When Chen Muqiao was young, the time of year she hated most was winter and summer vacation.
They were supposed to be the perfect time to enjoy gaming, but those two bossy women would always show up at home. From picking up deliveries to handing over bath towels, if she refused to help, they threatened to pull the plug on her internet...
Looking at her sister and her sister's friend sprawled languidly on the sofa in disheveled clothes, Chen Muqiao lowered her head and presented them with the chocolates she'd bought, cursing them out in her mind...
The two beautiful, kind-hearted campus queens of S University?
Bullshit! Absolute bullshit!
Thanks to the innate power imbalance between them, Chen Muqiao didn't dare say anything to her own sister. But when she looked at Shi Ran nearby, wearing a spaghetti-strap top and grinning mischievously, Chen Muqiao rolled her eyes so hard they nearly turned skyward.
Her sister's friend was really, really annoying.
But when she accidentally saw Shi Ran retching over the toilet and heard her pitiful murmurs, Chen Muqiao suddenly felt that this woman... might not be quite so annoying after all.
Shi Ran first met Chen Muqiao on a rainy night with a bitterly cold wind blowing. In her dazed state, she received kindness and an umbrella from a strange middle schooler.
Shi Ran met Chen Muqiao for the second time at her friend's house. On the face of the high schooler who had just woken up, she saw an eye roll and a look of exasperation.
The contrast between those two reactions made her think her friend's little sister was kind of cute. Gradually, she also realized that her own personality was worse than she had imagined.
Compared with coolly watching her admirers make fools of themselves as she dealt with them, Shi Ran found it more satisfying to feign innocence, have Chen Muqiao hand her a bath towel, and watch her ears turn bright red.
But five years passed in the blink of an eye. The girl who had once stayed home playing games became a rising superstar in esports, and Shi Ran gradually realized she could no longer tease her so freely.
"Stop it. You're blocking the screen."
Leaning back in her gaming chair, long fingers working the keyboard as she practiced with her teammates over voice chat, Chen Muqiao calmly spoke to the woman who had suddenly sat on her lap.
"Never mind." Before Shi Ran could reply, Chen Muqiao gave a quiet sigh, then leaned down.
"Hey, Qiaoqiao, why did your character suddenly stop moving?"
"Is your connection lagging?"
Shi Ran heard Chen Muqiao's teammates asking through the headphones, but she was too breathless to say a word. There was only one thought in her mind.
She'd forgotten...
She was no longer the one doing the teasing.
- Happy ending
- Kind and independent, usually composed, but easily flustered by older women, younger woman V.S. gentle in public, cold-hearted in private, but inexplicably fond of teasing younger women, older woman
- The older woman has a psychological disorder
- This story suddenly popped into my head. It feels like it could be fun and romantic, so it should be a good read (laughs)
- Four-year age gap
- Romance only begins once both are adults
- Blurb written on 2024-04-30 and saved
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