Dating sim loading: My girlfriend is a cunning young lady-Chapter 835: After That Day (Happy Birthday to Kiyono Lin and Dubian Che)

"Dubian." Xiaoquan Aonai reminded someone, "The blackboard is here, why are you staring at Kiyono all the time?"

"Oh——" The class began to stir.

"Dubian Che, cheating! We must report this to Jiutiao!" Saito, Kunimi, and Ichiki shouted in unison.

Aonai felt a bit regretful; she called on Dubian Che to get him to focus on the lesson, not to spark internal conflict.

...Conflict between teachers and students.

"Miss Aonai, it's not that I want to look at Kiyono, it's that she keeps glancing at me, so I looked back to see if she had something on her mind." Dubian Che fibbed.

"Kiyono is looking at you?" Xiaoquan Aonai was taken aback, then couldn't resist asking Kiyono Lin, "Kiyono, are you feeling unwell?"

"No." Kiyono Lin replied.

"Then why are you looking at Dubian?" Xiaoquan Aonai was even more puzzled.

"...Couldn't help myself."

"So you were really sneaking glances at me!"

"Dubian Che!" Kiyono Lin's chilly voice quashed the classroom's impending uproar, "I have a question I want to ask you now, could you please answer it for me?"

"Ahem, please go ahead."

She's angry, definitely angry!

Kiyono Lin fiddled with her long straight hair over her shoulder and asked him, "What's your IQ?"

This was an insult calling him stupid.

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Kiyono Youko vaguely felt that her daughter was no longer a virgin.

She brought it up at a dinner gathering.

"Oh?" Jiutiao Zhenji regarded Kiyono Lin with interest.

"Absolutely not!" Mrs. Kiyono was certain, "The way she tosses her hair is no longer the gesture of a pure maiden, it's alluring."

"Sleepy." Kiyono Lin yawned.

Having understood Kiyono Lin's recent routine, Dubian Che nodded seriously: "She looks sleepy, so it's not alluring, it's languid."

"What about the sparkle in her eyes?" Mrs. Kiyono inquired further.

"You're sleepy." Kiyono Lin replied.

The dedicated translator of R-san interpreted: "What she means is, how you see the world is how the world sees you; Aunt Youko, you're sleepy and see the sparkle, so you see it in everyone's eyes."

"What about the marks on her neck?" Youko pulled down her daughter's collar, revealing a swan-like delicate neck, as fair and tender as a lotus, conspicuously marked with a red spot.

Kiyono Lin looked at Dubian Che, meaning—lie.

"Mosquito bite." Dubian Che resolutely insisted.

"You're the mosquito?" Youko asked her.

"...Yes."

Youko and Zhenji burst into laughter.

"What's your deal?" Kiyono Lin pointed at Dubian Che and asked him.

Dubian Che recalled the scene of her pointing a vacuum at him.

He felt wronged then, and still felt wronged now: "It's not like you told me to lie, not to tell the truth? I had no choice but to say I'm the mosquito."

"Is this indirectly admitting she's not a virgin?" Mrs. Kiyono chuckled.

"Why make it so complicated." Jiutiao Meiji smirked coldly, "Lin, are you still a virgin or not?"

Kiyono Lin turned to her and responded with an elegant smile: "I'm just like you."

Both Mrs. Kiyono and Mrs. Jiutiao simultaneously looked at Jiutiao Meiji, their expressions like seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls hearing a classmate's scandal.

"I'm just like Che." Jiutiao Meiji said with a playful smile.

This time, not only the two ladies but also the two young women looked over.

"I couldn't possibly be a virgin!" Dubian Che was very confident about this.

"A virgin! A virgin! Right?!" Mrs. Jiutiao pressed.

"Well... I-I'm just like all of you!" Dubian Che was quite confident about this.

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Youko was quite happy, her daughter was pregnant.

"The child's name will be Shenye, Kiyono Shenye." She announced to her daughter.

"No." Kiyono Lin vetoed it.

"Why?" Youko was surprised by her daughter's calm yet firm refusal.

"No means no, the child's name isn't something you need to worry about, I'll decide it myself."

"The child must be called Shenye!" Youko was also slightly annoyed.

As Kiyono Lin's mother, as the grandmother of Kiyono Lin's child, did she not even have the right to name her own granddaughter?

"You don't need to say any more, the child will definitely not be called Shenye." Regardless of what her mother did, Kiyono Lin stood her ground completely.

"And why is that? Tell me!"

Kiyono Lin remained silent.

"Is it that you don't want me as your mother anymore?" Youko scolded.

The atmosphere was heading towards an argument.

"Is it you who doesn't want me as your daughter anymore." Kiyono Lin reluctantly let slip a hint of information.

"What do you mean?" Youko was momentarily stunned.

Kiyono Lin remained silent; she couldn't tell him that Dubian Che had bet with her that if they named the child Shenye, she would have to... hmm.

In any case, it wasn't going to happen.

That pervert hanging around with Meiji all day, what was he learning?

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On the night of the wedding, Dubian Che stared at Kiyono Lin for a long time.

"How long do you want me to sit here like a pawn?" Kiyono Lin thought of taking off her wedding dress.

After wearing it all day, the dress she had carefully chosen and loved now looked like a turtle shell to her.

"Just a little longer," Dubian Che said dreamily. "This has been my dream since I was fifteen, and it's been such a journey to get here. I want to look a little longer... is that okay?"

"...Fifteen minutes."

Three minutes later, Dubian Che, to be precise, half-undressed the dream himself.

The whole night, both were in a half-dream, half-awake state.

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When Little Maru was four, Dubian Che couldn't stand it anymore.

During the day, he went to the bookstore to find many books and read them to Little Maru.

When Kiyono Lin returned from work, she found her daughter sitting in her husband's lap as the father and daughter read a fairy tale book together.

".....And so, Little Crocodile decided to sleep alone tonight. Crocodile Mommy praised her: 'Child, you will be the bravest crocodile in the future!'"

"Daddy! Daddy! Maru wants to sleep alone tonight too!"

"Really?"

"Hmm! Maru wants to be the bravest crocodile too!"

"That's my child, Little Maru, I, Dubian Che, acknowledge that you are the bravest crocodile in the Dubian Family!"

"Even deceiving a child," Kiyono Lin couldn't help but chide.

Little Maru's eyes widened, looking at her father as if he was a scoundrel.

"R-san, I warn you, don't try to drive a wedge between me and my daughter. Our father-daughter bond is as deep as the sea!"

Little Maru, however, didn't believe in her father's deep bond; she asked her mother, "Mommy, where did Daddy lie to me?"

Dubian Che frantically signaled to Kiyono Lin with his eyes.

Kiyono Lin slowly walked over and said to her daughter, "Maru, you're not the bravest little crocodile; you are my bravest daughter, not a crocodile's daughter."

"Oh!" Little Maru suddenly understood, "Daddy, you did lie to me!"

"I'm sorry, Little Maru, I didn't mean to," Dubian Che apologized to his daughter with a smile.

That night, Little Maru was alone in the dark room, swallowing nonstop.

No matter what, she couldn't fall asleep, and she even couldn't remember how she usually fell asleep.

How did she usually fall asleep?

Having no choice, she got out of bed and sneaked towards her parents' room.

The door opened.

Kiyono Lin held her breath for a moment, then relaxed. She repositioned herself for Dubian Che to exit and pulled the quilt to her chest, smoothing her hair with her hand.

"Maru, can't sleep?" she asked in a slightly lazy voice.

"...Uh-huh," Maru admitted shyly. "I wanted to ask Daddy and Mommy, how exactly do you fall asleep?"

Kiyono Lin was amused by her daughter and said, "Go get your pillow and quilt; tonight, you can sleep next to Daddy and Mommy and see how you fall asleep."

"Okay!" Maru ran off to get her little pillow and quilt, both gifts from her dad.

In the bedroom, Kiyono Lin urged her husband to quickly put on his clothes.

Dubian Che sighed, acting even more like a child than Maru.

Kiyono Lin, this time amused by him, laughed sarcastically, "So childish, wait until she falls asleep."

"You promised, you can't lie."

Maru lay in between her parents and instantly stopped gulping, astonished by the magic of it all.

"Daddy."

"Yes?"

"Next time, can you take me to Mrs. Meiji's place? I want to try sleeping away from Mommy first, with you and Mrs. Meiji. If I can fall asleep, then I'll leave you, and finally sleep alone, okay?"

"Sure."

Kiyono Lin watched her obedient daughter and the gentle expression of Dubian Che as he patted their daughter's back, feeling a rush of sweetness.

She laughed and said, "Your Mrs. Meiji's child hasn't slept with her for a day. If you go, she'll surely put you in Xiaoqian's room."

"Huh? Really?" Little Maru's face was full of worry.

"It's possible." Dubian Che nodded.

"Daddy, can you not tell Xiaoqian and Seiichiro that I'm still sleeping with you?"

Ah, so she was worried about this.

"No," Dubian Che firmly shook his head. "I promised you during the day, I can't tell lies."

"No~" Little Maru hugged her father's neck, pleading, "Just this one thing~, please~ Daddy~~"

"Does Mommy say it's okay?" Dubian Che sought his wife's opinion.

Kiyono Lin smiled without answering, the bedside lamp illuminating her profile, as if she was back in the summer when she was fifteen.