That woman couldn't possibly...
This wasn't turning from an act into something real, was it?
Because someone had taken over and used Lin Ye's body, had that whole chain of events actually made Miura Yumiko develop feelings for him — made her fall for him?
No way, no way! It couldn't be like this!
This kind of situation was simply not possible!
Countless objections rose up in Yukino Yukinoshita's mind.
As far as Yukino was concerned, Miura Yumiko shouldn't have been the type to go that far. If it really had happened, then things had once again spiraled beyond her expectations.
There were more and more rivals now, all of them with their eyes on Lin Ye.
The one saving grace was that Lin Ye wasn't the type of man who fell for every woman he met — he still had his own bottom line and principles.
He still wouldn't develop much affection or feeling for Miura Yumiko.
But since Lin Ye himself had come to warn her about it, she definitely needed to be on guard too.
Otherwise, why would Lin Ye, out of nowhere, tell her to watch out for and be wary of Miura Yumiko?
The old Lin Ye had never once said anything like that.
"What happened this morning?" Yukino asked, her voice calm, though a trace of worry leaked through all the same.
What if — what if the thing she didn't want to happen had actually happened? What would she do then?
"Miura Yumiko asked me to meet her there, to thank me — for what happened at the school gate. She wanted to thank me," Lin Ye said.
"Mm," Yukino Yukinoshita replied.
Though a little surprised, Yukino Yukinoshita could accept that much.
There was nothing abnormal about it.
But given Miura Yumiko's personality and style, it was a bit unexpected that she'd take the initiative to express thanks.
Still, thinking it over —
if it was truly just to thank Lin Ye, there was no need for Miura Yumiko to specifically arrange to meet him somewhere private.
There had to be something unusual going on. Otherwise, Miura would never have done something like that.
"And there's more," Lin Ye said.
"She—"
The drawn-out pause made Yukino Yukinoshita's heart leap into her throat.
Even with her worries mounting, she tried her best to stay calm.
"She kissed me. Directly."
Yukino Yukinoshita: "..."
Calm down, calm down!
Calm down, my ass!
Yukino Yukinoshita felt she had absolutely no need to stay calm — none at all.
Her man had been kissed, directly, by that woman Miura Yumiko.
That blonde had gone way too far.
"And then she hugged me too," Lin Ye added.
Yukino Yukinoshita stayed silent, but her eyes urged him to keep going — she really wanted to know just how far Miura Yumiko had gone.
She was actually looking forward to it, in a way — very much looking forward to just how far that blonde had taken things.
"And finally, the worst part — do you know what it was?"
What could it possibly be?
They'd already kissed and hugged — what could be worse than that?
Yukino Yukinoshita couldn't help imagining the possibilities.
There hadn't been much time — there wasn't enough time to do much of anything.
Surely Miura Yumiko wasn't shameless enough to go that far.
"She forcibly grabbed my hand and pressed it against her chest," Lin Ye said.
It took Yukino Yukinoshita a good while to process what that meant.
"That's too much! Way too much! She knows perfectly well Yukino isn't very big, and she did it on purpose, just to get me lost in her chest — but I refused. I refused firmly."
Yukino Yukinoshita's face flushed red at that.
She was angry.
So angry that she was almost about to smile from sheer fury.
This bastard was finding new ways to provoke her.
"Lin Ye, don't make things up that didn't happen."
"I'm telling the truth. She really did shamelessly press my hand against herself."
Yukino Yukinoshita fell completely silent.
At this point, she could no longer dismiss Lin Ye's words as lies, as things he'd made up just to tease and provoke her.
Miura Yumiko really had done that.
Fine. Just fine.
"You didn't do it willingly, right?" Yukino Yukinoshita pressed.
"Of course not willingly. I was forced."
"She forced you."
"Yes."
"Did it feel good?"
"It felt good."
Lin Ye's words hung in the air.
Silence fell over the scene. Complete quiet.
Felt good?
He'd just said it felt good, flat out.
At this point, the corner of Lin Ye's mouth twitched, looking a little awkward.
Well, how to put it —
He'd said that on purpose. Otherwise, there was no way he'd have actually said something like that out loud.
"It felt good — big and soft, really quite nice, actually."
"..."
"Don't touch mine ever again."
At that, Yukino Yukinoshita's face showed unmistakable disdain.
"No, no, how could I do that! I refuse, I won't accept it," Lin Ye said, closing the distance toward her. But the girl immediately stepped back, putting space between them.
At that moment, this was absolutely not what Yukino Yukinoshita wanted, not what she was hoping for.
Especially here at school — if Lin Ye actually did something and someone with ill intent saw it, how would she ever be able to show her face at school again?
So Yukino Yukinoshita firmly refused, absolutely unwilling to let Lin Ye get close and possibly do something.
"Stay away from me."
Seeing Lin Ye still closing in, Yukino Yukinoshita spoke that single line.
Lin Ye stopped in his tracks at that, but a wounded look flickered in his eyes. That expression struck the girl hard, and all her worry vanished instantly, replaced instead by a growing sense of guilt.
Her rejection had hurt the man in front of her.
What should she do next?
What should she do now?
Yukino Yukinoshita thought it over and said, "Just be careful at school."
She pressed her lips together as she gave that reply.
Lin Ye's smile spread across his face.
He knew the girl had given in — faced with his sorrowful look, she had caved.
That was a good thing.
"I will, but..."
This time, Lin Ye quickly glanced around, and once he confirmed there was no one else nearby, he reached his hand out toward her.
"There are no other students around."
The obvious hint made Yukino Yukinoshita understand what he wanted.
He wanted to hold hands.
Fine, then.
It was just holding hands.
Though it did mean she'd have to take the initiative.
Yukino Yukinoshita didn't hesitate any longer. She reached out on her own, touched Lin Ye's hand, and then, with a flutter in her heart, laced her fingers with his.
He was her boyfriend, after all — her fiancé.
And by now, the two of them had already held hands more than once.
Except this time, it was Yukino Yukinoshita herself who had taken the initiative.
That had always been rare, very rare, in the past.
And at school, it was rarer still.
Yukino Yukinoshita understood that things like this would only happen more and more in the future — Lin Ye would keep testing her limits, and her tolerance for it would keep dropping lower and lower.
But even having foreseen this possibility,
she still couldn't seem to refuse him.
Yukino Yukinoshita had already lost the ability to say no to Lin Ye.
In the face of this man's affectionate gestures, she simply couldn't refuse anymore.
She'd even, at one point, considered just openly declaring her relationship with Lin Ye at Sobu High.
"Handle things with Miura Yumiko soon."
Yukino Yukinoshita said.
Since Miura Yumiko was already bold enough to do something like this now, Yukino felt that Lin Ye needed to end things with her as quickly as possible.
That nominal relationship — it should be over by now, rather than dragging on like this.
That blonde girl couldn't keep holding onto that title any longer.
Yukino Yukinoshita already had a faint idea, an urge, stirring inside her.
She should be the one taking that place next.
Only, in the end, there was still that lingering hesitation holding her back, and she wasn't sure how she should go about it.
"I will. But if I do handle it well, doesn't Yukino have a reward for me?" Lin Ye asked, shamelessly angling for a prize as usual.
That earned him a sideways glare from Yukino Yukinoshita.
She was already used to Lin Ye's shameless little tactics like this — if he didn't ask for some kind of gift, she'd actually find it strange.
And now that he was asking for compensation, everything felt perfectly natural.
"Dream on."
"Yukino really does love making me dream, huh. Fine, I'll dream then — I'll dream a sweet dream of having beauties on both arms, and then I'll make Yukino cry from jealousy."
"Hmph."
That earned Lin Ye yet another huff from Yukino Yukinoshita.
The two of them returned to the classroom.
The moment the two of them stepped inside, the International Class classroom, which had been buzzing with noisy chatter, instantly fell dead silent — not a sound to be heard.
It was as if he and Yukinoshita carried some kind of overwhelming, authoritative presence.
Yukino Yukinoshita gave everyone present a cold, sweeping glance before quickly looking away and heading to her seat.
Lin Ye was certain that these gossip-hungry students had spent the whole time he and Yukino Yukinoshita were out of the classroom freely discussing that incident at the school gate this morning.
As for that,
he didn't react much — he was already used to it by now.
Students, especially at this age, were always fascinated by, always curious about, gossip related to romance.
And Yukino Yukinoshita and Miura Yumiko were the two most popular campus queens at Sobu High.
When Shizuka Hiratsuka arrived at the International Class, she found the classroom already dead silent even though class hadn't started yet — and she fell into a brief moment of stunned confusion.
This wasn't normal. Not normal at all.
This was a good thing, sure, but to her, it just felt off.
"Class starting."
Shizuka Hiratsuka didn't ask any further questions.
Only, before starting the lesson, she glanced once more at Lin Ye.
Lately,
Lin Ye was the only one stirring up trouble — and today he'd caused quite a stir again.
Two of Sobu High's campus queens fighting over one man.
That thought genuinely stunned Shizuka Hiratsuka.
In any case,
she felt she really needed to have a proper talk with Lin Ye.
After school,
in the Life Guidance Office,
Shizuka Hiratsuka, wearing her white coat, lounged in her chair looking utterly relaxed. She pulled out a cigarette, but then, remembering that the minor Lin Ye was present, she put it back down.
"So, talk. What's been going on with you lately?"
Lin Ye had no idea what exactly Shizuka Hiratsuka was referring to.
There had simply been too much going on with him recently.
"Sigh."
Lin Ye let out a long sigh first.
"What are you sighing about? Sighing at your age?"
"Can't help it, Sensei. I'm... just too popular. There's nothing I can do about it."
Shizuka Hiratsuka: ???
"You, popular? Since when did I not know about that."
Lin Ye picked up on the meaning behind the look in Shizuka Hiratsuka's eyes.
"My aloof, gorgeous deskmate, the blonde beauty from next door, the pink-haired dumpling girl, and my lively, adorable junior — they're all around me, all tangled up with me, all looking like they want to be with me. If that's not popular, then who is?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka went quiet.
She really went quiet.
A second later,
she burst out laughing. "You're really full of yourself, aren't you. I never imagined you'd have this narcissistic side to you."
Her first impression of Lin Ye as a student had been that he was introverted, a man of few words, quiet by nature. She'd even been surprised, back when she first heard he'd confessed to Yukino Yukinoshita.
But at the time, she'd also been marveling at Yukino Yukinoshita's charm — that she could make a boy as introverted as Lin Ye take the initiative to confess was no small feat.
Because introverted boys really did struggle to take that step, to voice their own feelings out loud. But Lin Ye had managed it, in that moment.
And the newest shift had come this semester —
this once-introverted boy had turned normal, even outgoing, seeming to have picked up a real knack for socializing with others.
And after spending time around him, Shizuka Hiratsuka had clearly noticed just how different he'd become from before.
And now,
that change had become even more obvious — to the point of outright narcissism.
Before, there was no way he'd have reached this level.
This was something she wouldn't have dared to even imagine before.
"There's more that would surprise you, Sensei, but I just don't feel like telling you right now."
"Oh, come on, tell me. I'm curious."
Lin Ye had no idea whether Shizuka Hiratsuka's curiosity was genuine or fake.
"If Sensei is curious, then I definitely won't say."
"..."
That logic made absolutely no sense.
Shizuka Hiratsuka was annoyed, but couldn't quite muster real anger.
"Tell me."
"Actually, I think, Sensei, that you're so pretty, with such a great figure, that I..."
"Get lost," Shizuka Hiratsuka cut in immediately, already sensing what this bastard was about to say.
No sense of boundaries at all.
How dare he say something like that?
Shizuka Hiratsuka's tone had gotten a little heated. Of course, deep down, she couldn't quite hide a flicker of delight either.
As a woman, she still fundamentally wanted her feminine charm to be acknowledged.
"Actually, I think I still prefer the young and pretty... Tachibana-sensei."
With that, as Shizuka Hiratsuka's expression froze stiff, Lin Ye turned and ran, fleeing without a moment's hesitation.
It took Shizuka Hiratsuka a blink to register that Lin Ye had already left before she finally reacted.
"That... bastard."
She didn't know whether to laugh or cry, wanting to curse him out but not knowing how.
She knew it was just Lin Ye joking around, but this particular joke wasn't very funny at all.
"Men. They're all the same."
Shizuka Hiratsuka finally let out a huff.
Hina really was younger than her, sure, but a mature woman had her own charm too.
So Shizuka Hiratsuka told herself.
Lin Ye turned back to look, a little surprised not to see Shizuka Hiratsuka chasing after him.
"I really thought Hiratsuka-sensei would come chasing me down."
After all, age was an absolute taboo topic for her.
"Hiratsuka-senpai wants to chase you down?"
A sweet, familiar voice reached Lin Ye's ears, instantly catching his attention.
Lin Ye spotted that familiar figure.
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