The Righteous Group’s Pet Suddenly Realizes: The Villain is Actually Me

Meanwhile.

In an ordinary household.

A little girl was fiddling with something in her room.

In her hands was a simple, plain puppet, like a miscellaneous item from a corner, with nothing special or eye-catching about it.

But the girl holding it was very cute, her fair and delicate cheeks like freshly peeled eggs, particularly alluring.

“Sigh…”

Then the girl put the puppet aside, rested her elbows on the table, buried her cheek in them, and gazed at the blue sky outside the window.

Her legs, wrapped in white stockings, swung gently, kicking beautiful arcs in mid-air.

Perhaps because her skin was so smooth, the slightly transparent white stockings wrapped around her legs looked like a second skin, appearing incredibly delicate, like ice cream.

“So boring…”

The girl’s name was Lian Hua, about fourteen years old this year, and her hobby was old-fashioned puppet shows.

She liked puppet shows because her mother often performed them for her when she was young.

Over time, she came to like this type of performance.

But long ago, her mother fell ill and passed away.

The plain puppet beside her was the best gift her mother had given her.

Lian Hua cherished it greatly.

Not long ago, her father found a new lover, who became her stepmother.

This made Lian Hua feel a bit uncomfortable.

But she wouldn’t resist, because it was her father’s choice. Even if she was unhappy inside, she didn’t show it outwardly.

And she was willing to listen to her stepmother, of course, as long as it wasn’t too unreasonable.

After living together for a while, Lian Hua felt this stepmother was strange. The way she looked at her seemed to contain a sense of disgust, but it wasn’t expressed in her words or expressions, as if she was pretending to be a virtuous wife and loving mother in front of someone. It looked very hypocritical.

Lian Hua roughly knew this was an act for her father.

The stepmother didn’t like her.

Lian Hua had already seen through this.

But this was fine too.

She didn’t like this stepmother either. She would only ever have one mother.

Usually, when only the two of them were at home, they were like strangers, not talking to each other, doing whatever they wanted.

“I really want to watch a puppet show…”

After her mother passed away, Lian Hua rarely watched puppet shows.

Although there were many videos online, she preferred watching live performances, feeling they were more interesting.

Unfortunately, few people performed such old-fashioned shows in real life now.

Perhaps some people still liked them, but they were a small minority.

In the past, Lian Hua had learned some techniques from her mother, and now with self-taught skills, she could perform simple puppet shows.

But her father was very busy with work and had no time to watch her perform.

And Lian Hua didn’t like her stepmother and didn’t want to perform for her, so she was always in a state of unexpressed frustration.

“Sigh…”

Lian Hua’s delicate face was full of worry, her snow-white arms squeezing her soft cheeks, her cherry lips softly sighing.

She had no friends.

Sometimes hobbies are really the key to making friends.

Without common topics, it’s often difficult to chat with people around you.

At school, she could only daydream in her mind, occasionally dealing with topics she didn’t understand, trying to communicate with classmates.

Yes, no one around her was interested in puppet shows.

The advanced era was also changing most people’s interests and hobbies, and people like Lian Hua were always in the minority.

Now she had a desire to perform but didn’t know who to perform for, so she felt very depressed.

Her mother’s puppet box was in her room, containing complete performance tools.

When her stepmother first arrived, she almost threw it away.

But fortunately, Lian Hua stopped her in time and brought it back to her room.

When she opened it again, Lian Hua felt the desire to perform puppet shows, recapturing the feeling from before, and feeling her mother’s warmth.

However… without an audience to watch her perform, it always felt like something was missing.

“Mm… let’s go out to play.”

After thinking for a while, Lian Hua took the puppet box and went out.

Her stepmother was watching TV in the living room and said flatly when she saw Lian Hua’s figure.

“Where are you going?”

“Out to play.”

“It’s almost dinner time, and your father will be off work soon. Come back early.”

“Oh.”

Lian Hua responded flatly and then walked out the door.

Although this stepmother didn’t like her, she wouldn’t deliberately mistreat her, seemingly worried that she might complain to her father.

Anyway, maintaining the status quo was fine.

The woman in the living room watched Lian Hua’s departing figure, a trace of disgust appearing on her face.

“Hmph, as annoying as your mother. You’ll see what’s coming to you.”

……

Lian Hua arrived at a nearby park.

There weren’t too many or too few people here, and it was close to home, so there wasn’t much need to worry about safety issues.

“I’ll stay here.”

Lian Hua found a place with few people, put the puppet box aside, and began to entertain herself.

Although she could perform puppet shows at home, she didn’t like the atmosphere there.

It felt heavy and oppressive, with a sense of emptiness.

But outside was different.

The sunlight outside was abundant, and people would pass by in the park.

Even if there was only a small chance, Lian Hua hoped to attract an audience to watch, just like when she watched her mother perform as a child.

That feeling must be great!

“Hehe~”

Lian Hua picked up the plain puppet, unable to suppress a happy smile.

The puppet in her hand was the protagonist of her mother’s every puppet show performance, just like her mother herself, giving a sense of being very remarkable.

Lian Hua placed the plain puppet on the small stage set up from the puppet box, and she controlled it with her hands, skillfully making various movements.

The joy that marionettes brought to Lian Hua was the ability to give them various ideas, controlling their every move with hands and strings, as if giving them life.

The puppet Lian Hua controlled danced solo on the stage. Although its movements looked severely stiff, it had a unique charm.

Unfortunately, her puppet show didn’t attract a crowd of onlookers. People passing by at most glanced once before leaving.

But Lian Hua didn’t mind. Perhaps her performance wasn’t eye-catching enough yet, not interesting enough, possibly due to her own shortcomings.

Now she just needed to focus her attention on her favorite puppet.

It’s not only performances with an audience that can be considered brilliant.

A while later, Lian Hua stopped her performance, pinched her forearm with her snow-white little hand, and let out a soft breath.

“Phew~ Let’s stop here for now.”

Lian Hua planned to rest for a while, then prepare to practice other techniques.

Sooner or later, she would use the puppet in her hand to perform a complete story, just like her mother.

Lian Hua had just sat down, about to eat something to fill her stomach, when a burst of applause startled her.

Clap clap clap!

“Wueh?!”

Lian Hua was suddenly flustered, almost dropping her water bottle on the ground.

After hurriedly catching the water bottle, Lian Hua let out a sigh of relief, then looked towards the source of the sound to see which “little cutie” was scaring her.

She saw a silver-haired loli standing not far away, her crimson eyes filled with sparkling starlight, looking at her with an admiring expression.

“That was amazing!”

Lian Hua tilted her head, not yet having reacted.

“Are you… talking to me?”

“Mm-hmm!”