It was another new day.
During the break, Ye Xingmian lay drowsily on her desk. Even after transferring to a different class, her “little transparent” attribute remained unchanged.
If anything, because she had just transferred, she was a stranger to most of the students here, so even fewer people came to recognize her.
She had gotten used to this solitude. During breaks, she either worked on her exercise books or slept. Recently, she had been very happy. She no longer had to toil over housework until late at night or be hit and scolded for no reason.
Although she still had to take supplementary lessons at night, since that night, Liu Yinuo often came to sleep in her room. The feeling of having someone to accompany her at night was really nice. It was very warm… Moreover, Liu Yinuo didn’t touch her like Lin Ziyan and Qin Haiyue did, and she never hit her.
She just stayed by her side, and when she felt sad or had nightmares, she could get a comforting hug from Liu Yinuo.
In other words, sometimes she even wished Liu Yinuo would touch her… Wouldn’t that mean Liu Yinuo cared more about her? Or even liked her a little?
After all, she had become desensitized to the act of just sleeping together. Qin Haiyue wanted her to sleep with her, Lin Ziyan wanted her to sleep with her.
She was like a body pillow, simply a bed partner, not daring to move an inch. Naturally, she thought that Liu Yinuo also wanted her to play that same role.
Ahh… She stretched and looked out at the rare blue sky. She felt like the weather hadn’t been this nice in a long time.
“Um… Student Ye.”
Suddenly, someone called her name from beside her.
She was startled and turned around hesitantly.
The person who came was an unfamiliar female classmate.
“Is there something you need?”
That female classmate pointed outside and replied, “Someone outside is looking for you. She said she’s your sister.”
“Huh?”
Claiming to be her sister could only mean one thing. Lin Ziyan? But… what did Lin Ziyan want with her? She couldn’t figure it out and felt something was off. Liu Yinuo had gone to the restroom, so she was alone for now.
“Aren’t you going to see her?”
The girl in front of her put on a puzzled expression.
Ye Xingmian shook her head. “No, please let me think. You go ahead.”
“Mm-hmm.”
The other person left directly.
Ye Xingmian thought for a moment. ‘What could Lin Ziyan want with me? Could it be to apologize for what she did that day?’ Though it seemed incredible, based on her impression of Lin Ziyan in the last few days, it really seemed like something she would do.
‘If I just leave her hanging like that, she’ll feel bad, right?’ Remembering the scene where Lin Ziyan had tried her best to protect her in front of her foster parents, Ye Xingmian decided to go check. Even though the incident itself had been caused by Lin Ziyan.
With that thought, she stood up and saw Lin Ziyan standing by the corridor railing, lost in thought.
In just a few days without seeing her, Ye Xingmian suddenly felt Lin Ziyan had changed a lot. Her hair looked a bit messy, and her eyes were slightly swollen, as if she hadn’t slept well in a long time. Her whole aura was vastly different from before, carrying an inexplicable dejection.
“Zi Yan?”
Ye Xingmian asked tentatively, one hand carefully guarding her chest.
For some reason, seeing Lin Ziyan like this made her feel an inexplicable pang of pity. But she knew she shouldn’t feel sorry for her, since it was the other’s own doing.
She was the victim after all. But perhaps because they had grown up together, seeing her like this still left a bitter taste in Ye Xingmian’s mouth.
Lin Ziyan saw her and forced a fake smile.
“My big sister, you came?”
The tone of her words was very stiff, and Ye Xingmian inexplicably felt a chill.
“I… I’m not your sister…”
“It doesn’t matter. I think you’re my sister, so you are my sister.”
Lin Ziyan suddenly leaned in. Being half a head taller, she made Ye Xingmian instinctively take half a step back.
Ye Xingmian felt she might have been wrong. Lin Ziyan didn’t seem to have come to apologize.
In Ye Xingmian’s memory, Lin Ziyan had always been proud, like a white swan, always holding her head high—at least in front of Ye Xingmian. But now Lin Ziyan had changed, become strange, completely unlike herself.
“What are you doing…”
She was a little uneasy, but thinking that there were still so many people around, and that if anything went wrong she could shout, she gave up the idea of running away.
“I say, big sister, when are you coming home? I’ve missed you so much these days, it makes my heart itch. I really want to hug you, put you in my bed, and then continue what I didn’t finish that day. I want to hear your gasps, hear your moans, tie your wrists to the headboard, and make you submit beneath me.”
The expression on Ye Xingmian’s face instantly froze.
“You… you… what are you saying? That… what happened that day… don’t you have any remorse at all?”
“Remorse? What remorse? Big sister, I love you. Love never needs remorse; it just needs to be expressed and shown through actions.”
Lin Ziyan suddenly grabbed Ye Xingmian’s hand.
Ye Xingmian tried to struggle, but couldn’t break free.
Instantly, goosebumps rose all over Ye Xingmian’s body. She never imagined that meeting Lin Ziyan again would turn into this situation. ‘Has she been stimulated by something?’
“Zi… Zi Yan… you… calm down… there are a lot of people here… you… haven’t you been resting well lately? That’s why you’re saying such nonsense.”
“If you don’t want to be with me, then why haven’t you left yet? After all, you shouldn’t have come out to see me anymore, right?”
“No… I’m very clear-headed. Big sister, do you hate me?”
Lin Ziyan seemed to have something hidden in her words.
“What do you mean…”
Ye Xingmian was slightly stunned. She felt Lin Ziyan had an ulterior meaning.
“I mean, this might be the last chance. Don’t meet me anymore, just stay with Liu Yinuo. Otherwise, I might lose control at any moment and drag you home by force. Do you understand?”
Lin Ziyan suddenly yanked.
Ye Xingmian barely reacted in time. She grabbed the railing tightly, preventing herself from being pulled into Lin Ziyan’s arms. The winter iron railing was freezing cold, but Ye Xingmian didn’t dare let go.
She looked up in shock at Lin Ziyan’s expression, only to see that those eyes held not the same infatuation and obsession as her words, but were instead filled with pain and some kind of insincerity.
“Still not leaving?”
Lin Ziyan asked again.
She knew this was the last thing she could do.
“I…”
Just as Ye Xingmian was about to say something, she saw someone suddenly appear behind Lin Ziyan.
And… it was someone she never wanted to see again.
Qin Haiyue…
What was she doing with Lin Ziyan?
The scene before her made Ye Xingmian’s mind short-circuit.
Qin Haiyue looked displeased, frowning at Lin Ziyan. “What took you so long?”
Lin Ziyan silently lowered her head.
“Alright, stop dawdling. Heh, we meet again. You’ve been good at hiding these past few days. You didn’t think that just by changing classes, I wouldn’t be able to find you?”
At some point, Lin Ziyan had already let go of Ye Xingmian’s hand.
But Ye Xingmian didn’t notice.
She was only instinctively, fearfully backing away.
“Don’t come near…”
“Don’t come near!”