My Online Girlfriend Has a Twin Sister

"Son, you’re not joking with your dad, are you? Let’s be serious. This is no small matter to be joking about." Mr. Chen’s eyes widened in surprise, a rare expression for him.

"Didn’t I tell you two to brace yourselves? Don’t get worked up just yet. Just listen to me."

Chen Yuan had been worried this would happen, especially that Liu He would lose her temper and insist on disciplining him.

He was an adult now. To put it simply, he was a university student responsible for his own actions. To put it more complexly, he was the chairman in charge of an entire company.

But when Liu He habitually raised her hand to smack his shoulder, Chen Yuan still flinched away reflexively.

He cowered whenever she got fierce.

Everyone meets their match.

It was just that strange.

"So that’s why you were hemming and hawing earlier, insisting I buy two gifts. This is what you had up your sleeve. Chen Yuan, if you don’t give me an explanation today, I won’t let you off easy," Liu He said angrily, pointing at his nose.

She had arrived in high spirits.

Full of happy anticipation at the thought of visiting her son.

And what did she get? Chen Yuan dropped a bombshell on her and her husband!

It was perfectly normal that she couldn’t accept it right away.

In fact, Liu He was already trying her best to hold back. As someone who cared so much about appearances, she didn’t want to embarrass Chen Yuan in front of two such nice girls.

That was why she had been keeping her voice down this whole time.

"Mom, you have to at least give me a chance to explain."

"Speak!"

"Alright."

Chen Yuan snuck a glance at his parents’ faces and breathed an inward sigh of relief. Their expressions weren’t as bad as he had anticipated. His plan had worked. The two sisters had already met his parents, which had completely changed their initial impression.

If he had explained things beforehand instead of having them meet...

...his parents’ impression of the two sisters probably wouldn’t have been good.

People tend to imagine the worst when they don’t know the full story.

Chen Yuan had prepared his words in advance, so he began speaking calmly,

"This is actually my dear old dad’s fault. I was living perfectly fine in the dorm when he, without a word, bought this apartment for me to live in. Well, since he’d spent the money, we couldn’t just let it sit empty, so I packed up my dorm bed and moved right in. Sometimes things are just a coincidence, and fate is a funny thing. The older of the twins, whose full name is Jiangg Ning, is someone you’ve already met."

"What about her?" Liu He asked.

"Dad, Mom, I won’t hide it from you... she’s an associate professor at my university!"

"Huh???" Mr. Chen’s jaw dropped. He was dumbfounded.

’It’s a student-teacher romance!’

"You little brat—" Liu He immediately started winding up.

But just as she was about to cast her spell, Chen Yuan interrupted her.

"Wait, Mom! Jiangg Ning is incredibly accomplished. She’s not the straight-A scholarship student you might have guessed. She graduated a long time ago. She has dual master’s degrees in philosophy and social sciences, and she was the youngest associate professor at our university!"

"She’s that accomplished?" Liu He instantly pulled her hand back and, without thinking, sat up straight and proper as she asked.

She and Mr. Chen exchanged a look, and both of them swallowed hard.

Of course, it wasn’t just the degrees that stunned them. A master’s degree was rare, but not so rare that it would make Liu He completely forget her ’attack.’

Because the couple understood, what truly shocked them was the fact that she taught at Landa University.

They were both teachers, so they naturally knew that to become an associate professor at a top-ranked institution like Landa University in Lanjing, especially without extensive experience, one had to have extremely prestigious degrees and publications in famous, top-tier journals.

Only then would one even have a chance of getting into a renowned university.

And mind you, that was just a chance. Getting in for real still depended on the final interview.

To have such a resume at her age meant she was truly one in a million. From this alone, they could get a glimpse of Jiangg Ning’s excellence and the caliber of her alma mater.

As teachers, their favorite topic of conversation was whose child was a good student. It was an occupational hazard they couldn’t shake. It wasn’t that they had never seen outstanding students; even their remote little county produced promising candidates for top universities every year. But someone like this was destined to be a legendary figure, not just a fish in a small pond.

Seeing his first strike land and cause a ’stun’ effect...

...Chen Yuan immediately pressed his advantage.

He continued, "After I moved into this complex, I ran into her one time when I was going downstairs to take out the trash. I was very surprised at the time."

Chen Yuan was fabricating this wildly, recalling and speaking as if it were all true.

"At the time, I remember it was a rainy day. I saw her and thought, ’Isn’t that an associate professor from my university? I’ve even taken her class, I’m sure of it.’ So, following the principle of respecting my teachers, which you both taught me since I was a child, I proactively offered her my umbrella. And that’s how we met."

"Respecting your teachers is indeed the right thing to do," Mr. Chen agreed with a nod, his expression softening considerably.

"After that, there was that huge rainstorm in Lanjing, remember those days? You called me back then to tell me to be careful and all that. Well, it turned out the apartment across the hall, where Jiangg lived, had a problem. I heard a commotion, and again, acting on the principle of being helpful, I went over to help. That’s something you taught me too, Dad."

"I—" Mr. Chen’s mouth twitched, and he opened it to retort.

Chen Yuan interrupted his ’casting’ again, launching a combo.

"After I went over, I discovered something unbelievable: Jiangg has a twin sister. At that time, a pipe had burst, they couldn’t get in touch with property management, and no repairman could come out in the torrential rain. I had no choice but to use some clothes to tie up the pipe to stop the place from flooding. Afterward, Jiangg found out I was her student and was very grateful, so she invited me over for dinner. One thing led to another, and we got to know each other. Being a good neighbor, that’s what you taught me, Mom, right?"

"Don’t give me that. Get to the point!" Liu He glared.

"The point is, as we spent more time together, neither Professor Jiangg Ning nor Jiangg Yao had a boyfriend, and they both developed feelings for me... and they confessed them, one after the other."

As soon as the words were out, Chen Yuan’s own face turned red with embarrassment.

But it was the truth. There was no denying it. The two sisters had indeed fallen for him one after another, and a series of events had led to today’s complicated situation.

After a moment, he added, "Of course, Jiangg Yao is also very outstanding. She’s an arts student who has studied piano and dance since elementary school. Right now, she’s thriving in her chosen field and has a ton of fans who love her. About this many."

Chen Yuan held up one finger.

"Ten thousand?" Mr. Chen guessed.

"One million!" he said in a low voice.

"That impressive?" Mr. Chen’s eyes behind his glasses were filled with amazement.

After listening to Chen Yuan’s brief introduction of the two sisters...

...Liu He processed all this information, put it all together, and finally asked a soul-piercing question: "Son, I’d really like to know. Two girls this outstanding, from good families, and more mature than you, right? So why on earth would they both like *you*?"

"Mom, what’s that supposed to mean..."

"It means exactly what it sounds like."

"What do you mean, ’why’?" Chen Yuan said, a little unhappy. "I mean, you both know I received plenty of Love Letters in middle and high school, right? And a lot of girls have liked me in college, too. You can’t deny that, can you?"

"That may be so, but those young girls just thought you were handsome. Dating you was just a superficial whim," Liu He said with a wave of her hand, seeing right through it. "That doesn’t count as the real thing."

"Well, I don’t know what they’re thinking. Why don’t you ask them?"

"Ask them my ass! I ought to give you a good slap!" Liu He had calmed down by now, but she was still annoyed and shot a glare at Chen Yuan as she cursed.

"Son, I have a question. And don’t think your dad is being petty... but do they... know about your connection to Zheng Feng?"

"Don’t worry, Dad. I’ve never revealed it."

Upon hearing this...

Mr. Chen and Liu He exchanged a look, both feeling relieved.

If that was the case, their only worry was gone. It wasn’t that they were snobs or suspicious of the two sisters; they were simply looking out for Chen Yuan.

Because while Chen Yuan might not have a concept of what the Jiang Corporation was, his parents did.

As long as their feelings were genuine and not for material gain, everything else was a small, solvable problem.

The living room fell quiet for a moment.

The midday sun was especially brilliant, as if celebrating this happy reunion, mercilessly showering down light and heat. Inside, the air conditioner was humming, its pleasant, cool breeze fighting against the sweltering heat brought by the light.

A strange, mouth-watering aroma wafted in from the kitchen.

The family of three sat on the comfortable sofa.

No one spoke. Only occasional eye contact conveyed a range of complex emotions.

Mr. and Mrs. Chen were digesting this weighty news.

"Sigh, what a mess..." Liu He sighed.

It should have been such happy news. She had taken quite a liking to Jiangg Ning.

Highly educated! Dual master’s degrees!

She exuded a dignified and elegant air, the very picture of a well-bred young lady.

’She was born to be her daughter-in-law.’

The other twin sister wasn’t bad either. She had an artistic temperament and looked like a sweet, well-behaved, innocent girl. The way she had called them "Uncle, Auntie" when she first came in had melted her heart. She would make a good daughter-in-law, too.

Liu He didn’t mind the age gap much. She had always held the firm belief that a man should find a girl who was a bit older and more sensible.

It was better for the family.

Besides, when Liu He had Chen Yuan’s fortune told when he was a child, the fortune-teller had said he would definitely marry someone older than him, who would help his career flourish and ensure a happy and blissful family life.

A perfect match of yin and yang, a celestial complement! He would live his whole life without major disasters.

Either one would do; she could accept either of them. But having two at once was the problem.

"Son, what are your thoughts?"

After a long silence, Liu He finally decided to ask for Chen Yuan’s opinion. After all, it was his love life.

His own opinion was what mattered most.

"I can’t decide right now either... To be honest, I’m very confused, which is why I’ve just been putting it off. Neither of them is pressuring me to make a choice immediately. I want to wait a while before thinking about it and focus on my studies first," he said seriously.

"How long is ’a while’?" Liu He asked tentatively.

"Maybe a year or two, or until after I graduate university?" he replied.

"So, you plan to keep two-timing them until you graduate... Son, Mom has something to say to you. Come on, stick your face over here." Liu He beckoned to him.