The anchor I was supposed to meet turned out to be my student.

I patted her head and comforted her, "Aren't I just like you now, sharing both joy and sorrow? How about we have a competition?"

"Okay, okay, what competition?" Xu Lehan immediately became interested.

"Let's just stay still and quiet. Whoever calms down and clears their mind first will win."

"I'm going to win!"

So we sat down and meditated without moving, trying to suppress our anger...

"Boss, don't lie. You're not like us girls. I have ways of judging whether you're really free of ulterior motives."

"I also have ways of judging you, so don't try to be cunning with me."

"We have it too? How did you make such a good judgment, boss..."

"Thrust".

"Coincidentally, we also use a thrusting attack."

……

In the end, of course, no one won, because when they checked each other's work and made their judgments, they all became angry again.

After coming downstairs with her, Xu Lehan jogged back to the table and rejoined Monopoly. Jiang Yan looked at Xu Lehan strangely, not understanding why she looked so happy after being reprimanded, nor what we had experienced up there. But when Jiang Yan turned her head and met my gaze, she immediately shrank back and moved closer to Bi Antong.

I walked over to Jiang Yanyi, who looked at me warily and uneasily. She knew it was time to teach her, the mastermind, a lesson.

I used the same trick again and whispered in her ear, "Come to my room, there's a big treasure."

"Sister Tongtong, Brother Hua said he wants to show me his big treasure..." Jiang Yan suddenly grabbed Tongtong's sleeve and pitifully complained.

Bi Antong glared at her and shouted angrily, "This is Yan Yi! Tu Sheng, are you even human?!"

Xin Ning also looked at me with a disappointed expression...

"You've misunderstood. I just came back from outside and bought her some new, challenging final exam questions so she can work on them with me..."

"Then you're even less human! Yan Yi finally gets a break, and you force her to do homework. How tiring is that!"

Jiang Yan stuck out her tongue at me from an angle where Bi Antong couldn't see, looking smug and self-satisfied that she was now under her sisters' protection. She felt that with her sisters' help, she could do whatever she wanted.

I didn't say anything more, just watched them play Monopoly, waiting for my chance...

"I'm going to get some juice, do you want some?" Jiang Yan suddenly stood up.

In that split second, I rushed over, scooped up tiny Jiang Yan, and sprinted up the stairs a hundred meters.

"Sister Tongtong, save me, waah! Sister Xinning... Sister Lehan..." Jiang Yan leaned on my shoulder and waved pitifully to her sisters for help.

"What exactly do you want, Tusheng?!" Tongtong said angrily.

"You guys play first. Yan Yi still has one last math unit to review. I'll help her finish it first."

With Jiang Yanyi weighing only 80 pounds, I easily carried her upstairs, into the room, locked the door, and gently tossed her onto the bed—all in one smooth motion.

"Brother Hua is a bad guy!" Jiang Yan suddenly cursed at me.

It turned out she had hurt her bottom a little from the fall, and she was rubbing it.

"No matter how bad I am, I'm not as bad as you, Xiaoyan. You're even scheming against me now." I sat down next to her.

"I... I planned it all, what can you do to me, Brother Hua!?"

Once here, Jiang Yanyi was nothing like the weak girl she was downstairs. She started to act all tough with me, like she was ready to be killed or tortured at will.

"Yan Yi, aren't you being a bit too arrogant? I locked the door from the inside. If I want to teach you a lesson, no one can help you. You'd better change your attitude."

Jiang Yan, while tidying up her slightly disheveled and folded skirt, scoffed, "Tch, every time they say they'll teach me a lesson, all they do is lecture me or spank me. What do I have to be afraid of?"

Jiang Yanyi's words left me speechless for a moment, because I really couldn't come up with any other threatening lessons.

Seeing that I couldn't refute her, Jiang Yan smiled smugly and said, "I'll kiss you, and I'll kiss you again next time. Let's see what you can do to me, Brother Hua. I don't believe you'll dare tell my parents, let alone Sister Tongtong... So let me just say it, I've got you cornered!"

"This is rebellion; you're deliberately going against me..."

Jiang Yan ignored me, stood up from the bed, straddled my lap, faced me, and said in a cute but fierce tone, "Hold me and then rub my back. I'm tired from playing Monopoly."

Did I end up shooting myself in the foot?

Jiang Yan rested her chin on my shoulder and hugged me, urging, "Hurry up, if you massage me and make me happy, maybe I'll consider listening to you?"

This position looks weird, but I really have no way to deal with this little devil. If hard methods don't work, I'll have to try softer ones.

As I gently massaged her back with my thumb, I said softly, "Yan Yi, can we talk this over?"

"Hmm." She remained noncommittal.

As expected, they respond better to gentle persuasion than force.

"Don't do that kind of thing out of curiosity again, and don't get accomplices."

"I'm just curious, what's wrong with satisfying my curiosity? Brother Hua didn't lose anything."

"So, are you going to keep asking yourself all sorts of questions in the future, just finding any guy to satisfy them? Is that reasonable?"

"I only ask Brother Hua to satisfy my curiosity."

I'm about to be rendered speechless by her arguing again...

"Yan Yi...you're so insensible..."

"How could I be so ignorant! I understand everything! I understand what you really want to say and what you're worried about, Hua-gege. I know this isn't good, and if you wait another two years, you'll have nothing left to say... But, but two years is such a long, long time. Yan-yi is really suffering! Why are my sisters so lucky to be born at the right time, while I had to be born later? This isn't fair, this isn't fair!!"

Jiang Yan suddenly became hysterical and started hitting my back...

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Chapter 158, Section 664: The Two-Year Agreement

2021-03-24T08:26:34

"Yan Yi, you..."

I gently pushed Jiang Yan off my shoulder and looked at her, filled with disbelief. If I wasn't mistaken, that was what she meant just now...

But Jiang Yan, who had been so aggressive, fell silent and avoided my gaze, and a silent atmosphere began to build.

I didn't want to misunderstand, nor did I want to be kept in the dark, so I asked in a low voice, "Yan Yi, do you still consider me your older brother?"

However, Jiang Yanyi bit her lip and refused to speak.

I gently shook her shoulder.

"Yes... I only see you as an older brother, an older brother... an older brother!" Jiang Yanyi said hoarsely, as if she was holding back a huge grievance.

I noticed her unusual emotions, so I didn't believe it... at least not entirely. Otherwise, why would I have said she was jealous that her sisters could be with me?

"Yan Yi...do you...like me?" I don't know how much effort it took for me to ask that question.

Jiang Yan's expression froze at that moment, her eyes filled with a complex mix of emotions—joy, surprise, and fear...

"No! Brother Hua is narcissistic!" Jiang Yan denied it decisively the next second.

I should have breathed a sigh of relief, but a terrible feeling of loss arose deep inside me.

"I was just being narcissistic..."

"That's right! Don't think that just because all the older sisters like you, I have to like you too. I just see you as an older brother! Just an older brother!" Jiang Yanyi said the words "older brother" almost through gritted teeth, her voice filled with hatred.

Anyone with a brain could tell she was lying, and the reason she was lying couldn't be more obvious... because I couldn't accept it... I couldn't even accept her setting a trap to kiss me, let alone the fact that she liked me. But deep down, a voice was questioning me: even Xin Ning could accept it, so why couldn't Jiang Yan Yi?

Then I saw Jiang Yanyi's tears, which she quickly wiped away, not wanting me to see.

Since she wouldn't admit it, I couldn't say anything to her...

I suddenly really wish I could close the age gap with Jiang Yan, so she wouldn't have to suffer, and I wouldn't have to struggle with this either.

"Yan Yi, I'm sorry. If it were before, I would have definitely given you a good scolding. But after what happened with Xin Ning, I realized that many things are beyond our control and we can't blame anyone else... So don't worry, I won't say anything. I just hope you can control yourself and let's pretend that what just happened never happened."

"So, Brother Hua wants us all to deceive ourselves?"

I looked at her, and she lowered her head and said, "It's okay, I already have a recording anyway..."

That's when I realized the real reason she forced me to record the conversation...

Seeing Jiang Yan's dejected look, I pondered for a while before finally managing to overcome my initial hesitation and saying, "Okay, save the recording for later..."

"Brother Hua, you..." Jiang Yan's face suddenly showed an expression of disbelief and joy.

"I didn't say anything," I said, this time avoiding her gaze.

“Okay, I understand, Brother Hua. I’m still your good little sister, and you’re still Yan Yi’s good brother. We’ll get along like this for the next two years. I won’t embarrass or bother you during these two years. Yan Yi will wait patiently.” Jiang Yan Yi’s eyebrows were beaming with smiles.

Seeing her so happy felt like a cure for my illness.

This is probably the best solution, right? Luckily, Jiang Yan understood me.

But I found that my so-called principles were being slowly eroded. In order to make Jiang Yan happy, I had to endure the guilt that came from the destruction of my principles. I hadn't even finished processing the guilt I felt from Xin Ning when another one came along...

Compared to my bitterness, Jiang Yanyi seemed to be really excited, so much so that she wrapped her arms around my neck and swayed back and forth on my lap.

"You can't go back on your word."

"Um……"

It's really upsetting. I have no friends anymore, or to be precise, I've had no friends for two years.

"Brother Hua, should I prepare something? For example, when you were in your adolescence, you would fantasize about what kind of girl you would like in the future. I'm still very malleable, you know. I can move in that direction~"

"Yeonichi!"

Jiang Yan immediately covered her mouth and dared not say anything more. She was too excited to the point of violating the agreement we had just made without explicitly stating it but which we understood implicitly.

In order for me to be able to interact with Jiang Yanyi with a normal mindset rather than an awkward mindset filled with guilt over the next two years, she can't bring up this kind of thing, and she can't do anything that crosses the line again. Only in this way can I face Jiang Yanyi and her parents normally...

"Brother Hua, let me make amends. I'll tell you about Sister Yaoyao right now." Jiang Yanyi cleverly changed the subject. She was already satisfied with the promise.

"You should have told me sooner, but you kept refusing to say it..."

"Hehe, but I can't let Brother Hua take advantage of me and use me as a tool, I have to get something back... Oh right, I absolutely can't tell Sister Yao about what just happened..."

After her initial excitement, Jiang Yan suddenly realized a very serious problem, a hurdle that had been weighing on her mind.