CHAPTER 694: CHAPTER 425: HAVING YOU... IS REALLY NICE......

Is it correct to say that a beautiful girl’s aura is unusually unique?

When Uesugi Sakura was busy working in the café, Hanamaru Hanabi sat at a corner table, enjoying dessert and tea. The maids in the café couldn’t help but pay attention to her.

Particularly Kobashi Rikai, who became quite distracted while learning to make coffee from Uesugi Sakura.

After clearing a table, Tashiro Yuuri was about to head to the kitchen when Towa Rina blocked her path and whispered in her ear.

Tashiro Yuuri paused with a tray in hand, listening as Towa covered half her face to whisper:

"Why did Uesugi suddenly bring such a beautiful woman in here?"

Tashiro Yuuri glanced with dull eyes at the cheerful girl eating dessert in the corner and replied:

"That’s his wife."

"His wife!?" Towa Rina touched her chin thoughtfully with her thumb, "Oh, now that you mention it, she does look quite similar to the girl on Uesugi-san’s phone wallpaper."

"Aren’t they the same person?" Tashiro Yuuri calmly remarked, giving her a sidelong glance.

"How do I compare to her?" Towa Rina intentionally lowered her voice to ask quietly.

"You already know the answer to that." Without another glance, Tashiro Yuuri continued, "She could debut as a celebrity without makeup, whereas you—"

"You’re saying that as if I’m not pretty!" Towa Rina pouted and put her hands on her hips.

"Let’s just say you’re okay."

Having said that, Tashiro Yuuri took the tray and headed to the dishwashing room in the café’s kitchen.

In her maid outfit, Towa Rina took several more glances at Hanamaru Hanabi enjoying her sweets, thinking that if she were a rival competing for a boyfriend, she’d be in real danger.

It felt like she was the kind of girl who instantly garnered goodwill at first sight.

What man could refuse such adorable charm?

Towa Rina felt a chill of fear and seized a moment when Uesugi Sakura was free to whisper at the bar, "Is that... your wife?"

"Yes." Uesugi Sakura glanced up from his phone at her.

"How did you meet?"

Uesugi Sakura turned off his phone screen and said, "It seems like everyone asks this. We’re childhood friends, we’ve known each other since we were little."

"Childhood friends!?" Towa Rina looked at him with envy and then sneakily asked, "Why did you bring her here today? Weren’t you two supposedly fighting?"

"You said it yourself, supposedly. She’s here to wait for me to get off work."

"Waiting for you to get off work? That’ll be until 7 PM, and we’re so busy now. Not only the male customers but many female customers are fond of this maid café..."

As she said this, Towa Rina gave Uesugi Sakura a meaningful glance.

Recently, many female customers have been talking about him as they left.

They probably flocked here because he attracted them.

Old women trying to snag a young hunk?

They might not know he’s married!

"Your wife really cares about you, willing to wait so long. It’s not even 3 PM yet."

"That’s true love."

Kobashi Rikai, listening behind Uesugi Sakura, glanced at Hanamaru Hanabi in the corner and continued working, feeling a twinge of envy.

...

Time 20:32:12

Uesugi Sakura finished wiping the last cup, finally completing today’s work.

As he took off his apron to find the now-sleeping Hanabi, Manager Yanagi approached with a piece of white card stock that looked like a note.

"Here, today’s wages."

Uesugi Sakura took it and quickly counted—over 30,000 yen!

"This much?" Uesugi Sakura looked up and asked.

"It’s double pay."

Double pay?

Uesugi Sakura had almost forgotten that the manager promised him double pay in the morning.

"No need, manager, this morning was really—"

"Take it." Manager Yanagi directly shoved the money into his arms without any fuss.

Uesugi Sakura instinctively caught it as he lifted his hand.

Impressive move, Manager Yanagi thought, and continued, "Today marked the best sales in months, just accept it. Your wife is waiting for you and even fell asleep. Go home early."

With those words, she turned and went to the kitchen to help the maids with their routine café wrap-up tasks.

Uesugi Sakura looked at the money encased in a letter envelope, pocketed it, and moved his gaze to the café corner where he walked over.

Hanamaru Hanabi was lying on the small table asleep, facing outward, her hands folded, her beautiful eyes gently closed, breathing steadily, exuding a fragrant aura.

Uesugi Sakura stood before her, watching her peaceful sleeping face for a long, long time.

It was almost 9 PM.

He felt a kind of guilt, seeing her sleeping alone in the deserted café corner.

It seemed she must have felt so lonely waiting for him.

"I’m sorry, Hanabi, I was too busy to notice you..."

The café window blew open, letting cold wind in. Hanamaru Hanabi instinctively felt uncomfortable, opened her eyes, and saw Uesugi Sakura in front of her.

Looking outside, she realized it was already dark.

"Sakura-kun... are you done with work?"

"Yeah... all done. Shall we go home?"

"Okay..." Hanamaru Hanabi replied in a soft voice, then stood up, smiled at him, and said, "Should Hanabi let everyone in the shop know we’re heading home?"