My sister, whom I raised, has turned evil after faking her death for three years.

Jiang Ran stared blankly at Su Qing, watching her gently rub her face against her palm, as if she couldn't believe that the "hmm" she had just uttered was real.

Then she suddenly tightened her arms, pulling Su Qing back into her embrace with such force that both of them staggered backward.

She buried her face in Su Qing's neck, her voice muffled, with a hint of laughter rising from deep in her throat.

"My sister agreed! My sister finally agreed!"

She hugged Su Qing tightly, like a child who had just received a favorite toy, and swayed gently from side to side.

Su Qing was amused by her series of childish actions and laughed out loud. She raised her hand and patted her back: "Alright, alright, if you keep shaking me, I'll fall apart."

Jiang Ran hugged her for a while before loosening her grip slightly, but her arms remained wrapped around Su Qing's waist, as if afraid that she would disappear again if she let go.

Su Qing leaned back on the sofa, looking at the face so close to hers, and suddenly narrowed her eyes slightly, adopting an interrogative tone: "Xiao Ran, isn't it your turn to confess now?"

Jiang Ran blinked, her face still bearing the innocent and obedient expression from before.

"A luxury car for 9.9 yuan, a hotel room upgraded to a luxury suite for free for 100 yuan, and that grand prize with 'only one spot available'..." Su Qing reached out and gently pinched Jiang Ran's cheeks, pulling them slightly apart. "Can Xiao Ran tell us all about these things too?"

Jiang Ran's face was being pinched by her sister, and her voice was adorably mumbled: "No, I didn't, sister, don't talk nonsense. Xiao Ran doesn't know what you're talking about. Xiao Ran didn't do anything."

"Still trying to argue."

Seeing her stubborn denial, Su Qing gently tugged at her lips a couple more times, unable to hide the smile on her face. "Don't tell me that Xiao Zhi and Wen Liang are so afraid of you, yet they don't even know you. You little brat, I almost thought I was just incredibly lucky."

Jiang Ran couldn't help but laugh as her sister gently tugged at her cheek.

She mumbled and pleaded, "I poked you, I really poked you, please let go, okay, sister?"

Seeing her "confessing" appearance, Su Qing released her grip with satisfaction.

As soon as she let go, Jiang Ran pounced on her, and Su Qing was pulled backward by the force, her head landing right on the soft armrest of the sofa.

Jiang Ran braced herself on either side of her, trapping her between the sofa and herself. She looked down at her with a smile, "Sister, you're not right. It all started when you found Xiao Ran. By finding Xiao Ran, you indirectly gained all these things. How can that not be called luck?"

Su Qing was amused by her absurd logic. She lay back on the sofa, looking at the serious-looking face spouting nonsense above her, and smiled: "Absurd logic, how can that be the same?"

Jiang Ran looked at her sister lying on her back beneath her, her eyes curved into two crescent moons, and her gentle, soft smile was open to her without any defense.

She felt her heart racing, narrowed her eyes slightly, and leaned down a few more inches, until her nose was almost touching her sister's: "Oh? Isn't it the same?"

Looking at Jiang Ran's sudden closeness, Su Qing felt it was a bit strange that the two of them were still in this position at such an age, but then she thought that Xiao Ran had liked to lie on her like this and act coquettishly since she was little. She did it when she was seven, ten, and fifteen.

In front of Xiao Ran, she will always be the older sister who can let her act spoiled.

  

She looked into Jiang Ran's bright eyes and smiled gently: "It's lucky to have obtained these things by chance, but finding Xiao Ran was destiny."

Jiang Ran's breath hitched upon hearing this.

She looked at her sister's face beneath her. Her sister's eyes were bright as she smiled and said those words, and the corners of her mouth were curved in a gentle smile. Her whole being was relaxed, soft, and completely unguarded.

She wanted to pin her sister, who looked like this, down onto the sofa...

Tsk...really, why say something like that and then smile so cutely to seduce her?

Her fingers, gripping the blanket on the sofa, slowly tightened, her knuckles creating deep wrinkles in the soft velvet fabric.

Then she bent down again.

This time, she didn't kiss her sister's cheek or bite her ear. Instead, she gently bit her sister's shoulder at the edge of her collar, through the thin fabric.

The force wasn't strong, but it was enough to leave a shallow crescent-shaped tooth mark on that fair skin.

Su Qing felt a slight stinging pain in her shoulder, but she took it as Xiao Ran's coquettish protest after being rendered speechless. Instead of dodging, she laughed even more smugly: "Why are you biting me? Do you think what your older sister said makes so much sense that you can't refute it?"

Seeing her sister's usual smile and unguarded demeanor, Jiang Ran slowly straightened up. Looking at the faint red mark on her sister's shoulder, the restlessness she had felt earlier not only did not subside in the slightest, but intensified. Su Qing, however, was still smiling, thinking that she was just throwing a tantrum as a child.

Jiang Ran's bite was clearly meant to make her sister restrain herself and stop tempting her with that smile, but it backfired. Su Qing not only didn't restrain herself, but became even more smug.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Ran had only one thought in her mind... She wanted to make her sister unable to laugh, wanted those crescent-shaped eyes to be misty for some other reason, and wanted to hear those lips that always said "Little Ran, be good" in the gentlest tone make other beautiful sounds.

But she thought about the consequences of doing so, and realized it would probably scare her slow-witted older sister.

She could almost picture her sister's reaction: first disbelief, then blank stare, maybe even blushing, and then stammering out a cute, almost criminal question about what she was doing.

Oh well, anyway, my sister has already promised not to leave her again.

No rush, she has plenty of time.

Jiang Ran straightened up, and Su Qing, thinking that this round of "interrogation and punishment" was over, also prepared to sit up, leaning on the sofa.

However, the next moment, Jiang Ran suddenly grabbed the most ticklish spot on her waist with both hands and tickled it with just the right amount of force.

"Ah—" Su Qing was caught off guard and jumped up.

The tingling, numb, and itchy electric shock-like sensation shot from her waist all the way to the top of her head, causing her to involuntarily cry out.

The voice was short and soft, carrying a hint of panic at being caught off guard by the attack.

Su Qing slumped back onto the sofa, her face flushed red from her cheeks to the roots of her ears.

Jiang Ran remained straddling her lap, tilting her head to look at her sister's embarrassed and annoyed expression, a smug smile playing on her lips: "Sister... are you that sensitive?"