Hearing what Cute Yuyu Roll said, Chi Qingyao felt a bit speechless.
People like that, with more money than sense and no self-confidence, were no different from ATMs.
She’d seen plenty of novel authors and streamers who weren’t good at communicating with others.
The moment a few fans showed them a little attention, they’d pour out all their sincerity, only to end up cheated of everything in the end—not even leaving enough money for a lawyer.
Cute Yuyu Roll was no different from those people.
It was just a little care from a companion player.
‘Forget it…’
Chi Qingyao glanced at the half-tidied room and felt that someone like that simply couldn’t be saved.
If she could save anyone, she would have saved her own sister by now.
She wouldn’t be like this either.
Speaking of which, Chi Qingya was taking forever just to buy something.
She’d been waiting for so long.
Chi Qingya tiptoed, avoiding the trash scattered around the room, and went into the kitchen.
She grabbed a can of beer.
She’d drunk beer before.
She didn’t really like the taste.
If she had a choice, she would rather have cola.
But right now, she was too thirsty.
Chi Qingya opened the beer and chugged a few gulps.
[Freedom and Generosity: Continue?]
She sent a message in the room.
She’d already given Cute Yuyu Roll her advice.
As for anything more, she felt that continuing would just be a waste of her time.
If Cute Yuyu Roll wanted to have a two-person world with Su Li and kick her out, that would be for the best.
That way, she wouldn’t have to endure the torment anymore.
But obviously, Cute Yuyu Roll didn’t have that idea.
She wondered if this was the other person’s bad taste—wanting to share the sweet relationship between the two of them, just like those people who love showing off their love lives.
But the less people have, the more they want to prove it.
Many who love showing off aren’t actually as in love as they seem.
Chi Qingyao knew that Cute Yuyu Roll was exactly like that.
Chi Qingya suddenly felt that the stairs going down were much longer than she remembered.
She had walked them countless times before.
But at this moment, images of Su Li being ordered to go downstairs to buy things involuntarily surfaced in her mind.
Su Li had been carrying the trash she’d just sorted, unable to even see the path clearly.
That was how Su Li used to clean the house.
Su Li had also carried piles of trash like that.
What had Su Li been thinking back then?
Chi Qingya realized she couldn’t empathize with the Su Li of the past.
That thought made her sad.
She felt her steps grow heavy.
Scene after scene flashed through her mind: from the moment she first saw Su Li alone in the classroom, homeless and abandoned, to warmly inviting Su Li to come home with her, to their sweet life together.
She thought she’d made a good friend and happily shared it with her younger sister.
Then she met Caixiangxiang.
Her relationship with Su Li gradually drifted apart.
She studied The Art of Recognizing People and Dark Psychology, thinking that mastering this knowledge would let her understand people’s hearts.
Time and again, she ordered Su Li around, ignoring Su Li’s thoughts and feelings.
Then she drove Su Li out of the house.
It was as if she had been in a relationship with Su Li.
But she didn’t know what her past with Su Li really was.
Was it friendship, or love?
She didn’t know…
Now, all she wanted was for Su Li to be by her side.
But…
Su Li seemed so unfamiliar now.
She wasn’t like before.
It hadn’t been that long.
What had Su Li thought about as she walked down this road to the convenience store?
Had she thought about leaving the place she’d lived in for a while?
Chi Qingya didn’t know.
Like a puppet without self-awareness, she walked to the convenience store and bought a big bottle of cola.
Then, still without self-awareness, she headed back home.
As long as her younger sister was there, could that place be called home?
She looked at the stray cats wandering downstairs.
Su Li loved taking care of them.
But there seemed to be fewer cats now.
Had they not survived?
Or had they wandered elsewhere?
Chi Qingya remembered kicking over the bowl the stray cats used to eat from.
These strays were so similar to Su Li.
Had Su Li once empathized with them?
She regretted not buying some food at the convenience store.
Then she could have fed the strays.
She remembered Wei Yanxi and Chen Tangguan arguing over feeding stray cats.
Chen Tangguan thought that out of humanitarian concern, they should feed stray cats.
Seeing stray cats hungry or suffering, she instinctively wanted to help.
But Wei Yanxi called her hypocritical.
She said feeding stray cats could cause a series of problems.
Feeding them would increase their survival and reproduction rates, making their numbers grow.
Since stray cats had no natural predators in the wild, they would prey on birds, small mammals, and so on.
If the stray cat population became too large, it would cause the numbers of those small animals to drop, thereby affecting the local ecosystem balance.
She said Chen Tangguan was only feeding stray cats to satisfy her own hypocritical heart.
She couldn’t see the mother cats that hadn’t been spayed endlessly breeding and suffering difficult births.
She couldn’t see the litters of kittens born into suffering.
She couldn’t see the stray cats freezing to death, dying of disease, being hit by cars, or killed by dogs, letting the tragedy amplify!
She couldn’t see that the cat’s hunting nature caused countless birds to die at their mouths—including rare migratory birds that traveled thousands of miles.
She couldn’t see the nests of baby birds whose parents had been eaten by cats, turning into skeletons!
She couldn’t see anything.
Wei Yanxi said that Chen Tangguan feeding stray cats meant she was killing countless lives!
Feeding stray cats made her an accomplice to cat thieves!
Chen Tangguan thought she was doing good.
But only feeding without caring for anything else was either stupid or malicious.
In reality, she was doing evil.
Feeding without spaying, feeding without adopting—she would face retribution!
Looking at the stray cats scavenging for food on the ground, Chi Qingya felt her body trembling slightly.
Back then, the two had argued for a long time over this, and they’d even asked for her opinion.
She suddenly thought of Su Li.
Had she been wrong from the very beginning to bring Su Li home?
In the end, she didn’t go to the convenience store to buy something for those strays.
She just stood there blankly, then went back home.
“Chi Qingya, why did you take so long?”
When Chi Qingyao saw Chi Qingya looking like she’d lost her soul, she looked at her in confusion.
What had happened to Chi Qingya?
She went out looking normal and came back looking like she’d lost her soul.
“Yao Yao, if you came across a stray cat on the street, would you feed it?”
Chi Qingyao felt that Chi Qingya’s gaze was a little strange and became even more confused.
“Feed it if you want.
What, are you trying to morally coerce me?
Then share the blame, right?
Isn’t that disgusting?
There’s less and less ice for polar bears to stand on.
When they can’t swim anymore, there won’t be any polar bears in the world.
With the skyrocketing housing prices in your big city, there’s no place for us to stand either, right?
Chi Qingya, don’t tell me you’ve forgotten that when we were kids, our parents couldn’t even afford a car and didn’t dare run the air conditioner all night.
Global warming is my fault?
I haven’t enjoyed any of the benefits, but I have to take all the blame, huh?
I’ve never even been to the seaside once, but marine trash is my fault?
I have to protect the marine environment?
When I was little, they said don’t eat shark fin, but I’ve never even seen shark fin in my life.
Have you been so brainwashed by a few people that you’ve lost your mind?
What’s the difference between you and those people in the ID circles who are obsessed with selling IDs?
When there’s a problem, you don’t go after the people who did wrong; you go after the buyers who are also victims and make them share the loss?”