Chapter 328: Sisterly Heart-to-Heart

Facing Ning Wanciu’s interrogation, Ning Dongli just silently lowered her head.

She parted her cherry lips and forced out a few words: “Then… what about you, Sis?”

“…What?”

Ning Wanciu frowned, seemingly not understanding what Ning Dongli was saying.

But this time Ning Dongli got a bit worked up.

She suddenly lifted her head and stared at Ning Wanciu with puffed-up cheeks:

“Then what about you, Sis? Don’t you also have things you’re hiding from me?!”

Ning Dongli fixed her gaze tightly on Ning Wanciu.

If there was something being hidden from the other, Ning Wanciu was the same!

These past few days had always been like this.

Ning Wanciu’s attitude had become strange ever since the comic convention.

At first Ning Dongli thought it was because of the impact from her own confession, but now it seemed there were other possibilities.

Because… after Ning Wanciu came back from the bathroom, she had clearly become much more dejected, even speaking a lot less.

To say there was nothing she was hiding was simply impossible.

For a younger sister who had spent so long with Ning Wanciu, if she couldn’t even notice this, then she would be failing as a sister.

Ning Wanciu pressed her lips together, seemingly not expecting that Ning Dongli had completed an offense-defense swap in just an instant.

But she truly had no way to speak the words.

No matter how she thought about it, she hadn’t expected Ning Dongli would choose to respond to her interrogation with a rhetorical question.

This made things a bit difficult.

Originally Ning Wanciu was only worried about Ning Dongli and Cheng Shimumeng, afraid they were doing some messy things.

But now… she couldn’t possibly tell Ning Dongli about their mother’s matters, right?

First of all, Ning Dongli couldn’t help with anything.

Second… knowing these things would only affect her mood.

Ning Wanciu had finally managed to help Ning Dongli become the way she was now.

No matter what, she would never let her younger sister suffer another major blow.

That would be an unbearable consequence for both her and herself.

So regarding their mother’s matters, she wouldn’t say a single word.

Forget Ning Dongli—even she herself, after chatting with their mother about Ning Dongli’s matters, had almost been unable to hold it together.

“Heh… now you’re silent again!”

Ning Dongli puffed out her cheeks.

“You were so arrogant just a moment ago!”

In the instant the Ferris wheel reached the top, the only thing the two sisters seemed able to do was stay silent.

But neither of them would be satisfied with such a result.

Ning Dongli no longer hesitated.

She spoke softly: “Me and Shimumeng… the secret between us and Sis, I still can’t tell you right now.”

“We did… have some conversations, but we haven’t done anything bad again.”

Ning Dongli lifted her head to look at Ning Wanciu, somehow feeling a bit guilty, yet she didn’t avert her gaze.

Perhaps it wasn’t a bad thing for others, but for Ning Wanciu?

Ning Dongli didn’t know…

“Maybe… we’re doing it for everyone… but I don’t know if that’s correct… but I won’t stop. My own happiness… I want to grasp it in my own hands!”

In this moment, this girl who always habitually belittled herself as worthless had finally learned to be selfish.

“Sis, you have to do the same!”

Her gaze was extremely serious, her water-blue eyes carrying a trace of resolve.

No matter whether Cheng Shimumeng succeeded in the end or not, she at least had to make efforts that belonged solely to herself.

As for admitting defeat… they could talk about that after she truly lost!

But no matter what, what Ning Dongli begged for wasn’t only her own happiness.

She hoped she could be together with her older sister…

“Is that so?” Ning Wanciu’s gaze went from confusion to understanding, and finally she shook her head a bit helplessly.

Looking at it… it was about An Yu again, huh…

After all, Ning Dongli had already said this much.

If Ning Wanciu still couldn’t react, wouldn’t she be a bit too stupid?

Completely different from the beginning, Dongli…

Ning Wanciu lowered her head slightly, yet the corners of her mouth carried a trace of gratified smile.

Only, that smile was mixed with a faint bitterness.

At the beginning, Ning Dongli had wanted to use a self-destruct method to motivate her to actively pursue An Yu.

And now it was a bit different… something had influenced her, making her walk a different path.

But this was fine too.

Even if they truly ended up competing, they were still sisters.

No matter who it was, it wouldn’t change their relationship with each other.

So… Dongli, Sis won’t lose either, okay?

Ning Wanciu had long since prepared herself for a confession.

No matter what the result would be, she was already ready to take this first step.

“I understand… Dongli.”

Ning Wanciu had already understood her younger sister’s resolve, so she would face her younger sister with the same attitude.

She no longer planned to give up on An Yu because of the other party.

The Ferris wheel began to sway and slowly descend.

The time that belonged solely to the two sisters was about to end.

In this instant, blue met blue, and both sisters were smiling.

Just as Ning Wanciu had let out a breath of relief—

“Sis, I’ve already answered your question. So what about you?”

Ning Dongli’s eyes were half-open as she stared at Ning Wanciu with an extremely sharp gaze.

A fine bead of sweat rolled down Ning Wanciu’s forehead as she twitched the corner of her mouth a bit speechlessly.

Hey, how had this matter still not been forgotten.

She had thought she could use the earlier atmosphere to make Ning Dongli give up asking about this.

After all, Ning Dongli had only used a rhetorical question to refuse answering her question… at least that was what Ning Wanciu believed.

“Heh… Sis, I think you’re not even as good as me!” Ning Dongli shook her head. “It’s Mom’s matters again, right?”

“Dongli…?”

Ning Wanciu was instantly startled.

She looked at Ning Dongli in shock, only to find the other party looking completely calm.

“Hmph… I just knew it.”

“Sis, you’re always like this, always worrying about these meaningless things.”

“Sigh.” Ning Dongli let out a helpless sigh. “Haven’t I told you many times? No matter what happens, I don’t care.”

“As long as… I have you, Sis… and An Yu accompanying me… it’ll be fine.”

Ning Dongli took a deep breath. “As for whatever she wants to do, that has nothing to do with me.”

“So, Sis, you have to tell me.”

“I absolutely won’t let you bear this pressure alone. We’re sisters, aren’t we?”

Ning Dongli’s expression was extremely serious.

She felt that the time had come.

The days of being a useless burden of a younger sister who always dragged Ning Wanciu down should end right here and now.

She could already go outside, had already resolved the shadows in her heart, and had already obtained the most important people in this world to her… two of them, no less.

She was no longer that Ning Dongli who needed to be hidden from and cared for by Ning Wanciu.

From now on, she also had her own path to walk.

So these things… these things that would drag the two sisters down, had to be resolved as early as possible!

“Sis, let’s bear it together.”

The girl tightly held Ning Wanciu’s hand, her expression more resolute than ever before.

Ning Wanciu stared blankly at the Ning Dongli in front of her, feeling both a bit unfamiliar and a bit familiar…

Ning Wanciu smiled, smiling with extreme gentleness.

“Ha…”

“I understand.”

She pulled Ning Dongli into a tight hug, her voice filled with pure gratification: “Little sister…”