Chapter 39: Is this brother’s sense of loss?
Ye Chuxiao tilted her innocent face, blinking her big eyes as she asked, “Senior Student Ziyi, you’ve already pinched my nose today, you won’t do it again, right?”
“Mm!” Lu Ziyi said with great mercy, “I won’t pinch it today, I’ll pinch it tomorrow.”
Ye Chuxiao’s eyes flashed slyly, and the smile at the corner of her mouth deepened. She suddenly let go of her right hand holding Lu Ziyi’s arm and quickly pinched Lu Ziyi’s nose!
“Hmph hmph!” Ye Chuxiao chuckled wickedly, “Senior Student Ziyi, I can still pinch you eight more times! I’m not doing installments, I want to pinch until I’m satisfied, I don’t care if I cry tomorrow!”
“Hehehe!” Lu Ziyi looked at Ye Chuxiao’s vengeful and indignant appearance, finding her pouting tender pink face even more adorable.
“You can still laugh about this? Did I not pinch hard enough?”
Ye Chuxiao leaned over, deliberately glaring at Lu Ziyi.
Lu Ziyi smiled, “Xiaoxiao, pinch harder, maybe your nose bridge can get higher.”
“Then I’ll really pinch hard!”
“Okay, Xiaoxiao, pinch and make me handsome!”
“I’ll just pinch, I won’t worry about handsome!”
Lu Ziyi and Ye Chuxiao bantered, laughing “hehehe.”
“Xiaoxiao!”
At this moment, a gentle, soft call came.
Ye Chuxiao and Lu Ziyi both turned their heads and saw Lin Chusheng walking towards them.
“Is Xiaoxiao bullying Ziyi?” Lin Chusheng joked.
“Ah, no!” Ye Chuxiao withdrew her hand from Lu Ziyi’s nose. “Actually, the situation is not at all what Brother Chusheng sees!”
Sob sob, Brother Chusheng, I still owe Senior Student Ziyi twenty more nose pinches, and I’ll be pinched by him for twenty more days!
Lu Ziyi said with a shallow smile, “It’s Xiaoxiao helping me pinch my nose bridge. She thinks my nose bridge will be higher and I’ll be more handsome!”
Lin Chusheng just smiled, not commenting on this. He felt a strange feeling in his heart that he couldn’t quite explain.
Due to her special family circumstances, Xiaoxiao had very little contact with children her age. The person she was closest to was him, her neighbor brother.
Xiaoxiao had a quiet personality and would only occasionally playfully tease him, her brother. But now she was acting so intimately with Lu Ziyi.
This might be… a brother’s sense of loss? The little sister who always clung to him would one day have someone she liked. Her past dependence, trust, and admiration were now transferred to another boy.
Lin Chusheng asked, “Xiaoxiao, Ziyi, how did you two meet?” And you’re so close, so intimate!
Regarding this question, Ye Chuxiao answered it with practiced ease! In the girls’ dormitory, she had explained it at least ninety-nine times, if not a hundred!
Ye Chuxiao chattered on, recounting the process of how she met Lu Ziyi once again.
Lin Chusheng gazed at Ye Chuxiao. The little girl told the story of their meeting so smoothly and fluently, without a single stutter. Coupled with her smiling eyes, it seemed she was very happy to have met Lu Ziyi!
“So that’s how it is,” Lin Chusheng smiled. “I didn’t expect we’d know each other! Xiaoxiao, Ziyi and I joined the student union together in our sophomore year…”
“Senior Student Ziyi already told me!” Ye Chuxiao interjected with a clear voice, finishing Lin Chusheng’s sentence.
“Alright,” Lin Chusheng smiled again, with a hint of helplessness. “Xiaoxiao and Ziyi are already very familiar with each other. Xiaoxiao is Ziyi’s assistant, and Ziyi tutors Xiaoxiao. No wonder Xiaoxiao doesn’t need Brother Chusheng to tutor her anymore!”
Sigh, Xiaoxiao even pinches Ziyi’s nose bridge, it seems there’s no role for him as a brother anymore!
