After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back-Chapter 174 - 173: Has it started again? This desperate cycle.

"President Hina? Are you okay...."

Ai Cheng Hua Lian looked at her, trembling with fear.

It was no wonder she reacted like that.

After hearing about the incident with the photo, Kiryu Hina before her was completely engulfed in anger, her fists clenched on the table, her face ominously dark as if she was about to kill someone.

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"Ai Cheng."

Her tone was terrifyingly cold, and Ai Cheng Hua Lian, as if a gun was pointed at her back, immediately straightened up and responded, "Yes!"

"Why didn’t you tell me when Kagura Hikaru was being blackmailed."

"I, I first went to Kagura to understand the situation, and then he stopped me..."

"He stopped you, and you just gave up. After all, why wouldn’t he speak?"

".....I don’t know."

"Hmm, no, perhaps it wasn’t his will, maybe he was threatened, by Kohinata Motoyo. That Christmas Eve as well, right, the things he said to me, was it to keep me from worrying? Why take everything upon yourself, yes, yes, how could I forget, you are that kind of person, a fool who only knows self-sacrifice, idiot, ever since elementary school. I fell in love with you since then, how could I have forgotten..."

Kiryu Hina murmured to herself, head down.

The shadow of her bangs concealed her expression.

"Pres, President Hina." Ai Cheng Hua Lian cautiously broke in, "Do you believe what I said?"

"...I do not."

"Eh?"

"After all, you are an outsider, hearing second-hand information from others, how could it represent the truth," Kiryu Hina gradually regained her composure, but her eyes still surged with fury and regret. She looked up at Ai Cheng Hua Lian, "But as a reference, I need to know everything, tell me everything you experienced!"

"Yes!"

Ai Cheng Hua Lian had come for this exact purpose today, thus she did not resist.

The two sat down again, and Ai Cheng Hua Lian began to narrate every detail.

From how she twisted her ankle in the courtyard, her first meeting with Kohinata Motoyo under the school building, Kagura Hikaru escorting her home, to Kohinata Motoyo’s confession to Kagura Hikaru near a street corner close to her home, and the subsequent threats after his rejection.

"Be in a relationship with me, Kagura," said Kohinata Motoyo, "like before."

Ai Cheng Hua Lian didn’t know exactly what had happened in the past, but she could guess that Kagura Hikaru had resumed cheating back then because of the things Motoyo had done to him.

He was worried that Motoyo would harm Kiryu Hina, so he used himself as a sacrifice to make him stop.

It was the same this time.

History was repeating itself.

Only this time, it wasn’t Kiryu Hina beside Kagura Hikaru, but Ayakoji Chiyoko and Ai Cheng Hua Lian.

Both of them had learned the truth.

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Ayakoji Chiyoko dealt with Kohinata Motoyo in her own way, keeping Ai Cheng Hua Lian out of it.

Later on, no one knew what had happened, but eventually, Kagura Hikaru finally broke up with Kohinata Motoyo, perhaps they had managed to handle that photo smoothly.

Kiryu Hina silently listened to Ai Cheng Hua Lian’s narration.

But she actually didn’t absorb a single word.

While she was speaking, her mind uncontrollably kept recalling things about Kagura Hikaru.

The happy memories they shared, their mutual adoration, as if nothing in the world could tear them apart.

Then, there was that white Christmas night.

It was then that she had slapped Kagura Hikaru, and the sensation from that time still lingered on her palm.

More than the slap, her heart hurt much more.

She, who hadn’t cried since fourth grade, couldn’t hold back until she got home and ended up crying loudly in an alleyway for half an hour on her way home.

When she entered her house with red, rabbit-like eyes, it nearly scared her father off the couch.

When she encountered Kagura Hikaru again in high school, Kiryu Hina had only one thought.

She wanted to exact revenge on him, to make him regret what he had done to her.

What she had purportedly wanted to achieve through Ayakoji Chiyoko was merely secondary, a moral justification for her to get close to Kagura Hikaru again.

But, if the truth was as Ai Cheng Hua Lian described,

then what did all that she had done to Kagura Hikaru amount to?

All the resentment, the malice she had held all this while had been poured onto an incorrect target, an innocent person, someone who once liked her, who perhaps still liked her.

How much of Kagura Hikaru’s expectations had she betrayed, making him do things he didn’t want to do?

When Kagura Hikaru was threatened by Kohinata Motoyo, he couldn’t ask for help, and she hadn’t realized.

When they broke up, he didn’t ask for help, and she hadn’t realized either.

When they reunited at Ugao High, when Kohinata Motoyo chased him from Europe, when he was confessed to by Ayakoji Chiyoko.

She had seen nothing at all.

What a dull, foolish woman she was!

To not even see through the heart of the one she liked.

Kagura Hikaru, Kagura, Mister Hikaru...

Kiryu Hina could no longer contain herself and abruptly stood up.

"President Hina?"

"Sorry, Student Ai Cheng, I need to go find Kagura Hikaru."

Kiryu Hina grabbed her handbag and rushed out the door impatiently, but then turned back hesitantly and said, "Thank you for telling me this, Student Ai Cheng... no, Karen."

Having said that, she left as if flying, not even having time to close the door, her footsteps growing fainter and fainter.

Ai Cheng Karen, who sat stunned in the chair, slowly leaned back into the chair and let out a deep breath.

"This should be enough, right?" she mumbled, staring down at her own palms, "Misunderstanding cleared, Kagura will reconnect with President Hina, two people who love each other will have their happy ending... So, this should be enough, right? I, I must have done pretty well, right?"

She slowly laid her head down on the desk, her face resting in the crook of her arm.

"Why isn’t it me..."

In the quiet Student Council office, all that could be heard was a soft murmur.

"I also, love you, Kagura..."

...........

Kiryu Hina was running downstairs.

At the same time, sending a text message on her phone.

Kiryu Hina: [Where are you now?]

Kagura Hikaru: [Courtyard.]

Kiryu Hina understood what he meant; he would only be there.

"Wait for me, Mister Hikaru."

She smiled, pocketing her phone, and amid the astonished gazes of students, ran full speed toward the courtyard.

Kiryu Hina was not physically fit.

Outside of physical education classes, she was hardly willing to even walk fast, let alone run.

But now, driven by her desire to see Kagura Hikaru quickly, it was as if she had gained an extra source of energy, compelling her to run involuntarily.

"Mister Hikaru, Mister Hikaru...!"

The wind lifted her long hair and the hem of her skirt.

Just like the soaring emotions of Kiryu Hina now.

She wanted to appear before Kagura Hikaru immediately, to embrace him, to apologize for all the wrongs she had done, to seek his forgiveness no matter what.

Then, if possible, they could become a couple again and drive Kohinata Motoyo from this school together.

It would be okay even if she had to give up her position as Student Council President to Ayakoji Chiyoko, as long as Kagura Hikaru came back to her side!

Having done so much, Kiryu Hina had only now come to realize.

All she wanted was Kagura Hikaru alone.

Wanting to be perfect was just an arrogant notion to replace Kohinata Motoyo in Kagura Hikaru’s heart.

But she never needed to pretend from the beginning; Kagura Hikaru liked her for who she was initially, the person she had been before.

And so did she.

Just like in the past, she still loved Kagura Hikaru.

Crossing over the maple trees, passing through a small wooded area like the courtyard.

Finally, she arrived and saw Kagura Hikaru’s figure sitting on a bench.

She had found him.

Kiryu Hina’s face lit up in joy.

"Hikaru—"

Suddenly, she lost her voice.

There wasn’t just him on the bench; Ayakoji Chiyoko was there too.

Their heads were nestled together.

They were kissing.

In that moment, Kiryu Hina’s thoughts froze, and her eyes lost their sparkle.

Only tears, uncontrollably flowing down.