Chapter 463: Do You Still Like Me?

The night breeze was slightly cool; Shen Chi followed behind Shen Lan the whole way, noticing that the path grew increasingly remote until they stopped in front of a low, small house.

To be honest, this was not quite the home Shen Chi had imagined in his heart.

He had seen Jiang Sinian's home with his classmates before—such a beautiful little white villa—and he had originally assumed his own house would be similar.

But it didn't matter; at least it was much better than living in a shack in the Pinminku.

"Dad, is this our house?" Shen Chi asked.

Shen Lan shook his head, "It's one our family is renting."

Shen Chi:...

This home really seemed different from what he had imagined; they even had to rent a place to live.

"It's quite good," was all Shen Chi could say; as he pushed the door open to enter, he heard a somewhat familiar voice.

The more he listened to that voice, the more it sounded like...

"Xiao Chi, your room is over here," Shen Lan called out to stop him, "That side is your older sister and younger sister's room."

"Oh, oh, okay," Shen Chi felt a bit dazed; he must have misheard, after all, how could there be so many coincidences in this world?

Shen Chi hadn't expected the room they prepared for him to be so small; apart from a bed and a small desk, there was almost no room for anything else.

"Xiao Chi is back? Come eat quickly!" Li Xuan called out from the small kitchen; she felt very happy now, as if she possessed everything.

Fortunately, the heavens favored her, allowing all her children to stay by her side.

The television was playing the story of the advanced entrepreneur Si Rong from Huaiyang, but Li Xuan didn't envy her at all now; in terms of family happiness, she had ultimately bested Si Rong by a notch.

At least she had one more child than her.

Thinking this way, Li Xuan actually began to feel smug.

However, not long after, the crisp sound of a plate hitting the floor interrupted her smugness.

Li Xuan thought one of the children had accidentally broken a plate.

When she was young, because she broke a plate, Mother Li had punished her by making her kneel in the corner of the room for half the night; from then on, for more than half a year, she had no bowl to use when eating.

Therefore, Li Xuan did not intend to blame the children, only saying, "Breaking things brings peace; it's fine, just take another bowl."

It wasn't until she turned around to bring the egg pancake to the table that she noticed the atmosphere at the dining table was wrong.

She saw Shen Chi staring straight at Liang Yu, "How could it be you?"

There was also a perfectly measured look of surprise in Liang Yu's eyes, "You are, my twin brother?"

"Yes! Look at how busy your mother and I have been, we got a bit muddled and forgot to introduce you two."

Shen Lan sighed, "Back then, your mother and I were still young; after the twins were born, they were abducted by human traffickers—one was taken to the neighboring county of Xuyang, which is Shen Chi, and one was taken to Yunchuan."

As he spoke, he looked at Liang Yu, "Your mother went to Yunchuan to find you, but couldn't find you; on the way back, she met a pitiful little girl and, taking her as a surrogate, brought her back—that is the current Shen Yuan, who is also your older sister."

"Xiao Yu, later I will entrust someone to pull some strings and see if we can get your household registration transferred over as soon as possible; from now on, you shall be called Shen Yu."

"Okay." Liang Yu agreed very quickly.

Shen Chi, however, felt as if his heart were about to shatter.

The girl he liked had suddenly transformed into his own younger sister; this was a matter he truly could not accept for the moment.

The joy of returning to a new home today vanished instantly; he only felt that fate had played a massive joke on him.

Shen Yuan's gaze darted back and forth between the two of them.

Interesting; the relationship between these two seemed strange. She had heard gossip about them from classmates in class before, and now it looked quite explosive.

"Shen Chi, what was wrong with you just now? Why were you so surprised to see Xiao Yu?"

She asked, feigning curiosity.

Shen Chi shook his head; things had reached this point, and he could not let his parents discover his secret thoughts, otherwise, it would be bad for both him and Xiao Yu.

Perhaps, he could try to be a good older brother.

"It's nothing, we are classmates; we knew each other at school before."

Li Xuan brought the food to the table, "That's right, the three of you are at the same school; it will be very convenient in the future."

"Yes, it will certainly be very convenient," Shen Yuan said with a cryptic smile.

Liang Yu curved her eyes, "Older sister, please take care of me in the future."

"Rest assured, I certainly will."

For Shen Chi, tonight was a sleepless night.

He lay on the bed tossing and turning; as long as he thought about how Liang Yu was lying just one wall away, and that he would have to call her 'younger sister' from now on, a part of his heart felt uncomfortably stifled.

For the entire night, he remained in a state between dreaming and waking.

"Older brother?"

He seemed to have hallucinated, seeing Liang Yu appear in his room, quietly watching him.

"Do you still like me?"

Waking up the next day, Shen Chi looked at the soiled bedsheets and lowered his eyes; he really was a piece of work.

But when he saw Liang Yu, he understood one thing very clearly in his heart.

It was impossible to treat Liang Yu as a younger sister; he simply had to suppress the beast deep within his heart.

Shen Chi also hadn't expected that in just a single day, his state of mind would undergo such a massive change.

He felt such hatred; one moment he was hating the human traffickers, the next he was hating Shen Dazhuang and Wang Dani, and even his biological parents, whom he had previously been grateful to, were hateful as well.

Why were they so careless as to lose him back then? If he hadn't been lost, and he had grown up together with his own biological younger sister, how could such a bizarre emotion have ever sprouted?

Shen Yuan, meanwhile, was in a very good mood, occasionally showing off her intimacy with Li Xuan and Shen Lan in front of Shen Chi and Liang Yu; she was, after all, the original inhabitant.

Liang Yu felt no ripples in her heart, but because of this, she had discovered Shen Yuan's weakness.

The more one shows off something, the more one lacks it.

She would snatch away the affection that Shen Yuan was so worried about losing.

She blinked her eyes, and immediately the area around her eye sockets turned red.

"What's wrong?" Li Xuan asked immediately, her heart aching.

"Seeing Big Sister so close to Mom, I feel, I feel so envious; if I hadn't been lost since I was little, I would definitely be just as close to Mom now."

These words made Li Xuan feel a wave of bitterness in her heart.

She immediately pushed Shen Yuan away, "Your younger sister just came back, you are the older sister, so stop acting spoiled all the time."

Liang Yu got her wish and nestled into Li Xuan's embrace, then cast a provocative glance at Shen Yuan.

"Mom, Big Sister won't be unhappy, will she?"

Li Xuan gently patted her shoulder to soothe her, "She won't; she is the older sister, how could she be jealous of her younger sister."

Shen Yuan felt as if she had swallowed a fly, nauseated and uncomfortable.

This Liang Yu was even more despicable than she had imagined.

The grudge between the two of them was now thoroughly established.

Deep down, Shen Yuan planned that she must let Mom and Dad see Liang Yu's true colors.

Fortunately, she soon found an opportunity.

Sleeping in the same room, Shen Yuan took advantage of the time Liang Yu was showering to sneak a look at her diary.

The content in the diary left her shocked and horrified.