Seeing the interaction between these two sisters, Ye Xinglan struggled to hold back her laughter.
The little bit of nervousness she’d felt about going home with her girlfriend and meeting the parents had completely vanished, replaced by a faint sense of schadenfreude.
Who told someone to love putting on a facade so much that she even kept it from her own sister and girlfriend?
At the dinner table, Xiaoxi was thrown off by Xiao Keke’s reaction.
“No, seriously, what are you doing? Spit my little sister out! That’s not how my sis acts! How could you just say ‘thank you’? You’re supposed to roll your eyes at me first when I put food on your plate, then mutter something like ‘Mind your own business’!”
Well, to be fair, the old Keke might have done that.
In the last couple of years, she’d probably felt sorry for how hard her sister had been working, so her attitude toward her sister had improved—but it definitely hadn’t been to the point of being this… respectful and restrained!
Xiao Keke was unusually quiet during dinner. Last time she came home, she’d still been teasing her older sister about her job, but today, after just a few bites, she dropped an “I’m full” and fled to her own room.
“Hey? You barely ate anything… Keke?”
“It’s fine, Xiaoxi. Your sister might not have an appetite today. Just let her be.”
Xiaoxi said, “Oh,” and didn’t press further, though she felt the atmosphere at home was weird today.
During the meal, Xiaoxi and Su Yuening tacitly avoided any mention of their tied identities.
It wasn’t until Xiaoxi was almost done eating that Su Yuening spoke up.
“Xiaoxi, your sister said she wanted to tidy up her room today. Go help her out. Xinglan and I can talk on the other floor for a bit.”
When Su Yuening looked at Xiaoxi and winked, the cheerful Ye Xinglan suddenly stopped smiling.
This was the so-called parent evaluation round, wasn’t it!
“Mom, don’t bother,” Ye Xinglan said eagerly as she stood up and began clearing the dishes. “I’ll clean up!”
…
“Keke, what are you doing?”
“S-Sis, don’t come in yet!”
Xiaoxi knocked on the door. Xiao Keke’s room door wasn’t locked, and from inside came the sound of rustling.
Curious, Xiaoxi pushed the door open just a crack, but a huge resistance came from the other side, and it slammed shut with a “bang.”
Xiao Keke’s face was bright red as she pressed her back against the door.
It wasn’t like she was doing anything shameful in the room… but letting her sister in right now felt way too embarrassing!
Because Xiao Keke’s room was always full of [Eternal Star] elements.
The cabinets were packed with Eternal Star merchandise, and the walls were plastered with Eternal Star posters… Before, she hadn’t wanted her sister to come in because every time her older sister did, she’d wear that “holding a phone in utter disbelief” expression. But now…
It was so awkward!
Just thinking that her sister was Eternal Star, and then looking around at her room stuffed full of Eternal Star merch and posters, Xiao Keke wished she could just close her eyes and log out of Earth.
She didn’t even dare imagine what her sister used to think when she came into her room!
No way, no way. She absolutely couldn’t let her sister in right now.
But actually, her sister had always known what her room looked like.
Doing this was just covering her ears while stealing a bell, and it wasn’t even polite from a normal perspective… Wait no, her sister was actually the senior she admired! So what “politeness” was there to talk about?
After wrestling with herself for a while, Xiao Keke finally forced the door open just enough for one person to squeeze through.
As soon as Xiaoxi poked her head in, she couldn’t help but let out a “Ha.”
The cabinet that used to display her figures was now empty.
All the Eternal Star merchandise had been packed into a big box.
On the wall, some posters had been half-pulled down, revealing the leftover tape marks beneath.
Seeing her older sister looking over her room, Xiao Keke wished she could crawl into a crack in the floor.
She couldn’t help remembering how she used to argue with her sister here over [Eternal Star].
Back then, she’d always say, “You don’t even know what kind of person Eternal Star is, so how can you talk about her like that!”
Now it seemed her sister really might understand Eternal Star better than she did. Haha…
And when she thought about it carefully, weren’t all those times her sister had spoken badly of Eternal Star just insults directed at herself?
Things like, “Eternal Star is probably just some ordinary lazy little person,” or “Eternal Star isn’t actually that great.”
…Huh, looked like her sister had actually been telling the truth? It wasn’t slandering Eternal Star at all… No no no! How could she think like that about Senior Eternal Star!
Xiao Keke felt like she was a catgirl who had triggered a code conflict.
Whenever she thought of “older sister” and “Eternal Star” at the same time, her left brain and right brain would start fighting each other.
Xiaoxi plopped down on the bed and spoke with a smile. “What’s wrong? Finally disillusioned with Eternal Star?”
Xiaoxi had meant to joke around and lighten the mood, but unexpectedly her younger sister straightened up and began stammering an explanation.
“I-I didn’t mean that! Sis… Senior… Sis…”
Xiao Keke felt like crying. If this kept up, she really would become code conflict!!!
“I just haven’t gotten used to it yet. I can’t really face these things for now, so I wanted to put them away… Senior.”
Xiaoxi: “???”
Xiao Keke lowered her head slightly. After a moment, she chose the more respectful title, but that line made Xiaoxi feel terrible.
“No, snap out of it! What are you doing? Have we been separated by a heartbreaking thick barrier already?!”
Although Xiaoxi had always known that her younger sister really liked Eternal Star, she’d never expected it to affect her this much… to the point where her sister wouldn’t even insult her like she used to!
Xiaoxi hadn’t given this much thought before, mainly because she didn’t want to attribute the Eternal Star that Xiao Keke loved to herself.
It was a bit awkward that her own sister admired her so much.
Now, Xiaoxi didn’t know what to say. But after a few seconds, it was Xiao Keke who broke the silence first.
“S-So, Sis, before, when you always told me not to buy Eternal Star merchandise, was it because you yourself are…”
Xiao Keke still couldn’t bring herself to say the words [Eternal Star]. Xiaoxi coughed lightly and looked away a little.
“Well, that was the main reason most of the time, but it wasn’t always the case.”
As she spoke, Xiaoxi crouched down and rummaged through the big box on the floor.
“Like when you were trying to buy an Eternal Star autograph on a secondhand platform. I strongly talked you out of it, not just because you’d be wasting money… but because that autograph was fake.”
Xiao Keke: “???”
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