The junior high cafeteria, which was also the event venue.
“What, we have to bring our own ingredients?”
Jiang Cheng stood frozen in place, her head full of question marks.
After the words fell, she suddenly remembered—Little Tang seemed to have told her at noon, but at that time she was only thinking about the afternoon transformation and wasn’t listening at all.
‘Ugh… So this is the arrogance of adults…’
‘Where is she supposed to find ingredients now?’
“System, can you conjure up a little?”
[Friendly Reminder: The System is not a wishing well. If the host wants to obtain supplies out of thin air, you might as well try lying down and daydreaming. You can have anything in your dreams.]
Jiang Cheng crouched on the ground, covering her head in despair.
Seeing her like this, the young female teacher was a bit stunned—this parent seemed far too young.
‘Could she be the legendary stepmother?’
“Yes, if this parent hasn’t brought ingredients, you can team up with other parents.”
The female teacher immediately imagined a bunch of melodramatic stories, but that didn’t stop her from kindly reminding this young mother.
‘Team up? Who to team up with?’
She turned to look at Jiang Xiaotang.
Understanding her meaning, the girl shook her head.
“Little Tang doesn’t have any good friends.”
‘That’s true. With a personality like Little Tang’s, it’s hard to make friends…’
Jiang Cheng sighed, feeling worried.
‘What to do if no one teams up? Can’t just stand here stupidly. So embarrassing.’
‘Maybe find a parent with lots of ingredients and act cute?’
‘But everyone here is aunties in their thirties and forties. There’s no way I can act cute with them!’
‘And my little sister is here. I can’t let her find out that her admired older sister is a weirdo who cuddles in others’ arms…’
“It’s okay, big sister. Let’s just find a place to sit and watch.”
It was actually Jiang Xiaotang comforting her instead. This was the world turned upside down.
‘Boo hoo… Little Tang, you’re an angel…’
“Jiang Cheng?”
Just as the girl was about to hug her sister and give her a full set of cheek-rubbing and forehead-kissing service, a somewhat familiar voice sounded behind her.
The white-haired girl’s movements suddenly stopped.
She stiffly turned her head.
Behind her stood a tall woman full of heroic spirit, holding the hand of a girl who looked somewhat like her.
“Why are you here? Stalking me again?”
She furrowed her brows, her tone unfriendly.
“You you you… how are you also…”
“It’s that sadist big sister who took big sister away last time…”
Although she was talking to herself, the girl didn’t seem to know how to control her volume, and everyone present heard it clearly.
The female teacher’s expression turned even more peculiar.
Even Lin Shuangxue’s expression couldn’t hold up—what exactly did Jiang Cheng teach her sister at home?
“Ahem! Children don’t understand, she’s talking nonsense…”
“But… mmph!”
Covering Jiang Xiaotang’s mouth and pulling her behind her, Jiang Cheng was so embarrassed her toes were curling with embarrassment.
‘Children don’t understand, don’t talk nonsense!’
‘What “sadist big sister who took me away”? It’s clearly…’
‘Wait.’
Jiang Cheng suddenly realized that what Little Tang said seemed to be actually correct.
‘At least from reality, Lin Shuangxue really seems to have that kind of preference?’
“Auntie, what’s a sadist?”
The only one in the dark was the girl beside Lin Shuangxue.
“Ahem, children don’t need to know about these things.”
“I told you not to call me a child! I’m already a junior high student!”
The girl argued loudly, but Lin Shuangxue completely ignored her, clearly used to it.
Jiang Cheng finally had a chance to properly look at this girl.
She was wearing the same school uniform as Little Tang, about the same height as herself, her features somewhat similar to Lin Shuangxue’s, but with softer lines and a stubborn determination in her eyes.
‘She’s probably Lin Shuangxue’s niece or something.’
“Are you also here for the parent-child activity?”
Lin Shuangxue spoke first, her tone returning to her usual coldness.
“Uh… yeah.”
Jiang Cheng scratched her head.
“But I forgot to bring ingredients…”
‘She regretted it as soon as she said it—why did she expose her stupidity in front of a “sadist big sister who took me away”!’
‘No matter how you think about it, she’ll be treated like a small fry, right?’
Lin Shuangxue glanced at her.
“I brought too many ingredients. I can’t use them all.”
“Huh?”
“It doesn’t matter to give you some.”
Jiang Cheng was stunned. When did this young lady become so kind?
‘Could she be thinking of some new punishment method again…’
“Then… how much?” she asked tentatively.
Lin Shuangxue didn’t answer, just tilted her chin toward the door.
Jiang Cheng followed her gaze—
Two burly men in black suits were carrying a huge cooler inside, their steps steady, expressions calm, but the sweat on their foreheads betrayed their true feelings.
When the cooler hit the ground, it made a dull thud, and the floor vibrated.
Jiang Cheng’s mouth twitched.
‘How is this just a little more?’
‘This is like moving the entire supermarket here!’
“Enough?” Lin Shuangxue asked.
“Enough… enough enough!”
Jiang Cheng nodded repeatedly.
“More than enough!”
“Then let’s go.”
Lin Shuangxue turned and walked toward the workstations, her steps still elegant, as if the cooler that could feed an entire platoon was just a small favor she handed out.
Lin Luoying followed behind her, glancing curiously at Jiang Cheng as she passed.
“Are you the big sister my aunt talked about?”
“Uh… I guess… so?”
Jiang Cheng wasn’t sure how Lin Shuangxue had introduced her.
“Not that impressive.”
The girl pouted and quickened her pace to catch up.
‘Hey hey hey, what do you mean by that, you little brat!’
Jiang Cheng was fuming, but under Lin Shuangxue’s intimidating presence, she could only obediently act like a turtle pulling its head in.
“Big sister…”
Jiang Xiaotang tugged at her sleeve.
“That big sister is really tall.”
Jiang Cheng hummed in acknowledgment.
Indeed, although Lin Luoying was about the same height as Jiang Cheng, standing next to Lin Shuangxue, that youthful vigor was especially noticeable.
Not like herself. Although she was also a pretty girl, she always felt like she lacked some… rebellion that young people should have?
‘I say rebellion is a cute point, and being a jerk is also a cute point~’
“It’s okay,” Jiang Cheng pinched Little Tang’s cheek.
“Our Little Tang will grow tall too.”
“Mm!”