To leave or to stay...

Situ Yan looked at Ah Li, showing no remorse whatsoever. In her eyes, the person lying next to her was her own younger brother.

"Your Highness, I'll go back to my room and wait for you."

After Situ Yan finished speaking, he noticed that Liu Chuye's eyes had become sharp.

However, when Ahri lowered her head to stroke his hair, he became gentle and harmless again.

After Situ Yan left, Bai Lan, who was guarding the door, had the palace door closed.

Liu Chuye reached out and hugged Ali's waist, burying his head in Ali's belly, and said sullenly, "I really wish time could stand still."

That way, he can be with his sister forever.

Ah Li didn't answer, but continued to gently stroke Liu Chuye's head.

Liu Chuye squinted his eyes contentedly, smelling a faint, warm fragrance emanating from his sister.

Before he could even smell what it was, his eyelids grew heavy.

As he realized he was about to fall asleep, he hugged Ahri tightly. "Sister, can you not leave tonight?"

He thought he was holding Ahri tightly, but he wasn't.

His hand rested lightly on Ahri's waist.

Ahri slowly placed her hand on his temple, then grabbed and clenched it, creating several lines that were barely visible to the naked eye.

This is his deep affection for her, fine and dense, like a spider web.

Ah Li slowly lowered her head, pinched Liu Chuye's chin, and slowly recalled when this little brat had fallen for 'her' and had such thoughts?

She shook her head, and the memories of the past came flooding back.

At that time, the time she occupied the original owner's body was irregular; she would come whenever the host sought her out.

I remember back then, she seemed to have brought several hosts with her.

Some hosts perform poorly, but they always manage to give her a big surprise at the last minute.

Some hosts perform so well that they don't need her assistance at all.

Therefore, she was bound to several hosts at that time to complete missions together.

The host of this world (as mentioned before) wants to resurrect her lover. Apart from the mission target, everyone else is just a two-dimensional character to her, and she has no intention of getting along with them.

All the time spent with this younger brother was spent with Ahri.

She took him out of the palace, climbed trees, caught fish, strolled through the streets, and ate candied hawthorns.

Even when the teacher punished him by making him copy books, she secretly brought him pastries to visit him.

Sometimes, she would take him along, and on rainy days, they would go barefoot and wade through the puddles.

On rainy days, people will also take a small boat, with large lotus leaves overhead, and dip their feet into the lake to enjoy the rainy scenery.

When he was sick and in pain, he would have shadow puppets made to amuse people.

Because at that time, Liu Chuye was a delicate and adorable little boy.

He felt like he was eating a piece of white sugar cake at that time.

In the instant the threads of affection were shattered, Ahri saw him come looking for 'her' several times.

But he would always be stopped by Bai Lan, who had a serious expression on her face, "Your Highness, the Princess is resting."

That's a lie.

He saw 'her' writing letters in the study, and saw 'her' making pastries or embroidering sachets to please Xu Yue.

What she didn't know was that the letters she wrote and the things she made by hand would all appear before him the next day.

It was Xu Yue who gave it to him, and he looked conflicted as he asked, "Your Highness, what should I do now so as not to hurt her feelings?"

What should we do?

They should disappear from this world!

"elder sister."

The threads of affection gradually shattered, and those fragments turned into tiny bubbles.

One of the bubbles, he was slapped by 'her'.

She said with a face full of anger, "Liu Chuye! I am your own sister! I am the eldest princess! We share the same father and mother! We have the same blood flowing in our veins!"

Her eyes were filled with disgust and disdain, devoid of any of the affection she once had.

"I'm going to marry Xu Yue, and you can't stop me. On our wedding day, I don't want you to be in front of me either; you disgust me!"

The other bubbles contain her kindness towards him, her lectures, her scolding, and her criticism.

Inside a bubble, he knelt at the foot of the long steps, looking at 'her' sitting on the steps, silently saying: He did nothing wrong.