My Online Girlfriend Has a Twin Sister

Chen Yuan answered without hesitation.

"Honestly, I don’t treat you and your sister any differently. Maybe I did at first, but as my feelings for you both developed, that faded away. I’m not exceptionally good to her, and I’m not harsh with you. If I truly had a set of scales in my heart, you’d both weigh exactly the same. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have backed myself into this corner."

Chen Yuan wasn’t just trying to placate Jiangg Yao with pretty words. He was telling the absolute truth.

The two sisters each had their own wonderful qualities. The so-called difference was simply in the way he treated them.

But the love sprang from the same source.

"Believe me or don’t, but I will spend a very, very long time proving that I’m not being selfish, and I’m not lying."

As he spoke, Chen Yuan took Jiangg Yao’s hand, wiped the tears from her cheeks, and gently caressed her face.

Because of his personality, he’d been precocious since he was a child. He didn’t have many friends, and the ones he did hang out with were generally good kids. He didn’t have many wild, dramatic memories from his youth.

He never experienced a so-called rebellious phase. Before he knew it, he was in college.

If these days could still be considered his youth, then Jiangg Yao had become all of its sunshine and rain. He could show his childish side to her without restraint; he could be a carefree kid with her.

She never looked down on him for it or lectured him about how a "real man" should act.

She placed Chen Yuan on a pedestal above all else, lifting him up until her own soul was kneeling in prostration.

This was her way of expressing love.

Chen Yuan couldn’t allow himself to not cherish Jiangg Yao. Otherwise, he would never be able to forgive himself.

Of course, being the shy person he was, Chen Yuan was unwilling to say such sentimental things out loud.

He just wanted to keep Jiangg Yao by his side and let the passing years slowly reveal just how much he cherished her.

However, Jiangg Yao could no longer dwell on matters of the heart. She had more practical things to consider.

"If I borrow your money, what’s the... repayment period? So that I don’t violate your harsh terms..." She pursed her lips, glanced at Chen Yuan, and then turned her head away.

"One year," Chen Yuan said flatly.

"No way!" Jiangg Yao refused immediately. "You might as well just have me sign my life away. It would save us the trouble."

"That would be a bit too shameless."

"Oh, so you do have some awareness of being shameless. I thought your skin was as thick as a fortress wall," Jiangg Yao said sarcastically through gritted teeth.

"Two years." Chen Yuan also knew that earning over ten million in one year was a complete fantasy, so he made a concession.

"Five years!"

"Hey, I’m the one setting the rules here. Haven’t I compromised enough?"

"How about four years?" Jiangg Yao asked hesitantly.

She’d just done some quick mental math. The top streamers on the platform were only making around three million a year. That was no small number.

Entertainment-focused streamers didn’t make that much. The ones who really raked it in were those who did "PK battles" with other streamers, goading their audiences into sending gifts. They were guaranteed to make several million a year.

If she streamed relentlessly and shamelessly squeezed her viewers for every penny, she should...

The scattered numbers multiplied and added in her head, eventually turning into a chaotic jumble—she couldn’t figure it out.

So Jiangg Yao had no idea what a reasonable deadline would be.

Deep down, she definitely didn’t want to marry Chen Yuan alongside her sister. Life was already hard enough; she didn’t want to spend the rest of it competing with her sister for a boyfriend... no, a husband.

That would be a truly torturous life.

Most importantly, while she held a trump card that could help Chen Yuan ’checkmate’ Jiangg Ning, the method was far too extreme. The situation could easily devolve into a terrible tragedy, and Jiangg Yao knew she didn’t have the courage to go through with it.

Harming their sisterly bond was one thing, but to change the entire course of her sister’s life... that would make her the worst villain of all.

"No, two years at most," Chen Yuan said, shaking his head. "We’ve already come this far. Let me be ruthless for once."

After he spoke, Jiangg Yao remained silent for a long time.

She hugged her knees in the cramped tent, her long, dark hair cascading over her shoulders like a waterfall.

"Whatever the deadline is, I’ll try my best to pay it off. I can agree to your condition, but I have to fight for my own happiness, too. I know you don’t care whether I can pay you back or not... but I do," she said quietly.

Chen Yuan had thought he would have to argue his case much further.

He never expected Jiangg Yao to agree so easily.

Less than an hour had passed since he’d told her the truth.

Now that he’d achieved his goal, Chen Yuan was stunned.

He swallowed, momentarily at a loss for words. After a brief pause, he cautiously watched Jiangg Yao’s expression.

"Yaoyao."

"Yes?"

"You don’t hate me, do you? Forcing conditions on you and your sister, blackmailing you when you’re in a situation like this..."

People were strange, contradictory creatures.

A moment ago, Chen Yuan had felt utterly hard-hearted, the image of a cold man willing to do anything to achieve his goal.

But now that he’d achieved it, he was starting to go soft.

Jiangg Yao looked up, still hugging her knees, and brushed a strand of hair from her forehead.

"If I were going to hate you, I would have started long ago. Who forgives their boyfriend for being in love with someone else? It’s not like I’m so love-struck that I’m an idiot... I want to hate you; I just can’t. I’ve even thought about what I’d do if you left me for my sister one day." She gave a wry smile. "I’d wish you happiness. It’s stupid, isn’t it..."

Her words struck Chen Yuan’s heart like a physical blow.

He couldn’t stop his nails from digging into his palms as he slowly lowered his head.

It was less a battle of love and more a process of mutual taming among the three of them.

All three of them had their own goals.

To find happiness. To achieve the future they yearned for.

He shouldn’t have asked her that.

"The truth is, even if I borrow your money, I’ll never be able to pay it back, right? It doesn’t matter if it’s two years or three. I’m not that capable, and I’m not as smart as my sister... In the end, my only choice will be to help you get the result you want."

Jiangg Yao saw things very clearly.

Her eyes were clear and glistening as she looked at Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan didn’t dare to meet her gaze.

"That would be the best outcome. Then we can all stop torturing each other. Someone has to concede..." he said, turning his face away.

This was no ordinary night.

Perhaps they had both sensed it before they even arrived.

Far away in Tokyo, an unfamiliar city. Hundreds of meters up in the air. Inside a cramped tent, two anxious hearts.

This one night would decide the fate of this twisted love affair.

"No, it’s not that ’someone has to concede.’ It’s that *I’m* the only one who can," Jiangg Yao exhaled, her voice calm. "You know it perfectly well. From the very beginning, you’ve never been confident you could change my sister’s mind. You have no other choice but to rely on me. You can never shake her principles, so your only option is to bind her to your side. I don’t want to help you, because my own happiness is at stake, but you insist on forcing me."

"I... I have no choice."

"I love you, so I can marry you. I can tolerate a three-person life. But my sister will never agree. Absolutely never. You don’t need two years. I can tell you right now: if you want my sister to marry you along with me, there’s only one way."

"What is it?" Chen Yuan’s ears perked up. He stared at Jiangg Yao, his heart leaping into his throat.

"Just look at yourself right now," Jiangg Yao said coldly, a mocking smile playing on her lips. "Utterly shameless."

"Ahem. So, are you going to tell me or not?" Chen Yuan felt a little helpless at being insulted.

"What good would it do if I told you? Would you even dare to do it?"

"Of course I would! Do you have any idea how much I’ve worked to make this happen? I’m thinking about it all the time, even in my dreams." Chen Yuan’s curiosity had reached its absolute peak.

He had absolutely no idea how to change Jiangg Ning’s mind.

She was too resolute. To this day, she had never once shown any sign of budging.

It was hopeless.

"Fine, I’ll tell you. My sister is a woman of strong principles, you know that. But there’s something she cares about even more than her principles, and that’s family. She’s always tried to make me happy because she never had a happy childhood herself. She doesn’t want me to suffer the same pain... If—and I’m just saying if—she were to accidentally get pregnant with your baby, she would absolutely choose to give birth. And she would never let her child be born without a father, because my sister and I grew up without one. In that case, the only solution would be for her to marry you."

In that instant, a terrifying silence fell over the tent.

The two of them stared at each other.

Chen Yuan’s eyes slowly widened, unable to believe what he was hearing.

But Jiangg Yao continued, "And if, before she got pregnant, I were to marry you and make it a legal reality, then your dream could come true... I’m done. Do you understand?"

After a long silence.

"But..." Chen Yuan said with great difficulty, "that’s... that’s beyond the pale. Is that something a human being could even do? If I did that, wouldn’t she hate me for the rest of her life?"

"Then what do you suggest? That you’ll win her over with the power of your love?" Jiangg Yao was unnervingly calm.

She knew it was the only way.

Perhaps from the moment Chen Yuan first said he wanted to marry them both, Jiangg Yao had already foreseen that it was an impossible dream.

And the only solution was even more unacceptable than the two of them marrying him together.

It would not only exploit the tragic weakness she and her sister shared—the loss of their family—but also defy all moral principles and a person’s most basic conscience. It would even be a gamble with the next generation.

It was precisely because the method was so extreme.

That Jiangg Yao had asked, "Would you even dare?"

She knew Chen Yuan wouldn’t dare.

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