Yukino Yukinoshita knew Lin Ye possessed quite a few marvelous abilities.
Things like perspective, like Invisibility, like that detestable, bizarre ability to swipe a girl's intimate undergarments—and every single one of these abilities, without exception, made her think of the abilities used by the male leads in hentai anime.
No, these simply were the abilities of a hentai anime protagonist.
Which of them wasn't?
And in hentai anime, there were two most famous superpowers: one was Time Stop, and the other was Hypnosis.
If Lin Ye had the power of Hypnosis,
then wouldn't he be able to do whatever he wanted?
Changing her mind, making her agree to all sorts of unreasonable demands—wouldn't that be far too simple a matter?
At the very least, Yukinoshita figured that if she put herself in Lin Ye's position, possessing the Hypnosis superpower and wanting to find two girlfriends, then directly using the Hypnosis superpower to hypnotize would be the simplest, most effort-saving thing to do.
Would he even need to go to all this trouble now? To come and persuade her to agree?
Not at all.
"Lin Ye, I'll give you a choice right now,"
Yukino Yukinoshita spoke up. "Choose one, give up the other. You want one in each arm—that's impossible."
She, Yukino Yukinoshita, was a proud girl; she had not yet sunk to the level of sharing a boyfriend with another woman.
What was more, because of that last phone call, her impression of Mai Sakurajima had plummeted.
The mere thought of Lin Ye and Mai Sakurajima entwined together at a love hotel made strong feelings of displeasure and discomfort surge up uncontrollably in her heart.
'Sniff, sniff…'
Yukino Yukinoshita instinctively gave a sniff, and to her surprise discovered that a faint trace of perfume still lingered on Lin Ye—it wasn't her own scent, nor was it the scent from the restaurant they'd gone out to.
This bastard—he hadn't gone to school all day; he'd probably been entwined with Mai Sakurajima the whole time.
Irritated. Extremely irritated.
Even though she understood that, as a man, Lin Ye doing this was indeed only human nature, displeasure was still displeasure.
Back then, she had been his Quasi-fiancée after all!
Couldn't he have considered her a little, restrained himself just a bit, instead of outright skipping class and lying about in a gentle paradise enjoying himself? Wasn't this going too far?
"Yukino,"
"Before you make your choice, kindly address me as Yukinoshita."
Yukino Yukinoshita put forward her own opinion, her words expressing her dissatisfaction with Lin Ye.
Lin Ye looked at the girl, gazing at the exquisite face before him, then slowly raised his hands and placed them on the girl's shoulders. "I choose…"
The deliberately drawn-out note stirred ripples in Yukinoshita's heart.
Just who exactly would this guy choose?
Her, or her?
"I want them both."
Yukinoshita's eyelid twitched, and with a 'smack' she slapped away the hands Lin Ye had placed on her shoulders.
"You can leave now. Go find your Mai Sakurajima. The relationship between us ends as of this moment. From now on, we're strangers."
Originally they could still have been friends, at least chatting simply now and then.
But now,
she didn't even want to be friends with Lin Ye anymore; she just wanted this guy to get far, far away from her, to stop harboring any ideas about her and disturbing her life.
"I'll change your mind."
"Heh heh,"
the girl with long black hair chuckled softly. "Can you really?"
A trace of a smile suffused her eyes. "You can't."
Lin Ye reached out, trying to touch the girl's cheek, but Yukino Yukinoshita turned aside and dodged, displaying an attitude of refusal.
"I can,"
"Oh! Begging me? You want to use pleading as your method? That'll only make me think you're even more worthless, and look down on you even more. I advise you not to, Lin Ye."
She'd even considered things from Lin Ye's standpoint.
But what she got was still the same answer.
Lin Ye wanting to change her mind—
this simply made Yukinoshita shake her head inwardly.
If a girl's mind could be changed by sincerity and good faith alone, this world wouldn't have so many lovesick simps who could never get what they wanted.
"No,"
"So you want to force me? If you do something like that, I will never forgive you for the rest of my life."
She, who knew of Lin Ye's abilities, also knew that if Lin Ye forcibly did something to threaten her, she would have no way to successfully resist—but that didn't mean she would submit.
"This method seems pretty good."
Lin Ye clapped his hands as if struck by sudden realization. "I'll take some photos of you in all sorts of poses, Yukino, and use them to 'persuade' you—there shouldn't be any problem with that, right!"
The moment the girl heard this, her eyelid kept twitching.
"Besides, if I remember correctly, Yukino, there's a certain promise you still haven't fulfilled. You haven't forgotten, have you!"
"What?"
She had actually already thought of it, but she couldn't admit it.
"The Maid outfit—this is something you agreed to, Yukino. You're not thinking of going back on your word and weaseling out, are you!"
"..."
Couldn't he just forget about it?
she silently thought.
If not for that Maid outfit Lin Ye had left in the apartment, the one stored away in the closet, she really would have forgotten it. She'd assumed Lin Ye ought to have forgotten it too,
yet this guy still remembered.
"Yukino, can I trouble you to now fulfill the promise between us?"
Lin Ye raised a smile. "Could it be that Miss Yukino, who just told me she greatly detests breaking promises and going back on one's word, now intends to do the very thing of breaking a promise and eating her words?"
She pursed her lips, her body trembling faintly.
Out of anger.
"Once I've taken photos of you in the Maid outfit in all sorts of poses, Yukino, I'm sure you wouldn't want me to spread those photos around, would you!"
"You wouldn't dare—you promised you wouldn't spread them around."
She remembered Lin Ye's promise too.
"This… then I'll take private photos. You know, I have that ability."
"You wouldn't dare,"
she glared,
"So, you understand,"
"Impossible."
Yukino Yukinoshita refused outright.
There was absolutely no room for negotiation.
"Yukino, wouldn't it be nice to just agree?"
"It wouldn't. I, Yukino Yukinoshita, could never accept sharing one boyfriend with another woman. Since you can't let go of her, then let go of me. We end here. You can go back now. As for my parents and my sister's side, I'll find a suitable reason."
"Yukino, just agree!"
As for threats as a means, Lin Ye actually hadn't really pinned his hopes on them. If Yukinoshita were truly the kind of girl who would compromise because of threats, she wouldn't be called Yukino Yukinoshita.
It was just that Lin Ye wanted to give it a try, wanted to see whether the girl would compromise for his sake.
After all, some girls want to maintain their stance—at least they won't accept directly—but with his coercion and threats, the girl might loosen up.
But it seemed now that he had overthought it. How could Yukino Yukinoshita be that kind of girl?
"You're dreaming."
Yukinoshita's attitude remained firm.
"If you've got the skill, then change my will. Otherwise, stop daydreaming."
"..."
Lin Ye let out a sigh.
"You said it,"
"Hm?"
She frowned slightly.
"I didn't want to use it, but since you've put it that way, I have no choice but to use it. This isn't what I want—it comes from your own request, Yukino."
Yukino Yukinoshita's back went just the slightest bit cold, a prickling sensation.
What was he about to do?
"Yukino,"
Lin Ye turned and pressed closer; the distance between them was no more than ten centimeters, their exhaled breaths able to brush against each other's faces.
Yukino Yukinoshita's heart grew even more tense.
"You guessed one thing right,"
"Wh… what thing…"
"If you agree to me now, I can refrain from doing it!"
"Impossible,"
her refusal was still decisive and firm.
Lin Ye gently let out a breath.
"In that case, there's nothing more to say. Just as you said, I possess the Hypnosis superpower."
Yukino Yukinoshita: "..."
She stared wide-eyed at the man's face right before her.
Rationally she figured this was Lin Ye bluffing her, but faced with Lin Ye's serious expression, she felt he wasn't joking.
It was real,
it was real.
Lin Ye truly possessed the power of Hypnosis.
Her heart suddenly began to pound violently, thump after thump, the panic within her steadily climbing.
Recalling the words she'd just spoken, she increasingly felt that this time she had dug her own grave.
Lin Ye clearly hadn't intended to use the power of Hypnosis on her, to forcibly twist her will, yet she'd harmed herself, handing Lin Ye the very reason to use it.
'Smack…'
She instinctively tried to pull away from Lin Ye, but behind her was the sofa; her right foot tripped, and her body instantly lost its balance.
"Eep…"
In her flustered scramble, Lin Ye's one hand caught the girl's slender waist, drawing her into his embrace.
"Yukino,"
"Don't you dare use it on me…"
But Lin Ye's other index finger pressed against the girl's red lips.
"This really isn't your style of doing things, Yukino. People must take responsibility for their own actions,"
Lin Ye smiled as he looked at the girl in his arms. "I can give you another choice. Agree to me, and I won't use it on you."
The moment these words came out, a flash of delight crossed Yukino Yukinoshita's face, but reason quickly surfaced, and once again she felt this was one of Lin Ye's ploys.
Lin Ye couldn't hypnotize at all; he just wanted to use this to trick her into agreeing.
"Impossible,"
"Negotiations have broken down,"
Lin Ye's right hand caressed the girl's exquisite face, feeling the girl's delicate skin.
"In that case, next comes Hypnosis time."
The two locked eyes.
Yukino Yukinoshita wanted to flee, shoving with all her might, but amid a 'thud' she toppled onto the sofa.
Lin Ye propped himself over the girl's body, leaning down to look at the girl beneath him.
He cupped the girl's cheeks with both hands, once again making the girl's eyes meet his gaze.
"Lin Ye, if you use it on me, I'll hate you. I won't forgive you for my entire life."
She spoke earnestly, her expression solemn.
Lin Ye did not doubt the girl's attitude.
"You're the one who gave me hope, so you have to bear the responsibility. Right now, I just don't want to let go of my girlfriend—that's all."
"Lin Ye…"
She wanted to make one last struggle, hoping Lin Ye would let her off, but faced with Lin Ye, she had no possibility of breaking free.
She struggled several times, even putting some strength into it, but she couldn't push Lin Ye off at all.
"Yukino,"
Hypnosis activated.
A mysterious power transmitted through his gaze onto the girl's body.
In an instant she settled down, her eyes taking on a slight daze.
"As my girlfriend, understand me, embrace everything about me! Accept the fact that I'm dating other girls."
The more numerous and complex the content of the hypnosis, the harder it is for the hypnotized to understand and carry out.
Lin Ye did his best to give simple, easy-to-understand explanations.
He just didn't know whether this sort of hypnosis that twisted one's own consciousness could successfully take effect.
He could only watch the girl's subsequent behavior.
Before long,
the daze in Yukino Yukinoshita's navy-blue eyes grew deeper, and she slowly closed them, breathing steadily as she fell asleep.
"She's asleep,"
Does changing consciousness take time?
Directly hypnotizing to make the body carry something out is actually more efficient.
Does changing consciousness place a heavier strain on the mind?
Lin Ye gained a further understanding of this new superpower of his.
But still…
"What's the drawback of the Hypnosis superpower?"
Lin Ye gazed at the girl resting on the sofa.
The way the relationship between the two of them had developed up to this point truly exceeded Lin Ye's expectations.
When he'd come here, he'd been mentally prepared to part ways with Yukinoshita,
yet through a twist of fate, Yukinoshita had become his girlfriend due to a misunderstanding.
Now that she'd become his girlfriend, his attitude toward her was different.
The Quasi-fiancés relationship was, from the start, agreed to end if they didn't suit each other,
but a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship was not the kind that could simply end just because one person felt they didn't suit each other.
At least, that was how Lin Ye saw it.
"Yukino, let's just get along like this for a while. If someday in the future you truly… don't want to, I won't force you."
In any case,
Lin Ye's current thinking was to first stabilize the girl and get along for a period of time.
As for how long the hypnosis would last,
Lin Ye didn't know either.
If someday in the future the effect wore off, and after Yukinoshita returned to normal she still made the same original choice, then… he could only accept it once again.
Lin Ye carried the girl to the bedroom. His hand rested on the girl's clothes, and for a moment he hesitated.
But thinking it over—he'd already seen the girl from head to toe; taking off her outer layer was nothing.
Lin Ye got to work, undoing the girl's clothing, removing her shoes and socks, and laying the girl steadily onto the bed.
'Click…'
And just at this moment,
the sound of the apartment's front door opening suddenly rang out.
Someone had come.
Lin Ye glanced over; perspective skill activated, seeing through the wall, and he caught sight of the tall, beautiful woman taking off her shoes at the entrance.
Haruno Yukinoshita.
She had come tonight.
"Yukino, your sister's here!"
Yet there was no response whatsoever.
Haruno frowned slightly. "Not home?"
But she'd noticed Yukino's shoes, as well as a pair of men's shoes.
Haruno gathered herself, her expression slightly wary, and she walked straight toward the bedroom, her right hand gripping her handbag.
It probably wasn't an intruder, but it was best to be cautious just in case.
Meanwhile, in the room, Lin Ye was pondering whether it was better to show himself or not.
Given Yukinoshita's current state, it seemed he couldn't quite explain things.
'Click…'
The bedroom door lock made a faint sound, and the door slowly opened.
"Yo."
Lin Ye showed himself directly, neither hiding with Invisibility nor using Time Stop to leave this place.
Because he'd noticed Haruno's wariness—clearly Haruno had sensed that an unidentified, dangerous person might be in the apartment.
Haruno lifted her eyes toward the man before her,
and her wary heart instantly relaxed.
"So it was Lin-kun!"
She raised her ever-present sunny smile. "At least say something. I thought some burglar had snuck in here—you scared me half to death,"
After saying this, she even made a show of wiping the sweat from her forehead, indicating her inner nervousness. "So, Lin-kun, you have to properly make it up to Big Sister's frightened heart!"
Haruno was indeed Haruno;
her behavior and manner of speaking hadn't changed in the slightest.
"That has nothing to do with me,"
"A man with no sense of responsibility. Hmph, acting like this, you won't be popular with girls."
As Haruno spoke, her gaze drifted toward another part of the room, falling upon her younger sister who lay quietly on the bed with her eyes closed, resting.
The clothes, shoes, and socks scattered on the floor instantly made her heart shudder.
No way!
Was Lin Ye about to do something to her sister?
A conjecture surfaced in Haruno's mind, but she didn't hurriedly interrogate Lin Ye. Instead she stepped in, passing by Lin Ye, came to the bedside, and lifted the blanket.
At a single glance she saw her sister wearing only her sleepwear.
And at this moment her sister was breathing steadily, the occasional frown on her face making Haruno can't help but make associations.
"Lin-kun, if you have needs, you can come to Big Sister,"
she sighed helplessly. "Big Sister will satisfy all your curiosity about women; you can do whatever you like. Drugging Yukino unconscious, looking at her body, taking advantage of her—isn't that rather inappropriate? That's no good!"
She didn't interrogate, much less hold him to account; instead she expressed her own thoughts in another way.
Haruno knew very well the current status and standing of the relationship between herself and Lin Ye.
Once the relationship between the two sides broke down, the one to suffer and lose out would definitely be her.
But that didn't mean she had to swallow it and just grin and bear it; she too had to express her dissatisfaction and displeasure in a suitable way.
She, Haruno Yukinoshita, had always been conveying one awareness to Lin Ye—her sister Yukino was her reverse scale.
Lin Ye could harm anyone, but the one person he could not harm was her sister Yukino.
"Yukino fell asleep for certain reasons, so I carried her to the room to let her rest properly."
Lin Ye explained.
"And that's your reason for taking off her clothes without permission and looking at her pure body?"
"If Miss Haruno had contacted me in advance, I would definitely have waited for Miss Haruno to come help take off the clothes."
He was expressing his attitude.
Haruno looked toward her sister.
The sound of their conversation hadn't disturbed her sister in the slightest; her sister was still sleeping soundly with her eyes closed.
At this hour, for her sister to be asleep was abnormal; she had to get to the bottom of the reason.
Haruno lifted her feet and softened her steps, coming out the door to rejoin Lin Ye. "Let's talk outside."
Lin Ye stepped back, leaving the bedroom entrance.
The two of them left.
Haruno gently closed the bedroom door.
"Have a seat wherever."
Haruno noticed the tea on the dining table.
Yukino had entertained Lin Ye, which further confirmed the conjecture that Yukino had fallen unconscious only after conversing with Lin Ye.
Lin Ye sat back down in his original spot,
while Haruno fetched her own cup. She sat down beside Lin Ye, filled Lin Ye's cup with tea, and then poured one for herself.
She picked up her cup and took a sip, in no hurry to ask.
Coming to her sister's place today and running into Lin Ye was an unexpected delight—it was a perfect chance to ask about the matter concerning Mai Sakurajima.
She very much wanted to know the current relationship between Lin Ye and Mai Sakurajima.
If the two of them had officially started dating, that would be a good thing for her sister.
Her sister would never allow the man she was involved with to have an official lovers' relationship with another woman.
In this moment Haruno suddenly realized why Lin Ye had appeared here.
It could basically be confirmed that her sister had contacted Lin Ye to come here to discuss the matter of the two of them getting along in the future.
And the result… her sister had fainted. Clearly this conversation between Lin Ye and her sister hadn't gone very well or smoothly—otherwise, how would the situation of her sister fainting have occurred?
Having thought this through, Haruno reorganized the topics she would bring up afterward.
"Lin-kun, why did my sister suddenly fall asleep? At this hour I can be quite certain she wouldn't be sleeping."
"I'm the one who made her take a nap,"
"Knocking her out isn't exactly good behavior."
"I didn't use violence. Set your mind at ease, Miss Haruno,"
Although Lin Ye said this, Haruno didn't completely put her heart at ease. But she had no better method, so she could only accept Lin Ye's explanation for the time being.
"Why did you suddenly do this?"
Faced with this question, Lin Ye didn't answer immediately.
He thought it over before speaking. "It's rather complicated,"
"No matter how complicated, please tell me. I'm Yukino's sister. As her sister, I have the right to know why my sister was suddenly knocked out by Lin-kun. Even if Yukino were Lin-kun's wife, I would still have this qualification—what's more, Lin-kun and Yukino are only in a Quasi-fiancés relationship."
She was now facing Lin Ye in the capacity of Yukino's biological sister, demanding that Lin Ye state the reason.
"Yukino received a bit of a shock—you know, Miss Haruno,"
A shock? I know?
A person's name surfaced in Haruno's mind.
"Mai Sakurajima,"
"Mm, it's related to Mai."
"Oh ho, calling her Mai now."
Something's going on—there's definitely something going on.
That confession in Akihabara had probably truly succeeded; the two of them had directly established an official lovers' relationship.
At the very least they were in an ambiguous stage—and an ambiguous relationship with a very high level of intimacy at that.
Haruno raised her index finger and poked Lin Ye's side, a teasing smile at the corner of her mouth as she spoke. "Tell me about your true relationship with this big star Mai Sakurajima. I'm so curious—satisfy Big Sister's curiosity,"
Worried that Lin Ye wouldn't be willing to talk, she added, "Big Sister did put in effort and energy after all; I went to a lot of trouble to help you win the beauty's heart. If you don't tell me and let me be happy too, isn't that rather inappropriate?"
"I'm afraid you won't believe me,"
"As long as you say it, Lin-kun, I'll believe it,"
Haruno made her stance clear.
She also didn't think there was any need for Lin Ye to deliberately hide it from her.
"We're dating. She's my girlfriend now."
Haruno: "..."
She'd already anticipated it, but when it became fact, she still couldn't help a bout of self-doubt—was Lin Ye joking?
"Really?"
"Who was it just now that said she'd believe me if I said it?"
"Fine, fine, fine, I believe you, all right?"
She gave Lin Ye a shake. "So now that Lin-kun has a girlfriend, how do you plan to face Yukino, and how will you continue getting along with Yukino?"
They've split up—they must have split up!
They've definitely split up, right!
"What does Miss Haruno think…"
Haruno stared with wide eyes. "My thinking, of course, is that I hope Lin-kun and Yukino keep interacting and staying in contact! I definitely hope the two of you communicate and get along well. I'm very much looking forward to Lin-kun becoming my brother-in-law in the future,"
Not a single word of this could be believed.
"Is that really what Miss Haruno thinks?"
Lin Ye put on an exaggerated reaction,
as though he'd heard something hard to believe.
"Of course!"
Fake, it's all fake.
I don't want you together with my sister, not one bit.
Haruno only wanted her sister to stay away from Lin Ye, but constrained by reality she couldn't directly intervene or forcibly break them apart. Now, though, this matter with Lin Ye had given her an opening—her sister Yukino could not possibly tolerate the fact of Lin Ye dating one woman while continuing to get along with her.
One choice out of two,
and Lin Ye basically could not possibly give up Mai Sakurajima for Yukino's sake.
So, the outcome was foreseeable.
The progression of their relationship that she'd worried about would end right here—how gratifying, how gratifying.
"Lin-kun is so outstanding. As his sister, of course I hope my sister Yukino ends up with Lin-kun, but everything still has to be based on Yukino's own wishes. As her sister, I can only respect her choice."
She leaned in close beside Lin Ye. "How about… Big Sister gives herself to Lin-kun, as compensation, all right? I'm more suited to Lin-kun than Yukino is!"
You're suited?
You're not the least bit suited.
Lin Ye knew full well that Haruno intended to rely on herself to bind him down.
He absolutely could not accept it.
Lin Ye placed his left hand over Haruno's hands as they clutched his arm, pressing down slightly. "No need. I can't bear to receive such favor from you, Miss Haruno."
"Big Sister isn't some big tiger."
"You're a big dinosaur—a mother dinosaur who eats people without spitting out the bones."
"That's going too far. How am I a dinosaur?"
Haruno laughed and smacked at Lin Ye, a teasing smile, as if acting coquettishly.
"So, tell Big Sister, how are things between the two of you now? If Lin-kun won't say, I'll just wait for Yukino to wake up and ask her."
"It's over,"
Lin Ye sighed,
"The Quasi-fiancés relationship I had with her before is over,"
Delight,
falling from the heavens.
A thick, satisfied warm current kept welling up in Haruno's heart.
Just as expected—Yukino indeed couldn't accept the fact that Lin Ye had a girlfriend.
She even admired Lin Ye for confessing honestly. An ordinary man would very likely conceal things from both sides, playing a two-timing game—how could anyone be as honest as Lin Ye, telling the plain truth?
At the very least, if it were her, she definitely wouldn't have done so.
"Don't be sad. Worst case, Big Sister will help put in a word for you."
If Lin Ye hadn't clearly caught the smile Haruno couldn't suppress at the corner of her mouth, he really would have believed Haruno would help win her back.
This woman—she said one thing and did another; what she said with her mouth and what she actually thought, and what she would do in the future, were completely different.
"No need to put in a word. There's no need for that. Putting in a word would be a wasted effort anyway."
"Eh eh eh, how can that be? Lin-kun likes Yukino so much, and you still can't stop thinking about Yukino, and you want to keep dating Yukino. As her sister, I can't just leave this be. I'll put in a word for you—what if, just what if it works out! By then, Lin-kun, won't you have to thank me properly, be moved to tears with gratitude, and give yourself to me."
Lin Ye was speechless.
Wasn't that last phrase extremely inappropriate?
"Really, no need,"
"Really?"
"Yes,"
"Fine then! What a pity."
Haruno's tone was dejected.
And at this moment, Lin Ye had finally held out for this instant.
To deal with a fun-seeker, you have to give her an even bigger spectacle—let her see the magnificent scene of herself being the entertainment.
"Yukino has already indicated she'll be my girlfriend."
The moment these words came out,
Haruno's expression froze on the spot, that brilliant smile turning into an ugly astonishment.
Girlfriend,
her sister becoming Lin Ye's girlfriend?
This wasn't the 'Quasi-fiancés' relationship meant to placate their parents—it was a willingly chosen lovers' relationship.
This was no ordinary thing!
It meant her sister was going to make further contact with and come to understand Lin Ye more deeply.
"Lin-kun, you're not…"
"It's true. Yukino said it herself,"
"That's impossible."
Haruno refuted with great certainty. "I know Yukino very well. She could never accept it. Don't try to fool me—I won't believe it."
Knowing that Lin Ye was dating Mai Sakurajima, and yet still wanting to be Lin Ye's girlfriend—how could that proud sister of hers possibly turn out that way!
This must be one of Lin Ye's tricks. Yes, it was Lin Ye's trick—a trick by Lin Ye to counterattack her and make a fool of her.
"What a pity. I won't fall for it, my dear Lin-kun,"
A possibility occurred to Haruno. "I get it. It seems Lin-kun made a choice, choosing my sister Yukino and breaking up with Mai Sakurajima. No wonder Yukino agreed to be your girlfriend."
She figured Lin Ye had used breaking up with Mai Sakurajima as leverage to make a request to Yukino—officially dating.
And Yukino, in light of this sacrifice of Lin Ye's, had agreed to officially date Lin Ye and become his girlfriend.
Had this guy calculated all of this from the very beginning?
Using Mai Sakurajima to provoke Yukino, thereby getting Yukino to agree to become his girlfriend.
If that were the case,
then Lin Ye was meticulously scheming—terrifying to such a degree!
Haruno felt that Lin Ye was becoming increasingly difficult to deal with.
Lin Ye was speechless.
He inexplicably felt that the two sisters' lines of thought somewhat overlapped. So this was what sisters were like? Clearly two different personalities, yet their thinking unexpectedly coincided.
"I didn't break up with Mai."
"I get it, I get it, you'll break up soon,"
"I don't plan to break up afterward either,"
"..."
Haruno frowned slightly.
"I'm dating Mai, and I'm also dating Yukino. Yukino agreed,"
Silence,
all Haruno had was silence.
Such a fantastical, outlandish thing—how could it possibly happen?
If it were any other woman, Haruno would have just laughed and believed it. But her own sister Yukino could not possibly accept it.
Her sister's possessiveness was far higher than the average person's.
Haruno felt her sister would rather break up with Lin Ye than ever accept the situation Lin Ye described.
Lin Ye shrugged. "Believe it or not, that's up to you,"
"I don't believe it,"
"It's the truth."
Lin Ye's tone was calm. "How about… Miss Haruno, let's make a bet. If Yukino really is willing to date me together with Mai, just as I said, then you lose,"
"And if I lose, I marry you, Lin-kun?"
Lin Ye: "..."
He was struck dumb on the spot.
"I want you to be a bit more normal and serious in your interactions with me in the future,"
"I won't bet with you. Having witnessed with my own eyes Lin-kun's gambling skills in Macau, I don't have the confidence to win a bet against you,"
This had frightened Haruno;
she didn't even dare place the bet.
Lin Ye felt regret.
Although he couldn't completely eliminate Haruno's everyday provoking and flirtatious behavior, at least he could make Haruno restrain herself a bit—but this woman wouldn't take the bait.
Lin Ye could only accept it.
And Haruno leaned in even closer, practically snuggling against Lin Ye's body.
"Lin-kun, I believe what you said. How about this… I'll become your girlfriend too! Since Yukino is even willing to let you date Mai, then as for the matter between you and me, she might just agree as well. It's decided then, happily."
In Haruno's view, taking ten thousand steps back, even if what Lin Ye said was true and her sister had accepted Mai Sakurajima,
there was no way she'd accept her.
The two sisters were destined to be irreconcilable.
It was just a pity that her sister was still asleep right now—otherwise, she'd have been able to see her sister's interesting reaction to all this.
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