Capítulo 20: The life built upon lies

As soon as Wan Yi Jun's car left her vicinity, Ming Yue immediately went back to the restaurant helped grandma Meng to clean the dishes while keeping an eye on the clock. It was only a few minutes left for the clock to strike 12,

Since she was aware of the fact that, in a couple of minutes, she would be bombarded with phone calls, Ming Yue quickly finished cleaning the dishes and returned to her room on the rooftop.

As soon as she In hurried motions, she picked up her phone, and there were lots of notifications messages and missed calls popped up on her phone screen. While she was with Wan Yi Jun, she dared not to check her phone in fear that it would raise suspicions in him.

After taking a deep breath, Ming Yue sat on the bed and dialled the video call option for the first name that was on her phone screen.

As soon as the call got connected, her tired face bloomed into a smile that put shame on the prettiest flower in the entire world.

It was the smile she has only shown to the people whom she cared for the most- her family.

Hiroki Terada, her big brother who loved her more than anything in this world.

"Happy new year, everyone." She smilingly spoke in Daison language and looked at the family of three that appeared on the phone screen.

"Happy new year, Michan." The family on the other end singsonged in the same tone.

"Where are you, Michan? Yoji said that you guys went out clubbing…" The woman on the screen, Sora Terada, her sister-in-law asked in concern.

"Ah..clubbing…I just got back, sister. They said that they would like to stay a bit more. What are you guys doing there? Aren't you going to watch fireworks?"

"Of course, Michan. Do you know where are we now?" The little boy, who sat on Sora's lap, asked while showing off his adorable smile.

"Let me, guess..." She paused for a moment and tilted her head as if she was trying to figure out the place even though she was familiar with it. "Are you on the hilltop, Akari chan?"

"Yes. yes...aren't you the one who said that "fireworks" looks pretty if we watch it from the hilltop?"

"Oh...I missed it." Ming Yue made a cute pout to show her disappointment. After she started to live with her brother, Hiroki made sure to take her to the "fireworks" display every new year night.

"I told you to leave after the new year. You were the one who was hellbound on leaving for a vacation." Hiroki chided her when he saw that his sister's disappointed face- it was the last thing he wanted to see. It took a lot of courage to send her on a foreign trip, even though she went with Yojiro and Kousuke.

Even Ming Yue who put an aloof facade before everyone felt bad when she saw her brothers gloomy face. She knew that Hiroki was not at all happy to let her go. But he was also the person who never said 'No' to any of his sister's wishes.

"Onichan, I will be coming home very soon." Ming Yue replied in a cute doting tone, just to put a smile on Hiroki's brother. As soon who is famous for her cold and distant personality, she rarely uses the 'cute act' to please others, that too only among her family members.

"By the way, have you made rice cakes?"

"Of course, we made it. But I'm damn sure that you are brother is not going to like it. He only eats rice cakes made by you."

"Onichan, don't be like that, Gishi chan took a lot of effort to make it. Don't be a meanie and nit-pick on her rice cake." She advised her brother in the same childish tone, only to break all of them into a peal of laughter,

" Do they sell rice cakes over there, Michan? How can you not eat rice cakes on New year day?" Sora asked as a matter of fact. It was part of their culture to eat rice cakes and soup on new year morning and she was worried about her sister in law who apparently went on a trip to a "western country" during the new year holidays.

"There is a Daisonese restaurant. I will eat from there." Ming Yue came up with an excuse.

"Michan, what are you wearing? Tora showed us a picture of you wearing a pretty dress. Where is that?" All of sudden, Sora pointed out and gathered everyone's attention to the hoodie which Ming Yue was wearing.

The moment the words fell from Sora, Ming Yue almost cursed inside her head for not changing her clothes.

Unfortunately, she was still wearing Wan Yi Jun's hoodie

Even though Sora was not into fashion, she was someone who could recognize between the male and female fashion.

"It looks like a man's hoodie. Where did you get it, Michan?"

"It was something a brought when went outside. It was really cold today, so I just changed into it." Ming Yue told the first excuse that came into her mind.

"When does the fireworks starts?" She immediately dragged their attention to something else.

"It will start in a couple of minutes. You are going to stay online, right?" Sora who fell for Ming Yue's lie, asked to confirm.

"I want to stay...But I kind of promised Tora that, I will call him. So if you...don't..." Ming Yue bit her lips as she feigned shyness to complete the rest of the words.

"Yes...yes...go and call your 'fiance'...He was going crazy over your picture...Just give talk to him and call us when you are done." Sora suggested in a teasing tone and gave the phone back to her husband,

"Don't stay awake for long time. Sleep if you are tired. You can talk to us, tomorrow too." Hiroki reminded girl who was lying through her teeth and ended the conversation after exchanging few more lines.

As soon as the call got disconnected, Ming Yue let out a sigh and glanced at the hoodie she wore. Because of this hoodie, she had to lie to her family and even had to drag her so called "fiance" into the mess.

Of course, lying was not a difficult task for Ming Yue as her entire existence was depended on the biggest lie that made her survive on this wretched world.

But for some reason's she felt bad for lying...especially in the name of Tora, the only one who took her hand when she was left to rotten.

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