“An’an, An’an!”

Jiang Wang remained crouched on the ground, simply embracing An’an in his arms.

He held her small head, stroking it repeatedly. “You don’t have to 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, but there’s no need…to be so understanding.”

He deeply regretted not avoiding Jiang An’an when he asked Zhao Rucheng for money. He always told himself that his younger sister was introverted and sensitive, but he still overlooked it.

He was indeed as close as brothers with Zhao Rucheng, freely sharing even the most advanced cultivation techniques, let alone mere worldly possessions like gold and silver. But he forgot that An’an did not know this.

An’an would only think that she was a burden to her brother, that her brother had to ask others for money to provide her with a home.

Since their father’s death, Jiang Wang had almost never shed tears, yet at this moment, hidden behind Jiang An’an’s small head, tears streamed down his face like rain.

“Brother…what’s wrong?” After a long while, Jiang An’an asked.

“Ah, no, nothing.” Jiang Wang controlled his emotions, still holding Jiang An’an in his arms, and said, “Don’t call Zhao Rucheng ‘pretty boy’ anymore, he will be unhappy.”

“But he really is fair.”

” ‘Pretty boy’ doesn’t just mean a fair face… never mind, call him whatever you want, don’t worry about whether he’s happy or not.”

“Okay!”

Confirming that no more tears were flowing, and that he no longer looked like he had been crying, Jiang Wang finally pulled Jiang An’an away from his embrace, gazing at her earnestly. “Brother wants to apologize to you. Brother shouldn’t have lost his temper with you. Brother… is being a brother for the first time, and I’m not doing a good job.”

Jiang An’an twisted her clothes, feeling a little embarrassed. “I’m also being a younger sister for the first time, and I’m not doing a good job either. I shouldn’t have cheated, I shouldn’t have angered the teacher…”

“Is that so?” Jiang Wang used his thumbs to wipe Jiang An’an’s small face, gently erasing her tear stains. “You’re really being a younger sister for the first time?”

Jiang An’an nodded.

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

“Hehe…”

An’an smiled shyly.

Though the year had entered winter, traces of tears remained on her small face, but with this smile, all the flowers of spring blossomed.

…

…

People in this world all have their fates, and everyone’s fate is different. Half of that saying is bull.

Sun Xiaoyan felt truly foolish. Really, how could he have believed in so-called sibling affection, how could he have believed that she-devil’s words?

“There are many delicious foods outside, ones you can’t find in Three Mountains City!”

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

“Just think of it as my brother and I going on a trip, we’ll have so much fun!”

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

Sun Xiaoyan, thirteen years of age this year, had a rather delicate and handsome name, but was actually very… round.

Huff! Huff!

He ran forward with difficulty, his entire abdomen burning, sweat pouring down like rain. The brightly colored and beautiful clothes he wore were no longer recognizable, wrinkled and dirty.

He felt like he could collapse at any moment, completely turning into a lump of mud, a pig, or anything that could simply collapse. But he dared not.

He really wanted to cry. He should have clung to his mother’s leg and refused to let go. How could he have been so blinded by greed, mistaking his life-long enemy?

He ran and ran.

From a distance, one could barely see his legs, it was as if a multicolored ball was rolling.

He didn’t want to roll!

Unless he could roll back.

To think that he, Sun Xiaoyan, son of the Three Mountains City Lord, the only male heir in the Sun family’s generation, was held in such esteem in the Three Mountains City domain! He could be described as “second only to one, above all others!”

Why did he have such a strange idea, to venture out alone with that “one”? Wasn’t it good to lord over everyone in Three Mountains City? Wasn’t he happy bullying the other children? With the tiger gone, wasn’t it permissible for him to act as king?

Sun Xiaoyan stopped.

It wasn’t that anger surged from his heart and boldness grew from his…courage. He didn’t exactly have that “courage”…

But he really felt that he had reached his limit.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to run, it was that he truly couldn’t run anymore.

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

“Sun! Little! Fatty!”

Sun Xiaoyan had no time to react before a crystal-clear, white, and beautiful foot, in a not-so-beautiful manner, imprinted itself on his butt.

This time, he really started to roll.

Whizzing along the official road, rolling wildly.

When he finally stopped, he was covered in bruises.

He sat there swaying, feeling like the whole world was shaking.

The first thing that appeared in his squinting eyes was a pair of jade-like bare feet, exposed all the way up to the calves, followed by a very combat-friendly pair of split shorts. The owner of the bare feet wore a short, slanted-collared shirt and had a delicate and lovely face, which matched her petite figure perfectly.

Compared to her, the chubby Sun Xiaoyan was almost a behemoth, but his lips trembled, as if he was about to burst into tears, “Sister, I can’t run anymore, I feel like I really can’t do it anymore!”

“Don’t go by what you feel, go by what I feel.” Sun Xiaoman squatted down, looking at him with a lovely 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 and began to whine, “Oh, 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 round whether he was standing or lying down, his figure was very symmetrical.

“Is it that hard for you to lose weight?” Sun Xiaoman asked.

To make him lose weight, Sun Xiaoman had forced him to run all the way here using only his body strength. Everyone else was free to use things like magical teleportation scrolls and walk or rest whenever they wanted.

Sun Xiaoyan felt extremely aggrieved, “My fatness is innate!”

“There are no innately fat people, only lazy fat people!”

It was strangely inspiring…

But Sun Xiaoyan remained unmoved, even closing his already small eyes, as if saying, “I won’t listen, I won’t listen, I just won’t listen.”

“You’re as fat as a ball, and when you go on stage, won’t you be disgracing our Three Mountains City?”

“Everyone already calls us mountain bumpkins, what reputation does Three Mountains City have to lose!”

Sun Xiaoman pursed her lips and stopped talking.

Sun Xiaoyan’s heart skipped a beat, and he 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 still so young, I’m still just a child!”

“Besides, it’s said that an elder sister is like a mother, and a mother should be kind and a son 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 spoke logically and clearly.

“Everyone says that to educate a child you have to give a candy after every beating, but all I’ve seen from you is the stick, not even a candy wrapper!”

The more Sun Xiaoyan spoke, the more aggrieved he felt, and he finally burst into tears.

“Sigh.” Sun Xiaoman looked at him helplessly, gently patted his chest, and spoke in a very gentle manner, “Sister is being a sister for the first time, 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 suddenly punched Sun Xiaoyan away and roared, “Can’t you act like a man? Stop crying!”

The others who had accompanied them from Three Mountains City all silently watched this scene, shrinking their necks, and no one dared to step forward.

Sun Xiaoyan did a somersault in the air, and without saying a word after landing, he started running again – although she couldn’t kill him, it still hurt to get hit!

Helpless, he had to run.

Ahead…ahead was Maple Forest City, wasn’t it? How much longer… how much longer!

Wuwuwu…