"About everything you said, I wanted to hear it again because, you know, I hadn't really listened properly when you were talking!" Chen Mo's reaction was still incredibly quick.
After fidgeting for a while, perhaps because she was young, or because she had not experienced much in life, the girl told her story again, her face full of distrust.
From her scattered account, Chen Mo gradually understood what had happened.
It was all terribly melodramatic. The girl, Shiori Fujiwara, came from a single-parent family and lived with her mother.
Of course, that alone was nothing unusual. In Japan these days, there were quite a few single-parent families, and the national divorce rate was fairly high. Their lives had been ordinary enough, but then something equally melodramatic happened: Shiori Fujiwara's mother fell ill and needed money for surgery.
In Japan, as long as one had a health insurance card, much like domestic medical insurance, seventy percent of the expenses could be reimbursed. But even that remaining thirty percent was an enormous sum for Shiori Fujiwara and her mother, so her mother had decided to go home and stop treatment.
But illnesses were like that. Without treatment, a minor illness could drag on into a serious one, and a serious illness could kill! Shiori Fujiwara was already a high school student, so she naturally understood such things.
She also knew her family's circumstances and understood why her mother refused treatment, so she decided to find another way to solve the problem.
She had heard about compensated dating at school before, so she secretly asked a close classmate to introduce her to a good client.
Her classmate knew about her family situation as well, and out of sympathy, introduced her to a previous regular client, a fairly generous man named Hondao Shigehiro.
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