(1)
Tonight’s dinner was An Jing’s favorite East-meets-West style meal.
The main dish was rice, accompanied by fried chicken legs, popcorn chicken, fried pork cutlets, French fries, and mashed potatoes that could be drizzled over the rice.
Yu Minghui only made this meal about once a month, and every time they ate it, An Jing felt like it was a holiday.
What teenager wouldn’t love this delicious, greasy, fragrant, and meaty dish?
She remembered one time in elementary school, she insisted on celebrating her birthday at KFC just to eat this stuff.
The satisfaction of that day still made her feel happy when she thought about it now.
…Back then, her father was still a civil servant in a small city.
However, even though it was such a delicious dinner, the stiff atmosphere made it a bit unappetizing.
Yu Minghui and Yu Mingfei were still in a standoff, sitting face to face but deliberately avoiding each other’s gaze.
“Hmph!”
“Tch!”
Second Sister, as if pouting, picked up a fried chicken leg and took a big bite, as if she were biting into Big Sister’s flesh.
“Wah—! Hey, why is my chicken leg ginger?!”
“Oh, how could that be?”
Big Sister smiled “gently,” “No, it couldn’t be. That’s clearly a chicken leg.”
“Kid, come look, isn’t this ginger?!”
“Xiao Jing, that’s a chicken leg, right?”
Big Sister’s smile made An Jing a little unnerved.
She cleared her throat twice and focused on eating the popcorn chicken on her plate, “I don’t know, I’m eating chicken anyway…”
“Flour-coated fried ginger, how did you even come up with that?! You know I hate ginger the most!”
“What are you saying? That’s clearly meat.”
“Ugh! There’s garlic in this popcorn chicken!!”
“What are you saying? That’s clearly meat.”
“Pfft—! Is this mashed potatoes?!”
“Sorry~ I accidentally put too much peanut butter.”
“Yu—Ming—Hui—!!”
Second Sister yelled, “Believe it or not, tonight I’m going to squeeze out all your shampoo and all your toothpaste to scrub the toilet! I’ll make your teeth ache tomorrow!”
“What’s wrong? Why are you suddenly so angry?”
“Damn it, don’t play dumb!!”
An Jing felt she couldn’t eat in peace anymore.
She covered her head with both hands, feeling her ears were about to go deaf.
She really didn’t know what her two cousins were thinking.
They usually got along so well, why were they fighting so fiercely today?
If only she knew what they were both thinking…
An Jing’s eyes suddenly widened at this thought.
That’s right, she could use her superpower!
Resolving conflicts should count as using it for a good cause, right?
She took a deep breath, quietly gripped the golden meteorite pendant, and silently chanted “telepathy” in her heart.
The argument continued, but the two’s inner thoughts did not enter An Jing’s mind.
“Do you think I can still eat this meal?!”
“Do you think there aren’t enough dishes? Oh dear.”
Big Sister covered her cheek, smiled, and walked into the kitchen, then “bang” she placed a fried fish bone covered in breadcrumbs in front of Second Sister, “Here, eat. It’s fish.”
“Where’s the meat?!”
“I fed it to Xiao Hua downstairs.”
“What, who’s Xiao Hua?!”
“A cute little male cat, actually?”
“I’m eating worse than a cat?!”
“Sorry, you really aren’t as cute as a cat, are you?”
Just as An Jing thought her ability had failed this time, the voices in her mind suddenly became noisy.
She froze for a few seconds, then immediately realized these were their inner thoughts.
Because the two were constantly bickering, it was quite difficult to hear their inner voices clearly.
[“Feifei is much cuter than a cat, she’s my kitty!”]
“Huh? Today I’m going to prove that I’m cuter than a cat!”
[“Wuwuwu, I shouldn’t have gotten angry at Huihui today, but I couldn’t control myself—but Huihui looks so cute even when she’s angry.”]
An Jing twitched her mouth and couldn’t help but murmur, “Huihui looks cute… even when she’s angry?”
Yu Mingfei, who was mid-sentence, suddenly froze and looked at An Jing suspiciously.
But An Jing continued on her own, “Massage Huihui tonight as atonement…?”
Second Sister’s eyes grew wider with every word that came out of her mouth.
But she didn’t stop.
Instead, she looked at Yu Minghui and then recited what she had just thought in her mind, “I really want to hug Feifei and rub her head hard.”
“Eek!?”
“Eh?”
“Cough!”
“You little brat, how did you know I… No, what are you talking nonsense about?!”
“Xiao Jing… learned mind reading?”
Big Sister asked foolishly, then suddenly covered her mouth.
The two cousins immediately looked at each other, the angry expressions on their faces quickly fading, replaced by two blushes.
An Jing scratched her head, thinking it would be great if they could know what each other was thinking.
As soon as this thought popped into her mind, the expressions on the two sisters’ faces suddenly became strange.
“I super love Feifei…”
“I really like Huihui…”
“Eh? Did you just speak?”
They spoke in unison.
“No!”
Then they denied it in unison again.
“You definitely did!”
“You certainly did!”
“No matter what, my feelings for you are definitely deeper!”
“Damn it, you absolutely can’t compare to my feelings for you!”
An Jing stared blankly as her two sisters argued like a couple.
She scratched her head, and the noisy inner thoughts suddenly disappeared.
The two also froze slightly, as if they couldn’t hear anything anymore.
Then, they started loudly arguing again.
This time… they just had to decide who loved the other more, arguing over who was superior in their affection…
Ahhh, isn’t this exactly like a couple!
An Jing felt her head start to ache again, and she suddenly had to pee.
She quickly stood up and ran into the bathroom, almost forgetting that she was a girl now.
She instinctively wanted to stand and pee, but then she panicked and quickly sat down when a little leaked out.
“Feifei, ah—”
“Ah—”
When An Jing came out, Big Sister was gently feeding Second Sister.
And she noticed that the fried chicken leg she hadn’t bitten into had been put into Second Sister’s mouth…
They were so close, as if nothing had happened just moments ago.
And… and they were completely oblivious to their surroundings!
An Jing felt utterly ignored.
“Xiao Jing~”
When Big Sister’s voice rang out, An Jing’s mood instantly brightened. At least she, who had just helped solve a ‘family dispute,’ hadn’t been completely forgotten.
“What is it, Sister Huihui?”
“Can you take your food to the coffee table and eat alone? I’d like to have the entire dining table to myself with Feifei~”
Yu Minghui’s smile, sometimes, was truly terrifying.
***
(2)
[“Yeah, my two cousins have a great relationship. They were just feeding each other, and now they’ve gone to take a bath together…”]
As soon as An Jing sent her message, a “ding-ding-ding” notification sound chimed.
It was Zhu Ying’s reply.
When An Jing went online today, she saw that Zhu Ying had asked a few questions about homework, so she quickly replied.
She didn’t expect the other party to still be online, so the two started chatting casually.
The incident of her two sisters arguing naturally became the perfect topic to introduce.
[“Your two sisters look like a couple,” Zhu Ying sent a winking, tongue-out emoji, as if joking.
“Impossible, I know those two. They’ve had such a good relationship since childhood. I remember they used to bring me along when they bathed together when we were little. It’s probably because they grew up together. Some of my male cousins have a similarly good relationship.”
“I was just kidding.”
“It’s okay. Though sometimes I do feel their relationship is excessively good, it’s definitely not that kind of relationship. Girls just like to do more intimate things, I see the girls in my class do it too.”
“Okay, I’m going to take a bath, bye!”
“Oh, okay.”]
After An Jing sent that reply, the other party never messaged back.
She probably really did go to take a bath, she thought.
She propped her chin on her hand, waiting for her two cousins to finish bathing, and scrolled through her social media feed out of boredom.
Most of the posts were from classmates.
Some liked to post melancholic texts, while others would post trivial daily routines.
Carefree boys like Sun Wei also liked to post jokes, though most of them were a bit suggestive…
Looking through these things calmed her mood and gave her a sense of quiet happiness.
Then… a visually impactful photo caught her eye.
It was a girl with a very good figure, wearing a “sukumizu” (school swimsuit) commonly seen in anime.
White over-the-knee socks were pulled onto her thighs, tightly constricting the slightly plump flesh of her legs.
Looking further up, her slender arms contrasted sharply with “them,” creating a strong sense of contrast.
It was Wang Xinru… her photo.
An Jing couldn’t help but swallow.
Her attention was entirely on the photo, completely unaware that over an hour had passed, and this post still only had one view.
The sound of splashing water came from the bathroom.
An Jing’s body seemed to have a will of its own at this moment.
It wasn’t until she got up, locked the room door, and then sat back down that she suddenly snapped back to reality.
“No! No, I shouldn’t… But, can I?”
She clicked into Wang Xinru’s social media space and saw one “stimulating” photo after another, at least to her.
This made her even more wavering.
If these were online pictures, she wouldn’t have much of a reaction; after all, nothing was exposed here, just less clothing.
But the problem was…
This was her classmate.
Who wore long sleeves and long pants every day, covering herself completely.
And she was also a very shy girl.
That strong sense of contrast immediately overwhelmed her.
“What should a girl… do?”
Sweat slowly dripped down her forehead.
The evil thoughts finally triumphed over reason.
She used to hear people joke or often see it somewhere that men’s pleasure was less than one-tenth of a woman’s.
She was a bit skeptical of this, even thinking it wasn’t scientific at all.
But today… she experienced it.
That feeling was like an electric shock, but without getting hurt.
An Jing didn’t notice that the meteorite pendant on her neck began to flicker with a faint light.
The light was intermittent, and the golden part was slowly fading, being covered by blue again.
Immersed in her pleasure, she was completely unaware of the enormous crisis that was about to unfold…
Oh. She has… fallen. 😔