Yuyou's thoughts

The moment Lin Yu got home, he felt as though the sky had fallen. When had his little sister come over here?

Judging by how close they were, hugging each other like that, she had probably been here for quite a while. He knew exactly what his sister was like. At this rate, someone's innocence might be at risk!

Without even stopping to greet Firefly, he rushed over, scooped Lin Yuyou up, and dragged her into his room. "Sorry, Firefly, I have something to discuss with her!"

"Lin Yu..." Firefly reached out, about to say something, but Lin Yu had already taken Lin Yuyou into the room and shut the door behind them, leaving Firefly alone in the living room.

Never mind. I'll wait until I get another chance.

Firefly touched her fingertips together, covering the upturned corners of her mouth.

Before Lin Yu returned, she had already gotten on good terms with Yuyou.

When she explained her situation to Yuyou, she had thought the girl would dislike her. After all, anyone would resent someone freeloading in their home.

But once she finished, she could tell that Yuyou did not dislike her. There was even a little pity?

Still, not being disliked was a significant step forward. As long as she worked hard to earn money and prove her worth, she could stay here with every right to do so!

That was right. She no longer thought about how to go back. Even after clearing the entire story and searching extensively online, she had found no useful information.

After coming up empty-handed, she simply gave up and began seriously considering how to live in this world.

Actually, Lin Yu was right. There was nothing in the world she had once lived in that she would miss. So why had she wanted to return?

Perhaps it was because of the being that had sent her here, because of the fate she had yet to escape, because she wanted to know how to break free. But even now, she had no way of knowing.

So she decided to enjoy her life now and leave that fate business to the future!

Even if destruction awaited her then, she would still have fulfilled her wish. Brief though it might be, it would be proof that she had lived as an ordinary person.

Just like the other her in the game, she had only a small wish to be an ordinary person.

Now that her wish had come true, she would also wish for the other her to achieve hers.

Unlike the happy atmosphere around Firefly, things in the room were a little tense.

"Talk! Yuyou, what are you doing here?!"

Lin Yuyou sat in a chair while Lin Yu planted his hands on its armrests and stared at her with a stern expression, as though interrogating a prisoner.

"All right, bro, your acting is way too fake~" Lin Yuyou pushed his hands aside. Her brother's utterly unconvincing performance had not scared her at all. If anything, she found it rather funny.

"Bro, if you ask me, we should sign you up for some classes."

Lin Yu remained motionless, not because he was pretending to be stern, but because a jab from his own little sister was the deadliest kind.

Ignoring her brother's silence, Lin Yuyou kept asking questions about Firefly.

Although she had already learned most of it from Sister Firefly, she still wanted to hear more from her brother.

Only by getting different perspectives could she determine whether Firefly could be her brother's girlfriend!

That was right! Once she learned they were living together, she had started assessing whether Firefly was a good match for her brother.

What surprised her a little, though, was that Sister Firefly was not the cool, aloof type she had imagined, but, uh... the adorably ditzy type.

This was only the second time she had misjudged someone. You really could not judge a book by its cover. (The first had been her own brother.)

Although she knew Sister Firefly's situation was quite pitiful, she could not go soft over that when her brother's happiness was at stake! (Note: Firefly had not explained her true origins, but told a tiny lie instead. Shh-! Don't tell~)

But no matter how she pestered him, Lin Yu refused to talk. In response, she smiled faintly and played her strongest trump card: Mom!

At the threat of her telling Mom, Lin Yu visibly panicked. With no other choice, he finally surrendered under the weight of Mom's tyranny and spilled everything.

He still withheld the specifics of Firefly's origins, though. Even if he told her, she would probably think something was wrong with his head.

He just did not know whether Firefly had given herself away. After all, her ability to lie was... well, nothing to write home about.

Reluctantly, Lin Yu told her a few things here and there. He could not say any more. Any more and he would give the game away.

"So, what are you doing here? Aren't you in your final year of high school? How do you still have time to come over?"

Yuyou looked at him in disbelief and felt Lin Yu's forehead.

"You don't have a fever. Bro, are you so muddleheaded you forgot?"

Lin Yu removed the hand on his forehead. "Forgot what? Just say it."

"Ugh... bro, do you never look at a calendar? Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival!"

"I know."

Of course Lin Yu knew. The manager had already told him, after all, that they would have tomorrow off for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"You have a break for the festival. Why come here instead of going home?"

Lin Yuyou pouted, dissatisfaction written all over her face. "Mom said we only get a little over a day off anyway, and driving back and forth to pick me up and drop me off would be too much trouble, so she told me to come find you."

"Uh... that sounds like our mom."

Lin Yu held his forehead helplessly. There was no helping it. No matter how big the household or its affairs, Mom was the biggest authority. "All right. Since Mom said so, you can stay here tonight."

After who knew how long, the two finally came out of the room.

Lin Yuyou: "Sister Firefly, sorry for the wait~"

Lin Yu: "Sorry, Firefly."

"No, not at all. You and Yuyou are siblings, and you haven't seen each other in a long time. You must have had lots to talk about."

"Exactly, exactly!"

"Shut up."

"Ow-!" Lin Yu smacked Yuyou on the head, and she promptly fell into Firefly's arms, rubbing her head in pain.

"Bro! Is that any way to treat your own little sister?!"

Firefly looked a little worried at the sight. "Lin Yu, wasn't that a little too hard?"

"All right, enough. I barely used any force. Pretty convincing act, though."

At that, Lin Yuyou dropped the act at once, changing her expression and playfully sticking her tongue out at him. "Bleh~"

"I was just showing you how to act without giving yourself away. See? Sister Firefly believed me~"

Still looking utterly bewildered, Firefly gave a guileless "Mm-hmm," leaving Yuyou at a loss for words.

She had thought that even if Sister Firefly was not truly angry, she would at least pretend to be. Was Sister Firefly really this innocent?

How had her brother found such an innocent girl?

She was like a flower raised in a greenhouse, naive and innocent. Yet when they first met, she had felt like someone who had been through a great deal. The wariness and coldness in her eyes had been quite real.

That was why she had initially assumed Firefly was the cool, aloof type. The contrast was a little too stark.

Still, being a little naive was not bad either. That way, her brother, who was just as naive when it came to romance, would not have to worry about being deceived by a bad woman.

Besides, Sister Firefly felt like a very safe person to her. There were absolutely no concerns about safety!

After hearing what her brother had said, her desire to make Firefly her sister-in-law grew even stronger!

And now she wanted Sister Firefly to be her sister-in-law! She just did not know whether Sister Firefly liked that hopeless brother of hers.

I need to find a chance to ask her properly... oh, right! I've got an idea. Hehe~