Chapter 43: Being a Brother for the First Time

"An'an, An'an!"

Jiang Wang squatted on the ground, holding An'an in his arms.

He held her little head, stroking it repeatedly, "Don't be so good, I don't need you to be so good."

His voice was strangely hoarse: "You can be capricious, you can be innocent. You can do whatever you like, just don't need to be... so sensible."

He regretted not avoiding Jiang An'an when he asked Zhao Rucheng for money. He kept telling himself that his sister was introverted and sensitive, but he still overlooked it.

He was indeed as close to Zhao Rucheng as brothers, even to the point of sharing advanced cultivation techniques casually, let alone mundane things like gold and silver. But he forgot that An'an didn't know.

An'an would only think that she was a burden to her brother. That her brother had to ask others for money in order to give her a home.

Since their father's death, Jiang Wang had hardly shed a tear, but at this moment, hidden behind Jiang An'an's little head, he wept bitterly.

"Brother... what's wrong?" After a while, Jiang An'an asked.

"Ah, nothing, it's nothing." Jiang Wang controlled his emotions, still embracing Jiang An'an, and said, "Don't call Zhao Rucheng a pretty boy in the future, he will be unhappy."

"But he is really fair-skinned."

"Pretty boy doesn't just mean fair-skinned... never mind, call him whatever you want, don't worry about whether he's happy or not."

"Okay!"

Confirming that no more tears were falling and that he didn't look like he had been crying, Jiang Wang pulled Jiang An'an out of his arms, looked at her very seriously, "Brother wants to apologize to you, brother shouldn't have lost his temper with you. Brother... is a brother for the first time, and I'm not doing a good job."

Jiang An'an twisted the corner of her clothes, feeling a little embarrassed: "I'm also a sister for the first time, and I'm not doing a good job either. I shouldn't have cheated, shouldn't have angered the teacher..."

"Really?" Jiang Wang used his thumbs to wipe Jiang An'an's face, gently wiping away her tears, "Is this really your first time being a sister?"

Jiang An'an nodded.

Jiang Wang moved his thumb in front of Jiang An'an, holding it up, "Then you really have talent! I've never seen a better sister than you."

"Hehe..."

An'an smiled shyly.

The season was already winter, and there were still tear stains on her little face, but with this smile, all the spring flowers bloomed.

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People in the world all have their fate, and everyone's fate is different. Half of that saying is nonsense.

Sun Xiaoyan felt that he was really stupid, really, how could he believe in that so-called sibling affection, how could he believe that female devil's words?

"There are many delicious foods outside that you can't get in Three Mountains City!"

"I promise not to bully him, I will definitely be a good example. Please let me lead the team!"

"Just think of it as my brother and I going on a trip, we'll be very happy!"

The words were still ringing in his ears, still ringing in his ears!

Sun Xiaoyan, who was thirteen years old this year, had a rather handsome name, but he was very... round.

Huff! Huff!

He ran forward with difficulty, his entire abdominal cavity was burning, and he was sweating profusely. The colorful and beautiful clothes on his body were long unrecognizable, wrinkled, and dirty.

He felt like he could collapse immediately, his whole body turning into a lump of mud, a pig, or whatever that could just collapse. But he dared not.

He really wanted to cry, he should have clung to his mother's leg and not let go. How could he be so blinded by lard, mistaking his lifelong enemy?

He ran and ran.

From a distance, you could hardly see his legs, as if a colorful ball was rolling.

He didn't want to roll!

Unless he could roll back.

To think of him, Sun Xiaoyan, the son of the Three Mountains City Lord, the only male in the Sun family's generation, how glorious was he in the Three Mountains City territory? He was practically "one below one, above all others!"

Why did he have to overthink things and go on a trip alone with that "one"? Wasn't it good to lord it over in Three Mountains City? Wasn't he happy bullying other children? With the tiger gone, couldn't he be the king of the mountain?

Sun Xiaoyan stopped.

It wasn't that he was suddenly filled with anger and courage... he didn't have that thing called courage...

It was that he really felt he had reached his limit.

It wasn't that he didn't want to run, he really couldn't run anymore.

At this moment, he heard that extremely familiar voice approaching him at an alarming speed.

"Sun! Little! Fat!"

Sun Xiaoyan didn't even have time to react when a crystal-clear, fair, and beautiful foot landed on his butt in a not-so-beautiful way.

This time he really rolled.

He roared across the official road, rolling wildly.

When he finally stopped, he was already bruised and battered.

He sat on the ground, swaying, feeling like the whole world was swaying.

The first thing that appeared in his squinting eyes was a pair of bare feet carved like jade, exposed all the way to the calves, followed by a pair of six-point shorts that were very convenient for fighting. The owner of the bare feet wore a short, diagonally collared shirt and had a delicate and lovely face, which complemented her petite figure.

Compared to her, the obese Sun Xiaoyan was almost a behemoth, but his mouth twitched, as if he was about to cry, "Sister, I can't run anymore, I really feel like I can't do it anymore!"

"Don't tell me how you feel, tell me how I feel." Sun Xiaoman squatted down, looking at him with a friendly smile, "I feel like you can do it."

Sun Xiaoman's appearance of wanting to communicate gave Sun Xiaoyan courage.

He simply lay down on the ground, groaning and wailing, "Oh my, I'm going to die, I can't move..."

He looked like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water. Go ahead and beat me to death if you can.

He was a lump whether he stood or lay down, his figure was very consistent.

"Is it that hard to lose weight?" Sun Xiaoman asked.

To make him lose weight, Sun Xiaoman forced him to run all the way here using only his physical strength. Everyone else could use divine speed talismans at will, go when they wanted, and rest when they wanted.

Sun Xiaoyan was filled with grief and indignation: "My fat is innate!"

"There are no innate fat people, only lazy fat people!"

For some reason, it was a bit inspiring...

But Sun Xiaoyan was unmoved, he even closed his already small eyes, looking like he wouldn't listen, wouldn't listen, wouldn't listen.

"You're as fat as a ball, if you go on stage like that, won't you be embarrassing our Three Mountains City?"

"Everyone calls us mountain bumpkins, Three Mountains City doesn't have any face to lose!"

Sun Xiaoman pursed her lips and didn't say anything.

Sun Xiaoyan was shocked and immediately opened his eyes again, looking at his sister pitifully: "You're my own sister, how can a sister be so cruel to her brother? And I'm so young, I'm still a child!

Besides, it's said that an elder sister is like a mother, and a mother is kind and a child is filial, if you're good to me, I'll be good to you in the future, and we'll all be happy, isn't that great?"

He had a whole set of arguments, and his logic was very clear.

"Everyone says that to educate a child, you have to give a jujube after a beating, but all I've seen here is the stick, not even a jujube pit!"

Sun Xiaoyan became more and more aggrieved, and finally started to cry, "Wuwuwu..."

"Sigh." Sun Xiaoman looked at him helplessly, gently patted his chest, looking very gentle, "It's my first time being a sister, I'm not doing a good job..."

She grabbed Sun Xiaoyan's collar and lifted him up from the ground, "Then get up and hit me!!!"

She punched Sun Xiaoyan away and roared, "Can't you act like a man? Stop crying!"

The others from Three Mountains City who were traveling with them just watched this scene silently, shrinking their necks, and none of them dared to step forward.

Sun Xiaoyan did a flip in the air, and as soon as he landed, he started running again without saying a word—though it didn't kill him, it hurt!

No choice, run.

Ahead... ahead is Maple Forest City, right? How much longer... how much longer!

Wuwuwu...