Volume 3, Chapter 414 – Come Live With Me

No! This absolutely would not do.

Even inside this Illusory Heart Realm, where Chi Muxue was the eldest daughter of the Chi family.

In Chi Xiyan’s own understanding, Chi Muxue had always been the little sister she needed to look after.

And besides, the incident from the last time she had bathed Chi Muxue was still vivid in her mind.

“No… there’s no need…”

Chi Xiyan pressed a hand to her chest and kept backing away.

“I can manage on my own!”

Chi Muxue knitted her fine brows. “Xiyan… you have injuries on your body. If the wounds aren’t treated properly, it could get infected.”

“No, really, there’s no need. I can handle it myself.” Chi Xiyan said hurriedly.

“Little Xiyan, are you shy?” Chi Muxue had no intention of letting her off, and with a faint smile, she slowly moved closer.

“Don’t worry, no one dares enter this room without my permission.”

No… that wasn’t the problem.

Chi Xiyan clutched tightly at her own clothes.

Now that she had recognized the feelings troubling her own heart, she could no longer bear the thought of standing bare before Chi Muxue.

Chi Xiyan bit her lip lightly and said in a hoarse voice, “It isn’t proper, for the two of us like this…”

“Not proper? What isn’t proper?” Chi Muxue asked, confused. “I’m the physician, you’re the injured patient. I’m the older sister, you’re the younger sister. I’m looking after you, why would that not be proper?”

The girl’s answer was sincere and open, without the slightest trace of ulterior thought in her eyes.

Chi Xiyan could tell that this girl truly only meant to care for her.

But the more sincere she was, the more Chi Xiyan felt her own unworthiness. She couldn’t bring herself to be that open.

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“Muxue…” Chi Xiyan struggled over her words for a moment before forcing them out. “We’re sisters, but even between women, there should be some distance kept…”

“After all… after all…”

Chi Xiyan found it hard to say the rest.

“Hm?” Chi Muxue tilted her head, puzzled. “Xiyan, what are you talking about? Between women, what’s wrong with that?”

Chi Xiyan felt her face burning hot, her brows knotting together, her tongue seeming to tie itself in her mouth.

She stammered out, “It’s just… some women… can also like women…”

“So… even though we’re sisters, we should still be mindful of certain boundaries…”

She had said it!

Chi Xiyan felt as though the strength had drained straight out of her mouth.

She lowered her head, all her energy spent.

Yet after waiting for a good while, all she heard in response was a voice full of confusion.

“What does it mean, for a woman to like a woman?”

Chi Xiyan lifted her head and met a pair of eyes, pure and utterly innocent.

“I really do like Xiyan, because Xiyan is my little sister.”

“Do girls need to avoid each other because of that too?”

“Why would that be?”

“Is it because we’re sisters?”

“…” Chi Xiyan had nothing to say.

She suddenly felt a little ridiculous.

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What was she even doing, saying such things to a nine year old girl.

A nine year old girl who couldn’t even grasp the distinction between men and women, how could she possibly understand what Chi Xiyan had just said.

She smiled bitterly and looked away from Chi Muxue. “It’s precisely because we’re sisters… that we shouldn’t…”

Just then, Chi Xiyan heard a burst of laughter.

“Little Xiyan… you’re actually just shy, aren’t you?”

Chi Muxue smiled sweetly.

Chi Xiyan was a little dazed. “Huh?”

Chi Muxue went on, “ Sigh … little Xiyan has grown up, and won’t let her sister give her a nice bath anymore.”

Chi Xiyan let out a genuine cry of protest from the heart. “Ha?!”

“But it’s alright!” Chi Muxue smiled sweetly. “While I was studying medicine, I often ran into patients who refused to cooperate.”

“So I have some experience dealing with situations like this.”

“Little Xiyan, just think of it as granting your sister one small wish.”

“Hehe!”

With that, she lightly raised her hand.

Two strands of silver white mysterious light spun around her body.

Chi Xiyan’s eyes went wide, terror spreading across her face.

By the time she realized what was about to happen, the two white ribbons of light had already wrapped around her hands and feet.

Nine year old Chi Muxue reached out with a small hand and lightly tapped Chi Xiyan on the chest.

With a splash, Chi Xiyan tumbled straight into the bathing pool.

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And then, Chi Xiyan was thoroughly washed clean by Chi Muxue.

…

An hour later.

Chi Xiyan sat wrapped in a bath towel at the edge of the pool, her small face flushed bright red.

It was only after Chi Muxue had pushed her into the water and stripped her bare that she finally understood what Chi Muxue’s so called wish had actually meant, it was to satisfy her own habit of playing the older sister taking care of her little sister.

And then, Chi Xiyan had been dragged into the water by this nine year old little girl and forced to play house for a full hour.

The eldest daughter of the Chi family, domineering and overbearing, was terrifying beyond belief.

“Xiyan~~!” Chi Muxue’s playful voice called out from a distance.

Chi Xiyan instinctively pulled her clothes tighter around herself.

Chi Muxue walked up to the edge of the pool holding a few sets of clothes. “I threw away your old clothes. I brought you some clean ones, wear these from now on.”

Chi Xiyan looked at the clothes in her hands and nodded blankly.

Chi Muxue asked again, “Little Xiyan, do you want your sister to help you get dressed?”

Chi Xiyan hurriedly shook her head like a rattle drum. “No need! I can manage myself! Just leave the clothes there!”

“Aw…” A look of disappointment crossed Chi Muxue’s small face.

Chi Xiyan quickly got dressed.

The clothes fit her perfectly, exactly her size.

Chi Muxue looked at the freshly dressed Chi Xiyan, quite pleased. “Little Xiyan, why don’t you move in and live here starting today?”

Chi Xiyan’s hand, in the middle of combing her hair, suddenly went still. “Move in and live here?”

“Mm.” Chi Muxue said. “Where you were staying before is the residence for branch family disciples.”

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“It wouldn’t be proper for you to keep staying there.”

“You also don’t have anyone by your side to look after you, and it wouldn’t be right to leave you living alone in your own courtyard.”

“I’ve thought it over, and having you come stay here with me is the most fitting arrangement.”

“There are plenty of rooms in my courtyard anyway, it’s no trouble at all to prepare one for you.”

Chi Muxue turned to look at Chi Xiyan, blinking her large, watery eyes. “What’s wrong… does Xiyan not want to live with her sister?”

“…”

Chi Xiyan very much wanted to say she didn’t want to.

But she had already refused more than once back at the pool earlier, and it hadn’t stopped this girl in the slightest.

Could this… also be something the Illusory Heart Realm wanted her to experience?

Chi Xiyan wasn’t sure. She only felt a certain numbness, and had no desire to keep playing house with a nine year old child.

…

By early afternoon.

After changing into her new clothes and finishing her grooming under Chi Muxue’s watchful eye, Chi Xiyan followed several maidservants to the residence of the branch family disciples.

Chi Xiyan didn’t know which room was hers, but the maidservants did.

“Miss Xiyan, is this where your things are kept?”

A maidservant pushed open the door.

Chi Xiyan looked inside and saw more than one bed in the room.

Branch disciples of low standing had no private rooms of their own.