Miss Lin is a hunky VTuber today?

Yuzu pretended not to understand what the young lady meant, cleared her throat, and said in a serious tone.

"I don't want to know! By the way, why would you have a walkthrough that's basically a guide for your own people? That's weird!"

The young lady finally realized that the girl was actually teasing her, and the way she squinted and complained was somewhat similar to Xu Lin's.

"Hey! It's just to get more pocket money. Otherwise, Miss, where do you think I get so much more pocket money than my brother?"

Chapter 19, Section 134: A Love at First Sight

What's included in Yuzhi's Xu Family Strategy Guide?

The young lady was very curious about the inner world of this strange woman who was trying to win over all her immediate family members just to get some pocket money, so she watched it carefully.

The format is like a proper game guide, but it's all photos. The original text should be in Yuzu's notebook.

The very first page is a relationship diagram, which details the food chain of the Xu family's life, with itself marked at the bottom. The various relationship lines are intricate and complex, and the messy, annotated lines describe in detail who in the family has more influence in what situations.

Yes, Yuzu even wrote about this state.

For example, Yuzu wrote this in her notebook.

Major premise: It only happens to be me, my mom, and my older brother at home.

Status 1: My mom is planning to take us out to eat.

In the food chain, Mom > Me > Brother.

Status 2: My mom has squandered all her allowance, so I have to ask my older brother to cook for me.

Food chain order: older brother > mother > me

Status 3 (Very rare): My brother and mother are a little short on money, but I still have some left over.

Food chain relationship: Mom = Brother > Me

Why do you have such a low status at home?!

Xu Youyue couldn't help but complain when she saw this.

But Yuzu made a sad expression, looking as if she couldn't bear to recall the past.

"The power dynamics within our family are somewhat complex. In most cases, what determines our position isn't seniority or status, but rather..."

"What is it?"

"Intelligence, and whether you have leverage over others."

"Oh, this..."

Xu Youyue seemed to suddenly understand why Youzi had the lowest status in the family.

"My older brother has the most dirt on me, so he usually has a slightly higher status in the family than me. My mother knows most of the dark history of our childhood, so she is invincible when facing the two of us. She only asks my brother to cook when she is short of money or too lazy to go out. As for my father..."

As Yuzu said this, her body trembled involuntarily. Poor Xu's father must have inflicted a certain level of psychological trauma on her.

"That's the biggest boss, an even more ruthless and cunning old man than my brother!"

"Your family has such a wonderful atmosphere..."

After hearing Youzi's explanation, Xu Youyue couldn't help but sigh.

Although she has a good relationship with her parents, it's just a bit too ordinary. Occasionally, she envies the relaxed and happy atmosphere of Youzi and Xu Lin's family.

"Ah...not bad, at least it's easy."

Yuzu shrugged, her eyes somewhat unfocused, unable to quite put her finger on what was wrong.

Perhaps their childhood lacked companionship, which forced Xu Lin to become independent at a young age and take on the responsibility of caring for his younger sister.

But for Yuzu, there was nothing wrong with it; she practically grew up being pampered by her family.

Family status and whether one is favored by elders are generally linked, but in their family, having the lowest family status does not prevent Yuzu from being the most beloved one in the family.

Yuzu is relaxed, without harsh discipline, yet always receives proper guidance from her family. There's really nothing to complain about for her.

"If you like it, Miss, you can definitely marry into our family! We both have the surname Xu, maybe we were even family five hundred years ago?"

As soon as Yuzu finished speaking, her big eyes darted around, and she launched a surprise attack, catching the young lady off guard.

"Pah! How do you know it wasn't Xu Lin who married into my family!"

At the critical moment, Xu Youyue's self-destructive tendencies kicked in again, and a careless remark pushed her directly into a desperate situation.

"Oh!!!"

Yuzu exclaimed in surprise!

This young lady has quite the ambition! She actually wants to be the dominant one! But judging from her timid and submissive demeanor at the door just now, she still has a long way to go!

"Pah! Pah! Pah! I didn't say anything!"

Xu Youyue blushed instantly and denied it repeatedly.

"Come on, Miss, there's no need to deny it, is there? My brother, that straight man, can't see it, but do you think I don't?"

Seeing the young lady's vehement denials, Yuzu suddenly waved her hand, interrupting her.

"Actually, you've been deeply in love for a long time, haven't you? There's no need to hide it from me! I'm firmly on your side!"

When a girl takes the initiative to ask you out and acts coquettishly towards you, she might just be trying to string you along to be a sugar daddy or keep you as a kept man.

But when a girl is willing to open her heart and let you invade her deepest personal space, when she is completely unguarded in front of you and doesn't care about showing you her ugliest side.

Then she has truly fallen head over heels in love with you.

Yuzu knows that the young lady isn't even on guard against Xu Lin's phone anymore.

"Actually, I don't know either..."

Xu Youyue's voice immediately dropped, sounding somewhat lost.

"what?"

Yuzu pressed on, she was actually very curious why these two people, who clearly liked each other, had made no progress so far.

Yuzu knew her brother's reasons; they were mostly about a man's responsibility. But what about the young lady's reasons?

"I don't know if I like her or if it's just that I'm particularly dependent on her. I keep thinking, if I had met someone else instead of Xu Lin, would I have fallen for that person just as much as I do now?"

As Xu Youyue spoke, the confusion in her eyes grew deeper.

"I just need someone to be with me. Anyone will do, but only Xu Lin is right. I've never figured that out. So every time I think about this, I feel so despicable. I can't even find a reason to like her that's so selfish that I despise myself."

The young lady became increasingly heartbroken as she spoke, tears welling in her eyes, overwhelmed with grief.

"I really, really like her. I don't even want to be apart from her for an afternoon. But I don't know why I like her. Yuzu-chan, am I really normal?"

"That's perfectly normal."

Xu You didn't hug the young lady to comfort her like most people would. Instead, she just sat quietly, looking at the young lady with a calm and peaceful gaze.

"Or rather, isn't this the most normal style that people like?"

Her family members have never been in the same class as each other since they were little.

"Just like the high school boy in the story, what is the reason he likes girls? There are girls who are prettier than him, and there are girls with the same characteristics as him. In the end, although everyone in this world is unique, if we roughly look for people based on their characteristics, we can find a lot of people for every combination."

"There are over a billion people in China. There are plenty of people with similar family situations and personalities to my brother. She's just special because of this one thing, but you like her for that reason, right?"

Yuzu spoke in a calm tone at first, as if she were complaining, but her tone became gentler as she spoke.

She looked at Xu Youyue and concluded.

"Fate, fate. The fate of meeting and getting to know each other comes first, and the fate of knowing and loving each other comes later."

"It's hard to explain what you like. Dislike and hate need reasons, but liking and loving don't."

Chapter 20, Section 135: Xu Lin's True Form is Underfloor Heating

What kind of feelings can be considered liking, and what kind of feelings can be considered love?

Xu Youyue had been thinking about this question.

After listening to Yuzu's advice, her confusion only deepened. Such words full of philosophy about love, such a conservative view on love, actually came from the girl in front of her who had become a legend of a scumbag.

The contradiction here is almost ironic, but that's just how Yuzu is—contradictory yet unified. If we were to use that classic metaphor to compare women to a book, then Yuzu would surely be a profound philosophical book about contradictory relationships.

Everyone only sees a partial picture of Xu You, just like opening a book and only reading one chapter. Therefore, no one can truly understand what Xu You's book is about.

And what about Xu Lin?

Xu Lin should be the kind of enlightenment book that tells bizarre and fantastic fairy tales. You glance at it and feel like you understand it, but when you read it again after a while, you can read a different meaning.

And what about myself?

Xu Youyue thought to herself.

She didn't know, but she understood.

If you don't even understand yourself, how can you know what liking someone means? It's like how everyone imagines what kind of person they like before they've been in a relationship, and has an ideal type. But when you actually meet the person you like and look back, you realize that...

The girl beside me is almost the complete opposite of the ideal type I had set for myself back then, yet she is so irresistibly lovable.

Xu Youyue's ideal type is not someone like Xu Lin.

She preferred a warm, sunny guy, thinking that he could brighten her heart.

She had met boys like that before, but eventually realized that people like the sun would only burn her, and that Xu Lin, a silent yet warm person, was the most suitable for her.

It's like...

It looks like the heating?

Pfft www

Heating! Underfloor heating!