"You're here?" Liu Xiaoxiao greeted without looking up when she heard the door open and footsteps. "I just got an orange weapon. Do you want to try it out?"

"Not now, let's see who's coming?"

Hearing this, Liu Xiaoxiao looked up and glanced to her side, only to see Shang Yunmiao greeting her with a smile.

Liu Xiaoxiao was taken aback at first, then immediately stood up, took the other person's hand, and began to chatter on and on. The two of them chattered away, looking very affectionate and loving, not at all like people who had only met a few times and spent two or three days together.

So, is this a girl's instinct? Or did the two of them have contact without Chen Bing's knowledge?

Regardless of the reason, there is no doubt that Chen Bing no longer has a place between the two of them.

Liu Xiaoxiao didn't consider whether Shang Yunmiao knew anything about games or was interested in them at all, and started talking to her about the game she was currently playing. Shang Yunmiao listened attentively and asked many questions.

During this time, Chen Bing tried to interject several times, but was brushed off each time. Helpless, he could only stand awkwardly to the side for a while, then silently found the tablet on the bed, leaned against the headboard, and prepared to watch some classic old shows to pass the time.

For example, things like "Yuan Zhi ( )", but unexpectedly, even these two vicious women had no intention of letting him off the hook. They ganged up on him and kicked him out of the bedroom, on the grounds that he was watching anime too loudly, a baseless accusation.

Chen Bing felt heartbroken, and also quite aggrieved. Clearly, clearly I didn't complain about you guys being noisy while playing games...

Just kidding, haha. Chen Bing could probably guess that the two girls had some private things to talk about, which was why they sent him away. Of course, as a mature adult, Chen Bing wouldn't get angry over such a small thing. Even if a girl he grew up with had been hiding something from him, he wouldn't be upset. Really, I'm serious, please believe me! Really, sob sob…

After a moment of internal monologue, Chen Bing packed up her tablet and headed to Shang Yunmiao's usual room.

As it turns out, Chen Bing and Shang Yunmiao hadn't spent their time together for nothing over the past ten years. He accurately guessed the two girls' intentions, but what he didn't expect was that the so-called private matter was actually related to him.

After confirming that Chen Bing had really left, the two girls smiled at each other, and Liu Xiaoxiao spoke first.

"Isn't that a good thing? He gave you that girl's QQ number directly, doesn't that show how he feels about you?"

It turns out that after the QQ incident ended, Shang Yunmiao had been troubled by Chen Bing's feelings for her.

Is she a sister with familial affection, a lover, or simply a neighbor or friend?

Shang Yunmiao was unsure and deeply troubled by the matter, to the point that she couldn't eat or sleep. However, it wasn't appropriate to directly ask Chen Bing or discuss it with others.

After much thought, Xiaoxiao, who knew her own situation, seemed the most reliable person, and she had previously said she would help her.

Based on the above, Shang Yunmiao took the initiative to contact Liu Xiaoxiao late one night, hoping to get some inspiration from her.

To her surprise, Liu Xiaoxiao usually doesn't use QQ, and it wasn't until a week ago today that the other party finally saw this long-dormant message.

After explaining the whole story, along with her own emotional journey and troubles, Liu Xiaoxiao immediately offered some very constructive suggestions.

However, chatting online was always a bit lacking, so with their agreement, a more detailed consultation was scheduled for a week later, which is today—because Shang Yunmiao knew that her family would be coming to Chen Bing's house on the third day of the Lunar New Year, and Liu Xiaoxiao also knew that she would be spending the Lunar New Year at Chen Bing's house with Liu Jing this year.

In short, that's the situation.

"But then I thought about it and realized that this was actually a sign that he wasn't interested in me." Shang Yunmiao's smile faded, and she became dejected.

"What do you mean?"

"Well... if a guy is interested in a girl, he usually wouldn't dare let the person who likes him interact with the girl he likes, right? He gave me his QQ so readily, it's like he doesn't care at all and just wants to fulfill his little sister's wish..."

"Hmm... I can't say that, can I?" Liu Xiaoxiao said after a moment's thought. "It's also possible that he has a clear conscience and wants to put your mind at ease?"

"In the end, I don't have that kind of relationship with him, so what makes him feel so innocent?" Shang Yunmiao pointed out the error in Liu Xiaoxiao's point of view. Her wild thoughts over the past month had not been in vain.

“If she’s my younger sister, then it makes sense.” Xiao Shang sighed softly, then continued, “The more I think about it, the more I feel that Chen Bing might only see me as a younger sister.”

"But didn't you two kiss? That goes beyond the boundaries of intimacy between siblings, doesn't it?"

"Just that one time..." Shang Yunmiao said shyly, then her expression turned to disappointment as she repeated, "Just that one time, he was definitely trying to tease me. And also, when our family came here today, it was Chen Bing who opened the door for us."

He came up and hugged me as soon as he saw me. I thought, if he really had feelings for me, he probably wouldn't have dared to hug me in front of my parents, right?

Shang Yunmiao is now trapped in her own fixed mindset. As long as she continues to think and ponder within this closed mindset, she will never be able to figure it out.

Realizing this, Liu Xiaoxiao immediately thought of two solutions. One was to directly ask Chen Bing, the person involved in the incident. However, based on her understanding of Shang Yunmiao, she estimated that Shang Yunmiao would never agree to ask Chen Bing.

Shyness is a minor thing; the main concern is that the other person really only sees Shang Yunmiao as a younger sister, and since she took the initiative to reveal the truth, there will inevitably be a distance between them in the future, and they won't be as close as they are now.

However, those were all Shang Yunmiao's assumptions. Liu Xiaoxiao was quite certain that Chen Bing liked her, his beautiful childhood sweetheart, very much, because three months ago, on that rainy night before National Day, the other party had personally admitted this to her.

But he couldn't use that to persuade Shang Yunmiao, otherwise he wouldn't be able to continue being a double agent.

So, Liu Xiaoxiao thought of another way to break Shang Yunmiao's fixed mindset.

That is, the second solution is to implant some ideas in the other person that she has never had before.

Using her years of online surfing knowledge, Liu Xiaoxiao grabbed Shang Yunmiao's wrist and said to her in a teasing tone, "Actually, it's good if he treats you like a younger sister."

Shang Yunmiao was puzzled and looked at Liu Xiaoxiao with a questioning gaze, wondering what she meant by those words.

Liu Xiaoxiao then continued to explain, "Do you know what German orthopedics is?"