Conan: Life between Green Plum and Skyfall

Of course, both Conan and Sonoko only briefly mentioned this topic.

After all, Xiaolan's personality has basically been fixed in her life over the years. Many things cannot be changed just by saying so.

Even Conan has not yet figured out how to change Xiaolan's personality so that she can become more independent, or think more about herself.

He doesn't think of himself as a bad person, but he doesn't think of himself as a saint either.

Conan doesn't mind lending a helping hand to others when it doesn't harm his own interests, but if it endangers his own interests and the interests of those around him, he doesn't think he can lend a helping hand unconditionally.

But Xiaolan is different, she is a true saint. As her friend, as someone she cares about, Conan still hopes that Xiaolan can care more about herself and the interests of those around her.

"Okay, okay, Xiaolan, I was just saying it casually. We finally got together to play, why are you overthinking it so much? Come on, smile, don't make it seem like I'm bullying you."

Seeing the confusion on Xiaolan's face, Sonoko patted her shoulder awkwardly.

Like Conan, she just thinks Xiaolan is a little too dependent on others. It doesn't mean that she really dislikes Xiaolan's personality! On the contrary, as a friend, she still likes Xiaolan's personality.

However, it is impossible for Xiaolan to have someone by her side all the time to make decisions for her. Therefore, she also hopes that Xiaolan can be more independent.

"But Sonoko, what do you think I should do to improve my character?"

After hearing what the two said, a look of confusion appeared on Xiaolan's face.

Although both Sonoko and Shinichi treated her as a friend, she actually always felt a little inferior when facing these two people.

She believed that she was not on the same level as these two people in terms of identity or family.

Let's not talk about Sonoko, she was the daughter of a wealthy family, the only daughter of the top chaebol in the island nation. And the same goes for Shinichi.

His father is a world-renowned bestselling author, and his mother is a former movie queen. Furthermore, they have a happy family with no family problems.

And what about himself? His father was once a policeman and was now a well-known detective. His mother had the title of "Queen of the Legal World", but these titles were still far inferior to those of Shinichi and Sonoko.

Not to mention her family background, even in terms of family, she couldn't be compared with the two of them. After all, her parents had been separated for almost ten years!

Even though they still care about each other in their hearts and even though they still have feelings for each other in their hearts, Xiaolan doesn't know!

Although she tried to bring her parents together and reconcile them, she was really not sure whether her parents still had any feelings for each other.

As a child from a single-parent family, coupled with Uncle Maori's difficult personality, although Xiaolan is mature at a young age, she also has some psychological problems.

The manifestation of this problem is Xiaolan's lack of security and dependence on others.

She was afraid that she would be like her parents in the future and would not be able to be with the person she loved.

Therefore, in the original novel, even though she didn't like it, she still suppressed her displeasure and allowed Kudo to talk endlessly about Holmes;

Even though she wasn't really happy about it, she still forced a smile when Kudo encountered a case and went straight to solve it, ignoring her;

......

Of course, these problems have been improved to a certain extent now. After all, Conan still cares about Xiaolan very much.

However, this does not mean that Xiaolan's problems have been solved, and some of her personality problems still exist.

"Well..."

Facing Xiaolan's question, Yuanzi didn't know what to say. She also didn't know how to change it better!

"Why don't you think about it first? What is it that you want to do? Once you have a firm goal, maybe you will naturally change."

After hesitating for a moment, Sonoko said uncertainly.

"Is that so? But, I haven't thought about what I want to do in the future..."

"It's okay. It's not too late to start thinking about it now! Okay, okay, it's all my fault for making the atmosphere so depressing! I invited you here to relax, but why did you become so gloomy?

Don't think too much, Xiaolan, let's go play for a while, um...how about playing cards?"

Yuanzi felt a little regretful. Why did she say so much? Now, she had ruined Xiaolan's good mood. Therefore, the most urgent task now was to help Xiaolan regain her former cheerfulness!

"okay."

Xiaolan nodded and agreed, but judging from her expression, it seemed that she didn't take Sonoko's words to heart.

At this time, Conan also felt a little regretful. Why did he agree with Sonoko's words as if nothing had happened?

Although he did have the idea of ​​slightly changing Xiaolan's personality, his original plan was to let Xiaolan experience more things and then subtly change her own personality.

Instead of directly pointing out her character problems like he is doing now.

Just point out the key point. He doesn't have a suitable solution to help Xiaolan solve her doubts! Now, Xiaolan is confused, and he and Yuanzi are in a difficult situation.

"It's all Sonoko's fault. If she hadn't asked me to do that, how could I have followed her advice and asked Xiaolan to change herself?"

Thinking of this, Conan scolded Sonoko in his heart.

In fact, because his mind was in a mess, he even forgot what Sonoko was going to ask him and Xiaolan to do together!

It wasn't until Sonoko took out the playing cards that Conan finally reacted, and his expression froze for a moment:

"Um, Sister Sonoko, you're not planning to play poker with Sister Xiaolan, are you?"

"Of course!"

Yuanzi said confidently:

"After all, Xiaolan's problem was caused by the two of us, so we should be responsible for cleaning up the mess, right?

Or, kid, you don't really care about your sister Xiaolan, so you don't plan to play with her?"

Looking at Sonoko in front of him, and then at Ran who was sitting beside him with a heavy heart, Conan's smile was a little awkward. It's not that he didn't want to play with Ran, but a game like poker that required a certain amount of luck... forget it.

He is just an ordinary person, he doesn't want to play cards with a European emperor like Xiaolan!