After that fight, time passed quietly.
As for the aftermath, it was that when Zhu Yu was quarreling with Lin Suicao, sometimes he couldn't help but ask about her sister.
In response to this, the latter naturally refused to disclose any information angrily, and looked at him with suspicious eyes, as if he thought he was trying to extort personal information to do something bad.
In fact, it is not so much that Zhu Yu is interested in the mysterious sister, but that Lin Suicao's tears that day always appear in his mind, lingering to arouse curiosity.
He wanted to know what kind of person could make that cold and cruel guy cry so much.
But when he brings up that cry, the other party will definitely deny it, and then there will be a new round of quarrel.
It wasn't until Zhu Yu was about to enter junior high school that she heard news about her sister from her for the second time.
As he got older, he was able to gain the upper hand in armed conflicts. Lin Suicao, who was originally a head taller, gradually slowed down in growth. He even laughed to his face that he might keep this height forever.
But she is like Don Quixote challenging the windmill. Even if the balance of power between the two sides has been reversed, she will still launch provocations from time to time, and then escalate into a battle that continues from the past.
This time, it ended with Zhu Yu pressing the girl down on the bed in his room.
Now he could clamp the opponent's arms with one hand. Her breathing was scattered, her chest was rising and falling slightly, her hair was longer and rested on the back of her head, and there was a blush on her face from the strenuous exercise.
The smooth calves hung from the edge of the bed, and the feet without socks hung limply above the ground.
Zhu Yu looked away and did not look at the girl who was looking at him stubbornly.
Recently, although I have been able to defeat this guy, I don't know why, but sometimes when I see him like this, I get a strange feeling I've never had before.
The beating speed of the heart seemed to speed up a little.
He let go and let her get up.
After so many years, they should be familiar with each other even if they fight all day long, not to mention that they also have a truce period of peaceful coexistence.
So in addition to the initial tacit agreement not to sue their parents, the two added a new rule - after the fight, they were willing to admit defeat, and the loser could not pester them endlessly.
Although this period is often only a short period of two or three days.
"You're so thin, but you still want to imitate others in fighting."
Zhu Yu sat on the edge of the bed and made sarcastic remarks.
Lin Suicao, who had been freed from the suppression, did not get up and was still half lying motionless.
"Sister, she is weaker than me."
This was the second time Zhu Yu heard her mention her sister. Originally, in his imagination, the person who could make the Demon King Lin Suicao cry so miserably must be a heroic girl.
There is no need to take action like him, he can discipline her with just one look.
So there is still a bit of a cult mentality.
As soon as this comment came out, the image of the heroine collapsed instantly.
"And stupid."
"Do you actually hate her?"
"But in the past, I wanted to test whether the goldfish could really stretch itself to death. After I put a lot of feed in the tank for my mother, she would take the blame for me."
"She must hate you..."
Lin Suicao turned to him and said, "Didn't you always want to hear it? Now I'm not happy to say it."
In fact, Zhu Yu was not unhappy, but as he listened to Lin Suicao continue to describe his longing for his sister, he felt an inexplicable sourness in his heart.
At first, he didn't want to be this "older brother" who happened to be just because his parents remarried.
But every time after an argument with Lin Suicao, her mother would find out and she would be told nonsense like "brother has to keep his sister."
After many times, Zhu Yu felt that if he didn't act like this brother, wouldn't he be scolded in vain?
But the other party obviously only recognized his sister.
He felt something like jealousy towards the girl he had never met before.
"Every time we get caught after a fight, I'm basically taking the blame for you."
When he came back to his senses, these words had already blurted out.
Lin Suicao stared at him with wide eyes, as if he saw a snow monster uttering human words.
Zhu Yu shut up, hoping to erase the evidence he had said.
She seemed to find this expression ridiculous, and the corners of her lips curved upward like a cat's whiskers.
"Well, then I'll count it as your help to take the blame."
"Aren't you going to say thank you?"
"I never said thank you to my sister."
Just from that ordinary day, Lin Suicao began to tell him more about herself.
She said she still keeps in touch with her sister, and even her parents don't know about it.
"I haven't told her about you... I'll take you to meet her sometime."
She also talked about it with great interest, and Zhu Yu secretly geared up to compete with the girl in his imagination.
But before this agreement could be realized, the remarriage of Zhu's mother and Lin's father broke down.
Originally, his custody rights should belong to his biological mother, but she did not take him away.
Just like Suicao, he was abandoned by his mother.
During the winter vacation, Lin Suicao hesitated for a while before knocking on the closed door in front of him.
No one responded.
She pushed the door straight and walked in. The air conditioner was operating normally, blowing out warm air to dispel the coldness of winter.
Even though it was daytime, the curtains were tightly closed, and a human-shaped silhouette bulged out from the bed.
"It's time to make breakfast."
She stood beside the bed, took off her slippers, put one knee against the edge of the bed to close the distance, and pushed him.
When the two were alone at home, they originally agreed to rotate meals, but Zhu Yu, who couldn't stand Lin Suicao's cooking skills, took the initiative to take the job.
Now she felt hungry.
Zhu Yu turned over and faced her with his back: "Aren't there still instant noodles?"
"I don't want to eat that."
"I don't want to cook either."
Suicao gritted his teeth, grabbed a corner of the quilt and lifted it out: "Okay! This is what you said. I won't eat it if you beg me to eat it in the future!"
"Even if I watch you eat the most unpalatable shrimp and fish fillets, I won't help you cook anymore, so don't worry."
Zhu Yu started tug-of-war with her from inside, "Now we have neither blood nor legal relations, and we can't even be considered relatives."
Lin Suicao was stunned and weakly let go of his hands.
After no one disturbed him, he buried his face deeply into the soft pillow.
That's right, from any point of view now, he no longer needs to regard himself as the other party's brother, and there is no need to pay attention to this "sworn sister".
He is just a lodger who lives in this home temporarily and would not be surprised to be kicked out at any time.
"...That's why your mother doesn't want you."
What followed were cold, sharp, and suppressed offensive words.
Zhu Yu pulled up the quilt and covered his head.
"Can you hear me? You just pretend to be good at taking care of others. You seem to be mature and don't need to rely on adults. That's why your mother abandoned you. She might not have imagined that you stay in the room all day. .”
Lin Suicao, who had already entered junior high school, put on a malicious smile, "So who are you pretending to show?"
"Aren't you the same?"
The dormant autistic boy half sat up, "Not only does your mother not want you, but the sister you like so much has also abandoned you."
They had a bad relationship, quarreled from time to time, and then developed a slight friendship that was close to family affection... In a sense, they are the people in the world who are best at poking each other's scars.
Therefore, Lin Suicao also burst into uncontrollable anger: "Is it wrong to attack others when someone talks about the central issue... Didn't Teacher Sipin teach you?"
"We are from the same school. If I didn't teach you, I certainly didn't teach me."
She rushed over, but Zhu Yu instinctively dodged the attack, grabbed the girl's wrist with his backhand, and skillfully pushed her down on the bed.
Since the two of them were no longer elementary school students, they had a cordial physical exchange for the first time in a long time.
Lin Suicao was wearing thick pajamas in winter, and the hem was rolled up to suppress her, revealing a snow-like belly.
In the past, a truce should have been declared at this stage, but Suicao, who was completely angered, obviously had no intention of giving in just like that.
She raised her legs, which were already showing signs of slender lines in the future, and were now wrapped in pajamas, and tried to kick this guy away.
Zhu Yu received one or two kicks, and he also used his lower limbs in pain.
He squeezed his right leg forcefully between her legs, brought it together to fit the other's soft and slender legs, and locked the other's feet in white socks with both feet to seal this dangerous weapon.
It would be many years before he would see a similar gesture again in a work with an idol theme.
"If you don't stop, I'm going to use that move."
He looked down at Lin Suicao from a high position. She was still struggling like a trapped animal in a trap. This prompted Zhu Yu to decide to use the experience accumulated in the past years of struggle.
Attack Lin Suicao's weakness.
Zhu Yu could now grab both of the opponent's wrists with one hand and roughly pull them up.
His free hand moved downwards, covering the newly exposed white skin between his waist and abdomen.
In the cold winter weather, the quilt was thrown to nowhere, so when the cold touch came from there, Suicao shivered slightly.
But she still looked up at the other person's face provocatively: "So you are still a primary school student? Then it's not strange to use this kind of trick - ugh."
At the end of the sentence, a depressed sigh escaped from his lips.
Because Zhu Yu had already used a terrible forbidden move, he bent his five fingers at his waist and moved them gently.
Apart from her sense of taste, Lin Suicao's senses were of a keen type, just like she was immune to loud noises...she also couldn't bear to be tickled.
Just like playing the piano, every time her fingers slid over and pressed on the warm silk-textured skin, she would make a suppressed sound and a hot sigh.
"Stop?"
"Keep hey hey ow ow - I want to kill you, I must kill you."
I couldn't tell whether it was laughter or crying.
Lin Suicao twisted his body slightly, and finally straightened his waist like a spring full of kinetic energy. The laughter and gasping that he had been holding back all burst out in an instant.
"don't want!"
Zhu Yu stopped her movements at the right time. Suicao, whose hands were imprisoned, was like salted fish on her pajamas, breathing quietly, with a bright red color on her face.
She stared at him in a daze: "You are the idiot who won't cry after your mother doesn't want you to."
"I wasn't crying at all, I was just being alone."
"Is there anything to be proud of?"
"Compared to some people who cry tears into other people's mouths, I am indeed proud."
It had almost become instinct to respond verbally to her. Zhu Yu pulled her pajamas up and said, "You're the one crying."
He mistakenly felt that the fight was over and released his hand holding the girl's Hao wrist.
The next moment, Lin Suicao was like a little beast that fought back, showing his white teeth and biting the opponent's withdrawn palm.
The sharp stinging sensation prompted Zhu Yu to shake his hand violently, and the girl's head hit the head of the bed hard before she let go.
Red liquid gurgled from the edge of the wound.
"Lin Suicao, do you have rabies?"
Zhu Yu endured the pain and reached out to help her up, "Are you injured? You only have good grades, but if you are stupid, you will lose everything..."
"I was crying."
The girl slapped his hand away and raised her head.
Her mouth was still stained with Zhu Yu's blood, and the taste was actually not much different from the tears she was shed now, both salty and bitter.
“Is there a problem with feeling sad because I think my mother and sister don’t want me?
Lin Suicao wiped away his tears with the back of his hand, "That's why I thought it was great that you stayed here instead of leaving together."
This was the first time he heard words of kindness from the other party.
She sniffed and looked for a napkin but couldn't find it, so she grabbed Zhu Yu's hand that she had just slapped away and wiped it a few times.
"You just think... you hate being with me, right? That's why you act like this."
Zhu Yu looked away: "No, it's not because of you."
"You are! You don't even want to help me make breakfast!"
She choked out her accusation.
Zhu Yu scratched his hair distractedly: "No - I already regard you as my sister. If I hated you, I would have run away from home long ago."
"You still want to run away from home?!"
Lin Suicao's eyes widened with tears.
"Can't you tell the difference between assumptions? And I didn't intend to stay here forever, but...it has to take some time. How can I continue to get along with Uncle Lin and you?"
He turned his head away in embarrassment until he felt something approaching.
Lin Sui approached him on his knees and forced him to look at her.
"Can't you forgive your mother?"
Zhu Yu was silent for a while and nodded.
"Then I won't forgive my mother either."
"What does this have to do with you?"
"If I am the only one who forgives them, wouldn't you be too pitiful?"
Suicao held down his sticky palms, "So I don't forgive my mother, nor my sister. Even if you stand on their side in the future and persuade me to reconcile, you still won't forgive them."
"Come on, when you saw your sister, you probably rushed up to her like a puppy."
"That might have been the case before."
She took Zhu Yu's hand, put her cheek against the back of the clean hand and rubbed it, "But now I have a brother, so I have to weigh it."
"...What about the measured results?"
"Well, my sister's side is heavier now."
"Hello!"
Zhu Yu forced out a smile, and then his eyes suddenly went dark.
The girl sitting next to him spread her arms, hugged him, and gently put her head in her arms.
Outside the curtains, water droplets condensed into the shape of frost flowers, sending a thorough chill into the room through the gaps.
"We are the same and cannot leave the other behind."
But the warmth that belongs to humans continues to pass over, like returning to the mother's arms.
*
That embrace still had the familiar warmth.
The valve of memory was only opened for a moment, but the scenes and emotions at that time rushed into my mind like a flood, almost overwhelming the defense line of reason.
Zhu Yu was caught off guard, his body swayed, he almost lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground.
After announcing the shocking fact, Lin Suicao looked at his sister who was hugging him, and slowly put down the hand he had just raised.
