Thanks to Xia Mo’s thoughtful and understanding initiative, Luo Shuangxing ultimately won the right to spend the night with Luo Shuangyue.
So as not to disturb the two sisters, Xia Mo even kindly chose to return to her own Dormitory to sleep, leaving the room to the two Luo Family sisters.
At this moment, Luo Shuangyue was really wishing Xia Mo’s possessiveness could be a bit stronger—wouldn’t it be nice if she treated Luo Shuangxing as a love rival, too?
Look, Luo Shuangxing is a girl, right? Luo Shuangxing has feelings for me, right? If you round it up, Luo Shuangxing is definitely your competitor!
But why is Xia Mo always so tolerant towards Luo Shuangxing? Does she really think there won’t be any sparks between these two sisters?
…Fine, there really aren’t any sparks.
Feelings are something both parties must work for. If one is dead set against it, then nothing will develop. And that’s exactly the case with Luo Shuangyue and Luo Shuangxing.
Xia Mo trusts Luo Shuangyue—she believes Luo Shuangyue isn’t the sort of person who’d lay a hand on her own younger Sister, and she also believes Luo Shuangxing wouldn’t cross that line with her own elder Sister.
Between herself and Luo Shuangyue, it’s romantic love. Between Luo Shuangxing and Luo Shuangyue, it’s familial love.
The two are on completely different tracks, and Xia Mo knows clearly that nothing she does can shake Luo Shuangxing’s position in Luo Shuangyue’s heart.
After all, Luo Shuangxing is the only family Luo Shuangyue has in this world, and she’s been by her side the longest.
Xia Mo is the outsider among those who arrived with ill intentions.
So, when Luo Shuangxing occasionally snatches Luo Shuangyue away, Xia Mo doesn’t really mind—it’s just a younger sister wanting to act spoiled with her elder Sister, that’s all.
But Luo Shuangyue doesn’t see it that way!
When Luo Shuangxing slipped into her bed and hugged her tightly, Luo Shuangyue’s body instantly stiffened.
She was sharing a bed with her younger sister—this was a first!
And aside from Xia Mo, it was also the first time she’d ever been in such close contact with another girl.
“You seem really nervous.” Hugging Luo Shuangyue’s slightly cool arm, Luo Shuangxing whispered.
Her voice was like a wind chime trembling in the breeze, like a feather gently tickling Luo Shuangyue’s heart, making her even more nervous.
Instinct told her something was off.
“Anyone would be nervous sleeping in the same bed with someone who just wanted to bite them to death not long ago.”
“Tch, so clueless.” Luo Shuangxing didn’t do anything excessive, merely shifted her body closer to Luo Shuangyue, making their bodies press even tighter together.
Her head rested against Luo Shuangyue’s neck, and her warm breath fell on Luo Shuangyue’s fair, delicate skin, leaving traces of blush.
Though she didn’t take things any further, even this degree of closeness made Luo Shuangyue a bit uneasy.
It felt dangerous—she really didn’t know how girls were supposed to interact at this distance, and wondered if this was over the line.
But her instincts were quietly warning her: this was the limit.
One more step, and it would be an endless abyss.
[Right now, Luo Shuangxing was dancing right on the edge of that abyss!]
“You know, you smell really nice—almost the same as my Brother.”
“Just a coincidence,” Luo Shuangyue’s pupils contracted, but fortunately the room was dark, so no one noticed her small reaction.
Why was Luo Shuangxing bringing this up again? Couldn’t she just play dumb? Wasn’t there supposed to be a tacit understanding to not speak about this?
Having a similar scent doesn’t prove anything, right? Or are you saying you think I really am your Brother? Why not just say it outright!
“Sometimes I wonder, Dark Moth, could you actually be my Brother? Maybe my Brother is actually my Sister.”
Little sis, you can’t say that! We’re not at the point of laying everything out on the table yet! Luo Shuangyue screamed inside.
Luckily, Luo Shuangxing just left it at speculation and didn’t dig any deeper.
She only wanted to tell Luo Shuangyue that she didn’t need to worry so much.
She wouldn’t do anything inappropriate to her Sister.
“I’ve always wanted a Sister—a Sister I could hug, one who would give me warmth,” Luo Shuangxing continued.
“You hate your Brother?”
Luo Shuangxing shook her head; of course she didn’t hate Luo Shuangyue.
But, in the end, Brother and Sister are different, especially when the Brother is one with such strong self-control as Luo Shuangyue.
Compared to a Sister, a Brother’s relationship will always be a bit more distant.
Things like hugs, cuddles, or being lifted up—Luo Shuangyue as a Brother would never do those things with Luo Shuangxing, but if she’s a Sister, it doesn’t seem so inappropriate.
In the end, it’s the difference in interaction patterns brought by gender.
And Luo Shuangxing, being so sensitive to emotions, naturally preferred a Sister who could give her more, and more delicate, feelings.
Like now—she could share a bed with her Sister, tightly hugging her Sister’s arm, feeling her warmth, breathing in her Sister’s light scent—things she’d never dared dream of before.
Previously, she’d never even hugged Luo Shuangyue’s arm, let alone shared a bed. If she’d tried, Luo Shuangyue would have flatly refused with “boys and girls shouldn’t get too close.”
After all, Luo Shuangyue was a very proper elder Brother, not someone with ideas straight out of an orthopedic hospital.
“You smell like my Brother, so… could you be my Sister for tonight?” Luo Shuangxing said.
She was asking Dark Moth, as Lily of the Valley, to be her Sister for one night, so she could properly act spoiled as a younger sister.
Just for tonight, they would be sisters.
Luo Shuangyue stared up at the ceiling, eyes blank. With things said to this point, what else could she say?
Refuse?
Her arm was already being hugged like this—how could she possibly refuse now?
Luo Shuangxing was clearly boarding the train before buying a ticket!
All she could do now was nod, acknowledging Luo Shuangxing’s after-the-fact justification.
“Sigh.” She let out a breath and turned to softly pull Luo Shuangxing into her embrace.
“Actually having me be your substitute Sister, I really don’t know what’s going on in your head.”
Of course, agreeing was one thing, but she still had to maintain her persona—like Dark Moth’s sharp tongue towards Lily of the Valley, which definitely needed to show up.
Held in her Sister’s arms, Luo Shuangxing’s eyes trembled slightly.
At this moment, she couldn’t care less about Luo Shuangyue’s barely audible complaint—she only hugged the warm, slender body beside her even tighter, quietly savoring a tenderness she’d never experienced.
In that instant, she felt as if she’d returned to years ago, back to the days when Mother was still around.
When she was young, Luo Shuangxing had slept in a warm embrace full of love and tenderness, just like now.
That was a feeling she often remembered in her dreams.
Every time she woke, she was left with an aching sense of loss.
Yes, her Mother was gone.
But tonight, Luo Shuangxing sensed a similar aura from the girl beside her.
It was faint, and her reason told her the two were totally different.
Still, she clung to the girl at her side, and let out a rather embarrassing sound.
“Mom…”
Luo Shuangyue’s pupils quaked, and even her body shuddered a little.
She’d gone straight from Sister to Mother? Luo Shuangxing, isn’t your train of thought a bit too wild?
But from that light, almost drifting voice, Luo Shuangyue heard all the grief and longing her sister had bottled up inside.
That “Mom” wasn’t a joke aimed at Dark Moth, but an involuntary whisper after being overwhelmed with sadness.
Well, as the saying goes, the eldest sister is like a mother. As Luo Shuangxing’s elder Sister, now her only family, it wasn’t strange for Luo Shuangxing to find a trace of Mother’s scent in her.
Luo Shuangyue convinced herself.
When her usually mischievous sister showed her most vulnerable side, Luo Shuangyue was powerless to resist.
In the end, she really was hopelessly weak when it came to her sister.
As long as her sister sincerely asked, as long as she revealed that kind of expression and that kind of voice, how could Luo Shuangyue possibly refuse?
Sigh, she thought, this little one has me completely in the palm of her hand. Accepting her fate, Luo Shuangyue patted her sister’s hair and pulled her even closer.
“If you want to cry, then cry. I’ll pretend I didn’t see or hear anything.”
“Who’s crying? Don’t look down on me!” Luo Shuangxing grumbled, but as she pressed her head against Luo Shuangyue’s shoulder, feeling the warmth continuously radiating from her Sister, she finally couldn’t hold it back anymore.
Tears welled up and spilled from her eyes.
Her crying was silent, but it lasted a long time. Hugging Luo Shuangyue, she cried for nearly half the night before falling into a deep sleep, physically and emotionally exhausted.
And Luo Shuangyue, at this moment, was also feeling a bit complicated.
She’d never seen this side of her sister when she was still the elder Brother, which gave her a sense of having failed.
So her sister had so many bottled-up negative emotions, and she hadn’t noticed a thing or helped her at all?
What kind of Brother was that?
It was only after becoming a Sister that she passively discovered her sister’s emotions. How come being a Sister felt more like a gain than a loss?
Was she really just born to be a girl? Luo Shuangyue couldn’t help but wonder.
Actually, she didn’t care that much about the change in her body.
She’d kept it a secret mainly to protect those around her, so they wouldn’t step into the dangerous world of Magical Girls.
But in the end, both her childhood friend and her sister turned out to be Magical Girls, and all her secrecy was for nothing.
Then, her childhood friend and her sister discovered her identity. She’d thought her life was over, but reality played a joke on her.
These two family members seemed to think the current her was even better.
Luo Shuangyue really didn’t know what to say to that—who’d have thought things would turn out like this?
“Well, it’s not a bad thing after all.” She could only glance sideways at the girl sleeping beside her, still with faint traces of tears on her cheeks, and smile, thinking, “This isn’t so bad, after all.”
Since things had come to this, what other choice did she have but to accept it?
“About last night, I’m sorry!” Luo Shuangxing’s face was flushed as she bowed to Luo Shuangyue at a perfect ninety degrees.
Last night, swept up in her emotions, she hadn’t thought much about it. Only after waking up did she realize just how embarrassing she’d been.
She’d actually hugged Luo Shuangyue, called her “Mom,” and cried for half the night until she fell asleep?
Oh no!
Good thing she knew the girl in front of her was her real Sister; otherwise, she’d be looking for a meteorite to crash into instead of apologizing.
Even so, the fact that her target of acting spoiled was her real Sister didn’t ease her embarrassment. She just wanted to erase the humiliating memory as quickly as possible.
“It’s okay. It’s normal for a kid your age to crave a little affection from an elder,” Luo Shuangyue replied with a gentle smile.
Honestly, she didn’t mind what had happened last night. If her sister could have a good cry and release her stress, that wasn’t a bad thing, right?
Besides, Luo Shuangyue hadn’t tried anything inappropriate—just slept together for a night. For her, that was totally acceptable.
After all, she’d shared a bed with Xia Mo so many times, her nerves had been thoroughly steeled by now.
“Good morning. Did you sleep well last night?” Xia Mo swiped her card to unlock the Dormitory door and poked her head in.
Yes, Xia Mo’s card could open the door to Luo Shuangyue’s Dormitory.
In fact, as long as both roommates agreed, they could give door access to someone else.
All it took was the three of them going to the Hall to tell the Mentor on duty; the whole thing could be done in less than a minute.
Seeing the slightly strange atmosphere in the room, Xia Mo’s eyes flashed with curiosity. Looks like things weren’t all peaceful between these two last night?
She didn’t actually suspect they’d done anything inappropriate—if they had, they wouldn’t look like this right now.
Given the situation, it seemed more like Luo Shuangxing was embarrassed, and Luo Shuangyue was unfazed.
With a glance, Xia Mo felt she’d figured it out!
Luo Shuangxing must’ve done a bunch of embarrassing things last night and only realized how humiliating they were after waking up.
“I slept great! I’m going for breakfast!” Luo Shuangxing jumped up, making a dash for the door, not even caring that she was still in her pajamas.
Xia Mo quickly moved aside to avoid getting hit by the “Luo Shuangxing Express.” “Your clothes—you haven’t changed yet!”
“Transformation!”
Watching Luo Shuangxing transform in an instant and leap over the railing, Xia Mo finally turned her probing gaze on Luo Shuangyue.
What exactly did you two do last night? Why is mischievous Luo Shuangxing acting like she drank a potion that lowers intelligence today?
“Why are you looking at me? I’m innocent!” Faced with Xia Mo’s suspicious gaze, Luo Shuangyue quickly raised her hand in protest, declaring her absolute innocence this time.
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