Evening.
Wen Wanwan sat obediently at the table, picking up her chopsticks to eat dinner. Wen Fufu also sat beside her, but her cheeks were still flushed, and she kept shooting Jiang Huai fierce glances.
Jiang Huai, his sense of shame already exploding, felt restless. His mind kept replaying whether he had fallen into some trap, yet it was he who couldn’t hold back that morning and then… bullied Wanwan in front of Fufu.
Fufu had even opened her eyes midway, her gaze full of grievance, begging Jiang Huai not to bully her older sister. Yet, her sister seemed not to have suffered any hardship. An inexplicable jealousy or perhaps anger caused Wen Fufu to pull off Wen Wanwan’s dress and then kiss her sister’s collarbone. In the end, it was Fufu who carried the weakened sister to bathe.
Jiang Huai sat on his chair, reflecting for a long time on his sin of lust. How could he, how could he not control Jiang Xiaohuai? Perhaps it was because he had written too many excessive scenes while writing those “salty” plots. When such an excessive scene happened before his eyes, Jiang Huai was completely suppressed by Jiang Xiaohuai. Now, the atmosphere seemed particularly awkward, so much so that Jiang Huai didn’t dare to say a word while eating.
Wen Fufu Gulping ate with her bowl, and after eating her fill, she glared fiercely at Jiang Huai again before rushing back to her room and closing the door tightly.
Jiang Huai looked at Wen Wanwan across from him, amused and helpless. Wen Wanwan was still eating innocently. After a while, Wen Wanwan put down her chopsticks and said softly, “Is Senior Brother Jiang Huai angry with Wanwan?”
“Why should I be angry?” Jiang Huai replied helplessly.
“Because Senior Brother Jiang Huai realized Wanwan intentionally tempted Senior Brother Jiang Huai to do bad things in front of Fufu, right?” Wen Wanwan blinked innocently at Jiang Huai. “Fufu isn’t angry, just shy. I’ll go coax her later.”
“This, this kind of thing, how can it be, how can it be like this… No, no… Won’t Fufu feel you’re bullying her too much?”
“We discussed it with Fufu,” Wen Wanwan replied innocently.
“Huh?!” Jiang Huai was stunned, his eyes widening.
“I even made a bet with Fufu, just betting whether Senior Brother Jiang Huai could resist his desires back then?”
“You bet I could or couldn’t?”
“I bet Senior Brother Jiang Huai could, Fufu bet he couldn’t.” Wen Wanwan looked at him innocently. “If you lose the bet, the price is being tickled by Fufu at night.”
“You sisters…”
Wen Wanwan was sitting next to Jiang Huai. She gently took Jiang Huai’s hand and turned her face to look at him. “Wanwan still hopes Senior Brother Jiang Huai can accept Fufu. Although Fufu is a little mischievous, she will definitely be obedient in the future…”
“Her mischievousness and obedience have nothing to do with it. She’s happy, that’s all that matters. She doesn’t need to become what I like. That’s not what I care about, I mean…”
“Then it doesn’t matter, does it?” Wen Wanwan looked at Jiang Huai with a wronged expression. “Fufu looks exactly like me. Does Senior Brother Jiang Huai want to see Fufu marry another man in the future?”
This sentence instantly silenced Jiang Huai completely.
As a pure love warrior, Jiang Huai couldn’t even bear to imagine such a scene. It was too terrifying. Wen Wanwan blinked innocently. “Wanwan’s reasoning makes sense, right?”
Jiang Huai couldn’t help but reach out and pinch Wen Wanwan’s little face. “The reasoning makes sense, so…”
“So Senior Brother Jiang Huai will obediently go along with Wanwan this once, okay?” Wen Fufu looked at him mournfully. “Fufu likes you a lot.”
“How do you know?”
“Because I’m her older sister. Fufu used to love reading your books. When she recovered, she wanted to learn swordsmanship from me, also because she admired the sword cultivators in the stories and thought they were amazing. Fufu doesn’t like overly stupid men, nor does she like overly glib men. And Senior Brother Jiang Huai just happens to be the best at pretending to be confused while understanding everything.”
“Are you complimenting me?”
“Of course.” Wen Wanwan chuckled slyly.
Jiang Huai gently pinched her earlobe.
He couldn’t help but wonder if Wen Wanwan pushing Wen Fufu towards him was somewhat disrespectful of Wen Fufu’s wishes. However, as he followed Wen Wanwan’s words and thought further, Wen Wanwan understood Wen Fufu far better than he did. And since she was Wen Fufu’s own sister, how could she bear to let her sister suffer any grievance?
It was just that he was overthinking.
“I know Senior Brother Jiang Huai feels it’s not good to be like this during the day because Senior Brother Jiang Huai worries it would wrong Fufu, but whether Fufu will feel wronged or not, Senior Brother Jiang Huai can just feel it for himself?” Wen Wanwan winked playfully.
Jiang Huai scratched his head. It seemed to make sense.
He stood up, walked to Wen Fufu’s room, and knocked gently on the door.
“Who?”
“It’s me.”
“Wait a moment…”
“Wait a moment?”
“Yes, wait a moment…” Wen Fufu’s voice seemed to tremble slightly. Jiang Huai was stunned. He thought he could even hear faint gasps. Wait, what was Wen Fufu doing?
Could it be what he was thinking?
He had thought Wen Fufu might be secretly crying in her room out of anger, grievance, or shyness.
After a long while, Jiang Huai heard Wen Fufu’s voice, “You can push the door open.”
Jiang Huai pushed the door open. Wen Fufu inside had just covered herself with the quilt. Beside the bed lay soft underpants, and a clean handkerchief slightly stained with water. She wasn’t hiding anything at all.
Jiang Huai didn’t ask her what she was doing just now. Instead, with some unease, he brought a chair and sat by the bedside. Wen Fufu glared at him fiercely again.
“Still angry?” Jiang Huai scratched his head.
“Yes,” Wen Fufu nodded. “It’s too much bullying.”
“Who do you mean you’re bullying? Bullying Older Sister, or bullying you?”
“Of course, it’s bullying me,” Wen Fufu clutched the quilt, only her head exposed. “You’re bullying me too much.”
“I have sinned, I repent, I shouldn’t have…”
“But I also kissed Older Sister’s… so you’re mostly innocent,” Wen Fufu said, then tilted her head slightly.
Jiang Huai’s carefully prepared confession was stuck in his throat. He looked at Wen Fufu’s fair face and suddenly realized what she was feeling wronged about.
She had always been jealous of her older sister, believing that if it weren’t for him, her sister would have loved only her forever.
“If you think what your older sister is doing is not good, then I’ll persuade her properly?” Jiang Huai scratched his head.
Wen Fufu rolled her eyes at Jiang Huai. “Idiot.”
“Why are you still scolding people?”
“If I didn’t allow it, Older Sister wouldn’t give you such benefits. Do you think Older Sister cares about me more than you? Heh heh, don’t dream. I’m Older Sister’s own sister. Of course, Older Sister cares about me more.”
Jiang Huai was momentarily speechless. Wen Fufu’s white and tender feet were exposed outside the quilt. Perhaps because Jiang Huai’s gaze lingered for an inch, she playfully spread her toes and said softly, “Some people claim to be gentlemen every day, but sometimes they can’t suppress the beast within, hmph.”
“…” Jiang Huai was speechless. Let her interrogate him; he had already interrogated himself ten thousand times in his heart.
“So, do you like me?”
“Don’t like it, hmph.” Wen Fufu turned her face away. “I hate you.”
“So I think it’s necessary to persuade your older sister…”
“That’s why I say you’re an idiot.” Wen Fufu turned her face back, her eyes looking at him seriously for a few more seconds. “You’re definitely not A Mumu.”
“Why?” Jiang Huai was completely baffled.
“If it were A Mumu, he would have guessed what I’m thinking in my heart.”
“Do you think A Mumu can read minds?”
“I don’t care, if it were A Mumu, he would definitely understand.”
“If it were A Mumu, he would probably guess that you are also very confused right now. On one hand, there’s your sister who grew up with you, and you look exactly like her. Older Sister takes such good care of you. If possible, you would want to live with Older Sister forever and not want any man to step into your world.”
“But Older Sister fell in love with a man named Jiang Huai. So, some of Older Sister’s love for you will be divided. On one hand, you think it’s good that Older Sister found a man she likes and can take care of her for life, and you should secretly be happy for Older Sister in your heart. But on the other hand, you start to worry that after Older Sister finds a man she likes, she won’t be able to take care of you every day like before and give you all her love.”
“You might also think that in the future, your older sister will get married. If you continue to stay by your sister’s side, you might become a burden to her and cause her trouble. So, at the very beginning, you acted like an obedient sister in front of me. Because you were worried about ruining your older sister’s happiness, later on, as we became more familiar, you couldn’t help but pester me and drive me crazy as a way to vent your resentment that I snatched your sister away.”
“I’ve written a lot about fantasies of love in my books, which might make you feel that love is a noble thing. So, you always try to tempt me to do something bad to you to prove that I only like your sister for her beauty, not for loving her heart. But you’re only reading A Mumu’s early works. A Mumu has grown. He has calmly accepted the fact that liking someone often starts with their beauty. But your sister and I will be together, and we will make a promise to become Dao Companions, because we are very relaxed together, and there are no constraints. Just sitting together without saying anything makes us happy.”
“I’m always writing about various life-and-death separations or selfless sacrifices in stories to prove that love is above all else. But most people’s love isn’t that grand. In this world, having someone by your side who makes you no longer feel lonely is enough to interpret love.”
“You don’t need to worry about not being able to stay by your sister’s side as a burden after your sister and I get married. As long as you want, you can always stay by your sister’s side. This is my promise to you, permanently valid.”
Wen Fufu listened carefully to everything Jiang Huai said, then looked up at Jiang Huai in front of her. “You suddenly became so understanding, I’m really not used to it. I’ll ask you one more question. You’re not allowed to lie, okay?”
“Ask away,” Jiang Huai had a sudden bad feeling.
“This morning, when Older Sister was on top of me, and you were bullying Older Sister, were you… more excited than when you usually bully Older Sister? You can only answer yes or no.”
Jiang Huai’s eyes twitched slightly. “Do you really have to interrogate me like this?”
“I don’t like a brother-in-law who is too much of a gentleman.”
“Yes.”
“What? Your voice is too small, I can’t hear.”
“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Is that enough?” Jiang Huai felt like rolling on the ground in shame.
“That’s more like it. I could see Older Sister was about to cry. It must be because you bullied Older Sister… You look proper on the surface, but you have many perverse thoughts in your heart. This is A Mumu. I believe you now.” Wen Fufu tilted her head up, then blinked innocently at him. “Fufu doesn’t feel wronged, and I’m not angry with you. As for whether I like you… Fufu has never liked anyone before, and Fufu doesn’t know. If, as you said, your heart beats faster when you’re close to the person you like… then Fufu probably likes you a little.”
Jiang Huai felt he should interrogate Wen Fufu too, so he deliberately replied, “I don’t believe you.”
“But Fufu’s heart is beating very fast right now.”
As Wen Fufu spoke, she lifted the quilt, her fingertips lightly grasping the sides of the sling. The black sling dress was pulled down, pooling at her snow-white waist. She slightly puffed out her chest and winked at Jiang Huai. “Brother-in-law, do you want to come… and listen?”
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
The reality was that Jiang Xiaohuai’s eyes were already muddled by watching her chest, which trembled with her breathing. Wen Fufu still extended her arms to him, looking at him innocently. “Listen, it’s okay, Brother-in-law… Anyway, Older Sister won’t know.”
“In this situation, it doesn’t matter if your older sister knows, does it?!”
“But doesn’t saying it like this make it more exciting?” Wen Fufu grabbed Jiang Huai’s outstretched hand and pulled Jiang Huai right in front of her.
“If it’s Brother-in-law, it’s okay to want to kiss, right? I’ll reluctantly let you kiss me once then?”
“You sisters are naturally my bane.”
“It’s because Brother-in-law is too weak, timid, lecherous, and pretends to be proper.”
“Ew, no, no, no, no, no, no, don’t bite Fufu…”
Wen Fufu’s calves began to kick around aggrievedly.
