Bai Fei was very reluctant to admit it, but she didn’t like her senior; she liked the version of him she had imagined...
So why did she want to lose weight in the first place?
As her senior had said, true liking was not about changing oneself for soone else, making oneself beco what others imagined, but about letting that person like the real you.
So, what was the real her like?
Bai Fei fell into a hazy sleep, and this ti, she did not dream.
Xu Yan left the hospital room and went straight to look for Bai Zhi and Bai Xiang.
"Actually, she just hasn’t thought it through yet; she should be able to figure it out.
Could Bai Zhi give a ride?"
Xu Yan looked at Bai Zhi hopefully, hoping she would agree.
Without hesitation, Bai Zhi nodded and agreed. "Okay."
The two walked under the dim streetlights, which stretched their shadows long and far.
They both tacitly remained silent because they really didn’t know what to say.
Or maybe both of them were thinking about how to start the conversation.
Should they pretend to et anew, or just ask that lingering question at the bottom of their hearts?
Xu Yan suddenly chuckled.
How could he forget? The girl had always been a snail, slow and always keeping within her shell, so it was better for him to start talking.
"Bai Zhi, you remind a lot of my sister. How about being my sister?"
Bai Zhi stopped and looked at Xu Yan in surprise, "Can I ask one question? Is she your biological sister or..."
"No." Xu Yan shook his head. "Although we are not biological siblings, we are still a family." That was indisputable at any ti.
"What about your family?" Bai Zhi bit her lip, her hands behind her back, tightly clenched.
"My family?" Xu Yan thought for a mont. "They’re gone, I’m an orphan. I have no relatives here now, so I’ve been trying to find my sister."
Xu Yan looked at Bai Zhi very seriously. "I don’t know if she’s in this world. I even don’t know where she is. Bai Zhi, you look so much like her, can you be my sister?"
He had been searching for too long, almost ready to give up.
Bai Zhi didn’t know, didn’t know what to do.
If she wasn’t Bai Zhi, if she were just soone else, she could easily say yes, without hesitation.
But she was Bai Zhi.
Behind her stood the Bai Family.
She still had to protect the Bai Family; she wasn’t alone.
What if associating with her brought danger to him?
"Senior, you might not know this. I’m bad luck personified. Always getting caught or poisoned. So it’s better for you to stay away from ."
If acknowledging each other led him into danger, then it was better not to recognize each other from the start.
"I’m not afraid."
Xu Yan grabbed Bai Zhi’s hand, looking at her excitedly.
"Sister, you know what I’m talking about, right? We are not from here, are we?"
Xu Yan felt like he was going crazy. He was crazy, and so was the world.
When he went back, his sister was gone. How was that possible? He couldn’t, wouldn’t believe it.
He waited at the place where they used to rent together, waiting for his sister to co back.
Suddenly, one day it thundered, and he inexplicably arrived here.
He thought he was dreaming, thought he had gone mad.
But no...
He began to wonder if his sister had also co here?
He began to struggle in this world, starting from scratch.
...
Today he saw Bai Zhi, who looked just like his sister, and he believed that she was indeed his sister.
"I ca here, thinking I had gone mad, but it turned out this world had gone mad.
Sister, are you telling that you are not my sister?
Then what am I, a false person of this world? Or is the world in my mory the fake one?
What is all of this?"
Xu Yan felt it was a miracle he hadn’t gone mad already, having read novels about crossing worlds didn’t an he liked doing it.
Nor did it an he could accept the fact of crossing over; at first, he thought it was just a dream.
He began to enjoy it, telling himself this was just an enjoyable journey, but reality told him it wasn’t.
Here in this world, he had no identity, no na, nothing.
He could only struggle to start over from scratch.
"I have no na, no identity, I’m like an undocunted person; my only motivation to keep going was that I might find you.
I thought it was just a dream, and it would be fine once I woke up, but it just never ended."
Xu Yan’s eyes were crazed; he had so much to say but no one to tell.
Bai Zhi’s tears had already fallen; she hadn’t expected her brother to go through all this.
She was originally a person from this world, so she could start over here, but her brother couldn’t.
He had arrived here with no identity at all, so how did he co over?
The gently Bai Tian of earlier now looked hysterical, accurately reflecting his past breakdown.
"I..." Bai Zhi clenched her fists tightly. Her nails had already dug into her flesh.
"Senior, please don’t do this..."
Xu Yan abruptly stopped, looking at Bai Zhi sowhat unbelievingly, "Is it really just a misunderstanding? Are you really just soone who looks like my sister?"
Xu Yan stared directly at Bai Zhi, seeking answers from her eyes.
"I..." Bai Zhi didn’t know what to do; she really wanted to say, "I am your sister."
"From now on, I will be your sister..." Bai Zhi looked at Xu Yan and slowly spoke up.
"Idiot..."
Xu Yan reached out and flicked Bai Zhi’s forehead, "I didn’t an to pressure you. I know life hasn’t been easy for you. Becoming soone else, having to adapt to another person’s family, life, you must fear being discovered, right?"
Xu Yan needed a new identity just by thinking about it, and she had to disguise as soone else, which really made things difficult.
"No, I am Bai Zhi." Bai Zhi shook her head, she was Bai Zhi, it’s just that she had gone around another world and returned.
"Alright, alright, you’re Bai Zhi." Xu Yan didn’t want to press his sister; in fact, they had recognized each other now. "From now on, you’ll be my sister. I’ll go to your house, et your family and tell them I think you look like my sister, so I’m taking you as my sister.
Don’t worry, your brother hasn’t been idly wasting his years, I’ve made a lot of friends, everyone knows I’m looking for my sister. Plus, I’ve also found our identities, don’t worry."
Xu Yan patted Bai Zhi’s shoulder, assuring her that he had sorted everything out.
Bai Zhi remained silent until much later, when she finally spoke.
"How long have you been here..."
Xu Yan appeared bewildered, how long had he been here? He didn’t know, it had been too long to rember.
"Over ten years, I guess."
Ten years during which he had started over from scratch.
"That long?"
Bai Zhi was stunned by the tiline... She had only been back for four years, but her brother had already been here for ten. Could it be that the tiscales differed?
"Yeah, I spent many years just looking for you. I checked everywhere for a girl nad Bai Zhi and finally found this place.
I learned from Han Feng about the Bai Family Village and the Star Sister he talked about.
I was going to ask him to take there, but you and Bai Fei ca over first."
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