My Online Girlfriend Has a Twin Sister - Chapter 298 201: If One Person Had to Disappear, Who Would You Want It to Be? (2)
Truthfully, she desperately wanted to resort to such a scheme.
But it wasn’t fair.
If she did that and Chen Yuan really chose her, Jiangg Yao would be wracked with guilt for the rest of her life, and she couldn’t guarantee Chen Yuan’s happiness either.
So, the two “sisters” had a pact. It was a principle that could never be broken.
“What… only one left?” Chen Yuan was stunned.
“Didn’t Ningning ever tell you?”
“No, never.”
In the dimly lit bedroom, Chen Yuan’s brow furrowed. He was beginning to realize the gravity of the situation.
A cool evening breeze drifted in from the window, gently rustling the sheer curtains. Night and moonlight mingled, and looking out through the curtains, it seemed as if a fog had rolled in.
Jiangg Yao took a deep breath.
In the end, she couldn’t hold it in any longer. It had come to this.
“The doctor’s opinion is that personalities are divided into a primary personality and an alter personality. When this condition is cured, the alter personality will disappear completely. From then on, the person becomes… normal.”
“??? So you’re saying,” Chen Yuan struggled to understand, “that in the future, either you or Ningning will disappear?”
“Yes.”
“Why? Can’t you two… merge?”
“Of course not. Because the alter personality is a derivative, an unwanted third party. Eliminating her is what makes the person healthy.”
Chen Yuan stared with eyes full of disbelief, stunned for a long moment.
He suddenly shot up in bed.
“Then who’s the alter, and who’s the primary?”
“I’m the primary personality! I think Ningning should be eliminated,” Jiangg Yao said with a faint smile.
Those words made Chen Yuan’s heart leap into his throat. His face turned pale in an instant.
But then Jiangg Yao added, “However, Ningning thinks she’s the primary personality and that I should be eliminated. So asking us won’t give you an answer.”
“Isn’t there… isn’t there any other way? Does one of you have to go?”
“That’s right. That’s why I’ve been so worried and anxious all these days,” Jiangg Yao said, coming over to hug him. “If… and I’m just saying if, Little Master… if I’m the one who gets eliminated, will you miss me?”
“I…”
He opened his mouth, but couldn’t say a word.
‘How am I supposed to answer a question like that?’
He didn’t know. His mind was a chaotic mess, completely consumed by the phrase “one of them has to disappear.” The words echoed over and over, weighing on him like a mountain.
“If I’m not the one who’s left, and you and Ningning are so happy that you end up forgetting me, Yaoyao will be super, super, super mad, you know… But you won’t be able to see me being mad anyway. I’ll resent you for it, Little Master… In the future, you’d better not think of me. Because even if you do, you won’t be able to find me. I’ll hide.” Jiangg Yao’s voice grew softer and softer until it was almost inaudible, like a murmur in a dream.
“I’ll hide away and love you in secret, okay?” she asked.
Jiangg Yao repeated the two words “hide away,” and burrowed under the covers like a little hamster returning to its nest. Only the top half of her body remained outside, creating a lump under the blanket.
“Make it clear for me. The alter personality will definitely disappear? There’s no other possibility?”
Chen Yuan threw back the covers, pressing her urgently.
But he was stunned to see Yaoyao lying there, her hair a mess, her eyes brimming with tears as she stared at him in silence.
He was speechless. All he could do was go over and hold Jiangg Yao in his arms.
On his shoulder, a few warm drops fell… Slowly, some soaked into his shirt, while others trickled down his neck.
They gradually grew cool, then vanished, until he couldn’t feel them anymore.
He was at a complete loss, and his heart seemed to plummet into an abyss along with those tears.
This was all too sudden. It was like a stunning blow to the head that left Chen Yuan reeling. He had always assumed that after recovering from this kind of multiple personality disorder, the person would just be normal—that Jiangg would become a combination of Ningning and Yaoyao. He never imagined that this was what “recovery” actually meant.
It was like two souls living in one body.
But if one of them was lost…
Chen Yuan couldn’t even bear the thought. He liked Yaoyao a lot too; he had never felt she was any less than Ningning. So why had it become an either-or situation?
He couldn’t accept it.
“Isn’t there another way? I definitely don’t want your personality to be eliminated. This whole primary and alter personality thing… Ningning can’t be eliminated either!”
“But it’s an illness, Little Master. It has to be treated. Otherwise, Ningning and I will continue to suffer endlessly. Can you understand that feeling? Don’t you want a future with me? After I get better, and I find a new job, I’ll marry you when you graduate. We’ll have lots and lots of babies, and we’ll grow old together, healthy and happy.”
“Then what about Ningning?”
“If Ningning is the one who stays, you’ll be happy too. She loves you a lot, I know she does,” Jiangg Yao said, her emotions calming slightly. She played with Chen Yuan’s hair, whispering, “Then, just like I said, I’ll hide and love you in secret. The only price is that you’ll never see me again for the rest of your life.”
“This is a joke, right? Yaoyao,” Chen Yuan said with a bitter smile, turning Jiangg Yao by her shoulders to face him. “You always love to joke around and tease me. This has to be a joke.”
“Isn’t it?” he stared into Jiangg Yao’s eyes. “Hurry up and say it. It’s a joke, right?”
Soon, even Chen Yuan’s bitter smile vanished.
Because he saw that Jiangg Yao wasn’t joking at all. She was completely serious. There was even a desperate calm in her eyes.
In that instant.
He felt as if a bolt from the blue had struck him, and his entire body froze, unable to move.
They had just had such a happy day.
They had just been looking forward to a beautiful, happy future.
But all of it had just been the last moment of peace before the end of the world.
