Women only affect the speed of my reasoning!

"Then we should probably..."

Watching Mashiro and Ayano enter the conference room, Qin Shanshu was about to say that it would be better to go to the nearby coffee shop downstairs to sit for a while, but his shoulders sank without warning.

Rita's slightly dull voice sounded in the deserted corridor.

"Don't move, just let me stay like this for a while while Mashiro isn't here."

Chapter 284 Rita’s fiery confession

In the empty corridor of the office building, two bodies were leaning against each other.

"Uh...Rita?"

The sudden intimate move took Qin Uanshu a little unexpectedly, and he lowered his head hesitantly.

However, from his angle, he couldn't see the girl's face at all.

Rita was no longer satisfied with resting her head on her shoulders. She moved a small circle and buried her entire face to her heart. She put her hands around her waist and hugged her from the side, taking a deep breath.

From this distance, Qin Mianshu could even clearly smell the faint scent of shampoo on her hair.

It seems that the Adolf brand is still used...

When she heard someone calling her name, Rita rubbed her face against the boy's chest, making a low sound as if she was nodding.

"I said, don't move, just stay like this for a while."

"No, I mean..."

"I understand what you mean."

Before Qin Xianshu could finish his sentence, Rita interrupted him bluntly.

"I also know what you want to say. I know it's not good to be seen like this. After all, Mashiro is your girlfriend... But anyway, there is no one else in the corridor now, so there is no need to worry about being seen by others..."

"I don't think this is a question of whether others will see it..." Qin Xianshu was helpless.

"Well, if that's what you want to say, then I'll put it another way."

Rita raised her head slightly, revealing only a pair of sea-blue gem-like eyes, which were full of inexplicable meaning.

"In less than five hours, I will get on the plane back to the UK. It's a distance of half the world. If I walk, I may not be able to walk for several years. I will soon be separated from such a long distance. Before I leave, Aren't you willing to satisfy even this small request?"

"This is the 21st century. It only takes eleven hours to go from Japan to the UK by plane..."

Qin Xianshu, who was successfully led astray, tried to remind him, but was interrupted again by Rita.

"That's not important!" the girl raised her eyebrows and said seriously, "What's important is that we will be separated by a long distance soon, and today is Christmas!"

"What does this have to do with Christmas..."

"Of course it does! Friends give each other Christmas gifts during Christmas. I prepared a Christmas gift for you, so you have to give me a corresponding gift in return!"

"That's right..."

Qin Sanshu raised his eyes and looked at her.

"So what about the Christmas gift you mentioned? Why didn't I see it?"

"It's in my suitcase." Rita signaled with her eyes and continued to hug her without letting go. "I'll give it to you before I leave. By the way, it's my first work since my comeback. , just treat it as a Christmas gift and a token of love for you, Xian Shu!"

"..."

Just opening your mouth is a token of love. Are all British expressions so unrestrained and wild?

Qin Xianshu couldn't help complaining in his heart.

"So now that my Christmas present is ready, where's yours?"

Rita's face was full of determination to win, as if she was sure that Qin Xianshu was not prepared.

And Qin Xianshu was indeed unprepared.

"Sorry, next time."

"Don't make sure next time!"

"Then it's okay to have a double portion next time, right?"

"Can't!"

Rita reached out and touched the high school detective's lips with the pad of her index finger, stopping him from continuing and hummed.

"If you forget, you have to make up for it, but the important thing about Christmas gifts is not the value, but the thought."

"It makes sense..."

"Then kiss me, mouth to mouth."

"Ok?"

Qin Xianshu suddenly paused.

After a while, he sighed softly.

"So Rita, what are you doing?"

"..."

After hearing this, Rita did not immediately reply. She remained stagnant for a while. After a while, she slowly lowered her head, the smile on her face faded, and her expression returned to a slightly lost look.

"Because I really can't bear it anymore." She murmured very softly.

"Have you read "Zaiyouji"?" Rita asked suddenly.

"No, I've only read Journey to the West."

Although he didn't understand the other party's intention of turning around, Qin Xianshu still answered honestly.

"That's right. Anyway, the names of the characters and even many of the plots are very similar." Rita curled her lips.

"There is also a monkey named Sun Wukong in it, but it is a stupid monkey. Unlike the Monkey King in Journey to the West who would return to Huaguo Mountain in anger, he has been following Tang Sanzang since he was taken out of Huaguo Mountain by Tang Sanzang. Because for him that was the first person to bring him to the light.”

"Now I feel like I'm just like that silly monkey. I thought I would never paint again in my life, but you told me that if I want to do something, just do it and don't care what others say, so I I picked up painting again.”

"From that moment on, you became my Huaguoshan."

"I don't want to go into too many complicated and roundabout ways. To put it simply, I already like you, do you understand?"

Rita's voice was full of emotion, and Qin Ushu was fascinated by the story she told. When he reacted, he was shocked to realize that his face had been held by a pair of slender hands from both sides.

Due to the winter, the girl's fingertips were a little cold, but her eyes were filled with passionate love.

The next second, a soft and beautiful touch came from the lips, with a hint of fruity aroma.

It wasn't until a long time passed that the two of them separated little by little.

Rita looked slightly red and panted.

She took two steps back, licked her lips and performed the standard British noble lady etiquette.

"Well, although this will make me feel more sorry for Mashiro, if I don't leave, I really won't be able to catch the plane."

"Catch a plane? Isn't it just now..." Qin Xianshu was stunned for a moment, "Did you..."

"Yes." Rita put down the hem of her skirt and said with a smile, "Actually, I bought a ticket for three o'clock in the afternoon, but don't worry, if you go there now, you will still have plenty of time, but then Mashiro will I have to trouble Xian Shu to waste your time."

"By the way, there are also Christmas gifts."

As she spoke, she opened the suitcase, took out a sealed oil painting about the size of a thirty-inch computer screen, and handed it to Qin Uanshu.

"Well~ even though it's my first work after my comeback, I'm personally quite satisfied with it."

"Oh, thanks……"

Qin Xianshu reached out to take it. He lowered his head and looked at the slightly heavy picture frame in his hand. For a moment, he didn't know what kind of expression he should use to face it.

"Due to time constraints, I will leave your answer to Xianshu until next time, but don't worry, I believe we will meet again soon." Rita said with a smile, as if she was about to leave.

But then, she changed the subject without warning.

"But since you have already said thank you, Xian Shu, please take actual actions to express your gratitude!"

"Um?!"

Qin Xianshu quickly realized something was wrong this time, but it was still too late.

Coincidentally, after scoring twice, the British girl's face quickly zoomed in and out in his field of vision.

chirp~

Chapter 285: Got the best friend.JPG

——Remember to send me the results of the Mashiro Newcomer Award.

These were the last words Rita left for Qin Ushu before leaving.

Yes, it’s words.

Because their chat later switched from offline to online.

Qin Xianshu thought that his typing speed was pretty good, but Rita's speed was five times faster than his. Often, before he could reply to a message, four or five six messages would come back from the other side.

This made it very difficult for the high school detective to understand why a British person could have such an incredible efficiency in typing Japanese.

And this also reminded him of what Tobe Sho once said to him.

Qin Sanshu vaguely remembered the original words - to get a girl, the first thing you have to do is get her best friend.

There is nothing wrong with this sentence in itself. After all, many couples in the world who were originally in a happy relationship ended up falling apart under the deaf ears of their besties.

However, the problem now is that now he has taken over Mashiro's "best friend". In every sense, Rita should be very satisfied with him, but she is too satisfied.

How should I explain it later...

It’s hard to stand... it’s hard to stand...

After repeated entanglements, the time finally came to four o'clock in the afternoon.

During this time, Qin Sanshu had been waiting in the corridor outside the conference room door.

When the Newcomer Award selection was over and the conference room door opened, a large number of new comic writers who came to compete came out in droves.

Qin Xianshu glanced over, and saw that some of them were happy and some were worried, and only a small part of them were happy, and most of them had depressed faces.

This is quite normal. After all, there may be hundreds of people participating in the competition, and only the top [-] people can be selected for awards.

Just like the online articles in China, each editor may publish a dozen or twenty books at the same time, but in the end, only the ones that can blow the minds of others and get listed in the editor-in-chief's recommendation column One or two.

This is also the reason why special rolls are promoted to test the waters. Some unscrupulous operators will even make a large number of reports on their competitors in the same period in order to "kill" them. In short, it is considered a great success if they can remove their opponents from the shelves.

Whoops, far away.

Qin Shanshu had been looking at the door from the moment the door of the conference room opened. It wasn't until everyone inside was gone that the flow of people gradually thinned out. Then he saw Mashiro walking out slowly accompanied by Editor Ayano.

The two were talking and laughing... To be precise, it was Ayano who was talking and laughing. Mashiro always had an indifferent expression, holding a red gold medal award certificate in his hand.

"Sorry for the wait?"

Noticing Qin Ushu who was still leaning against the wall waiting in the corridor as when they entered, Ayano pulled Mashiro over quickly and said hello.

"It's okay." Qin Uanshu pursed his lips like a smile. He looked at the award certificate in Mashiro's hand, "Looks like you got good grades?"

"That's right! Mashiro is so awesome this time, he wins first prize in the Newcomer Award!"

After all, she is the manga author under her control. Now that Mashiro has won the award, Ayano praised her for sparing no effort.

"To be honest, I didn't expect that Mashiro would suddenly improve so much in storytelling ability. Although Mashiro's works in the past have very beautiful pictures and are almost overwhelming among authors of the same type, the content of the stories was always too thin. , this time she not only overcame this difficulty, but also broke the indecisive character of the Japanese comic male protagonist in the past."

Ayano paused here and scratched her face.

"If there is any shortcoming, it may be that the reasoning is not rigorous enough, but this is not a big problem. Anyway, few people really care about reading entertainment works such as comic novels. More It’s still purely for fun, and besides, Mashiro’s main focus is love..."

Qin Sanshu stopped listening from the second half of the sentence, and cast an inquiring look at Mashiro, who was holding the first-prize certificate.

——Can you also draw reasoning?

In response to him, the girl nodded solemnly and silently.

Fine……

"Oh, by the way, speaking of which, I remember there was a girl before. She looked a bit like Mashiro. I remember her name was... Rita? Has she left?"

After a long talk, Ayano suddenly realized that the number of people was wrong.