Mori Shinra was kicked out of Yukinoshita's house. What a cold and heartless woman.
Fortunately, he had finished the dessert, so it wasn't a total loss even after being kicked out.
Back home, Shinra went online to do some more research.
He started with Puberty Syndrome. Similar topics were perennially popular on the Japanese internet. There were tens of thousands of posts alone. He picked a few of the most popular ones and read them.
It had to be said, the stories were quite dramatic, but upon closer inspection, they couldn't stand up to scrutiny. In short, they were fine for a bit of fun. If anyone took them seriously, then it could only be said that they would become loyal customers of health supplements when they got old.
After finding no useful information in the posts, Shinra began to search for information related to Sakurajima Mai. For this, he even put on a special cyber disguise and infiltrated her fan group.
Unexpectedly, the fan group was quite large, and the activity level was also quite high. For a has-been star who had retired for two and a half years, to still have such a large fan base was quite surprising.
Have they all crystallized?
Thinking this, Shinra began to steer the conversation in the group towards why she had stopped her acting career.
Since this was a topic that was frequently discussed in the fan group, and with his clever use of words, he basically just had to start the topic, and messages began to pour in like snowflakes.
Some said it was because the entertainment industry was too dark. Some said being a star was too tiring and she wanted to take a break. Some said she quit because of her studies. And some said it was to go back to her hometown to marry him.
In short, there were all kinds of speculations, and there were also those who were just trolling in the chaos, like the guy who said she was marrying him. He was immediately silenced by the administrator for an hour.
It seemed he was a repeat offender.
Just as everyone was heatedly discussing why Sakurajima Mai had retired at the peak of her career, the administrator who had just silenced the guy spoke up.
"Sis Will Return Someday": Stop guessing blindly. I have inside information. It was because of family problems.
As soon as this was said, the group instantly erupted. Some asked the administrator where he got his inside information, some questioned whether he was spreading false information, and some used alternate accounts to say it was because she was starting a family with him that she stopped her acting career.
Yo, he's quite persistent.
That alternate account, along with his main account, were kicked out of the group chat. However, the members of the fan group were used to this. After all, it takes all sorts to make a world, and with a fan base as large as Sakurajima Mai's, such outrageous people were everywhere.
After a thought, Shinra also began to stir the pot. He used two accounts, one to question the authenticity of the administrator's statement, and the other to become his loyal defender.
The former constantly raised doubts, while the latter seemed to be helping the administrator find excuses, but was actually baiting him to come out and provide evidence.
With this back-and-forth, the other party did indeed reveal some information, but there was still no decisive evidence. And it seemed that he had either seen through Shinra's trick or had something to deal with in real life, as he disappeared shortly after.
Once the administrator was gone, the topic inevitably veered off course, followed by a chaotic mess of wild posts.
Shinra couldn't bear to look. He quickly saved some beautiful photos of Sakurajima Mai, sent a friend request to the administrator who was suspected to be an insider, and then closed the group chat.
Just as he closed it, he received another message.
It was from Miura Yumiko, asking if he was free tomorrow evening.
Previously, due to her company's contract issue, her father had asked her to invite Mori Shinra to their home as a guest, seemingly hoping to find a breakthrough through him. Shinra had agreed.
Afterward, he had also asked Uncle Li about it. The reply he got was that it was all up to him. In other words, the decision of whether to renew the contract was entirely up to him.
It was worth noting that Uncle Li seemed to have known about the Miura family's company for a long time, so when Shinra asked about it, he had replied without much thought.
This made Shinra a little puzzled. Wasn't this a bit too hasty?
Originally, his idea was to provide the Miura family with a channel to communicate with Uncle Li. But now, it had turned into him being the one to decide whether to renew the contract.
The meaning behind this was worlds apart.
Setting aside other things, if Shinra's intentions were even slightly skewed, he could easily earn a commission of several million, or even tens of millions of yen from this, without even having to take any responsibility.
If he were to be more excessive, he might even be able to make a movie plot a reality.
Yumiko, you wouldn't want your family's company to go bankrupt, would you?
"The Fallen Heiress".xxx
This is getting un-airable!
Of course, Shinra would obviously not do that. After all, dealing with Miura Yumiko didn't require that much effort. And it might not even be effective, and he would have to bear legal risks. It just wasn't worth it.
Compared to these things, he was more concerned about the meaning behind this matter.
Although his surname was Mori and he had the Mori family's bloodline, in terms of kinship, he was only from a branch family. And he was a high school student who hadn't graduated and had never received any relevant professional training. Yet he was given so much power. This whole thing reeked of abnormality from head to toe.
If he was given so much power just because his surname was Mori and he had some kinship, then the Mori clan would never have reached its current heights.
When he posed this question to Uncle Li, the other party just told him not to overthink it, that this matter was not as important as he thought. In fact, whether they renewed the contract or not would not have much of an impact on them.
In short, it didn't matter who renewed this contract. Whether it was the Miura family or another company, as the client, Mori International was in an invincible position. It was all the same who they gave this piece of the pie to; there was no difference.
Hearing this, Shinra, instead of feeling relieved, became even more suspicious.
It was precisely because it didn't matter who they gave this piece of the pie to that he felt something was wrong.
Since it didn't matter, why didn't the Mori Group just handle it internally?
It had to be known that there were many people within the Mori Group with the same surname as him. The Mori clan was not without its internal conflicts. Why would this good thing fall into his lap?
Just because Miura Yumiko was his classmate?
How could that be? When they talked about this, Uncle Li hadn't even mentioned her name. In terms of scale, the Miura family was like an ant compared to the Mori clan.
Hiss... Could it be that the family had discovered his extraordinary talent, that he would sooner or later not eat beef, and was investing in him in advance?
But no matter what the truth behind this matter was, there was no reason for him to push away the benefits that had come to him.
If it really was a sugar-coated bullet, with his system to back him up, he was confident he could eat the sugar coating and shoot the bullet back.
Thinking this, Shinra's phone vibrated again.
Miura Yumiko: What do you mean by leaving me on read?