The instant Yue heard the girl’s startled voice, unease surged up in her heart like a tide.
She quickly reached down to feel both of her feet.
Left foot, mm, slippery. The texture really was nice.
Right foot, mm, soft. The texture was first-rate too.
Of course none of that was the point. The point was—
Where are my slippers?
I didn’t leave the slippers outside, did I?
Oh shit…
Shua-zhi—
The wardrobe was pulled open. A beautiful figure in a plain cyan short dress appeared before Yue’s eyes together with the dazzling light.
She looked at the floor outside first thing. Sure enough, two men’s slide slippers were lying belly-up in a sprawl on the rug in front of the wardrobe.
Good grief…
Even while diving into the wardrobe she had not forgotten to kick twice and take off her shoes. What quality… like hell!
And so she had been found, just like that, fresh and dripping!
Yue mechanically lifted her head. From the pair of gemstone-like black eyes of the girl in front of her, she read surprise, astonishment, suspicion, fright, and a whole host of other extremely rich emotions.
Oh heavens, was there a worse situation than this?
But it was not as if there was no chance.
A so-called standoff formed because both sides were unclear about the other’s true strength and thus fell into a deadlock. At such a time, to seize the initiative, one had to strike first!
So Yue spoke right away:
“I have the college entrance exam today!”
“Uh… good luck on the exam… wait?”
In that one second while Lin Lianxue was stunned.
Yue had already slid down out of the wardrobe, grabbed the messenger bag, slipped past Lin Lianxue’s legs hugging the floor, and took off at a dead run.
She burst out of the bedroom. The stairwell appeared before her eyes very quickly. As if she had seen the first light of hope, she immediately picked up speed.
What she had not expected was that this short half-meter distance would take her several full seconds of running without arriving.
The pressure against chest and abdomen…
The floating feeling of both feet leaving the ground…
Good grief. Yue had not expected that she too would have a day of being lifted one-handed… and that the other party would be the little sister five years younger than her…
Yue struggled with all her might, yet could not shake off those demonic claws pinching her hood in the slightest.
Like a kitten whose scruff had been grabbed by its owner after making trouble, she could only settle down in the end and obediently admit fault.
A truly enormous humiliation!
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“My name is Yue. Just now I was caught on the spot by my little sister while transforming anywhere I pleased at home, and at this moment I am being carried one-handed by her toward that dim little room.”
“Let go of me! Let go! Eek… eep…”
The symbolic struggling had little effect.
Instead, the childish timbre falling into Lin Lianxue’s ears made her already somewhat unpredictable expression even worse.
After that, Yue was tossed onto the bed by her silent little sister.
The bed was soft, and she had controlled her strength, so Yue’s currently delicate body was not harmed.
But the spirit was, and it was a heavy blow!
Moreover, as if afraid Yue would pull some other little trick, Lin Lianxue actually produced a pair of pink ankle cuffs from who knew where and put them on her without a word.
That was not the end. Next she even pulled off her own over-knee socks, twisted Yue’s hands behind her back, and tied a just-right cuff knot.
The knot was loose and would not cut into Yue.
But there was also no chance of breaking free, because this kind of knot only bound tighter the more one struggled.
Yue was sensible enough not to make any more pointless resistance.
Feeling the lingering warmth of a young girl on the over-knee socks wrapped around her wrists, Yue’s inner heart did not ripple in the slightest. She even wanted to yell a damn.
Oh, my stupid imouto, where on earth did you even get these baffling, obviously improper pink ankle cuffs?!
Getting them is one thing, but what the hell are you doing carrying this kind of thing around on your person!
And using your own over-knee socks to tie someone up is a bit too bold, don’t you think!
Yue lowered her head and could not help sinking into thought…
As expected… after staying with people like the adoptive father and mother, she changed in the end, huh…
Lin Lianxue reached a hand toward Yue’s face.
The next instant.
Yue felt a pull at her forehead that was not polite in the least, but that force gradually gentled afterward.
The light was a little dazzling.
Yue guessed that her cute appearance exposed under the lamp had stirred her little sister’s pity, which was why she had lightened her strength.
Yue slowly lifted her head and found Lin Lianxue staring at her face with both eyes shining…
As expected, has this face already reached the realm of appealing to both men and women?
The present situation was very ungood…
Yue felt there seemed to be something wrong with her ability…
The total amount of luck was clearly already high enough to maintain the [Strong Luck] state. The effect should have been that whatever she wished would come true. Yet when it came to her little sister, she kept eating loss after loss.
Just about to leave, and the little sister arrived.
Wanting to hide, and the slippers fell off.
The little sister wanted to look, and found her in one go.
Just wanting to run, and she was caught in one grab.
She had even brought a pair of ankle cuffs for some marvelous reason, and they actually got used!
These events that ran contrary to Yue’s [Strong Luck] state were a bit too coincidental and too concentrated!
Don’t tell me Lady Luck thinks this is a good thing for her?!
It shouldn’t… be that, right?
Just as Yue raised her head to carefully observe Lin Lianxue’s expression, the other girl went pa and snatched the messenger bag Yue had set aside, then pulled the zipper with a sssla and began rummaging inside.
Very quickly, she found something that could represent her big brother’s identity—that silver bank card.
…Just kidding. There was also the ID card.
But she did not stop there. She kept searching for a long time.
Yue guessed the other thing she was still looking for was also a bank card, only… a gold one.
In the end, of course, she did not find it. That one million was still lying on the lawn outside the house.
“Little girl.”
Lin Lianxue raised the silver card and smiled as she showed it to Yue. In her gentle tone there was a trace of excitement and anger that was hard to hide. “Where is the big brother who brought you here? The guy who gave you this card that shines on your body.”
“He…”
“Did he do anything strange to you?”
“? He…”
“Did he touch your body?”
“?? I…”
“Did he do intense exercise naked in front of you?”
“…???”
“It’s all right, don’t be afraid. Big Sister is not a bad person. Tell Big Sister everything. No matter what happened, Big Sister will protect you! All right, now tell Big Sister, where is that big brother hiding?”
“…”
You… you damn…
Trying to fool a child here?
If you’re going to ask questions, ask them properly!
The result was that Yue could not get a word in at all and was then blasted inside-out crispy by this lion-like language system.
…And that was not even the most depressing part. The most depressing part was—
She really had been misunderstood as the perverted big brother who had abducted a cute little loli, hidden a beauty in a golden house, and played alphabet games!
And looking at her little sister’s posture, if this was not explained clearly, she definitely would not let it go.
She was not good at lying at all…
But if it was her little sister, she should help keep the secret…
Yue and Lin Lianxue looked at each other for a long time. After a great deal of mental preparation, she finally gathered her courage and confessed with a serious face:
“Actually…”
“I am your big brother.”
Looking at the childish little face of Yue, and at the serious, earnest expression that completely did not match that age, the little sister let out a puff of laughter, then said softly in that doting tone:
“Mm, if you’re my big brother, then I’m your dad~”
“??”
…Truly, in the instant she heard that answer clearly, Yue’s whole person was not well.
But after tidying up her helpless mood, she still put on a serious expression again:
“I really am your big brother!”
“I really am your dad~”
“I am being very serious!”
“I am being very earnest too~”
“……??”
What the hell is wrong with you?!