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"Oh, that's right, then I would like to ask, when is the festival time of Kushida Shrine?"

"That's right, thank you very much, excuse me!"

After saying this, Aiko Asano hung up the phone and said to Satake Maki on the other side: "Miss Satake, the festival time of Kushida Shrine is in July."

She smiled, "It seems that you have discovered a key point."

The shrines in Neon’s native land are full of strange things, and the time of the festival is often not uniform.So when she was reviewing, she subconsciously ignored this aspect.

Unexpectedly, it was something she had neglected, but the editor named Satake Maki unexpectedly discovered a key point.

Satake Maki nodded without replying. She took out a red pen and drew a circle on the date of the festival.

Whether this problem is big or small, we just need to adjust the time when the story takes place.

Seeing this scene, Asano Aiko smiled, then turned back to her seat and continued to read the manuscript.

If they want to publish as soon as possible, they still have to do a lot of work, and it is far from time to relax.

For a while, the office became quiet, only the sound of manuscripts being flipped.

But not long after, "Dinglingling"'s phone rang suddenly.

After hearing the call, the two subconsciously raised their heads and looked at each other.

Immediately afterwards, Satake Maki stood up and answered the phone. "Hello, this is Anjiu Bookstore, may I ask you..."

After a while, she put down the phone and faced Aiko Asano: "Senior Asano, it's your call."

Aiko Asano was a little puzzled, but she still left her seat and stepped forward to answer the phone.

"Hi, I'm Asano Aiko, may I ask who you are?"

"Oh, it's Akihara..."

"Do you want to have dinner together tonight? Is there something you want to talk to me about? But I still have some work to do here..."

"Hey, do you want to join the Mystery Writers Association?! Or did the other party invite you?"

"Okay, I see, so it's about 7 o'clock in the evening, or the family restaurant before?"

When Asano Aiko answered the phone, Satake Maki kept looking down at the manuscript, but her mind was not on this one.

Instead, she pricked up her ears, listening to the content of the phone carefully...

As he heard the words "evening" and "dinner", the expression on Satake Maki's face became more and more restless, and the right hand holding the red pen was involuntarily clenched.

It wasn't until Aiko Asano put down the microphone that Maki Satake slowly let go of her clenched right hand.

But the palm of her hand turned a little red because she was holding the pen tightly.

"Miss Satake, let's do this for today. I'll go back first. As for other proofreading tasks, wait for me to come over tomorrow to coordinate."

Asano Aiko didn't notice the abnormality of Satake Maki, she returned to the desk and put the manuscript on the desk back into the file bag.

She planned to review these manuscripts at home after having dinner with Hiroto Akihara in the evening.

But to her surprise, Satake Maki didn't say "goodbye" to herself like yesterday.

Instead, the other party turned around and looked at himself with a smile.

"Senior Asano, are you and Akihara-sensei... are you dating?"

[Request from Chapter 164.163 "April Youth"]

dating Akihara?

Hearing this question, Aiko Asano hesitated for a moment.

In the neon society, if the relationship is not very good, it is generally necessary to avoid digging into other people's privacy.

That's why Aiko Asano was very surprised after hearing Satake Maki's question, and she didn't speak for a long time.

However, could this Miss Satake also treat Akihara...

Asano Aiko turned her head, looked at Satake Maki, and found a very natural expression on her face.

After thinking about it, she still asked, "Miss Satake, why do you ask this question?"

"If I violated the privacy of the senior, I would like to apologize first." Satake Maki waved his hand, and then continued.

"I'm just curious. After all, Senior, you and Senior Qiuyuan have worked together for so long, and even eat together at night."

Although Satake Maki said so, she knew that the reason for her questioning was not because of "curiosity".

After all, the personal relationship between the two is still shallow, and it would undoubtedly be too impolite to ask about personal privacy out of curiosity.

But even though she knew she was "disrespectful", she still asked.

Because she really wanted to know if Akihara and Asano had a relationship.

When calling each other, Akihara and Asano called each other without suffixes.

In addition, Asano Aiko even appeared at Akihara Yuu's house, and even had dinner together tonight.

Everything that happened made Satake Maki very "uncomfortable", but he also understood that he had a deep "jealousy".

Driven by this kind of jealousy, she no longer cared about the trivial matter of "disrespect".

But even though she asked the question of "whether to date", she still used "curiosity" as an excuse, pretending that she only asked the question out of curiosity.

Asano Aiko took a closer look at Satake Maki, and found that there was only a smile on her face, and she couldn't see anything else at all.

It seems that another person asked this question because of gossip.

Aiko Asano was not surprised either, because Mantansha even took the initiative to publicize that she and Akihara were in a relationship in the public opinion in the speech she made in the TV interview.

So on the second day when I came to Anjiu Bookstore, the administrative staff named Itakura Naka secretly asked myself in private.

Even the president Anjiu showed this kind of look.

Why are people in this publishing house so gossip?

Aiko Asano felt helpless for a moment.

"Miss Satake, you may have misunderstood. Teacher Akihara and I are only in a purely working relationship. He hired me and asked me to help with proofreading and publication and other follow-up matters."

Asano Aiko paused, and added: "Besides these, we can only be called friends..."

She knew that she liked Akihara Yuto, but she didn't think it was necessary to tell the people at Anjiu Bookstore about this.