Shirakawa Natsu once thought she knew Aunt Maki well enough, but now she realizes she was wrong.

　　She is a dignified and intellectual police assistant.

　　She is a mother who can endure humiliation and sacrifice everything for her daughter.

　　She was a charming, beautiful, and self-moving widow.

　　At this moment, she was different from what people had expected; she was only wearing underwear, revealing her mature and sexy figure.

　　Her face wore an enigmatic smile, like a beautiful succubus hiding behind a curtain, finally revealing her horns and fangs.

　　Shirakawa Natsu had no interest in appreciating the beauty; her face was grim. “From what point did it begin?”

　　He wanted to know exactly when Hojo Maki started plotting against him, when she realized he was the target, and how she set up this scheme, ultimately leading to this outcome.

　　“From the very beginning, when you stepped into the police station and first came to my office,” Hojo Maki looked down at him, a playful glint in her eyes—the look of an adult watching a child struggling to perform a clumsy lie: “when you thought you had fooled me.”

　　Shirakawa Natsu suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. He hated that look in his eyes, feeling as if everything about him had been seen through, and he felt like a clown.

　　He wanted to vent his anger, but reason calmed him down; he needed to know where he had failed.

　　Adjust your mindset and calm your breathing: “I shouldn’t have shown any intention of having any designs on you.”

　　“Yes, you deliberately acted as if you wanted nothing.” Hojo Maki leaned slightly forward, her openwork bra barely covering her chest, revealing large expanses of her snow-white skin: “You didn’t peek at my chest.”

　　Hojo Maki’s words struck Shirakawa Natsumi’s mind like a thunderbolt, and he suddenly realized the crux of the problem.

　　Whenever he encountered Hojo Maki, he would steal glances at her chest. After all, with such a size, if he encountered her in real life, he couldn’t resist looking, thinking, “Why not take a look?”

　　This time, in order to avoid revealing that Hojo Maki was interested in her, she deliberately controlled her gaze and acted as if she had no sexual interest in her at all.

　　“You’re deliberately hiding your sexual interest in me.” Hojo Maki continued to analyze: “If my daughter were here, it could be interpreted as you wanting to pursue my daughter and be behaving like a gentleman, but since there’s no one else around, and you’re still deliberately controlling your gaze, then your only target is me.”

　　”What about Yu Mukai?” Shirakawa Natsu asked. “Was your affection for him fake too? And the heatstroke prevention medicine, you deliberately showed me the dates, didn’t you?”

　　“It’s true.” Hojo Maki admitted directly: “I have feelings for him because he reminds me of my husband. We were both rookie police officers, enthusiastic but incompetent, yet full of love.”

　　”Why, why did you let me know that you have feelings for him?” Shirakawa Natsu couldn’t understand Hojo Maki’s reasons for doing this.

　　Judging from Yu Mukai’s behavior, it was only after he appeared that Maki Hojo responded to his affections.

　　“Feelings can change, maybe it’s just a hormonal impulse.” Hojo Maki looked at Shirakawa Natsu: “You’re not sure how long your feelings will last. When a woman shows interest in another man, it’s the most effective way to stimulate her suitors. I’ve always had feelings for Mukai Yu, but I expressed them to a level that you could detect. Only true feelings won’t be detected.”

　　”I bought the heatstroke medicine for Yu Mukai, but I didn’t want him to feel that I had feelings for him, so I never gave it to him. A woman can have feelings for many men, whether it’s because of their looks, their wealth, or to satisfy some need. But she can only love one person. Those feelings will fade with time, and the feelings will disappear.”

　　Shirakawa Natsu opened her mouth wide, not knowing what to say, but she finally understood what Hojo Maki meant.

　　From the moment she first saw her, she knew that he had designs on her.

　　Because Hojo Maki was unaware that he had a mission with the yellow-haired app.

　　To prevent him from suddenly losing interest in her, she deliberately showed her affection for Yu Mukai in front of him, thus stimulating him to pursue her more quickly.

　　If that’s the case, then everything that happened afterward makes sense.

　　It’s true that Hojo Maki went to Yan Kingdom, and she gave Mukai Yu the key because she and Mukai Yu were close.

　　Once she returns from Yan, Shirakawa Natsu will be able to get close to her under the pretext of looking for Mukai Yu.

　　When Hojo Maki heard that Shirakawa Natsumi offered to help plan the route, she readily agreed.

　　Thinking of this, Shirakawa Natsu’s face darkened. She had originally thought that Aunt Maki was the prey, but it turned out that she was the hunter in disguise.

　　This explains why things went so smoothly, and also brings us to the core issue.

　　”Why would she do that?” Shirakawa Natsu couldn’t understand why Hojo Maki would deliberately let him have sex with her, and even spend the whole night with him.

　　If it was because she had feelings for him, why did she grab his hand today, even threatening to send him to prison, and even prepare a hidden camera?

　　Hojo Maki looked down at him and said slowly, “Because both of my daughters have feelings for you.”

　　”What?” Shirakawa Natsu was stunned, then his face darkened: “Just because your daughter has feelings for me, you’re trying to scheme against me? Isn’t that bullying an honest person!”

　　Hojo Maki gave him a charming sidelong glance: “Are you an honest man? An honest man wouldn’t seduce his friend’s mother.”

　　“You did it yourself,” Shirakawa Natsu argued. “Besides, I don’t remember Inagawa Hanahi having any feelings for me.”

　　Kanna Hojo did have feelings for him, and it was he who broke the ice for her the first time.

　　However, Inagawa Hanahi likes Minoki, and they are just friends. She is still on the friend list of the blonde-haired app.

　　”Didn’t you want to see it?” Hojo Maki walked to the bedside table, reached out and picked up the face-down photo frame, and straightened it.

　　It was a group photo of a young Maki Hojo and her two daughters, who were only 6 or 7 years old.

　　Standing next to him was a handsome man with delicate features.

　　The man was not strong, and he was holding Hojo Maki’s hand.

　　Shirakawa Natsu was taken aback. The man in the photo didn’t look like him, but his demeanor was somewhat similar.

　　They were all handsome, clean-cut guys who weren’t particularly muscular.

　　However, Shirakawa Natsu’s thin figure is due to illness. She has a bad stomach and cannot eat much, and her digestion is also poor, which is why she is thin.

　　He suddenly realized that Kanna Hojo had once told him that he resembled her father.

　　”Are you kidding me?” Shirakawa Natsu couldn’t help but say, “First it’s Mukai Yu, then it’s me, do all these people look like your husband?”

　　”Hmph.” Hojo Maki chuckled lightly, “Is it a problem that I’m a widow, and at my age, I don’t have a man by my side, so I have feelings for men who resemble my deceased husband?”

　　Shirakawa Natsu suddenly felt that Hojo Maki’s words made a lot of sense, and even felt like she had been shown a dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection): “Even if your two daughters have feelings for me, what does that have to do with you scheming against me!”

　　“Because you are not someone I can entrust my life to.” Hojo Maki narrowed her eyes, her gaze sweeping over Shirakawa Natsu’s entire body: “As a mother, I have to make sure they don’t end up with you.”

　　”You’re insane, you lunatic!” Shirakawa Natsu was speechless. To ensure her daughter wouldn’t be with this man, she slept with him first. What kind of logic is that?

　　Hojo Maki suddenly said, “Because I don’t want a similar incident like the one involving Minoki to happen again.”

　　Upon hearing this, Shirakawa Natsu opened her mouth but said nothing more.

　　The two sisters were fighting fiercely over a woman, and the one who was hurt the most was none other than their mother.

　　It’s all the fault of my brothers.

　　“I will tell Inagawa Hanahi that you slept with me while I was drunk.” Hojo Maki narrowed her eyes: “That way, she will hate you, and it will all end whether she has friendship or affection for you.”

　　”Of course, I will make it clear that this was my own choice, so you don’t need to worry about her causing you trouble.”

　　”As for Kanna, I won’t tell her, because that would hurt her, but I hope that from today onwards, you will not contact her proactively anymore.”

　　”After all, you wouldn’t want these videos to be seen by other people, would you?”

　　”A representative figure in the comic book industry, taking advantage of being drunk, the woman had sex with her friend’s mother. Even if you win the lawsuit in the end, I think your career is over.”

　　”As for me, please don’t underestimate a mother’s awareness.”

　　”You!” Shirakawa Natsu gritted her teeth, glaring at Hojo Maki: “You spent the whole night with me yesterday over something like this, couldn’t you talk to me? Why did you have to threaten me with a video?!”

　　Hojo Maki shook her head: “Human nature is the most unreliable thing. I need a bomb that can destroy you at any time.”

　　”Of course, I also admit that besides being the safest method, I also feel lonely and have needs when I use this method.”

　　”You…” Shirakawa Natsu gritted her teeth, her frustration finding nowhere to go.

　　Without a doubt, he lost, utterly and completely.

　　From beginning to end, he was completely controlled by this married woman.

　　I underestimated a police officer who had been engaged in criminal investigation for many years.

　　After a long while, he suddenly went limp as if deflated: “I lost. Take off the handcuffs, but I have one condition.”

　　Shirakawa Natsu stared at Hojo Maki’s beautiful body, her naked body having been on her gaze for a long time last night.

　　Wearing only three pieces now presents a different kind of sexiness.

　　”Let’s do it.”

　　“I refuse.” Hojo Maki narrowed her eyes, tapping his chest with one hand. “Are you acting like a child right now, trying to take control so you don’t feel so embarrassed?”

　　Shirakawa Natsu snorted coldly, just as she said, it was purely self-comfort.

　　Just then, Hojo Maki suddenly flipped him over, without unlocking his handcuffs, and pried open his see-through underwear with one finger before sitting on him.

　　Shirakawa Natsu was taken aback, then instantly understood what she meant. She hadn’t been threatened by him; she just wanted to do it herself.

　　”Hmph.” Shirakawa Natsu snorted coldly, “Isn’t this just the body telling the truth?”

　　Hojo Maki smiled seductively and whispered in his ear, “Do you know why I kept my eyes closed last night? It’s because I imagined you as him. You’re just a substitute for him.”

　　”You.” Shirakawa Natsu was furious, a sense of humiliation rising in her heart.

　　Why is it that, even though I was physically superior to him, I psychologically feel that he was superior to me?