CHAPTER 481: 224. RESTLESS VALENTINE’S DAY (3)_3

Jiutiao Meijie began to frown.

Dubian Che leaned toward her ear and whispered, "I’ve told you before, this guy likes girls, so be careful around her."

Jiutiao Meijie glanced at Ichiki Aoi and vaguely remembered something about that, but she had no interest in these trivial people and didn’t remember clearly.

"Kiyono," Yuzao Haomei stepped forward, "do you want to go see a movie later?"

"No need, thanks." After Kiyono Lin rejected the offer, she told the cashier, "Please give me a doughnut."

"Make it three!" Dubian Che added.

The cashier looked at Dubian Che and then at Kiyono Lin.

Kiyono Lin sighed, "Three doughnuts, thank you."

"Alright, please wait."

After buying the desserts, the three stepped outside the shop.

In the shopping center courtyard, there was a love song contest going on, where couples could sing a song on stage and receive a free chocolate coupon.

Listening to the singing that wasn’t particularly nice nor entirely unpleasant, Dubian Che bit into a doughnut Kiyono Lin had paid for.

Beneath its crust, the sugar was solidified like snow, very sweet.

Both Kiyono Lin and Jiutiao Meijie were also eating.

Both held their doughnuts with one hand, the same left hand, and the bite sizes were not much different either. It might have been a coincidence, but it made Dubian Che think of their complex relationship.

There was definite animosity, but Jiutiao Meijie, who disliked physical contact, had pinned Kiyono Lin on her own bed during winter camping.

And Kiyono Lin?

This high and mighty beauty, who normally didn’t waste words with anyone—except Dubian Che—, could go on forever once she started arguing with Jiutiao Meijie.

With their intelligence, they must have long noticed the special feelings they had for each other.

So, was it indifference, routine, or had they reached a tacit agreement of "even though we dislike each other, we recognize one another"?

"Kiyono, what do you plan to do next?" Dubian Che asked after finishing his last bite of doughnut, crumpling the white paper bag into a ball.

"What about you guys?" Kiyono Lin’s doughnut was still more than half uneaten.

She always ate slowly, little by little, chewing many times.

"We’re going to see a movie," Dubian Che replied.

"Then I’ll go too."

"Hm?" Dubian Che paused slightly, "Earlier, when Ichiki Aoi invited you, you didn’t agree; now going with us, isn’t that a bit improper?"

Before he could put more thought into it, Dubian Che knew he was about to get scolded again—Kiyono Lin never cared about how others saw her; she just did her own thing.

"Mr. Dubian, your memory..."

"I know, I know, I’m a chicken, okay?" Dubian Che quickly spoke before she could finish.

In the Island Country, being a chicken implied having a bad memory.

Kiyono Lin lightly covered her mouth with her right hand, smiling, "That’s what you said yourself."

Despite planning to say something far more provocative, she showed such an attitude, really unbearable... not.

"Are you planning to watch the same movie as us?" Dubian Che asked.

"Of course." Kiyono Lin took another bite of her doughnut, "Are you not welcoming me?"

"It’s not like I own the cinema, go if you want," Dubian Che turned to ask Jiutiao Meijie, "How about you, Meijie?"

Jiutiao Meijie glanced at Kiyono Lin and told Dubian Che, "Only if she sits beside me."

"You two seem really close!" Dubian Che said enviously.

"Heh." Jiutiao Meijie laughed disdainfully, "If you want to be close, it’s not impossible; just kneel and lick my feet."

"Only Dubian Che would do such a twisted thing," Kiyono Lin replied with a cold expression, "I’m gentler than Jiutiao, just write a 10,000-word self-criticism and call me ’Big Sister,’ then I’ll reluctantly get along with you."

"Self-criticism? Big Sister? Who else but Dubian would do such disgraceful things?"

"Hey, you guys are actually teaming up to curse me out!"

The two ladies snorted simultaneously, and after that, due to the synchronized action, they both looked even more displeased, so they both went back to eating their doughnuts.

Then, they simultaneously stopped eating...

The situation was complex, delightful, and amusing.

Regrettably, Dubian Che couldn’t observe it fully because he laughed midway and got his foot stomped on by Jiutiao Meijie.

While the two ladies were having their spat, Ichiki Aoi and the others came out.

"Mr. Dubian, what do you guys plan to do later?" Ichiki Aoi, holding a bag of chocolates, asked.

"See a movie."

"At Kadokawa Cinema?"

"Yes."

"What’s the movie called? What time?"

""The Earth Stops for 365 Days", at 9:15 pm."

"That’s great, we’re going to see that romance movie too! Hopefully, we can sit together!"

At that moment, Dubian Che and Mayi Asuka locked eyes.

With Jiutiao Meijie around, she wouldn’t show any anomaly, but in the dim cinema...

Honestly, Dubian Che didn’t quite trust Mayi’s willpower.

"Wait," Dubian Che realized he had overlooked a very important issue, ""The Earth Stops for 365 Days" is a romance movie? Not a sci-fi movie?"