Even the whole world is trying to match us up

Chapter 182 Rescue me

As night falls, the ancient streets of Kyoto are illuminated dreamlike by soft lights.

A barbecue restaurant sits quietly on the corner of the street, with its quaint wooden door half-open, exuding an alluring aroma.

Warm yellow light overflows from the store and sprinkles on the bluestone pavement, forming a warm light and shadow.

"Hey?!"

Takeda Shiori was shocked by the photo, "Hatsukano-san is so cute."

"Don't praise her, she will be shy." Natsume Qingyu stood beside her, looking at the photo as well, with a carefree smile but a serious expression.

For a moment, Takeda Shiori and Hase Kaede looked sideways at Hatsukano Suzune.

Hatsukano Suzune's previously gentle expression suddenly turned to absolute zero. She crossed her arms and said calmly: "Sometimes I really can't understand the redox reaction in Natsume's brain. If the situation allows, please do it as soon as possible." Go to the doctor."

"alright."

Natsume Qingha sat back in his seat, put on his apron again, picked up the public chopsticks, selected a piece of beef that was neither tender nor old, sprinkled it with chopped green onion, fine salt and pepper, and put it into the small plate in front of Hatsugano Suzune.

Everyone looked up in unison.

"As a high-quality tool person at the table, it shouldn't be too much to enjoy the first piece." Natsume Qingyu looked left and right, pretending to be nonchalant, and gave a piece to the other two, "Everyone, eat quickly, while hot."

After a few polite words, everyone's stomachs began to load with delicious food, and their whole bodies gradually became warmer.

"It's so spicy, so spicy." Takeda Shiori fanned herself with her hands and licked her already red lips.

"Is it spicy? I haven't put in the chili pepper yet." Natsume Qingha picked up the tongs and added pork belly, onion rings, shiitake mushrooms, etc. to the almost empty pot, making the dinner look meaty, vegetarian, and nutritionally balanced.

Hase Feng was stepped on under the table.

Hase Kaede reacted and poured a glass of cold water for everyone.

In fact, everyone has juice on the table, but some things should be in place.

Takeda Shiori gulped down a glass of water, "Huhu, although it's very spicy, it's quite delicious."

"It should be a problem with the sauce packets in the store." Hatsukano Suzune quickly found the reason.

"I think it's okay. It's not even spicy." Natsume Qingyu pointed out as if he was standing in a very high position.

"It's not spicy at all. Club member Natsume really has a strong heart and a strong stomach." Suzune Hatsukano picked up the cup and drank the juice. Not long before the meal started, her drink was almost at the bottom.

"It's only mildly spicy, and it's nothing for boys." Natsume Qingyu filled her juice again, stuffed a piece of meat into her mouth, and looked at her good brother.

"Indeed." Hase Feng, whose lips were swollen, was also drinking water, but he still wanted to save face.

"Look."

Natsume Qingyu spread his hands towards the girls across the table to show that he was right, and then patted Hase Kaede on the back, "Oh, by the way, brother, what lipstick color are you using? The color is like this Yanli, can you tell me a few things so that I can plan in advance for future gifts for girls?"

"Hahaha." Takeda Shiori couldn't help laughing, "But Natsume-san, you're not bad either."

"What?!" Natsume was shocked.

"It's around the lips." Takeda Shiori pointed her finger and tapped her lips.

"How is that possible?!" Natsume Qingyu put down his chopsticks as if he was slapping the table.

"Take a look." Takeda Shiori smiled and took out a cute little round mirror.

Open it, the mirror faces the moonlight, reflecting the dazzling light.

Natsume Qingyu, who didn't know that it was a demon mirror, looked carefully and was stunned. Then he suddenly became alert and put away the confused smile on his face.

The mouth of the man with handsome features in the mirror has been heavily smeared with Givenchy lipstick.

With a cold complexion and exaggerated and mismatched lips, she looked like a geisha with a touch of sadness in her eyes.

Natsume Qingyu lowered his heart, held his chin up as if he had lost his appetite, and looked into the depths of the ethereal night with a face full of vicissitudes of life.

That's the direction of home.

So it turns out that although his heart longs for Shu, can't this body, which has been eating lightly all year round, no longer be able to control that aloof soul?
How could it be repaired? He was once a great man who used the bottom of a hot pot pot as an oil dish.

In this way, he has become an ordinary man and is laughed at by women.

What a painful realization this was.

The long-delayed sharp pain gradually became clear in the mouth, burning the cells like a flame. Natsume Qingyu couldn't help but scream.

"Is it spicy?" Hatsugano Suzune heard the sound and asked softly.

"Hiss...it's not spicy." The heat ran through the entire esophagus, and the boy whose heavy stomach was filled with hot magma and housed a fire-breathing dragon said calmly.

"Scientifically speaking, spiciness is not a taste at all, but an illusion that stimulates the nerves." Hatsugano Suzune stared into his eyes and smiled unconsciously, "There is no need to be brave about this kind of thing."

"It's really not spicy." Natsume Qingyu drank water, and the heat in his body was the unyielding soul of Shu.

The main thing is not to go down even if there are steps.

Seeing how fierce and unyielding he was, Hatsukano Suzune was filled with admiration. She raised her hand and said, "Waiter, please bring three glasses of pure milk to this table. Thank you."

"Three cups?" It was Takeda Shiori who was confused.

"The protein in milk combines with capsaicin, which can warm the stomach."

Hatsukano Suzune took off a coat, revealing her graceful figure outlined by a thin sweater, "I think Natsume-san, who is accustomed to this kind of spiciness, doesn't need it."

"..."

Natsume Qingha remained silent.

"Oh, by the way, eat more." Hatsugano Suzune picked up the public chopsticks and put the unused meat that everyone had sprinkled with the store's special sauce into his bowl.

"Thank you." Natsume Qingyu exhaled a hot breath, very touched.

"You're welcome."

Hatsukano Suzune gave herself a few slices of lettuce to relieve her greasy taste. It tasted cold, "It's a waste if no one eats it."

"Row."

Natsume Qingyu grasped the sword on the dining table again and said quite magnanimously, "Everyone, please take a break and step back. Let me deal with these remnants of the old era by myself."

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"Hahahaha, the special effects are so strong, it's almost like a special effects film."

"The strength of the space distortion warrior is so terrifying."

"It's not like that. It's my mother who likes this." A boy whispered.

"Then you still use this one?"

Tables without girls tend to have shorter meal times.

The person at the next table started laughing because they accidentally saw a certain little boy's home screensaver.

"Speaking of p-pictures, my mother also likes them very much. She uses those fancy special effects to make her complexion very white. It looks weird, doesn't it?" Takeda Shiori's expression suddenly became subtle and she whispered.

"Adults usually do this. My dad even does it sometimes. His skin texture is blurred and he has to patch up a few hairs." Hase Kaede agreed, "I don't really understand what adults think."

Hatsukano Suzune ate her food in small bites with a faint look in her eyes, but did not join in their conversation.

"The structure of the human eye is probably the same." Natsume Qingyu coughed dryly as if he was choking, and intervened in their chat.

A seemingly nonsensical remark caused the dinner to fall into a rare silence.

"?" "I mean, in fact, they must also know that the photos are exaggerated and false, right." Natsume Qingyu explained additionally.

"...Indeed." Takeda Shiori felt that what he said made sense.

"Perhaps, like children, they sometimes think very simply."

Natsume Kiyoha thought of her childish mother and drank a glass of juice, "Just like when we were children, we always clamored to grow up, to achieve wealth and freedom as quickly as possible, and to see our future faces as quickly as possible. They just want to see what they looked like when they were young, that’s all.”

"Are you so thirsty?" Hatsugano Suzune pushed the glass of milk that she had not touched at all, with a gentle and silent smile in her eyes.

Cunning woman.

Was this part of your plan from the beginning?

However, it's time to rescue.

"Indeed, I'm a little thirsty. It's probably because the sauce I prepared is a bit salty." Natsume Qingyu expressed the joy of walking in the long dark night and encountering the first ray of light.

"Natsume-san, I have always wanted to ask if the photos taken with the camera are more beautiful?" Takeda Shiori asked, "I take photos with my mobile phone, but they are never as beautiful as what I see with my eyes."

"I don't think so." Natsume Qingyu drank half a glass of milk in one breath.

"Hey?"

"When shooting sunsets and sunrises, I also find that the scenery in the camera is never as beautiful as what is in front of me. But I don't think it's because the sky is not beautiful, because I know that the camera can't really capture the beauty of the sky." Natsume Kiyoshi Yu's face showed a look of memory.

"Then the point of a camera is to record moments? So that you can recall these things?"

"It's undeniable, after all, I thought so before I learned photography." Natsume Qingyu nodded slightly.

"what about now?"

"In fact, photography is synonymous with technology and intention, not the quality of the camera compared to other equipment. The tolerance of the human eye is stronger than that of the camera, but if the photographer is experienced and careful to use multiple exposure bracketing to shoot and synthesize it in post-production, Then the beauty is not inferior to the human eyes but even more beautiful.”

Natsume Kiyoha sandwiched two more pieces of meat and a piece of lettuce, made a simple burger out of boredom, and bit into it, "I mean a person who cares about you will do his best to describe your beauty and try to give it to others. Leave a more perfect image, no matter the device.”

Takeda Shiori was a little confused, while Hatsukano Suzune elegantly wiped her mouth with a tissue and glanced at the next table.

"The happiest time when I learned photography was not the beautiful photos I took, but the positive responses I received when I shared the photos with my good friends." Natsume Kiyoha continued, "Sometimes, friends I knew the photo was ordinary, but I still liked it."

"That's because the emotional intelligence is relatively high." Takeda Shiori interjected weakly.

"I don't think so. Emotional intelligence is for everyone."

Natsume Qingyu raised his voice slightly and spoke more clearly, "There is another emotion called preference. The most common situation is to prefer the people you care about, your own family. I think this kind of thing is very great and is not worthy of being criticized. make fun of."

In the barbecue shop, another table fell silent.

"Ryota, you love your mother very much." Natsume Qingyu tilted his head and talked to the next table with a smile.

They were all in the first grade, and he knew almost all of them.

"Yeah." The boy named Liang Tai nodded suddenly.

"Oh - what a coincidence, me too."

Natsume Qingyu raised his beloved glass of milk and said in a funny tone, "Let's have a drink."

After clinking glasses.

Natsume Kiyoha faced the other people at the next table with the same smile.

"We are all friends, why are you so stunned?"

The boys were stunned for a second.

"cheers!"

"cheers!"

There was another sound of clinking glasses.

At last.

When Natsume Kiyoha was toasting with her good friends at her table, a small apology came from the next table.

Everyone with excellent grades is a group of good kids.

On the way back to the hotel.

"How many photos can you take for me? I'm leaving Kyoto tomorrow, and I want to keep a few as souvenirs." Hase Kaede put his hand on Natsume Kiyoha's shoulder.

"We are all good brothers, naturally." Natsume Qingyu's hand reached back.

"Photograph me more handsomely." Hase Feng pointed at himself with his thumb.

"That's for sure. I want the whole world to know that my Feng'er is not bad either." Natsume Qingyu assured, patting her chest.

"give it to you."

"clear."

A few minutes later.

"No, Natsume, aren't you a professional? What the hell are these angles?!" Hase Kaede leaned his head, browsed the original film, and couldn't help but complain.

"Stop talking nonsense, taking photos is free. If you delete photos for 50 years, there will be no price reduction." Natsume Kiyoha took back the camera and straightened up.

"Fuck you! If you want to steal money, just say so." Chang Gufeng was almost angry.

"Hey, there are so many beautiful ladies around here, please pay attention to the charm of language." Natsume Qingyu said with his eyes.

"You're going too far." Hase Feng lowered his voice.

"You don't know how to appreciate your own beauty." Natsume Qingyu said plausibly.

"Is this beautiful? You guided the movements. I thought there was something mysterious about it, but it turned out to be just like Qixing Zhong." Hase Feng gestured with his hands.

"The picture is just a picture, the ugly thing is what's on it." Natsume Qingyu patted Hase Kaede's shoulder calmly, "You have to learn to accept the true self and reconcile with yourself."

"It's obviously your problem, how could I be so ugly?" Hase Kaede opened Natsume Qingyu's dirty hands impatiently.

"My camera won't lie. I'm studying photography, not magic." Natsume Qingyu curled her lips and looked at him sideways, a little unhappy.

"It is said that professional photographers pay great attention to light. Take a good look at what the light looks like in the few photos you just took with your camera!" Kaede Hase tried to use professional terms to awaken Natsume Kiyoha's conscience in the industry.

"It's not that the light is bad, it's that you're not very white to begin with." Natsume Qingyu pushed the non-existent glasses on the bridge of his nose with his middle finger.

"If you don't think of a way to save me, I'm going to do it." Hase Feng rolled up his sleeves.

"You look like this, you can't do anything." Natsume Qingyu shook his head and gritted his teeth in denial, and ran down the mountain.

"Natsume, I will fight with you." Hase Kaede chased after him.

The girl walking slowly behind smiled helplessly.

Many years later.

Hase Kaede opened a photo album, and when he saw a few photos, he could clearly identify this night.

Although he was still angry, it didn't stop him from being laughed out of anger.

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