8: save2 Declaring Sovereignty (Physical)
Although she agreed, Lu Lele suddenly remembered something, then picked up her pen to write:
[By the way, aren't you going to your aunt's house to help?]
After seeing the words where Lu Lele agreed, Liu Lili revealed a look of relief and quickly responded:
[I'm not going. I'll just get scolded by Mom anyway, and I don't want to go. It's fine. By the way, are Uncle and Aunt still on a business trip?]
[Mm.]
...
After school.
Lu Lele and Liu Lili were walking together toward the bus stop.
The process was very quiet. Lu Lele kept her mouth shut tight, with no intention of communicating with Liu Lili. After trying a few times, Liu Lili gave up and just walked silently side by side with Lu Lele.
"Hi~"
A high-energy voice suddenly came from behind the two of them, followed by a light pat on both of their shoulders.
Lu Lele turned her head to look and found it was Ling Lianlian.
She nodded slightly, which counted as a response.
Liu Lili glanced at Lu Lele, then squeezed out a smile and greeted:
"It's Lianlian."
Ling Lianlian looked at Lu Lele, then at Liu Lili, tilting her head to ask:
"Hey hey, I remember Lili doesn't usually take the bus home, right? Where are you two planning to go?"
Liu Lili answered:
"Ah... I plan to go play at Lele's house for a while."
As soon as she heard this, Ling Lianlian became interested and asked excitedly:
"Play at Lele's house? Can I go too? I remember Lele said she has lots and lots of shoujo manga, right?"
"This..."
Liu Lili cast her inquiring gaze toward Lu Lele. Undoubtedly, the decision was in Lu Lele's hands.
Under normal circumstances, it was unlikely she would refuse in this situation, but at this moment, Lu Lele obviously didn't view "now" as "normal times."
An imaginary rival wants to enter my house? Scram!
Lu Lele felt that Ling Lianlian should be thankful she was playing a "Possessive-type" yandere and not another type.
Because in her impression, there were many types of yanderes who would use a hatchet to kill everyone around their beloved object.
Lu Lele could certainly do that too, but since the description given by the system stated that possessive-type yanderes generally only made moves on their beloved object, claiming the lover for themselves through imprisonment rather than "eliminating" rivals, Lu Lele didn't intend to get violent.
So Lu Lele stepped forward and said:
"Sorry, but besides playing, Lili and I have some relatively important matters to attend to. Next time."
After hearing this, Ling Lianlian didn't show any disappointment. She just nodded:
"Is that so."
But then, Ling Lianlian seemed to notice something, and the corner of her mouth curled up into a smile.
"But~ Lele, you said there was something important?"
Ling Lianlian put on an expression of sudden realization and asked with a mischievous smile:
"Could it be~ you two are actually in that kind of relationship? Like in that manga we read last time?"
There was no doubt that Ling Lianlian was referring to that manga they read together in the manga club last time, "The Haughty Young Lady Wants Me to Confess: A Commoner Girl's Love Battle." In this world, it was a very clichéd and classic campus romance yuri manga.
But the sales were excellent, and it was widely loved.
Ling Lianlian was undoubtedly making a joke of the two of them. Liu Lili waved her hands in a slight panic and said:
"Don't make that kind of joke..."
Lu Lele, however, nodded and said:
"That's right. We are in that kind of relationship."
Afterwards, right in front of Ling Lianlian, Lu Lele made a move that shocked her for a hundred years.
She turned around, grabbed Liu Lili's shoulders.
She forcefully turned Liu Lili's body around, then hugged the bewildered Liu Lili's neck, stood slightly on tiptoe, and brought them to the same height.
In Liu Lili's eyes, widened from surprise, Lu Lele's figure got closer and closer.
Until there was no distance left.
"Mmph!!"
Liu Lili was completely unprepared for Lu Lele's intense and sudden action, causing her to directly choke for air.
In her slightly scattered eyes, Lu Lele's face was reflected. That delicate and beautiful face was so familiar to Liu Lili, but the action of the owner of this stunning face was so foreign.
After a long time, Lu Lele finally stopped, and only then could the two separate.
Another crystal clear thread of saliva glistened with a shiny reflection in the afternoon sun.
"Haa..."
Liu Lili panted heavily, her face already covered in redness.
Ling Lianlian on the side had been dumbfounded for a while. Her face was even redder than Liu Lili's, resembling a ripe apple.
She covered her face with both hands and said with a trembling voice:
"You... you two..."
"Lili and I are in exactly this kind of relationship. She belongs to me. No one can take her away."
After saying this, as if declaring sovereignty, and without caring about Ling Lianlian's reaction, Lu Lele pulled Liu Lili, whose legs were weak, toward the bus that had just arrived at the station.
And accompanying Lu Lele's bold move, the Acting Value of the "Possessive-type" yandere rose again, arriving at 35%.
...
...
At Lu Lele's home.
"Just now, why did you do that? What if Ling Lianlian tells other girls about this?"
Liu Lili obviously hadn't recovered yet. She looked straight at Lu Lele, seemingly not very happy.
"I did it because I wanted to. Compared to that, let's talk about serious business."
This time, Lu Lele firmly held the initiative. She lightly brushed aside that matter and instead asked:
"Speak, Lili. What do you want to explain?"
Liu Lili sighed and said:
"About yesterday..."
"Lele, actually when you confessed to me, I was very happy, but I thought about it carefully and felt I still couldn't agree to you."
Liu Lili paused, then continued:
"I'm sorry. I did lie. My favorite person really is you. Saying I liked Ling Lianlian was just to make you stop thinking about confessing to me, but I didn't expect you to get so angry."
"Why couldn't you agree?" Lu Lele asked.
"Because you, Lele, always do things unilaterally, just like you did just now!" For some reason, Liu Lili suddenly became agitated.
Lu Lele retorted:
"Unilaterally? Please, I thought about it for a long time and mustered up a lot of courage before confessing to you."
Liu Lili said loudly:
"Lele, I'm not talking about whether or not you had courage, it's that you don't consider other aspects at all! Confessing isn't something you do on the spur of the moment!"
"You have to think about it, will our parents support it?"
"If we are really together, will we have a future?"
Facing Liu Lili's two questions, Lu Lele responded:
"Why can't we? We can go to the same high school together, then go to the same university. Just like before, we can be together, always and forever. As for parental support or whatever, is it necessary? After university, we'll be adults, so what do we care what they do? Worst case scenario, we go to another city to start our lives together! The sky is high and the emperor is far away, can they still control us?"
Liu Lili let out a sigh.
"Lele, you are still so naive."
She looked at Lu Lele, a trace of sorrow revealing itself in her eyes:
"Although the future you depict is beautiful, to me, it is an impossible thing."