Chi Qingyao looked at Chi Qingya warily.
She was worried that Chi Qingya had read herself stupid.
She was even more worried that Chi Qingya’s state would affect her later.
What if Chi Qingya’s stupidity transferred to her?
“Yao Yao.”
Chi Qingya’s gaze turned to Chi Qingyao.
She felt her little sister was still too sharp.
The questions she couldn’t figure out, Yao Yao could think through clearly.
She felt that she was indeed wasting her thoughts considering such questions.
“Chi Qingya, don’t just stand there like an idiot. Where’s my cola?”
Chi Qingya quickly placed the cola she had bought on the table.
“Chi Qingya, are you stupid? Can’t you see I’m busy and don’t have time to open it?”
“Can’t you just open it for me?”
Chi Qingya looked at Chi Qingyao.
The Yao Yao from before wasn’t like this.
In the past, when Yao Yao wanted her help, she would sweetly call her older sister.
But now she kept calling her by her name over and over.
“What’s wrong?”
“Is it that you feel your sister has become a different person?”
“You feel your sister is starting to overlap with those people who bullied you?”
When Chi Qingya heard the words coming from Chi Qingyao’s mouth, her body trembled involuntarily.
In her mind, the scene of her little sister bullying Caixiangxiang and the others at Cloud Restaurant suddenly emerged.
At that moment, her sister truly overlapped with the figures of those who had bullied her.
“N-no, it’s not.”
Chi Qingya said very softly.
“Hehe.”
“Sis, I’m curious about your relationship with Su Li.”
“With your current personality, so easy to bully, you two shouldn’t have fallen out.”
“Hmm, let me think.”
Chi Qingyao’s fingers manipulated her phone, controlling the Yang Jian inside.
But her gaze was fixed on Chi Qingya standing not far away.
“I bet you’ve already met those three crazy women, right?”
“That time.”
“Hmm, and then you thought those three crazy women were your good friends, and Su Li wasn’t?”
“Sis, you haven’t been bullied into being a masochist, have you?”
“Or do you have Stockholm syndrome? The more others bully you, the more you think they’re doing it for your own good?”
“No one in our family pushed you in that direction.”
Chi Qingyao looked at her sister.
She had watched her sister grow up.
From the moment she was born, she had watched her sister.
If there was anyone in the world who understood Chi Qingya best, it was her.
She was only a year younger than Chi Qingya.
“Could it be that Chi Qingya, you’ve PUA’d yourself into being stupid?”
Chi Qingyao looked at Chi Qingya suspiciously.
If she hadn’t been PUA’d, how could Chi Qingya have become like this?
“I… I don’t know.”
Chi Qingya said, her body trembling.
She also didn’t know how to explain this to her sister.
Maybe it was just like her sister said—she had PUA’d herself stupid.
But why?
Chi Qingya lowered her head and didn’t speak, just thinking about her own behavior.
She didn’t know where she had gone wrong again.
“So Su Li seemed to have a good relationship with you, but why wasn’t Su Li there when you ate together?”
Chi Qingyao looked at Chi Qingya.
She knew her sister was resisting answering this question.
But she didn’t mind asking.
Her sister wouldn’t get angry anyway.
And it didn’t matter if she asked.
Besides, her sister didn’t even respect herself.
What good would her respect do?
Either her sister would eventually train her back, or Chi Qingyao would be assimilated by her.
She didn’t want to be assimilated by Chi Qingya.
She didn’t want to become like Chi Qingya was now.
“I kicked Su Li out.”
Chi Qingya said, her voice trembling slightly.
She knew she was already rotten to the core.
Her sister was trying to save her.
As family, how could her sister harm her?
Coming to her senses, Chi Qingya realized she hadn’t poured cola for Chi Qingyao yet, so she quickly busied herself.
“Huh?”
Chi Qingyao was stunned.
Even the movements in her hands paused.
Even when the enemy in the game killed her, she didn’t snap out of it.
Looking at Su Li and Cute Yuyu Roll gathering with her in the blood pool, her gaze turned to Chi Qingya.
She really hadn’t expected that word to come out of her sister’s mouth.
“You kicked Su Li out?”
Chi Qingya stood there blankly, not speaking.
“Oh, so it’s because Su Li led you astray, right?”
“After all, I remember you used to be pretty clean.”
“Now you’re so messy—must be because that Su Li led you astray, right?”
“If that’s the case, it makes sense that you kicked Su Li out.”
Chi Qingya didn’t speak, but her face gradually turned crimson.
It wasn’t Su Li who led her astray.
It was herself…
It was her own self-indulgence.
In the past, she used to clean the room too.
But later, after Su Li cleaned more often, she gradually became lazier.
It didn’t take much to go from lazy to rotten.
Her gaze lingered on the game, but from the corner of her eye, she saw Chi Qingya suddenly freeze in place.
The fingers that had been casually resting on the sofa arm paused.
Chi Qingya lowered her head, her fingers unconsciously twisting the edge of her clothes.
The blush spread from her earlobes to her cheeks, even coloring her neck a thin red.
This reaction was too suspicious.
“Chi Qingya?”
She put down her phone and leaned forward slightly.
Chi Qingya instinctively stepped back half a step, her knee hitting the tea table with a dull thud, but she still bit her lips and said nothing.
Chi Qingyao’s gaze sharpened.
She uncrossed her legs, which she had been lazily swinging while teasing.
She knew that expression too well.
When Chi Qingya was little, she looked exactly like this—red from the tip of her nose to her collarbone—when she got caught sneaking the chocolate Chi Qingyao had hidden under the bed.
“It was always you who was messy, wasn’t it?”
The sound of Yang Jian being killed by a monster in the game rang out abruptly, but Chi Qingyao didn’t bother to pick up her phone.
She watched her sister’s evasive eyes and suddenly remembered Su Li’s calm gaze in the photo album she had just wiped.
“Oh, so the always-messy sister actually kicked someone out.”
“And you, who’s always been timid, actually got tough with Su Li.”
“Is that it?”
“So you’ve always been someone who bullies the weak and fears the strong.”
“Or could it be that you, once a victim of bullying, have unknowingly become a bully yourself?”
Chi Qingyao’s voice wasn’t very loud, but it struck Chi Qingya’s heart like a heavy hammer.
“I—”
Chi Qingya wanted to defend herself but found she had nothing to say.
She couldn’t find any point to refute her sister’s words.
So… without realizing it, she had become a bully!