Chapter 13 Chapter 12 The Responsibility of Love

After returning from that trip with Yukiko, Katsuhiko lived in fear for several days.After that, Yukiko never contacted him again.During this period, the detective agency he entrusted sent a report: ⑴According to the results of surveillance, Ms. Ayuko met a middle-aged gentleman at the "Keroba" cafe in Roppongi 7-chome at 4:30 pm on X-XX after school, and walked into Roppongi 3-chome "Six Pines" Hotel.At 8:30 in the afternoon, after Xiangkai checked out, the man hailed a taxi, took Miss Ayuko home, and then took the same taxi back home.In addition, according to the results of our investigation, the man entered the house of Keisuke Yamawaki, Midorigaoka 2-chome 10 X Bandi, Meguro-ku.

(2) Yamawaki is the manager of the domestic business department of the management headquarters of Dongfang Trading (located in Nihonbashi Town, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku). He is now 46 years old. The four-year-old eldest daughter (third grade) has a total of four people.According to our investigation, Yamawaki is the same person who entered the hotel as Ms. Ayuko. Afterwards, the two entered the Champagne Hotel in Chigo 5-chome, Minato District from 5:15 p.m. on X, X, and did not come out until 8:03. From 4:30 p.m. to 6:36 p.m. on X, X, X, I spent it at the Arabianite Hotel in 2-chome, Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku.We will continue to investigate if necessary.

The report of the private detective agency is simple and to the point, without the slightest embellishment with flowery words, it is a very straightforward document.Therefore, its content relentlessly points out the facts that cannot be concealed.The matter that Katsuhiko entrusts the detective to investigate is about Ayuko's character.There are two main points: one is whether there are any men to associate with her.The second is the origin of the other party's life experience and the degree of communication between the two. The entrusted matter is clearly answered in the report.Dongfang Commercial is a well-known large-scale comprehensive trading company, and the manager of the domestic business department in the company has a very high status.I don't know how they met.Judging from the fact that they meet once a week in the "Mandarin Duck Hotel", the relationship between the two did not start recently.

After reading the investigation report, Keyan and his wife froze on the spot without saying a word.However, it can't last forever like this.As a parent, it is the responsibility to take back the stolen daughter and minimize the extent of her victimization. After reading the report, the couple discussed countermeasures.Although they wanted to take this report and question Ayuko coldly, the couple agreed that doing so was not the best policy. "Even if we want to force them to stop dating, Ayuko's heart is still with that man. The more we obstruct her, the bigger her reaction will be. It's better to talk to her slowly." Ke Yan's attitude was from the very beginning. Not firm.

"But, we know that the other party is a man with a wife! How can we not let them make a clean break." The wife's attitude was rather tough. "But, if we tell the other party's name, won't Ayuko know that we have sent someone to investigate this matter?" "What does it matter if you know! Of course parents have the right to monitor their daughter's every word and deed." "If you force her like this, maybe she will elope with that man." Ke Yan recalled the scene when he and Yukiko went to the Izu Mountain Hot Spring Hotel. "The other party is a forty-six-year-old man with a wife. He was just playing with Ayuko. How could he elope with her?"

With this sentence, Katsuhiko sounded as if his wife already knew about his relationship with Yukiko, so she was mocking him with an excuse.His attitude became increasingly indecisive.He couldn't end the relationship with Yukiko decisively, how could he ask Ayuko to cut off contact with her boyfriend. "In any case, let's talk to Ayuko first." Ke Yan had no choice but to say so. Ayuko is already in the fourth grade of university, so she doesn't have to go to school every day.Katsuhiko and his wife took advantage of the fact that Ayuko's younger sister had gone to school and only her older sister was at home, so they called her over.

"What's the matter?" Ayuko, who didn't know that her relationship with the man had been revealed, walked out of the room with a surprised expression when she saw her parents calling her in a serious manner.I don't know if it's because he looks at his daughter with the eyes of an adult, but Katsuhiko feels that his daughter's body, which has been plowed by a man's hoe, seems to have become very mature recently.Her whole body exudes a strong femininity no less than that of Yukiko. Ke Yan looked at his daughter's dazzled body, and said something stupid: "How is it! How are you doing recently?"

"Father really! You say that, as if we haven't seen each other for a long time." Ayuko giggled. "Well... how should I put it? I don't seem to see you very often recently." "Because daddy you sleep late." "Yeah! Yeah! Then I'll just get up earlier. How's your homework going?" "So-so!" "Hmm! You are already in the fourth grade now, and you will graduate in less than a year. I wonder what your future plans are?" "Husband!" His wife signaled Ke Yan to enter the topic and stop talking about irrelevant things.

Ke Yan pretended to clear his throat and said, "Oh! That's right! To be a student, you must look like a student." "Dad, what exactly are you trying to say?" Ayuko's puzzled expression became more intense. "Your father wants to tell you, I hope you will not forget your duty as a student." The wife finally couldn't help but opened her mouth. "You mean, I forgot my duty as a student!" Ayuko's face changed drastically, and she turned to her mother and said. "Dare you say you haven't forgotten?" "I haven't forgotten!"

"So what's going on between you and Yamawaki Keisuke?" His wife suddenly approached the core of the problem, and Ayuko turned pale and was speechless. "Yamawaki Keisuke is forty-six years old and is the manager of Dongfang Commercial. You have gone to hotels with him several times. Do you dare to say that you have not forgotten your duty as a student?" His wife pressed like a cannonball. "So you guys have already investigated it." Ayuko said as if moaning. "It is a natural duty of parents to investigate their daughter's inappropriate behavior."

"I didn't behave improperly, I really love him." Ayuko retorted desperately. "You don't know the man's true face at all. He is forty-six years old this year! He has a wife and two children. He is not what you should be. Don't you know that you have been cheated?" "It's not what you said, he's not that kind of person, we just met each other late!" "Do you really think so? What are your plans? Do you want the other party to abandon his wife and family and marry you?" "I will never get married in my life! I don't like to live a life bound by a man all my life! I want to live my life freely without being bound by anyone!" "You are still young to say such things. The happiness of a girl is to find a man to marry and have a family of her own." "What does it mean to find a man to marry well? In the end, it's not about selling your whole life to a man called a husband. Mom, I don't want to live the same life as you because I saw you. You! It's Dad The domesticated women have no life of their own at all." "Oh! How can you say such things, child?" said the wife, dumbfounded. "Mom, is your happiness built on Dad becoming a very successful writer? That is the meaning and purpose of your life, Mom. You think that is the happiness of being a woman. However, I have a purpose that is purely my own, I am not dominated by anyone, nor subordinate to others. Even if I love a man, I will never be subordinate to that person. The subordinate is either a wife, a lover, or a mistress. So I think that loving someone and getting married are two different things. I I don’t think love means we have to get married. I think that after marriage, I won’t fall in love with others, which violates human reason. I love each other, but we don’t meet each other too late. As for whether he has a wife, he How far apart your age is from me has nothing to do with me." "What you said is without common sense. It doesn't work at all!" The wife was dumbfounded by her daughter's words, but she didn't seem satisfied with her daughter's answer. "Mum, your common sense is moldy! It's so commonplace these days to associate with a married man. The problem is with the beloved himself, and I have no interest in his baggage." "How can you say that? Maybe you think that as long as I like it, there's nothing wrong with it. But the love you're talking about will hurt the people around you! At least, if his wife knows about it, she will be punished." Serious injury." "I can keep her from knowing!" "Oh! What are you doing, boy. Don't you know it's a very immoral thing to do?" "I don't think I'm immoral at all. I just happened to fall in love with someone who already had a wife. Mom, when you fell in love with Dad, you just happened to fall in love with Dad who didn't have a wife. I don't want to fall in love with Mom." The road I have traveled! I have to choose my own path in life!" Ayuko said suddenly and sternly. The wife, who was speechless after being refuted by her daughter, sought Ke Yan's support: "You should also say something! Why are you so silent!?" Under the urging of his wife, Ke Yan had to speak. "I think you have a point," he said blankly.What Ayuko refuted was exactly what Yukiko said, and it was also the line that Katsuhiko came up with to help Yukiko convince her parents. Now that his daughter has moved back intact, Ke Yan is trapped in a cocoon. "Husband, what are you talking about?" The wife raised her eyes angrily. "No! What I mean is, what you said, Ayuko, sounds basically right, but it's already beyond what a person should be." Ke Yan quickly changed his words. "It's not the principle of being a human being, but the road you two have walked, father and mother." Caizi immediately fought back. "Dad and Mom have lived twice as long in this world as you. We all know very well where there are traps." "You mean you don't want children to fall into the trap?" "That's right! If you go on this path, you will definitely fall into a trap. We can't sit idly by!" "So, you want me to walk on what you call the safe path in the first place, right?" "It's the best thing if you don't fall into the trap." "However, isn't the so-called freedom also fraught with danger? If one accepts the safe path chosen by her parents from the beginning, then it is not that person's life, but the life her parents arranged for her." "Ciaozi, you still don't know the dark side of life. From now on, you will fully taste the terrible taste of life. The smartest way is to hide under the umbrella of your parents and let your parents help you prevent danger. You don't know that at all. It takes that much urgency to face the danger." "But, parents, why do you conclude that my change of love will be full of dangers?" "The danger you are facing now is something you can't understand very well! The other party dare not take this responsibility. We can clearly see that when love is disillusioned, you will be seriously hurt." "Responsibility? Do you mean marriage?" "That's right." "Do you think that getting married is the responsibility of being in love?" Ayuko showed a disdainful expression. "Do you think there is any other way to take responsibility besides marriage?" Ke Yan asked his daughter solemnly because he was entangled in his relationship with Yukiko and had not yet found a solution.Of course his wife and Ayuko didn't find out what he meant by asking this question. "Love doesn't need to be responsible, as long as you love each other is enough. Apart from that, there is nothing else. If you want to reluctantly mention the issue of responsibility, it is that you are not indifferent to each other. Marriage is just a vow of love between each other, It is not reliable at all, so it is necessary to use laws to bind both men and women. If you want to use laws to bind love, then the love between men and women is not pure, and it means forcing each other. Requiring responsibility or guarantee for love is not love , but a transaction or contract." Ke Yan nodded frequently, and said in agreement: "That's right, that's right!" Then he realized that the atmosphere was not right, and said quickly: "It's not that Dad doesn't understand what you said! But, unmarried girls and married men It is impossible to have any results in dating!" "Mom and Dad, do you just think that the final outcome of a relationship must be the path of marriage? Because you think that the ultimate goal of a woman is to get married, so you treat virgins as treasures. It's not because you love each other that you want to marry. Dedicate the right to the first night to the other party, but treat the right to the first night as a gift of marriage. Marriage is not the ultimate goal of a woman. A woman should get married when she wants to get married, and it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t want to. All in all, I don’t want love to be bound by marriage .” "Even if you say that, if you get pregnant, the woman will suffer." "If I don't have the conditions to have a child, I will be very careful not to get pregnant. However, if I have the financial ability after graduation, I think it doesn't matter if I get pregnant." "You want to be an unwed mother?" "My ideas are not that advanced, and I haven't thought about this issue yet. However, I want to tell you that if you are pregnant under the conditions that you can have children, even if you are not married, it will not cause harm to women." This sentence shows that Ayuko is no longer a virgin.Katsuhiko used to hold a glimmer of hope that Ayuko's boyfriend had the same physiological phenomenon as himself.However, it seems that Ayuko has been "developed" by that man into a complete woman. A conversation between parents and daughter that day ended in a rupture.During this negotiation, the fact that she was deprived of her virginity by a married man was confirmed from Ayuko herself.However, Katsuhiko also learned about young girls' views on marriage and love.This brings me great reference value. In particular, Ayuko's "love without responsibility theory" made Ke Yan secretly relieved.Although this is not the love view of all young girls nowadays, Ayuko advocates: "If you want to use marriage as a guarantee of love, that is not love, but a contract." This sentence is very convincing. Ke Yan feels that love and responsibility do belong to different levels.When a man and a woman are in love, there is no room for responsibility or guarantee to step in.When these elements intervene, that is when love begins to cool down. Although they swear to each other, their love for each other will never change.But when the couple holds each other accountable, or accuses the other of cheating, the relationship faces a tragic end.When love begins to cool down, it is meaningless to use marriage as a guarantee of love, and such marriages will soon break down.In other words, love and responsibility belonging to different levels, because they are mixed together in the same level, will cause love troubles. However, Katsuhiko did not analyze Ayuko's opinion so calmly.Today's young girls have transformed from the previous "virginism is a treasure" and completely separate love and responsibility.In this regard, based on his worldly cunning, he felt a lot more relaxed. The one who can be redeemed by this kind of love without responsibility is a man like Katsuhiko who cannot let go of the burden of the past for the sake of a new love.The so-called love originally refers to the attitude of sacrificing everything for the loved one without complaint or regret.But the man who bears the burden of life cannot take this attitude.Between love and burden, it is "adult love" that barely strikes a balance.This is the most suitable way of love for Ke Yan. However, at the same time, Katsuhiko made his daughter a victim of the new way of love.