“So I need your permission to access the ‘Heartbeat Moments’ feature, right?”

“That’s right. And likewise, I can’t just look at what you’ve written. I have to wait three months, until we reach the time limit we set.”

“Got it.” Chen Yuan fiddled with the app on his phone. The pink background gave it a very girly feel.

A huge anime-style avatar of a handsome guy and a beautiful girl would appear as soon as you opened the user profile.

You could customize their faces, but that was a feature you had to pay for a membership to use.

The app also had two modes: private and public.

In private mode, only the couple could interact. In public mode, you could see posts and comments shared by other couples on a public feed, but you couldn’t send private messages to harass anyone.

Otherwise, the couple’s diary app would just become a poaching app.

“There’s one more thing you need to pay attention to,” Jiangg Yao said timidly, leaning closer and staring at Chen Yuan with her bright eyes. “You have to tell me and Ningning apart. Don’t *ever* mix us up, especially when you’re writing in the diary.”

“Understood. This is very important, right?”

Chen Yuan nodded with great difficulty. Everything that had happened in the past few hours was so complicated; it was a lot to take in.

‘First, his girlfriend has some mental health issues! Second, while dating her, he has to distinguish between her two personalities. Even though they’re part of the same person, they get jealous of each other… Intimate things he does with Yaoyao can’t be applied to Ningning. In other words, if he kisses Yaoyao, he can’t mention it in front of Ningning!’

‘But he’s kissing the same person, so he can kiss her twice.’

‘And when he records a ‘Heartbeat Moment’, he has to be clear about who he’s writing about.’

‘Liking Yaoyao doesn’t mean he likes Ningning. That point needs to be highlighted in red and bolded.’

“It’s very important. You have to tell us apart. For example, who am I right now?” Jiangg Yao pointed to her own nose. Kneeling on the sofa, she met Chen Yuan’s gaze as he turned his head with a troubled look.

“You’re Yaoyao.”

“Very good. So, what are my personality traits?”

“Cute, dorky, a little clingy, good at acting spoiled, lively, and kind.”

“Exactly!” Jiangg Yao clapped her hands excitedly, like a performing seal at a swimming pool. “Then what are Ningning’s personality traits?”

“Cold on the outside but gentle on the inside, considerate, thoughtful, elegant, and beautiful…” As Chen Yuan spoke, his cheeks started to turn red. He could have gone on and on, but why did he feel so embarrassed?

‘It felt like he was praising another girl right in front of his girlfriend… but the person he was praising *was* his girlfriend.’

‘What is even happening?’

‘My head is spinning!’

Just as Chen Yuan was about to continue, the expression of the Jiangg Yao beside him darkened.

“Wrong,” she said, pushing Chen Yuan’s leg with a sense of urgency. “She’s jealous, petty, pretends to be reserved, a total hypocrite, and is bossy and unreasonable.”

“Huh? That doesn’t seem very appropriate to say.”

“What’s not appropriate? I’m telling the truth. Let me tell you… you see Ningning acting all prim and gentle on the surface, but she’s not like that at all,” Jiangg Yao said, lowering her voice. “She wears super sexy lace panties and stares at herself in the mirror for ages. She’s narcissistic as hell, always thinking she has a great body.”

“For real?” Chen Yuan looked astonished.

“Young Master, how could I possibly lie to you?! Of course I know my own business.”

“However prim and proper she acts, she’s the complete opposite in private. And she’ll haggle over every tiny little thing. You have to be careful when you’re with her. Don’t let her push you around.”

“You’re… aren’t you just bad-mouthing yourself? Something about this feels weird.”

As an eighteen-year-old boy, he didn’t understand much about women to begin with. He was hopelessly green and naive.

All this trash talk from Jiangg Yao was, without a doubt, a huge shock to him.

‘Honestly, his brain was starting to short-circuit.’

‘But here was Yaoyao, bad-mouthing herself with such gusto… Why did he feel like he was being sweet-talked by the “other woman” trying to turn him against his wife???’

“I am me, and she is she. We’re different personalities. You can’t lump us together.”

“…” Chen Yuan took a deep breath and let it out. “I understand. So I need to be mindful of this when I’m with you two.”

“It’s a difficult task,” Jiangg Yao said, suddenly planting a kiss on his cheek. “But I believe my little young master can do it. Remember not to be too flirty with her, okay? I’ll get jealous.”

“Mhm, got it.”

On that exceptionally cozy winter afternoon, Jiangg Yao sat on the sofa and explained everything to Chen Yuan in meticulous detail.

The sound of their voices was constant. Never before had they had such a desire to talk as they did today.

In just half an hour, Jiangg Yao had cursed out Ningning at least eleven times (a silent count kept by Chen Yuan), which made him start to wonder who the truly jealous one was.

The way she was acting now was exactly like a girl tattling on someone to her boyfriend while trying to act cute.

And as for Chen Yuan, on that winter afternoon, he was completely and utterly stunned by the “dual-personality girlfriend” drama that had just begun.

He didn’t know it yet, but a romantic journey belonging to him and him alone—one that would be both blissful and agonizing—had only just begun.

All he knew was that the afternoon was warm. The sun had clearly tempered its heat, slowly hiding its face below the horizon. And he knew that the endlessly chattering Jiangg Yao by his side was very cute.

That was all.

…

「By the time a reluctant Jiangg Yao returned home, it was already four in the afternoon.」

She hadn’t even wanted to come back on her own; Jiangg Ning had been forced to text her and hurry her along. If not for that message, she would have stayed a while longer.

The moment she walked through the door, Jiangg Ning turned to look. Seeing her sister’s figure, she asked anxiously, “What took you so long? I was getting so annoyed waiting.”

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep