Ye Zhibai wasn’t familiar with the road back “home.”
The luxury sedan glided steadily along the West City District’s ring highway, the scenery outside the window so utterly foreign.
In her previous life, she’d lived entirely in the East City District and had rarely ever come to the West City District, so she naturally had no real knowledge of the area.
But… she didn’t feel much anxiety about it.
Because…
Yun’er was clinging to me so tightly!! I was nervous enough to die! Who had the luxury to worry about feeling at ease or not?!
That’s right—the current situation was that Ye Qinghe was personally driving the luxury sedan, focused intently on taking his two daughters home.
In the back seat, Ye Zhiyun was hugging her like a body pillow and hadn’t let go of her body for a single moment!
Her arms wrapped around Ye Zhibai’s slender waist, while her legs—clad in black knee-high socks—slid between her two smooth legs and stuck to them like magnets.
The faint floral scent of Ye Zhiyun’s body wafted freely into her senses.
She had no idea what expression to make right now!
Oh, right… she still couldn’t make facial expressions. No problem then.
Just then, Ye Qinghe from the front seat asked softly, “Zhibai, is this speed okay for you? You’re not getting dizzy, are you? Sigh… I haven’t driven myself in so many years. I’m a bit rusty.”
Panic! Panic!
Suddenly being asked like this by a business elite bigshot—how could she not panic?!
He was her father, sure, but accepting that reality so quickly would make her superhuman.
Ye Zhibai clearly wanted to give a proper reply, but after agonizing over her words in her mind, carefully selecting each one, all that came out was two words.
“It’s fine.”
“Alright! Just hang in there a bit longer. We’ll be home soon!”
Ye Qinghe was over the moon!
He’d heard on the phone that Zhibai could talk now! And sure enough, it was true!
In his excitement, he grew chattier. Ye Qinghe continued, “Zhibai, while you were away from home, Yun’er cleaned your room every single day and wouldn’t let the maids help. Your room is spotless—not a speck of dust!”
“Yun’er…?”
“Hee hee! Big Sis can praise me a little, you know!”
Ye Zhiyun leaned in toward her chest, her long, silky black hair naturally spilling across her thighs.
She looked just like a pet begging for head pats and rewards.
Eh heh, no outsiders around—Ye Zhiyun could shamelessly act spoiled.
How could Ye Zhibai dare to pet a beautiful girl’s head on her own…!
Well, on second thought, that actually sounded pretty tempting.
Why not?
With somewhat stiff movements, she gently stroked her black hair while pondering some questions.
She was naturally curious about what her new home would look like—that went without saying.
Ahem… or rather, she was really hoping the new house had air conditioning!
In her previous life, back when she was in school, her greatest pleasure had been sneaking into cafes during the hottest summer days to mooch their AC.
Her family hadn’t had AC—they could barely afford one, and the electricity bill would have been too expensive anyway.
It sounded pathetic, but sometimes Ye Zhibai really envied people who could just blast the AC whenever they wanted without a care!
And then there was…
Through the genuine leather of the front passenger seat, on the driver’s seat…
Sat her father from this life. That much seemed confirmed.
But as Ye Zhibai’s gaze slowly shifted to the side…
The passenger seat was completely empty. No one was there.
Having someone come pick her up already felt like pure bliss to her.
But after calming down and thinking rationally, something felt off.
—Where’s Mom?
…Ye Zhibai had never experienced both parents picking her up from school growing up. After all, in her previous life, she had no parents—she’d been an orphan.
In this life, she’d already steeled herself mentally to get along well with her new family.
But she hadn’t seen Mama.
Ha… maybe Mama was too busy and didn’t have time to pick her up?
Or perhaps something came up at the last minute, and she’d see her at home? Either way, Ye Zhibai had no complaints.
Having a family was already an incredible happiness—no need to ask for more.
So she decided not to bring it up for now. If she still didn’t see Mama after getting home, she could ask then.
Compared to that…
There was something else Ye Zhibai wanted to ask even more.
—This question had been nagging at her ever since she woke up and saw Ye Zhiyun, right up to now.
“Yun’er…”
“Hm? What’s wrong, Big Sis? Is the car going too fast?”
“No… what I mean is, don’t you… find it strange?”
“Strange?” Ye Zhiyun slowly sat up straighter, blinking her big eyes, though she still didn’t let go of my arm. “Ah, it is pretty strange. I was just thinking—how did Big Sis get even prettier after waking up? Hee hee hee!”
“Quit messing around.”
Ye Zhibai gently swatted away the little hand that Ye Zhiyun had reached out to pinch her cheek.
As a tough guy at heart, compliments on my looks wouldn’t make me happy, okay!
Ye Zhiyun obediently pulled her hand back and rested it on her own lap. “So, what strange thing is Big Sis talking about?”
She organized her words.
Ye Zhibai hurriedly organized her language in her mind.
Her speech had been unclear before because she wasn’t used to this body.
But she had to get this question straight.
Right… this concerned everything about her life in this lifetime.
“You… aren’t you surprised… that I can talk now… and that I woke up… and why I have amnesia… and before that… why I ended up in a vegetative state from the car crash but only had superficial injuries…”
That last part was something Ye Zhibai had picked up from the conversation when the Medical Maid Corps came to check her body.
Even she found it baffling, but Ye Zhiyun hadn’t shown any change in expression when she heard it.
Ye Zhibai vaguely suspected it was the effect on her physique that the Light Orb had mentioned—the body created by the Deity.
She knew about it, but Yun’er and the others didn’t!
With a freak like this… hit by a car and turning vegetative, only to wake up without a care—who wouldn’t be scared of such a monster, let alone like it?
The brief silence around her made Ye Zhibai lower her head slowly, clench her fingers tightly, and grip the fabric of her dress draped over her thighs, crumpling it into folds.
Did I remind them? Do they find it strange now too?
—Not at all.
Ye Zhibai’s little hand was quickly enveloped by Ye Zhiyun’s.
“Big Sis… whether it’s strange or not doesn’t matter at all, okay? Pfft, actually, if we’re talking about strange—the strangest thing was when you first came to the Ye Family… uh, sorry. Big Sis, do you remember your background?”
“Not really… I think I was probably picked up…”
“Don’t say it like that! Even if it’s true, you’re still our family’s child!”
Ye Zhiyun lightly pressed a finger to Ye Zhibai’s lips, silencing her.
Hey! So bossy—it’s a fact, but she won’t even let me say it!
Anyway, Ye Zhiyun smiled and continued.
“See~ Big Sis remembers nothing else, but she still knows that bit about her background. That’s pretty strange too. Honestly… I’m totally used to it by now.”
After a brief recollection, she went on.
“We’ve lived together since we were little. You couldn’t talk or express yourself, but you could dress yourself, bathe yourself, and take care of yourself. You looked like you weren’t thinking about anything, but on rainy days, you’d hold an umbrella for stray cats… I’ve rescued a few in the yard too, you know? But I could never match Big Sis’s kindness.”
“……”
I bet, Yun’er, it’s because you saved the cats first and I saw you, so I started doing it too.
The Light Orb said this body had no soul back then. Those behaviors… they were just imitations of what she saw.
She could basically conclude that the body’s past actions were mostly imitating Ye Zhiyun.
So this wasn’t Ye Zhibai’s kindness at all—it was… Yun’er’s kindness.
However!
She’d been weird ever since she was little, so everyone was used to it.
That was Ye Zhiyun’s understanding!
It made perfect sense. Ye Zhibai was left speechless.
