She still hadn't managed to say those words...
The words "I like Lord Yu the most" had nearly slipped out, but she changed them at the last moment.
Yuuka secretly glanced at Zhao Yu and relaxed slightly when she saw that he hadn't noticed.
"Do you know why I chose to make a bet with you guys?" Zhao Yu asked the Bullet Screen.
"Actually, I used to have the same thoughts as you. What if I gave a gift but didn't receive one in return?"
Yuuka listened quietly to Zhao Yu without saying anything. She felt that what he wanted to say was more than just that.
Sure enough, before the Bullet Screen could respond, Zhao Yu spoke again.
"Later, even on the way back to my hometown, I deliberately tried to fish for information from Yuuka. Back then, I thought she had to show some kind of reaction, right?"
"Fortunately, Yuuka wasn't actually very good at playing dumb. I could tell at a glance that she was hiding something from me. Although I felt relieved, I also felt that something was off." As he said this, Zhao Yu looked seriously at Yuuka.
"At that moment, I understood something. Gifts aren't actually the most important thing—trust in the other person is. So... I'm sorry, Yuuka."
"Lord Yu doesn't need to apologize to me. Back then, I worried too—whether Lord Yu would give me a gift in return, or whether China even celebrated Christmas," Yuuka said softly.
"Actually, I figured it out later too. So what if there hadn't been any gifts? As long as the feelings I wanted to convey reached Lord Yu, that was enough."
[So you two already knew the other had prepared a gift?]
[And you were pretending not to know just now? Are we part of