Two Sisters

"Big sister, you became a police officer so young? That's amazing." Jiaming was still deep in thought when Lingjing walked over to the bed and asked curiously.

"Oh? Haha, you should call me Auntie. Auntie is still very young, okay? Good child. I've had a baby face since I was little, and I love it when people say I look young. Hehe, hehe..."

Watching the fake policewoman's evasive smile, Jiaming's expression twisted slightly. If she had come here with some ulterior motive, she also seemed a little foolish. Could it be that she wasn't some kind of assassin, but a lunatic who had escaped from the hospital's psychiatric ward to cause trouble?

"Ahem. Well then, little Gu Jiaming, think back on what happened that night. We'll begin now."

"Okay." Jiaming nodded.

"First, your name..."

"..." Jiaming looked a little foolish as well. Could this woman have traveled back in time too? Was she even better at playing dumb than he was? When she looked up and saw his expression, the policewoman probably realized how unnecessary her question had been. Blushing, she explained, "Um, well... this is routine procedure. You have to say it yourself anyway. All right, let's begin."

"Gu Jiaming."

Thus began the questioning. Although she looked like an impostor, her questions were perfectly proper. She was extremely familiar with the police station's procedures for taking statements, and her questions were sharp. However, even if she identified the key points, she naturally could not pry any useful information out of Jiaming.

"Mm, since that's the case." After asking some of the key questions that needed investigating, the policewoman tapped her notebook with her pen a few times. "There are still some minor matters that need attention, probably..."

The questions that followed were utterly pointless, leaving Jiaming baffled. Compared to her earlier incisive questioning, the contrast was enormous. Looking at the policewoman's excited, flushed face, a strange feeling rose within him: this woman was enjoying the feeling of asking questions...

Could she really be insane?

As he answered her questions, Jiaming took advantage of the moment when the policewoman was engrossed and asked, "Big sister, are you from Xinghui High School too?"

"Uh, no. I attend Sacred Heart Academy..." Funded by foreign investors and named after the Sacred Heart, it was essentially Jianghai City's Noble Academy. The moment she said that, Jiaming covered his forehead, nearly wanting to howl at the sky. The policewoman, Lingjing, and Shasha all froze in the hospital room.

He had been toyed with by a little girl for over an hour. What humiliation!

"Um, well... hehe, I'm actually working part-time today, and... the police station was short-staffed today..."

As the high school student impersonating a policewoman tried to explain herself, the hospital room door was suddenly pushed open. A policewoman who resembled her somewhat walked in. The moment she saw the girl by the bed, she shouted in disbelief, "Mu Zhenzhen!? You... you actually stole my police uniform!"

"Ah, Sister, I saw that you were too busy, so I came to the hospital to handle such a small matter as taking someone's statement for you. Besides, I'm planning to apply to police academy anyway, so I'll just treat it as an internship..."

"A small matter?" The policewoman glared furiously, looking ready to uphold justice even against her own sister. "You think taking a statement is a small matter? You even dared to steal my police uniform! Do you know that wearing a police uniform to deceive people is against the law? And the gun—where did you get that gun?"

"It's the toy gun you gave me for my birthday last time." Mu Zhenzhen shrank her neck. "Oh, Sister, I won't dare do it again. I won't dare do it again..."

"You won't dare again? Take it off!"

"Huh? Take it off here?" Mu Zhenzhen turned back in disbelief to look at the four people in the hospital room. Jiaming had just picked up a cup to drink some water when he sprayed it back out with a pfft. He then patted at the wet bedsheet, barely holding back his laughter. Not far away, Lingjing and Shasha were red-faced from trying not to laugh as well.

The policewoman seemed to realize this was not a suitable place to remove clothing. Her momentum stalled, but she immediately continued, "What's wrong with here? Can't a few children watch you take off your clothes? It would have been one thing if you wore it around at home, but you actually dared to wear a police uniform outside to deceive people!"

"But..." The high school girl clutched her collar with both hands. "Sister, I don't have any clothes to change into."

"..." The policewoman paused, then shook her head in frustration. "Take it off when we get back. Bring me the statement you took."

Mu Zhenzhen respectfully handed the statement to her sister. A moment later, seeing her sister nod, she could not help showing delight. "Sister, how did I do?"

"Not bad. But what is all this mess on the last page? If someone saw it, they'd think I wrote it. They'd think your sister was secretly in love with this Gu Jiaming fellow!" She smiled and nodded at Jiaming on the bed, then turned a stern gaze on her younger sister.

"Hehe." Mu Zhenzhen stuck out her tongue. "I knew the stuff at the end wasn't useful, so I wrote it all on the last page. You can just tear it off."

After shooting her another exasperated glare, the policewoman finally walked over to Jiaming's bed. "Hello, little Jiaming. My name is Mu Qingqing. You should have met me before. I went to the processing plant too. I was supposed to take your statement today, but since Zhenzhen has already questioned you, there's no need to do it all over again. I just need to confirm a few things with you, all right?"

"Mm." Jiaming nodded. Mu Qingqing repeated several questions. This was merely routine business, and the statement she took was no different from what Jiaming had said before. Everything was finished in no time. The moment she stood up, her friendly smile immediately turned hard as iron. She swung a slap at her sister's head. "Come on, we're going home!"

"Ow, Sister, don't hit my head. You'll make me stupid."

"Could you get any stupider?"

"I'm so pitiful. Ever since Dad died, you've been abusing me. Once I get a brother-in-law, I'll definitely be kicked out and left to sleep on the streets."

"I was far too nice to you before..."

Bickering and roughhousing all the way out, the voices of the close "Qing-Zhen" sisters gradually faded down the hallway. Inside the hospital room, Jiaming and the other two finally burst out laughing.

The day after the statements were taken, someone from the Yuechi Family finally arrived. However, it was not one of Yuechi Xun's relatives, but a steward in charge of the Yuechi Family's business outside the region. He was supposedly very busy. He had originally wanted to transfer Yuechi Xun somewhere with better conditions to recuperate, but she refused. So he paid the hospital a large sum of money to provide enhanced care and attention. According to him, Ten'u Masanori would arrive in a few days to take her back to Japan.

Such an arrangement did not surprise Jiaming. After all, in the original history, without his involvement, Yuechi Xun had also been tortured by that perverted old man for a long time before being rescued by Ten'u Masanori. The Ten'u Family was an important branch of Takama-ga-hara, Japan's organization of espers. As the eldest son of the family, Ten'u Masanori later became engaged to Yuechi Xun because of this incident. But Jiaming naturally knew that there had never been any affection between them. After Yuechi Xun returned home this time, she shut herself in her room. Eight years later, when Jiaming came into contact with members of the Yuechi Family while preparing for Peiluojia's attack, she slit her wrists and committed suicide in that room. Thinking about it now, that had also been when her wedding date with Ten'u Masanori was drawing near.

But in this timeline, everything would naturally head in another direction. What kind of future would that be?

It had nothing to do with me anyway. That night, Jiaming thought peacefully.