During a short holiday, a family gathering usually just lasts for the duration of a meal. This time, the short holiday at the Qin family lasted a full two days, mainly to create opportunities for a few children from a family friend.
But what was the result? It was hilarious; aside from the first day at noon, I hardly saw Qin Yue at all during the other times!
There was nothing to be done about it; no matter who it was, no one expected that during the precious three-day holiday, Qin Yue would be completely occupied by Bai Ningning in the bedroom for two whole days.
It was truly a case of being controlled to death.
After two days, everyone started to leave one after another, and naturally, Qin Yue and the others didn't need to stay any longer, especially since they were called back by their relatives.
The first two days of the short holiday were spent at a comic convention, followed by three days at the Qin family, with one day of rest in between. By the time the three of them returned to Shuiyue Tingyuan early in the morning, there was only one day left of the holiday.
Once home, Bai Ningning changed out of her loose pajamas and was about to run to the bedroom.
Qin Yue grabbed her: "Don't just go play on your phone in bed; come do some group activities."
Group... activities?
Bai Ningning looked at her in confusion, then glanced at Qin Yue.
What does that mean? Is the big sister so open-minded? But Qin Xin, the junior, is straight!
At that moment, Qin Yue said, "Do you want to watch a movie?"
Oh, so the group activity refers to this.
"Then where are we going to watch it?"
"We don't need to go anywhere."
With that, Qin Yue instructed the maid to set things up. Before long, the room in the middle of the hallway was cleared out, the walls covered with black cloth, a thick layer of tatami mats on the floor, and a projection screen and projection equipment set up at both ends.
Bai Ningning was surprised: "There's a home theater in the house?"
"The house has plenty of things," Qin Yue said casually, "You just didn't know."
There used to be a billiard room, but due to strong interference from Qin's mom, it was turned into a gym. Qin Yue really wanted to say that she didn't need a gym; Ningning was her gym.
The workout intensity was very high, the kind that would leave you lying down for several days after just one session.
Qin Xin didn't mind; watching a movie was fine with her.
"By the way, what are we watching?" Bai Ningning asked.
Qin Yue didn't answer; she just pulled her down to sit, and Qin Xin sat beside them.
This was the activity Qin Yue had originally planned for the holiday. She knew that the homebody Bai Ningning was used to lying in bed every day and wasn't very enthusiastic about going out to play. Moreover, they had already spent two days at the comic convention, which might have exhausted a month's worth of activity, so she thought of an entertainment activity that could be done at home.
However, due to various events that happened in the past few days, they only had time for it today.
With the doors and windows closed, the projection screen slowly lit up. After a segment of the opening credits, a few words gradually appeared on the screen—
The Conjuring 3
...
Work Log: Preparation, Day One
My girlfriend Bai Ningning studies at Xicheng University, while I work at a company in the same city. Because one of us is working and the other is studying, it's usually hard to know what the other is doing.
Recently, I heard rumors that my girlfriend has been quite unfaithful at school, often getting close to other girls. I completely don't believe it, but as the saying goes, where there's smoke, there's fire. Since there are such rumors, it indicates that something might have happened at school.
To put my mind at ease and to possibly clear my girlfriend's name, I decided to investigate. Coincidentally, there's an opportunity to work at her school...
Writing to this point, Si Youxue paused, took a short break, and also checked for any mistakes in what she had written earlier.
Qin Yue said that this job required her to immerse herself in the role of a spy, so to enhance her immersion, she needed to create a self-suggestive identity.
If she didn't do this, as a straight girl, it would be impossible for her to catch a girl cheating—because she couldn't distinguish which actions were normal intimacy and which behaviors were overly intimate.
Straight girls really aren't sensitive enough to these matters.
To forcibly increase her sensitivity, Si Youxue wrote these things in her diary as a form of self-suggestion.
Dingling—
"Hello? Manager Li."
"Yes, it's me," Li Yue said on the other end of the line, "The work has been arranged; you can just go. I've talked to them over there, and they won't interfere with you."
"Okay."
There are quite a few partners at Xicheng University, such as the 5G campus network operator that has a permanent service center at the school in recent years. Li Yue knows people from the operator and has given them a heads-up, allowing Si Youxue to stay at the school at any time.
Her official role is to collect customer feedback and experience the operational effects, so Si Youxue can attend various classes as an auditor—checking which classrooms have poor signal is also quite important.
After hanging up the phone, Si Youxue continued writing her log. The purpose of the diary was not only for psychological suggestion but also to seriously make plans and analyze the current situation.
[I have successfully obtained the opportunity to go to Xicheng University and can stay there for a while. Now, I need to do many things. Although those rumors have some basis, they are still just hearsay...]
And I don't know the specific situation. So, I need to find out the names of the girls mentioned in those rumors through some intelligence networks.
But that's the problem; I have no connections at Xicheng University, not a single acquaintance, making it very difficult to inquire about things.
That's right, whether or not there is psychological suggestion, the biggest problem facing Si Youxue is this. She doesn't know how many girls are close to Bai Ningning, or who they are. It's not like she can follow someone around all day, monitoring them 24/7.
If only I had a friend studying at Xicheng University... Hmm?
Si Youxue suddenly remembered that she actually knows someone studying at Xicheng University, and that person is closely related to her and Bai Ningning.
The second young lady of the Qin family.
...
Qin Xin felt a bit numb.
Not because she was scared by the evil spirits and monsters on the screen, but because of the behavior of the two people next to her.
"Yueyue, you're actually afraid of ghosts?"
"The most important thing about watching a movie is to immerse yourself in it, to feel the atmosphere. I'm usually not afraid, but at this moment, I can be."
"But being scared by a horror movie is just a moment; when that sudden fear hits, a hug is enough, right? No need to keep hugging."
Not only hugging, but also rubbing and snuggling against the pillow. Ningning thought you hadn't eaten enough and was worried.
"You're right. If it were another horror movie, it would indeed be like that; that's what we call a sudden scare. But this is 'The Conjuring,' which focuses on psychological horror, it's always scary, the more you think about it, the scarier it gets," Qin Yue said as if it were obvious, "So it's very reasonable for me to keep hugging you, right?"
"…Fine."
Indeed, it's hard to say it's unreasonable.