"...Then do it. You can't go back on your word."
"Yes, yes, yes, yes!"
Bai Weiran took out his key to open the door, but as soon as he opened it, he realized something was wrong.
There was a warm, milk tea-scented aroma in the room.
Bai Weiran usually drinks coffee, occasionally some pure tea, but rarely drinks milk tea.
Qin Ning's gaze was even more direct, fixed on a pair of small women's sandals in the entryway.
With differing intentions, the indoor lights suddenly blazed on, and a background music track from a movie hero's entrance began to play. The gaming chairs that had been facing away from them turned around. It was clearly a scene of showing off, but the little feet that moved so diligently, like ducks paddling underwater, gave it all away.
"What time is it? Where did you go? And you still know how to come back?"
It sounded like a parent catching their child coming home late, but the voice was too sweet and crisp.
Bai Shimo was also stunned when she saw Qin Ning.
Who is that girl with my brother?
Bai Weiran: ...No wonder the milk tea tasted so familiar.
My sister likes to add a few dried rose petals to her brewed milk tea, which adds a special fragrance.
Qin Ning looked Bai Shimo up and down in one glance. She wore a snow-white jumpsuit, a light green cardigan, and her long, wavy hair was tied in a neat ponytail. Her necklace was a light blue crystal dolphin. She looked youthful and sweet.
But this is not the point.
The girl's calm demeanor, her familiar and unrestrained questioning tone, and Bai Weiran's obviously surprised yet gentle attitude made her suddenly wary and extremely aggressive.
"Brother Weiran, who is she, and what is she doing in your house!?"
His sinister tone and domineering attitude made Bai Shimo frown immediately.
Isn't this supposed to be the younger sister? Where did you get this younger sister from? A fake sister accusing the real sister, a cuckoo taking over the nest?
Before Bai Weiran could speak, he chuckled and quickly continued the conversation.
"Brother Weiran, who is she, and why is she at your house?!"
The imitative tone and affectionate address made Qin Ning instantly react like a cat with its fur standing on end.
"You're not allowed to call Weiran 'brother'!"
"If I don't call him, who will? No one in this world is more qualified to call him than me." Bai Shimo retorted, leisurely and unhurriedly. When it comes to arguing, the siblings are truly on par.
"Not only will I call him that, but I will call him that many times over the next few decades: Brother Weiran, Brother Weiran, Brother Weiran!!"
Qin Ning was so anxious that she looked like a rabbit about to go berserk and bite, her eyes were red, but she was afraid that Bai Weiran would be unhappy, and she didn't know the identity of the person in front of her, so she tried her best to suppress herself.
"...Shimo, stop fooling around. It's making me feel really uncomfortable. I'm going to have nightmares tonight."
Normal older brothers can't accept the overly sweet and disgusting way of addressing their younger sisters; they'd probably vomit their dinner from the night before.
Moreover, Bai Shimo stopped calling him that after she turned five. Before she turned five, she called him Weiran Gege; after she turned five, she called him Bai Weiran; after she turned ten, she called him Gege; and after she turned fifteen, she called him Gege (a single-syllable word). Her growth trajectory is very clear.
The familiar name stunned Qin Ning.
This is something I have to introduce even if I don't want to.
"This is my sister, Bai Shimo. Shimo, this is Qin Ning."
Bai Shimo raised an eyebrow, remaining expressionless, but inwardly gasped at the introduction.
"Shimo, what are you doing here?"
This truly caught Bai Weiran off guard.
No wonder no one was home; they'd come to my house!
He couldn't help but laugh. He had originally planned to go back to his hometown to find her and catch her red-handed, but he ended up with nothing. He had spent ten hours a day traveling. He should have just stayed home, slept, and waited for her to come to him.
Bai Shimo gave a small snort, crossed her arms, and spun around in the chair.
"I miss my brother, is that not allowed?"
"...I rarely go home, and I won't even be home for the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. Everyone else is enjoying the full moon and family reunions, but our home is so quiet and cold. I can't stay in this indifferent and heartless family any longer. I'm going to run away from home!!"
"You're always talking about working overtime, working overtime, being busy is good, being busy is good! Now that the village has internet, do you even know to give us a WeChat call to let us know you're safe? If I don't come looking for you, when will you come back to our little village, this remote mountain village? Do you look down on us country folk now that you're in the big city? Waaah!"
She immediately started talking about her younger sister, the same old formula.
Although my hometown isn't a first-tier city with bright lights and bustling prosperity, it's still far from being a remote mountain village.
When his sister gets mischievous, she never speaks seriously and never says anything proper.
She must have come to him for something, but she refused to say because there were other people present.
Bai Weiran turned his head and saw Qin Ning also staring at him with wide, helpless eyes.
Don't send me away, I don't want to leave.
"...Shimo, have you eaten?" he asked.
"How about the three of us go out to eat together?"
"That's also possible."
Bai Shimo stopped turning around in the chair and glanced at the tightly closed bedroom door.
"...I want to eat crabs, the more expensive the better, I want to eat until I'm stuffed, and then I'll pack some to go for a late-night snack."
Bai Weiran: ...?
Wait a minute, he remembered that his sister had never really liked seafood.
It's that standard kind—
Do you want to eat shrimp?
Thank you, I don't eat shrimp.
The shrimp are peeled. Shall we eat them?
Thank you so much! How did you know I like shrimp?
She also has a lazy side to her personality.
However, if his younger sister wanted to eat crab, he would make sure she could have a good meal even if it meant losing all his money.
"Row."
The three of them went out, and the room returned to silence. The white-haired girl, whom Bai Shimo had hidden in the bedroom, pushed open the bedroom door and peeked out like a little turtle.
She made sure no one was around before she began to wander freely around the house.
She carefully sat down in the gaming chair, touched the keyboard and mouse, turned to the side and tucked her legs in, lightly poking at the armrests of the gaming chair with her fingers. The soft yet firm feel of the armrests made her feel like she was hooked on a game, and she poked at them for quite a while before stopping—but she didn't leave the chair immediately.
Instead, they try to immerse themselves completely in the chair, leaning against the backrest, feeling the presence of the chair's owner, and remaining perfectly still and at ease.
She drifted off to sleep.
She didn't know how much time had passed when she vaguely heard footsteps outside the door.
She woke up with a start, jumped up, and rushed into the open bedroom without thinking. Before she could close the door, the outer door was already open. She glanced around the bedroom and saw the built-in wardrobe. Her petite figure slipped inside.
Bai Weiran was completely unaware of the commotion inside the room because he was turning his head to scold his sister.
"You can't eat, yet you order so much. Have you forgotten the national policies on cherishing food and the 'Clean Plate Campaign'?"
"Of course I won't waste it, someone will eat it." Bai Shimo glanced at him.
With Qin Ning absent, her tone immediately became serious, no longer playful, and even carried a coldness in her sweetness that was exactly the same as Bai Weiran's.
"You're lecturing me, but what about you? Bro, you're really good at causing trouble."
"...He's always been a magnet for weirdos."
"Miss Qin Ning seems to have some yandere traits."
**
I thought Mengmeng and Bai would meet.
The prediction was wrong; it won't be fixed tomorrow.
(T ^ T)
Chapter Twenty-Two: In His Wardrobe!?
Bai Weiran tacitly agreed.
Even though Qin Ning tried her best to be friendly to her sister at the dinner table, acting like a harmless and arrogant young lady, the occasional hints of aggression and jealousy that she showed were not hidden from her sister's sharp eyes.
“Qin Ning is a good girl,” he retorted gently.
"She just needs some more time."
Bai Shimo's cute little eyebrows were raised very high.
"Brother, what you said is a classic example. Ask yourself honestly, haven't you said it more than once?"
"........."
"Your ex-girlfriend, ex-ex-girlfriend, first love—"
Bai Weiran raised his hand to stop him.
"Alright, let bygones be bygones, and try to forget about it as much as possible."
Having a younger sister is great in every way, except for this one thing: she sees all the messes in his life and can bring them up at any time. He thought helplessly as he turned to open the shoe cabinet to find guest slippers.
Bai Shimo stood behind him, hands on her hips, her face full of disapproval. She pouted her pink lips, shook her head as she looked at Bai Weiran's back, and the end of her slightly curled ponytail swept over her shoulder.
"I just don't want you to be let down again."
“From his first love, my brother has been cursed, and none of his relationships have ended well.”
Bai Weiran slammed the shoe cabinet door shut—
“There’s no curse.” He said calmly.
"It's just that they all ended up not liking me, which is normal. People's feelings change over time and with each person's experience... Strange, where are the slippers? Wear my usual indoor slippers for now. They're a bit big, but comfortable. I'll go into the bedroom and see if I left the slippers there."
As he spoke, he walked into the bedroom. Bai Shimo watched his retreating figure and pouted.
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