“Ishtar,” Shion suddenly spoke.
"You don't need to comfort me. You should know that the fact that I inherited her mark means I've let go, but I still have some selfish motives." Ishtar broke off a maple leaf from a tree branch: "Shiyin, why is it that in this world, someone can stand there and take everything away from a person?"
"But, Sister Ishtar must be very rich, right?" Changning tilted her head, a little confused. "If she's rich, she can buy lots and lots of delicious food."
“My family is very rich, but I’m not. The resources are in my guardian’s hands, and I can’t get them.” Ishtar said helplessly, “If you don’t give them to me, I won’t have any.”
“My parents thought I would compete with my sister, so they never gave me money to spend. I was an outcast in the elite school.”
"Ah~ Speaking of which, it was my sister who fought for this spot at the elite school for me. Otherwise, they would have put me in a regular school because they were afraid I would be jealous of my sister and hurt or bully her."
“I have made many friends, and I have told each of them about my experience. At first, they all felt sorry for me, including people who liked me and people I liked. After meeting my sister, they all said that I must have been mistaken, and that my sister was clearly a good person.”
At this point, Ishtar clicked her tongue lightly: "So, I didn't know she was fine? I never told them my sister was bad."
Ishtar felt that there were many sick people in the world, at least in the circles she had been in, everyone except herself was sick.
She never said a bad word about her sister; she just said that everyone ignored her because of her sister.
When they saw her younger sister, everyone instinctively assumed that she was jealous of her sister and had spoken ill of her, which was completely inexplicable. They then joined the ranks of those who ignored her.
Shion: "That..."
"I'm sorry, Sister Ishtar." Changning stopped eating her cake, lowered her head, and looked helplessly at the tearful Ishtar: "I'm sorry, Sister Ishtar, Changning shouldn't have asked these questions."
Changning didn't understand why, but when she saw Ishtar crying, she felt that she had done something wrong.
"No need to apologize, Xiao Changning. I just feel that this world is unfair. People with superpowers are not happy."
"Just like your sister Shiyin, she must also want to ask, why is it that out of so many people in the world, everyone around her is doomed whenever she's around?" Ishtar smiled as she looked at Shiyin: "It's one thing that everyone around her is doomed, but she's the only one who's unharmed and has been living on and on."
"At a time like this, please don't rub salt into my wounds," Shi Yin said, sounding a little weary. "But if it makes you feel better, then go ahead."
"Just kidding. Even though I said a lot of things about how much I hate my sister, I still love her very much." Istanbul wiped away her tears, took a deep breath, and even found it a little funny: "After all, the first word she learned was 'sister,' not 'daddy' or 'mommy.'"
"Although I am very annoyed, because when she called me 'sister,' my parents said that I should take care of her and give in to her from now on. Just from that one sentence she uttered, it was as if I was asked to give up the whole world."
But that didn't stop her from being very happy.
Since her younger sister was born, Ishtar could no longer sleep in the master bedroom with her parents. She could only sleep in the dark secondary bedroom, lying alone until dawn, even though she was only a few years old at the time.
That day, for some reason, in the middle of the night, my younger sister pushed open the door that Ishtar hadn't closed properly and came to the bedside.
The parents woke up immediately and rushed to Ishtar's room, where they saw Ishtar carrying her younger sister and about to leave. Just as they were about to scold her, they heard her younger sister call out in a clear voice, "Sister."
Everyone was shocked, including Ishtar.
Before this, the younger sister had never seen her father or mother.
The younger sister wandered over to Ishtar's place. Normally, Ishtar would have been scolded for this, but she escaped a scolding because the younger sister spoke up.
She hated her younger sister very, very much. With her sister around, she could hardly buy two new clothes a year, couldn't eat the things she liked, had to sacrifice her time to take care of her sister, and her parents would forget about her when she was out playing with her sister and going hungry at home all day.
When your parents come home, they'll just be surprised and ask, "You haven't eaten yet?"
What else?
She can't even reach the refrigerator.
But her younger sister seems to have a natural fondness for Ishtar and always likes to follow her around.
She cried loudly when her younger sister was bullied, which attracted the attention of adults who said that the group of children had bullied her.
If Ishtar wants to eat something but his parents won't give it to him, his younger sister will say she wants to eat it too and secretly share it with Ishtar.
When they started school, their parents wanted to separate them because they had noticed that Ishtar would become unhappy whenever Ishtar was mentioned.
They worried that, like in many melodramatic soap operas about wealthy families, the sisters would turn against each other.
Clearly, they love the younger sister more and are afraid that the older sister will become the villainous second female lead.
But the younger sister disagreed, throwing tantrums every day and refusing to go to school, insisting on staying with her older sister. The parents had no choice but to send the older sister to a prestigious private school as well.
Everyone at school liked the younger sister, but she would turn down all parties and come to the riverbank to sit with Ishtar from morning till night, singing to her.
Ishtar was thinking about how to get rid of her parents, while her younger sister was thinking about how to stay with her older sister.
Perhaps if it weren't for her younger sister, she wouldn't even have enough to eat.
Although it's impossible for someone in a wealthy family to go hungry, her parents actually did it because they were afraid Ishtar would pay someone to bully her sister.
Ishtar understands this; after all, no matter how disgusting one is, one will still speculate about others in one's own way, and parents are very experienced in paying for "cleaners."
Why are people so contradictory?
Even with such extreme hatred, one can still love someone so deeply.
In fact, Iska accepted an invitation to what was not yet the New World, but a huge laboratory, during her first life.
But then, my younger sister came along too.
That day was the biggest argument Istanbul and his sister ever had.
But her sister insisted on taking her away, or staying with her. Ishtar wanted her sister to understand that she was not a good person and that she was willing to do these experiments that violated human ethics. But her sister just felt that her older sister was a good person and couldn't stay here.
Ishtar had thought countless times about breaking ties with his sister, but he never imagined that he would break ties with the laboratory because of his sister.
Ishtar never expected that her sister would be used for experiments. She was clearly a high-ranking person with such talent, but perhaps it was precisely because she was too talented that she was targeted.
When I saw my sister again, her body was covered in sores.
The younger sister said she didn't want her older sister to save her. She felt that her older sister hated her. She had tried her best to stay away from everyone, but they would still stay away from her and hate her.
She hated herself like this, so if she died, she hoped that Ishtar wouldn't try to save her, but would bury her under her favorite maple tree.
If you miss me, come and stay in the little garden for a while. The rustling of every leaf is me talking to you.
This is their secret garden.
Ishtar loved to draw when she was a child, but her parents thought she was not doing anything proper and that she was not living up to the image of their wealthy family by learning such low-class things, so they tore up her paintings.
It was my younger sister who pieced together the torn painting bit by bit, creating the shape of a small garden, and then wrote it down. She actually created an exact replica of the garden and gave it to her.
Ishtar also tried to save her sister. In all the lifetimes, Ishtar caused a lot of trouble for Tokine in the New World. After joining Tokine, she became the biggest help in destroying the laboratory.
The laboratory is divided into several groups of people. At first, everyone was exploring the "truth of the world," but soon they grew old, and a group of people began to develop the "elixir of immortality."
Later, it was discovered that humans had indeed achieved immortality, but they were no longer human. There weren't enough test subjects, so someone suggested using the world as a sample for the experiment.
So some radicals started wanting to destroy the world and let zombies overrun the earth, while others simply felt they were "saving" the world.
Later, it was discovered that zombies were unusually excited by human flesh and blood, so a new group of people emerged who wanted to control the world.
They had different goals, but they needed the same thing. They invented an injection that they claimed could bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded. The sister was indeed "resurrected".
That's at most a zombie that retains some human consciousness!
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