The landlord has multiple personalities and wants everyone to pay him.

The only true friend Xiaoxue made was one who didn't disappear halfway through life, and that was Qin Lili.

To be honest, that was the first time Xiaoxue had ever met such a troublesome person.

How tricky is it?

During that time, she felt even more desperate than when she was being bullied.

If I'm being bullied, I can simply leave the room to escape.

But this older sister... you have nowhere to hide.

She appeared in my life suddenly, really, very suddenly.

Xiaoxue still remembers the day she first met Qin Lili.

That day, Xiaoxue, as usual, nestled in bed with her little Su No. 2, peeking out through the gap in the curtains.

There was a cat on the road outside the gate of the courtyard. She watched the cat sunbathing by the roadside and found it quite interesting.

Then, with a bang, the room door was pushed open.

Xiaoxue was startled and shrank back, hiding in the corner and shielding Xiaoxiaosu No. 2 in front of her.

My parents and Aunt Liu never just push the door open and come in like this.

This startled Xiaoxue quite a bit; her heart was pounding so hard that she felt a slight pain in her chest.

Who is this person?

I've never seen anything like it before, I'm so scared.

Xiaoxue huddled on the headboard, clutching a pillow, her eyes wet as she stared at the stranger at the door.

He was very tall, wearing a floral shirt, with his hair tied in a ponytail. He was grinning at me, his teeth were quite even, and he looked like he was about to eat me alive.

Just as Xiaoxue was about to call out "Mom," she heard the person in front of her looking at her, and the first thing they said was:

"You must be Xiaoxue? My name is Qin Lili, you can just call me Sister Lili."

Know yourself?

But I don't know her at all!

Xiaoxue looked at her while hugging a pillow, her mind a little blank.

How does this person know my name? Who is she? What is she doing here? Why is she smiling so... brightly?

Then, this suddenly appearing Lili sister very naturally sat down on her bed.

Instead of sitting on the edge, he sat in the middle, leaning his body slightly towards himself.

Xiaoxue was almost crying from fright, but Qin Lili acted as if she didn't see it and started talking to herself.

She said a lot, she said everything.

Including how she met Xia Qing, Zhi Qiu, and Xiao Nuan, what she did for a living, what she saw on her way here, and how there was a watermelon vendor by the roadside whose watermelons looked especially sweet, but she didn't buy any because they were too heavy to carry...

Even the watermelon vendors on the roadside said...

Xiaoxue's mind is still in a daze; it's the first time she's been alone with strangers for so long.

Her eyes remained fixed on the doorway. Where were her parents? Why weren't they here yet?

Even when outsiders came to our house, they wouldn't come into my room.

Even if someone comes to my room, my parents will be there.

But now, why is no one coming to save me?

A stranger has broken into our house! Come quick!

Meanwhile, the older woman on the bed kept talking nonstop, sometimes even giggling at herself, completely ignoring the little girl next to her who was so nervous she was about to faint.

Xiaoxue huddled at the head of the bed, with Xiaoxiaosu No. 2 standing in front of her. Her eyes kept darting between Qin Lili and the doorway, and she had only one thought in her mind.

When is this person finally leaving?

After that, Qin Lili would come every few days.

Moreover, Qin Lili always appears precisely when Xiaoxue wakes up, pushing the door open and entering at exactly the right moment.

As a result, whenever Xiaoxue heard Qin Lili say "Xiaoxue, Sister Lili is here!" in her room, she would start looking for a place to hide.

She tried everything: under the bed, in the closet, behind the door.

But every time Qin Lili entered the room, she could find her immediately, and then Qin Lili would pull her to the bedside, press her down to sit, and force her to listen to her endless chatter.

Xiaoxue was frozen in place at first, her eyes fixed on the doorway, silently screaming for help.

She never responded, remained silent, or moved, thinking that if she acted this way, Sister Lili would get bored and leave.

But gradually, she discovered that this person didn't respond to her silence at all; the less she talked, the more excited she became, and she could talk to herself for half an hour.

So Xiaoxue began to surrender.

She stopped hiding, or perhaps hiding was pointless, so she simply stopped hiding altogether.

She started listening to what Qin Lili had to say.

Actually... what Qin Lili said was quite interesting.

She talked about all sorts of things, from all over the world, and Xiaoxue gradually accepted this outgoing older sister, Lili.

She may be a little annoying, but she really won't hurt herself.

Xiaoxue started talking to this Sister Lili, asking questions she wanted to know, such as what happened to the TV series she mentioned last time, but it wasn't very informative.

But every time Qin Lili heard her ask a question, she answered very enthusiastically.

Then one day, Qin Lili told her that she had a boyfriend and would bring him over for Xiaoxue to meet when she had the chance.

When Xiaoxue heard this, she was eating a cookie. She was stunned, shook her head with the cookie in her hand, and showed her full resistance.

She was inherently averse to contact with strangers, and Qin Lili had no choice but to accept it.

Moreover, she felt that knowing Lili as a friend was enough for her.

Really, one is enough.

She had finally gotten used to someone barging into her world, finally had someone she could talk to, ask questions to, and no longer have to hide from.

One friend is enough.

She dared not hope for much, and she was also afraid of many things. She was afraid that when another person came in, they would still be disgusted by her appearance and would take Qin Lili away with them.

So no.

Absolutely not.

But one day, Xiaoxue woke up and lay on the bed, thinking about the ending of the TV series that her older sister Lili hadn't finished telling her last time. Lili had said that she would finish telling her the story next time she came.

So when she woke up that day, she did nothing but sit on the bed and listen intently to the sounds outside.

Waiting and waiting, waiting and waiting.

They waited and waited, but Sister Lili never opened the door to her room.

Xiaoxue was getting a little impatient. She lifted the curtain and peeked out through the crack, wanting to see if her sister Lili had arrived at the door yet.

No.

There was no one at the entrance.

Xiaoxue bit her lip and lowered the curtains.

At first, she thought that Sister Lili also had her own life and couldn't always come to accompany her, right?

Who would go into a child's room every day? It's not like they have nothing better to do.

That's how she comforted herself.

But several times in a row, when Xiaoxue woke up, she couldn't see her older sister Lili.

Xiaoxue also asked other people in her notebook, but they all said they hadn't been there.

She began to feel afraid. Would the friends she had just made leave, just like the others before her?

Xiaoxue woke up several more times, and her heart sank deeper and deeper.

It's still the same in the end...

She didn't even have the thought of calling her sister Lili.

I don't dare to call. They've already left. Why should I take the initiative to call them and get hurt again?

What if the call goes through and Sister Lili says I won't come anymore?

At least for now, I can still fool myself by saying that Sister Lili is just too busy.

As you keep lying, it seems like it doesn't hurt as much anymore.

Months later, Xiaoxue was still lost in thought in her room when she heard her mother's voice outside the door, as if she were on the phone.

"What? Is Lili alright?... Sigh, how could that child be so silly..."

Xiaoxue was stunned. She heard her mother talking about what seemed to be her older sister, Lili.

It seems that Lili's boyfriend has passed away?

Xiaoxue couldn't believe that her sister Lili had gone through something like this.

She remembered the happy expression on her sister Lili's face when she said she would bring her over to let her see it sometime, and Xiaoxue felt a pang of heartache.

It turns out it wasn't because he didn't want to come, but because he was injured...

That night, Xiaoxue also took the initiative to make her first phone call in a long time.

The call connected, and the voice on the other end sounded a little hoarse than I remembered.

"Feed?"

Xiaoxue held her phone, took a deep breath, and spoke softly but earnestly:

"Sister Lili... I'm Xiaoxue... You're welcome to come back anytime..."

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, and then Xiaoxue heard a very soft sob.

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