After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back

The atmosphere around the dinner table was extremely oppressive.

Kagura Hikaru's stepmother glanced to the left and then to the right, silently eating her meal without daring to speak.

She could feel that Kagura Hikaru seemed to have had a small lover's quarrel with Ayakoji Chiyoko.

The situation was indeed as she had thought.

Earlier upstairs, Ayakoji Chiyoko had wanted to press Kagura Hikaru to reveal the content of his conversation with Kohinata Motoyo, but he adamantly refused to open his mouth.

Since Kagura Hikaru's memory loss, this was the first time Ayakoji Chiyoko experienced being rejected by him, which led to her sulking, and now they were in a cold war.

Unlike Ayakoji Chiyoko, who had a scowl on her face, Kagura Hikaru was not thinking only about her at this time or, to be precise, not just about her.

Under the cherry tree at Bunkyo Public Middle School, Suse had told him the truth.

His memories were disordered, and the memories regarding Chiyoko were, in fact, those of Kiryu Hina. In other words, Kiryu Hina was his girlfriend, not Chiyoko.

Kagura Hikaru still couldn't accept this explanation.

He couldn't imagine a scenario where Chiyoko wasn't his girlfriend and he couldn't harbor such feelings for Kiryu Hina either.

Yet, he also knew Suse would not lie to him.

But after Suse's confession, this certainty had also started to become uncertain.

Suse's plan was so-called "scene reenactment."

That is, to recreate a scene from Kagura Hikaru's memory that had left a deep impression on him to stimulate his memory and see if he could recall anything.

And indeed, Kagura Hikaru did remember something.

He remembered Kohinata Motoyo threatening him with Chiyoko's compromising photos to force him into a relationship.

This caused Suse's credibility in his eyes to plummet.

Perhaps she had ulterior motives in telling him all this?

Kagura Hikaru's memories of the event were limited, but his wariness of Suse lingered, preventing him from easily trusting her words.

Consequently, he also began to doubt Teacher Miura.

If the two of them had previously conspired to deceive him, what would he do if he had wronged Chiyoko?

Kagura Hikaru couldn't shake off this worry while simultaneously he couldn't completely discard the suspicion that Chiyoko wasn't his girlfriend.

He was caught in persistent confusion and indecision, his thoughts jumping back and forth between the two possibilities.

What was the truth, and what was false? At this stage, Kagura Hikaru couldn't find any evidence to confirm either.

The quickest way would likely be to find an absolutely trustworthy informant to verify the truth once again.

His stepmother was out of the question; she clearly had no clue about his emotional state.

Kohinata Motoyo, as previously mentioned, had dubious credibility.

Kiryu Hina, she was a party directly involved.

That left only one choice, Ai Cheng Hua Lian…

Since she was his friend and seemed to have relations with Kiryu Hina, she should have some understanding of these matters.

Kagura Hikaru thought to himself that once Chiyoko left, he would go through his phone's contacts to see if he could find Ai Cheng Hua Lian's mobile number and give her a call to ask about it.

"I'm full," he said.

After finishing his meal, Kagura Hikaru got up, intending to go upstairs.

"Mister Hikaru, remember to take your medicine!" his stepmother called out from behind him.

"It's okay, I'll get it for him," Ayakoji Chiyoko, who had just finished eating as well, put down her utensils and said.

The stepmother said apologetically, "Then I'll leave it in your hands, Chiyoda-chan, the medicine box is over by the bathroom."

The Kagura family's washbasin mirror was a design that could be opened, and the medicine box was kept inside it, along with the medicine prescribed by the hospital for Kagura Hikaru.

Ayakoji Chiyoko took out the medicine box and picked up a bottle of blue pills.

These were the medications for Kagura Hikaru's amnesia treatment.

Ayakoji Chiyoko stared at the medicine bottle, then pulled out another bottle from the pocket of her skirt, nearly identical in size and color, containing vitamin tablets.

Her expression shifted from conflicted to resolute.

She could feel that she was losing control over Kagura Hikaru, especially today, as the way he looked at her had changed.

Taking into account the recent onslaught of 'unfortunate incidents', it was obvious that Kiryu Hina and others were conspiring to create trouble for her—and she was no fool.

Their objective was clear, there could be only one—to have Kagura Hikaru regain his memory and completely break free from her.

But it seemed that Kagura Hikaru hadn't been fully persuaded by them.

If he had indeed obtained conclusive evidence, he would have confronted her by now, but he hadn't.

Ayakoji Chiyoko knew that ever since Kagura Hikaru lost his memory, he had been unable to recall past details, suffering intense headaches whenever he tried, and he couldn't access any useful information, which was why she had been able to maintain her deception until now.

Kagura Hikaru's illness prevented him from correctly recognizing their relationship.

Therefore, to continue this relationship, the solution was actually quite simple—just exacerbate Kagura Hikaru's condition. Stay tuned with My Virtual Library Empire

As long as his selective amnesia and paranoia never healed, she could forever be Kagura Hikaru's girlfriend.

Originally, she had no intention of resorting to such extreme measures.

But desperate times called for desperate measures.

Ayakoji Chiyoko emotionlessly opened Kagura Hikaru's medicine bottle, dumped all the pills into the toilet, and flushed them away, then replaced them with the similarly colored vitamin tablets in the empty bottle.

She looked at the medicine bottle and smiled briefly before leaving the bathroom and heading to the kitchen to pour a glass of water. On her way upstairs, she cheerfully said to her stepmother, who was dining at the table, "Aunt, may I stay over tonight?"

"Eh?" her stepmother paused, "You can... but remember to tell your family, okay?"

"Sure, thank you, aunt."

Ayakoji Chiyoko smiled sweetly, nodded obediently, and carried the glass of water and the medicine bottle upstairs.

Watching her disappear into the stairwell, the stepmother rubbed her arms, feeling a chill in the house.

Had she forgotten to close a window?

Upstairs, Kagura Hikaru heard a knock at the door, quickly put down his phone, and went to open the door.

Ayakoji Chiyoko stood at the doorway with water and medicine, gesturing to him.

Kagura Hikaru welcomed her in.

"I've really been a bother to you all this time, making you fetch my medication."

"Don't mention it. It's a small matter." Ayakoji Chiyoko handed him the medicine bottle, watching as Kagura Hikaru took out two pills and swallowed them with water.

He never chewed his tablets, never tasting them, oblivious to the switch.

Ayakoji Chiyoko acted as if nothing had happened, placing the medicine bottle on his desk, "From now on, keep the medicine here, then there's no need to go down to get it."

"That makes sense."

Ayakoji Chiyoko: "I told aunt that I'm going to stay over here tonight."

"Ah? You're going to sleep here?"

"Mhm."

"Err, I mean, you'll definitely use the guest room, right?"

Kagura Hikaru was a bit flustered.

Ayakoji Chiyoko looked at him with cat-like eyes: "I said I'm going to sleep here, 'here.'"

She held up her index finger upside down, pointing it towards the floor.

If Kagura Hikaru wasn't mistaken, she meant...

"You want to sleep with me?!"