[A seemingly well-behaved, actually desperately needy and gloomy (obsessive) Japanese girl]
[A seemingly mature, actually overflowing with compassion and gentle panda sister]
On a strange street in a foreign country, Wen Yumian gets separated from her friend and meets a pretty girl asking her for help.
The girl takes her by the arm, looking sincere and well-behaved. She is wearing a local high school uniform and doesn't seem threatening enough to make anyone wary.
Softhearted, Wen Yumian follows her all the way, until the girl stops in front of a...
love hotel.
The suggestive neon sign is unmistakable. Blushing, Wen Yumian hurriedly tries to explain, and the words slip out in her native language.
"Chinese?" the girl asks in a strange accent, looking her up and down with curiosity.
Only later does Wen Yumian learn that the street where she'd gotten lost was a famous red-light district.
When they meet again, Wen Yumian is dragged by her friend to Kabukicho. After an argument at a host club, she steps outside for some air and happens to run into the girl coming out of the place across the street.
"Yumian?" The girl greets her eagerly, taking the initiative to speak to her in halting Chinese.
Wen Yumian looks at the nightclub sign behind her, frowning and at a loss for words. She comforts herself with the thought that at least the girl listened to her and changed her previous "job."
Only later does Wen Yumian learn that the girl is a customer there, a regular who comes every night.
*
At first, Wen Yumian thinks she's a girl just one step away from going astray.
She takes her out to eat, finds her a job, and lets her stay at her home, putting her life back on track.
The girl is grateful and repays her by running errands, translating, and acting as her guide. She's so well-behaved it tugs at the heartstrings.
But when Wen Yumian is about to return to China, the girl locks her in a room and pins her to the bed. That's when she learns the truth.
The girl was only pretending to be good.
*
Sakurai Satsuki is broke after opening her last bottle of Angel champagne, and ends up working in a lesbian escort club.
The first person she picks up is a bleeding-heart saint who hurriedly insists she isn't a pervert and asks if she needs help.
Sakurai Satsuki can't believe it, but her stomach rudely growls at the worst possible moment. The boundary-blind foreign woman treats her to dinner and spends generously, so Sakurai Satsuki promptly adds her to her list of potential clients.
She tries hard to act sweet and well-behaved to deceive her potential client and win her favor. She thinks she has everything under control, and as it turns out, this works remarkably well: the woman keeps breaking her own principles for her.
So Sakurai Satsuki never imagined that one day she would be unable to live without the other woman, and would do whatever it took to keep her by her side, even if it meant being hated.
Reading Guide:
Half road trip, mutual pining.
Treat the setting as fictional and alternate, not as a reflection of reality.
The Japanese girl is a lesbian by nature and only opens champagne for women.
In this story, the lesbian escort service offers dates and emotional support only. The Japanese girl gives it up after meeting the panda sister for the first time.
Theme: Loving yourself is a prerequisite to loving others
