Chapter 1: Under the Table
Hayana Takanashi opened her eyes and blinked a few times to wake up completely.
The first thing you see is the luxuriously decorated ceiling.
It is a patch of white, with intricate and delicate patterns carved on the edges.
She stretched her hands out from her coat and stretched her body vigorously. Her fair arms felt a slight coolness that was completely different from the inside of the coat. She retracted her stretched hands and curled up in the soft sofa. She turned her head and saw the game console placed on the coffee table.
She had casually placed it on the floor under the sofa before going to bed.
When she woke up, she was still covered with a coat that didn't belong to her...
Chuuya smokes.
There was a faint smell of tobacco left on it.
She recalled the strange feeling when she fell into a light sleep and someone was taking care of her.
Hayana Kotori sat up and thanked the ochre-haired boy who was sitting at his desk, working on documents. "Thank you for the clothes."
"Nothing." The young man lowered his head and wrote quickly.
Hayana Takanashi looked past Nakahara Chuuya and looked at the floor-to-ceiling window behind him.
The scenery that cadres can see from the highest point of the cadre building is so beautiful and vast that ordinary people will never be able to see it in their lifetime.
The setting sun intersected with the building, and the golden afterglow emitted its last heat, which penetrated into the office. The tall buildings seemed to be melted by the heat wave, showing a curved posture, and the whole room was warmed.
With the neutralization of the air conditioner, the temperature in the room is very suitable.
"...Well, it's almost time to get off work." Hayana Takanashi covered her mouth and yawned.
Nakahara Chuuya looked up from the documents.
In the backlight, the expression on the boy's face was a little dark, and his cobalt blue eyes were particularly bright, like the calm, deep and charming sea.
He put down the pen and stretched his fingers which had become stiff from writing for so long.
—Cobalt Blue, shimmering in the sunset, looked at the girl leaning on the sofa, who was pulling down his coat: "Why aren't you in your office lately?"
Hayana Takanashi is a candidate for the leadership of the Port Mafia. She controls one of the most powerful teams of the fighting faction and is also responsible for protecting the safety of the leader.
According to the height of her status and the main tasks she is responsible for, as long as the organization is not particularly difficult to deal with, she will directly stay in the rear.
The missions that require her to go out are also extremely dangerous.
In this respect, Hayana Takanashi is very similar to Chuuya Nakahara and Osamu Dazai.
"……ah?"
When this was mentioned, Hayana Takanashi's face fell.
"Don't mention it. I've been harassed by Dazai so much lately. He's just a slug that I can't get rid of. I can only find peace and quiet here with you."
"Really, lately, not only do I have to deal with meetings, but I also have to deal with Dazai. I feel like my whole life is going to be bleak!"
She used her hands and feet to imitate how difficult Dazai Osamu was to deal with, and complained indignantly.
Zhong Yuanzhong also knew about blind dates, but——
"What's going on, Dazai?"
He frowned slightly, and when Dazai Osamu's name was mentioned, disgust appeared on his handsome face.
"I don't know what's wrong with him lately. He's insisted on living in my family's cemetery, hoping to be buried next to the plot reserved for me. He's been arguing with me about this a lot. In short... he's almost driving me crazy."
Hayana Takanashi stood up, shook out Chuuya Nakahara's coat and hung it on the coat rack, complaining in a lazy voice.
Nakahara Chuuya's eyes widened: "You agreed?"
"How is that possible?" Hayana Takanashi sat back on the sofa and smoothed her frizzy hair.
Seeing that she was really confused, Nakahara Chuuya handed her a small comb.
"Do you have a rubber band?" Hayana Kotori glanced sideways.
Nakahara Chuuya untied the rubber band on his hair and handed it over.
The ochre-colored hair, no longer bound by the black rubber band, hangs loosely on one side of the shoulder. A black choker is worn on the fair neck, half-covered by the loose hair.
Very astringent.
With the young man's handsome face, there is a unique charm of temptation.
“Gudong——”
Being stared at by her, Nakahara Chuuya's Adam's apple moved slightly, and he became embarrassed, with a faint blush on his cheeks.
Although he is dressed as someone who makes people want to rip his clothes off, he is surprisingly innocent and shy.
Staring at the black rubber band handed to her by her porcelain-white fingers, Hayana Takanashi didn't realize anything was wrong.
She took it.
She combed her sleep-messy black hair with her fingers, tied it into a loose ponytail, and continued the previous topic: "That's for my future husband. He lives there, so where will my future husband live?"
"It's because I didn't agree that I'm always bothered by him."
"My mom's been arranging blind dates for me lately. Every time we meet, she keeps asking about the progress. Seriously... I don't even want to go home after get off work..."
Nakahara Chuuya understands Kotori Hayato's feelings very well: "Let's go have a drink together after get off work to relieve our sorrow."
"As for the person you're meeting, if you need my help scaring him away, just let me know."
This is not the first time that Chuuya Nakahara has helped Hayato Hayato scare away his blind date.
Whenever Hayana Takanashi and Chuuya Nakahara send messages asking for help, he always arrives quickly.
For those difficult blind date candidates who you can’t refuse no matter how hard you try.
The young man stood there with a condescending look on his face. Although his height of 160cm was not enough, his aura was definitely that of 2.8 meters.
If Hayana Takanashi continues to make exaggerated expressions of admiration, her blind date will naturally leave tactfully.
There were also some people who were furious and accused her of going out to meet her boyfriend even though she had one, but they were all suppressed by Nakahara Chuuya with his aura. Afterwards, he used his identity as a gangster to intimidate them a little. Naturally, they did not dare to say anything they shouldn't say to Kotori Yu's mother.
Zhongyuan Chuuya is very familiar with this kind of thing.
He thought he had opened up a new track for chasing people, and as long as he drove away all potential threats, he could dominate the track...
Just thinking about it makes him feel frustrated!
The reason is that Hayato Kotori didn't even notice the existence of the track.
As for why Hayana Takanashi was forced to go on blind dates for four months after her 18th birthday.
It was because she wrote all sorts of nonsense on the test paper when she took the college entrance examination, so naturally she didn't even get into the worst university.
The reason she scribbled on the test paper was that she was a candidate for a cadre of the port mafia, and with heavy workload and tight time, she had no time to go to college.
To put it simply, in her position, with power, influence and money, she doesn't need to go to school and find a way out.
You can make a lot of money just by snapping your fingers.
What's more, she is secretly still a regular employee.
The trouble is, Hayana Takanashi's mother knew nothing about these things.
Xiao Niaoyou's mother's husband died early, and she raised her eldest daughter alone with great difficulty. Because her daughter failed to get into college, she thought her future was bleak, so she started looking for blind dates for her daughter early on, hoping that she would have someone to rely on in the future.
According to Kotori's mother, it is rare to find a man who has good character, good health, and is willing to marry into her family. Kotori Hayana may have to start dating from now on until she is 30 years old to find the right person for her, so she cannot afford to miss any blind date.
At this point, Hayana Takanashi entered a miserable life of being forced to go on blind dates.
A candidate for the port mafia's cadre, a feared gangster who was in charge of the militant faction, was being pressured into marriage. If this were to be spread, it would be a laughable and socially disastrous act.
Fortunately, Hayana Takanashi's two good friends, Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuuya, were very helpful. Not only did they help her keep the secret, but they also helped her solve the blind date problem.
Such a good friend that makes you cry!
"I will ask you for help if I need it." Hayana Takanashi accepted her friend's kind help.
"Maybe you can find a fake husband from the organization." Nakahara Chuuya suggested.
If the mafia can make a fake marriage certificate, it will be like a piece of cake, and it can also help Hayato Kotori get rid of Kotori's mother's arrangement.
"...Forget it. I'm already a mafia member. If I find another one, my mother will beat me to death if she finds out." Hayana Kotori spread her hands.
"Besides, that's marrying into the wife's family! Even if it's a fake marriage, anyone with a bit of temper wouldn't want to."
"I really don't know what those people who have met me so far are thinking. Do they just want to be freeloaders?"
Nakahara Chuuya: “…”
Zhongyuan Zhongye seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.
The reason why a man is needed to marry into the family is that Kotori Yu's mother's father, Kotori Yu Hayana's grandfather, runs a farm. The farm will be passed on to Kotori Yu's mother. Kotori Yu's mother has only one child, Kotori Yu Hayana, so the farm will eventually be passed on to Kotori Yu Hayana.
In the eyes of Kotori's grandfather and mother, this is the foundation of Kotori Hayana's future survival.
Running a farm is hard work, but their farm has little profit and they can't afford to hire help. So, marrying a man into the family could not only be a husband but also a helper...
In other words, if she wants the farm to be protected from outsiders, Hayana Kotori, who failed to get into university, will not be kicked out of the house after the death of her relatives because she has not graduated from high school and has no knowledge of the law, and will not be left with nothing but a miserable fate without a diploma and the willingness to do hard labor.
The most important requirement that Kotori's mother asked Kotori Hayana to find a blind date for is that he or she must marry into the family after marriage.
Every man that goes on a blind date is carefully selected by Kotori's mother, which is why Kotori Hayato cannot miss every blind date.
When Hayana Takanashi heard her mother's worried words for the first time, she rolled her eyes.
Who says you can’t live without getting married?!
Speechless, she uttered the shocking statement, "Whoever dares to leave me starving, I will make him be shot."
The shocking consequence of his words was that Kotori's mother grabbed his ears and scolded him: "!!! Are you some evil person!?"
…She never dared to speak carelessly again.
Chuuya Nakahara returned to his desk to continue correcting documents, thinking about leaving get off work on time and going for a drink with Hayato Hayato.
Hayana Takanashi picked up a piece of bread from the coffee table to fill her hungry stomach.
Just ate half of it.
———Da da da.
The clear sound of leather shoes hitting the ground.
What follows is a singing voice that is out of tune but still sounds good.
“Mmmmm… Entering the water—mmmmm… It’s the most wonderful… Ohhhh… The rough hemp rope… Mmmmm…”
Hayana Takanashi: "..."
Nakahara Chuuya: “…”
"Fuck... can we be found even if we hide here?!"
Dazai and Chuuya usually can't wait to expose each other's most socially unsavory secrets!
Hayana Kotori cursed, swallowed the remaining bread in one gulp, stood up and looked around.
Apart from the filing cabinets, bookcases and wine cabinets, there is nowhere to hide.
Do I have to lie on the ceiling?
It's unrealistic, and it wouldn't look good if I was discovered in a Spider-Man-like pose. Most importantly, Dazai would laugh at me for the whole week.
Hearing the footsteps getting closer, Hayato Nakatani suddenly got an inspiration.
She rushed to Nakahara Chuuya's side: "Life and death are at stake! Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda!"
Seeing the latter's hesitant and puzzled look, she grabbed his chair and pulled it back, and the chair and his whole body made a heart-shaking creaking sound.
The chair and Zhong Yuanzhong, who was sitting on it, were pulled apart, revealing the small space under the desk.
Under the surprised gaze of Nakahara Chuuya with his eyes wide open.
Hayana Takanashi slid in like a slippery fish.
Being forced to this point, she thought, no one else could do this.
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