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When Chu Donglin returned home, he felt a lingering gaze filled with resentment fixed upon him.
Looking up, he saw a girl sitting in the corner, hugging her knees. Her face bore the expression of an abandoned woman, her cute features scrunched up in displeasure.
Meanwhile, a girl named Xue was sitting on the sofa, awkwardly assembling a toy Block.
However, this child’s game seemed too difficult for her, as her stiff movements resembled those of a poorly made robot.
Combined with her cautious expression and cold gaze, it somehow struck one as amusing... and adorable.
"I'm back!"
Chu Donglin opened his arms and laughed heartily, waiting for the girl or young woman to leap into his embrace.
But there was no response.
In the living room, the girl continued to carefully piece together her Block, not even lifting her head.
In the corner, Shishi remained curled up, still hugging her knees like an abandoned woman, continuing to look at Chu Donglin with that resentful gaze.
"Ahem..."
Chu Donglin cleared his throat and repeated his earlier gesture, opening his arms and laughing brightly once more.
"I'm back!"
Still no reaction.
"Alright, alright, you win."
Chu Donglin's shoulders slumped in resignation as he spread his hands. "So, what exactly happened? Why is everyone acting like a jilted bride?"
He turned to the girl in the corner. "Shishi, you come here. What’s going on?"
The girl huffed, pouting and turning her head away without answering.
"Fine, then. Xue, you tell me what happened."
The girl who was stacking blocks paused, looked up at Chu Donglin with a cold gaze, opened her mouth, and stammered, "Shishi... doesn’t... let..."
"Oh, I see. You mean Shishi won’t let you talk to me?"
The girl nodded and lowered her head to continue building her blocks.
"Why not? Did I offend this girl again? Why won’t she let you talk to me?"
The girl lifted her head and glanced at him. "You... she... let... very... hurt..."
"I hurt her? What kind of joke is that? I just went out to meet a friend; what’s so upsetting about that?"
Chu Donglin shook his head in disbelief and crouched down in front of the girl, looking into her eyes. "Come on, Shishi, what really happened?"
"Hmph!"
The girl huffed again and turned her head away from Chu Donglin.
"What happened? How would I know if you don't tell me?"
Holding the girl's head, he forced her to turn and look at him. "What on earth is going on? My princess, wasn't everything fine before I left?"
The girl frowned at him and asked, "Dad, did you go to meet a friend?"
"Yes, that's right. Didn't I tell you? Liu Xiner, an old friend of mine whom I consider like a sister."
"Is she really just a sister?"
"Isn't that obvious? What else could she be?"
"If she's not a sister, then she must be a Sister-in-law."
Chu Donglin was taken aback. "How do you know that?"
"See! Dad, you're admitting it without realizing!"
The girl suddenly jumped up, indignantly shouting as if she had caught him in a lie.
"Dad clearly went to see an old flame! That Xing'er’s sister was there too, right? And what about meeting friends... Hmph! You're such a big liar! Dad is such a big liar!"
"What old flame? Where are you getting these ridiculous ideas?"
Chu Donglin was both amused and exasperated. "Xing'er’s sister was indeed my girlfriend back then, and she called me brother-in-law. But I broke up with her long ago. Even if her sister is still alive, I wouldn’t even know about it. Even if she were alive, she’s no longer in Wocheng. How could I go looking for her?"
The girl looked at Chu Donglin suspiciously. "Dad, is all of this really true?"
"Of course it's true. If you don't believe me, ask Snow. Xing'er's sister left Wocheng a long time ago for Jiang Hai, and now it's quite a long way from here. How can I possibly see her?"
Chu Donglin picked up the girl and carried Shishi to the sofa in the living room.
"So, you're just being paranoid and overthinking things. Can't you give me a little trust?"
"I... I..."
Shishi was somewhat at a loss for words and quickly changed the subject, looking at Snow, who was busy building with blocks. "Snow Sister, is what Dad said true?"
The girl didn't respond.
"Snow Sister? Snow Sister?"
Shishi called out a couple more times before the girl reluctantly lifted her head from the pile of blocks and looked over.
There was a hint of confusion in her eyes, as if she was wondering why Shishi had suddenly interrupted her.
"Snow Sister, is what Dad said true?"
"Is... it... true?"
The girl tilted her head in thought and asked, "What... do you mean...?"
"..." Had she not heard the previous conversation at all?
Shishi helplessly repeated the question, "Dad's sister Xing'er isn't in Wocheng; she's far away in Jiang Hai... right?"
“Xing'er’s… sister?”
Snow repeated the title in a daze, tilting her head as she thought for a moment before shaking it. “Can’t… remember…”
“Snow Sister, you remember Xing'er, but not her sister?” Shishi asked, puzzled. “That can’t be right. Logically, you should have a clearer memory of her sister. How could you forget?”
The girl tilted her head again, pondering for a while before clumsily gesturing to her own head and stammering.
“There’s… no… lie… my head… is very… confused, many… things… I can’t… remember…”
“Snow Sister, you’re saying there’s no lie, just that your head is confused and you can’t remember many things?”
“Yes… yes…”
The girl nodded, covering her head with a pained expression. “It hurts… it’s very painful… I don’t want to…”
“Are you saying that thinking back on past events makes your head hurt, so you don’t want to recall them anymore?”
“Yes… it hurts… I don’t want to… so I don’t know…”
She stammered, and when she noticed that Shishi had stopped asking questions after a while, she lowered her head to look at the blocks in front of her.
It was clear that she liked these blocks, but even for someone skilled, assembling such difficult blocks wasn’t easy, let alone for a girl with stiff and awkward movements.
She clumsily built for a while, and after painstakingly stacking three layers of blocks, they suddenly collapsed with a loud crash.
The girl stared blankly at the fallen blocks in front of her, feeling somewhat at a loss.
The adorable yet somewhat foolish expression was both cute and inexplicably bittersweet.
Shishi gently wrapped her arms around Chu Donglin, burying her head in his embrace.
"Daddy..."
"Yes?"
"Does Snow Sister really not remember anything from before?"
"Well... for now, it seems that way," Chu Donglin replied, a hint of uncertainty in his voice. "Maybe she will remember in the future."
"Is that so..."
The girl's grip tightened, her gaze filled with sadness. "How pitiful..."
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