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

"Found it."

Jiang Yi's eyes lit up. She reached out and grabbed two cartons of strawberry milk from the shelf, put them in her shopping basket, and then turned and walked around the corner of another shelf.

Su Qing was also heading towards the same corner.

She found the strawberry milk shelf, bent down and picked up two cartons. She planned to give one to Xiaoran, and after thinking about it, she put the other one into her shopping cart as well.

What if Xiaoran wants more after finishing one box?

Then I thought, what if she wants to drink it too? So I took another box.

Then she thought, Lin Zhi and Wen Liang still come over occasionally... In the end, she took several boxes from the shelf.

She stood up, clutching several boxes of strawberry milk, and turned to find her next target.

Jiang Yi also turned around.

The corner is a 90-degree blind spot.

So when they both took that step, no one had time to stop.

"oops……"

Su Qing's shoulder bumped into Jiang Yi's shoulder, and both of them took a step back at the same time.

Two cartons of strawberry milk in Su Qing's hand were knocked away and fell to the ground with a thud. Next to them was a bag of macarons that had fallen out of Jiang Yi's shopping basket. The pink box rolled twice and stopped at Su Qing's feet.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Su Qing squatted down to pick up her things, apologizing as she did so. Her tone was filled with a sense of panic and apology. The sleeves of her milky white knitted sweater slipped down slightly as she squatted down, revealing a section of her fair wrist.

Her long hair was not tied into a ponytail as usual, but loosely tied up, hanging down from one side of her neck to her front, with the ends swaying gently at her collarbone.

"I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going..." Jiang Yi quickly squatted down and reached out to pick up the box of macarons.

Then her movements suddenly froze.

A very faint, pleasant fragrance wafted from the person opposite her and entered her nose.

That smell was familiar.

too familiar.

Jiang Yi suddenly stopped picking things up. Her fingers froze in mid-air, still trying to reach the box of strawberry milk that had rolled away. Then she slowly, inch by inch, raised her head.

The person in front of her was bending down, helping her pick up the scattered items one by one and put them back into the bag.

Bathed in the soft, warm light between the shelves, her profile showed long, thick eyelashes, a straight nose, slightly pursed lips, and a very faint curve at the corners.

It was exactly the same profile she had seen countless times in photos, and the same smile she had when she met Sister Su at the amusement park.

  

Jiang Yi was completely stunned.

Her eyes were wide open, but her pupils were very small. Her lips were moving as if she wanted to say something, but it was as if something was blocking her throat, and she couldn't utter a single word.

Su Qing sensed the stiffness in the person beside her, looked up, and then froze.

The girl standing in front of her was about the same height as her, wearing a light yellow sweatshirt, light khaki wide-leg pants, and beige canvas shoes.

Her hair was a little longer than it had been three years ago, but her face was still as beautiful as ever. Her round face had thinned out a bit, and her chin had become more pointed. She had lost some of her former soft and cute charm, but gained a sharpness that had been honed by time and experience.

But the emotions brimming in those big eyes were exactly the same as those of the little girl who followed her around calling her "Sister Su" three years ago.

Jiang Yi.

The two words only flashed through Su Qing's mind before her heart felt like it had been violently clenched.

She wanted to stand up, to smile, to say "long time no see," but then she suddenly remembered her current situation... She shouldn't know Jiang Yi, at least not with this face.

In Jiang Yi's mind, she had been dead for three years.

So she subconsciously took a step back, forced a polite smile, and moved her lips, preparing to say, "Excuse me, you've mistaken me for someone else."

But she didn't have time to say it.

"Sister Su..."

Jiang Yi's voice was squeezed out from her throat, hoarse and broken, as if she had kept this name in her heart for far too long, so long that it was covered in dust when she finally took it out.

Su Qing's breath hitched for a second.

Jiang Yi was trembling all over.

She squatted on the ground, looking up at Su Qing's face. Her eyes were filled with a complex emotion that was hard to describe: shock, ecstasy, confusion, disbelief, all layered together, making her eyes red in an instant.

That face, which had become more sharp than before, now seemed to have been struck hard by something. All the pretense and defense crumbled in an instant, leaving only a little girl overwhelmed by memories and longing.

It's so similar, so very similar, exactly like how she looked when she first met Sister Su.

Before Su Qing could figure out what excuse to use to get out of this, the bodyguard carrying the crabs rushed forward.

He placed the crabs on the shelf next to him, anxiously looking Su Qing up and down, repeatedly asking her if she had bumped into anything and if she needed to call a doctor.

Then he looked up at the person who had bumped into Miss Su, and his expression suddenly froze on his face.

"Miss...?" His voice rose a half tone, filled with undisguised surprise.

The security guard opposite, who was pushing the shopping cart, was also taken aback. He looked at his four colleagues carrying large and small bags, then at Jiang Yi, whose expression had completely changed as she stood in front of Miss Su. He opened his mouth and asked, "Old Liu? What are you doing here?"

Jiang Yi stared blankly at the bodyguards beside Su Qing. She finally remembered that familiar feeling. These people were Xiao Ran's people. She had seen them before, just last week, when she went to the company to find Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran's bodyguard was accompanied by a person who looked exactly like Sister Su.

She looks exactly like Sister Su.

Xiao Ran's bodyguard.

They followed Sister Su, they helped Sister Su carry her things. Sister Su came from Xiao Ran's place. Sister Su is still alive. Sister Su is still alive. Sister Su is still alive...

The thought flashed through her mind like lightning, but it was quickly followed by another, colder, and heavier idea that shattered all those fragments.

wrong……

Sister Su has already left...

She passed away three years ago; she witnessed Sister Su's burial...

These two pieces of information collided in her mind, sparking not a flame of relief and understanding, but a raging fire of anger.

Jiang Yi's face underwent a transformation from shock to gloom in just a few seconds.

Her eyes were still red, and her lips were still trembling slightly with excitement, but the emotions surging in her eyes had changed.

Shock was overwhelmed by anger, confusion was replaced by an almost instinctive protective instinct, and all tenderness was burned to ashes.

She suddenly gripped Su Qing's wrist tightly, with a force unlike the soft and cute little girl she used to be. She seemed to have been ignited by something, radiating undisguised anger and vigilance.

Her eyes reddened, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her lips turned pale from the extreme emotional turmoil.

Su Qing was startled by her sudden action and tried to break free, but found that she couldn't break free from the hand of this once soft and sweet little girl.

Jiang Yi's voice was very low, so low that only the two of them could hear it, but the surging anger in her voice made the four bodyguards next to her involuntarily take a half step back.

"Who are you? Why are you impersonating Sister Su?!"

Jiang Yi's eyes were so red they were almost bleeding, but her gaze was sharp as a knife, with a layer of scalding heat on the blade, a light that was called "the bottom line that has been violated".

Her voice trembled, not from fear, but from extreme anger, an anger that surged from her chest, stuck in her throat, making each word seem to be squeezed out from between her teeth.

"You lied to Xiaoran, didn't you? You used this face to deceive her, didn't you?!"

Jiang Yi tightened her grip on Su Qing's wrist, her knuckles turning white and the veins on the back of her hand standing out. But she didn't realize that her fingernails were digging into Su Qing's wrist through her sleeve, and the force made Su Qing feel a slight pain.

Her whole body was trembling, not a fragile tremor, but an uncontrollable shudder of anger after her most sacred things had been violated.

Three years.

Three years.

Sister Su has been gone for three years.

It took her three years to stop crying every time she thought of Sister Su.

It took her three years to learn that when she looked at Sister Su's photos, she felt not only a knife-like pain in her heart, but also a tiny bit of warmth.

She kept Sister Su in the cleanest, softest, and most inviolable place in her heart, a corner that even she herself dared not easily touch, because she knew that once touched, it would still hurt.

And now, someone dares to use this face, this face that she wouldn't even dare to dream about for a second longer... to deceive Xiao Ran?

Jiang Yi's tears finally rolled down her cheeks, but she didn't wipe them away.

She stared intently at Su Qing, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, its fur standing on end, all its softness and cuteness overwhelmed by a more primal and intense protective instinct.

She wouldn't allow it.

She absolutely would not allow anyone to tarnish Sister Su's image.