My sister never calls me brother.

Mr. Lin glanced at his daughter in the rearview mirror, then looked at the chocolate in front of him and smiled.

"I thought you were busy in the kitchen last night? Turns out you were making chocolate for Dad," Mr. Lin said with a smile.

"Mmm," Lin Nianwei hummed softly.

“I’m very happy,” Lin’s father said.

"Is that so..." Lin Nianwei replied indifferently.

Looking at the ever-changing scenery outside the car window, Lin Nianwei sighed inwardly. She had prepared the chocolates beforehand, but felt too embarrassed to give them to him. "I'm so weak..."

Mr. Lin looked at his daughter in the rearview mirror and shook his head, unable to guess what she was thinking.

When Zhou Han returned home, he saw that Miyazaki Airi had already finished cooking and had just taken off her apron.

The dishes look much more plentiful than usual today.

"This seems more lavish than usual today?" Zhou Han asked curiously.

“Of course, we should have a more lavish celebration for Qixi Festival,” Miyazaki Airi replied. He noticed the potted bamboo in Zhou Han’s arms and asked in confusion, “What are you doing with a potted bamboo?”

"Huh!?" Zhou Han was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "Um... it purifies the indoor air and is good for your health! Don't misunderstand, I bought it because I wanted to make a wish for Qixi Festival. I'm not that kind of person..."

“Is that so…” Miyazaki Airi said expressionlessly, “Then I don’t need to thank you, that’s so convenient.”

Zhou Han was speechless, thinking, "If you wanted to thank me, you should have said so earlier! I would have admitted it if you had just said so..."

"Put the potted plant on the balcony and wait for me there," Miyazaki Airi said.

"What are you doing?" Zhou Han asked, confused.

"Just wait there and stop talking nonsense!" Miyazaki Airi said impatiently.

What kind of attitude is this? Would it kill you to speak like a human being? Zhou Han complained inwardly, threw down her schoolbag in dissatisfaction, and went to the balcony.

After placing the bonsai bamboo on the balcony, he suddenly realized that this bonsai was more likely to purify the atmosphere than purify the indoor air.

Zhou Han waited on the balcony for a long time, muttering to herself, "What have you been doing? Why are you taking so long..."

The balcony door was pushed open, and Miyazaki Airi walked in carrying a wishing raft tied with a red thread and a pen and ink. Zhou Han's gaze froze for a moment.

Airi Miyazaki wore a pink yukata with cherry blossom patterns, revealing her milky-white neck. Her jet-black hair was styled in a bun, and her face was slightly flushed. She parted her thin lips and said—

"What are you looking at! Look again and I'll gouge your eyes out!"

Zhou Han was embarrassed, thinking to herself, "It had a certain charm when I first came out, but it's all gone as soon as I opened my mouth!"

"Why are you wearing these clothes?" Zhou Han asked.

“Tradition,” Airi Miyazaki replied, turning around on the spot and asking, “How about that?”

Zhou Han glanced at them up and down, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Nice wooden clogs, the quality looks good!"

Airi Miyazaki's face fell, and she said, "Am I out of my mind? Why would I ask you such a question?"

Zhou Han frowned, her mind filled with questions.

"Here you go." Miyazaki Airi handed the brush and wishing raft to Zhou Han, saying, "Write down your wishes."

Zhou Han took the wishing raft, looked up at the night sky, thought for a moment, and wrote down—

"I hope my family is safe and sound."

Miyazaki Airi secretly glanced at Zhou Han's wish and laughed, saying, "So cliché!"

"None of your business!" Zhou Han frowned.

"Hmph!" Miyazaki Airi snorted coldly and said, "Give me the pen."

Zhou Han handed the calligraphy brush to Miyazaki Airi.

Airi Miyazaki took a brush and wrote on the letter paper—

「みんながLuckyせになれるとHopeします」

Zhou Han glanced at it, her face darkening, and said, "Can't you write in Chinese?"

“If you write it in Chinese, you’ll understand, won’t you?” Miyazaki Airi said with a smug look on her face.

"You've been watching me the whole time, isn't that unfair?" Zhou Han said with a bitter face.

"So what?" Miyazaki Airi smiled.

Zhou Han felt frustrated, as there was nothing she could do about it.

“Let’s hang the letter raft on the bamboo,” said Airi Miyazaki.

The two tied the wishing raft to the green bamboo.

Under a star-filled night sky, the two watched their respective wishing rafts drift gently in the night breeze.

Starlight filters through the verdant bamboo leaves, scattering across the wishing raft, shimmering and sparkling, as if telling an extraordinary story…

These two wishing rafts may be the starting point of Zhou Han's relationship with Miyazaki Airi.

The next day, Zhou Han was severely reprimanded by the teachers in the academic affairs office for fighting.

As a result, I was late for the club activity.

Zhou Han pushed open the door to the activity room and saw that everyone was there.

"Where have you been? You're so late, everyone's waiting for you," Song Mingyuan said.

"Something came up and I was held up." Zhou Han didn't want anyone to know that she wasn't going to fight.

"Never mind." Song Mingyuan waved his hand and held up a small golden sign in his hand, which read "Seigaku Office".

"Ahem!" Song Mingyuan coughed lightly and said, "I hereby announce! The Seigaku Agency is officially established today!"

"Oh!!!" Zhou Han and Miyazaki Airi clapped. Lin Nianwei, meanwhile, was engrossed in her book, seemingly oblivious to the world around her.

"This has all come so hard! From now on, we are a formally established club!" Song Mingyuan was moved to tears. "This is a moment worth commemorating. The Seigaku Club has been revived with a new look. Let's go out and take a group photo!"

The three followed Song Mingyuan out and watched him hang the Seigaku Office sign on the door.

Song Mingyuan held his camera, aimed it at the entrance of the Qingxue office, and set it to a countdown timer to take a picture.

At some point, Song Mingyuan found himself holding a body pillow shaped like a blonde anime girl, seemingly about to take a picture.

"Um..." Zhou Han hesitated before saying, "Senior Song, I know you're a total otaku, but isn't it inappropriate to take a picture while holding this thing?"

"Don't get me wrong, I'm using this to represent another member, that poor kid who's currently undergoing military training." Song Mingyuan pointed to the pillow, "Look, it even has her name on it."

Airi Miyazaki looked at it and murmured, "Lilith?"

"Alright! Alright!" Song Mingyuan clapped his hands. "Everyone, get ready to take pictures!"

The four of them stood in a line. Miyazaki Airi was holding Lin Nianwei's arm, while Lin Nianwei covered her mouth with a book, looking a little shy.

In the very center was a cushion that replaced Lilith, held by Song Mingyuan with his left hand, while his right hand rested on Zhou Han's shoulder.

Song Mingyuan happily shouted the countdown.

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

Together...

"eggplant!!!"

My name is Zhou Han, and I am an ignorant and incompetent person.

This is not my story.

It's not a story about Seigaku's office either.

This is--

Everyone's story!

Note: みんなが星せになれるとHope します, which means, I hope everyone can be happy!

Volume Two: Farewell to the Past

Chapter 41 Lilith's Leap

Lilith's full name is Lilith Kim Claudia.

As someone of mixed Chinese and British descent, she used her parents' surnames when she chose her name.

My father's Chinese surname is Jin.

My mother's British surname is Claudia.

Born in England, she became the apple of her family's eye from birth and was deeply loved by her parents.

Coming from a very well-off family, she received an excellent education from a young age, but she did not develop a refined and cultured demeanor.

The reason is that her thoughts are too scattered. No one knows what this twelve-year-old blonde girl is thinking. Even her parents can't figure it out.

She might want to be a philosopher one second and a pirate in the Caribbean the next; her thoughts jump around so much that it leaves people completely confused.

Not only is her thinking strange, but Lilith's behavior is also unpredictable.

When Lilith was a child, her family was clearly not short of money, yet she once set up a bowl and begged on the streets of London!

Because of her cute appearance and her fabricated past, she attracted a lot of attention that day.

Her actions even alarmed welfare agencies and the government, and the place where she begged was surrounded by crowds.

Her arrival nearly starved the homeless on the streets of London, as she begged for a full £2000 in just one day! She's practically a rising star in the homeless community!

Eventually, Lilith's parents found out. As a result, they apologized to welfare agencies, clarified the situation in the British media, and donated all the money they earned from begging to homeless people on the streets of London, keeping them extremely busy and overwhelmed.

When her parents asked Lilith why she did that, her answer was infuriating; she giggled and said—

Because it looks like fun!

Lilith's parents were helpless in the face of her strange behavior and had no good way to deal with their daughter.

Due to her parents' work, Lilith also came to China with them and began her high school life in the first year of high school at Jinteng Academy. On her first day, she won the love of her classmates because of her cheerful personality.

However, she found the Chinese education system somewhat difficult to adapt to, feeling it was far too strict. So she would often skip class under the pretext of going to the restroom and instead have a wild time at the academy.

One day she came to Seigaku Club, which was in a period of economic downturn.