Chapter 85: Learning to make up your own mind

“I,I mean just listen to Shen Yu!”

Asaba Rika reacted by standing up from his chair and waving his hand at Shen Yu in the doorway.

“You can go home if you want to, or not if you don’t, why should you listen to me ……”

Shen Yu’s face was odd, Rika was too dependent and had to wait for others to make decisions on everything.

For international students like Asaba Rika, it’s easy to take time off work and it’s not surprising that they go home for 10 days and a half during the holidays.

Japan also has a Mid-Autumn festival, but they call it ‘Mid-Autumn’, and the moon is called ‘Tsukimi’, and what they eat is also called ‘Tsukimi’. They don’t call it mooncakes, but ‘Tsukimi dumplings’.

In China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time of reunion and a time of longing for one’s hometown and reunion with loved ones, while Mid-Autumn in Japan is more about rituals and moonlight viewing, and unlike our own holidays.

“Okay ……”

Asaba Rika nodded, she had been away from home for a month and was still very homesick, and she wanted to go home for a visit while she had a holiday.

It’s just that I kind of want to stay here for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.

So it got a bit tangled up.

“I’ll call and ask Dad!”

Asaba Rika couldn’t make up his mind, so he took out his mobile phone and called Asaba Kazuo in Yokohama, where it was about nine o’clock at night.

During her time in China, Asaba Rika would call her family every two or three days to talk about life and ask how her parents were doing, but even she didn’t notice that Shen Yu was being mentioned more and more.

If she had met Shen Yu to take her out, she would have been talking to her mother about going out with Shen Yu when she called home that day.

Japanese parents are a bit different from Chinese parents, they prefer to nurture their children’s independent character, like Rika, who calls home every day, which is quite unbelievable in the eyes of other Japanese people, just like not growing up.

Especially when the children get married, they are essentially two families, they don’t eat and live together and the parents are more than happy to live their own lives.

So Asaba Rika came to China to study, not only because of her love for the culture, but also because her parents wanted her to become more independent.

Soon after, Asaba Kazuo answered the phone.

Naturally, the conversation was in Japanese, which Shen Yu couldn’t understand, but from Rika’s tone and expression, it was likely that she was being pampered, as she had been brought up.

As we talked, it seemed that we also switched to mum answering the phone, so we switched from voice calls to video calls.

Shen Yu glanced at her from a distance and saw Asaba Rika’s mother. The two looked seven times alike, their eyebrows especially similar, and they looked very gentle and virtuous.

Seeing them on video, Shen Yu had the good sense to go out.

“We have eight days off oh! I kind of want to go home, so I thought I’d ask Mum and Dad what they thought.”

“Such a long holiday, you can consider coming back, mum misses you too ……” said the voice of Asaba Kazuo, and then she added, “Your father said he is not available these days, the company is busy with many things, maybe you won’t have much time to spend with you. Your father said that he is not available these days, the company is busy with a lot of things, maybe you will not have much time to spend with you even if you come back ……”

“So, so do I go home, or don’t I?”

“Mum doesn’t know either eh ……”

Asaba Kazuo rolled his eyes as he listened to the conversation between mother and daughter. Rika’s personality was just like her mother’s, soft and weak, unable to decide on anything.

“Er …… your dad has something to say to you.”

“Daddy!”

Asaba Kazuo answered the phone, “Well, Rika has to learn to be more independent, going to China is a good exercise, it’s only been a month now, it’s hard to travel back and forth, it’s not too late for you to come back in the New Year, it’s two months away.”

“Yeah, I’m okay with that, I’m doing great over here, Shen Yu is taking care of me, he’s a super decent guy.”

“That’s great, and when we get a chance to meet, Dad will have to thank him personally.”

“Mmmmmm!”

“Mid-Autumn is quite significant in China, so if you can, you can visit Mr Shen’s house and ask me to say hello. Or if you want to go home, I can pick you up at the airport. Rika needs to learn to make his own decisions, in the future you will need to make your own decisions about your studies, work, life, marriage… Dad will not help you make choices.”

“Uh-huh! Then I’ll think about it!”

After hanging up the phone, Asaba Rika, with his hands on his chin, looks at the panda doll on the table.

Is it better to go back ……

It’s such a hard decision ……

If we go back, we won’t see Shen Yu again for many days ……

He’s going to miss me so much ……

So Asaba Rika ran to the living room again and when he saw that Shen Yu was not there, he ran down to the ground floor to look for him again.

Shen Yu, who was currently tinkering with a program at his computer, saw her running down and glanced at her before resuming his keyboarding, his hand injured and his coding much slower.

” Shen Yu, what are your Mid-Autumn arrangements? Are you staying here?” Asaba Rika said curiously.

“I’m going home for a few days.” Shen Yu said.

“This looks like ……”

Asaba Rika looked a little lost and asked him again, “What about me?”

Shen Yu was about to vomit blood at her and said breathlessly, “Aren’t you going home? Take a leave of absence, go back for ten days and a half months, or stay for a month or two and come back.”

He was desperate for Rika to go back to Japan and stay there so he could justify not taking her home for Mid-Autumn, but the thought of taking her to his house made Shen Yu’s head spin.

“By the time I get home, I may be staying for three …… seven …… twenty one days, and you’ll be left here by yourself to look after the house, and be bored and lonely, so I suggest you go home.”

“Ah ……”

“Don’t worry, I’ll see you to the airport.”

“Okay ……”

Asaba Rika looked dejected and had to go upstairs to call Asaba Kazuo: “Dad, I’ve decided to go home for Mid-Autumn!”

Asaba Kazuo : “……”

It’s all over, I wanted to go on holiday with Rika’s mum to enjoy the moon, but now the clingy girl has come home and there’s no more plans.

O Gods! Please send me a decent, kind, independent boy to take my clingy daughter away!

“Have you thought about it? There’s no point in going home. ……”

“I’ve thought about it!”

“Alright then, book your flight and I’ll pick you up then.”

“Mmmmmm! Isn’t Daddy glad to hear I’m coming home?”

“Oh …… is overjoyed.”

Asaba Rika is satisfied that although Shen Yu dislikes her, her father does not dislike her, is this the great fatherly love.

She didn’t know how to use the domestic software to buy a ticket, so she went downstairs to ask Shen Yu.

Shen Yu has never been so patient in teaching her, even dropping her work to help her book her flight herself.

” Shen Yu , you are very kind.”

“As it should be.”

Shen Yu’s excited face grows heavy as she watches a message about a flight ……

What the hell is this! All the tickets are booked out from tomorrow until the 9th!

The regular tickets for the 10th start at over $6,000 a ticket, but first class is still available, but Shen Yu can’t help but feel the pain when he sees the prices, even if it’s not his money.

” Shen Yu, how’s it going? Do you have a ticket for the day after tomorrow?”

“You probably, maybe, probably …… won’t make it back, do you want to sit in first class?”

“I don’t have any money!”

Asaba Rika hurriedly took his phone back and looked through the tickets himself day by day, and they were all sold out.

“Why does this look like ……”

Asaba Rika sat down beside Shen Yu with a bitter look on his face, it looked like he would have to stay here alone for seven days.

He took out his mobile phone and called Asaba Kazuo again to tell him that he would not be able to return.

Asaba Kazuo held back his happiness and reassured her, “It’s okay, just come back in the New Year, it’s only been two months, dad and mum miss you, rest early.”

After saying that, he hung up.

Asaba Rika : “……?”

Shen Yu looks at the computer screen to sharpen her knife and refrains from looking at her.

But there was still a glimpse of her lying alone on the table, pursing her little lips with a look of unhappiness, her fingers scratching aimlessly at the phone screen like an abandoned kitten.

“That …… why don’t you go to my house …… I ……”

“Yes, yes!!!”

Asaba Rika was instantly refreshed and, without waiting for Shen Yu to recoil, ran upstairs in a flash, only to be met with a trail of cheerful footsteps.

Shen Yu : “……”