My sister never calls me brother.

"Oh, that's good. I was having a headache about how to communicate with foreigners. Now it's much easier." Zhou Han breathed a sigh of relief. "Aren't you hungry? Do you want some of my big sausage?"

"Do you think I don't understand? This is sexual harassment! If you keep doing this, I'll call the police!" Miyazaki Airi frowned.

"Sexual harassment? Hahaha!" Zhou Han laughed. "Would I harass an airport with a flat chest?"

"You..." Miyazaki Airi exclaimed angrily, "Even an airport is better than a pervert like you who picks his toes! Disgusting!"

“Pervert! Me!?” Zhou Han pointed at himself and said angrily, “You’d better be more polite when you talk to me. I’m the boss in my house. You should respect me. In the end, you’re just staying at our house, not much different from stray cats and dogs.”

"you--!"

Just as Miyazaki Airi was about to retort, her stomach rumbled at an inopportune moment, causing her to blush and the atmosphere to become somewhat awkward.

"What you just said..." Zhou Han put on a poker face, "was it just a fart? Hahahaha!"

Zhou Han burst into laughter, completely disregarding the occasion. Miyazaki Airi suppressed her anger and raised an eyebrow, "This guy..."

“If it’s rude of me to pick my toes in public, then it’s equally rude of you to fart in public, so we’re even…” Zhou Han wasn’t satisfied until he dragged Miyazaki Airi down to the same level.

Miyazaki Airi's face was gloomy, her shoulders trembling with anger. Unable to bear it any longer, she strode up to Zhou Han and stomped on him hard.

"Ah—!" Zhou Han screamed and pulled her foot back.

"You bastard! You jerk!" Miyazaki Airi punched Zhou Han hard in the chin, sending him spinning away.

Zhou Han lay on the ground, her eyes rolling back, inwardly marveling at the guy's strength. "Sisters...they're all too dangerous..."

Although both of them were hungry, they didn't eat. Instead, at Miyazaki Airi's request, they went to the supermarket and bought vegetables.

Zhou Han, pulling a suitcase and wearing SpongeBob SquarePants pajamas and slippers, looked out of place on the street, attracting stares from those around her.

"Hey!" Zhou Han said, sounding a little annoyed. "Why do I have to carry your luggage?!"

Airi Miyazaki, carrying vegetables, walked ahead of him without turning her head. "Could you please not just start talking to me like that? People will misunderstand me as a pervert picking his toes."

"Huh!?" Zhou Han stopped in her tracks. "Is that how you talk to the person who's helping you? Believe me or not, I'll abandon you and run away the moment I see you. Let me tell you, there are plenty of bad people around here. Someone like you could very well end up being sold to some remote mountain village by human traffickers and become a child bride for a bunch of lazy bums. Are you scared now?"

"A child bride?" Miyazaki Airi was confused and didn't understand.

"Tsk! How stupid." Zhou Han curled her lip. "It's about raising this girl from a young age so that she can marry a designated person when she grows up and carry on the family line, understand?"

Airi Miyazaki thought for a moment, then tentatively asked, "**?"

"Pfft—!" Zhou Han almost choked on his own saliva. "Why did we have to bring up that word? I just wanted to say that if I left you now, you'd be dead."

"I see..." Miyazaki Airi smiled nonchalantly. "Uncle Zhou told me that if you're not nice to me, he'll cut off your allowance. You'll have to support yourself; you'll starve if you don't have money, right?"

Zhou Han remained expressionless and silently extended her hand.

"Let me carry the vegetables for you too. Don't get tired, I'm a very hardworking person."

"Tch!" Miyazaki Airi shook her head.

Upon arriving at his residential community, where the greenery was quite decent, Zhou Han suddenly transformed into a different person, enthusiastically introducing this and that. There was nothing he could do about it, since his economic lifeline was in someone else's hands.

Adding to the painful history of being pranked by her younger sister since childhood, Zhou Han wisely chose to compromise immediately. It is estimated that if Miyazaki Airi complains, regardless of right or wrong, the blame will likely fall entirely on Zhou Han, since she is no longer the youngest child in the family.

The two went upstairs, and Zhou Han saw a small advertisement slipped into his door. He picked it up and looked at it—

"A gift from heaven! Scan the QR code to win a cash prize of 10,000 yuan." Zhou Han sneered disdainfully, "Hmph! What a clumsy scam! Even a three-year-old wouldn't fall for it."

"Then why did you fold it up and put it away?" Miyazaki Airi asked with a stern face.

"I am a very civilized person. Littering is not my style, that's all."

Zhou Han spoke with such seriousness that Miyazaki Airi might have believed him if she hadn't seen him picking his toes in public at the airport.

"Is that really so?" Miyazaki Airi's disdainful gaze made Zhou Han feel very awkward.

"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's go inside." Zhou Han quickly opened the door, trying to change the subject.

After the two entered, Miyazaki Airi was initially looking forward to what her future living place would be like. However, once inside, she immediately became expressionless. The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. The huge contrast was hard for her to accept.

The whole house felt like a mess. Clothes were scattered everywhere, snack bags were long gone from the trash cans, and there were stacks of instant noodles on the table that looked like they hadn't been thrown away in ages. There was a faint sour smell emanating from the house, which, combined with the smell of stinky socks in the room, almost made Miyazaki Airi run out of the house.

Airi Miyazaki covered her nose. "What is this! A pigsty?"

"Hehehe!" Zhou Han scratched his head awkwardly and said, "I live alone, you know how it is for guys..."

"I don't understand!" Miyazaki Airi frowned angrily. "I don't care what kind of person you were before, but the living room is a public place now. If you continue like this, I'll make you regret it!"

"Huh!?" Zhou Han said, displeased, and cracked her knuckles. "I'm the boss in this family! Should I teach you a lesson?"

"Teach me a lesson?" Miyazaki Airi's face darkened, her expression unfriendly. "You can try..."

Zhou Han hesitated, realizing that the other woman was quite strong, and that he probably wouldn't be able to beat her in a real fight.

"In a harmonious society, resorting to violence is uncivilized." Zhou Han acted as if he were the only one who was sober in a world of fools.

"Hmph!" Miyazaki Airi snorted, put on a mask and apron, picked up a broom, and said, "It's time for spring cleaning! Come and help!"

"Oh..." Zhou Han reluctantly picked up the mop.

The two of them got busy, cleaning inside and out, from top to bottom.

Airi Miyazaki pulled a sock out from under the sofa. If she hadn't been wearing a mask, she probably would have fainted.

This guy is really something! He'll stuff it in any gap he can... Miyazaki Airi threw the sock aside and continued rummaging, and then another one came out, but it wasn't a sock.

Miyazaki Airi unfolded the package in confusion, her face immediately turning red. Her hands trembled, and she didn't know what to say. "This...this is..."

This is a pair of red underwear.

"Hey! Come here!" Miyazaki Airi shouted.

"What is it?" Zhou Han walked over and was startled to see Miyazaki Airi holding her underwear. She quickly snatched it away. "What are you doing with my underwear for my birth year? Are you thinking of something wicked?!"

Airi Miyazaki rolled her eyes. Who would do something improper?!

"Your life is so messy! Socks and dirty clothes are hidden everywhere!" Airi Miyazaki scolded, hands on her hips. "I've never seen anyone like you before!"

"Ha...ha..." Zhou Han chuckled dryly, hiding his underwear behind his back.

Airi Miyazaki sighed helplessly, looked down at what was under the sofa, and almost fainted...

It wasn't just a couple of socks and underwear under the sofa; it was completely full of dirty clothes, piled up like an army.

"Aaaaaah! Aaaaah!" Miyazaki Airi couldn't take it anymore and started screaming.

"Whoa!" Zhou Han exclaimed in surprise, "What's wrong!? Why are you yelling all of a sudden?"

"You...you..." Miyazaki Airi pointed at the sofa with trembling fingers, her emotions running high. "Clean this up yourself, by whatever means necessary, don't...don't let me see them..."

“Okay… fine…” Zhou Han said with a bitter face.

It took the two of them a whole afternoon to clean the house. Miyazaki Airi moved into her younger sister's room, which had been unoccupied since their parents' divorce, so it was finally being put to good use.

Zhou Han sat on the sofa, looking at the tidy house, feeling a little out of place. Apart from her father who occasionally came back, she had been living alone for many years.

This house won't be mine anymore. The thought feels like a dream. Zhou Han lay on the sofa, looking at the crystal chandelier, and let out a long sigh, thinking—

A tidy home doesn't look bad at all...

Chapter Three: Jinteng Academy

Night fell.

Zhou Han glanced at the Lao Tan pickled cabbage and beef noodles in front of him, then at the steaming curry in front of Miyazaki Airi across from him.

A sense of frustration immediately arose.

"Why wasn't I given any curry?" Zhou Han was extremely dissatisfied with this differential treatment.

Airi Miyazaki looked up in surprise and asked, "Why should I make one for you?"

“We…” Zhou Han paused, “aren’t we family?”

"Hmm?" Miyazaki Airi thought for a moment. "What you said is true, but I have no obligation to take care of your meals. On the contrary, you should be taking care of me."

Zhou Han hesitated, looking at the Lao Tan pickled cabbage and beef noodles in front of her with some reluctance.

After hesitating for a while, Zhou Han, with a very reluctant expression, pushed the instant noodles to Miyazaki Airi.

"What are you doing?" Miyazaki Airi became alert, unable to tell what kind of trouble Zhou Han was planning to cause this time.

"I'm taking care of you, I'll trade you instant noodles for curry..." Zhou Han said without blushing or panting, it was hard to tell if she was really stupid or just pretending.

"Do you... think I'm an idiot?" Miyazaki Airi's expression was not good.

"Do you think I'm trying to scam you? You've really misunderstood me. Instant noodles are as famous as our country's angry aunties. They're well-known products that are exported overseas. Besides, eating instant noodles is very beneficial to your health. They're rich in various vitamins..." In order to get curry, Zhou Han stood up and started spouting a long string of nonsense.

"Stop!" Miyazaki Airi told Zhou Han to stop, not wanting to hear him at all. "I'll continue eating my curry. As for this fancy cup noodle, you can enjoy it yourself..."

Zhou Han sat down dejectedly, feeling like she had wasted her breath. They say big breasts mean no brains, but small breasts certainly indicate a bit of shrewdness. Looks like she won't be getting curry; she can only look at it longingly…

While looking at Miyazaki Airi's curry, Zhou Han took a big bite of instant noodles and suddenly felt that his pickled cabbage tasted like curry. He secretly admired his own imagination.

"There's something I need to tell you."

"What?" Zhou Han looked up blankly, then suddenly realized something. "I have no money, but you can take my life! I'm poor too. If you want to touch my piggy bank, you'll have to step over my dead body first..."

“That’s not what I meant…” Miyazaki Airi increasingly felt that Zhou Han was an idiot, whose thought process was quite different from that of normal people.

"It's not about money..." Zhou Han thought for a moment and said, "Even if you're after my body, you can't have it, so just give up on that idea..."

"Tch!" Miyazaki Airi raised an eyebrow with a gloomy face, and with a whoosh, she threw the spoon in her hand like a throwing knife, embedding it deeply into the wall.

A few strands of Zhou Han's hair were mercilessly cut off and fell to the ground. He swallowed hard, still shaken. "I...I'm sorry, I was just joking."

"Hmph!" Miyazaki Airi snorted coldly and said irritably, "Listen to me carefully, if we are unfortunately assigned to the same class tomorrow, you absolutely cannot let anyone know that we know each other, and you are absolutely not allowed to tell anyone about living together, understand?"

"Of course... I think it would be troublesome if people found out. Let's just pretend we don't know each other at school." Zhou Han was serious about this, because his position at school was somewhat awkward; he was someone that everyone avoided.

One reason is that Zhou Han has a bad reputation because of fighting.

Secondly, Zhou Han has an eccentric personality, making it difficult for people to approach her.

If other people found out that he also has a girl living with him, his classmates would probably go crazy.

Miyazaki Airi didn't expect Zhou Han to compromise so easily. She thought he would fight back fiercely for the sake of his male dignity. It seems there was no need to worry at all.

"I'm full." Miyazaki Airi got up and left. "You can eat the rest of the curry if you like. It's all going to end up feeding the cats and dogs anyway, so feeding it to you is the same thing..."

Zhou Han's face darkened, feeling extremely embarrassed. He was completely helpless against Miyazaki Airi. He couldn't beat her in a fight, and as for insulting her, she controlled his economic lifeline. He was a native of this place, yet he was being suppressed by this despicable capitalist, Miyazaki Airi, and had become a doormat.

"Ah...right." Miyazaki Airi suddenly remembered a question. If Zhou Han had a girlfriend, it would be inevitable that the truth would come out during their daily interactions. "Do you have a girlfriend?"

Zhou Han's expression showed utter bewilderment.