[Net King] Winter Snow

In the white winter at the end of December, the warm orange light inside the house is in sharp contrast to the cold wind whizzing by outside.Frost and snow froze on the window eaves, and drops of water formed icicles.Just like this chilling cold, both the trees and the grass on the street are gray and lifeless.

Seeing the deserted appearance in the apartment, Yuriko Uemura suddenly became emotional.She still remembers the villa that was decorated with Christmas decorations back then, but now this street with low housing prices looks empty from the window.

The light bulb above his head was still dangling, and Ami Uemura had sent a text message an hour ago saying that she would come back later after working overtime.The girl went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. After thinking for a long time, she still didn't eat anything. She always felt that it was too lonely to eat alone. Besides, she was nestled in the kotatsu all day without moving, so she was not hungry.

"Dinglingling——" The sudden phone call startled Yuriko Uemura.

"Hello, this is Uemura's house." Picking up the phone, the girl's voice was a little puzzled.

"Yuriko, it's me, Ji Ping." The voice on the other end of the phone was very gentle.

"Jipei?" As if she didn't expect the other party to call her, Yuriko Uemura asked a little doubtfully, "What's wrong?"

"I want to ask if you are free tomorrow," Harada Yoshihira chuckled a few times, "it happens to be Christmas, and I plan to invite a few people to play together."

"Tomorrow...it's really nothing to do." Yuriko Uemura said after thinking for a while.

"Then it's settled?" The boy said in a questioning tone, but there was no room for Yuriko Uemura to refute, "Let's meet at Jiekou Park at ten o'clock in the morning."

"Eh? Wait!" Shocked by the other party's quick decision lock, Harada Yoshihira burst out laughing before the girl had time to continue.

"Don't worry, it's not just Hiroshi, I'll call you Chuliang-san too." Yoshihei Harada said this, as if to appease Yuriko Uemura's uneasiness, "I'll call and ask about what Kimoto-san said, and then There is Chu Liangsang's younger brother, do you want to invite him to come with you?"

"Mr. Chuliang?" The girl who was asked paused, and then said, "Yes, he also helped a lot with the student union."

"Then I'll contact you first, see you tomorrow." The person on the other side of the phone seemed to be smiling.

"Well, bye." After hanging up the phone, Yuriko Uemura felt a little helpless.

The mother's job and the scholarship I got in Lihai can more or less allow the mother and daughter to live together, but this kind of life is definitely not rich.Although the current family situation is not so poor that it is not enough to make ends meet, it is not a problem to occasionally go to a noodle shop with Harada and Yagyu or buy some gifts for classmates during festivals, but like going out to play, Yuriko Uemura has always been able to push the rules. push.

Girls sometimes feel that they care too much about other people's attitudes and opinions about themselves, but this mentality can't be changed as if it has become a habit.I don't want to be isolated, and I don't want others to point at me with mocking and pityful eyes, so I desperately show my good side to others, get along well with everyone and make others think that Uemura Yuriko is a person worth relying on.

—Constantly pandering to others and not even remembering who I am.

When I arrived at Jiekou Park the next day, to the girl's surprise, Yuan Tianjiping was the only one standing by the bench.Uemura Yuriko walked over with some puzzlement, only to realize that Yagyu Hiroshi had an appointment before, and the Chuliang siblings had family affairs. In the end, the only person who could come was Kimoto Kotoko, and the other party seemed to remember The time is wrong so that it will be missed in one and a half hours.

"Evidently Jihei said he was going to come out, but there were only three people?" Sighing, Yuriko Uemura stroked her forehead.

"Well..." The other party scratched the back of his head and smiled helplessly, "I didn't expect everyone to have something to do. I should have known it earlier."

"Forget it, it's not your fault, Ji Ping." Waving her hand, the girl sat down on the wooden bench, "Then what should I do now, there is at least an hour at Mumoto's side, so I don't necessarily have to sit here Do you wait for the wind to blow?"

"How about going for a stroll in the park first?" Harada Yoshihira said with a smile, pointing to the small park behind the two of them.The boy's neck was tied with a Christmas gift from Yuriko Uemura before the holiday, and the blue scarf against the boy's brown hair looked even more gentle.

"That's the only way to go." Shrugging, Yuriko Uemura took a step forward.

"Ah, wait a minute." Suddenly, Harada Yoshihei said this, and then jogged to the vending machine and stopped.Yuriko Uemura saw that the other party dropped a coin and pressed something, and after the clang sound was the figure of the boy running back. "Here you are." The brown-haired boy stuffed the can of cocoa into the girl's hand, and the warm touch warmed Yuriko Uemura's cold hands through the iron jar.

Seeing the girl with two ponytails holding hot cocoa in a daze, Harada Yoshihira turned his head to express his puzzlement, "I saw you and Chuliang-san have been buying it before... don't you like it?"

"No, I just feel..." Yuriko Uemura didn't know how to speak as she scratched her cheek with her index finger.

"Forget me to invite you." Harada Yoshihei instantly understood the meaning of the girl, and said, "I was the one who said I would come out to play, but now I almost never come. Hot cocoa should be regarded as an apology."

"It's not good." Yuriko Uemura frowned.

"But I've already bought everything, and I don't like drinking cocoa." Yoshihei Harada looked at the girl innocently, as if he hadn't done anything.

"Alas..." Sighing, Yuriko Uemura finally opened the jar and took a few sips with both hands.

The two of them walked along the only path in the park. The trees that had been lush with greenery had become pale and dull at this moment, and the gray trunks were covered with brown spots, half peeled off and half stuck together.Along the way, Harada Yoshihei would occasionally talk about topics that Uemura Yuriko didn't understand very well. Seeing that the other party was talking with great interest, the girl was too embarrassed to interrupt the other party, so she nodded and smiled to show that she was listening.

It wasn't a big place at first, and the two went around and around, until the third circle was about to finish shopping, and Kimoto Kotoko finally sent a text message saying that it was coming soon.When Yuriko Uemura and Yoshihei Harada came out of the park, they happened to meet Kotoko Kinomoto walking across the street. The purple-haired girl was slightly stunned when she saw the two of them, and then seemed to see something , Immediately comprehended and smiled ambiguously.

"Ah, did I bother you?" When the three of them came together, Kimoto Kotoko's first words were somewhat teasing.

"Eh?" Not quite understanding what the other party meant, Yuriko Uemura blinked and uttered a syllable.

"Don't play dumb, you're already wearing couple scarves." With a smile in her eyes, the purple-haired girl pointed ambiguously at the objects tied around Uemura and Harada's necks.

"What nonsense are you talking about! It's just a Christmas gift, so it was just washed by my mother!" Immediately comprehending the meaning of Kimoto Kotoko's words, Uemura Yuriko hit the other party's head with a big chestnut.

"Tch, I don't believe it!" Making a grimace, the girl ran away quickly while covering her head, while letting out an ambiguous laugh that I understand and I understand.

Seeing that the other party was running away, Yuriko Uemura had to give up chasing and spread her hands towards Yoshihei Harada, "Sorry, that's what Kimoto is like, I prefer to make jokes, so don't worry about it."

"It's okay, I don't mind." Yoshihei Harada shook his head with a gentle smile on his face, and then turned to Kotoko Kimoto, "But speaking of it, Kimoto-san was really late for more than a while."

"What, obviously the two of you made me wait too." Pooting her lips, the girl's unconvinced look was very cute.

"When we came out of the park, Kimoto, you just walked across the street, don't think I didn't see it?" Yuriko Uemura said, poking Kimoto Kotoko's cheek.

"That's not it." Kimoto Kotoko said while holding the hand of the girl with twin tails playing tricks on her face, "I arrived more than ten minutes ago, and I happened to meet Sanada-kun so I just said hello for a while, and I saw you come out just now That's why I said goodbye to him and came across the street."

"Sanada... Genichiro?" Hearing Kimoto Kotoko's words, Uemura Yuriko trembled irrefutably, and it was very reluctant to continue the staccato in the words.

"Yeah, I said I was going to meet Yukimura-kun, really...their relationship in the tennis club is really good." Not aware of the girl's abnormality at all, Kimoto Kotoko thought that Yuriko Uemura had already put down Genichiro Sanada and was with Yoshihei Harada So he said without any grievances, "Just now he reminded me that the two of you have come out, well...how should I put it, although it usually looks cold and scary, but when you speak it is surprisingly not so Terrible, ah, of course, no matter what, your Harada-kun is better!"

"Ah... um." I didn't care about what Kotoko said afterwards, Uemura Yuriko's mind seemed to be bombed, and she could only filter out "I and Yoshihei Harada wore scarves that looked like a couple, and went from Genichiro Sanada saw the way he came out of the park."

Even though he spoke so harshly when he broke up at that time, in the end he still felt sad because Genichiro Sanada saw such a misleading thing.Uemura Yuriko felt that it was inaccurate to say that she was sad at the moment, but the girl herself couldn't describe this kind of worrying and unexpected feeling of venting anger.

It's like a contradiction, on the one hand, I hope Genichiro Sanada can see that she is still talking and laughing without him, and on the other hand, I hope that the boy will not see such a misleading scene.

Since she made friends with Yagyu and Harada, many people have ridiculed whether she is dating Yagyu or Harada. In the past, every time Yuriko Uemura just felt helpless, but never once like now In this way, I can't wait to tell the other party that this is a misunderstanding.

"Yuriko, Yuriko?" Harada Yoshihei's words became louder, "Yuriko, are you listening?"

Suddenly regaining consciousness, the girl realized that Harada Yoshihei seemed to have called herself several times, and even Kyomoto Kotoko standing in front of her had a worried expression.Shaking her head, Yuriko Uemura forced a smile and said, "Sorry, I was a little distracted just now."

"Are you okay?" Mumoto Qinzi still had some worry in his eyes, "It feels like Uemura is not looking well."

"It's probably because of the cold weather." Uemura Yuriko tried to make herself less reluctant, using an excuse to fool her.

When the girl turned sideways, she could see Yoshihei Harada standing next to her with a bad expression, and she also knew that the other party might have noticed that every abnormality in her was related to Genichiro Sanada.Sometimes Uemura Yuriko would also wonder whether to say something to Harada Yoshihira, after all, since he said that he no longer likes her, the two of them can be regarded as close friends who know each other well.But such thoughts are often just a flash, Yuriko Uemura does not want the truth of her bad past to be known to too many people.

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The office of the Student Union was as spacious as ever, and most of the people sitting in the room in twos and threes were doing the work at hand.In the blink of an eye, more than half of the school year has passed, and looking at the calendar hanging on the wall, Yuriko Uemura can't help sighing that in the blink of an eye, the third semester is coming to an end.

During this period of time, the girl has been busy with both the student union and class duties, and in the free time, she also focuses on her studies, striving to get a scholarship for this school year.It seemed that someone in the grade was talking about who was dating who again, but Yuriko Uemura didn't pay much attention to it.Ever since Liangxue completely valued sex over friends because of Nioh Masaharu's relationship, the girl almost only had a negative impression of the word love.

A small love heart was drawn with a pencil on the planning book in his hand, and there was a line of delicate small characters below it that read [Sister Uemura, I like you! 】.Uemura Yuriko raised her head and scanned around, only to see the little girl in the planning department who always caused her troubles lowered her head very low, with a smile and a blush on her face, while the officers around her covered their mouths and stole Smiling, it even hinted at who the person who wrote this sentence was.

Shaking her head helplessly, Yuriko Uemura tore off a piece of paper from the pad, wrote a few hastily, folded it into a paper airplane, and flew in front of the girl smoothly.I saw the girl hastily opened the paper airplane and read out the words on the paper word by word.

"If, if I work hard, I will consider it..." The girl was still a little excited when she read this, but the next sentence made her cry instantly, "But, before that... first, don't Getting into trouble again... eh!!!"

"Pfft!!" The people around couldn't help laughing out loud when they heard it, and even Yuriko Uemura herself was amused by the girl's ups and downs.Standing up and walking to the other party, the girl with twin ponytails rubbed the girl's head, "Can you work seriously now?"

"That's right, senior sister and Harada-senpai are in a relationship, you have no hope." The boy next to him echoed.

"No relationship." Slapping the information in her hand on the boy's head, Yuriko Uemura looked helpless, "Next time you talk about such unfounded rumors, the work will be doubled."

"Yes, I know." The boy admitted his mistake with a playful smile, and then continued after seeing Yuriko Uemura leaving the room, "Senior sister is shy, we all understand."

Walking on the corridor of the teaching building, the girl with twin ponytails was holding a stack of materials and was about to hand them to Liu Sheng.It happened that Harada Yoshihei and Hatsue Liangjin turned around from the stairs, and the light brown-haired boy took the documents from Uemura Yuriko's hand.

"For Bilushi?" the boy asked.

"Well, I just finished tidying up. I plan to call him at the tennis department and ask him to come out and pick it up."

"I said it before, I can do this kind of thing." Yoshihei Harada's tone was a little helpless, as if he was complaining about the girl's stubbornness.

"Well..." Shrugged, Uemura Yuriko didn't say anything.

"Then I'll hand it in for you first, and I'll leave it to you, Chuliang-kun." Saying that, Harada Yoshihei went down the stairs with the documents.

Looking at the somewhat tall boy in front of her, Yuriko Uemura found it difficult to associate this decisive boy with his sister Chu Liangxue.Shaking her head lightly and smiling, the girl was about to say something when the other party's voice reached her ears first.

"Senior Uemura, you are slower than your elder sister." Chu Liangjin's voice was a little cold.

"What?" She didn't expect the other party to say that suddenly, Yuriko Uemura was a little confused.

"Or should it be said that Harada-senpai is smarter?" The boy's eyes did not look directly at the girl, but Hatsunetsu looked at the sky outside the window, and after a long pause, he slowly shifted his gaze to Uemura Yuriko.

"Hatsuliang-kun, what are you talking about?" Uemura Yuriko frowned slightly, completely unable to understand the inexplicable words of the other party.

"Sister Uemura should pay more attention," Chu Liangjin said with no expression on his face, "Sometimes there are too many rumors, and others will believe it."

"What..." The girl who was still unclear about the situation wanted to continue asking questions, but the boy interrupted before the other party could speak.

"Although I don't think so, my sister seems to think that Uemura-senpai and Harada-senpai are dating." Chu Liangjin's voice seemed to be a little sighed, and the boy paused for a few seconds, waiting for Uemura Yuriko to completely digest the amount of information in his words , and then continued, "And, not only my sister, the student union and the entire grade, most people should think so."

"It's not the kind of joke you think. They are real. They think you two are dating."