When the sun was about to set, Watanabe Temple arrived at the bottom of the hillside surrounded by the gentle twilight as promised.
That simple text message hinted at the place and time at the same time, just like a romantic love poem, enough to impress any hard-hearted girl.
Watanabeji Haya will definitely not be that exception.
This place is at the bottom of the hillside, and there happens to be a tall and strong cherry tree nearby, which is enough to block all sight lines from the direction where colleagues are gathering for dinner. In this bustling atmosphere, there is an inexplicable contrast between movement and stillness.
And a tall young man was already waiting there. Even if he only looked at the other person's back, Watanabe Temple would have recognized him at a glance——
"Mr. Sawada!" She lifted up her skirt and trotted closer to the young man.
The other party turned around when he heard the sound, his handsome profile was shrouded in the golden red sunset. At first glance, there was a kind of suffocating tenderness.
Watanabe Temple paused for a moment, and she couldn't help but put her hand on her chest, but she still walked to Sawada Tsunayoshi's side.
"Mr. Sawada, why did you ask me to come?"
The brown-haired young man smiled, but did not answer her question directly.
"I once felt that I had gotten rid of those cowardly emotions and became a qualified enough 'adult'." His eyes passed over Watanabe Temple's body, and then looked at the sunset in the distance.
"But who would have thought that oneself is still oneself after all, even if it can be covered up with maturity - when faced with certain things, no matter how well prepared you are, you will still feel nervous."
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Watanabe Temple didn't understand what the other party meant.
Sawada Tsunayoshi suddenly laughed when he heard this. He mentioned some things from before: "Miss Terahaya, do you still remember the time you got caught in the rain? You saw my childhood dream in my house——
That giant robot."
Watanabe Temple had lowered his head in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have looked around."
"It doesn't matter." Sawada Tsunayoshi quickly forgave her, "I didn't mean to blame Ms. Terahaya. What I meant was that there was a big difference between me when I was a child and now."
"Different?" Watanabeji was puzzled for a long time, "For a type like Mr. Sawada who has been outstanding since childhood, even if he has some childish fantasies, it won't be very different, right?"
Unexpectedly, the other party answered the question differently: "Ms. Terahaya, what kind of person do you think I am?"
The girl tried hard to recall: "Mr. Sawada, in my mind, he is smart, reliable, and very calm when he encounters anything, but occasionally he can be a little childish, and his taste in choosing gifts is also very bad. When cooking
Will take care of the kitchen..."
"Stop." Sawada Tsunayoshi shouted stop in a fit of laughter and tears. He touched his nose helplessly: "Miss Terahaya, there is no need to be so honest next time."
Watanabe Temple had already blinked in embarrassment.
"But the person I am now is completely different from when I was a child. At that time, I was very poor at sports. I couldn't even jump on a vault. I often got scores in the teens or 20s in exams. I would be frightened and cry when I met a Chihuahua...
"..." He recalled his dark history, with a slight blush on the tips of his ears.
"It is also because of this that I dream of becoming a giant robot. Then I will be able to better protect myself and other people in need of help from being bullied."
Watanabe Temple's eyes widened in astonishment. She really didn't know and couldn't imagine that what Tsunayoshi Sawada said was true - such a powerful and outstanding man could be so incompetent and cowardly in his childhood.
Looks like??
She didn't know what kind of reaction she should make now, so she could only ask hesitantly: "What do you mean, Mr. Sawada?"
Sawada Tsunayoshi took a deep breath: "I mean, what you know about me may not be everything. This is the premise of everything I am going to say next -"
He suddenly said: "What I said that day was not a joke."
"...Eh?" Watanabeji was stunned.
"The 'truth' I said that day, I'm sorry, I said it in such a joking way, but it is indeed my truth." The brown-haired young man looked at it with his sincere eyes.
The girl opposite said, "I like you, Miss Terahaya."
Watanabe Temple's cheeks suddenly turned red. Huge surprise and excitement surged into her heart and facial veins. The words she just said were like the most beautiful notes, echoing repeatedly in her brain.
She was about to say something, but was interrupted by the young man in front of her——
"However, no one can completely see a person. Just like you don't know my past, it takes time to reveal everyone's true face."
Sawada Tsunayoshi's eyes were deep, and his brown eyes lost their gentle color for the first time. They were no longer close to the color of sunlight, but instead looked like a vortex that could pull people into an abyss.
Even the most stupid person can understand the solemnity and seriousness in his words.
"Being with someone like me, you will regret it one day,"
"You'll find out more, and maybe one day, you'll start to get tired of me,"
"Maybe you will think that I am different from the 'Sawada Tsunayoshi' you know, and you will be afraid and want to escape..."
Having said this, Sawada Tsunayoshi suddenly took a step closer to Watanabe Temple, and the girl was forced to raise her head to see his eyes, like a weak prey trying to raise its fragile neck to the hunter.
"But if you indulge me now, even if that day comes, I will absolutely, never let you go."
"So I'm sorry, Terahaya, can you refuse me?"
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reject?
Upon hearing such a request, Watanabeji was completely stunned.
What kind of person would ask the other person to reject him after confessing his feelings?
She really couldn't understand it and had never seen it in her past experience, so she wanted to find some answers from the person who asked the question——
Watanabeji swore that this was the first time she saw such a contradictory and hesitant expression on Sawada Tsunayoshi's face. His tone was obviously full of expectation and desire, but his semantics desperately exuded shrinkage and "reject me."
"signal of.
She also noticed that his hands hanging by his sides were shaking slightly, and the lines of his arms were stretched into stiff arcs.
He is afraid, he is hesitating, he is waiting for confirmation from her...
but,
Why does this kind of question still need to be confirmed?
Why would Sawada Tsunayoshi want to let himself reject him?
Why doesn't he understand what [Watanabe Temple Haya]'s biggest dream is in this life?
Why he still doesn't understand that he didn't choose Watanabe Temple at all, but from the beginning -
Watanabeji had already chosen him!
The girl suddenly smiled, and her smile was not much inferior to the cherry blossoms behind her. She also followed the other man's example and took another half step towards the young man.
She surrounded him with an extremely intimate smile,
She wrapped her soft and warm arms around his neck obediently,
With green eyes as clear as lake water, look at his eyes that are as tolerant as the sky, but at this moment hesitant because of love,
"How could I refuse you? My Mr. Tsunayoshi, the person I admire and love the most, my dear leader."
This sentence comes from a workplace TV series that is currently on the air. Watanabe Temple changed the line cunningly. As if on a whim, she changed the very appropriate "my dear boss" in the original sentence into a strange one commonly used by Prison Temple.
Called "chief".
But the effect seems to be better.
Because when he heard the last sentence, Watanabe Temple clearly felt the body he was hugging trembling. Then the young man suddenly held her face with force in an offensive manner, and looked at her deeply.
, as if to keep her complete appearance in mind.
"No, you don't understand anything." For a moment, his dark brown eyes seemed to turn into gold and red: "But I have made up my mind."
"Miss Watanabe Temple, are you willing to date me?" The brown-haired man half-knelt on the ground with some unquestionable determination.
Behind him is the magnificent sunset, and behind her is a lush cherry blossom tree.