The Younger Brother Next Door is a School Grass

In the end, Zhou Sisi compromised and asked Lu Xi to accompany her to the hospital.

The return trip was also a taxi ride.

Love songs from the 1970s and 1980s played in the car. The driver was a middle-aged man with a bald head, driving at a low speed, occasionally glancing at the two young passengers through the rearview mirror.

“Are you guys in an argument?” The driver couldn’t hold back the chatterbox.

Lu Xi leaned back on the back of the seat with a cold look on his face—he had been like this ever since he finished his last sentence with Zhou Sisi in the garage before departure.

“Ahem…” Seeing that Lu Xi didn’t respond, Zhou Sisi replied, “Not really.”

“Young people, it’s normal to have a fight.” The driver’s uncle said, “Girl, did you catch a cold?”

Zhou Sisi replied while wearing a face mask, “Yes.”

Uncle: “It’s the cold season, you should wear more clothes to keep yourself warm.”

Zhou Sisi: “Well, thank you.”

“The body is the capital of the revolution. No, I have to say one more thing, you young man,” the uncle changed his mouth and said to Lu Xi, “the little girl has a good temper, and she is still sick, can’t you let her go?”

Lu Xi, who only listened to the last sentence, focused his slack eyes. “Let her go?”

“I don’t know why you two are arguing, but what’s wrong with men giving way to women?” The driver uncle stopped at the intersection in front of the red light. “Otherwise, how can you get along for a long time?”

“?” Hearing this Lu Xi felt something was not right.

Zhou Sisi also felt that the driver uncle might have misunderstood something, “Uncle, he and I are– ”

“We’ve known each other for a long time, and we’ve been together for a long time.” Lu Xi quickly interrupted her.

“Having been together for a long time?” The uncle was taken aback, and murmured, “Am I too backward, or is it that the young people are too advanced now…” They didn’t look very old, but have been together for a long time. They… this must be super puppy love.

Zhou Sisi seriously corrected him: “We are just friends.”

“Yes, yes, just friends. Are you just in college or in high school?” The uncle teased with an understanding look on his face, “Are you afraid parents and teachers will know? Don’t worry, I won’t say it.”

Zhou Sisi: “We are really not–”

Uncle: “But you guys, this is called ‘couple outfit.’ It’s too obvious.”

Love… Couples Outfit.

Zhou Sisi and Lu Xi looked at each other at the same time.

Misty blue cotton jackets, white jeans/long skirt, even the scarves were almost the same color.

“……”

Zhou Sisi looked away in embarrassment, her slender eyelashes trembled.

Lu Xi’s youthful and handsome face swept away the previous gloomy look, and the corners of his lips slightly raised into a smile.

After the itinerary, Lu Xi gave the driver uncle an extra tip when paying and gave him a five stars review.

Reaching the third floor corridor, Lu Xi who walked fast with his long legs stopped on his track and raised his hand to stop Sisi. “Starting today, you can’t avoid me.”

Nearly tyrannical and capricious tone.

Only the bitter cold wind seeping in through the window knew that the teenager’s hand hanging at his side were clenched nervously into a fist.

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Sickness came like a mountain, and went away like silk.

A cold wind had entangled the poor constitution of Zhou Sisi for seven or eight days.

There were a few nights, ten minutes before going to sleep, Zhou Sisi coughed uncontrollably in a low voice.

If it was in the past, the arrogant and domineering Pan Yijin would definitely magnify the attack, either by grumbling or scolding in an eerie manner. But these days she has been uncharacteristically silent.

And recently, she didn’t pull the two girls in class (2) to chat before going to bed.

Zhou Sisi didn’t pay attention to these insignificant people, let alone the reasons for Pan Yijin’s changes in words and deeds.

It was a busy time for revision before the college entrance exam, and taking part in the national essay contest.

Zhou Sisi was busy with her studies, and occasionally participated in the work of campus ambassadors. Time passed through and her mid length hair grew halfway to her waist without her realizing it.

Maybe this “busy” was a bit intentional, but it was enough to fill her brain with things and not think about things and people that were not suitable for thinking.

New Year’s Day. Lu Xi insisted that she could not hide from him. Zhou Sisi compromised, the premise was to be just friends and neighbors like in the past.

After being silent for a long time Lu Xi agreed.

After that, the two occasionally met in the school cafeteria and the corridors of the community.

When meeting each other, they would greet and nod, really like close-knit friends.

He should have let go.

At the moment when they passed each other, Zhou Sisi was in a trance.

That was right, sixteen-year-old boys were the same all the time, so what was the difference?

The “like” he mentioned a few months ago was a misunderstanding that he didn’t quite understand at a young age.

The calendar book next to the blackboard steadily thinned.

One hundred days before the college entrance examination, Zhou Sisi gave a speech as one of the student representatives at the 100th-day Pledge Conference, and wrote down the target college first on the big red banner.

Seventy days before the college entrance examination, under the care of her mother Chen Cui who frequently delivered nutritious meals and soup, Zhou Sisi’s complexion went rosy, and her weight exceeded 90 catties.

Fifty days before the college entrance examination, Yi Ting moved into Zhou Sisi’s dormitory, followed by Pan Yijin moving out without a word.

Thirty days before the college entrance examination, the school put up a red banner carrying the dreams of all the students in the senior class in the most conspicuous place of the complex.

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The college entrance examination arrived as scheduled.

Zhou Sisi was as steady as if she were doing her usual test paper.

The completion of the college entrance examination did not mean Zhou Sisi’s mission was completed.

The teacher at No. 3 Middle School called Zhou Sisi back to school every few days to help with work.

One day in mid-June, the sun was rarely hidden behind heavy clouds.

Zhou Sisi packed up the materials assigned by the teacher, picked up the small satchel and was about to step out of the Youth League Committee’s office.

“Wait for me, Sisi,” Yuan Xuchao caught up and said, “I want to borrow your ‘Guidelines for Enrollment and Examination in Colleges and Universities’.”

Zhou Sisi: “It’s in my home, I didn’t bring it with me.”

“I’ll go with you to get it. I will return it to you at school tomorrow afternoon, is it convenient to lend it to me?” Yuan Xuchao knew that her home was not far from the school.

After a little thought Zhou Sisi agreed. “Hmmm”

Zhou Sisi took Yuan Xuchao back to the community.

Walking downstairs, Zhou Sisi was a little hesitant to take a stranger to her home, “You want…”

“I’ll wait here, it’s hard for you to make a trip up there.” Yuan Xuchao smiled kindly, acting sensible and courteous.

Worried that Yuan Xuchao would wait for a long time, Zhou Sisi went up the stairs faster than usual.

Reaching on the last step on the third floor, she took a breath and looked down for the keys in her bag.

A hand slanted from behind and inadvertently clasped her wrist.

“Ah.” Zhou Sisi whimpered.

Tilting her head, she met Lu Xi whose face was as cold as frost.

“How can you…”

Lu Xi held her waist with the other hand, put on his strength and dragged her into his house without saying a word before he pressed her against the wall of the entrance.

“What are you doing?” Zhou Sisi was extremely uncomfortable on her wrist and waist. She pulled his hand hard, even if the red mark could not be pulled away, “Let go!”

The restraints on the wrists were gone.

Zhou Sisi thought that he would loosen the hand on her waist immediately. Unexpectedly, he held her chin with his thumb and index finger and lifted it up.

The heat from his fingertips came from the chin, spreading from a small contact point to the entire face.

The handsome and beautiful face leaned closer and the deep pool in the thick brown eyes was like a whirlpool, almost sucking her into it.

Zhou Sisi was startled but at a loss.

The doors were left open, with a few centimeters of width and any residents who passed by were bound to get a glimpse of what was happening.

“You let go… um!”

The warm lips suddenly blocked Zhou Sisi’s remaining words.

A mist formed in those apricot-like eyes.

Zhou Sisi’s mind was in chaos, like a snowflake screen on a TV that lost signal due to interference.