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Chapter 97: Three in a Walk
🕑 Added 2025-11-15 14:37:27 +0000 UTC[After the wedding.]
[You receive a bouquet every day, sometimes roses, sometimes carnations, sometimes baby's breath.]
[This small happiness fills the emptiness in your heart.]
[In the following years, you follow your mentor at the law firm and handle countless dispute cases. You gradually become an independent attorney, dedicated to protecting women's rights in marriage.]
[Your mental health improves a lot.]
[During this time, Toru often takes you out on dates and keeps you company.]
[You no longer obsess over who he belongs to. As long as you can stay by his side, you are satisfied.]
So this is turning from yandere into extreme simp?
No no no, not a simp.
This is devotion.
[Ryo pretends not to notice your relationship with her husband, but publicly she still refuses to acknowledge you as his lover.]
[Time passes.]
[When you turn twenty seven, Ryo becomes pregnant.]
[By then, Toru is already an attending physician at a private hospital. He rarely has time to look after his wife. During busy periods, he performs several surgeries a night and spends long hours at work.]
[Toru tries many times to take leave.]
[Ryo refuses to let him abandon his patients because of her pregnancy.]
[At that time, you begin to appear frequently around Ryo.]
[Throughout the pregnancy, the time you spend with Ryo is almost the same as the time her husband spends with her.]
[Ryo quietly takes note of your efforts.]
[After ten months, the baby is born. It is a girl.]
[Ryo names her Kitahara Suzune. Although Ryo loves niche subcultures and has a very distinctive personality, she does not choose an unusual name for her daughter. Perhaps she does not want her daughter to become a strange woman like herself.]
[After the child is born, Toru cuts back on work and focuses more on family.]
[You do not disrupt the couple's peaceful life. You only visit Kitahara Suzune from time to time.]
[Life continues this way for a long while.]
[Four years later, little Suzune starts kindergarten.]
[At thirty one, you become an unmarried woman of age, and your parents begin to pressure you to marry.]
[They are no longer young. Time has carved deep lines into their faces. Whenever you see their wrinkles, you feel guilty.]
[Your parents hope you can marry and have children soon.]
[But you refuse, prioritizing your career.]
[In recent years, you have become a renowned female lawyer in Japan, your career thriving.]
[Your parents can do nothing but silently hope you will meet someone you like.]
[Time flows on.]
[At thirty three, you become a decisive and accomplished woman.]
[It is worth mentioning that the flower shop owner who delivers your daily bouquets gets divorced. She went through an unhappy marriage. Her husband cheated on her with a younger woman and abandoned her.]
[You represented her for free and won, and this made you even more determined not to disturb Toru's family.]
[That year, your parents leave Tokyo and move back to the countryside to enjoy their old age.]
[Kitahara Suzune gets along well with you. She always calls you Kita Mama. Compared to her expressionless mother, little Suzune likes you more.]
[Another two years pass.]
[That year, Toru wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The drug developed by his team enhances cellular immunity, known as the universal medicine, although it cannot yet be widely used due to high cost.]
[Thanks to the Nobel Prize, Toru becomes internationally famous.]
[Investors rush toward him like sharks sensing blood, trying to pour funds into his team.]
[But unexpectedly, Toru chooses to withdraw at his peak, temporarily giving up research to devote more time to his family.]
[Kitahara Suzune is now old enough for primary school. Toru wants to give her a healthy home.]
[This year, you are thirty five.]
[In the same autumn, your mentor passes away.]
[At the funeral, you meet her elderly foreign husband, accompanied by a middle aged woman. Only then do you learn why your mentor valued marriage cases so much. This kind and gentle old lady had once been abandoned by her husband.]
[Over the years, you have inherited her work without betraying her expectations. You can proudly say you have done right by her.]
[Her husband says nothing. After burning incense, he quietly leaves.]
[The following year.]
[Ryo asks to meet you privately.]
[After so many years, she can no longer ignore your devotion.]
Wait.
Ryo senpai.
You are not about to…
[Ryo permits your relationship with her husband. She even agrees that you and Toru can have a child to deal with your family's pressure.]
[You become Toru's lover.]
Yes!
Success!
[When he discovers his wife secretly supporting this arrangement, Toru's expression is quite something.]
[He has absolutely no desire to accept you.]
What? Acting reluctant when you are getting a great deal.
Two women serving one husband.
You should be thrilled.
[Later.]
[Under the persuasion of his wife and daughter, Toru reluctantly agrees.]
Reluctantly?
What, is marrying Kita such a burden?
[Kitahara Suzune is delighted. She now has two mothers, one biological and one Kita Mama. The little girl is happy for days.]
[You move into the Kitahara household.]
[Very few people know.]
[Hitori has become a famous online influencer over the years and half a shut-in.]
[When she learns you succeeded, she is wildly jealous.]
[Nijika sends her blessings. She has been single all these years. It seems the Ijichi family is on the verge of ending its bloodline.]
[You and Toru hold a simple wedding.]
[Only a few friends are invited. You keep things quiet, though rumors still leak.]
[A few days later.]
[The news that a Nobel laureate has married two women becomes the top headline of Asahi News.]
[The public is shocked at first, then feels it is no big deal. After all, it is two wives, not two hundred.]
[Some even comment, "This tiny matter made it into the newspaper? Why not send it to the UN and ask them how to handle it?"]
[Still, a small number curse Toru for neglecting his work, claiming he indulges in personal desire instead of research.]
[But this opinion disappears quickly a year later.]
[That year, Toru's team makes a breakthrough in cancer immunotherapy, shaking the academic world.]
[You ignore the outside gossip.]
[You continue cultivating your own field of work.]
[You begin to consider having a child.]
