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

Xu Niannian covered half of her face and turned her head away, shrinking into the corner of the wall, her ears so red they looked like they could bleed.

Her fingers pressed tightly against the spot where she had just been kissed, her heart pounding as if it would jump out of her throat, her mind a complete blank.

Su Xiao leaned back in his chair, admiring the destructive effect he had caused, his shoulders shaking with laughter.

After a long while, Xu Niannian finally peeked at him through her fingers.

Those bright eyes, hidden behind her bangs, were both shy and annoyed. Her lips moved, but after a long pause, she finally managed to utter two words.

"Bad guy."

Su Xiao laughed even harder.

During chemistry class, He Shaojun called on Zhao Wang directly and asked why he hadn't handed in his chemistry homework.

Zhao Wang stood up and stammered for a long time, unable to speak. His eyes kept looking at Su Xiao, and he felt extremely wronged.

He Shaojun noticed his gaze and said impatiently, "Why are you staring at Su Xiao? Do you think she's going to tear up your chemistry test paper?"

Su Xiao trembled with fright, while Zhao Wang's eyes were now shining.

Yes, teacher, that's it!

But Zhao Wang dared not say it.

He Shaojun coughed and said, "By the way, speaking of Su Xiao, he scored 61 on his chemistry test last week, which is a full 44 points higher than last time. That's a great improvement. Let's give him a round of applause."

Upon hearing this, everyone in the class looked at Su Xiao in surprise.

This guy actually improved?

Sparse applause rang out in the classroom.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Wang became even more enraged.

Li Ze frowned slightly and snorted coldly in his heart.

Fang Yu clapped along with a grin from behind, "Not bad, Brother Su!"

Xu Niannian, standing beside her, glanced at Su Xiao with bright eyes, a slight smile on her face, and then clapped her hands vigorously.

Su Xiao coughed and said modestly, "Keep it down, keep it down..."

……

During the break between classes, Su Xiao and Fang Yu went to their usual spot again.

The grove of trees behind the playground.

This time, Fang Yu didn't need to call anyone; the news had already spread throughout the gangster circle.

Those guys who were among the first to buy the phones have been walking around with a swagger these past few days. When they get their food in the cafeteria, they slap their phones on the table, and the girls from the next class even give them a second glance.

It works better than any other guy.

When Su Xiao arrived, there were already seven or eight people gathered around the pool table.

Some of them were people who didn't buy last time, and a few were from the next class who came specifically to wait for the opportunity after hearing the news.

Su Xiao put her schoolbag on the table; this time she had brought nine machines.

Four old-style candybar phones and five best-selling flip phones.

As usual, we'll start with a professional explanation before we begin selling.

He held a flip phone in his hand, opening and closing the flip.

My thumbs flew across the 9-key keyboard as I typed, explaining terms like "clock speed," "RAM," and "expansion card" to them—terms they couldn't understand at all.

After explaining the theory, let's do some hands-on practice: one-handed operation, flipping the phone to answer calls, and quick text message replies.

His smooth and effortless movements left the group of trendy young men speechless with amazement.

The effect is immediate.

The old-fashioned phones priced at 300 yuan were sold out in no time, while the best-selling phones priced at 500 yuan were sold out despite their gritted teeth.

After selling all the phones, Su Xiao counted the money with a smile.

Three thousand seven hundred yuan.

Looking at the stack of red and green banknotes in his pocket, he couldn't help but sigh, "Students are really rich."

Fang Yu was overjoyed, counting on his fingers how much his monthly allowance was, while Su Ge earned enough in one break between classes to eat in the cafeteria for a whole semester.

Su Xiao pulled out a bill from her purse and tried to give it to Fang Yu, but Fang Yu refused to accept it, saying that he had already been shameless enough by taking a phone for free last time.

Su Xiao sighed and could only say, "I'll treat you to dinner next time; you can choose the place."

Fang Yu then chuckled.

After school in the afternoon, Fang Yu and Su Xiao walked together toward the school gate.

After walking a few steps, Fang Yu felt something was wrong.

Normally, Su Xiao would have disappeared by this time, either going to find Xu Niannian or chasing after the school beauty Su. Why is she walking with this rough old man today?

He couldn't help but ask.

How could Su Xiao dare to tell the truth?

He was being given the silent treatment by his younger sister. When he came home at noon, he was met with indifference. Su Wan Ning didn't even look at him, let alone wait for him to get out of school.

He could only sigh, put his arm around Fang Yu's shoulder, and said with deep affection, "It's been so long since I've gone home with my own brother. I've missed you."

Fang Yu's eyes welled up with tears at his cheesy words.

"Brother Su, if you want to come with me in the future, just tell me. Don't keep it to yourself."

Su Xiao apologized to Fang Yu in her heart.

Don't worry, there won't be a "later". Once I find an umbrella, you can go on your own.

Not far along, a yellow figure came running from the street corner in the distance.

Upon closer inspection, he was wearing a No. 5 Middle School uniform with his shirt open, his hair dyed yellow, and he was running out of breath.

It's Wu Cheng.

Before Su Xiao could even ask him why he was running, Wu Cheng, bent over and clutching his knees, gasped for breath, "Brother Su, my sister... my sister's been ambushed!"

Su Xiao was taken aback and looked at him with a puzzled expression: "Your sister got ambushed, and instead of taking your underlings to help, why are you asking me for help?"

Wu Cheng straightened up, his expression even more unpleasant than crying: "My gang of underlings are fine for flirting with girls, but when it comes to a real fight, not one of them dares to step up."

He reached out and grabbed Su Xiao's sleeve. "Brother Su, you'd better come with me right away. If this works out, I'll have absolutely no objection to you being with my sister. From now on, we'll be on our own. I'll call you brother, and you'll call me brother-in-law."

"Get lost, stop taking advantage of me." Su Xiao said irritably, shaking off his hand.

But he didn't leave. He stood there watching Wu Cheng, who looked so anxious she was about to cry. The message Wu Mengmeng sent him on QQ last night flashed through his mind, as did the image of Wu Mengmeng standing in the rain with that sky-blue umbrella.

"What's going on?"

After catching her breath, Wu Cheng said that there was a gang leader named Xiao Sa at No. 5 Middle School who had been pursuing Wu Mengmeng. Wu Mengmeng had rejected him several times, but unexpectedly, after school today, he brought a group of people to ambush her in an alley and insisted on forcing her to be his girlfriend.

Hearing this, Fang Yu panicked first: "Brother Su, hurry and save them!"

Although he knew that Su Xiao's current girlfriend was Xu Niannian and that Wu Mengmeng was a thing of the past, she was still someone he knew, and he couldn't just stand by and do nothing.

Su Xiao didn't move.

How many people are on the other side?

Wu Cheng said, "Fifteen."

Su Xiao paused for a moment.

How many of us are there?

Wu Cheng glanced at him, then at Fang Yu, before looking away and speaking in a softer voice.

"Just the three of us."

Su Xiao looked at him.

Fang Yu looked at him.

The wind blew from the street corner, making Wu Cheng's blond hair sway from side to side.

Three against fifteen – that's not a fight, that's being used as a punching bag.

Wu Cheng got anxious: "Brother Su, aren't you usually pretty good at fighting? Last time you took down three people by yourself at the internet cafe."

"There are three, not fifteen."

Su Xiao interrupted him, "I might grit my teeth and go up against five if you asked me to, but are you trying to hold my funeral early if I have to fight fifteen?"

Wu Cheng's face fell.

Su Xiao waved her hand to calm him down, then looked around.

This is a back street near the school. Several bread carts are parked on the side of the road, and a few migrant workers are squatting against the wall eating boxed lunches and waiting for odd jobs.

They wore work clothes covered in white dust, their safety helmets removed and placed at their feet, their skin tanned dark, and the muscles on their arms as strong as steel bars on a construction site.

Su Xiao looked at the migrant workers and suddenly had an idea.

He walked over quickly, and Fang Yu and Wu Cheng exchanged a glance before following him.

Several migrant workers had just finished the last few bites of their meal and were wiping their mouths with their sleeves when they saw a student in a school uniform walking towards them, which puzzled them.

Su Xiao stood in front of them, pulled two red banknotes from his pocket, and waved them between his fingers: "Brothers, I have a job for you. Be an extra. It's twenty yuan an hour. Just come with me."

An older migrant worker put down his lunchbox and looked at him warily: "Boss, we work on construction sites, we don't know how to act."

He thought it was some fly-by-night production crew trying to scam people into becoming extras, the kind that doesn't pay you after you've done the work.

Su Xiao took out two more banknotes, and the four red bills swayed gently in the wind.

The migrant workers' eyes followed the banknotes.

"You don't need to know acting, it's just a simple job. Come with me. It'll be done in an hour. When you come back, you can go find other jobs or go home."

The migrant workers exchanged glances.

They earn twenty yuan an hour, while they only make a few dozen yuan a day carrying bricks on the construction site.

The leader rubbed the mud off his hands, put down his lunchbox, and stood up.

"Boss, we'll go with you. Just tell us, what kind of performance?"

Su Xiao smiled slightly and slapped the money into his hand.

"Play the villain, get out of the car and start beating up everyone you see!"