Yukinoshita's Correction Method

Dong Yunshan pointed outside the door. "Someone's here."

Chapter 682 A Door Apart

Haruno Yukinoshita listened intently but heard nothing. She turned and glared at Dong Yunshan. Just as she was about to say something, she heard light footsteps.

The moment Haruno Yukinoshita realized the difference in hearing between herself and Dong Yunshan, she realized something even more serious.

The only person who would come at this time was my mother.

And if her mother finds her sneaking into her sister's fiancé's room in the middle of the night...

Thinking of this, Haruno Yukinoshita's eyes darted around as she searched for a hiding place in the Japanese-style room.

It's too late to leave now.

However, the Japanese-style room was covered with tatami mats, and the movable furniture had been moved away by Yukino Yukinoshita, so it was completely exposed at this moment.

The only place that could hide a person was the gap between Dong Yunshan's bedding and the outer edge of Dong Yunxi's sleeping Kojima.

Haruno Yukinoshita immediately took a liking to the arrangement of the quilts.

There's absolutely no problem hiding someone inside!

A soft call came from outside the door, "Yunshan?"

Dong Yunshan wanted to remain silent, but was poked by Haruno Yukinoshita.

Seeing the confusion on Dong Yunshan's face, Haruno Yukinoshita pointed to herself.

People who aren't family don't enter the same door.

Previously, Dong Yunshan had not responded to Haruno Yukinoshita, Haruno Yukinoshita simply pushed the door open and came in.

If Dong Yunshan doesn't respond at this moment, Xue Mu will probably come in too.

Thinking of this, Dong Yunshan responded, "Mother-in-law?"

"You're still awake, so you're not asleep yet." Snow Mother knelt by the doorway. "Come closer, don't disturb Xixi."

"Hmm," Dong Yunshan replied, walking to the door of the Japanese-style room. "What is it...?"

Before she could finish her sentence, Dong Yunshan's voice trailed off unnaturally.

Although Snow Mother didn't come in, it's better to be safe than sorry.

If Snow Mother suddenly opens the door while we're chatting, it will be too late to hide.

With this in mind, Haruno Yukinoshita Dong Yunshan left her bedding.

Without bothering to observe carefully, she simply threw back the covers and crawled inside...

I touched a warm body.

Upon witnessing this scene, Dong Yunshan exclaimed, "!!!"

Caught off guard, Yukino Yukinoshita, "!!!"

Haruno Yukinoshita almost shouted out loud, "!!!"

Dong Yunshan watched as the blanket fluttered for a moment, then fell silent.

I hope... everything is alright?

Upon seeing her younger sister, Haruno Yukinoshita was first startled, then a smile appeared on her lips.

Oh no... Almost the instant she saw the smile on her sister's face, Yukino Yukinoshita understood her sister's thoughts.

If her mother found out that she had gone to her sister's fiancé's room in the middle of the night, Haruno Yukinoshita would indeed have a hard time explaining herself.

Even if she could explain it clearly, she couldn't escape being scolded by her mother.

However... Yukino Yukinoshita were here, the situation would be different.

Haruno Yukinoshita could easily be said to have come to capture Yukino Yukinoshita.

With her eyes sparkling, Haruno Yukinoshita opened her mouth happily.

Yukino Yukinoshita reacted quickly and covered her older sister's mouth.

As soon as Haruno Yukinoshita began to struggle, a cold glint flashed in Yukino Yukinoshita's eyes, and she reached out and grabbed her sister's pajamas collar.

It's understandable for an older sister to come looking for her younger sister, but if she's disheveled, it could be a big problem.

Haruno Yukinoshita sensed her sister's threat, stopped struggling, and narrowed her eyes: You dare?

To be honest, Yukino Yukinoshita really wouldn't dare.

Or rather, you could say you don't want to at all.

She didn't want her fiancé to see her sister in such a disheveled state.

But when it comes to threats, you absolutely cannot lose in terms of momentum.

Especially Haruno Yukinoshita took the initiative to provoke them.

Yukino Yukinoshita narrowed her cold eyes slightly: Why don't you give it a try?

Haruno Yukinoshita was in no way inferior in terms of momentum, but she did not continue to struggle.

She knows Yukino Yukinoshita's personality all too well.

If it was something planned in advance, then all of Yukino Yukinoshita's actions were predictable.

But what if there's an emergency...?

Dong Yunshan adjusted her posture by the doorway, deliberately making some noise to cover up the faint sounds coming from under the covers. "Is there... uh... anything I can help you with?"

"The New Year's Eve bells are about to ring, and I was worried that Xixi would be woken up, so I thought I'd come over and check on her." Xue's mother's voice was soft, yet clear even through the sliding door. "I didn't expect you to still be awake. Are you not used to the tatami mats, or is something on your mind?"

"A little bit of both," Dong Yunshan replied softly, her gaze falling on the bedding that had been quiet for a long time.

This is no small matter.

"Regarding your wedding date..." Xue's mother paused, "I understand your desire to be together as soon as possible, but as a mother, I have to consider more."

Although it was Xue's father who said the refusal, it was Xue's mother who made the real decision.

Only at Xue's mother's behest did Xue's father finally refuse.

Dong Yunshan could tell, and Xuemu didn't hide anything.

"I understand." Dong Yunshan lowered his eyelids slightly. "In my mother-in-law's view, our decision to get engaged is a sign of immaturity. If we can't adjust our attitudes and understanding in time, we will step into an immature marriage. Many things that can be resolved before marriage and facilitate marriage may become more difficult after marriage, and even... affect the marriage."

"I didn't expect you to understand so quickly..." Yuki's mother chuckled gently, "No wonder you and Yukino progressed so fast."

"To be honest, I still feel like I'm a bit slow," Dong Yunshan said with a hint of nostalgia in her voice.

Snow Mother's voice held just the right amount of doubt. "You're already engaged, do you still feel it's slow?"

"If we could have been together sooner..." Dong Yunshan looked towards the bedding, "We could have spent so many more sweet moments together."

Beneath the bedding, Yukino Yukinoshita's face flushed red at a visible speed.

Why does he say everything?!

Even if she thought so too, he shouldn't say it like that.

It was still in front of my sister and mother.

Snow Mother murmured, "That's true, but before you officially started dating, you two also had a lot of fun together, right?"

Dong Yunshan paused for a moment, then her voice softened even more. "Yes, it's very interesting."

"Can you tell me about it?" Yuki's mother's gentle voice drifted in from outside the door, stirring up Dong Yunshan's memories. "Neither Haruno Yukinoshita nor Yukino rarely talked to me about this kind of topic—so when you brought up the marriage... I was inevitably a little surprised."

When faced with unexpected events, people's first reaction is usually resistance, rather than acceptance.

That's why Xue's mother didn't agree to the marriage proposal put forward by Dong Yunshan.

If you want to get Snow Mother's permission as soon as possible, you should talk to her more, following her wishes.

Dong Yunshan stared at the shadow cast on the door, feeling it gradually expanding until it completely engulfed the exit of the Japanese-style room.

Chapter 683 Initial Ideas

"Our relationship is a bit complicated," Dong Yunshan murmured, her eyes brimming with emotion. "I really don't know where to begin."

Snow Mother prompted, "Why don't you start by talking about how you discovered your feelings for each other?"

"Well..." Dong Yunshan recalled Linglong 100, "That starts from our divorce 167, 1055."

Snow Mother: "Hmm?"

Haruno Yukinoshita felt her younger sister's body tremble slightly.

"Oh~" Haruno Yukinoshita whispered, "They've already been divorced?"

Yukino Yukinoshita glared at her angrily.

"A fake divorce," Dong Yunshan added. "We had previously investigated the wedding-related procedures and then experienced it together."

Xue's mother understood quickly. "Because it's a pretense of marriage, we need to go through a procedure, and then pretend to be divorced."

"Although it was a fake process, the contradictions were real." Dong Yunshan sighed softly, "Otherwise, she wouldn't have broken up with me."

"Hmm?" Snow Mother realized the problem. "You two started... dating before you even realized your feelings for each other?"

If Xue Mu hadn't known that Dong Yunshan had good grades and knew his Chinese teacher, she would have started to doubt Dong Yunshan's ability to express himself.

The moment the question arose in her mind, Xue's mother had a guess. "You two wouldn't have... pretended to date, would you?"

"There was such a period," Dong Yunshan said, a little embarrassed. "But when she proposed breaking up, she genuinely wanted to separate from me, so we did separate for a while after the divorce."

Snow Mother was silent for a long while. "... The end of the fake relationship made you realize what true feelings are?"

"After we broke up, I was very depressed. Because I had more time to be alone, I also had more time to think." Dong Yunshan's lips twitched. "Then I slowly realized that everything we did in the name of 'correction' had long since gone beyond the scope of correction. We only insisted that it was correction because we didn't want to end our relationship."

Snow Mother noticed the frequently used keyword. "Correction?"

"Yes, when we first met, we both felt we needed to correct each other," Dong Yunshan said nostalgically. "She disapproved of my formalism, and I didn't like her perfectionism. To correct someone, you have to understand them, and the more you understand them, the more problems you'll find that need fixing..."

"It's a process of mutual understanding and mutual change." Snow Mother nodded. "In a sense, this is already a relationship."

"Our friends think the same way, and we're just immersed in the process, taking the changes in each other because of us as the result of correction and being happy about it." Dong Yunshan smiled. "But no matter how much we try to correct each other, it's hard for us to understand each other, since the premise of correction is a lack of mutual acceptance."

"I feel... it's also possible that they're deliberately not acknowledging it." Snow Mother chuckled softly. "After all, if you acknowledge the other person, there's no reason to continue trying to correct them, and the bond that maintains your relationship, called 'correction,' will cease to exist."

"That's true..." Dong Yunshan suddenly realized, "That's why, after the divorce, when the original corrective relationship was suspended, we began to truly try to accept each other, instead of deliberately avoiding each other."

"But her long-held ideas and practices won't change so easily." Snow Mother pressed on curiously, "How did you accept her obsession with perfection?"

"I've always believed that nothing is perfect, nor is it necessary to pursue perfection, and there's nothing worth my all-out effort... except for her." Dong Yunshan looked towards the bedding. "From the moment I realized my feelings for her, I understood her obsession with perfection. Because I also have a kind of perfection I want to pursue— Yukino the only perfection I want to pursue in this life, and I want to do my best in everything about her."

Looking at her dazed younger sister so close to her, Haruno Yukinoshita wanted to tease her.

But at this moment, she did nothing.

"For Yukino ..." Yukino's mother finally spoke after a long pause, "You must be the only imperfection she can accept. You are her perfect imperfection, and also her imperfect perfection."

Yukino Yukinoshita it hard to accept that something isn't done perfectly.

However, if Dong Yunshan did this, Yukino Yukinoshita could accept it.

As Dong Yunshan said, nothing is perfect.

But when the Dong Yunshan embodies this imperfection, everything becomes perfect.

It feels like my mother's cooking.

In terms of taste, Mom's cooking is certainly not perfect or top-notch.

But because it was made by my mother, it is undoubtedly a perfect dish.

Yukino Yukinoshita accepted imperfection, and in doing so, attained perfection.

"In a way, we've both succeeded in correcting each other," Dong Yunshan said with a smile. "You could also say we've both failed, and we'll have to keep trying."

"It is indeed very interesting." Snow Mother's voice was gentle. "It seems... I was wrong before."

"What do you mean by 'misunderstood'...?"

"My initial thought was..." Yukimura paused, "You've corrupted Yukino."

"Uh..." Dong Yunshan paused for a moment, "It seems... that's not entirely wrong."

"I thought her relationship with you was a sign of rebellion," Yukino's mother confessed. "Knowing her as I do, your relationship wouldn't have progressed this quickly, let alone gotten engaged. Yukino made a decision that I didn't understand. This wasn't her own idea; she was deliberately going against my thoughts and her own personality, which is what you call... rebellion."

Haruno Yukinoshita saw her younger sister bite her lower lip hard.