Brother! This is the adoption certificate. I don't want your sister-in-law!

Su Xiao slept exceptionally well today.

Then suddenly I realized something was wrong.

I opened my eyes abruptly and glanced at my phone screen out of habit.

6:41.

The living room was quiet; no one knocked on their bedroom door.

He stared at the ceiling for two seconds, then suddenly jumped out of bed.

Su Wan Ning didn't come to wake him up today!

He glanced at the date on his phone while getting dressed.

Tuesday is not the weekend, not a holiday, it's a regular school day.

The knocking that used to ring at 6:30 every morning was silent today.

Su Wanning was genuinely angry.

Su Xiao immediately felt a headache coming on. She scrambled to put on her school uniform, not even bothering to zip it up, and rushed out of the room.

The living room was empty; there was no congee, no fried egg, and no finely chopped pickles on the dining table.

Su Wanning was standing in the entryway changing her shoes, her schoolbag already slung over her shoulder, and one hand resting on the doorknob.

She looked up at him.

His gaze was as cold as a bottle of mineral water just taken out of the refrigerator, with ice crystals still clinging to the bottle.

Then she turned her head, opened the door, and was about to leave.

"Wait, wait, wait!"

Su Xiao rushed to the shoe cabinet and took out the phone she had prepared the night before from her backpack.

The casing was polished to a shine, the screen had a screen protector, and it was even placed in a small cloth bag. "Here you go! The SIM card is ready, and my number is saved on it."

Su Wan Ning glanced down at the phone in his hand, then looked up, her gaze slowly sweeping across his face.

"I do not want."

Her voice was flat, like the surface of a frozen lake, "I want my umbrella!"

The door slammed shut behind her.

Su Xiao stood in the entryway, still holding the phone in her hand, poised to hand it out.

The footsteps in the corridor grew fainter and fainter, pausing briefly on the third step before continuing down until they disappeared from sight.

He sighed and put his phone back in his pocket.

Okay, today's tasks are clear.

Looking for an umbrella.

The consequences of my sister getting angry are severe; she not only uses emotional abuse, but she also doesn't get to eat breakfast!

Su Xiao resignedly slung her backpack over her shoulder and went out. She bought two meat buns and a cup of soy milk at the breakfast stall at the alley entrance, and also grabbed an extra one for Xu Niannian.

Before the morning reading bell rang, the classroom was buzzing with activity as some students copied homework and others chatted.

Su Xiao placed the plastic bag containing steamed buns and soy milk on Xu Niannian's desk, spread it out on her own seat, and began to eat another steamed bun.

Li Ze sat in the front row, his heart pounding with anger.

These past three days have felt like he's going through a tribulation.

I almost missed the bus that day; I got covered in exhaust fumes from the bus.

I was so angry the whole way there that I lost my composure when I got to the exam hall and couldn't answer any of the questions.

In the end, I only received a third prize, without any money, just a certificate.

What angered him even more was that Xu Niannian hadn't even signed up.

He spent three days preparing his strategy for sitting next to someone, even memorizing his opening lines, but he still didn't see the person.

A low chuckle came from the back row.

Li Ze looked back.

Su Xiao was leaning close to Xu Niannian, half a steamed bun in her mouth, poking Xu Niannian's arm with her finger. Xu Niannian blushed and shrank back into the corner while taking small bites of her soy milk straw.

Li Ze turned his face away, and the fire in his chest flared up even more.

Before he knew what Xu Niannian looked like, he would only sneer when he saw this scene, thinking that Su Xiao was really starving and would be interested in any woman.

It's different now.

He knew what a stunning face was hidden beneath those thick bangs.

He was so jealous that he clenched his back teeth.

Just then, the class representative for Chinese language walked up to the podium and shouted, "It's time for morning reading, take out your textbooks!"

People slowly stood up in the classroom, the chair legs scraping against the floor with uneven sounds.

Xu Niannian stood up, holding her textbook upright in front of her chest, head down.

Su Xiao stood up casually, still with the steamed bun in her mouth.

With one hand propped on the table and the other hand flipping through the textbook under the table, he couldn't find it after flipping through it a couple of times, so he turned his head and asked Xu Niannian, "Where were we in the last class?"

Li Ze couldn't stand it any longer.

He stood up abruptly, turned around, and his voice was so loud that several students in the front row who were yawning snapped to attention: "Su Xiao! It's time for morning reading, and you're still eating breakfast? Don't you have any respect for classroom discipline? Go stand at the back!"

The classroom fell silent for a moment.

Su Xiao stopped biting into the steamed bun.

He slowly took the steamed bun out of his mouth and looked up at Li Ze.

I don't think I've ever offended this class monitor, have I?

He was already feeling down today because of his sister's situation.

Having been subjected to Su Wan Ning's cold treatment early in the morning, and still clueless about finding an umbrella, she was now being publicly called out. She was filled with resentment and had nowhere to vent it.

Su Xiao stuffed the steamed bun into her mouth, eating large mouthfuls right in front of him, then swallowed it, saying, "Did my eating a steamed bun bother you? You think you're some kind of official just because you're the class monitor?"

Li Ze's face turned bright red.

The class monitor's authority was challenged in public by a poor student, and several classmates nearby were already covering their mouths and secretly laughing.

"You think you're right for breaking class rules? Don't think I don't know what kind of person you are—skipping class, breaking rules, fighting—you've been involved in everything! I'm warning you, behave yourself, or you'll regret it when you're expelled!"

Fang Yu had already put down his textbook, his fists slowly clenching, his gaze sweeping back and forth between Li Ze and Su Xiao, ready to make a move at any moment.

Xu Niannian stood next to Su Xiao, her hands gripping the edge of her textbook. She kept glancing between Li Ze and Su Xiao, her eyelashes trembling with anxiety, but she didn't know what to say.

Just then, a very soft snicker came from the corner of the classroom.

Zhao Wang stood in the last row against the wall, his arms crossed over his chest, a gloating smile on his face.

Su Xiao could have chosen anyone to fight, but fighting the class monitor was just asking for humiliation.

Su Xiao shifted her gaze from Li Ze and swept it over that corner.

He paused for a moment.

Then he took a deep breath, and the displeasure on his face suddenly dissipated by most of it.

He nodded to Li Ze, his tone unusually calm: "Okay. I'll follow the rules. I'll go stand at the back."

He turned and walked to the back row.

Li Ze was stunned for a moment, not expecting him to admit it so easily, and sneered inwardly.

Try to mess with me? I'm the class monitor, who do you think you are?

Xu Niannian watched Su Xiao walk towards the back row, her lips moved, she wanted to say something but dared not, her eyes were a little red with anxiety.

Fang Yu was also stunned. Had Brother Su taken the wrong medicine today?

If anyone dared to talk to him like that normally, he would definitely explode on the spot.

Zhao Wang leaned against the wall, still mocking them.

However, as he saw Su Xiao walking towards him, the smile on his face slowly froze.

wrong!

He shrank back a little, but his seat was already in the last row and in the corner, with a wall to his left and a wall behind him, leaving him nowhere to retreat.

He realized that Su Xiao wasn't going to back down and stand as punishment; he was targeting him.

In an instant, Zhao Wang's voice became shrill.

"You...you stay away!"