They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 493: A Hasty Temper Exalts Foolishness

She crossed her arms, watching the unfolding drama with a frown.

Ella looked stunned. “Emma… I don’t understand. I didn’t think you—”

“That’s your problem!” Emma suddenly snapped, cutting her off with a voice louder than anyone expected. Heads turned from across the street. “You don’t think! You just boss me around and control everything we do. You never ask me what I want. You just decide, for both of us!”

The pain and resentment in her voice rang out clear, sharp like broken glass.

Ella’s eyes widened in disbelief. “No, I don’t—” she started, but her voice cracked. Then, as if something inside her snapped, she fired back. “I always ask for your opinion! But you, you’re too cowardly and stupid to even give one!”

Her voice shook the air, louder than Emma’s had been.

Gasps rippled from bystanders nearby. Emily winced and looked away.

Nnenna blinked, stunned by the sudden escalation. That was harsh.

Ella wasn’t done. “So don’t stand there and blame me for everything, Emma! It’s not my fault you never speak up, until now, when it’s too late!”

For a moment, time stood still. The twins glared at each other, anger and hurt swirling between them like a silent storm.

And Nnenna stood there, right in the middle of it all.

A small crowd began to gather, drawn by the rising tension and the rare sight of identical twins in a heated fight. The air buzzed with curiosity and anticipation, this was social media gold.

Phones were already out. Cameras rolled. Whispers turned to murmurs. Everyone was ready to witness whatever explosion was coming.

“Are they seriously fighting right now?” someone whispered, half laughing.

“I thought they were performers, is this part of the act?” another asked, raising their phone higher for a better angle.

“Nah, this looks real. And it’s definitely going to go viral,” someone muttered from the back.

“This life never disappoints,” came a chuckle from another corner.

A few people just stood in stunned silence, watching with wide eyes, while others grinned like they had stumbled into live drama.

Nnenna felt alarm rise in her chest. This was spiraling too fast.

“Guys, stop!” she called out, stepping forward. “Whatever this is, you can talk about it in private, just calm down!”

But her voice was like wind against stone. Neither Ella nor Emma heard her, or maybe they did, but they simply didn’t care anymore.

Their voices grew louder, their words sharper, and they had started inching closer, their hands clenched at their sides like they were ready to throw punches.

It wasn’t safe to get in the middle. Nnenna saw that clearly.

She stepped back and turned to Emily, her voice filled with worry. “What do we do? How did this even happen? They were fine just a few minutes ago!”

Emily shook her head, brows furrowed. She seemed just as confused. “I don’t know. Maybe this has been building up for a while and today was just… the final trigger.” She glanced back at the crowd nervously. “This is bad.”

The twins’ shouting matched the beat of gathering chaos. More people recorded. More eyes watched.

And Nnenna knew if someone didn’t intervene soon, this wouldn’t just be a street fight. It would be on every social media platform by the end of the hour, and that kind of attention didn’t fade quickly.

Emily’s theory made sense to Nnenna, there had to be some kind of unresolved issue between the twins, something that had been festering beneath the surface.noveldrama

Maybe jealousy, maybe hurt… maybe both. But this wasn’t the place for it. It shouldn’t be playing out like this, not here, not in public, and certainly not in front of dozens of phone cameras.

Her heart raced as she looked between the two girls, voices still rising, anger escalating by the second.

‘Love System!’ she called out in her mind, urgency lacing her thoughts. ‘I need to stop this fight.’

The reply came almost instantly, calm and curious.

“How do you want to do that?”

Nnenna’s brows furrowed as she tried to think fast. She knew one thing, when tempers cooled, people could think. When emotions dropped, fists stayed down. She didn’t need to fix their problem… just stop it from getting worse.

‘I want to calm them down,’ she said firmly. ‘Lower the tension between them. They can’t fight if they’re calm enough to talk.’

The Love System was quiet for half a second.

“That’ll cost you 1,000 Good Points,” she reminded Nnenna gently.

Nnenna didn’t even flinch. ‘Sure. Do it. Now.’

There was no hesitation. She didn’t want to watch those two girls do something they would regret later.

Ding!

“Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts foolishness. 1,000 Good Points deducted to calm Ella and Emma down.”

The words echoed gently in Nnenna’s mind, and almost immediately, she saw the shift.

Ella blinked first. Her chest still rose and fell quickly, but her breathing was slowing, like her body suddenly remembered it needed oxygen more than it needed fury. Emma’s fists, still balled at her sides, slowly loosened. Her angry scowl softened into confusion, then into realization.

The heat that had burned in their eyes seconds ago flickered out like candles in the wind.

Then came the awareness.

Their heads turned, first toward each other, then toward the gathering crowd. Dozens of eyes. Phone cameras pointed their way. Whispers. Giggles. Shutter sounds. Recording lights.

Ella’s face went pale. Emma’s jaw dropped slightly as her memory caught up with her mouth, what she had said, how she had shouted. Their argument, so raw and exposed, had just become public entertainment.

A sharp pang of embarrassment surged between them.

Ella grabbed her sister’s wrist, her voice low and panicked. “We need to get out of here. Now.”

Emma didn’t argue.

Without another word, the twins spun around and dashed off, Ella pulling Emma by the arm as they disappeared around the corner, like the storm had come and gone, leaving only silence and stunned stares in its wake.