Chapter 345: Chapter 233: That Night, Jiangg Ning and Jiangg Yao’s Sleepless Night

"You said you wouldn’t interfere with my life, but in reality, you already are. With the two of you standing right here, how can I not attract everyone’s attention..."

Chen Yuan looked from Jiangg Ning to Jiangg Yao, his expression incredibly complex.

’Twins.’

Identical twins. By now, he had accepted this fact, but talking to them still felt unbelievable.

’It turned out that from the moment I first met them in Lanjing, the person who made my heart flutter countless times had always been two different people.’

Talking to them face-to-face like this, with them no longer hiding their identities, actually made him feel uncomfortable.

Deep down, he truly felt a sense of distance and nervousness.

Thinking back on his time dating Ningning, and his time dating Yaoyao... filled him with an indescribable shame and fury. So in the end, had he wronged his girlfriend’s sister, or... the other one?!

Chen Yuan was, without a doubt, a very conservative and traditional guy. He believed a relationship was between two people, period. In his eyes, this kind of love triangle was a moral violation.

At the very least, it was betraying a partner and having a chaotic personal life.

On a larger scale, it went against basic human decency.

Even though he had been unaware, he’d done everything a couple would do—nothing was left out. He didn’t know how to face the two sisters, even though they had already broken up.

For that matter, he wasn’t even sure who to consider his "ex-girlfriend" anymore. His one past relationship had completely split into two new, separate ones.

"It’s fine. The students are just curious right now. Once they get used to it, they won’t be so surprised. That’s how it works—people stop noticing what they see every day," Jiangg Ning said in a soft voice.

"’Get used to it’...? What do you mean by that?"

"It means you’ll be seeing us often, of course. After all, we’ve decided to officially start pursuing you," Jiangg Ning said, pulling a blue ID card with a lanyard from her small shoulder bag. "I’ve already thought of everything. You can’t audit major-specific courses, but you can attend general education lectures. This is my auditor’s pass... It’s all completely legitimate and aboveboard, Chen."

"I have one too." Jiangg Yao took out her own auditor’s pass and gave it a little shake.

For her, who had never experienced university life, being here was actually quite novel.

Besides, this was a way to get a better look into Chen Yuan’s daily life.

’A campus romance... This was a realm she’d never even touched upon. The thought of pursuing her "little young master" at school actually made her a bit excited.’

’If she succeeded, wouldn’t that count as their own version of going from school uniforms to a wedding dress?’

’It was actually kind of romantic.’

Chen Yuan was dumbfounded. He took the small blue pass and studied it for a long moment.

"You two... have taken things in a direction I never could have imagined."

"Hee hee, you were pretty surprised when we first walked in, weren’t you?" Jiangg Yao leaned close to his ear. As she spoke, a whiff of her perfume tickled his ear. "I’ll let you in on a little secret: this was my idea."

...

「Let’s turn back time, to the day the three of them first argued and Chen Yuan packed his bags and left.」

A cold, miserable wind and rain raged outside.

The living room was in shambles.

Jiangg Yao was crying, sitting on the rug by the sofa. Her sister had stopped her from shamelessly begging him to stay, and she was filled with bitter regret.

"Why did you hold me back...? You knew there was still a tiny chance if we could just get him to stay. Now he’s gone, and it’s completely hopeless... No, I have to go drag him back."

"Do you really think dragging him back here will make everything okay again?" Jiangg Ning grabbed her sister’s arm and pulled her back. "Calm down."

"If you’re not going after him, then stay out of my way."

"Fine. Then tell me, how exactly do you plan on getting Chen Yuan back? By throwing yourself on the ground, clinging to his leg, and making a scene for the whole street to see? Is that it? All that will do is make him hate you."

"But at least I’ll get him to stay!" 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"What’s the use of keeping his body here if you can’t keep his heart? Just stay put, and we’ll figure out another way."

Jiangg Ning sat on the sofa, her head aching, lost in thought.

Beside her, Jiangg Yao had quieted down. Maybe some of her sister’s words had gotten through, or maybe she realized it was already too late to chase after him. She just squatted on the floor, sobbing quietly as she picked up the items scattered on the ground, one by one.

They were all things that had fallen out of Chen Yuan’s backpack.

’I have to put everything back,’ she thought. ’Otherwise, when he comes back and sees this mess on the floor, he’ll probably hate me even more.’

Jiangg Yao didn’t want Chen Yuan to hate her. From the very beginning, her goal had been simple: just to be with him.

’But... why did things always have to get so difficult?’

Her perfectly fine life, her sweet romance... it had all turned to ash in just a few nights. She had lost her one and only love.

Jiangg Yao couldn’t help but think, ’If only the truth about us being twins hadn’t been exposed.’ They could have at least kept things going for a while longer. Maybe she could have found another solution, or they could have just waited for the Heartbeat Diary to end, and that would have been that.

’Why on earth had things ended up like this?’

"How did our ’little young master’ find out we’re twins? I thought I did a great job hiding it."

"You’re still thinking about how to keep deceiving him?" For the first time, a flash of irritation crossed Jiangg Ning’s face. She ran a hand through her hair. "It was bound to be discovered. I never should have agreed to your plan in the first place. If we had just been honest from the start, maybe none of this would have happened. Dragging it out like this just turned it into a ticking time bomb."

"Hah! So now you’ve come to your senses? Now you think you shouldn’t have agreed to my plan?!"

"Is there a problem with that?"

"Of course there’s a problem! It was probably your flawed performance that got me dragged into this mess. If everything had gone according to my plan from start to finish, would things have ended up like this? For all we know, I could have already won and started my happy life by now."

"In your dreams!" Jiangg Ning glared at her, then grabbed a throw pillow and hurled it in her direction.