Chapter 32 Burning With Jealousy
Why is Keling in my room?
No, the more critical question is, what is she doing lurking in my room?
My doubts were immediately answered.
Keling used her actions to tell me why she was in my room!
In the few seconds I stood frozen at the door, the person hidden in the darkness flitted unpredictably before me. Immediately after, my heel was attacked, and I lost my balance, falling backward. I felt like the world was flipping upside down!
My feet were in the air, my body tilted backward, and my mind had already envisioned rolling down the stairs, suffering serious injuries, and being hospitalized.
But someone conveniently appeared behind me and caught me before I could fall.
My back of the head sank into a fragrant, soft valley, and when I looked up, I saw that familiar yet cold face.
Xinran?!
What is all this nonsense?
I felt incredibly shocked, not knowing what they wanted to do. Most importantly, their movements were so synchronized, as if they had practiced many times. They were so smooth that I had no time to react.
Xinran placed her hands under my armpits, steadying my upper body, while Keling lifted my legs. The two of them, in perfect understanding, lifted me up.
Then they swayed me back and forth, swinging me onto the bed.
*Clang, click.*
The sound of the door closing, followed by the sound of it being locked.
The room was pitch dark, with no lights on and the curtains drawn. Once the door was shut, it became impossible to see anything.
I could only vaguely make out the locations of the two Younger Sisters, but I couldn’t see their posture or their expressions.
What are they going to do to me?
I immediately started to sweat profusely with nervousness.
Influenced by the darkness, my mind started to wander again.
My Younger Sisters had conspired to throw me onto the bed. Wasn’t there only one possibility for what they wanted to do next?
The only things you can do in bed, besides sleeping, are… sigh.
*Gulp.*
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, suppressing the wicked thoughts in my heart, and nervously said:
“W-wait a minute, you two, don’t do anything crazy! I just stayed out all night, that’s all! Is it really that serious?”
Although it was my fault for making my Younger Sisters worry, I had returned safely in the end, hadn’t I? Although I had indeed encountered some dangerous situations… but there was no need to tell them about those things.
“Stop kidding, Xinran, Keling, I’m going to get angry, okay? I’m really going to get angry!”
I intentionally used a strong tone to express my dissatisfaction, but in reality, I had no confidence. There were two of them… and Xinran had even studied some form of combat for a while. I wouldn’t last three moves against her.
If I got knocked out, I’d be completely finished. I’d probably lose my virginity in a daze… and it would be taken by my Younger Sisters! I absolutely don’t want that!
No, I have to escape, even if it means jumping out the window! I absolutely cannot just wait for my doom!
“Brother, welcome home~”
In the darkness, such a response suddenly came.
If this was a response to the greeting I made at the entrance, wouldn’t the interval be too long?
“Heehee, were you scared? This is your punishment, Brother! For not coming home all night!”
“Uh, well, can you turn on the lights first? I can’t see anything like this…”
I can’t stand darkness right now. I must walk in the light to keep my heart pure and spotless.
“…Sure~ Of course, I’ll grant Brother’s request~ Sister Xinran, please turn on the light. Brother is afraid of the dark~”
“Mhm.”
As she said that, Xinran walked to the door and turned on the light.
As the light came on, I instinctively covered my eyes, not only because the light was dazzling but also because I was afraid of seeing something I shouldn’t…
“Brother, what are you doing?”
“Uh…”
I peeked through my fingers at Xinran and Keling.
Neither of them was naked, nor were they wearing revealing pajamas. Their expressions seemed to be no different from usual.
It gave me the illusion that it was all just a prank.
“Nothing… I just suddenly saw a bright light and my eyes are a bit sensitive…”
But that was just the surface.
Looking at the color of their titles, I could tell that neither of them was calm inside; in fact, their emotions were turbulent.
…Ah, as expected, there was still a problem.
Since I gained the ability to see these titles, the color of my Younger Sisters’ titles had never changed. But today, other emotions were finally intertwined.
Within that pink title, there were streaks of gray and orange.
Keling had more gray, to the point where it was almost overlaying the pink. Xinran, on the other hand, had very little gray, almost invisible, with a small amount of orange. Most of it was still pink.
Gray represented jealousy. I guessed that the fact I stayed at Xue Qing’s house had made them jealous.
As for orange, it was a rare color, but not unheard of. The last time I tried different ways of addressing Lili to tease her… ahem, to address Lili, her title eventually turned orange.
This was the color of anger. When people are angry, their titles turn orange.
Speaking of which, when I angered Lianbing before, I never saw orange at all. It turned a blood red… skipping anger and going straight to wanting to kill me.
Thinking about it now sends a shiver of fear down my spine.
In other words, my Younger Sisters were angry that I didn’t come home all night, but they were just pretending not to be angry.
Well then, I’ll just pretend that I don’t know they’re angry and talk them into going back to bed.
“Then you two should go back to sleep early. I’m quite tired today… and I want to sleep early too. Yes, I’ll go brush my teeth first.”
After saying that, I feigned a yawn.
Keling didn’t say anything. She smiled at me, giving me a feeling that was completely different from her usual self. What was hidden beneath that obedient expression… was an emotion I didn’t want to know about.
I calmly got up from the bed and, as I passed by Keling, preparing to leave the room, Xinran quietly blocked the doorway and shook her head at me.
“What is it, Xinran? Let me out…”
Before I could finish speaking, Keling’s soft voice came from behind.
“Don’t be in such a hurry to leave, Brother~ Your ‘punishment’ for coming home is not over yet, you know?”
“Sh-”
I only managed to utter one syllable, unable to even form a word, before I was pushed down!
Xinran tackled me onto the bed with a hug, and then proceeded to apply a series of joint locks that I couldn’t even name, tossing me around and making me scream. I had no idea what was happening!
All I knew was that I had completely lost my freedom and was being restrained by my two Younger Sisters.
“Hey! What are you doing! Stop messing around! This is going too far!”
“You’re the one going too far, Brother!”
I was momentarily speechless.
This was the first time I had ever heard Keling speak with such a strong tone, and… it seemed to carry a faint hint of tears.
However, when I looked at her face, I didn’t see teary eyes, but rather vacant, lifeless ones…!
Why has it come to this!
“Brother, you slept at that woman Xue Qing’s place yesterday, didn’t you?”
“Yes, that’s right, but Xue Qing is just my friend! It was already very late when I found her yesterday, so I stayed at her place for the night.”
“Oh? Friend? Just… friend?”
Faced with her suspicious questioning, I shouted without hesitation:
“Yes! Just a friend!”
“Fwiend?”
Keling tilted her head to the right, resting her cheek on her hand innocently, and repeated, her tone strange.
Then she tilted her head to the left and repeated the noun again, but this time the meaning was completely twisted.
“Sex friend?”
“Hey, hey! Don’t say that! Do you even know what a sex friend means!”
“I know. Don’t think Keling is still a child who knows nothing, Brother. That woman Xue Qing and you are friends in bed, friends at night, friends with your bodies, right?”
“Not at all! We’re just ordinary friends!”
As expected, Keling suspected that something had happened between Xue Qing and me. Although some things had happened, they had nothing to do with what you imagined!
“Then can Brother guarantee that nothing happened with that woman?”
To say that nothing happened would be a lie, and it resulted in a hint of hesitation in my voice.
“Er… really, nothing happened!”
“…You lied, Brother… Keling is very sad…”
Keling’s expression instantly stiffened, her face became expressionless, and her tone became even colder than Xinran’s!
Damn it! For the first time in my life, I felt that my inability to lie had made things worse! Sometimes, necessary lies are needed to conceal facts that don’t need to be explicitly stated!
Keling’s appearance was wrong, her state was wrong, and her title was even more wrong!
The gray was encroaching on the other colors, dimming the pink. The innocent Keling was gone, replaced by a Younger Sister twisted by jealousy!
“It’s okay… Since Brother has been contaminated by a dirty woman, we can help ‘cleanse’ him? You agree too, right, Sister Xinran? Heehee…”
Creepy words, which turned into madness when put into action.
“Xinran?! Quickly stop her! Xinran!”
I strained my head back and shouted at Xinran.
“…”
But Xinran merely remained silent, closing her eyes and turning her head slightly, indicating her stance.
Damn it!
No! Don’t undress!
“Wait, don’t be impulsive! We’re siblings!”
“Brother knows too, right? Although Keling and Brother are siblings, you’re not actually related by blood. So, that’s not a reason.”
As she spoke, Keling’s hands didn’t stop. She took off her outer jacket and untied her hair tie.
Her hair cascaded down, smooth as black satin, soft as willow strands.
Then, blocking the light from the ceiling, she closed her eyes and slowly brought her face closer to mine…
“Uh…!”
It was too late. No one could stop Keling, who was burning with jealousy. With Xinran helping her, once the lights were off, in the darkness, even I might not be able to control myself…
Resigned, I closed my eyes and, with a heartbroken sigh, uttered my last words.
“Keling… How did you become like this… You weren’t like this before…”
Time seemed to stand still at this moment.
