Chapter 576: The Five Tiger Generals

Masayoshi Kishimoto had eaten his breakfast and finished wiping his mouth and said, “Where are my clothes?”

“Washed by me.” Fujie Nao answered bluntly.

“Then what am I going to wear?” Masayoshi Kishimoto said as he couldn’t just walk out.

Fujie Naoe didn’t panic as she said, “Either you wait for your clothes to dry before you go. It’s October, it should be able to dry in a day. Either that, or I’ll go inside a men’s clothing store in Ginza and get you a set back inside and out.”

“Could it be that you don’t know that in this one world there is something called a dryer?” Masayoshi Kishimoto neither wanted to wait too long, and even more so, he didn’t want to go home in a completely different set of attire.

It would be completely impossible for him to talk with his mouth all over his body if Rie Sakai saw that he had left the house last night dressed differently than what he had come home in today.

Fujie Nao blinked at him and said, “I know! The problem is that I don’t have it at home.”

Masayoshi Kishimoto was completely speechless. He couldn’t leave on his own for a while.

“I prepared a brand new toothbrush and mouth cup for you. Just put them inside the bathroom. The red one is my toothbrush, the blue one is yours.

The towel you wash your face with is the brand new one with the hooligan rabbit pattern. Don’t be mistaken. However, it’s fine if you’re mistaken.”

While Fujie Naoe smiled with a smile on her face, this was all something she had arranged long ago. She thought, “After washing your clothes, let’s see how you’ll go?

Even if she asked you to get new ones, you might not dry them. This way, she was able to leave Masayoshi Kishimoto alone with herself for the whole day.

On top of that, she added his toiletries, all in the manner of two people living together. Having more bonding and intimacy between the two meant that he would be willing to shield himself more in the future.

Masayoshi Kishimoto stood up helplessly and only went to brush his teeth and wash his face first. As for the latter, it didn’t matter since it was the weekend and he didn’t have to work anyway.

At the other end of the same time period, although Miyazaki Ryui had shared a midnight snack with a female publicist that he had brought out last night, he did not go to a hotel room. After he was done, he went straight back to the central district he rented.

Wearing a brand new set of private high-end customized suit, Miyazaki Ryui stood in front of the full body mirror, moving his body sideways left, right, left and right as he looked over and over again and said, “On the day of the chairman’s wedding, I’ll wear this set before I go. What do you think?”

“Very good.” Matsui Natsuki responded breathlessly.

“Do you know what the outside world says about me? I’m one of the Hard Gold Group’s five tigers. This allusion is from the Five Tiger Generals of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Ma Chao under Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period in China.

Besides me, there are Shingo Oda of Hard Gold Media, Kamiji Iida of Hard Gold Bank, Katsuhei Yamaguchi of Hard Gold Construction, and Kiyoshi Kobayashi of Hard Gold Capital.

Do you have any idea how I was able to obtain the position I am in today, and how the Chairman trusts me? It’s because I’ve been able to maintain a high degree of consistency with the Chairman’s tastes.

The Chairman’s big wedding, I was not able to bring you there, and that could not be helped.” Miyazaki Ryui asked himself and spoke to her saying.

“You’re really planning to marry Yuko Yonekura?” Natsuki Matsui asked knowingly.

“It’s a suggestion given to me by the chairman.” Miyazaki Ryui was turning his back a hundred and eighty degrees to face her and said.

“Don’t you have an opinion? You touch your heart and ask it, is the woman you love the most me or Yuko Yonekura?” Matsui Natsuki said unhappily.

“I admit that the woman I love the most is you, but for a man, there is nothing more important than his career.

If a man doesn’t have his own career, then he’s nothing above this society. The advice given to me by the chairman does have merit in it as well.” Miyazaki Ryui said nonchalantly.

Matsui Natsuki’s tears were instantly coming out of her eyes and said, “You are too cruel.”

Miyazaki Ryui stood still and said, “It’s not that I’m cruel, but I have no choice. If I choose you, not only will the people in my family be unhappy, but there is no guarantee that the chairman will not have other opinions about me.

There are many people in the Hard Gold Group who want to replace me. The reason why I can sit steadily on the throne of the president of Hard Gold Electricity, which has been in a state of loss and is still growing, relies on a what?

My outstanding personal ability? I can tell you very responsibly that it is not. I can tell you very responsibly that it’s not. It’s mainly because the president trusts and supports me.

As long as the Chairman’s trust and support remains unchanged, no one will be able to pull me down from this position. On the contrary, if I lose the president’s trust and support for me, my title of president will come to an end.”

“Big deal, you can change companies and do what again!” Natsuki Matsui disapproved.

Miyazaki Ryui smiled meticulously without a face, “That’s easy to say. Even if I had the heart to jump ship, I wouldn’t be able to find an equal position and equal annual income.

Positions like mine are often filled by the Chairman’s inner circle. Besides, the chairman not only knows me well, but also saved my life.

I would never do anything to betray him. Then again, if I wasn’t the president and was just an ordinary, no-more-than-ordinary office worker with an annual income of only three to four million yen, would you still be nostalgic and rekindle your old feelings for me?”

“You’re always still unwilling to let go of your life in the lights and the colorful world and live a plain, ordinary life with me.” Natsuki Matsui refuted.

“I’m fond of your naivety and pure thoughts. However, you can’t live your whole life holding on to those things, can you! I’ve talked to you openly and honestly many times over and over again.

If you don’t want to be my lover, then I won’t force myself on you.” Miyazaki Ryui wasn’t acting on impulse, having long ago weighed the pros and cons inside her heart three times over.

If he stayed with Matsui Natsuki, he would have nothing but the so-called love. For that, the price he would have to pay would be too high.

He had done venture capital, so naturally, he fully understood a return on investment. This is completely against all the basic rules of risk investment.

Even if he gave up everything for his true love, he couldn’t be 100% sure that the relationship between the two of them would always be so good. Without bread, what was love?

Matsui Natsuki cried harder and harder and said, “Do you really not love me anymore?”

Miyazaki Ryuui knew that at this critical moment, he could never be soft-hearted, nor could he be swayed by a woman’s tears.

What he currently had was not easy to come by. If he wanted to destroy his personal future, it would be as easy as a slap in the face.

“I still love you.” Miyazaki Ryui said seriously.