[I met the girl I had been avoiding in my grandmother's yard.]
[At that time, I thought I was still in an illusion, because the girl I saw was half a head shorter than me and looked exactly like me.]
[That’s my imaginary sister.]
[She came forward and called me sister. I happily held her hand and taught her how to catch insects to feed the ants on the ground.]
[Fear and curiosity about the strange insects appeared on her face at the same time. She hid behind me and looked around.]
[She is very quiet and treats me very kindly.]
[I am more certain that this is my imagination, she is my imaginary sister.]
So, at dinner, I saw my grandma preparing her bowl of rice and heard her talking to her. I was shocked and my mind was confused.
[My grandmother told me that she was the daughter of the family at the head of the village, and her name was Liuli.]
[The first time I felt Liuli's presence was when I was in kindergarten. ]
[At that time, I was bored and was rummaging through boxes and cabinets at home. I accidentally knocked over a small box, which contained neatly arranged clothes and supplies for a baby.]
[The clothes are clean and the supplies are new.]
[At that time, I didn’t know what this cleanliness and newness represented. I thought it was something I had when I was a child. I took out small toys to play with and pretended to be a baby drinking milk from a bottle.]
[I put these things back to where they belonged before my mother came back.]
[After entering primary school, I gradually realized that something was wrong. I realized that old clothes should not be so clean, and old utensils should not be so new.]
[I was watching detective animation at the time and regarded this incident as a detective game. I imitated the detectives on TV and looked for clues everywhere.]
[This detective game lasted about two days, because I later became addicted to monster animation, and I always get bored after only three minutes.]
[The box containing the baby products changed from evidence in the case to a prop for my fantasy. I imagined that there was a zashiki-warashi living in my house, and the box contained the zashiki-warashi's daily necessities.]
[It lasted for another two months, and my enthusiasm for monster anime faded. I started watching special effects movies, and the things in the baby box had nothing to do with the heroes with strange powers, so I forgot about them.]
[I thought of the Zashiki-warashi again on a winter evening. It was at that time that I first heard the name Ruri.]
[My father and mother took me to a pub. They were drunk. A girl shorter than me passed by the stall. My mother said that if Liuli was still there, she would be as big as the girl just now.]
[I was curious and asked my mother who Liuli was, but she was unwilling to speak.]
[I asked my father again, and he briefly explained it to me. Then I realized that when I was one and a half years old, I should have had a younger sister.]
[My sister failed to come into the world. The doctor said it would be better not to let her be born.]
[When I got home, I took out the box again, and the apparition of Zashiki-warashi reappeared, no longer as a monster, but as my sister.]
[I really want a sister, a sister who follows me around, calls me sister, and cheers and claps for me when I climb the tree in the yard and catch a cool rhinoceros beetle.]
[I imagine what my younger sister looks like. Because she is my younger sister, she is shorter than me. Because she is my younger sister, she looks the same as me. Because she is my younger sister, she is very quiet.]
[Sisters should be more quiet. This is how it is in cartoons. If the sister is as naughty as the older sister, then what is the difference between the older sister and the sister? ]
[In my imagination, unlike me who can’t sit still and pose in various positions when watching cartoons, my sister always sits at the desk. She flips through the picture albums that I am not interested in and reads them intently and fascinatedly.]
[I envy those quiet children. I envy them for not having to use their bodies to enjoy life. I envy them for being able to wear beautiful princess dresses without getting their clothes dirty or torn by climbing trees or running.]
[I imagined my sister to be someone I envied.]
[Only my sister can become the person I envy. ]
[I once wanted to be a lady, but there was only a picture book at home. There were no princess dresses, origami, or even teddy bears that girls usually have.]
[My toy box only contains insect nets, insect cages, children's baseball sets, golden hoop sticks, large water guns... and various small gadgets I picked up.]
[I think even a true lady would feel bored in such an environment. There is no nourishment for a lady to grow here.]
[So I am a naughty kid, a tomboy.]
[I wasn’t a tomboy from the beginning, and my parents didn’t give me boys’ toys from the beginning. They thought it was my choice, but they had made the choice for me even earlier.]
[My parents are different from ordinary parents. They are very loving and I became a little light bulb. They tried every means to make sure that I, the light bulb, would not disturb their happy love.]
[Giving me 100 yen and throwing me to the older kids in the neighborhood is what they do most often. ]
[What can two girls do outside the house? Of course they can only run and jump around like boys and act crazy. ]
[So I became this kind of person.]
[Unlike me who has already taken shape, my sister is still in the process of shaping herself. Moreover, my imaginary sister can take out imaginary picture books, dolls and princess dresses. She is not bound by reality.]
[She is my beautiful fantasy of my other life.]
[It’s too tiring to imagine my sister all the time, and too boring to just lie there and think about it, so I found a way to play. I pretended to be my sister, sat at the desk, looked at picture books, and folded origami cranes like the quietest girl in the class.]
[I didn’t even look at the contents of the picture book, and the paper crane I made with homework paper didn’t look good. I just thought it was fun to play a girl who was completely opposite to me, and I felt the satisfaction of having my wish come true.]
[Naughty children always seek novelty and change, and so do I. I am no longer satisfied with my soulless role-playing. I want to have a real sister. I asked my mother, but she rejected me.]
[My mother's body is no longer able to bear a younger sister, and she doesn't allow me to mention this matter again.]
[Her anger frightened me, and her tears made me feel guilty. I shouldn’t have used Liuli to play around, and my mother would feel pain.]
[But I really don't want to leave this most perfect sister. I urgently need to find a new identity for my sister. As long as my sister is no longer my mother's daughter, I don't have to remember my mother's tears. ]
[I chose a girl from my hometown village. I heard that girl's name is also Liuli.]
[Everyone in the village is related, so Liuli is still my sister. ]
[I continued to fantasize and pretend to be my sister, and the things my sister took out had a new explanation. They were things she brought from her own home.]
[I never thought that I would actually meet Liuli. ]
[After my father passed away, my mother and I returned to the village. Every day, my mother sat in front of my father's portrait. Their relationship was still so close, and she still waved her hand to let me go out.]
[My grandmother, who lived in the middle of the village, noticed me wandering around, and she discussed with my mother and decided that I would be taken care of by her for the time being.]
[That day, I was sad because of my father's departure. I squatted in the corner of the yard, not wanting my grandmother to see me crying.]
[Liuli suddenly approached me and frightened me. I hurriedly wiped my tears away when she couldn't see the direction. I said I was watching ants and took her to catch bugs to feed the ants.]
[Seeing her smile, I couldn't help but smile too.]
The text in the second pop-up box stopped abruptly, and another new pop-up box popped up with a choice.
[Faced with this situation, you decide...]
[1. “Love in childhood”]
[2. "Love after dusk and rain"]
[3. “Right now”]
[4. Free simulation]
Ignoring the new options, Nan Youxi recalled the first two pop-up boxes.
The two pop-up boxes describe the stories of Liuli and Xiaojiu respectively, telling how Liuli and Xiaojiu imagined that they had an older sister/sister, but ended up finding that the Xiaojiu/Liuli in their imaginations really came to them, except that the older sister became the younger sister and the younger sister became the older sister.
The text in the second pop-up box overturned Nan Youxi's previous guess, making the identities of the two girls confusing.
Who is the real entity and who is the fantasy or the split one
Liuli fantasized about Xiaojiu, and Xiaojiu also fantasized about Liuli. They were both like the main body and also like the secondary body.
How should we attack now? Should we stick to the original idea and let Xiaojiu become Liuli and Liuli become Xiaojiu
Nan Youxi looked at the options, three options, three key words, childhood sweethearts, dusk and rain, and today. These three words represent three different points in time, namely childhood, old age, and the current youth.
This should be an option for time travel.
If you travel back to the time when Liuli and Xiaojiu were still young and interfere with the education of Liuli and Xiaojiu's parents, you can turn Liuli into a naughty boy and Xiaojiu into a little princess.
But is this the right path
Nan Youxi looked at the ceiling. The ceiling was very white, like white moonlight, and also like rice sticks. He thought of a very classic sentence.
The mentality of Liuli and Xiaojiu cannot be applied to the story of the red and white roses, but the metaphor of the red and white roses can prove that the problem can be solved by changing Liuli into Xiaojiu instead of turning Xiaojiu into Liuli.
When the quiet Liuli becomes naughty, she will create the quiet Xiaojiu.
When the naughty little dove becomes quiet, it will create the naughty Liuli.
Changing like this is nothing but a trick and does not touch the essence at all.
After ruling out option one, Nan Youxi continued to think about options two and three.
He first looked towards the dusk and rain.
He wondered what would happen if he traveled back in time to when Liuli and Xiaojiu were old.
Can time bring changes to Liuli and Xiaojiu
I'm afraid not.
Time cannot dissolve obsession, it will only make it deeper. Besides, Liuli and Xiaojiu are not ordinary girls, they are two bodies and one soul.
Nan Youxi started to have a headache. He realized that although there was a fantasy setting where two people were one person, he still had to solve a psychological problem that existed universally in all people.
He looked out the window, staring at the dim moon for a long time. He wondered how to solve the problem of looking forward to the sun at night and the bright moon during the day
To put it more simply, how do we solve the problem of being tired of what we have and longing for what we don’t have
He took out a coin from the bedside table, held it between two fingers, and held it between his eyes.
How to make this coin have both sides at the same time
Nan Youxi stared at the coin until her eyes became blurry, then she smiled.
He thought his question was ridiculous, and he discovered that things were so simple.
A coin has both sides.
With a ding sound, the coin was bounced up by him and started spinning in the air.
He clicked option three.
[You decide to start from the present.]
There is no need to go to the past or the future; it is best to solve the problem now.
[Similar paragraphs detected, whether to turn on simplified mode]
Yes. Nan Youxi clicked.
He thought that the most similar scene was probably the one where they went to the countryside to meet the two sisters.
[During the summer vacation, you returned to your hometown in the countryside and met Liuli and Xiaojiu. ]
[You had spent a happy time with them in your childhood, and now that you meet again, you are all in a very happy mood. ]
[They who were young and tender at that time have grown into beautiful girls, and you who were short at that time have grown into a tall boy. ]
[Your handsome appearance, decent manners and humorous conversation made Liuli and Xiaojiu quickly transform their friendship into love. ]
[It's just a small token of my affection now. ]
[You listened to the worries of Liuli and Xiaojiu. They went to school in different cities and wanted to go to Misaki together and live together. ]
[You encouraged them and took out the real exam questions from the suitcase. You were well prepared.]
[They look at you in astonishment. Their blank gazes are very cute, and their running away looks very embarrassing.]
[You caught them, locked them in the study, and gave them devilish tutoring.]
[Xiaojiu is very smart, and Liuli's IQ is not bad either, but her attention is too scattered. Under your guidance, Xiaojiu's grades have improved, and Liuli's grades have made great progress.]
[In fact, their grades don't matter. You can get them into their favorite high schools through Ichinose Shiori's back door, but you think it's better to let them achieve their goals through their own efforts.]
[Of course, this is a joke. You just think it's fun to force two young girls to study. While teaching them, you occasionally sneak a peek at their bodies, taking in the beauty of their bodies as they concentrate on their studies.]
[Xiaojiu discovered your bad intentions, and she deliberately pulled Liuli's clothes to let you see more of Liuli.]
[At the end of the holiday, Liuli finally noticed something was wrong. She protected her own clothes and tried to pull Xiaojiu's.]
[You look at their actions, feeling somewhat helpless and somewhat amused.]
[You see, Liuli admires Xiaojiu's personality and thinks that Xiaojiu is the perfect version of herself. Xiaojiu admires Liuli's personality and thinks that Liuli is the perfect version of herself.]
[They have a deep friendship, so they both think that the other person is your best choice. ]
[You also think that there may be another reason. They subconsciously think that the other person is themselves, and they want to give you the best of themselves. ]
Four thousand words in two chapters, I will start updating hard today!
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