he was back then.
And the one that reopens is no longer the original flower.
Even if someone similar to Hanabi could be found in the world, it would definitely not be her.
Everything is one, unique.
Kaoru Uesugi walked around the river for a while, and came to an unknown platform, and got on the bus with strangers he didn't know.
As the bus was moving slowly, Kaoru Uesugi sat in the back seat, leaning his forehead against the window.
Gradually, it started to get dark.
The city began to display thousands of lights, and the endless streets were still noisy. The sound of engines, wind, and horns seemed to be neutralized into the air, making the prosperity of Tokyo appear everywhere.
Looking at the gorgeously dressed pedestrians on the opposite commercial street, he suddenly thought:
In fact, what people love is never the city, but the people or emotions that the city brings to them.
Kaoru Uesugi returned home in a trance.
He took out the key, turned the door open, took the slippers out of the hallway, and walked into the house.
In total darkness, he flicked the light switch.
Suddenly, the room is bright white.
Hanamaru Hanabi still kept the birthday arrangement of the previous few days.
There are surprise salutes on the coffee table, colorful ribbons on the cake plate, balloons that she blows up by herself, and six big characters that she made by herself - "Happy Birthday, Mr. Zhao!"
It was obviously a very festive scene, but the room was surprisingly quiet.
The living room was empty, and there was no one standing in it.
Kaoru Uesugi stared at this place for a while, then couldn't help but sigh.
What a failure.
He walked to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and brought out a cake that he had eaten but hadn't finished yet.
Kai Uesugi put the cake on the coffee table in the living room and sat down cross-legged.
On the cake, the words - "Happy 19th birthday to Mr. Zhao! Congratulations!" are particularly eye-catching.
It's so dazzling that Uesugi Kai can't help but feel heartache just by looking at it.
If I went back that day, I should be happily eating cake with Huahuo now, right?
She would laugh at herself, and then tease her with a cake, spread white cream on her face, and listen to her complaining, "Kai-kun is so annoying!".
Kai Uesugi took out the table knife, cut off the cake that Hanabi made by himself bit by bit, put it on the plate and ate it slowly.
Although this is a cake from three days ago. The taste is not very good.
But Kaoru Uesugi felt that he should eat it, maybe it was because of guilt for Hanabi, or maybe it was to make himself feel better.
He ate the birthday cake Hanabi made for himself, and thought of the little girl who built a snowman by the window and used it as a substitute to wave to him.
"Brother Zhao, good afternoon."
He thought again of the little girl who had given him many paper cranes in both hands.
"These are for you, brother."
"Does Uesugi-kun think Hanabi is beautiful?"
"Uesugi-kun Hanabi is willing to stay by your side forever."
"Kai-kun. Hanabi likes you, I like you the most"
"Kai-kun, Hanabi is so happy. Really so happy."
"Please, Kai-kun, always remember Hanabi"
In the quiet night, in a room alone, Uesugi Kai slowly ate the cakes she made with a spoon one bite at a time, recalling the scenes of the past, the tears in his eyes couldn't hold back, but soon burst into laughter.
It's not a very important thing. I just think her appearance is really cute.
He put the half-eaten cake back into the refrigerator, went to the bathroom to wash his face, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and stared at himself in the mirror.
Yes, I was never alone.
He turned off the tap, walked out of the room again, and looked at the birthday layout in the living room full of surprises.
At this time, when I look at the big characters that Huahuo prepared for me above, it is no longer so dazzling and heartbreaking.
He began to look forward to what the girl had promised him in the afternoon.
A birthday party re-hosted by her.
Uesugi Kai smiled at the words happy birthday, and turned off the lights in the living room.
"Good night, Hanabi."
With a click, the night in Tokyo became silent again.
(End of this chapter)