In the afternoon, Feng Ling was still holed up in the living room playing games.
After all, for her, games were king!
Her Switch had several new games, all bought by Ling Yue a few days ago.
Among them was a horror game about a person trapped in a haunted house who needed to find a way to escape.
‘So… this hits a little too close to home…’
Feng Ling muttered to herself.
Of course, the game’s protagonist had it way worse than her.
At least her “haunted house” had a game console, delicious food, and a beautiful big sister keeping her company… even if that big sister could go dark and kill her at any moment, she was still pretty nice to her most of the time.
‘Guess that’s what they call “high risk, high return.”‘
“Hey, Xiao Fengling, what are you playing?”
Ling Yue asked softly.
“A horror game, the one you bought last time.”
“Oh, that one… Is it fun?”
“It’s okay, just a little scary.”
“If you’re scared, you can ask your sister to keep you company~”
“I’m not scared! I only said it’s a little scary, not that I’m scared!”
Feng Ling waved her arms in protest.
But no sooner had she spoken than a ghost face suddenly popped up on the screen, making Feng Ling flinch backward.
Ling Yue just smiled as she watched her behavior.
“…Okay, maybe I am a little scared…”
Feng Ling admitted quietly.
“Then come here and let your sister give you a hug.”
Ling Yue immediately pulled her into her arms and let Feng Ling lean against her chest.
Feng Ling’s head rested against Ling Yue’s collarbone, and she could feel the slight rise and fall of her chest… but the most thrilling part was definitely those two lumps of evil… which made her little face flush red again.
“Not scared now, right?” Ling Yue asked with a laugh.
“…Mm.”
So the two of them stayed curled up on the sofa playing games for a while.
Most of the time Feng Ling played while Ling Yue watched.
Whenever Feng Ling got startled, Ling Yue would reach over to rub her hair or pat her shoulder.
Then, suddenly, Ling Yue spoke up.
“Come to think of it, Xiao Fengling… You’ve been especially well behaved today~”
“Have I?”
“Yes, before, when I hugged you, you would at least struggle a little for show. Today you didn’t even bother.”
“Because struggling doesn’t work anyway.”
Feng Ling pressed the pause button and replied.
After a moment of thought, she added, “And Sister Ling Yue’s hugs are actually pretty comfortable.”
“Oh? So Xiao Fengling finally admits she likes being hugged by her sister?”
“I didn’t say I liked it!”
“But you just said ‘comfortable’~”
“Comfortable doesn’t equal like!”
“Then what does comfortable mean?”
Ling Yue turned her around to face her as she spoke.
“Come on, look me in the eye and say ‘I don’t like being hugged by Sister Ling Yue’… Say it, I’m listening~”
She still wore that same smiling expression.
“…”
“Can’t say it, can you? Because Xiao Fengling obviously likes it very much.”
Feng Ling’s face turned even redder.
She opened her mouth several times, but she just couldn’t say the words “I don’t like it.”
Because that would have been a lie…
Ling Yue’s body temperature was a bit low, but being held by her always gave Feng Ling a very reassuring feeling.
“Forget it, forget it, I’m not going to argue with you about this!”
Feng Ling picked up the controller again and shifted her focus back to the game.
Seeing this, Ling Yue let out a soft laugh and rested her chin on top of Feng Ling’s head.
This posture brought them way too close.
Feng Ling could smell the faint fragrance on Ling Yue…
Before, smelling it only made her feel at ease, but now… a strange surge stirred deep in her body, but she had no idea what it meant.
“Xiao Fengling, your heart is beating faster~”
Ling Yue said with a smile.
“…I know.”
Feng Ling answered through gritted teeth.
“Want your sister to help slow it down?”
Ling Yue’s hand slid down from her shoulder and stopped above her chest.
“How would you slow it down?”
“Just let the blood flow out… when the blood flows slower, the heartbeat slows down.”
What kind of perverted physical logic is that?!
You mean stab my heart and let all the blood drain out, so naturally the heartbeat will slow down, right?!
“No thanks, Sister Ling Yue, I’ll adjust myself…”
As she spoke, Feng Ling pushed away Ling Yue’s evil hand, though not too hard, mainly because she was really afraid of Ling Yue going dark.
“Fine.”
Luckily, Ling Yue didn’t insist.
Feng Ling took a few deep breaths… trying to get her heartbeat back to normal… but Ling Yue’s chin was still resting on her head, her breath lingered around Feng Ling’s nose, and her body was pressed against her back.
Trying to slow down her heartbeat in this situation… was probably about as hard as getting Ling Yue to let her go out… basically impossible.
…
“What’s this?”
During dinner, Feng Ling pointed at the dark red lump in her cup and asked.
“It’s blood tofu made from blood and some coagulant. The texture is a bit like human tofu, but softer… Oh, and this isn’t the same as human-style blood tofu~”
Ling Yue explained softly.
Feng Ling poked the blood tofu with her spoon.
Mm… the surface was very smooth, and it bounced back slightly when pressed.
So she scooped up a spoonful and put it in her mouth.
The next moment, her eyes went wide.
“Delicious! So good, so good, so good, so good!”
After her quadruple compliment, Feng Ling quickly covered her mouth, her cheeks puffed up like a pufferfish.
Only after swallowing did she continue, eyes sparkling with praise.
“This is really, really delicious! Even better than blood jelly! A hundred times better than the blood tofu I’ve had before… no! Ten thousand… a hundred million times better!”
“Really? Then eat more. Here, have this cup too.”
Ling Yue pushed her own cup of blood over.
“What will Sister Ling Yue drink?” Feng Ling asked.
“I’ll pour myself another later.”
With that, Ling Yue rested her chin on her hand and watched Feng Ling eat with a satisfied expression.
Feng Ling didn’t stand on ceremony at all.
She devoured all the blood tofu, then licked the spoon with lingering satisfaction and said with a laugh, “Hey hey, Sister Ling Yue, you’ve been making so many new dishes lately~”
“Because Xiao Fengling can only drink blood now. I was afraid you’d get sick of it~ so I’ve been researching new ways to prepare it… Tomorrow I’m planning to make some blood pudding, and the day after, I’ll try blood dumplings.”
“Blood dumplings? What the heck is that? How do you even make them?”
“Use congealed blood as the filling, then wrap it in a dough made from flour and blood mixed together… For seasoning, I can add some special spices from our blood clan. I hear it has a unique flavor.”
“Sister Ling Yue, you’re practically a Michelin chef in the blood cuisine world!”
Feng Ling exclaimed in admiration.
“For Xiao Fengling, your sister can learn anything~”
“Then can you learn how to let me go out?”
The moment those words left her mouth, even Feng Ling froze.
She had only meant it as a joke, following the conversation… but she realized halfway through how sensitive this topic was for Ling Yue.
The air went silent for about five seconds.
“Xiao Fengling… you still want to go out?”
Ling Yue’s voice was still very gentle, but Feng Ling could sense a subtle change in it.
“No, no! I was joking, just joking! I was just riffing on the topic! I don’t actually want to go out! Not at all!”
Feng Ling looked at Ling Yue with the firmest, sincerest eyes she could muster, waving her hands frantically.
Ling Yue stared at her for ten seconds before finally smiling.
“Okay, your sister believes you… after all, Xiao Fengling has been so well behaved lately… You wouldn’t lie, would you?”
“Yes, yes, yes! Absolutely not, absolutely not!”
After saying that, Feng Ling quickly lowered her head and wolfed down her “rice”… well, it wasn’t rice; she was devouring the blood scrambled eggs Ling Yue had prepared for her.
Mm… even though the name sounded like dark cuisine, it actually tasted pretty good… though there wasn’t any egg in it.
After that little incident, Feng Ling decided to strictly watch her mouth for the next few days.
She absolutely would not bring up anything related to “going out” again.
Otherwise, once Ling Yue went dark, she would be dead for sure!
Besides, she had already made up her mind.
She wasn’t leaving this place!
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