I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

As the girl wiped her palms with a wet tissue, her delicate nose twitched almost imperceptibly, and her brows furrowed slightly.

"Disgusting?" The boy observed the pretty yet cold little face.

The girl looked up and met his gaze, then shook her head casually, "I'm used to it."

"As expected of the Celestial Queen's powerful adaptability." The young man bowed respectfully.

"But it still feels strange," the girl added, her flat tone sounding like she was explaining some academic issue.

"So it's still disgusting?" The boy continued to scrutinize her.

“Since it’s a normal phenomenon, I will accept it no matter what…” The girl continued to shake her head, then paused halfway through her sentence, her voice becoming softer, “No matter what, my little cutie will accept it.”

"Shen Xi, you have just too many adorable qualities," the boy sighed.

"Or is it that Cheng Feiyu just wants to see the little cutie make a... disgusted face?" The girl frowned as she spoke, her face turning disgusted, as if this possibility was more contemptible to her.

"I'm not that bored, am I?" The boy hesitated, then rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Although Teacher Shen's disgusted expression was indeed..."

He smacked his lips, as if savoring something.

"As expected, there's no hope for him." Shen Xi stared at him warily, got off the sofa, and threw everything into the trash can in the corner, as if taking the opportunity to distance herself from him.

"She seems very aloof and serious in front of outsiders, but in private she often has exaggerated reactions like a little animal, and her expressions are quite funny. This is one of Teacher Shen's endearing qualities." The boy nodded at her with a confident look.

The girl covered her chest with her hands and shivered. She stared at him with even more vigilance, feeling the same tension as when you're walking down the street and suddenly see a huge, frightening rat crawling out of a sewer and staring at you. You get goosebumps all over but dare not make a move.

"You just said something casually, and your eyes widened in surprise. What's so cute about that?" the boy wondered.

"Even after being together for so long, hearing your endless delusions still makes me feel disgusted and dangerous." The girl took a deep breath.

"Not at all, this is all proof that I like you. You're just that cute in my eyes." The boy said without any shame.

"I disagree. I just think it's proof of a mental disorder." The girl shook her head and picked up her small handbag.

Seeing this, the boy also got up and picked up his shirt. "Teacher Shen, we just finished being intimate. You don't have to turn your back on me so quickly, do you? Did your passive skill trigger?"

"Shut up, I suddenly feel a little disgusted by what just happened."

"No way, where did my honest and adorable little darling go? Has the Celestial Queen's cold personality taken over again?"

The two walked and talked as they left the private cinema.

"I told you to shut up. You have no personality. I'm just disgusted by what you said." The girl covered her mouth with a serious expression.

The boy looked at the hand she was using to cover her mouth, remaining calm. "Teacher Shen, although theoretically there's nothing wrong with it, and I'm glad to see you don't mind at all, you wouldn't be taking the opportunity to smell it, would you? Do you have that kind of interest like Nana? How about tonight..."

The girl's pupils contracted, as if she was a beat slow to realize something. She let go of his hand and looked down. Her pure, dark eyes lost focus and became empty. Her calm, cold voice interrupted him, "Cheng Fei, who are you saying you're like?"

"Nana?" The boy hesitated for a moment.

"What kind of interest are you referring to?" the girl asked, staring at him as if she were asking something trivial.

The boy met her gaze, hesitated, and said, "Well, you know what I mean, don't you? You should know, right? Are you angry? Never mind what I said."

The girl paused for a second, pinched her brow, sighed, and walked forward on her own. "That's enough, let's leave this topic at that."

"Yes." The boy nodded immediately, giving up on trying to probe her inner thoughts at that moment.

The two stepped onto the evening street. Shen Xi resumed her expressionless demeanor, casually glancing around before glancing at the boy beside her out of the corner of her eye. She spoke coldly, "Trash."

"What are your instructions, Teacher Shen?" Cheng Fei asked her quickly.

The girl paused for a second, then turned her face away, whispering almost imperceptibly, "Can't you see the little cutie is... waiting for you to hold her hand?"

The boy looked down and realized that the girl had lowered her hand, which had been gripping the thin strap of her small handbag, and was now close to him. Noticing his gaze, her small hand quickly twitched her palm, like a scallop opening and closing to release bubbles, or like a lure twitching to entice a grouper hiding in the crevices of the rocks.

The boy looked surprised. Due to the angle, he couldn't see the girl's expression. He thought for a moment, then silently took her slightly cool and soft hand. She immediately grabbed his hand back and they intertwined their fingers.

"..." The boy exaggeratedly clutched his chest, took a deep breath, and exhaled, repeating this process three times.

"What is Cheng Feiyu doing? Is he suffering from oxygen deficiency due to not adapting to the terrestrial environment?" The girl tilted her head to observe him, suspicious.

"It's nothing," the boy shook his head nonchalantly. "I was just overwhelmed by the Protoss Queen's cunning schemes."

"Oh." The girl casually looked away, a barely perceptible smile curving her lips, which vanished just as quickly as the most beautiful moment of a fleeting sunset. She added in a cold tone, "If you can't take it anymore, remember to eat rat poison quickly."

The boy hesitated, then said, "Sweetie, if you keep doing this, I really might not be able to resist taking advantage of you tonight."

"What's gotten into Cheng Feiyu again?" The girl shivered and turned to glare at him.

"You're clearly seducing me and then turning the tables on me. Don't you Protoss Queens go too far?" The boy looked at her with surprise.

"What? You?" The girl's brows furrowed, a look of disbelief on her face. "Aquatic mammals have started to treat their delusions as reality?"

"Didn't you ask me to hold your hand?" The boy stared at her.

"Ridiculous! Holding hands is seduction? I'm just trying to be helpful. After all, this Cheng Feiyu loves holding hands all the time, just like a mouse following its owner around." The girl retorted without backing down.

"Who's being clingy here, Teacher Shen? You've gone so far as to speak so irresponsibly?!" The boy was shocked.

"Otherwise?" The girl scoffed. "If Cheng Feiyu likes holding hands, fine, after all, today was the compensation I promised. But please don't try to shift the blame onto others!"

"Shen Xi, I've discovered that you, this little cutie, aren't any good either. You're utterly wicked!" The boy stared at her, feeling that his understanding of the girl's true nature had deepened.

"You're starting to slander me again for no reason. Fine, whatever, I'm not interested in arguing about such meaningless topics." The girl tossed her hair and turned her face away, adopting a posture of unilaterally declaring herself the victor.

"In that case, to prove my innocence, I'll just not hold your hand until today!" the boy said with a "what's the use" attitude, though he still didn't let go of her.

"You dare?!" The girl glared at him fiercely.

"So you won't let me let go again?"

"If you don't want to be led astray, you don't have to!" the girl said with a cold laugh as she walked forward.

"Isn't this a threat? If you keep being so dishonest, I'm really going to let go!" The boy gritted his teeth.

"Loosen your grip if you want!" the girl sneered.

"Then don't hold on so tightly!"

"Who exactly is holding this grudge?!"

"Could it be me? Absolutely not!"

"Ha, Cheng Feiyu, deceiving himself!"

As the city lights began to twinkle, the two who had suddenly fallen into an argument (?) blended into the bustling crowd of the pedestrian street. In the end, neither of them took the initiative to let go of the other's hand, and their figures walking hand in hand looked no different from any other couples you could see anywhere.

Tokyo.

Shimoochiai in Shinjuku Ward is a peaceful street steeped in history.

The deliveryman confirmed the address and rang the doorbell of a detached house with "Kato" written on the form.

After a short wait, the door was opened.

Before me stood a shy fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, her delicate and childlike features exuding a striking sweetness, yet her face remained expressionless.

"Hello, is this Ms. Ai Kato?" The young deliveryman paused for a moment before coming to his senses.

"Hmm..." The girl's voice was delicate as she looked at him with a questioning gaze.

"Please sign for the package." The deliveryman quickly handed over a thick document bag.

After she signed the form, the courier quickly took the receipt and left.

The young girl picked up the file folder and looked at it. She noticed that the mailing address was "Academy City". Her eyes widened slightly. She quickly turned around and went inside with the things. When she passed through the entrance hall, she bumped her calf on the edge of the cabinet because she was in too much of a hurry. She let out a sad whimper like a cat.

She hurriedly returned to her room on the second floor. The room, which had been in a mess due to the search of the accounts, had been cleaned up. However, the desk was piled with all sorts of materials, including those about painting, textbooks and exercises, as well as strange books like "One Hundred Days to Master Chinese," all of which were the accumulation of six months of hard work.

Kato Ai carefully opened the package with a paper cutter and took out a whole stack of documents.

The young girl swallowed hard, picked up the top postcard with a cherry blossom tree background, and brought it close to her eyes to read it carefully.

"Admission Notice"

To: Ai Kato

"After review by our school's admissions committee, your artwork has passed the evaluation, and your academic performance meets the requirements. You are now officially admitted as a new student in the International Department (Arts Specialty Class) of Academy City Sakura High School."

Please bring this notice to the Academic Affairs Office of this school for registration on August 25th. Important notes…

She carefully checked the contents of the postcard three times, then slowly put it down, blinking her bright eyes.

Then, the girl grabbed a thick stack of test papers from the desk and flung them into the air.

"Yay!" The girl jumped up and down, letting out a cheer amidst the falling papers. "I finally passed the exam!"

Ai Kato picked up her phone, opened WeChat, and clicked on the pinned profile picture of a smiling Shiba Inu, whose nickname was "Brother".

Their conversation was still stuck in early spring of this year.

"Brother, I asked the teacher to look into it, and it seems that Yinghua is really difficult to get into..."

"It's very difficult."

"I will work hard for the next six months!"

"come on"

"As an art student, I must strive to catch up!"

"I also believe in Aiyi."

"Then, I met my brother..."

"It can definitely be done."

"Um!"

For the next six months, she buried herself in her studies and never sent the boy a single message.

The boy didn't send her any messages at all, as if he had forgotten about her (and he really had).

He must have been keeping an eye on her quietly so as not to disturb her studies (the boy did indeed like her recent posts), and the older brother is so incredibly talented, yet so gentle...

Although they only met once and chatted for an afternoon, the boy's gentle gaze, warm smile, and words that made her heart race were all deeply etched in her heart.

840. Shen Xi wants to make a reservation.

In the young heart of a girl whose parents were busy with work and had no one to take care of her, who was a loner at school and had few friends, and who only knew how to bury herself in drawing every day, the boy was simply the light that broke through the gloom, the perfect older brother that God had given her.

That's why she was determined to get into Yinghua.

Although she didn't concentrate on her studies in the past for various reasons and her academic scores were pitifully low, since her older sister was able to get in and is now second in her grade, she can definitely do it too.

Hard work pays off. After half a year of effort, I finally improved my academic grades and easily passed the review for my artistic talent, thus receiving this precious admission notice.

"Brother! I really passed the exam!"

Ai Kato typed a message in the chat box, then thought about it and deleted it all.

Let's not tell my brother yet, we'll surprise him later...

Thinking of this, the naive girl opened another person's chat box.

"Sister, I got into Yinghua!"

"Aiyi actually got into university? Congratulations!"

"Um, please don't tell my brother yet."

"No problem~ Just let me know if you need any help."

The tone on the other end was inexplicably cheerful, as if they were also happy for her.

Kato Ai put down her phone, hugged the admission notice to her chest, lay down on the bed, stared at the ceiling, blinked her bright eyes, and a happy smile bloomed on her childlike and sweet face. It was an expression that her classmates, who knew Kato as a quiet and reserved girl, would never show.

elder brother……

In a high-end restaurant with soothing saxophone melodies, the two sat at a table against the wall.

The boy, busy finishing the Russian pork patties on his plate, suddenly covered his mouth and sneezed. He looked around for the restaurant's air conditioning vents with a puzzled expression, but to no avail.

The aloof girl with long, dark hair was sipping her borscht when she caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of her eye. She looked at him and sneered, "Did Cheng Feiyu do something wrong outside and someone's after him?"

"Teacher Shen, how can you believe in such feudal superstitions?" The boy shook his head and continued to eat his pork pie.

"I wouldn't believe it anywhere else, but it's an exception when it comes to you." Shen Xi pinched her chin, revealing a serious and certain expression.

"So I'm special?" Cheng Fei stared at her as he rubbed his chin. "That makes sense. Teacher Shen used to be so serious, but now she's making jokes like this with me. It seems my favorability towards her has increased recently."