Xiao Ke remembered it very clearly.
Back during the special training, she’d suffered plenty under the hands of her most respected senior, [Eternal Star].
Back then, she’d been spun around like a top, and after going home, she’d still encourage herself, saying Senior [Eternal Star] was just strict, and that if she persisted, she’d surely satisfy her!
And now you’re telling me there was no special training at all back then, and you just wanted to put pressure on me to make me miserable?
This felt like finding a dom, only to realize after two or three days that she didn’t know how to discipline at all—she just had an itch to hit people.
Yeah, Xiao Ke could only say her fists were more than ready.
“Oh right, Sis, what about those supplements? I remember you said you used them during your own special training… but didn’t you just say you barely trained?”
“Uh, this, that… um, can we make peace, my dear little sister?”
Xiao Ke didn’t reply. She just kept smiling as she stepped toward Xiaoxi, one step at a time, until she backed Xiaoxi into a corner.
For the first time, Xiaoxi realized Xiao Ke was truly Su Yuening’s biological daughter—that same smiling expression when angry was just identical!
“Don’t, don’t! I was wrong, okay? You really have the heart to hit your dear big sister? Come on, my good little sister?”
“Interesting. You’re even calling me little sister just to save your life?”
Xiaoxi tried to awaken Xiao Ke’s familial feelings by using the transformation—but it was too late.
Xiao Ke was already prepared to have a rousing session of Loving Sister TV.
“Gah! No! Didn’t you say [Eternal Star] was your idol… Who has the heart to go all out on their own idol!”
“You dare say that! Die, you jerk of a sister!”
…
Meanwhile, Ye Xinglan was sitting on the balcony with Su Yuening, drinking tea.
The various potted flowers blooming vigorously on the balcony showed that Su Yuening was someone with great taste in life.
“Xinglan, you and our Xiao Xi have progressed so quickly. Have you thought about when you might take the next step?”
“Huh? Mom, this… this is too early, right?”
Ye Xinglan’s face instantly turned red. She thought she was about to face a family review, but Su Yuening was actually here to push for marriage!
“It’s not that early either. Back in the day, your mother and I…”
“Mom, save me—!”
Before Su Yuening could finish, someone’s cry for help interrupted her. But soon, she was dragged back into the room by Xiao Ke.
Ye Xinglan glanced toward Xiao Ke’s room and could faintly hear sound effects like Tom the cat coming from inside… Was Xiaoxi really okay?
“Don’t worry,” Su Yuening said, still smiling. “My two have been close since they were little. It’s normal for them to roughhouse a bit.”
This… this is really just roughhousing? It feels like she’s about to get beaten to a pulp!
Ye Xinglan secretly observed Su Yuening’s expression.
Come to think of it, Su Yuening probably didn’t know what was going on between Xiaoxi and Keke, right?
If Su Yuening knew both her daughters were magical girls, maybe she wouldn’t be this calm.
When they got home, Ye Xinglan went to knock on the door.
Xiaoxi opened it, leaning against the wall, forcing a weak smile at Ye Xinglan.
Behind her, Xiao Ke stood with her arms crossed, looking utterly furious.
“You…”
“It’s nothing, nothing. I just tripped while helping Keke tidy her room. We should be heading home, right… Oh, right! Wait a moment!”
Xiaoxi jogged back inside, and before the other two could react, she picked out a piece of colored paper from inside.
She grabbed a fluorescent marker from the pen holder, signed her name, and shoved it into Xiao Ke’s hand.
Xiaoxi’s entire process was smooth and suave—though it didn’t quite match her bruised and swollen face.
“Huh?”
“I should’ve just signed two cheap ones and sold them to you back then. At least then you wouldn’t have gotten a fake signature… and I could’ve saved up more pocket money.”
It wasn’t until the two had said goodbye to Su Yuening and left that Xiao Ke realized what had happened.
She stared at the signature in her hand—the ink still wet.
If this were before, getting [Eternal Star]’s autograph in person would’ve made her ecstatic, right? But now… it wasn’t that she wasn’t happy, but there was a strange feeling in her heart.
After finding out her sister was [Eternal Star], she couldn’t look at her idol the same way anymore…
For example, she’d always thought [Eternal Star]’s handwriting was elegant and delicate.
Now looking at it again, she felt her sister’s handwriting was still the same childish scrawl as always.
This was probably what they called disenchantment after the filter shattered, right?
Xiao Ke stared at the signature with a complicated heart for a long time, then finally sighed.
Instead of putting it away in a box, she tucked it into her clothes, intending to take it home and have it framed.
Forget it. Sis is just Sis. Of course, she would still love [Eternal Star]… but that didn’t mean she’d go easy on that jerk of a sister!
——
On the way home, Ye Xinglan felt a little sorry for Xiaoxi and touched her face.
“How about we take a detour and buy some band-aids?”
“No need. Keke didn’t hit that hard. Even if I leave it alone, this little injury won’t be a problem.”
Ye Xinglan, of course, knew this kind of thing was nothing to Xiaoxi.
In fact, if Xiaoxi really didn’t want to get hurt, there was no way Xiao Ke could break through her defense.
Xiaoxi had done it on purpose. She hadn’t put up any guard to let her little sister vent her anger.
Ye Xinglan originally wanted to mock Xiaoxi for it, but seeing her girlfriend look so pathetic, she couldn’t bring herself to say anything.
On the subway, Ye Xinglan brushed aside the stray hair on Xiaoxi’s forehead to check.
Their faces were very close, and Xiaoxi could see the worry in Ye Xinglan’s eyes.
“Hey, Xinglan—” Xiaoxi couldn’t help but speak up. “Don’t you… have any other thoughts about me being [Eternal Star]? Your reaction was nowhere near as… intense as Keke’s.”
Ye Xinglan raised an eyebrow. “So you think my reaction from the past two days wasn’t intense enough?”
“Cough, that’s not what I meant!”
Xiaoxi blushed slightly. Of course, she knew how intense Ye Xinglan had been the past two days, but that wasn’t what she was referring to!
After all, when Xiao Ke found out she was [Eternal Star], she couldn’t even speak at the dinner table.
That was when Xiaoxi realized how much this affected the people around her.
Logically, Ye Xinglan, the Blood Moon Witch, should’ve reacted even more strongly than Keke, right? But now…
Xiaoxi looked down at the hand intertwined with Ye Xinglan’s.
The rich girl had indeed been very intense the past two days… physically intense.
But today, in everyday life, she could still act like nothing was wrong and hold her hand as usual, as if the person who used to yell every day about wanting to kill [Eternal Star] wasn’t her.
“Of course I have other thoughts now that I know you’re [Eternal Star],” Ye Xinglan blinked. “I want to beat you to… mmmph!”
Xiaoxi blushed and quickly covered Ye Xinglan’s mouth. “Don’t say things like that in public!”