My Sister Never Said She Was a Creepy Tale - Chapter 92

Yue Yiyue watched her mother send something, followed by her phone ringing incessantly, as if something urgent was happening.

She guiltily thought that her mother was still so busy near the New Year. Successful career people truly worked hard.

Her mother’s earnings were all hard-earned money; it was a sin for her to spend it so freely.

Noticing Yue Yiyue’s gaze, Mother silenced her phone and put it in her bag. She then dragged the photo from the group chat into a file named “Puppy.”

Ignoring the barrage of notifications from the distraught messages in the group, She closed the laptop and explained: “It’s nothing too major. All the necessary work was dealt with before I came back.”

“Just some personal matters.” Mother flashed a standard smile: “You invited me to celebrate the New Year, so I started preparing. Some friends of mine, They  are very curious about you and wanted me to talk about you, but I told Them we’ll talk after the New Year.”

Everything else could be put aside for now; spending the New Year with Yue Yiyue was the most important thing.

“Baby, after lunch, let’s go shopping for clothes. Are you sleeping with me tonight?” Mother took out a small box from Her pocket and opened it.

A set of golden jewelry with intricate carvings—a ring, a matching necklace, earrings, and a bracelet—appeared inside.

“Good girl, it’s been a long time since we last met.” Mother took out another box: “I’ll give you what’s inside this one when we get back. I just feel like you’re bare.”

“We’ll go out tonight and buy some other things.”

“You need to save some gold. Speaking of which, are you interested in a house here?”

“I hear that teenagers like these things.” Mother smiled gently: “I don’t quite understand what young people think, but my colleague said I should prepare what needs to be prepared.”

Yue Yiyue looked down at the items in her hand. Motherly love is as immense as a mountain.

She just didn’t specify it was a mountain of gold.

Looking at the gifts, Yue Yiyue felt hesitant.

This Mother was not her mother; this was the Mother who had come to this world through some means.

If Mother knew that her previous daughter had been replaced by an ordinary “she.”

The guilt she had desperately tried to ignore, like an invisible hand, squeezed Yue Yiyue’s throat.

When fighting monsters and when she nearly burned to death, Yue Yiyue only felt relieved that it was her in this situation.

But upon receiving these valuable items, Yue Yiyue started to hesitate, asking why it was her.

Yue Yiyue looked down at her hands, afraid to accept them.

“Don’t you like these?” Mother’s finely lined eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Yue Yiyue shook her head: “No, it’s just that these things are too expensive.”

“Baby, these are all things you should possess.” Hearing this answer, Mother’s gentle gaze was like a warm spring, allowing Yue Yiyue to drown in it.

“I’m just sorry I’m only giving them to you now.” A faint red flickered in Mother’s eyes. Yue Yiyue nodded hesitantly, and the soft voice in her ear repeated: “These are all things you deserve. Mama’s baby will always only be you.”

Only you…

Yue Yiyue curled her hands, feeling dazed, and accepted the items from Mother: “Thank you, Mom… Is this my reward for coming here?”

“No, this isn’t a reward. This is what you should have, but I’m twelve years late in giving it to you—”

As the words fell, a memory she had nearly forgotten surfaced in Yue Yiyue’s mind: her time at the orphanage.

There was an auntie, an auntie who would take her to the amusement park and buy her clothes.

The auntie couldn’t adopt her, but the auntie promised with a hooked pinky finger that there would be a chance later; she would become her mother someday.

Other scattered fragments flashed through her mind.

Under the shock of the memories, Yue Yiyue fell asleep quietly in the comfortable car seat, with only one thought: It’s great. She didn’t lie. She kept her promise.

Mother turned up the car’s heater and covered Yue Yiyue with a thin blanket.

The driver looked at the woman’s actions through the rearview mirror and clicked her tongue: “If Yue Yiyue finds out the truth, do you think she’ll hate us?”

She didn’t answer, just looked at Yue Yiyue’s serene sleeping face.

Just as the person in the front thought she wouldn’t get an answer, a faint voice sounded: “Hate lasts longer than love.”

The driver gently tapped her little finger on the steering wheel: “Yes, hate lasts longer than love.”

When Yue Yiyue woke up, she was lying in bed, looking around the room, feeling like something had been added.

For instance, a jewelry storage box in the corner.

And then some strange little trinkets, like a wooden cat carving and a Matryoshka doll with interesting colors.

There was also an extra blanket on the bed, colorful and very soft to the touch.

These must be the small items Mother collected. She remembered mentioning to her mother when she was little that she loved them!

This feeling of having something she casually mentioned remembered felt overwhelmingly warm. Yue Yiyue’s eyes sparkled as she played with the cute little trinkets.

She picked up the freshly washed blue wool jacket next to her, put it on, and walked out of the bedroom.

In the living room, Gu Nanqiu was pouring water for Mother.

The financial news was playing on the TV.

“You’re awake?” Gu Nanqiu sized up Yue Yiyue’s clothes: “Auntie Yue Lu, your taste is excellent. The clothes you bought for Yiyue suit her perfectly.”

Yue Lu smiled, took a sip from her cup, and said: “The outfit Yiyue wore when she went out today was chosen by you, right? It’s excellent too.”

The atmosphere between the two was harmonious. Yue Yiyue scratched her head, feeling a little embarrassed: “I might not have slept well last night. I apologize.”

“Nanqiu came down to pick you up. You’ve found a good roommate,” Yue Lu stood up, picked up another cup reserved for Yue Yiyue, and placed it in Yue Yiyue’s hand: “Drink this. Let’s sit together, and then we’ll go out for lunch.”

“Yiyue, what do you want to eat for the New Year? I haven’t cooked for you in a long time. Nanqiu and I will cook together for the New Year.”

Mother looked completely natural here, and very familiar with the apartment.

But Her attitude toward Gu Nanqiu…

Yue Yiyue couldn’t quite place it.

Watching them converse back and forth, Yue Yiyue felt like they knew each other and were pretending not to be close.

After secretly observing the two for half an hour, Yue Yiyue felt increasingly that their distance was intentional pretense.

The feeling was too absurd. Yue Yiyue checked her watch repeatedly.

The SAN value was normal. She quietly pinched her arm; it hurt a little.

Alright, maybe it’s just because I talk about Gu Nanqiu so often.

“Yiyue, are you still sleepy?” Mother looked at Yue Yiyue’s weary expression and asked with concern: “After you fell asleep, I found that there were several car accidents on the way to the airport.”

“I won’t go into details; it’s bad luck for the New Year. Were you scared?”

Recalling the accident on the way, Yue Yiyue shivered slightly. At that moment, she felt like something was staring at her, but the next moment, that something moved its gaze away, constrained by some force.

“…I shouldn’t have seen anything?” The value on her watch slowly decreased, then rapidly started climbing again.

Yue Yiyue looked into Mother’s eyes, where a trace of dark red flashed.

The scene before her began to distort, and the feeling of drowsiness returned.

A voice seemed to transmit to her ear, whispering softly: “It’s normal for Mom and Gu Nanqiu to be familiar.”

“It’s normal for Mom to be familiar with this house.”

“Yiyue, you are in a very dangerous world. The safest place is only by Gu Nanqiu and Mom’s side.”

Something in the corner quietly glanced at Yue Lu sitting on the sofa. In the face of Her knowing, half-smiling expression, It silently retreated.

Gu Nanqiu watched Yue Lu expertly manipulate Yue Yiyue’s perception.

Sure enough, if your power was strong enough, you were not bound by those things.

It was fortunate that the strongest of the ‘slices’ was only dedicated to being Yue Yiyue’s mother.

She rested her chin on her hand, watching Yue Yiyue sway and slump into the sofa.

The dark red in Yue Lu’s eyes completely disappeared, and Her expression changed: “The Mother  came looking for me a while ago.”

“She said this shell has a very good fit with Yue Yiyue.”

Gu Nanqiu’s pupils contracted slightly, then quickly returned to normal: “Restarting the third generation was indeed a suitable solution.”

She leaned back slightly on the sofa, casually complaining softly: “It’s just that the script Wild Qiu wrote is truly terrible. The spin-off should have established us as a passionate couple from the start.”

“Of course, writing it as me secretly loving Yue Yiyue for years is also acceptable.”

She thought about it, then dismissed the idea: “Impossible. With this perfect face, there can be no secret crush plot. I would find a way to charm her away the moment I saw Yue Yiyue.”

Listening to Gu Nanqiu’s wild imagination, Yue Lu chuckled softly: “Your idea is good. Wild Qiu will probably discuss it with her friends and write it when She has free time. But from the current situation, Yue Yiyue is having fun, isn’t She?”

“We finally managed to raise her well, unlike the second time, when She was so guarded against you, always hiding far away, and was silently taken away by Gluttony, Her body collapsing, leaving only a confused soul.”

If it hadn’t been for the forensic doctor returning Yue Yiyue a favor that time, locking Gluttony in the house, that soul would have been thrown into the pot and brewed into a thick soup by the vengeful Gluttony long ago.

Just like the first time Gluttony and Yue Yiyue met, it was because of the soup Gluttony sent out of boredom.

That led her to meet the forensic doctor, and she was eventually dragged into chaos and tormented by the forensic doctor, who was “crazier than a madman.”

Yes, Gu Nanqiu looked at the sleeping Yue Yiyue lying soundly on the sofa. Aside from those two years when they used the power of the Main God to reconstruct this place and couldn’t be with Yue Yiyue, They had permeated Yue Yiyue’s past and present.

The two of Them stood up and sat down next to Yue Yiyue.

Holding Yue Yiyue’s hand, Gu Nanqiu looked at the TV and asked with some confusion: “Do you think she will truly accept a life where everything is predetermined?”

A human life was just a snap of the fingers to Them.

But the moment Yue Yiyue willingly reached out to Her, everything about Yue Yiyue became intertwined with Her, preventing Yue Yiyue from dying normally.

She forgot how many years it had been, but Her monster heart would always beat faster because of Yue Yiyue’s actions.

Especially after A City.

Gu Nanqiu had learned a new emotion: jealousy.

Jealousy that Yue Yiyue had new topics with others.

Jealousy that Yue Yiyue would video call Wild Qiu late at night to chat about movies.

These inexplicable emotions made Gu Nanqiu feel more and more like a human.

Yue Lu gently poked Yue Yiyue’s slightly plump cheek: “Don’t worry about things that haven’t happened yet.”

“Yiyue will forgive me,” Yue Lu murmured to Herself: “Yiyue is a very good child. She will understand my good intentions.”