Band members, girls with fermented bean curd, step forward!

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"You fell out with the band members, didn't you?"

"Guess where I got this information?"

Do you know what happened to your band after you left?

"Do you want to hear what Chen actually did after that, and what his opinion of you is?"

These cruel words disregarded Miss Aine's will.

An indelible memory was left in her mind.

Chapter 110 The Isolated Truth

In the bathroom of Nijika's house

Take off your clothes and turn on the valve.

Miss Aine adjusted the water temperature.

Replacement, brand new clothes

It has already been handed over to her from the blue-haired girl.

The comfortably warm water flowed from top to bottom, transferring warmth to Aine's body.

Shedding that coldness, washing away that discomfort

This warmth could not melt the ice in her heart.

Instead, it's like the last shred of sympathy given to a prisoner before execution, heralding the arrival of the final judgment.

She didn't want to leave the small bathroom; she couldn't face the truth that Miss Liang had learned from Chen, the truth she had been avoiding.

She didn't need to rely on Miss Liang's words to know what was happening in the band.

In his time with the lamp, and in his two brief meetings with Lixi.

Aiyin already has a general idea of ​​the band's current situation.

What terrified her most was Chen's thoughts and evaluations of her in front of Miss Liang.

After all, one person's evaluation of another is most truthful when made in front of a third party.

Could what Miss Liang said be false?

Given Chen's personality, the likelihood of him gossiping about another friend in front of a friend is almost zero.

Hongxia, Kita, one mile

Aine carefully recalled the details of her time with the band members who had just finished their performance.

None of them knew what had happened to Miss Aine.

No, it can't be fake.

Aside from the person directly involved and the rest of the band, the issue of breaking up with the band is something that happens to everyone else.

It is absolutely impossible for anyone else to know.

Apart from her and Chen, Miss Liang didn't know anyone else in the band.

Therefore, only Chen can be a source of information for Miss Liang.

Chen may have truly lost all hope in her.

The water temperature, which had been set precisely, inexplicably made Miss Aine feel a slight chill.

She will slightly shift the valve controlling the water temperature towards the red area.

No matter how long she lingers in the bathroom, the judgment will eventually come.

Miss Liang didn't forget anything that needed to be prepared.

After closing the valve, Miss Aine picked up the specially prepared new towel.

Wipe the water droplets off your body and use a hairdryer to dry your damp hair.

She restored her disheveled appearance to a presentable state.

Pushing open the bathroom door, the blue-haired girl, Yi Mingshan Erqi IV, had been waiting in the living room for a long time.

The blue-haired girl gestured for Aine to sit beside her, her golden eyes, devoid of any discernible emotion, lingering on Aine for a long time.

Miss Liang waited patiently, searching for the right opportunity.

She needed to guide the pink-haired girl in front of her so that the whole truth of the matter would be revealed to her.

Miss Liang's cold gaze, like a sharp blade, left invisible marks on Miss Aine.

Aine was unwilling to endure this torture, which was like being slowly sliced ​​to death, any longer.

She met the blue-haired girl's calm golden eyes with her grey eyes, which had been avoiding eye contact.

As she mentally prepared herself for the questions to be asked, the blue-haired girl's sudden words interrupted and extinguished her hopes.

"You haven't been practicing enough, have you?"

"Judging from your behavior, it was definitely your mistake to have a falling out with the band's drummer."

"Otherwise, you wouldn't care so much about Chen's opinion of you in my eyes."

Miss Liang's heartless words caused her fingertips to dig deeply into her palms.

If it weren't for the need to trim her nails to the proper length for playing the guitar, her palms would frequently bleed.

"It's my fault...it's all my fault...that Chen is completely disappointed in me."

"Tell me, Liang... whatever you say, I will accept it."

Miss Aine prayed for the end to come.

"If you want to know Chen's true opinion of you, bring something in exchange."

"Repeat what you did, and I'll tell you everything you want to know."

Even though Miss Liang already knows everything she did from Chen, why does she still make this cruel request?

Her brain was no longer capable of processing the logical flaws in the blue-haired girl's thinking.

For the blue-haired girl who already knew everything she had done, concealing the truth was meaningless.

With a repentant heart, Aine recounted in detail everything that had happened not long ago.

"At that time, Nagasaki Motoyo was our band's bassist."

"For some reason, I suddenly missed a long period of band practice."

"I repeatedly used the excuse that we needed everyone to practice to prematurely disband the band, thus delaying the actual practice time."

"Because my guitar skills have long since deteriorated. I don't want to expose myself like that to everyone..."

Aine's body was curled up, her limp arms crossed over her thighs in front of her body.

Her eyes were lowered. Her gaze, which had been meeting Miss Liang's, was now completely withdrawn.

"Yes, I can tell. After all, during the rehearsal before our performance, you didn't seem like a skilled guitarist at all."

So, her vanity had been seen through long ago?

Painfully, the pink-haired girl closed her eyes, tearing open her still-unhealed wounds.

"By procrastinating, I didn't use that precious, hard-won buffer time to practice guitar."

"Ultimately, the incomplete membership couldn't be my shield anymore. Shiina-san... questioned me..."

"Back then, instead of obediently admitting my mistake, I said some terrible things like kicking Shiina out of the band and replacing him with a drummer."

Ah, that's really terrible.

However, this was not enough to make Chen completely side with the drummer in the choice between the drummer and Aine.

As Miss Aine continued her narration, the scene was vividly recreated in Miss Ryo's mind.

At the time, all I wanted was for Chen to be on my side.

"When he said we still had time and all we needed to do was practice, I ran away."

"At the time, I felt that Chen Che had completely betrayed me and stood on the opposite side of me."

"After I ran away, Chen found me and patiently tried to persuade me."

"But I couldn't listen to anything; at that moment, I just felt betrayed."

"I pressured him, I pressured Chen to make a choice immediately."

"I told him that if I were in that band, there wouldn't be a way for that drummer to stay; he had to make a choice."

"Either fire that drummer, or leave the band with me..."

"At that time, I even said more outrageous things..."

She always deliberately ignored the words she had previously used to pressure and blame Chen Lingmeng.

Don't forget those words of shirking responsibility and making unreasonable arguments.

She wouldn't even have the courage to face Chen at school anymore.

She understood just how aggressive her words had been.

"I blame Chen for siding with that outsider."

"I blame him for agreeing to the drummer's plan to do a live concert in the first place."

"If I hadn't set a goal of performing live in the first place, I wouldn't have felt so ashamed in front of that person..."

Ms. Liang's sharp comment can be summed up in just four words—"He brought it on himself."

Chihaya Aine had absolutely no idea who her enemies were and who her friends were.

Chen was originally her staunch supporter.

Due to her coercion, her most powerful allies turned against her.

"Let me tell you something. Actually, besides the conflict between you and the drummer, which led to you leaving the band..."

"I know absolutely nothing about any of the other details you've mentioned."

"Don't look at me like that, it scares me."

Miss Liang's tone carried a hint of helplessness.

"That guy always likes to make decisions for others that are perfectly reasonable, and he does a lot of things that are beyond his authority."

"But commitment and responsibility are the things he values ​​most, and he has never made a decision to betray a friend."

Do you agree with this?

Through the pink-haired girl's silence, Ms. Ryo learned the answer.

"You know that guy is still in your band, right?"

"Why don't you guess why he didn't dare leave that band with you? Why did he betray you?"

The unresponsive pink-haired girl made Ms. Ryo feel somewhat bored.

She decided to tell Miss Aine, who was beside her, that most important information.

"Never mind, there's no need to keep you in suspense."

"Chen told me that he had initially harbored a sliver of wishful thinking."

"I'll keep it from you for now and handle things with that band. I'll help you restore your relationship with the other members of that band."

"If you don't want to continue, he'll leave the band with you; if you do want to, he'll help you get back into the band."

He said he quickly abandoned the idea. He felt there was no way to reconcile such a huge conflict between you and the drummer.

"But why didn't he leave the band with you after he gave up on the idea?"

A name that shouldn't have been mentioned caused a tremor in Miss Aine's eardrums.

"Your lead singer, is his name... Gao Songdeng?"

"She almost jumped off the bridge, you know."

"Given Chen's personality, do you think he would really abandon that band given this situation?"

Miss Ryo's words plunged Chihaya Aine's heart into even deeper darkness.