My sister never calls me brother.

But there are still some differences...

"Hey! Zhou Han, I see you have extraordinary potential. Why don't you betray the Holy See and join my Demon King's Army? I'll make you a Grand Marshal!" Li Yang said mysteriously as he turned around.

"Get out of here!" Zhou Han was furious, but there was also a sense of relief in her heart.

Chapter Seven: The Rift from Childhood

After a busy day, Zhou Han returned home full of energy. As for why he was still so energetic after a day of classes, that remains to be seen.

The reason is that he slept in class. In just one day, Zhou Han slept so much that his legs cramped three times and his hands cramped five times. Maybe some unlucky student on duty is looking at the drool on his desk with a puzzled expression.

In order to prevent others from realizing that he knew Miyazaki Airi, Zhou Han deliberately left ten minutes late.

When they got home, Miyazaki Airi had already prepared dinner and was about to start eating. When she saw Zhou Han return, she simply glanced at him, and neither of them said a word.

Zhou Han threw down her schoolbag, silently opened the refrigerator, took out a bowl of pickled cabbage and beef noodles, and prepared it for dinner.

Airi Miyazaki raised her eyelids slightly and saw Zhou Han's defeated expression, like someone being berated by their boss at work—a complete useless punching bag...

"The rice and miso soup are in the kitchen, go get them yourself," Miyazaki Airi said, seemingly unintentionally, unable to bear it any longer.

"Huh!?" Zhou Han was about to boil water when she suddenly heard Miyazaki Airi's words and was a little incredulous. "You just said... there's some for me?"

"Hmm, I accidentally made too much. Anyway, it's all going to be thrown away, so don't overthink it. I wouldn't have made extra for you on purpose, hmph!" Miyazaki Airi pouted, looking smug.

"So you're this clumsy? You always make a little extra when you cook, even the curry yesterday..." Zhou Han looked like an idiot, not thinking much about it and completely misunderstanding the meaning behind the girl's "tsundere" words.

"You...you should just go back and eat instant noodles!!!" Miyazaki Airi said with a dark face.

"Huh!?" Zhou Han was completely bewildered, having no idea what she had done to offend her. "No way! Since you're going to throw it away anyway, why not just throw it in my mouth? It's good to keep the good stuff in the family!"

"Tch!" Miyazaki Airi was still fuming.

Zhou Han returned from the kitchen excitedly with the food. Although he tried his best to suppress his excitement, his starry eyes betrayed him.

I took a bite, and it tasted amazing! Delicious!

Zhou Han's face beamed with happiness, but she immediately shook her head, thinking, "No! No! I can't show that it's delicious, otherwise this guy will start making sarcastic remarks about me again..."

"How does it taste...?" Miyazaki Airi asked tentatively, pretending to be casual.

"Ah...it's just so-so, nowhere near as good as Lao Tan pickled cabbage beef noodles!" Zhou Han said, her eyes darting around.

"Oh, if it tastes bad, you should throw it away..." Miyazaki Airi stood up, grabbed Zhou Han's rice bowl, and tried to take it away.

"Ah!? No!!" Zhou Han held onto her rice bowl tightly.

"Let go!" Miyazaki Airi clenched her teeth.

"No... I won't let go!"

"Let go of me!" With a sudden burst of strength, Miyazaki Airi pulled Zhou Han onto the table.

Wow...what incredible strength! Zhou Han felt like she was flying for a moment.

"I'm...I'm sorry! It was my fault! It was actually delicious! I shouldn't have lied!" Zhou Han quickly admitted her mistake when she realized she couldn't protect the food anymore.

"Hmph! Serves you right for being so stubborn." Miyazaki Airi released her grip.

Zhou Han ate with a bitter face, feeling as if Miyazaki Airi had violently ripped off her last shred of dignity.

“You…” Miyazaki Airi wanted to say something, “Um… never mind, it’s okay.”

“You’re disgusting, you know that?” Zhou Han said with a stern face.

"Have you always been like that at school!?" Miyazaki Airi paused. "And what about your self-introduction today? Were you just trying to look cool?"

Zhou Han silently put down her chopsticks and said, "That's right, that's how I am at school. That self-introduction wasn't about showing off; it was all from the heart."

"Are you so mentally ill that you have no friends?"

"What!?" Zhou Han jumped like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "I... I don't have any friends? I have so many! It's just... it's just that we don't go to the same school!"

"Huh!?" Miyazaki Airi was stunned and said in surprise, "Don't you have any friends at this school? Then why did the person next to me write your name when they were writing about their ideal deskmate today?"

"Huh? Next to you?" Zhou Han thought for a moment, "Are you talking about your blond-haired deskmate?"

"No, no, no! It wasn't that chatterbox." Miyazaki Airi waved her hand, recalling carefully, "It was the person next to me at the beginning, a girl, the one who was aloof and always reading a book."

Zhou Han's expression stiffened, and she tentatively asked, "Lin...Lin Nianwei!?"

"Yes! It's her." Miyazaki Airi remembered. "Are you friends with her?"

“Friend…” Zhou Han thought for a moment, “I don’t know.”

Why would I write your name if we're not friends?

"do not know."

Miyazaki Airi's face darkened. "Besides not knowing, can you say something else?"

Zhou Han thought for a moment, then shrugged, "I don't know..."

Airi Miyazaki sighed, "This jerk knows absolutely nothing! Is he messing with me?!"

After finishing her meal, Zhou Han lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling. Although her face was expressionless, she was still thinking about Lin Nianwei.

Although the two of them bickered a lot during elementary school, they were also very happy.

"Hey—!" Zhou Han called out from below the slide to Lin Nianwei, who was reading a book upstairs, "Come down and play!"

"But I want to read a little longer," Lin Nianwei said, looking troubled.

Stop looking! Come down and play!

Lin Nianwei hesitated for a moment, then said, "Okay..."

"What do you want to play?" Lin Nianwei slid down the slide.

"Let me think..." Zhou Han stroked his chin as he thought.

"What? You haven't thought about it yet?" Lin Nianwei smiled.

"I've made up my mind!" Zhou Han grinned, "Let's play Ultraman and fight monsters! I'll be Ultraman, and you can be the monster!"

"I don't want to be a little monster! I want to be Ultraman!" Lin Nianwei protested, raising her little fist.

"But I don't want to be a little monster either, or I'll get beaten up..." Zhou Han said with a bitter face.

"Then let's play other games," Lin Nianwei suggested.

What game?

"Let's play house!" Lin Nianwei seemed very excited. "I'll be the mom! If you marry me, you can be the dad!"

"Who...who wants to marry you!" Zhou Han was startled and blushed.

"Don't you want to marry me?" Lin Nianwei asked in surprise.

"Of course I don't want to! I'd be laughed at if I married a bookworm!" Zhou Han quickly replied.

Lin Nianwei puffed up her cheeks angrily, "I don't care! If you don't marry me, I won't play with you anymore!"

"Don't force me to do something I don't want to do..." Zhou Han said with a bitter expression.

Lying on the bed, Zhou Han smiled. Lin Nianwei used to clamor to marry him when they were kids, but now she's so unapproachable. Maybe it's all his fault.

I remember it happened not long after my parents got divorced—

On their way home from school, it was raining. Zhou Han and Lin Nianwei passed by two boys from their class.

"Isn't this Zhou Han? I heard your parents got divorced, how pitiful, haha." A boy said with a mocking look.

“That’s right, it’s so pitiful, it’s like a stray dog ​​now, barking and begging for someone to take it in!” another boy chimed in.

"You two..." Zhou Han stopped and turned back to look at the two boys with a ferocious expression. "Say it again and I'll hear it."

The boy grinned arrogantly, "Fine, I'll say it! You stray dog! You piece of trash nobody wants!"

"Tch!" Zhou Han gritted his teeth, threw down his umbrella, pulled out a baton he had bought not long ago from behind his back, and walked over. He had long disliked those two people.

"Don't go!" Lin Nianwei grabbed Zhou Han's wrist.

"Let go!" Zhou Han shook off Lin Nianwei's hand and strode forward to fight the two boys who had mocked him.

That was the first time Zhou Han had ever fought with someone, yet she showed no mercy whatsoever. Perhaps it was because she had been suppressing her anger for too long? The resentment stemming from her parents' divorce had transformed into rage, and she fiercely swung her baton, brutally beating the two boys.

He suddenly realized that he had a unique talent for fighting, and felt that he could defeat any number of people who came. For a moment, Zhou Han even felt a sense of excitement.

One of the boys was knocked unconscious and lay in the rain like a dead man, while the other was beaten until his head was bleeding and he clung tightly to Zhou Han's leg, crying loudly.

Zhou Han did not stop, and raised the baton in his hand again.

"Stop hitting him!" Lin Nianwei threw down her umbrella and schoolbag and used all her strength to hug Zhou Han to stop him.

"You're so annoying!!!" Zhou Han wanted to shake off Lin Nianwei, but the baton in his hand accidentally hit Lin Nianwei's forehead.

Lin Nianwei screamed and collapsed into a pool of blood.

The rain continued to pelt the two of them. Zhou Han looked at Lin Nianwei lying in a pool of blood with a tingling sensation on his scalp. This numb and powerless feeling spread throughout his body in an instant, to the point that he couldn't even hold his baton anymore, and it fell to the ground with a "clang".

"This isn't what I wanted!" Zhou Han took two steps back in fear, but collapsed into the muddy water. Raindrops fell on his face, making him look like he was crying. "It shouldn't be like this... I just..."

After this incident, if it weren't for his father pulling strings everywhere, Zhou Han would have been expelled from school long ago. He also had to pay more than 100,000 yuan in medical expenses before things calmed down. However, the impact of the incident spread, and no one approached Zhou Han anymore. Before he knew it, he had become all alone, and even Lin Nianwei had stopped coming to school.

until a certain day.

Lin Nianwei's father brought her to the school, but quickly packed his things and headed towards the school gate, as if he was about to leave.

Zhou Han hurriedly ran downstairs, shouting, "Where are you going?! Come play! Ultraman fights monsters, I'll be the monster and you can fight me however you want..."

Lin Nianwei was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm not playing anymore, you can play by yourself."

"What's wrong? What happened?" Zhou Han had a bad feeling.

"It's none of your business." Lin Nianwei's tone was a little cold.

"Tell me! Maybe I can help! Aren't we friends?"

“No longer, you and I…” Lin Nianwei paused, “we’re not the same.”

Zhou Han froze. She exclaimed, "Just because I accidentally hurt you? You react like this? I...I..."

"I'm just trying to defend my self-esteem!!!"

"What self-esteem?" Lin Nianwei turned to look at Zhou Han, her eyes filled with complex emotions. "It's jealousy, isn't it?"

After saying that, Lin Nianwei left with her father.