At those words...
Lin Ying, who had been quietly eating like a well-behaved girl all this time, shuddered, and her chopsticks fell to the floor.
She had intended to get this absurd family lunch over with as quickly as possible, then find a chance to negotiate properly with that other version of herself. Who could have imagined her mother would make a suggestion like this?
"No! I refuse!"
Lin Ying raised her head in shock and anger.
"Mom, are you really going to believe everything he says so easily? Besides, that's my room! I'm not letting some... some guy of unknown origin stay with me!"
Absolutely not!
She could go along with her mother on anything else, but this was the one thing she would not negotiate.
You have no idea, Mom! He's nothing like the sweet little boy you're seeing right now. He's a fiend, an indescribable monster from Hell! And even leaving all that aside, he isn't ten years old at all. He's a grown-up bastard the same age as me!
But she had no idea how to say any of that.
She had no idea whether, once she laid everything out, someone with his temperament might really reveal his terrifying side and hurt his parents.
"Xiao Ying!"
Mother Lin propped up her chin, looking at her rebellious teenage daughter with a solemn, serious expression.
"I've already told you, he's your little brother from another world. Why have you been so hostile right from the start? Are you afraid Mom and Dad won't love you anymore now that we have a son? We wouldn't do that, Ying'er. If that's what you're thinking, then you really haven't grown up at all."
Holding his knife and fork, Lin Zhennan heartily wiped away the blood streaming from his eyes, ears, nose,