Am I being simulated by their love affair?

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Walking to the trash can, the boy tossed the cardboard box down vertically. As he turned around, he was met with Sakamuro Ken's disappointed gaze.

"Songzhi, where's your cool basketball shooting form when you throw away the trash?"

"It's a yogurt container, after all." He chuckled. "It wouldn't be good if some yogurt spilled out if I threw it at the wrong spot."

“That’s right.” The girl sitting next to Ken Sakamuro suddenly looked up.

"Sakamuro, last time you insisted on showing off by throwing that coffee can, and now the area around the trash can is covered in coffee!"

He walked past her incessant nagging, returned to his seat, and stuffed his notebook into the drawer.

The girl sitting to his right turned her head and blinked in surprise. "Tsun-kun already reviewed the wrong answers? That was fast."

Jun Matsue twirled the pen between his fingers. "I have a pretty good memory, you know."

He developed the habit of keeping a mistake notebook after receiving math tutoring from Tomatsu; otherwise, given his memory, there would be no need for him to keep one.

However, with the girl's insistence, the boy still wrote it down. Perhaps it was psychological, but the error notebook did seem to be somewhat helpful.

After all, searching through a vast sea of ​​questions to recall the wrong answers takes time, and of course, it's possible that his memory is deteriorating.

"Hmm..." Tomatsu Yuka frowned slightly, her expression gentle and lovely.

"Would you like to see my error notebook?" She took out a delicate pink and white notebook from the drawer, with a rabbit head sticker on it.

Jun Matsue thought for a moment, "That works too, there's still some time before nap time."

As he reached out to take it, the boy remembered another question, "Don't you need to see it yourself?"

The girl tilted her head. "I didn't get many questions wrong. I already looked at them during lunch."

The weather was hot and humid, and with exams to prepare for, the girls ate lunch in the classroom. Only one girl, who couldn't stand the cold lunch, went to the cafeteria alone without hesitation.

Before opening the girly notebook, Jun Matsue glanced out the window and placed it on his desk.

Mochizuki Haruka was hunched over the table, looking at her textbook. Her hands were folded together, supporting her chin, and her sleepy eyes blinked repeatedly. It was impossible to tell how much she had actually absorbed.

"Go to sleep if you're sleepy," the boy leaned over and whispered to her.

At this time of day, the girl would usually be fast asleep, nestled under her cat-shaped pillow.

Mochizuki glanced at him and said, "I know."

She lifted her chin, yawned, and turned another page of the textbook.

The girl usually listens to lectures when she's interested and does her homework diligently, so she's considered hardworking. To make her aunt even happier, she doesn't mind cramming a little more before the exam.

"Speaking of pine branches, how do we solve this problem?"

The two leaned their heads together and began to whisper to each other. Tomatsu Yuka, on the other side, looked over, gripped her pen tightly, and stared at the boy's back.

After explaining the questions to Mochizuki and reviewing Tomatsu's mistakes, Matsueda Jun stretched and gently placed the notebook back beside the sleeping girl's arm.

Most of the students in the classroom were already asleep, and the boy had also slumped over his desk, taking out his phone from his drawer.

Before taking a nap, he glanced at the messages in the chat box.

"I went to the supermarket to buy groceries this morning and bought bread at Asahiya. For lunch, I made my own mashed potato sandwich."

Jun Matsue slowly typed with his left thumb, "Okay, I won't go grocery shopping when I get back."

The message didn't show as read immediately like before, but the boy was used to it. He put his phone back in the drawer, buried his arms, and closed his eyes.

It had been three days since she went to karaoke with Yosuke Kurusu. The next afternoon, the girl returned to her apartment, looking completely nonchalant.

However, something has indeed changed.

It's like becoming a real roommate—

They agreed to take turns cooking breakfast and dinner, with whoever was free buying groceries.

The boy had to go to school and work during the day, so the two only interacted in the evenings. Their time together in the evenings was limited to one or two hours in front of the television. Mochizuki Haruka would sit with him, while Kurusu Yosei would sit a little further away. The girl's languid reclining posture was gone, replaced by a polite and proper sitting posture.

Of course, it's more likely that she's not on the sofa, but in her bedroom with the door closed, listening to music, watching dramas, and doing yoga by herself.

She remains energetic and optimistic, but she is less proactive when facing Jun Matsueda.

The girl showed him her lunch and daily schedule reports every day, as if she really regarded the boy as her guardian. Apart from that, there was no further communication between the two in their chat box.

In conclusion, this sense of distance is clear and beneficial to both parties, and Wangyue Yao is happy to see it happen.

So Junya Matsueda also chose to adapt to this relationship, but he wasn't very proactive in adapting—after all, Kurusu would be leaving the apartment soon anyway.

So when he woke up and heard the name of Yosei Kurusu appear again in the discussions around him, the boy was extremely surprised.

Jun Matsue blinked, making sure he wasn't dreaming.

"What's wrong?" He turned to look at the girl on his right.

Tomatsu Yuka frowned as she looked at the messages on her phone. "Yoshi-san updated his status half an hour ago."

Yosei Kurusu's official account hasn't posted any new messages in a long time, so Jun Matsueda immediately took out his phone from the drawer.

The message was short and concise: Yosei Kurusu has been taking a break from her entertainment activities due to health issues caused by a recent high-intensity tour, and apologized to all her fans and supporters.

But the lunch that Kurusu sent him at noon was two sandwiches that were full of food. How could there be a problem with her health?

He opened the girl's chat window and typed rapidly with both hands.

"What's with the recent post from your official account? Did the operations department post it without authorization?"

"No, it was sent after the company communicated with me." Lai Qiyang replied quickly this time.

"After I finished lunch, I lay in the air-conditioned room and thought for a while about what to say. I decided to let the company send it for me."

"What do you mean?" Jun Matsuoka almost mistyped.

The girl's tone became clear, "I don't want to talk about it on the phone. Let's talk about it when Songzhi gets home from school."

"...".

The boy opened the comments section of the post and browsed through them. They were all speculations about "retirement" and "being blacklisted".

The bell rang, signaling the end of lunch break. Students in the classroom stood up, grabbed their exam supplies, and quickly left.

"What kind of expression is that, Songzhi?"

Wang Yueyao stood beside him, rubbing her eyes sleepily—the girl had just woken up and hadn't had time to check her phone yet.

Jun Matsue took a deep breath.

"...It's nothing. Just wash your face to clear your head and head to the exam hall."

He desperately wanted to run out of the teaching building right now, hop on his bicycle, and rush out of the school gate as fast as he could to get back to his apartment and ask Ryusei Yosei what was going on.

But he still had to take the exam, so the boy walked toward Tomatsu Yuka who was waiting outside the back door.

All those wrong answers were a waste of time.

Chapter 641 "He's Mine"

At four o'clock in the afternoon, after the bell rang to end the exam, Tomatsu Yuka looked up and saw Matsueda Jun, who was sitting in the same exam room as her, pick up his pencil case and look at her.

"I'll go back and find Kurusu first."

The boy mouthed this to the girl, and before she could nod, he left the examination room.

Tomatsu Yuka didn't call out to him; she simply lowered her head, packed her things, and followed the wind created by the boy out the back door.

Looking at the hurried figures walking away in the distance down the corridor, her emotions were somewhat complicated.

After today, the relationship between Tsunkun and Kurusu Yosei will surely change, right?

How close will they become?

If something happens to me, will Jun-kun come to find me even faster than he did today?

If he and Kurusu Yosei, or Mochizuki Haruka, were to encounter trouble at the same time, whose side would Tsunku rush to first?

Could it be me...?

The girl, her heart pounding with emotion, slowed her pace as she was gradually enveloped by the crowd surging out of the classroom behind her.

Back in the classroom, Jun Matsueda picked up his schoolbag and quickly walked towards the stairwell while texting Yosei Kurusu.

"I'm coming back now. Are you home?"

The girl sent him a photo, a recording of her tour on TV, probably taken while she was sitting on a sofa.

“This guy…” The boy frowned.

He wouldn't even send a text message, so he couldn't sense Kurusu's current emotions at all.

He had to tell Mochizuki that he was going back first... As Matsueda Jun stepped onto the stairs and clicked on the black cat avatar in his list, the girl who had caught up from behind grabbed his arm.

The boy turned his head and saw Mochizuki Haruka's signature slightly aloof eyes and brows.

"Are you in such a hurry to get home to find Lai Xi?" She had already checked her phone.

“I’ll walk with Songzhi. The car is right at the school gate, which is much faster than you riding your bike.”

Having no reason to refuse, Jun Matsue nodded, and the two walked down the stairs together.

Stepping out of the teaching building, the sunlight was exceptionally scorching. The girl squinted slightly as she followed the boy's hurried shadow.

"What is Laiqi Yangshi planning to do? Is he going to retire?"

Jun Matsueda's voice was a little muffled, "If I had known, I wouldn't be in such a hurry now."

"..." Mochizuki Haruka's eyes flickered. She had only been happy for a few days because of the disheartened Kurusu.

They quickly left the school gate and got into a black car parked by the roadside. The girl told him to "drive faster," then glanced at the boy next to her who was looking at the windshield, and quietly took out her phone.

Is Auntie home?

The woman replied quickly, "Are you going to tell me your little love stories again?"

“No.” Mochizuki Haruka sent over a screenshot of Kurusu Yosei’s post.

"What if I stop being an idol after coming to Qiyang World and come back to steal my pine branches?"

She had a vague premonition, and it grew stronger as the car started its engine.

The girl's message showed as read, but there was no immediate reply; the aunt was still thinking about it.

Mochizuki Haruka pouted, glancing at the boy beside her. Matsueda Jun was still staring at the road outside the windshield.

Only after the silhouette of the apartment building climbed onto the road in front of the car did the girl receive a reply from her aunt.

"Of course we kicked her out!" the woman said aggressively.

"Even flirting has its limits. He hasn't even explained the matter of that fake girlfriend yet, so idols shouldn't get involved!"

Just as she had expected, the girl nodded vigorously. She looked up at the apartment building parked outside the car window, her eyes filled with undisguised hostility.

The sound of two people's footsteps echoed in the stairwell, one after the other, all the way up to the fifth floor. Before entering the corridor, Jun Matsue turned around and glanced at the girl walking behind him.

"Could Mochizuki stay in room 506 for a while? I'd like to talk to Kurusu alone."

Wang Yueyao stared at him intently for a few seconds.

"up to you."

Watching the girl walk into 506, bend down to pick up the cat that ran to the entrance, and wait for her to close the door, Jun Matsue stood in front of the security door next door and took out his key.

In the sweltering summer heat, even the door lock felt hot, making one reluctant to hold it. The boy walked inside and closed the door behind him.

The living room, with the air conditioning on, was chilly. Standing in the entryway, Jun Matsueda could only see the dining table outside the kitchen; he couldn't see Yosei Kurusu.

However, her singing voice surrounded the boy's ears—her bright and melodious voice was overwhelmed by the accompaniment and the cheers of the audience, losing some of its delicate authenticity.

He changed his shoes and walked into the living room. In the center of the sofa sat a girl's slender back, swaying slightly to the melody on the television.

It turns out she was just singing on TV.

Hearing footsteps behind her, Yosuke Kurusu turned around, a milk-flavored Pocky stick dangling from her mouth, and gave her a "welcome back" smile.

"Pine branch is back~"

"..." Matsueda Jun was a little surprised, she wasn't like this a couple of days ago.

The boy was no longer in a hurry. He sat down next to the girl and looked at her on the TV screen, where she was holding a microphone and looking radiant.

"Why are you watching your own performance today?"

During the two weeks I spent back at my apartment in Kurusu, I never saw myself on camera.