Chapter Eight, Junior Sister (Eight)

Staring at each other, Sheng Jun suddenly realized that a man appearing at a girl's bedside early in the morning, tugging at the jade pendant around her neck while watching her sleep, is indeed somewhat...

There is a person in the room

It is all a psychological illusion, can't you just persist a little longer? How can you be so selfish, child

A chill ran through one finger, and the other finger came to cover it.

... ... '' Sheng Junshu suddenly felt an impulse to grab her and ask: `` What is my name? ''

... ... Please check before class to see if you have put on my Lingxi properly

However, today, there is none

The essence of the soul has returned, yet it is still the same person. However, the memories of Heng Nan as an ordinary girl have been erased; she no longer recognizes him and does not shy away from his gaze. Instead, she stares back at him like a cat with its fur bristled, standing her ground without retreating, filled with vigilance, resistance, and a hint of warning

"The lady is not ill; all the psychiatric medications have been thrown away." The bright sunlight cast the man's tall shadow onto the carpet, and Sheng Junshu's fork fell to the edge of the plate

Then, he discovered that... the other senior brothers and sisters would automatically step aside whenever the two of them appeared together. Hengnan felt neither complacent nor shy and uneasy; he simply walked silently alongside him.

Even at that time, when he had already promised the engagement, they knelt side by side, just a short distance apart. Hengnan's hair brushed against his shoulder, and their sleeves touched, yet there was no further action. Even when he turned to look at Hengnan, she would always lower her gaze or look aside, smiling faintly, avoiding eye contact with him

The alarm clock at seven o'clock buzzed, breaking the silence. Sheng Jun Shu reached into his pocket with one hand and turned it off.

Listening to this tone, it seems rather like a complaint

It felt as if a handful of glass shards were stirring in her heart—here it comes again

What is even more terrifying is that her childhood as an ordinary person began to slowly fade away, and all the people who appeared in her life during the first half of her life became increasingly blurred in her memory. All her normal emotions slipped away like quicksand, and a cold, enduring loneliness enveloped her like a blizzard.

After a while, he noticed the fluffy quilt that was bunched up slightly rising and falling, as if Hengnan had already fallen asleep again.

Subsequently, she began to see things that others could not see and hear sounds that others could not hear

The ears are filled with the piercing shrieks of clashing weapons, accompanied by the whooshing sound that beats against the eardrums. One can see the gray shadows repeatedly falling from the sky, clutching the hem of passersby’s skirts, dragging along severed limbs on the ground. The surfaces of the buildings are marked by numerous dried bloodstains, branching down like capillaries, transforming into a dense network of veins that envelops the entire structure

... it is also good, saving him much shame and burden

Yu Baihe followed him to the door. He paused for a moment and then slightly turned around: "That rabbit, make another one for the lady."

Sheng Junshu let out a silent sigh, tugging at the corner of the quilt to cover the girl's back above the little bear pajamas

Sheng Junshu: "... ..."

After a night of sleep and some calm reflection, he felt a bit of regret

Neither the left nor the right causes any disturbance, having or not having makes no difference, the present is no different from the past, and thus the days pass by one after another

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Hengnan turned his back to him and fell silent

The girl's face was hidden within, appearing particularly frail, her complexion pale and ashen, with beads of cold sweat covering her forehead. Her eyes were tightly shut, her damp eyelashes quivering slightly, and her hands pressed against her chest, the pale knuckles trembling in a spasm.

Sheng Junshu turned his head, and Hengnan's eyes fixed on him without blinking. His cat-like, cold, and beautiful gaze was filled with vigilance and wariness, completely opaque, like a mirror reflecting his own image.

He felt it necessary to explain, and as he relaxed his fingers, he said: "I am going to..."

Hengnan's long-standing display of quietness, composure, and just the right amount of thoughtfulness never imposed any sense of pressure on others. However, he later discovered that this extra degree of thoughtfulness from his junior sister was directed solely at him.

Alright. Yu Baihe cautiously glanced at the clock, wondering if being so late today would be a problem

In the room filled with air conditioning, the fluffy quilt is rolled up, almost covering the top of the head

7:15

Yu Baihe put on heat-resistant gloves and took the cherry toast dripping with soup out of the oven, then removed her apron

Sheng Junshu fastened his cuff and glanced at her: "The one that shakes."

As he walked back to the quiet room, the incense in the large censer had already been lit, with wisps of smoke curling gently, spiraling upward like a slender snake

He walked over, his shoulder-length hair falling onto the pillow, soft and dry, unfurling like black velvet

Her parents, classmates, and teachers held her face with worried expressions, their lips moving as if speaking, while she stared wide-eyed, seemingly deaf, hearing nothing at all

Before me, the lightweight and fluffy silk pajamas with a lotus leaf collar from Hengnan puff up, with silver threads faintly visible among the folds, embroidered with a bear laughing heartily in a Japanese manga style. Above that is a smooth expanse of skin scattered with black hair from Hengnan, so pale it seems almost lifeless

Our family is not particularly wealthy, you see, how about...

Hengnan sat at his window seat, delicately holding a white silk handkerchief, carefully wiping his table. Her fingers were slender and long, her back straight, and a thin layer of morning light clung to her gauzy garment, creating a scene that was as elegant as if she were performing some special ritual

She has become extremely cold-blooded, no longer feeling the slightest pity for the tearful faces or disappointment of her teachers and friends

Yu Baihe looked at him, slightly bewildered, and opened her mouth.

Sheng Junshu wiped his mouth and said: "Contact the furniture company, I need to have the sofa replaced."

At this time, it was usually Sheng Junshu's unwavering working hours. She was accustomed to hearing the sound of Sheng Junshu's footsteps, neither heavy nor light, as he descended the stairs at the precise moment when the minute hand aligned with the quarter hour.

However

However, he has never called his second junior sister Hengnan to get up

affect other students

"How could a doctor harm you when using electroconvulsive therapy?"

Yu Baihe effortlessly closed the door with a "click".

After all, she is a twenty-year-old girl, somewhat proud yet very naive. Sheng Junshu laughed and said, "Fifteen million, with your part-time salary of two thousand seven hundred a month, it would take you four hundred years to earn that. Are you still thinking about paying it back?"

As time passed, he felt a sense of guilt for unilaterally bearing the kindness of his junior sister; therefore, when distributing fruits, he would leave more for her, and during meals, he would pause for a quarter of an hour to wait for Hengnan to return from practicing talismans, glancing back to see if she was still there when going out for training

Meanwhile, they also drifted away from her during the hundreds of nights when she cried helplessly

Sheng Junshu carefully arranged the quilt, got up quietly, and suddenly heard a voice coming from under the quilt, neither too loud nor too soft, directly stating: "You have given her too much, I cannot repay it."

Sheng Junshu felt a bit regretful for having revealed the accumulated disdain from a millennium of superiority. After a pause, he carefully explained to his junior sister: "Yaoshan has accepted your soul in gratitude to the pregnant mother, and the account is settled; you do not need to repay it."

Noticing his approach, Hengnan's movements gradually came to a halt. Calmly, she rose from her seat, the hem of her skirt gently swirling, and made her way to sit down in her own seat in the back row.

The mouth of Yu Baihe opened, immediately transforming into an understanding smile: "Oh~~~"

In the summer of her sixteenth year, her life went off the rails, suddenly struck down by this inexplicable pain that did not belong to any organ dysfunction.

She folded the silk handkerchief and tucked it into her sleeve, opened the thread-bound book, and looked down, her eyelashes fluttering slightly: "Good morning, Senior Brother."

Then, the master simply called them over to arrange the marriage

Oh... I understand

His gaze shifted to the several small white medicine bottles on the bedside table, as well as the half-eaten foil capsule sheet. He frowned as he glanced at the instructions, crumpled them up, and tossed them all into the trash can

It is not that I regret giving Lingxi to Hengnan, but rather that in a moment of impulse, I carelessly shattered a weapon of attack that had been nurtured for a full thousand years into a mere contact artifact that could be replaced by a single love bean, which is truly a waste of precious resources

The exceptionally spacious double bed still had a small corner occupied by her, as Hengnan curled up under the blanket, silent and still, with her hair rising and falling evenly with each breath

Yu Baihe tiptoed up to the second floor, where sunlight spilled through the crack of the door onto the spacious double bed. The girl's soft down comforter was rolled up, and her scattered black hair was nestled into the pillow

Hengnan pinched the jade, her brows furrowing slightly, and suddenly turned over, cutting off half of the sentence. Before Sheng Junshu, only the back of her head remained.

... ...

That family, having sat through it, still finds it distasteful

Sheng Junshu casually gathered the girl's hair, which felt like the fur of a kitten, soft and fluffy. Sheng Junshu playfully tousled it a couple of times, then changed her mind.

Specifically, Hengnan has never needed anyone to wake him up. At dawn, as he passed by Hengnan's room, the bedding was already neatly folded, the room was spotless, the doors and windows were tightly shut, and it was completely empty.

Calm and tranquil, now near and now far, until her death

Sheng Junshu was holding the jade pendant from Hengnan in her hand, and when she turned around, she was astonished to see the peace talisman on the doorknob shaking back and forth.

The tall man leans down, supporting himself with one hand on the bed, his jawline catching the light, presenting a posture that makes one blush and feel their heart race

Sheng Junshu recalled the time when he had to get up early for morning lessons, rising at the first crow of the rooster. As the senior disciple, he would wait in the quiet room for a quarter of an hour, then kick open the doors of the small rooms where his junior brothers and sisters resided, coldly striking the bed from head to foot with the hilt of his sword, startling a group of little ones rubbing their eyes awake. For those who still did not wake up, the hilt would be used to tap them on their behinds.