"She is both talented and beautiful, and can be both literary and military. Not only is she considerate and everyone likes her. In addition, no matter what she does, she always ranks first..."
Slowly, Yuanzi explained:
"You are thinking that you are completely inferior to her, right?"
"Ah? Garden..."
Suddenly having her worries revealed, Xiaolan looked a little surprised and a little embarrassed at the same time, and replied in a panic.
"Because it's written all over your face!"
Somewhat teasingly, Yuanzi pointed at Xiaolan's expression with a smile and said calmly:
"An expression as if he had given up..."
Saying this, Yuanzi looked a little emotional and said:
"Hey... to be honest, it's not unreasonable for Shinichi to fall in love with her. Because she used to be the administrator of the football club!"
In response, after hearing this, Xiaolan wanted to try to smile and nod "Yeah", but her expression became even more lonely.
"But you don't have to worry about it now, they have already gotten rid of Shinichi anyway!"
Yuanzi continued to console him.
But after listening to this, Xiaolan's expression did not change at all. She still had a lonely expression. Instead, she said with some sadness:
"Sonoko, you know, Shinichi's favorite thing to eat is lemon pie..."
"Um?"
Hearing Xiaolan say this, especially after mentioning the lemon pie he had just eaten not long ago, Yuanzi smelled a subtle scent——
"I only found out after hearing what Asami said..."
Xiaolan lowered her head slightly and said sadly. At the same time, her thoughts couldn't help but go back to the previous situation when she was cooking with Uchida Asami in the kitchen of the villa——
"Ah? Shinichi likes lemon pie the most?"
Looking at the already prepared but unheated lemon pie on the kitchen table in front of her, Xiaolan picked it up in surprise. She had no idea that Kudo Shinichi actually liked lemon pie the most. She was surprised.
road.
"Well, this is his favorite food."
In response, seeing Xiaolan's surprised look, Asami Uchida smiled gently and explained:
"I originally thought he would come here today, and I also wanted everyone to try the lemon pie I made, so I brought him here."
"Ah? I didn't expect Shinichi..."
Carefully observing the lemon pie made by Uchida Asami in front of her, Xiaolan felt a deep sense of loss, and said with some unspeakable discomfort in her heart:
"I like eating this..."
——I’ve never heard him say that...
At this moment, Xiaolan, who was originally shaken and overwhelmed because of Shinichi's absence during this period and because of Mi Mi's words, now learned from Uchida Asami something about Shinichi that she had never known before.
After what happened, Xiaolan felt even more confused inside.
In response to this, seeing Xiaolan staring blankly at the plate of lemon pie that had been prepared, Asami Uchida looked at it in silence for a while, and then said softly with a smile:
"Let me see, I'll teach you how to do it. Xiaolan, do you agree?"
In this way, the plate of lemon pie that was finally served to everyone was not the lemon pie that Asami Uchida had already prepared, but the lemon pie that Xiaolan later made under the guidance of Asami Uchida——
"How can I win against her..."
At this moment, her thoughts returned to the present, Xiaolan said lonely:
"Because senior knows Shinichi much better than I do."
"Xiaolan..."
In this regard, seeing Xiaolan's expression, Yuanzi seemed to not know how to comfort her for a moment——
"Ah, cheer up!"
Finally, Yuanzi patted Xiaolan hard behind her, and Yuanzi encouraged Xiaolan in this way and said:
"Xiaolan, you also have your own advantages, why do you want to compare with Miss Mami!"
"What are the advantages?"
Xiaolan, who seemed to be beginning to doubt herself, asked rhetorically.
"Yes!"
Smiling, Yuanzi leaned on the back of the sofa behind Xiaolan and said:
"You have developed good arm strength by practicing karate, and your whole body is full of muscles, right?"
"Don't talk nonsense..."
When Yuanzi said this, Xiaolan said a little embarrassed.
"So, don't miss guys like Shinichi who can't appreciate your strengths! Since he is so arrogant that he confessed to Asami-san and was rejected, then he brought it all on himself!"
But there was no end, so Yuanzi continued to explain.
Regarding this, Conan, who had been silently listening to the conversation between Xiaolan and Yuanzi, felt a little sad. Seeing Xiaolan's lonely expression, he wanted to do something, but it seemed that Conan's identity could not change it.
What--
It would be great if I could change back to Kudo Shinichi now...
"But then again, why don't even you know that Shinichi likes lemon pie, but Asami-san does?"
However, at this moment, Yuanzi, who thought about it seriously, couldn't help but raise such doubts:
"Is it possible that when that guy Shinichi confessed his feelings to Asami-san, he specifically told her his preferences? And if you think about it carefully, it seems strange..."
"Ah? What's going on?"
Puzzled, Xiaolan asked.
"In junior high school. Miss Asami was in the tennis club until she was in second grade. She even won the national championship at that time."
Yuanzi began to say after thinking.
"Ah, so powerful..."
It was something she had never heard of before, Xiaolan couldn't help but admire it, but at the same time, Xiaolan seemed to understand what Yuanzi was talking about -
"Ah! But after she entered the third grade, she became the administrator of the football club."
"Yes, and I changed it after the summer vacation. I don't know why."
Yuanzi thought with a confused look.
"It must be because she wants to concentrate on her studies."
Xiaolan thought about this.
"But wouldn't this be even weirder? Most people will end all clubs in the second semester of third grade?"
Yuanzi questioned:
"And the key question is that the time when Shinichi confessed to Asami-san happened to be after Asami-san became the administrator of the football club... Is there any connection between this? I always feel that something is not right.
…”
Saying this, Yuanzi felt that he seemed to have hit something important, but he still couldn't figure it out. He thought like this...
…
"I'm sorry, Mr. Mingzhi must have seen that expression just now..."
At the same time, in the car on the way to the karaoke shop, Asami Uchida, who was sitting in the passenger seat, seemed to have been thinking for a long time and still said to Gao Yuan with some concern.
"What?"
Pretending to be confused, Gao Yuan did not respond.
"Don't act stupid..."
Hearing what Gao Yuan said, Asami Uchida said with a wry smile:
"Mr. Mingzhi must have seen my embarrassing look..."
As she said that, she looked ahead and let out a long sigh. Uchida Asami said sadly:
"There are some things that I have been holding back in my heart for a long time, but I never had the chance to reveal them to anyone... But I don't know why, but I feel like I can tell you, Mr. Mingzhi... Could it be that Mr. Mingzhi has actually guessed my lie a long time ago?