However, Jiangg Ning was much more rational this time. Chen Yuan’s heartfelt confession had undoubtedly calmed her heart, and now that she understood everything that had happened since Jiangg Yao made her move, she had a better grasp of the situation.

“Since arguing is getting us nowhere, we need to find a better way to solve this. Otherwise, you definitely won’t back down, and I definitely won’t either.”

“That goes without saying! I will never just hand Chen Yuan over to you. He was mine to begin with, and right now, we’re in a true! proper! normal! relationship!”

Jiangg Yao put heavy emphasis on those three words.

“It’s no use. You can’t prove that Chen Yuan completely likes you. Maybe he actually likes me.”

“I can prove it. I just need time.”

“Still acting tough, huh? How much time do you want me to give you to prove it? How about four years? By the time he graduates from college, you two can have a kid, and what’s done will be done, right?”

“It’s a deal!”

“Deal my ass! No way.”

“Then what do you suggest? What’s this ‘fairer way to solve it’? Rock, paper, scissors?”

“Are you crazy? This is too important to be a game,” Jiangg Ning said, pushing herself up with her elbows on the cold coffee table. She gulped down two mouthfuls of water, then wiped her lips. “How about we calm down and form a united front?”

“A united… front?” Jiangg Yao repeated, mulling over the unfamiliar phrase. Her eyes were filled with suspicion, as if trying to see through whatever scheme her sister was plotting.

“That’s right. We don’t have the right to decide this, because neither of us is going to give in. So why don’t we let Chen Yuan decide?”

“I thought you had a real idea. Isn’t that just stating the obvious? If he finds out we’re twins, do you really think he’ll want to continue seeing either of us? Knowing Chen Yuan’s personality, he’ll be furious. He might even start groveling and begging for forgiveness, and who knows if we’d even be forgiven then.” Jiangg Yao waved her hand, clearly annoyed.

“Then we’ll just have him choose without knowing the situation.”

Jiangg Ning tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, a mysterious smile playing on her lips. Leaning against the coffee table, she crossed her long, slender legs in a stunningly glamorous pose. For some reason, her expression radiated confidence.

It seemed a solution had already formed in her mind.

“Without knowing… I get it!” Jiangg Yao clapped her hands together abruptly.

“You get it?” Jiangg Ning was surprised, not expecting her sister to be so quick on the uptake.

“Yeah,” her sister said excitedly. “We blindfold him and have him feel us out. Whichever one he identifies as his girlfriend wins, and the other has to back out!”

The moment those words left her mouth, the smile on Jiangg Ning’s face froze, and her expression darkened with exasperation.

She pressed a hand to her forehead and, after a moment of silence, said, “Are you out of your mind?!”

“Was I wrong?”

“Forget it. I’ll just tell you my idea. We’re going to play a ‘heartbeat game’.”

“Huh?” Jiangg Yao rested her chin in her hand, her expression baffled. “Explain.”

“If we share information, we can make our daily interactions seamless enough that Chen Yuan will never find out we’re twins, right?”

“Of course. I managed to pull the wool over his eyes all by myself.”

“Right. There’s an app I saw before called Heartbeat Diary. It’s for couples to record moments that make their hearts race, so they can look back on them later. This diary can be locked and can only be viewed with the other person’s permission. We can suggest to Chen Yuan that he and ‘Yaoyao’ download it, with the rule that every time your heart races, you must record it.”

Jiangg Yao’s eyes gradually widened as she began to guess where this was going.

Her sister continued, “We’ll set a schedule for our time with Chen Yuan to keep things fair and square. Then, it’s every woman for herself. When the deadline is up, we’ll look at his diary, and we’ll naturally know who Chen Yuan truly likes!”

“And the other person has to back out and never interfere again!” Jiangg Yao added excitedly, clenching her fists.

“Exactly.”

“So what’s the time limit?”

“It should be short. That way, we can prevent the one who loses from getting hurt too much after spending so much time with him.”

“How about six months?” Jiangg Yao suggested, lacking confidence.

“No, that’s too long.”

“Five months!”

“Four months!”

“Three months!”

“Three months it is! A three-month heartbeat game. The rule is set: when the time is up, the loser must back out and can never get involved in Chen Yuan’s life again. You have to be willing to accept the results!”

“Deal! Since it’s Chen Yuan’s choice, I won’t have any objections, regardless of whether he chooses me in the end.” Jiangg Yao rubbed her hands together in anticipation. This was undoubtedly the best solution.

If either she or her sister were to make the decision, it would inevitably be swayed by all sorts of personal factors.

Both of them had their own selfish desires.

But Chen Yuan, who was being kept in the dark, wouldn’t lie!

When his heart genuinely raced, it was for real; it wouldn’t change just because one was the older sister and one was the younger.

The personality he’d ultimately fall for would be the “Yaoyao” he had been hoping for, the one he’d gone from an online romance to a real-life relationship with.

This way, as long as nothing went wrong, the deception could be hidden for a lifetime. After one of them backed out, the other sister could completely take over the identity and everything that came with it.

As for the other person, she would just be a stranger from Mingzhu City who had never appeared on the scene.

She would have never come to Lanjing, nor would she have any part in these stories.

Just a wisp of smoke, and with a gust of wind, all traces of her would vanish completely.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep