Rebirth Must Be Happy

Chapter 124 [123] Cunning Little Sister and Silly Older Brother (Fourth Update)

After sending the message, every second seemed to stretch out tenfold or a hundredfold. Sitting on the bed, Song Zhiyu felt as if even the little darling beside her was licking its fur in slow motion.

The trial-like wait didn't last long; objectively, it probably lasted less than ten seconds before Chen Xingzhu replied to the message:

“I know your brother invited me to your house.”

Song Zhiyu stared at the message she sent, reading it several times, before typing a reply: "Oh."

Then he replied, "That's good."

Then he asked, "Are you coming?"

Chen Xingzhu: "Mm."

Chen Xingzhu: "Thank you."

Song Zhiyu paused for a moment, unsure how to respond, and then simply replied, "Mm."

Chen Xingzhu didn't reply, so Song Zhiyu said again, "I'm going to sleep now, goodnight, Xingzhu sister."

Chen Xingzhu quickly replied: "Good night."

Song Zhiyu took her phone and walked out of the room, carefully locking Xiao Guai inside to prevent it from running out again and taking forever to catch.

She arrived at Xu Jinhuan's door and saw him still typing away on the keyboard, looking very serious. So she didn't say anything, but just stood there quietly watching him.

What are you doing standing here?

Xu Jinhuan quickly noticed her presence, already used to it, and asked, "Going to sleep?"

"Ah."

Song Zhiyu nodded. "I'm going to sleep... Bye-bye."

"Bye-bye... Shouldn't we be saying goodnight?"

Xu Jinhuan was a little puzzled, but seeing her turn and leave, he still added, "You washed your hair? It looks great..."

Song Zhiyu didn't respond. She closed the door, stopped reading her novel and playing on her phone, lay down on the bed, turned off the light, and stared blankly into the darkness with her beautiful eyes wide open.

From childhood to adulthood, her parents and elders always seemed to think she was innocent and harmless, but Song Zhiyu herself did not think so. She felt that she was actually very selfish and "scheming", and that she was just pretending to be well-behaved and sweet to deceive people.

Song Xiaofeng and Xue Jingxuan are both quite successful in their careers, but they don't handle interpersonal relationships very well, at least from Song Zhiyu's perspective. She has been used to her parents scheming about how to befriend others since she was a child, and she is also used to being told "don't mess with XXX".

This contributed to her precocious development to some extent. From a very young age, she was accustomed to dealing with her so-called playmates of similar age with a rational and calculating mindset.

Therefore, she had no friends in her heart.

The older brother who became the code name for "hometown" when we were kids was the only exception, not because he was so outstanding, but because he was really too stupid.

She was clearly not his sister; they had only met a few times since she was a child and had no blood relation, yet he actually treated her like a sister.

Just because his parents, his grandparents, and his maternal grandparents (who were not related to him by blood) told him that she was his sister and he was his brother, and that he had to protect her, he actually believed it and actually did it...

Too stupid!
She would never want to call such a big idiot her brother!
If it were her, she would only obediently agree on the surface, act like an older brother or sister in front of the elders, and be good enough if she didn't bully her behind her back. How could she possibly protect her or give in to her?
Only a fool would take it seriously and actually rush to protect you when you're in danger.

That was the first time she realized that her intelligence, cuteness, and obedience would fail, that some things were impossible to communicate because she was facing a goose, which could not communicate, and would not think of herself as cute or obedient.

That time, she really thought she was being too clever for her own good—she wanted to test or tease that silly brother to see if he would still obediently come to protect his sister if the goose really tried to bite her.

She did manage to anger the goose, but to her surprise, the goose was so angry and ran so fast that she couldn't get close enough to test it as she had planned.

However, upon hearing his sister's cries, he quickly ran over and bravely shielded her. The goose, with its neck outstretched, was taller than him at that age! And yes, it tasted delicious when we stewed it later…

Although he looked very pathetic when the goose bit him, and for several days afterward he walked with a limp, which was quite comical, the image of him blocking the way was etched into his memory like a classic movie scene.

Children are in great danger on the other side of the ocean and are extremely vulnerable to all kinds of harm. Therefore, when she was very young, her mother taught her a lot of embarrassing knowledge that she should know, which made her even more precocious.

While her mentally challenged brother was preoccupied with Transformers, Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit, the Golden Cudgel, and Contra, she had already sensed some potentially distorted "emotions" within herself.

But that seems to be the case, because Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt, and even Dad sometimes joke that she should marry her brother when she grows up and become a real family.

Her reaction to this affection wasn't shyness or unease. Perhaps there was some, but she skillfully suppressed or hid it. What remained was reluctance, dissatisfaction, and anger. So she consciously began to distance herself from him and pick fights with him in various ways.

As she expected and wished, the siblings quickly became estranged and strangers, which made her proud for a long time. She felt that she could easily control him and herself.

But I'm not happy.

Those years were unforgettable for her; every meeting felt like torture, so she started finding all sorts of reasons not to come back.

She had no home until her parents divorced.

She didn't want to put her parents in a difficult position, and wanted to continue to deceive them with her pretense, pretending to be carefree so as not to worry them or become a burden to them.

However, she never expected that when she was at her most vulnerable and helpless, her brother, whom she remembered as silent, dull, silly, and clumsy, would actually take the initiative to call her and break the ice between them.

Before returning here, she had imagined the two of them meeting countless times, but the result was unexpected once again. He cooperated with her very well in the performance. If she hadn't been an actress herself, she would have almost thought that the fact that the siblings had been distant and estranged in previous years did not exist at all, as if the two of them had been close since childhood.

That night, she couldn't sleep and cried until midnight. Once again, in a completely unexpected situation, he suddenly knocked on the door, just like he had stood in front of that goose back then, blocking the crumbling sky in her world.

This time, however, he wasn't bitten by the goose again. Instead, he said he had a girl he liked, very beautiful, even more beautiful than her...

How can this be?

Song Zhiyu didn't think she had any inappropriate feelings for him. She was just unconvinced. She was unconvinced that no girl was prettier than her, and even more unconvinced that no girl could make him, who was originally silly and clumsy, suddenly become so mature, steady, and even wise.

—If his sudden change is not due to love, could it be due to his studies?
During her subsequent conversations with her aunt and uncle, she confirmed her suspicions: Xu Jinhuan's change was almost certainly due to Chen Xingzhu.

When she met Chen Xingzhu, she was both amazed and disappointed. She was amazed because Chen Xingzhu was indeed very beautiful, but disappointed because Chen Xingzhu had a cold personality, almost like a block of ice.

How could such a piece of ice cause such a big change in him?
She asked him what he liked about Chen Xingzhu, but she couldn't find the answer.

But no matter what, she just felt uncomfortable. She felt uncomfortable seeing his mature, steady, and composed demeanor, uncomfortable seeing Chen Xingzhu, and even more uncomfortable seeing him with Chen Xingzhu.

She sabotaged their dates in various ways: when they went to the library, she followed them; when they wanted to be alone, she went with them; when he helped her take care of the cat, she took it away...

However, during this process, she discovered that Chen Xingzhu was not as cold as she appeared. On the contrary, she was a gentle, kind, tolerant, thoughtful, and insightful girl.

During their recent chat, Chen Xingzhu's reply, "I know," gave her a strange intuition that Chen Xingzhu seemed to have noticed something...

This made her feel both apprehensive and relieved.

Meanwhile, the idiot in the opposite room didn't notice anything at all, which annoyed her... but also made her feel relieved.

You're so stupid!

Lying in bed, she clenched her little fists and punched the blankets twice in the dark, thinking angrily, 'Serves you right for getting bitten by the goose…'

Little Guai, who was lying next to her with her eyes half-closed, was startled awake. She looked up at her, then put her chin back on the sheet and comfortably closed her eyes to sleep again.

The night is silent, concealing countless worries and anxieties from every household.

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