“No way——how can she sleep with you, my brother?”
Before Liu Li could object, Mu Xi, clad in a blue dinosaur onesie, leapt up in frustration. Her 1.55-meter frame seemed ready to explode with anger. “Wait a minute…”
Liu Li, bewildered, watched as Mu Xi suddenly stopped, her fist pounding against her palm as if a lightbulb had gone off in her head. Had Mu Xi thought of a brilliant idea?
Liu Li didn’t want to sleep with Zhou Huanan, so she pinned all her hopes on Mu Xi. Come on, Mu Xi! Say something about your brother!
“Eh~!”
Mu Xi, with a mischievous grin, pointed her index finger upwards. “How about this? Liu Li can keep sleeping in my room, and I’ll sleep with you, brother!”
Mu Xi’s eyes sparkled with excitement, her expression growing increasingly strange. Liu Li stepped back, and Zhou Huanan’s eyes rolled with disbelief. Mu Xi, a fourteen-year-old girl, was suddenly exhibiting the lecherous expression of a forty-year-old pervert, drool dripping from her mouth.
“Hehe~ This way, I get a chance to night-attack Onii-chan…”
“Brother!”
During the day, Mu Xi could pass as a playful brother-complex, but at night, her true nature revealed itself—a terrifyingly girly aura. “Come on~ I’ve guarded my purity for fifteen years, and today, I’ll give it to you, Brother! Then, we’ll run away to a deserted island and get married…”
Mu Xi, her eyes gleaming with excitement, stomped her blue cat slippers, spreading her arms like a zombie witch from a survival game, transforming into a blue tyrannosaurus warrior, drooling as she charged towards Zhou Huanan.
“Onii-chan, let’s make a baby tonight and show those clueless people that I, the little sister, am the rightful queen!”
Zhou Huanan, disgusted, pushed her head away, stopping her advance. “Stay back.”
He coldly and cruelly rejected her passionate declarations, grabbing her by the collar and dragging her back to her room. “How old are you, saying such things? What if Mom and Dad hear? Don’t you know about the differences between boys and girls? Marriage? Get back to your room and have your dreams!”
Zhou Huanan, furious, kicked his sister into the room like she was garbage.
“Wooo!”
…
Oh no! Mu Xi is completely unreliable!
Liu Li, watching from the side, felt her eyelids twitch. She wanted to turn around and explain to Zhou Huanan.
“Um, actually, I’m a girl too, and there are differences between boys and girls, you know?”
But how could she say that now?
Liu Li imagined a little person smashing her head against a pillar in her mind. She knew that Mu Xi had always been infatuated with her brother, and her outrageous behaviors were numerous. Over time, Zhou Huanan had become desensitized to his sister’s antics. But the truth was, he was still a lecher!
If he found out that his ‘brother’ was actually a girl? Wouldn’t he pounce on her, keep her in bed for days, and then she’d be pregnant, discovered by his girly sister Mu Xi, who would then stab her with a kitchen knife, leading to an inevitable ‘eat the wedding feast’ ending? No way!
Liu Li imagined the bleak future, her eyes spinning like incense coils, and she stepped back nervously. “Maybe…”
“I’ll just sleep on the couch downstairs.”
Liu Li turned to leave, but was met with the same fate as Mu Xi. She was grabbed by the back of her neck, her limbs flailing in the air like a cat.
“Let go of me, let go!”
“Hmm, trying to run away?” Zhou Huanan smirked, dragging Liu Li back to his room. “Sleeping on the couch? No way. Don’t be silly.”
During this time, Liu Li tried to resist, but perhaps because she had become a girl, she found herself powerless against Zhou Huanan. If he forced himself on her now, she would be like a lamb to the slaughter.
Zhou Huanan forcefully threw Liu Li onto the bed. Liu Li, tears welling in her eyes, sat on the bed, terrified of the potential developments. To seek comfort, she wrapped herself tightly in a blanket, looking like a dumpling, with only her face exposed.
Even that wasn’t enough. Liu Li tried to contort her face into a comic expression, pleading pitifully with Zhou Huanan. “This blanket is mine now! Go get your own!”
“Do I have to?”
Zhou Huanan was surprised. They had slept together as children, each with their own blanket. But later, because Liu Li was a restless sleeper, she would always end up in his bed. So they eventually shared a blanket.
Now, they were back to sleeping separately? But judging from the bed this morning, which looked like it had been ravaged by dogs, Liu Li’s sleeping habits hadn’t improved much.
Zhou Huanan shook his head, but he understood. It had been a long time, and it was natural for them to feel a bit distant. Inviting Liu Li over more often would help.
Liu Li watched as Zhou Huanan retrieved another blanket from the closet, placing it on the bed. Wrapped like a dumpling, Liu Li rolled over, creating a gap for Zhou Huanan on the bed.
After Zhou Huanan spread out his blanket, Liu Li’s heart raced with a mix of embarrassment and tension. She listened to the rustling of fabric and the soft creaks of the mattress, her mind racing with all the possible scenarios. Suddenly, the room went silent as the light switch clicked off.
Darkness enveloped the room, moonlight filtering through the curtains, illuminating the floating particles in the air. The room was quiet.
Liu Li lay on the comfortable bed, her heartbeat gradually calming. “Liu Li?”
A familiar, gentle voice whispered nearby. It was a voice that seemed both unchanged and altered over the past few years, yet still familiar to her memory.
Liu Li’s face softened with nostalgia, finally feeling at ease. “What?”
“Do you remember when we were kids…”
Zhou Huanan reminisced about their childhood, sharing stories that always brought a smile to Liu Li’s face. She recalled helping Zhou Huanan fend off bullies, remembering with pride and joy.
The familiar surroundings relaxed Liu Li completely, and she soon drifted into a peaceful sleep.
“Liu Li? Are you still awake?”
Seeing that Liu Li didn’t respond, Zhou Huanan knew she had fallen asleep. He whispered a goodnight, adjusting his position to stare at the ceiling, ready to drift off to sleep himself. Thud.
Liu Li’s arm smacked him on the neck.
“I knew it.”
Zhou Huanan sighed, picking up her slender arm, holding it in mid-air. “Huh?”
He looked at the arm, illuminated by the moonlight, smooth and hairless, like delicate jade. This couldn’t be a boy’s arm… And her bones were so small… he wanted to bite them.
But quickly, Zhou Huanan abandoned the thought, regretting that Liu Li was a girl, wasting such a fine body. He placed her arm back gently.
Just as he was about to doze off, Liu Li rolled over, skillfully sliding into his blanket, her leg draping over his. I knew it!
Zhou Huanan sighed, feeling the unexpected soft weight on his body and the enticing scent of her, his heart racing. Something wasn’t right.
Right now, Liu Li’s leg was resting on his, and if you looked from that angle, she was practically riding his thigh. Normally, a boy would feel something… but Zhou Huanan felt nothing, only a soft, fleshy pressure. Combined with the arm he had seen earlier, Zhou Huanan had a bold suspicion.
Liu Li, I’m sorry, but I just have to check if you’re developed normally.
Zhou Huanan, trembling, held his breath, reaching towards Liu Li’s groin. He swore to himself that if he was wrong, he would find a girlfriend immediately and compensate Liu Li generously.
And then he touched it—an ancient, mythical creature starting with ‘V’. “Oh…”
No wonder, no wonder. Zhou Huanan gazed at Liu Li, sleeping peacefully in his arms, his lips curling into a smile, his eyes glinting with a green light. Brother, brother, you… you’re not a eunuch, are you?!!?