Chapter 7 Section 7

Hiromi opened her eyes when she heard the phone ring. She didn't fall asleep, she just lay on the bed with her eyes closed. She had expected that tonight would be like last night's sleepless night. She had the sleeping pill that Yixiao had given her before, but she didn't dare to take it. She lifted her heavy body and felt a bit of a headache. She was too tired to even reach for her mobile phone.It's so late, who's calling?Look at the watch, it's almost ten o'clock. But when she saw the name displayed on the screen, she woke up as if someone had thrown a bucket of cold water. It was Ayane, and she quickly pressed the answer button.

"Hello? I'm Hiromi." Her voice was hoarse. "Ah, sorry, it's me, you're already asleep?" "Not yet, just lying down, that's all...I'm really sorry that I couldn't go to your side this morning." "It's okay, are you feeling better?" "I'm fine. Teacher, you must be very tired, right?" Hiromi asked, but she was thinking about other things in her heart. She was worried that the criminal police had told Ayane about her extramarital affair with Yoshitaka. "It's really tiring, and I don't understand what's going on...I still can't believe that this is what happened in reality."

At this point, Hiromi was the same, it felt like a constant nightmare, and she responded with a short "I can understand". "Hiromi, is your body really alright? Is there any discomfort?" "I'm fine, I guess I can go to work tomorrow." "Don't worry about going to work, can I see you now?" "You mean...now?" Anxiety suddenly spread in her heart, "What do you want?" "I have something I want to talk to you face to face. It won't take up too much of your time. If you feel too tired, I can go to you." Hongmei put the phone to her ear and shook her head: "No, I'd better go to your house. I'm going to prepare now, and I'll arrive in an hour."

"I'm staying in a hotel now." "Ah... so?" "Because the police said they would investigate the house again, I decided to stay in the hotel for the night. I just changed into a few clothes in the suitcase I brought back from Sapporo." Ayane stayed in a hotel next to Shinagawa Station.After Hiromi said "I'll leave immediately", she hung up the phone. When she was packing up and getting ready to go out, she kept guessing in her mind what Ayane wanted from her.Ayane said as if she cared about Hiromi's body, but her tone was that she wanted to kill her immediately.She could only think that she was in a hurry, too anxious to delay.

On the way to Shinagawa by train, Hiromi could only guess what Ayane was going to talk about.Did the policeman tell her about his relationship with Yixiao?Although I couldn't feel the ferocity in her tone during the phone call just now, maybe she was just suppressing the feelings in her heart and not bursting out. Hiromi really couldn't imagine how Ayane would react if she found out that her husband was having an affair with his disciple. Hiromi had never seen her get angry before, but what is certain is that she couldn't be without anger. emotion. Hiromi couldn't imagine what kind of face Ayane, who was usually quiet and elegant and never showed her strong emotions, would face a woman who was having an affair with her husband.And precisely because of the inability to imagine, Hongmei felt incomparably fearful and terrified.But she has already made up her mind that once she is questioned, she will not hide it lamely.She could only sincerely apologize.Ayane may not forgive her, and may even expel her from the teacher's school, but this is something that can't be helped, she feels that she must make a break now.

After arriving at the hotel, she called Ayane, who asked her to come directly to the room. Ayane changed into camel-colored home clothes and waited for her. "Sorry, I called you out when I was so tired." "It's okay, what you want to tell me is..." "Okay, let's do it first." Ayane signaled her to sit down on one of the two single sofas in the room. Hiromi sat down and looked around the room. It was a double room. There was an open suitcase beside the bed. As far as she could see, there seemed to be quite a lot of clothes stuffed inside.Perhaps Ayane has long been mentally prepared to live here for a long time.

"Would you like something to drink?" "No, there's no need." "I'll pour you a cup first, drink it when you want to drink." Ayane poured oolong tea from the refrigerator into two glasses. Hiromi nodded in a low voice to express her gratitude, and immediately reached out to pick up the cup, but in fact, she already felt parched. "What did those detectives ask you?" Ayane asked in the same gentle words as usual. Hiromi put down the glass and licked her lips: "Ask me about the situation when I found Mr. Mashiba, and also ask me if I know any clues."

"How did you answer the question of their clues?" Hongmei waved her hand in front of her chest and said, "I don't know any clues, that's what I told the criminal police at the time." "Well, what else did they ask?" "I didn't ask anything else... that's all I asked." Hiromi lowered her head, she really couldn't tell what they asked her about drinking coffee with Yoshitaka. Ayane nodded, picked up the cup and took a sip of oolong tea, then pressed the cup to her cheek, as if she was cooling down her hot face. "Hiromi," Ayane called her name. "I have something to tell you."

Hiromi was startled, raised her head, and met Ayane's eyes.At first she felt that Ayane was staring at her, but then it changed into another feeling.There was no hatred or anger in Ayane's eyes, but a feeling of sadness and emptiness intertwined. Seeing her smile at the corner of her mouth, that feeling became stronger. "He told me that he wanted to break up with me." Ayane's words had no circumflex. Hiromi lowered her eyes, perhaps she should have shown surprise, but she didn't have the energy.She couldn't even look at Ayane's expression. "On Friday, before Mr. Inokai and the others came to the house, he announced it in his room. It's meaningless to say that he married a woman who can't have children."

Hiromi could only hang her head and listen to her.Although she knew that Yoshitaka had asked Ayane for a divorce, she didn't expect him to say so. "Also, he said he had found someone, but he didn't tell me the name, only that it was someone I didn't know." Hiromi's heart palpitated for a while, feeling that Ayane didn't say these words to herself without knowing it, and felt that she was planning to force herself hard by telling her indifferently. "But I think he is lying. The other party should be a woman I know, and I am very familiar with it. Because of this, he can't tell me the other party's name, what do you think?"

Listening to Ayane's narration, Hiromi became more and more depressed.She finally couldn't help it anymore, raised her head, her eyes filled with tears. Ayane didn't show any surprise when she saw her like this, she still had a smile full of emptiness, and said without changing her face: "Hiromi, that person is you, right?" It's like scolding a child who has done something bad. Hiromi didn't know what to say, in order to suppress sobs, she pressed her lips tightly together, letting the tears flow down her cheeks. "That person... is you, right?" Under such circumstances, it was already undeniable, Hiromi nodded slightly. Ayane sighed heavily and said, "Sure enough." "Teacher, I..." "Well, I know, you don't need to say anything. I guessed it when he announced the breakup. It should be said that I noticed it earlier. It's more appropriate. It's just that I don't want to admit it... I It's only natural that you're by his side, and, let alone you, he's actually not as good at lying and acting as he imagined." "Teacher, are you angry with me?" Ayane tilted her head and said, "How should I put it? I'm probably angry. I guess he took the initiative to seduce you, but I can't figure out why you didn't refuse. But I don't think you took my husband away , Really. Because he didn’t care. I think, first of all, his feelings for me cooled down, and then he turned his attention to you. Hold on tight." "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't do this, but in the end I still couldn't withstand Mr. Mashiba's repeated temptations..." "Stop talking." Ayane said, her voice was different from before, making people feel sharp and indifferent. "Listen to you, I will hate you. How did you get seduced by him, do you think I will want to hear it?" She was right, and Hiromi shook her head with drooping head. "We agreed when we got married," Ayane's words returned to gentleness again, "After a year, if we can't have children, we will reconsider our marriage. Both of us are not very young anymore, right? So we didn't consider time-consuming infertility treatments. Although the fact that you are his new love, to be honest, hit me hard, to him, it may just feel like a prenuptial agreement." "I've heard him say this a few times." Hiromi said with her head down. When she met Yoshitaka on Saturday, she also heard him say the same thing. He used the word "game rules" at the time, and he said that because the rules of the game are like this, Ayane will agree—she remembers him saying that of.At the time, she couldn't understand it, but after hearing what Ayane said just now, she felt that Ayane was thinking very openly. "I went back to Libao this time to clean up my mood. I have been declared to have broken up, and I still live in that house. It feels too miserable. I leave the key to you for safekeeping, just to cut off the pressure on him. I have already estimated that when I am not at home, the two of you will definitely meet. You will meet anyway, so it is better to just hand over the key to you, and I will feel relieved myself. " Recalling the scene when she handed the key to herself, she never thought that she had made such a big determination, but felt complacent that she was deeply trusted by her.Thinking of what kind of mood Ayane was in at that time, and seeing herself accepting the key without doubting him, she felt even more ashamed. "Have you talked to those policemen about your relationship?" Hongmei nodded lightly: "They have already noticed something, I can only tell them the truth." "That's right, but it's true. You ran home because you were worried about his safety. No matter how you think about it, it feels unnatural. In other words, the criminal police already knew about the relationship between you and him. They didn't tell me a word." "yes?" "They probably intend to pretend not to know and observe me secretly. They may have suspected me." "Huh?" Hiromi looked at Ayane in surprise, "Doubt... teacher?" "According to ordinary people's thinking, I have a motive, don't I? I have the murder motive of being betrayed by my husband." That's true, but Hiromi didn't doubt it at all, because Ayane was in Reiporo when Yoshitaka was killed, and she also believed in what Yoshitaka said that they had broken up smoothly. "But it doesn't matter if you are suspected by the police, this kind of thing is not a big deal." Ayane dragged the handbag to her side, and took out the handkerchief from the bag.She wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, "The important thing is, what happened and why did this happen to him... Hiromi, do you really know nothing? When was the last time you saw him? " "I had coffee with him yesterday morning, so the detective asked me a lot of questions about that." "Really?" Ayane tilted her head in thought for a while, then looked at Hiromi and said, "You didn't hide anything from the criminal police, did you? You already told them everything you know, right?" "Should have told them all." "That's good. If you have missed anything, you'd better tell them clearly. Maybe they will suspect you too." "Perhaps they have already suspected me. After all, I am the only person who met Mr. Mashiba on Saturday and Sunday." "Well, the police started to suspect it from these places." "Well... Should I also tell the police about coming to see you today?" After hearing Hiromi's question, Ayane put her hand on her forehead and said, "Well... there's nothing to hide. I don't care. Trying to cover it up will only deepen their suspicion." "OK." Ayane breathed a sigh of relief, the corners of her mouth relaxed, and she said: "It's really strange to say that a woman who was dumped by her husband would sit in the same room and talk with her husband's mistress. There is no dispute between the two. It's just that we both feel desperate, and the reason why we didn't fight each other may be because he is already dead." Hiromi didn't respond, but she thought the same.For her, if Yoshitaka can come back from the dead, she is willing to accept any scolding from Ayane.She was also convinced that the sense of loss felt at that moment, Ayane was probably much greater than her, as for the basis of her conviction, she really couldn't say it at the moment.