Liu Xu nodded.
“Oh, oh, oh…” He answered several times in a row, but couldn’t console her.
He really was not good at this.
“Every time that man approached me, I would avoid him. But every time, I resented that you two didn’t take me away,” Liu Xu said again.
Tong Yi didn’t know about these things. He couldn’t help but frown and ask, “Didn’t you tell your mother?”
“I told her. At first, he just wanted to hug me and watch television, touch my face, and whatnot. She didn’t take it seriously. Later, he touched my leg once, and I went to find Mom, crying. It was then that she realized something was wrong.”
“He didn’t do anything to you, did he?” Tong Yi asked.
“What, do you want to beat him up?”
“A scumbag should be beaten up.”
“No need. Mom became rich after getting divorced and found people to beat that scumbag several times. A while ago, I even filed a complaint against him, causing his business to suffer losses.”
Tong Yi thought for a moment. The intelligence of these two women was different from him and his father. Initially, Papa Tong had been thoroughly tricked. They really didn’t need his help, so he didn’t say anything else.
Liu Xu wiped away her tears: “I’m not good at academics or sports. Do you know why I worked so hard to get into H University? It’s because I heard that you signed a contact with H University early on.”
“Oh, is that so? I’m really touched,” Tong Yi replied with a strange tone. He really couldn’t become happy.
“But you only know how to train and play games. If you ever have time, you will go out with your brothers. Your relationship with Ye Xiya is better than your relationship with me.”
“So you started causing trouble, to make me notice you?” Tong Yi asked.
“Not entirely. If you ignore me and I get angry, then I’ll make you uncomfortable too.”
Tong Yi couldn’t help but roll his eyes. He nodded and replied: “We didn’t grow up together, and we can’t tolerate each other at all. If you need anything, let me know and I’ll do my best to help you. That is probably the most that I can do.”
“When they divorced, why didn’t you pull me and take me with you?” When Liu Xu finished asking this question, her tears started falling with “plip plop plip plop.”
Tong Yi was suddenly taken aback by the question and couldn’t answer.
“Clearly, we got along the best when we were young, but at that time, you left with Dad on your own. Why didn’t you take me away?” she asked persistently.
“I didn’t want you to suffer with us…”
Moreover, how old was he back then? His parents suddenly divorced, and his mother suddenly seemed to become a different person. His brain capacity wasn’t large to begin with.
At that time, he only knew that, if he didn’t follow Papa Tong, then Papa Tong would be alone.
He bit his mother’s hand and struggled to chase after his father. After that, he never saw them again.
“Brother!” Liu Xu suddenly shouted.
“Yeah.” Tong Yi sat in a chair and looked up, still listless.
He really felt bad about how he acted as the older brother.
“What’s going on with you and Mi Le? I’ve seen the news.”
“Nothing.”
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“He’s quite handsome. Do you think he likes my type?”
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“He’s really sinister, and he’s the kind that leaves no room for mercy.”
Liu Xu pursed her lips, a bit skeptical.
Tong Yi saw Liu Xu’s expression and couldn’t help but curse: “Let me tell you. Stop thinking about him. Otherwise, I’ll beat you up. Also, don’t cause trouble for me in the future. It’s quite annoying, you know?”
“Oh.”
“I know that you were just playing the family card with me just now. It’s like crying about your father’s death while participating in a talent show. Stop pulling these tricks. Isn’t it acting pitiful? I’ve really never lost to anyone on this.”
“How are you pitiful?”
“I’m pitifully handsome.”
Liu Xu rolled her eyes again in response.
Tong Yi took out his phone and sent a message to Mi Le.
Tong Yi: Mi Le, I apologize for yesterday. My younger sister is not very sensible. I have finished talking to her. I will ask her to come over and apologize to you later. She’s my younger sister, by blood. My parents divorced, and she went with the mom.
After sending it, Tong Yi saw that he had been blocked.
He! Had! Been! Blocked!
Last night, he was going to explain, but the coach came.
This morning, he was going to explain, but his little sister came.
Now, he finally explained, but he was blocked!
Tong Yi directly stood up and shouted at Liu Xu: “Why are you so annoying? You didn’t come earlier or later, but came at just this time. Liu Xu, let me tell you, even if I’m your older brother, I won’t brainlessly protect you. You acted too unethically. Go to the track and field team later to apologize and give their money back, then come with me to the art department to apologize!”
However, upon hearing this, Liu Xu was amused: “I was waiting for you to order me around. That’s what an older brother is like.”
“Are you sick, Liu Xu?” Tong Yi was so angry that his brain hurt.
“Do we have any normal people in our family?”
Liu Xu stood up and nudged Tong Yi with her elbow: “Give me a cigarette.”
“Get out of here! After you’ve stopped pretending, you’ve let loose completely, right? You still haven’t answered all my questions yet. Where did all the money I gave you before go?”
“I saved a little bit, but most of it was really spent. I bought purses, cosmetics, went out on trips…” In fact, she was really spending extravagantly. When she was short of money, she would think of deceiving people again.
She didn’t expect that this time, the incident escalated and really made Tong Yi angry. Liu Xu quickly came over and apologized to the “great donor.”
Most of what she had said before was true, and a small part was exaggerated. It was also to prevent Tong Yi from getting angry again.
“To post on WeChat moments, right?” Tong Yi asked, suddenly thinking of Mi Le’s diss.
Liu Xu nodded and answered happily: “Yeah.”
As Tong Yi walked, he turned to look at Liu Xu. He kept feeling like he couldn’t see through this girl.
However, thinking that Mi Le had a sister who wanted to scar his face, wasn’t his sister already much better?
Tong Yi brought Liu Xu to first apologize to the two members of the track and field team and repay them, even paying back more than twice the original amount.
Then, he took Liu Xu to look for Mi Le all over the school.
“You care about Mi Le quite a lot?” Liu Xu asked Tong YI.
“You don’t understand. I can’t explain it clearly to you.”
Liu Xu didn’t ask again, but suddenly grabbed Tong Yi’s arm. Tong Yi immediately shook her off.
“Afraid that people will misunderstand?” Liu Xu asked Tong Yi.
“Yes! It will keep me from finding a partner.”
Liu Xu nodded and didn’t say anything more.
After arriving at the building of the drama club and finding Gong Monan inside, Tong Yi asked: “Did Mi Le come today?”
“He came here a while ago and soon left. He has a press conference these two days and needs to go in person,” Gong Monan replied, then lowered her head and continued to revise the script.
“Can you help me call him?” Tong Yi asked tentatively.
Gong Monan raised her wrist to look at the time: “He’s probably on the plane at this time.”
“Then forget it.”
After leaving, Liu Xu followed beside Tong Yi and asked: “Is she prettier or am I prettier?”
“If I said it’s her, would you beat me up?”
“Don’t you think that she seems very arrogant? I heard that her family is really poor.”
“How do you know this much?” Tong Yi couldn’t help but ask.
Liu Xu stuck out her tongue: “I’m a scheming bitch… There are two great beauties in H University, her and me. I naturally know her. But it’s still the first time I’ve seen her. I didn’t expect her to look so put together, though her family’s so poor.”
“Are you the kind of girl who becomes particularly happy when others slander another beautiful woman in front of you and even creates small group chats?”
“Right. After listening, I’ll definitely feel refreshed all over.”
“How did you become like this?”
Liu Xu began to blame and pity herself again: “Why didn’t you take me away back then? Maybe I would become foolish and sweet.”
Tong Yi let out a breath: “Hurry up and get lost. I don’t want to see you anymore.”
At this moment, several girls from the drama club passed by and expressed disgust when they saw Tong Yi.
“Why did he come again?”
“I heard that he made President Mi’s face turn blue. I just saw the president come over. He’s really pitiful.”
“He even has the guts to come here.”
“I also heard that their relationship is actually very bad. The sports students keep bullying our president. The day that our president first arrived, it was very tense. People who went to the president’s dorm said that the people from the sports department were glaring at them.”
“Sports students are really annoying. They dress poorly and have a bad personality. They only know how to fight. They have well-developed limbs and a simple mind.”
Tong Yi fell silent after listening to this.
Liu Xu followed them with her gaze. After they were out of earshot, she immediately asked nervously: “Ge! They were talking bad about you. I remember what they look like. Should I seduce their boyfriends?”
“Enough, you.”
*
Tong Yi found Li Xin and asked a question very seriously: “How do you usually sweet-talk your wife?”
“Is it normal sweet-talk or the ultimate trick?” Li Xin asked Tong Yi.
“Say both of them. I’ll listen and see.”
“Normally, I’ll say something nice and buy delicious food and gifts.”
Tong Yi nodded, then asked: “What about the ultimate trick?”
“I once kneeled until a popsicle melted,” Li Xin replied, with a self-deprecating expression.
Tong Yi couldn’t help but frown, his lips curling in disgust: “Say, can’t you have some backbone? Huh? Can a man have some dignity? Can you kneel down casually?”
“What can be done? It’s just difficult for me to sweet-talk my significant other.” The more Li Xin replied, the quieter and less confident his voice got.
“Shameful. I definitely won’t do that,” Tong Yi said, then held his phone and continued to send Mi Le a friend request.
“Why are you asking about this?”
“I’m preparing for the future.”
He had sent requests all day, but Mi Le had ignored him. Tong Yi wanted to run out and go back to sleep.
After running a few steps, Coach Lu caught him: “The friendly match is coming up. What’s the matter with you? Huh? The captain is taking the lead in running, right? Get back.”
Tong Yi returned gloomily.
When the training was finally over, Tong Yi ran back to the dorm like a wild dog without a leash. He washed himself casually and went straight to bed.
After Li Xin returned with late night snacks, he saw that Tong Yi had already fallen asleep.
*
Mi Le pushed open the door of the lounge and saw Tong Yi sitting inside.
After a moment of shock, he came to his senses and knew what had happened.
He was dreaming again.
He walked in, took off his coat, and looked at the makeup on his face in the mirror. As soon as he sat down, Tong Yi walked up to him and suddenly knelt down. He said pitifully: “Wife Mi, stop ignoring me. I’m going to cry.”
He could kneel quickly, but he had to maintain a handsome posture.
Mi Le was so shocked by his kneeling that he wanted to step back, but Tong Yi hugged his legs and explained urgently, “Liu Xu is my little sister, my twin sister! Don’t you think that she looks a lot like me? She’s my real! Little! Sister!”
Mi Le suddenly remembered what Li Xin had said to him in the morning. In a daze, he seemed to hear the contents of the sentence that Li Xin had shouted.
He had really thought about what Li Xin said all day and roughly pieced together some of them.
If he thought about it carefully, wasn’t this really what Li Xin’s clumsy mouth wanted to express?
