The story of Mice Hole 1

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The story of Mice Hole 1 is the first book of series The story of Mice Hole written by Chenmeng Butterfly.

## Background

Chenmeng Butterfly started writing this series in February 2020, after she comes back from her hometown in China. Chenmeng thinks that she should write a book showing modern Chinese family and its problem in YA books as she realised that there were little books this topic in the library of her school, especially fiction books for her age. The name Lucie and Lily were chosen because Chenmeng remembered that her mother told her about the two girls in the early English textbooks named Lucy and Lily; Chenmeng thinks Lucy is a bit too common and old-fashioned, so she change this name to Lucie to made it sound more modern. She chose Lidia for the little sister's name because in the earlier versions, Lucie and Lily often calls Lidia with a nickname 'Lidiaper' when they were younger.

## Characters

Lucie (narrator), Lily (Lucie's twin), Lidia (Lucie and Lily's sister), Zhao Lin (Lucie and Lily's friend), Alaina (Lucie and Lily's cousin, Zhao Lin's friend), Jia (Lucie, Lily, Lidia and Alaina's older cousin), Mum, Dad, Auntie Si (Zhao Lin's mum), Uncle Frog (Zhao Lin's dad), Sirui (Zhao Lin's sister), Miss Liu

## Main story

In the Chinese new year, Lucie and Lily were looking through their red packet bank account when Lily suddenly realised that Mum and Dad has stole money from this account, Mum paid them back immediately, telling the twins not to say this anymore. Spring came again, the Mice Hole had a meeting together again. Lucie and Lily sent Lidia away to play alone and complained about Mum's behaviour after everyone said about their holiday. Then Lucie and Lily told everyone about their nickname plan, everyone got a nickname to hide their conversation from Lucie and Lily's parents who were named Cats. The meeting ended when it rained again, Lucie was mad to see her parents giving all their care to Lidia, she decided to run away. After preparation, Lucie found out that Mum has read their diaries, Mum didn't even apologise to them, they had a huge argument and Grandma was sent to hospital because she was horrified. The next Monday, Lucie and Lily left home because they were disappointed with Mum's attitude toward Grandma's surgery cost. Lucie and Lily continued living in the treehouse with help from the other members. One day, Lucie and Lily were wandering around the street to find a way to earn money when Lucie saw a flyer of house for sale, she contacted the owner and soon got a house, the Mice Hole decided to make this house a shop to earn money. The next day, Lucie and Lily met Lidia, Lidia told them the truth behind Cats' favouritism, Lucie decided to take Lidia with them and soon, the sisters earned money with the shop. It was graduation day, Lucie suddenly saw Mum and Dad following them, everyone quickly ran away but her parents kept chasing them. Summer passed and it's Lucie and Lily's birthday, Zhao Lin and the Mice Hole celebrated their birthday together when Cats appeared again. Mum seemed kind and Dad bought them gifts, Lucie believed in her family and came back home when she heard Mum talking about taking the ownership of their shop, but Mum threatened Lucie to pay her one million Yuan, or she won't leave. Finally, Lucie and her sisters have to sue her parents...