Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1028 Vanity from Childhood
By the time he was eight, he must have been old enough to remember things, and he clearly remembered the second time he was attacked by a dog.

This is what makes his experience so amazing. It is said that the dog looked exactly like the one that attacked him when he was three years old, and on that occasion, it was Shangguan Yan who saved him.

Later, they would frequently send gifts to their neighbors and have meals together, which brought the two families closer together.

Later, Shangguan Yan often took care of him and his younger brother Xia Liang. Sometimes when their parents went out, they would leave them with the neighbors next door and ask the Shangguan family to look after them.

Shangguan Yan was like an older sister to them.

However... Xia Shou never considered her as an older sister.

Moreover, he also knew that Sister Shangguan was not as ordinary as she usually appeared. Although she seemed to get along very well with everyone, she was not actually like that at all, and he could sense that.

Sister Shangguan has always been outstanding. It seems that she was always first in her grade when she was in school and participated in many competitions. In college, she started a student business and apparently earned several million.

Now, she seems to be working in finance, as a freelancer, and her income is said to be quite considerable.

It can be said that from childhood to adulthood, from beginning to end, she was the good child that other people talked about, but in her own family, she was not treated as a child from a very young age.

Anyway, he kept hearing an interesting story from his parents: during the last stock market bear market, his sister Shangguan stopped his parents from entering the market in advance, and then bought at the bottom just before the bear market was about to end.

He didn't know how much money she made, but every time Xia Shou visited her family, her uncle and aunt treated Shangguan Sister with great respect. It was more like a friendship than a relationship between parents and friends. Over the years, he had never heard her parents say things like "It's time to go to sleep," "Study hard," or "Go brush your teeth now."

They seemed to let Shangguan Yan run wild, which Xia Shou once envied.

However, she now lives alone. It seems that she used the money she earned to buy her parents an apartment in Nanling, where the climate is pleasant all year round, the scenery is beautiful, and it is a more livable place.

I heard that she regularly sends money to her parents so they can travel the world. Of course, this is just hearsay from other neighbors. Shangguan Yan herself said it wasn't that exaggerated.

In short, in the eyes of others, she is a perfect role model for growth, an example for everyone, and her abilities, conduct, and personality are all perfect.

But Xia Shou knew that this older sister wasn't as normal as she appeared on the surface.

Xia Shou still doesn't know why he brought the underwear she left behind in the bathroom back to his room; such behavior was undoubtedly shameful and immoral.

But sometimes that's just how people are; even the kindest person can be pushed to the brink of extreme evil in a single day by various factors, just like the Joker in Batman.

That summer vacation, he did that thing only after a combination of factors.

While she was tutoring him with his summer homework, he was praised for his increased muscle mass and masculinity, and teased that many girls would definitely like him in the future.

The air conditioner was broken, and the room was very stuffy. They were using an electric fan when she suddenly said she was going to take a shower. So she went to take a shower. When she came back, she was wearing the same t-shirt and shorts as before, but it seemed like she was missing a piece of clothing underneath. This made him restless while doing his homework.

Her red hair was wet, and she sat beside him, the water droplets dripping from the tips of her hair landing coldly on his knees.

The electric fan blew in the pleasant scent of her shower gel and shampoo, along with her own fragrance.

She was eight years older than him. That year, he was thirteen and she was twenty-one. He was just a child... just a child who didn't understand anything.

At that time, she was actually right; there were indeed girls in the class who liked him. But he didn't like those girls at all. They were too immature, so immature that talking to them was a burden. They talked only about the popular games in the class and those TV dramas, expressing their likes and dislikes without any personal opinions.

But Sister Shangguan is different. She can talk a lot, and she can talk about much more than the teacher can teach. When he was in the first year of junior high school, she told him about her life in the third year of junior high school, the interesting people in her class, the pressure of the high school entrance exam, and the love stories of other people in her class.

It's so interesting... It's so funny when she says it, but it's so boring when similar things happen around him. The same things only become interesting when she processes them with her words.

Just like ordinary scenery without a filter, it's just ordinary scenery.

For Xia Shou, school life was too ordinary. Compared to her red hair, beautiful features, and gentle smile, school life was as insignificant as a roadside stone.

The most special person in his life was her, and the greatest source of his vanity from childhood was also her.

Her naturally red hair and beautiful appearance are incredibly alluring to middle school students.

"Who's that red-haired girl who came to pick you up?... Is it your sister?!"

"She was born with it?! You must be kidding! Wow, she's so beautiful."

Xia Shou couldn't help but laugh when he heard the naive child commenting on adults.

Although he was the same age as these kids, he never felt that he was the same kind of person as them. What he heard and learned from Sister Shangguan was something that these kids at his age would never have the chance to hear.

Because no adult would be so patient as to talk to a child about those things on an equal footing, just like parents only ever tell him to study hard and never talk to him about work troubles, workplace troubles, or various interpersonal relationship problems.

But Sister Shangguan would talk about things that happened in college, the friends she made there, the good and the bad things.

Even if he can't offer any good suggestions and can only clumsily offer a few ideas that he thinks are okay, showing that he really wants to help, she will still patiently talk to him about these things.

Xia Shou felt that, in her eyes, he was not entirely a child.

But Xia Shou also knew very well that he was a child.

This has nothing to do with cognition, but everything to do with age.

Objectively speaking, he is just a child, and that's how everyone in society sees him.

“If you can get into the university I go to, and do the same job as me, I might even be able to help you find a better job, and then we can work together,” she said while helping him with his summer homework.

"Sis, did you ever have a boyfriend/girlfriend when you were young?" he asked, trying to sound as casual as possible.

"Dating is really boring, but if there had been a guy like you back then, maybe I would have dated him too." She tilted her head slightly, smiling and glancing at him sideways, as if joking, or as if encouraging and praising him.

But at least for that moment, he took it seriously.

(End of this chapter)