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With great doubts in her mind, Natsume Rin returned home, sealed the food in the bag and put it in the refrigerator. She sat on the sofa in front of the mirror, and after thinking it over, she decided to dress up.
This has absolutely nothing to do with meeting the parents; it is simply proper etiquette when attending a banquet.
He comforted himself in this way, and when he saw the handsome boy emerging in the floor-length mirror, Natsume Rin smiled confidently.
As expected of him, even the most ordinary clothes look expensive when worn on him.
After chatting with classmates for a while in the afternoon, she sent the manuscript that had been delayed for a few days to the editor, and after praising senior sister Nanami Aoyama for her great success in her first voice acting attempt, Natsume Rin clenched her fists to cheer herself up and waited until classmate Shiina knocked on the door in the evening.
"I'm coming."
The long-awaited knock on the door sounded, and Natsume Rin screamed instinctively. After realizing that she had lost her composure, she slowed down and quietly opened the door, looking at Shiina-san in front of the door with a gentle smile on her face.
She asked Natsume Rin to pay attention to her appearance, and she herself was dressed casually and cleanly as usual. After all, she was just going home to visit, and dressing too seriously would make her old father sad.
"Tsk, that looks good." Shiina Mahiru tilted her head, looked at him and praised him sincerely.
After dressing up carefully, the clothes hanger looks like it is suitable to be a model, which can naturally satisfy the discerning eyes of Miss Shiina.
However, Miss Shiina still found room for improvement and optimized and upgraded his tie.
The specific process is to untie the tie and then tie it again. Natsume Rin is not clear about the principle, but it can be seen from her eyes that she is very satisfied with this useless work.
"Come on, I'll take you home."
A low-key black stretch sedan was parked downstairs of the apartment building where they lived. When Shiina Mahiru walked down, the door was opened by a man in black wearing a suit.
The well-trained bodyguards only had eyes for the people they were protecting. Although they were curious about Natsume Rin, they were very diligent and didn't look at her for too long.
Sitting in the car, Natsume Rin moved her butt unnaturally.
Although he had ridden in many high-end cars, this was probably the first time that made him so restless. Not only because of the two black-clad bodyguards in front of him, but more because the idea of meeting Shiina's father was rather magical.
He had talked to the man several times, and the other party was also aware of the complicated relationship between him and his daughter, so the conversation between them was very stiff.
No man would have a good impression of a wild boar that tries to take away his cabbage, and Natsume Rin doesn't think Uncle Shiina is an exception.
In fact, his guess was very accurate. When Shiina was a child, her father did not pay much attention to his daughter because of family conflicts. Even most of her education and life were taken care of by Yukiko.
Now that he had completely cut off all thoughts of that woman, he also recalled the good things about his daughter and wanted to repair his relationship with the child. However, he discovered that his daughter, who had been free-range for a while, actually had a tendency to be eaten by wild boars!
This put him in a dilemma. He didn't want to make his daughter angry, but he also didn't want her to leave him so early. Especially after meeting Natsume Rin several times, he was sure that the boy in front of him had enough charm and ability, so his urge to play the role of a stern parent weakened a little.
It was just that some time ago, he was surprised to find that Shiina Mahiru came back to stay with him more often, and even the number of times she mentioned Natsume Rin decreased significantly. Although she seemed to be in a bad mood, Shiina Chaoyang was sure that there was a big conflict between them.
It is immoral to take advantage of your daughter's sadness, but Shiina Chaoyang still took advantage of this time to show concern for her, wishing to compensate her for all the things he owed her before, and to help her forget about Natsume Rin, the passerby.
To this end, he even helped his daughter promote their club activities in important speeches. Although the speech was effective, he was severely criticized by the family elders after returning, but Shiina Chaoyang felt it was worth it.
When he thought his plan would be successful, his men revealed the details of the resort. Seeing that the two people who had been drifting further and further apart in his imagination were finally getting together again, Shiina Chaoyang fell silent.
So he contacted Shiina Mahiru a few days ago and invited her to bring her classmates to his home.
His heart bleeds when he thinks back to his daughter's embarrassment and how he had to pretend to be generous and explain that he just wanted to know more about her social relationships.
Alas, women are not allowed to stay in college.
……
The extended black sedan passed a path lined with lush green plants and drove into a villa in a remote area of the port area. When the lights came on and the tightly closed door was pushed open, everything seemed so orderly.
Compared to the wealthy atmosphere of the Yukinoshita family, this place is indeed more in line with Natsume Rin's imagination of politicians.
"Miss."
Someone came up to them and led the way. Natsume Rin was fidgeting in the car, but when she got into the yard, she straightened her back at the smiling face of Shiina Mahiru, not showing any fear at all.
"That's more like it." Shiina Mahiru nodded with a smile and took the initiative to extend her hand in front of him.
She originally wanted Natsume Rin to lead her inside, and to completely put an end to her father's nonsense, but the boy directly put his arm around her wrist, and from behind, the two of them were almost sticking together.
"uh-huh?"
"I'm nervous. Let me borrow Shiina-san's hand." He spoke nonsense in a serious manner, causing the maid leading the way to look at him sideways. She only stopped after Shiina Mahiru glanced at her.
The decoration of the hall was not as magnificent as Natsume Rin had imagined. Although it was bright, most of the furniture was made of mahogany, and paintings from various countries were hung on the walls.
Even though it costs more, it doesn't feel like a nouveau riche.
And when they walked in, the effect of this posture was more effective than holding hands as she had expected. Shiina Chaoyang almost fainted. When he opened his eyes and saw the bright lights above his head, his consciousness was still a little dazed.
How much of his daughter's experience has he missed!
Chapter 198 I hope he is okay
"Hello Uncle Shiina." Natsume Rin greeted him calmly despite Shiina Chaoyang's murderous look.
Anyway, he has been brought here to meet his parents, so he might as well be thick-skinned. What can Shiina Chaoyang really do to him?
Unless time goes back a hundred years, a descendant like him with no background would definitely turn around and run away.
"Humph."
As expected, the middle-aged man just snorted coldly, and then under his daughter's scrutiny, he reluctantly asked the servants to prepare dinner.
His feelings towards Natsume Rin were as complicated as his own emotions. Although he thought that this guy was just a poor boy who wrote novels, he was a good young man after all. After a few chats with him, he could tell that he was a smart man.
Shiina Chaoyang himself was a victim of a family marriage. Now he is trying hard to repay the wrongs he had done to his daughter, so naturally he has to help her reject the marriage from the family. If Natsume Rin can really achieve results that satisfy him, their marriage is not impossible.
"Dad, if you do this again, I will ignore you."
Seeing that his old father still had a stern face, Shiina Mahiru used his ultimate move, and Shiina Chaoyang, who had originally had a serious face, suddenly had a smile on his face.
"Today is a good day for your classmates to visit our home. Don't be angry." Shiina Chaoyang said firmly and led the two children to the dining table.
Although it was a family dinner, the original goal was to show Natsume Rin a warning, so there was no need to think about home-cooked meals, and the table was filled with high-end food.
The biggest feature is that it looks very expensive, and normal people cannot tell the secrets of it at first glance.
"Try this. It's tuna imported from abroad. Even I have a quota. I can only get this much thanks to your grandfather's connections."
Shiina Chaoyang put a piece of tuna that was so thin that it could almost be used as paper on Shiina Mahiru's plate. Although he was a big shot in the political world, he was no different from an ordinary old father and looked at his future son-in-law provocatively.
Boy, do you know what this is? Just this piece of fish is worth your entire month's income.
"It should be from Micronesia. Since my uncle can't get that much, it's probably the highest quality bluefin tuna."
Shiina Chaoyang would definitely not serve him, but Natsume Rin did not treat herself as an outsider and took a portion generously. In his heartbroken eyes, she used the fish fillet in her hand as an example to explain Shiina Mahiru.
Looking at her daughter listening attentively and nodding obediently, she finally noticed that Natsume Rin returned that provocative look to her intactly and ate the fish fillet in her hand.
Shiina Chaoyang is depressed.
Have high school students today learned geography to this extent? This is unscientific!
What kind of torture are the high school students in their country going through, as they have to review such obscure knowledge? When he gets to work, he will definitely write a letter to the Ministry of Education, strongly demanding that the burden be reduced.
Relying on the partial knowledge she had acquired in order to compete with Yukinoshita Yukino, Natsume Rin could identify almost all the ingredients on the table after she briefly considered several famous high-quality producing areas.
I have experienced Australian A7 marbled beef, Spanish Iberian ham, Parmesan cheese...
Shiina Chaoyang finally gave up on his boring behavior of stumping him at the table, and drank his red wine sullenly, watching the brat in front of him chatting and laughing with his daughter at the luxurious dinner he had prepared.
"Angry."
Shiina Mahiru whispered to Natsume Rin, and found it strange to see her father angry.
"You did it on purpose."
"No, he just gets angry too easily."
Shiina Mahiru corrected him, with a kind smile on her face, looking very happy no matter how you looked at her.
Just like the father is trying hard to repay his daughter, after the daughter has let it go and no longer insists on her parents getting back together, she will naturally become more naughty.
Therefore, the trouble that Shiina Chaoyang has been suffering these days can definitely not be called unintentional behavior.
After dinner, Natsume Rin got used to the bully-like appearance of this big shot at home. Although he was not bold enough to take the initiative to provoke him, the nervousness he had when he first came in was gone.
"See my bedroom?"
Seeing him sitting on the sofa with nothing to do and staring at his father, Shiina Mahiru found it funny, but still extended her hand to him to invite him.
Shiina Chaoyang's sighs were almost obvious, but in the end the two young men just walked upstairs together generously, leaving his old father alone to feel depressed.
Pushing open the door, the view of Mahiru's room was very much like the room of a princess in a fairy tale. She didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and sat down on the fluffy bed with a gentle smile. Natsume Rin sat down on the chair consciously.
"Are you coming here just to have dinner tonight?"
Natsume Rin was a little confused as she was peeling the apple with the knife in the fruit bowl.
Although he could understand it, after all, he still had some distance from Shiina, but Shiina Chaoyang had made such a big fuss but ended up with such a whimper, which made him feel empty inside.
"Guess?" Mahiru got off the bed and sat opposite him, taking the apple cut in half with a smile, "If you don't want to listen to the nagging of a 40-year-old man, just climb down from the second floor later. I'll tell the security guard."
Tsk, I knew things wouldn't be that simple.
But running away like this is not what a hero should do.
"Uncle, can you eat me?" Natsume Rin made a joke. After seeing Shiina Mahiru's agreeable look, she felt a little panicked.
Ever since he obtained extraordinary skills from the system, he began to suspect that this world was not as simple as he had imagined.
The secretive congressman is actually a deadly monster that devours young people in private!
"He might ask you some, uh, difficult questions." Shiina Mahiru had no idea how the boy in front of her fantasized about his dad, so she revealed a little bit of her secrets to him.
"Anyway, it's about the future, he's just overthinking it, if it doesn't work you should really run from the second floor."
I don’t know what the content was that could make Shiina Mahiru speechless three times. Finally, she raised the bed sheet with a red face, ready to help him pull up a rope and then slip downstairs.
"No!" Natsume Rin refused sternly.
He came in through the main gate, how could he climb over the wall to get out? And since Shiina Chaoyang can't eat him, he is just a paper tiger.
The main reason is that Natsume Rin has never practiced rock climbing. If he falls down halfway through climbing in the middle of the night, even though the height is not high, it will be very embarrassing.
"I'm going to go meet Uncle Shiina right now and see what he can do to me!"
Natsume Rin walked out with her chest straightened. Shiina Mahiru, who was in the room, sighed meaninglessly.
Hope he's okay.
Chapter 199: Do you have a car? Do you have a house? Do you have savings?