Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 957: Chapter 953: The Girl’s Springtime Feelings

Those words were originally uttered by Huo Sining in a moment of urgency, but after saying them, her mind suddenly became clear like a flash of inspiration.

That’s right, isn’t Watanabe Yasu going to participate in the New Year Festival with that teabowl? She has every chance to swap it back.

Watanabe Yasu must treasure that bowl dearly, usually locking it in a safe or storing it in a bank. She had no chance to get close to it, but he’s going to attend the New Year Festival, so he will definitely bring it out. This person loves fame and fortune so much, this bowl could bring him immense prestige and benefits, he definitely won’t keep it a secret.

Huo Sining has the Invisibility Skill, and during the New Year Festival, she can slip into Meiji Shrine. As long as Watanabe Yasu takes out that Secret-Color Porcelain Teabowl for exhibition, Huo Sining can swap the bowl back without anyone suspecting a thing.

The more she thought about it, the more feasible the plan seemed to Huo Sining, and her eyes couldn’t help but brighten.

If Watanabe Yasu can pull a trick the first day, so can she on the fifteenth. Since he can use his cunning means to swap out the bowl, she can retaliate in kind. She simply wonders what kind of a priceless expression Watanabe Yasu would have when he finds out the porcelain bowl he painstakingly swapped out was also a fake.

Just imagining the scene of Watanabe Yasu discovering the truth leaves Huo Sining with a bittersweet feeling, further solidifying her determination to carry out the plan.

The next day, Gu Xu received a call urging him from the higher-ups. After spending only a brief day with Huo Sining, he hurriedly left again. Huo Sining didn’t ask him what mission he was going to complete and instead returned to school to attend class diligently.

Though Hinata Chinatsu appears to be a quiet and gentle girl, when it comes to gossip, she is not inferior to those domestic girls at all. Seeing Huo Sining back at school, Hinata Chinatsu widened her eyes and curiously stared at Huo Sining, asking, ”Huo-san, have you gotten engaged to your boyfriend? Have you met each other’s parents, when are you getting married?”

The wedding customs in Dongyang have many similarities with those back home; both being Asian cultures are relatively traditional in terms of marriage. Marriage typically requires parental and family witnesses to be considered officially wed.

Furthermore, Dongyang encourages early marriage and childbearing, possibly due to the small population. It’s quite commonplace for girls in Dongyang to marry early, some even becoming wives at fifteen or sixteen, so Hinata Chinatsu didn’t find Huo Sining having a boyfriend strange at all, rather entirely routine.

Huo Sining nodded with a smile: ”We’ve met each other’s parents, so we’re considered set, but marriage will be a while yet. I’m still in school now and don’t wish to enter the marriage hall so quickly.”

Hinata Chinatsu nodded in understanding: ”I get what you’re saying. In fact, here too more and more people are reluctant to marry. Once married, most women don’t work post-marriage and are responsible only for household chores, while the husband works hard outside to support the family. But this way, our years of education seem wasted. I worked hard to get into college because I wanted to be an independent woman, not merely live dependent on a man. However, this notion seems absurd to our parents’ generation.”

Huo Sining nodded at what she said. Indeed, Dongyang is even more traditional than Huaxia in this regard, with the majority of women becoming housewives after marriage, rarely achieving financial independence, and Dongyang men holding strong sovereign consciousness, rarely tolerating women as bosses.

In contrast, Huaxia women have had an earlier awakening than Dongyang. Most Huaxia women have independent self-identities and economic freedom, even getting married does not mean fully returning to family life. Careers and marriages coexist, which is the current lifestyle of most Huaxia women.

Still, Hinata Chinatsu’s worries seemed unnecessary, thinking about her frequent interactions with Nara Nigawa recently, Huo Sining couldn’t help but smile, eyes flashing with a hint of teasing and understanding:

”There’s always exceptions, right? If you don’t want to give up your career, then maybe you should find a man who’s not so patriarchal, like Mr. Nara. Given his personality, he’d absolutely not restrict you to the home, but rather be highly supportive of your career development and self-improvement.”

As soon as Huo Sining spoke, Hinata Chinatsu’s heart started fluttering, her face flushed red, and she stammered over her words: ”Why... why did you... suddenly bring up Mr. Nara... We... we’re just... purely having... an employment relationship...”

Despite Hinata Chinatsu’s strenuous denial, her cheeks were flushed, and her brows showed shyness, a typical look of a young girl falling in love.

Seeing Hinata Chinatsu’s expression akin to a startled deer, Huo Sining had already come to a conclusion. Still, she didn’t expose it, as matters of the heart are not for outsiders to interfere. Hinata Chinatsu is currently working at Nara Nigawa’s shop, and if these two have mutual feelings, they would naturally unite without her interference.

So Huo Sining didn’t dwell on the topic, instead pulling a trinket she bought from Sensoji Temple out of her backpack and handing it to Hinata Chinatsu: ”I’ve been wandering in Kanto these days, didn’t you say you liked Huaxia jade artifacts? This jade buckle should be from the Qing Dynasty. I happened upon it, so I bought it for you.”

Hinata Chinatsu’s eyes lit up instantly, accepting the jade buckle less than four centimeters in diameter with curiosity: ”So this is Huaxia jade, why does it look a bit different from the jades I’ve seen in books?”

Huo Sining laughed: ”Good jade indeed has beautiful colors, but you can’t easily find genuine goods at small stalls, and even if there are, the price is outrageous.”

”But you can rest assured that this jade buckle is absolutely genuine, several hundred years old. While the price wasn’t steep, the quality is still decent. Wear it on you, and occasionally play with it using your hands; after a while, the jade will come to life.”

”In Huaxia Country, there’s an old saying: Nurture jade for three years, and the jade will nurture you for a lifetime. Jade has a spirit, wearing it often not only enhances beauty but also prolongs life.”

Hinata Chinatsu, being an amateur, understood only about thirty to forty percent of what Huo Sining said, but she knew Huo Sining wasn’t just tricking her. So even if she didn’t fully grasp it, she still nodded as if she understood and carefully remembered the jade-polishing method Huo Sining shared.