Yukinoshita's Correction Method

Must we separate right from the start?

As if answering the audience's question, the scene transitions from clouds in the sky to an indoor setting.

The shaky camera work reveals two women talking.

"Don't mention it, I'm the one who should apologize—I'm just moving out like this, even though I was the one who asked you to be my roommate in the first place."

"Don't mind it, I'm also glad you agreed to share an apartment with me."

The camera zooms in on the two women, one of whom chuckles: ["A year and a half, huh? Time really flies... Choco ~~~"]

The woman bent down, her meticulously made-up face looking at the camera: ["Are you awake? Are you going to say goodbye to me?"]

A pair of hands descended from the sky, and the camera moved upwards accordingly.

Yukino Yukinoshita held the hot tea in both hands and ate the strawberry from her lips.

This shot is from the cat's perspective...

It's funny, but if you use the cat's first-person perspective, you won't see the cat.

The director probably considered this as well, because the next shot was no longer shaky, and the woman in the picture was holding a black cat.

The narrator's voice sounded again:

I am her cat.

Yukino Yukinoshita took a satisfied sip of hot tea.

The film's pacing is excellent.

The opening few simple shots explain what happened.

My roommate has decided to move out because she got a boyfriend.

The woman moved to a new home with her black cat, Choco, and started a completely new life.

Both the person and the cat are trying to adapt to the new environment.

The owner maintained their previous lifestyle, while the cat began to reminisce about the past.

The black cat was taken in by the woman's mother when she was a child.

The story is told from the cat's perspective, presenting a wonderful contrast.

From the cat's perspective, the sound of the broken glass successfully attracted the attention of its young female owner.

But in the little girl's eyes, it was the black cat her mother had just picked up that broke her father's belongings.

In the cat's eyes, its little owner is taking it out to play in a cardboard box.

But Yukino Yukinoshita was watching the movie, understood that the little girl intended to get rid of this uninvited guest.

The little girl placed the cardboard box containing the cat on the side of the street and turned to leave.

But then he stopped and stood on the street corner watching the lonely black cat.

A father and his son were walking by when they saw the cat in the cardboard box.

["Dad, there's a cat here."]

"Yes, someone must have left it here."

"It must be very sad..."

Why do you say that?

["Because, if my dad abandons me, I'll be very sad too..."]

The little girl picked up the cardboard box she had put down again.

"I'm sorry..." she whispered, gazing at the kitten in the box.

The kitten responded with a meow.

Although she already knew the outcome from the beginning, Yukino Yukinoshita still breathed a sigh of relief when she actually saw it.

Some of the tension in his body eased, and he leaned back against the sofa.

She rested her head on the arm of the Dong Yunshan.

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PS: Adjustment of work and rest schedule

Volume 6: Chapter 248 was not the intended meaning

Yukino Yukinoshita slightly pulled back, and when she noticed that Dong Yunshan didn't react, she turned her gaze slightly to him.

Dong Yunshan was watching television intently.

One hand rested on the back of the sofa, supported by Yukino Yukinoshita; the other hand plucked two grapes, popping one into her mouth and offering the other to her side.

"I think I was just fed..." Yukino Yukinoshita stared at the grape, belatedly realizing it.

Finding the grapes still in her hand, Dong Yunshan glanced at them and realized that Yukino Yukinoshita had changed her posture.

The grapes that were originally being fed to her lips are now sitting a little distance away from her.

I adjusted my position and held the grape to Yukino Yukinoshita's lips.

Yukino Yukinoshita opened her mouth and took the grapes, while Dong Yunshan continued watching the movie.

Hard.

Yukino Yukinoshita notices something unusual about Dong Yunshan's body.

Resting her head entirely on Dong Yunshan's arm, Yukino Yukinoshita became even more certain of her discovery.

Muscles generate force through the sliding of actin and myosin. During contraction, muscle fibers shorten, tension increases, and muscles become hard.

When relaxed, the muscle fibers return to a relaxed state, and the muscles lose tension, resulting in a soft feel.

Even though Dong Yunshan exercises regularly and has relatively developed muscles, it only means that the muscle fibers are thicker; the muscle relaxation and contraction mechanisms remain unchanged.

When relaxed, the thickened muscle fibers will still lose tension, and the overall feel should be soft.

If it's not a health problem, then it must be...

Yukino Yukinoshita glanced sideways and saw Dong Yunshan's hand gripping the back of the sofa.

That's the Dong Yunshan exerting its strength.

The reason for using force...

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at the television.

The woman was preparing food for her black cat, Choco, in a QQ group (group number 817) while talking on the phone with her mother (number 0545).

"I know... there's nothing we can do about it, it's tough no matter where you go... I'll work hard..."

The woman's voice was calm, yet carried a sense of despondency, as if she were half-dead and barely alive.

Is it because of this plot point?

Yukino Yukinoshita somewhat incomprehensible.

until...

"I'm not going back." The woman, who had just been speaking softly, suddenly became resolute, as if a switch had been flipped.

["We agreed to share an apartment with a friend, but now you're living alone."] The mother's voice was filled with worry. ["That's not what we said in the first place. You should move back as soon as possible..."]

"Sorry, the bathwater is full." The woman hurriedly replied and hung up the phone.

In the long silence, the black cat Choco recalled the past.

At the dining table, the woman in her school uniform calmly announced, "I'm leaving this house to live on my own."

Without looking up, Mom refused. "No."

Yukino Yukinoshita's breath hitched, and when she came to her senses, she found herself tightly gripping the corner of the blanket.

"Why?" The hostess was not surprised by this answer.

"Aren't there schools near our home?" Mom closed her eyes in reluctance. "Besides, living alone costs a lot of money."

["Mom, why don't you live with him too?"] The woman's tone was curt. ["Isn't that perfect?"]

Mom sighed softly, "You should stay at home until you enter the workforce. I don't plan to remarry before then."

"Mom, you should be brave and pursue your own happiness."

"Your happiness is your mother's happiness."

["You always say you're doing this for me, but that's just you imposing your ideas on me..."]

"You actually oppose Mom remarrying too, don't you?"

"No way!" The female homeowner, who was a student, expressed her thoughts so firmly, yet at night she would hold her black cat Choco shed tears in her room.

["Why did it turn out like this...?"]

"If she doesn't leave me, Mom won't be happy..."

["But...I also want to be with Mom and Choco forever..."]

The woman left home with Choco and moved in with a friend.

Then the friend found a boyfriend, and the hostess and Choco moved to a new place to start a new life.

As work became busier, the woman of the house went out every day and didn't return until evening.

Choco the black cat waited at home, day after day.

The empty room was filled with loneliness.

The tidy room gradually became messy, the sumptuous dinner gradually turned into cold bread, and finally into a glass of water and Flower capsules.

Yukino Yukinoshita's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, and the arm she was using as a pillow ached.

The pervasive loneliness seemed to surge out from the screen, making her legs, which were exposed outside the blanket, feel a chill.

Slightly straightening her body, Yukino Yukinoshita tried to tuck her legs, which were together, into the blanket.

But as soon as their feet touched the sofa, their bodies lost their initial stability due to the sofa's softness and involuntarily leaned to the other side.

He collapsed onto the Dong Yunshan.

Dong Yunshan glanced to the side, then turned slightly to the side, using her body and the back of the sofa to form an angle to support Yukino Yukinoshita's body.

This is indeed more comfortable than before, but it wasn't Yukino Yukinoshita's intention.

Yukino Yukinoshita tried to get up, but Dong Yunshan's arm wrapped around her body first.

They seemed to misinterpret her slight movement of getting up as an attempt to slide off the sofa.

Yukino Yukinoshita opened her mouth, wanting to get up again, but then felt the softness of Dong Yunshan's arm.

Although it wasn't her intention... Yukino Yukinoshita shifted slightly, finding a more comfortable position in Dong Yunshan's arms.

"Every day... every day feels like I'm facing some kind of deadline, but I don't understand what it is."

In the film, the female protagonist whispers to herself in loneliness amidst her messy room.

"I feel a little anxious every day, but by the end of the month, it all turns into regret."

There's another medicine bottle on the bedside table.

["But because we didn't know exactly what it was, a year just passed like that."]

Lying helplessly on the bed, the woman managed a weak smile:

"... It seems like I'm the only one who can't fit into this world."

Yukino Yukinoshita felt the stiffness in Dong Yunshan's arm.

Not just my arms, my whole body was stiff.

It's probably too cold...

Yukino Yukinoshita pulled the blanket over Dong Yunshan's arm and part of his body.

The warmth of the blanket seeped into her body. Dong Yunshan's eyes flickered slightly as she picked up a cherry and offered it to Yukino Yukinoshita's lips.

Yukino Yukinoshita and ate the cherry, the sweet taste filling her mouth...

In the movie, the black Choco jumps onto the bed and snuggles into its owner's arms.