Lin Wei cleared her throat lightly, suppressing the strange emotions bubbling inside her. Maybe it was because she hadn’t been drinking enough water lately. Her gaze flickered slightly, then shifted away, as if she suddenly found the doorframe of Su Nuannuan’s room interesting.
She didn’t answer Su Nuannuan immediately. Instead, her eyes naturally swept past Su Nuannuan and began examining the room’s interior.
Su Nuannuan followed her gaze back to her own messy room.
A bed piled with plush toys and pillows, and a desk scattered with a few manga books—she snapped back to reality and blushed even deeper. It was too messy!
Not caring about anything else, she hurriedly opened the door wider and quickly walked over to the bed, fumbling to pat the soft mattress and smoothing out the wrinkled sheets with effort.
Standing nervously by the bed, she fiddled with her bath towel and whispered, “Sis… Sister… please have a seat?”
Her heart was pounding wildly. Lin Wei’s sudden arrival—was it to declare ownership? Or to inspect her territory?
Could it be that she was here to make things difficult for her?
Only then did Lin Wei pull her gaze away from scanning the room. Her eyes glanced over the bed, which Su Nuannuan had tried hard to tidy but still looked charmingly messy. She then slowly stepped inside.
Taking in the room filled with plush toys and brimming with girlish charm, her expression betrayed no emotion.
She walked over to the bed and sat down gracefully. The mattress sank slightly beneath her. She casually picked up a manga.
“Monster Adventure?” she murmured. She really couldn’t imagine what bad intentions could come from reading childish comics…
Su Nuannuan stood beside her like a little bullied kid, completely at a loss and barely daring to breathe.
Seeing her looking as if she were facing a great enemy, Lin Wei felt a little helpless. Did she really look that scary?
She put down the childish manga and patted the empty spot beside her, signaling for Su Nuannuan to sit down.
Su Nuannuan glanced at the spot and immediately remembered what had happened that night in Lin Wei’s room…
Her face heated up and she instinctively took a small step back, then quickly moved over to sit on the small sofa stool by the bed.
“I’ll just sit here…”
Still looking down, she resembled a student awaiting a teacher’s lecture.
Lin Wei was a bit displeased with Su Nuannuan’s behavior, but looking at her “little sister” cowering so adorably, she couldn’t help but chuckle softly before quickly pulling her face back into its usual cool, distant expression.
“Don’t… be nervous,” she said, her voice softening slightly.
“I’m not here to…” She hesitated, as if she wasn’t quite sure what exactly she had come for…
What am I here for?
In the end, Lin Wei changed her wording, “As long as you… behave obediently, I won’t make things difficult for you.”
Su Nuannuan was surprised by this and looked up in a daze, staring at Lin Wei as if she hadn’t expected to hear that.
Was that supposed to be a promise?
Seeing no response, Lin Wei thought maybe she hadn’t understood, so she added, “It means, stay in line and don’t cause trouble, and you can continue living your comfortable life. Understand?”
Su Nuannuan was stunned for a few seconds, then nodded quickly like a chick pecking at rice, “I understand! I understand! I’ll be very good!”
As long as she wasn’t kicked out, she was fine with anything!
Watching her eagerly pledge loyalty like that, Lin Wei’s expression suddenly grew strange.
She suddenly realized that what she had just said sounded a lot like…
The threatening lines a malicious supporting female villain would say to a pure heroine in the novels she read?
But Lin Wei was the True Heiress! The tone was all wrong!
To cover up her awkwardness, she cleared her throat and changed the subject. “By the way, what exactly does our family business do? What industry are we in?”
Su Nuannuan blinked her big eyes in confusion. “In… industry?”
She only knew her family was very rich and that her dad seemed busy, but what exactly they did… she’d never cared enough to ask, nor had anyone explained it to her.
Su Nuannuan shook her head honestly.
Lin Wei stared at her clueless expression and sighed inwardly, feeling like she was talking to a brick wall.
That’s it? That clueless look—how had she managed to play the part of the fake heiress for so many years?
It was only because she was kind-hearted. If it had been someone with bad intentions, they would’ve already conned her around and taken everything…
And thrown her out!
“You…” Lin Wei’s tone carried a subtle hint of frustration, though she hadn’t realized it herself—like hating that the iron wouldn’t become steel.
“From now on, no more just playing around, got it?” She instinctively took on the role of a strict older sister disciplining her.
Su Nuannuan obediently nodded, “Mm-hmm!”
“And no more just eating all the time.” Lin Wei looked at her round, adorable face and added.
Su Nuannuan kept nodding, “Mm-hmm… huh?” She stopped halfway, looked up with a huge question mark written all over her face.
Is eating really a “crime” too?
Lin Wei gave her a sharp look.
When I say it, there’s no room for argument.
Su Nuannuan immediately caved and nodded so fast her head looked like it was pounding garlic, “Mm-hmm-mm-hmm!”
Seeing her cute, scared reaction, Lin Wei’s earlier awkwardness vanished, replaced by a strange sense of satisfaction.
She instinctively reached out and gently pinched Su Nuannuan’s chubby cheek.
Su Nuannuan: “???” Totally baffled. What was Lin Wei doing now?
Hmm~ the texture’s really nice.
Lin Wei retracted her hand, still expressionless, as if the cheek-pinching hadn’t been her.
“The day after tomorrow’s Weekend. I’ve already arranged with the Butler to go check out the Company together.” She announced.
Upon hearing this, Su Nuannuan’s face immediately fell. She muttered subconsciously, “Ah? Going to the Company on the Weekend… that sounds so boring…”
Her idea of a Weekend was sleeping, reading manga, and eating snacks!
Looking at her reluctant pout, Lin Wei’s frustration flared up again.
This silly little girl… all she knew was playing and eating! Looks like I really have to “discipline” her properly in the future!
Lin Wei slowly got up, and Su Nuannuan finally relaxed her tense nerves.
Is she leaving? Woohoo~
“Get up early on the Weekend,”
Lin Wei tossed over her shoulder without another word and turned to leave Su Nuannuan’s room.
Su Nuannuan followed her to the door and softly said, “Sister, goodbye…”
Then gently closed the door and instinctively locked it.
She then flopped onto the soft bed, her little face screwed up in a frown.
It was over.
Lin Wei was definitely coming after her! No more playing, no more eating, and now dragging her to the Company!
This was clearly a plan to torture her with complicated business knowledge, watch her embarrass herself, and then grab dirt on her!
She would definitely tattle to Su Dad and Su Mom when they came back, and naturally get her kicked out of the Su family!
It had to be like that!
The more Su Nuannuan thought, the more convinced she became that her reasoning was correct. The tiny hope that had risen from Lin Wei’s promise—“won’t make things difficult for you”—was instantly crushed.
She really couldn’t let her guard down around Lin Wei!
What if I, Su Nuannuan, refuse to get out of bed on the Weekend? What would Lin Wei do then?
Sigh, Su Nuannuan felt her situation in the Su family was getting more and more difficult…
She let out a wail and rolled around on her soft bed, clutching her pillow.
On the other side, Lin Wei returned to her own room and closed the door.
She sat on the edge of the bed, feeling a bit restless in a way she couldn’t explain.
Taking out her phone, her fingers absentmindedly swiped across the screen.
After hesitating for a moment, she opened the browser and typed in a line of text.
How to get along with a little sister?
The search results were all over the place: communicate more, find common hobbies, understand and tolerate each other?
They all sounded reasonable, but Lin Wei felt like applying those to a dumbass like Su Nuannuan, who only knew how to eat and sleep, didn’t quite fit…
Annoyed, she closed the browser and casually opened the familiar Apple Books app, hoping to find some reference material.
Hmm? An author she followed had just released a new novel.
She followed this author purely because the last book, True Heiress’s Revenge: Evil Supporting Female Lead, was incredibly gripping and immersive.
Although she later realized reality didn’t quite match the fiction.
As for the author’s other novel, My Shameless Life with My Best Friend, she flipped through it and wasn’t interested.
Now the author had started a new one titled
Sister on Top, Elder Sister on Bottom.
Lin Wei raised an eyebrow.
The title was interesting. It seemed to be about sisters? The whole top and bottom relationship…
What kind of relationship was that exactly?
But maybe it could offer some new ideas?
“Taste the highs and lows,”
Lin Wei muttered to herself and didn’t hesitate to click on the first chapter, ready to dive in and learn.