My sister, whom I raised, has turned evil after faking her death for three years.

In the days that followed, Jiang Yi proved with her actions what it meant to "progress gradually and only listen to the word 'progress'".

She launched a comprehensive and breathtaking offensive to get closer to Jiang Ran.

When handing in homework, Jiang Yi would precisely place her stack of notebooks directly above Jiang Ran's notebooks, arranging them neatly and gently, as if placing a fragile item on top of them.

During breaks, when Jiang Ran went to get water, she would also happen to be standing next to the water dispenser with her water cup, unaware that her cup was full, and would secretly glance at Jiang Ran's back out of the corner of her eye.

During free time in PE class, Jiang Ran sat in the stands watching others play ball, while Jiang Yi sat on a step two steps lower than her, at a distance that was neither too close nor too far. She didn't say anything and just stayed quietly.

Jiang Ran moved to sit on the horizontal bar, and a few minutes later, she would see a figure silently approaching in her peripheral vision.

Once, Cheng Xiaoyu saw Jiang Yi "coincidentally" appear near them again, and whispered to Jiang Ran, "Why is she like a mobile surveillance camera?" Jiang Ran unscrewed her water glass and took a sip without expression.

She did try to find a way to avoid it.

As soon as the bell rang, she ran to the library, and Jiang Yi followed her with her textbooks, sitting behind a table several rows away and secretly peeking over.

Jiang Ran switched to the water dispenser at the other end of the corridor, and Jiang Yi followed her there the next day.

Jiang Ran thought to herself, "Go ahead and take the water. She'll take hers and I'll take mine." The two of them stood across the entire corridor, each holding a water cup. The scene looked like people from two parallel worlds completing their respective water-collecting tasks.

The other students also noticed that something was wrong.

But Jiang Yi was still the Jiang family's daughter, so no one dared to say anything to her face. They just whispered behind her back, wondering if Jiang Yi had suffered some kind of shock recently. Why was she always hanging around Jiang Ran? Weren't the two of them sworn enemies before?

What truly drew the attention of the entire class was lunchtime.

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Jiang Yi magically pulled a bunch of things out of his schoolbag and laid them out on the small desk in front of Jiang Ran: braised pork ribs in a thermos, honey-glazed chicken wings wrapped in tin foil, a neatly cut fruit platter, a box of steaming shrimp dumplings, and finally a small dish of rabbit-shaped glutinous rice balls.

The homeroom teacher paused as she passed by, looking at the desk piled high with food, then at Jiang Yi standing next to her with an elegant lunchbox bag. She opened her mouth, but ultimately said nothing and walked away silently.

Jiang Ran looked at the table full of food, then at Jiang Yi's face, which was slightly flushed with anticipation.

She knew that Jiang Yi had brought these herself, not from the cafeteria.

She also knew what Jiang Yi meant by putting so much delicious food in front of her.

But she didn't touch her chopsticks. Instead, she put her own food, which she had gotten from the cafeteria, aside and ate it bite by bite with her head down.

Jiang Yi stood by and watched, her eyes dimming for a moment, but quickly brightening again. She put the lunchboxes back into the insulated bag one by one, and brought new ones the next day.

When she got home that evening, Jiang Ran told Su Qing everything that had happened.

She sat on the sofa, holding her lop-eared rabbit, and recounted how Jiang Yi had ambushed her by the water dispenser, followed her in the library, and piled up her desk like a Manchu Han Imperial Feast.

Finally, Jiang Ran gave a concluding speech: "Sister, she's like a weasel paying respects to a chicken, she's up to no good. I can't escape her, she's like a walking surveillance camera."

Su Qing listened from the other end of the sofa, but didn't reply immediately. Instead, she picked up an orange from the coffee table and peeled it, saying casually, "She might not be a weasel. Maybe she's just a little dog who wants to apologize but doesn't know how to start. She keeps coming up to you, perhaps hoping you'll talk to her."

Su Qing leaned against the other end of the sofa, holding a glass of water in her hand, and did not immediately express her opinion after listening.

She remembered that when she was walking back after dropping Jiang Ran off at the school gate that morning, she ran into Jiang Yi at the street corner.

The child was standing at the intersection waiting for his family's car, carrying his schoolbag. When he saw her, he was stunned for a moment, then ran a couple of steps and suddenly stopped, standing about three meters away from her, clutching the straps of his schoolbag with both hands, like a little robot that had been paused.

With a flushed face, she bowed to Su Qing and said, "Good morning, Sister Su." Without waiting for Su Qing's response, she ran back to her original spot and bumped her head on the car door as she got into the car.

The system silently announced a few data points in her mind: [Jiang Yi's favorability rating for you has risen from negative to a high positive range.]

[Her level of guilt towards Jiang Ran and her willingness to seek forgiveness are both extremely high, with a credibility of 92%.]

Su Qing felt that Jiang Yi was not inherently bad, but that she was led astray by people like Cui Jiayi, which could be seen from the Jiang family.

Su Qing placed her water glass on the coffee table, turned to look at Jiang Ran, and asked, "What if she genuinely wants to be your friend and truly wants to change?"

Jiang Ran fell silent.

She lowered her head and pinched the rabbit's long ears, then looked up at Su Qing and said in a serious tone that a seven-year-old shouldn't have, "Sister, you're very easy to fool."

Looking at her serious expression, which was completely at odds with her youthful and adorable face, Su Qing finally couldn't help but laugh. She reached out and gently pinched the tip of her nose: "Alright, alright, you're smarter than your sister. So, I won't make the decision for you. Whether you forgive her or not, it's up to you."

"You can continue to observe if you want, or ignore her if you want. It's up to you. No matter what you choose, I think you're right."

Jiang Ran blinked as her sister pinched her nose, looking at the helpless yet indulgent smile on her sister's face.

The last time Jiang Yi was held by her older sister, she wanted to say this: other children would really like her sister if she acted like that.

She didn't want her sister to hold other children, nor did she want her sister to be liked by other children; she didn't want either of them.

My sister seems very easily fooled, especially by children.

But then she thought, when she grows up, she can keep all the children who come up to her outside, and then no one will try to take her sister away.

Her sister belongs to her alone, and always will be.

Su Qing, of course, had no idea that such domineering thoughts were swirling in the little guy's head.

She stuffed the remaining orange segments into Jiang Ran's hand, stood up, stretched, and walked towards the kitchen, chatting with the system in her mind as she went.

Jiang Ran looked down at the orange in her hand, then looked up at her sister's back, a slight smile appearing on her lips that she herself didn't even realize.