Chapter 281: Cao Yike

An Yu’s clothes that she had worn, she seemed to have fallen asleep just like that.

On the bed in Ning Dongli’s room, the petite girl with short golden hair tightly hugged An Yu’s clothes—

Still, the sound of a message arriving on her phone startled her awake.

“Waaah!”

Ning Dongli let out a startled cry, and she subconsciously glanced at her phone.

The sound just now was the special notification tone she had set for An Yu. As long as it rang, Ning Dongli would know who the message was from.

“Ah, An Yu is only looking at the messages now? She’s so slow.”

Ning Dongli blinked, a bit surprised that An Yu was only replying so late.

But she quickly realized something.

“Crap… I accidentally fell asleep!”

Ning Dongli didn’t even have time to reply to An Yu. She hurriedly stood up and quickly put the clothes away.

The main reason was that she had been hugging An Yu’s clothes like some obsessed girl, grinning like an idiot and even falling asleep.

If Ning Wanciu saw that, she wouldn’t know how to keep living afterward.

She didn’t want her image drifting any closer toward that of an obsessed girl! Even if Ning Wanciu already knew she liked An Yu, she still…

Ning Dongli quickly put the clothes away, carefully arranging them and even setting them aside separately.

Because those were An Yu’s clothes. Next time An Yu came over, she could still make her wear them for her to see…

An Yu looked super cute in this outfit.

Ning Dongli hadn’t really thought about it carefully before, because after running into those scumbags, she had been too scared the whole time…

Thinking about it now, she had been stuck right up against An Yu almost the entire time.

She had been enjoying An Yu’s embrace the whole while, yet her mind had been on other things. That really shouldn’t have been the case.

Ning Dongli felt like she might have missed out on a bit too much.

It was all those scumbags’ fault!

Little An Yu… so brave, so cute, so gentle…

Just recalling the way An Yu had stood in front of her without the slightest hesitation made Ning Dongli’s face heat up.

Feelings of affection stacked up little by little just like that, until there was no way to bring them back down again.

So Ning Dongli was actually looking forward to what Cheng Shimumeng was going to do.

She had said she would help her, and that she wouldn’t hurt Ning Wanciu either… so just what was she planning to do?

A faint blankness filled Ning Dongli’s eyes as she slowly closed the wardrobe door, looking a little lost.

So just what was it going to turn into in the end?

I have to! Ding-ling — An Yu had sent a message. She had to hurry and chat with An Yu! She had almost forgotten!

Ning Dongli rushed over to the bed, opened her phone, and took a careful look.

So she couldn’t play games? Mm… not at home… at An Qing’s place, no computer.

Ah… this was a reply to the message she had sent that morning. Even when she couldn’t play games, she still properly told her. An Yu… so cute. Mm, as far as Ning Dongli was concerned, even if An Yu was just breathing, she could still praise her as cute.

But… An Qing?

Wasn’t she originally living together with An Yu already?

Why was there now an “An Qing’s place”?

Mm… a different house, maybe?

Just like her and her sister, who also had other places to stay outside…

But why?

A hint of confusion flashed through Ning Dongli’s eyes, yet she seemed to recall something and soon wore a look of understanding.

Looks like every family has its own hard-to-recite sutras.

But… the important part wasn’t that. The important part was An Qing.

Just like a character from a play. She had long black hair and crimson eyes, exactly like that girl who was special to An Yu.

At the comic convention, An Qing had been staring at An Yu the entire time, unwilling to look away even for an instant.

It was as if she was cherishing every single second.

That An Qing… did she also like An Yu?

It was way too strange. Weren’t they sisters? How could it turn into something like this?

Ning Dongli’s eyes narrowed slightly as she looked at the messages on her phone, for the first time not quite knowing how to reply.

Right, had she not told her sister about this yet?

About how An Qing had saved her and An Yu.

She stood up. Her eyes still held a bit of confusion, but in the end she still left the room.

Before long, Ning Dongli appeared at the doorway of Ning Wanciu’s room and gently knocked.

The lost Ning Dongli still chose to rely on her sister.

Footsteps soon came from inside, and then the door was opened.

Ning Wanciu looked at Ning Dongli, who had suddenly come looking for her, with some confusion and asked gently in a soft voice:

“Dongli, what’s wrong?”

At this time of day, Ning Dongli should have been in her room playing games.

Ning Wanciu never would have expected her to come over on her own.

Plus, there was still that awkward matter between them.

No matter how she thought about it, she couldn’t figure it out.

“Big Sis, I have something to say.”

“Oh, oh?”

Ning Wanciu blinked in confusion, but still let Ning Dongli into the room.

Over at An Qing’s place, An Qing had already prepared a simple meal.

Since it was only An Qing and An Yu, she hadn’t made too much.

Neither of them had particularly large appetites, so wasting food would be bad.

“Food’s ready, An Yu.”

An Qing called out to An Yu.

An Yu slowly stood up from the sofa, then lazily stretched.

“Mm~”

She had been lying around for a long time. Perfect time to move a little.

Though “moving” for An Yu only meant going from the sofa to the dining table.

When An Yu reached the table, An Qing pulled out the chair for her just like she had at noon.

She didn’t hesitate and simply sat down.

An Qing didn’t say much either. She just smiled and sat in the chair on the other side.

The two of them were as calm as an old married couple, as natural as if they had rehearsed it countless times.

Yet this was still the first time An Yu had spent such a long stretch alone with An Qing.

What is this… this faint sense of dissonance?

An Yu blinked.

She couldn’t quite figure it out.

Not only could she not figure it out, but hadn’t System-chan been silent for too long today?

What she didn’t know was that ever since An Yu had been pulled away by An Qing, System-chan had been in a constant state of cold sweat.

She hadn’t dared to relax for even a moment.

The instant anything unexpected happened, she would immediately turn into the mechanical bird and find a way to save this airheaded host of hers.

You have to understand… An Qing’s possessiveness… was skyrocketing like crazy!

Right now An Yu was right by her side, so she could still stay this calm.

What if later An Yu still only wanted to hang out with Ning Wanciu and the others?

What An Qing might do then was something the System no longer dared to imagine.

In any case, she didn’t even dare to speak, remaining constantly on guard, wary of whatever wrong move An Qing might make.

Fortunately, An Qing was very steady and hadn’t done anything.

“Go ahead and eat… see if it suits your taste.”

An Qing smiled as she watched An Yu, yet she herself still hadn’t picked up her chopsticks.

It was as if she wanted to watch An Yu take the first bite.

An Yu didn’t hesitate either. She picked up her chopsticks, clamped a piece of meat, and sent it into her mouth.

She lifted her head and looked at An Qing with those airheaded eyes.

“Mm… it’s good.”

I never expected the reborn heroine to have this kind of skill.