chapter 13

Zhang Li suddenly felt as if something dangerous was approaching. Her whole body slid off the chair.

She curled up, hugging her chest, trembling in the corner as if she were afraid.

Seeing this, Chen Shu sighed helplessly.

“Zhang Li, if you don’t want to talk, that’s fine. I won’t force you.”

“But do you really think you can face your… sister?”

Zhang Li was stunned by Chen Shu’s words. Then she lowered her head, falling into painful memories, tears streaming down her face.

Lu Fan saw the scene and quietly walked over to Zhang Li, patting her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her.

After a moment, Zhang Li calmed down.

She looked up at Chen Shu.

“I really never thought she would die, nor did I expect her to become like this. It’s all my fault…”

Chen Shu shook his head. “What’s done is done. Can you tell me why you pretended to be your sister?”

Zhang Li was silent for a long time, but finally decided to reveal what she had been hiding.

Xiao Gao and Lu Fan were both shocked, their eyes wide, as they listened to Zhang Li’s story.

It turned out that this Zhang Li was not really Zhang Li, but Zhang Lili-the elder sister, not the younger one.

The two of them were twins, almost identical in appearance, even their names were similar. Even more incredibly, their DNA could not be distinguished.

The probability of such twins appearing was extremely low, and this was her trump card.

Both sisters had fallen for the same boy. But Zhang Li, that is, Zhang Lili’s younger sister, confessed first, so she succeeded in pursuing the boy and ended up with him.

When Zhang Lili found out, she was heartbroken. One time, when her sister Zhang Li had a full schedule, she pretended to be her sister and went on a date with the boy, just to see if she could pull it off. Unexpectedly, the boy really fell for her, even mistaking her for Zhang Li.

But was it really that simple?

Zhang Lili was too naive. Maybe the boy didn’t notice the first time, but what about the second, the third?

So the boy she liked must have realized!

Later, the boy confronted her directly: “It’s fine, you two look exactly the same, but you’re even better than your sister.”

She didn’t care whether the boy was lying to her; she was willing to be with him.

After all, who wouldn’t want two beautiful, innocent, and sexy twin sisters as girlfriends? Especially those boys, who would do anything for them.

Meanwhile, her sister knew nothing, sharing her daily life and joys with her elder sister-eating together, playing games, shopping, and so on.

And she was foolishly deceived by her beloved boyfriend and her most trusted sister.

But just a few days ago, Zhang Lili discovered she might be pregnant!

Not only was she pregnant, but her sister Zhang Li also told her that she was pregnant too, already five months along.

After Zhang Lili found out she was pregnant, she really wanted to abort the child, but needed to find a way to keep it secret.

Then, the night before last.

On the evening of May 25th, after self-study, Zhang Lili received a phone call.

The caller told her there was a way for her to be with the one she loved forever.

Zhang Lili wanted to refuse and hung up.

But the caller immediately revealed her secret-that she had been with her sister Zhang Li’s boyfriend. If she didn’t agree, the caller would tell her sister, and even the whole school.

Let everyone see how these inseparable twin sisters were, and how the elder sister had deceived her younger sister by secretly being with her boyfriend.
Zhang Lili was frightened when she heard this, and didn’t dare hang up the phone, afraid that the person on the other end would tell someone else.

Then a magical voice came from the phone: “Don’t you want to make it yours?”

“Don’t you want to walk openly on the street, go shopping, watch movies, and do everything lovers do with the person you love?”

“Instead of sneaking around in the shadows every day.”

…

Hearing these words seemed to awaken a deep longing in Zhang Lili’s heart.

“I do, I do! I really do! I want to be with the person I love most, and never be apart!”

Zhang Lili answered the caller emotionally.

But another voice echoed in her mind along with her answer.

Why have I always had to give way to her since we were little?

Why, whenever we like the same things, do our parents always tell me to let her have it, just because I came out of our mother’s belly a few seconds earlier than her?

Why do we have the same things, but she always has so much more than I do!

Why, why… why!

With these voices in her heart, Zhang Lili decisively agreed to the person on the phone.

Zhang Li asked the person on the phone what she needed to do.

The other party told Zhang Lili that if she wanted to have the happiest love in the world, besides working hard, she also needed to use strategy to get love.

According to the instructions from the person on the phone, all Zhang Lili needed to do the next day was to pretend to be her sister.

Put on her clothes, imitate her sister’s movements and expressions, and firmly believe that you are Zhang Li.

And from that moment on, you will be called Zhang Li!

Zhang Lili will no longer exist in this world.

Zhang Lili was half convinced, could it really be that simple?

But she still did as she was told.

On May 26th, Zhang Lili sat in the dorm room, clutching her phone tightly and watching the time.

The screen showed exactly 00:00 midnight.

She felt anxious and uneasy, glancing at her sister on the other bed.

Her sister was sound asleep, completely unaware of her.

The two of them shared a dorm room, and they were the only ones there; the others had taken long vacations and gone abroad for School activities.

Zhang Lili saw that the time had reached the next day, just as the person on the phone said. She glanced at her sister’s spot again and found her still sleeping deeply.

She suddenly felt a bit disappointed, thinking she was being unrealistic, that she’d been tricked.

How could simply putting on her sister’s clothes make her become her sister the next day?

“…Maybe… unless she died!”

This thought flashed through Zhang Lili’s mind, startling herself. She quickly shook her head to deny such a bizarre idea-how could she wish for her sister to die?

Was she really that malicious?

“No…”

But Zhang Lili bit her lip; at that moment, she truly had a selfish thought.

She really wished that if her real sister died!

Then she wouldn’t have to play hide-and-seek with the person she liked, nor feel guilty for hiding from her sister the fact that her boyfriend was also with her.

The more Zhang Lili thought about it, the more terrified she felt about herself.

Just as Zhang Lili was lost in her thoughts, her phone suddenly rang.

Zhang Li was startled awake by the sound.

Zhang Li answered the call, her voice a little coquettish, “Hello… Why are you calling so late at night…”

A male voice came from the phone: “Baby, I miss you so much~ See you at the Back Mountain, baby~”