Chapter 216: Love at the End of Lies How can this not be considered a solo act...
"Ms. Lin, your dessert."
The smiling blond waiter placed a dessert on the square table.
"And coconut egg yolk." He took out another small wooden plate with a bright yellow egg yolk on it.
The white cat meowed, jumped off Lin Xi, and licked the egg yolk in the wooden dish gracefully.
Lin Xi picked up a piece of the cut cake with a fork and put it in her mouth. "Hmm, Mr. Amuro, the new product is delicious. Is this a Pavlova cake?"
"Yes." Amuro Toru distributed small pieces of dessert on the tray to the children. "I've been trying new desserts lately. Ms. Azusa agreed to allocate part of her budget for me to try."
"That's great! With Mr. Amuro's popularity and cooking skills, he will definitely attract a lot of new customers." Lin Xi teased.
Amuro Toru smiled and said, "It is my honor to make desserts that make our guests happy."
"Really..." Lin Xi pulled Conan, who was eating Black Forest cake, to her side. "This kid seems very interested in your career and keeps asking me about you."
"Oh?" Amuro Toru looked at Conan with interest. "What a coincidence! I'm also very interested in Conan-kun. I've met him several times, and I've always been impressed by his intelligence."
Conan raised his head and met Amuro Toru's inquiring gaze.
Conan: ???
Sister Lin! What are you doing?!
He laughed dryly: "Ahaha..."
It's over, but don't let this guy suspect me! I have to use his ultimate move -
The secret of scientific invisibility and anti-suspicion, the secret, the ultimate move, pretending to be a child!
As long as he uses this trick, everyone in the world will treat him like a child!
There were still cake crumbs on the corners of his lips. He chuckled foolishly and said in a coquettish voice, "What? Sister Lin, this cake is delicious! Ah, were you guys praising me just now?"
Genta on the side squinted his eyes and said, "Conan is so childish."
The other two little ones nodded in unison.
Lin Xi's mouth couldn't help but twitch.
Sorry, she is not from this world, and this kind of magic is useless to her.
It was hard for her to hold back when she thought that the guy who was now trying to act sweetly like a child with a pinched throat was actually about to take the college entrance examination.
"You guys really switch from cocky to silly without any clutter." She wiped the corner of Conan's mouth with a napkin helplessly, "It's okay, go play."
After sending Conan away, she turned to Amuro Toru and said, "Xiao Ke simply likes to do detective work. Boys of his age are like this, full of energy."
"He's a big fan of Sherlock Holmes."
"I see. What a pity! I like Poirot better."
"Yeah, I'm different. I like them all—Brother Tou, I came to you this time to ask you something." Lin Xi clasped his hands together in a pleading gesture, "When you went to see my teacher, did he show you my previous works? Pictures and videos count."
She had to confirm whether Amuro Toru was affected by X's painting.
There is no need to ask, Ando Hui is 100% sick - the fact that he does not appear to be sick on the surface only means that he is already terminally ill.
“…” Amuro Toru was silent for a moment.
It's Toru-kun, and nothing's wrong with Mr. Amuro, right?
He thought of the surveillance video. Before it was burned, those images were indeed impressive...
But after a few days, he could hardly recall the specific appearance of the scene.
Should I tell Lin Xi about the surveillance video?
Forget it. This guy looks so heartless now. Don’t let her think about the past anymore.
"No," he said, "your teacher just asked me to persuade you to continue your studies and produce works."
"Ah..." Lin Xi just sighed when she heard Amuro Toru say, "But I think you should stop drawing."
"Huh? Why? Don't you have confidence in my painting, Tou?"
"I don't have confidence in you," Amuro Toru said angrily. "Ordinary people get a Master of Arts degree to find better jobs, while others do it to realize their dreams. But you don't look like you have financial pressure, so you don't need to use academic qualifications to embellish your resume. If you don't want to touch a brush again, then don't do it."
"Even with one less 'X', the earth will still rotate and the sun will still rise. Your teacher's expectations are your teacher's, and your own ideas are your own."
“To do what you want to do is the purpose of life.”
Lin Xi was so moved that tears welled up in her eyes: "Brother Tou——"
Amuro Toru had long been immune to her exaggerated expression: "If you are interested in your past, ask me to go to school with you. If you don't want to..."
"No, no." Lin Xi shook her head repeatedly, "I don't like painting."
Amuro Toru suddenly remembered that when they were on Moon Shadow Island, the girl had said similar words in her dream.
"No. "
"No what?" he asked at the time.
"Don't do it," the girl murmured. "I don't like it."
Now that I think about it, maybe Lin Xi was forced to do something, and "doing" didn't mean killing as he thought, but drawing?
Ando Hui brought an underage, parentless, and helpless girl from China. Pretending to be an elder, he forced her to create works for him, but in the name of protection, he forbade her to reveal her identity, using the fame of "X" to seek fame and profit for himself...
In the end, the girl, who was already suffering from psychological trauma, could not bear the torture and committed suicide in despair.
Amuro Toru imagined Lin Xi's past and couldn't help but sigh. He felt that even if the facts were a little different, they were pretty close to what he had imagined.
Those overly lively and adventurous behaviors also become cute under the filter of the bleak past.
Lin Xi, who received Amuro Toru's inexplicable pity look:?
No, is there anything wrong with not wanting to draw?
Why did Toru Amuro suddenly look at her with a caring look for a critically ill patient?
That look made Lin Xi want to run away.
"Don't bother looking for the teacher. If he sends you any strange messages, especially pictures, don't read them. Just treat him as a fake person." She spoke quickly, "If you don't know what fake person means, please translate it yourself. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
"Wait." Amuro Toru held her shoulder, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "I haven't asked you yet, where have you been these days?"
"Bird watching. I posted pictures on my WeChat Moments—no, I even posted them on the forum."
Toru Amuro: ...?
Bird watching? Could it be that Punch sent those pictures to Lin Xi?
Does Lin Xi know that those photos were taken by herself?
Lin Xi:Innocent.jpg
Vests are good, vests are wonderful, and the biggest advantage of having multiple vests is that you can shift the blame to another identity at any time.
How can this not be considered a one-person job and one-person responsibility?
"Wow." Amuro Toru said expressionlessly, "Since you took the photo yourself, I must appreciate it carefully."
He put emphasis on the word "himself".
Lin Xi felt guilty and looked away.
One person does the work, one person takes the responsibility... Please, my other self...
She just wanted to leave this place, but this scene looked completely different to other people.
For example, the three little ones.
"Amuro-nii, am I..."
"Yes, that's how it's played on TV..."
"It's indeed very suspicious..."
They gathered together and whispered, glancing at Lin Xi and Amuro Toru from time to time.
After discussing for a while, they seemed to have reached a consensus and turned to the other two friends for consensus:
"Conan, Huibara-san, do you also think that Amuro-san is pursuing Lin-san?"
Conan and Haibara Ai remained silent.
One of them knew that one of them had a connection with the organization, and there was absolutely no way that he could be involved in these love affairs, and even if he had, it was definitely fake; the other knew that not only one of them had a connection with the organization, but the other one also had a connection with the organization. Even if they did not return home one night and rented the same room to sleep, she would only think that they were just discussing things in the room.
Huiyuan Ai said expressionlessly: "Watch less TV. Early love will affect your IQ."
Conan also said woodenly: "I would rather believe that they are just discussing cooking."
This world is so despairing...
…
Somewhere in Tokyo.
The doctor in a white coat put down the medical record and sighed.
Asayama Rika immediately looked up: "Doctor Fudo, how is my boyfriend?"
"I'm sorry, Ms. Asayama." The doctor, known as Feng Hu, shook his head, then nodded. "Based on your description and my observations, your boyfriend is already showing early signs of bipolar disorder. He sometimes appears overly excited, sometimes depressed, sometimes extremely anxious, and sometimes irritable... Not only has his appetite decreased, but his sleep quality is also poor, and he often suffers from insomnia... And he insists that all this is just caused by overwork and refuses to seek treatment. In my experience, this is a manifestation of a lack of trust and a lack of security."
"You said he was resistant to seeing a doctor. Actually, I could tell the moment I walked in. Although he was polite to me because of you, he couldn't hide his wariness and vigilance. This made my inquiries somewhat difficult... Don't worry, I've been practicing for many years and have seen many similar patients, so I'm quite experienced."
"What I just said was all bad news. Now there's good news. Your boyfriend's bipolar disorder is in its early stages and not particularly severe, which is why you didn't notice it before—he's still able to control his emotions and not let his negative emotions affect you. This is very important because it shows how precious you are to him. If you're there for him and he starts active treatment now, I believe your boyfriend will eventually recover."
"Oh, that's great." Asayama Rika looked like she was about to cry, "Axin can still be saved... What that person said was true... It's all my fault. I was always by his side and didn't notice anything wrong with him, and I let him get this disease-"
"Please don't say that." Dr. Fenghu shook his head and said gently, "Your boyfriend is just sick. Everyone gets sick. Don't take it as your responsibility."
"The most important thing now is to support him and help him out of this predicament. Don't you agree, Ms. Asayama?"
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