Seeing that the boy was silent, Chaochao mistakenly thought that he was like her and couldn't do math. Chaochao, who was a little sad, began to comfort him: "It's okay if you can't do math, Brother Yushen. I'll teach you when I learn."

Pei Yushen: "?"

Finding a fellow sufferer, Chaochao suddenly poked her head out and looked up with her clear, bright eyes: "Brother Yushen, what do you study with your friends at school?"

partner?

The boy tilted his head, a mocking glint flashing in his cold, dark eyes.

Outside the room, the group discussing the plan finally discovered that Chaochao was missing.

The servants searched the first floor but couldn't find anyone.

There is another place.

Jiang Chi's gaze fell on the door. "It's probably there."

Pei Yushen's lips moved, but after a long pause he only said, "I have no companions."

How could that be? There are so many friends at Brother Jingcheng and Brother Yuci's school.

Could it be that they didn't attend the same type of school?

Chaochao blinked in confusion, about to climb out and ask for more details—

Knock knock knock!

A knock sounded on the door, followed by Jiang Chi's voice, "Sorry to bother you."

The little dumpling that had just emerged from the cave was so startled that it instantly shrank back, leaving a blurry afterimage!

Pei Yu paused for a moment, then subtly moved his wheelchair, blocking the view from the doorway to the bottom of the table.

The door opened.

Jiang Chi walked in first, saying, "I came to see if Chaochao is here."

Pei Yushen's gaze passed over Jiang Chi and landed on the two handsome men standing at the door who hadn't come in yet.

These are the older brothers the kids were talking about...?

Yu Ci saw the still-naive boy in the room staring straight at him, his gaze almost imperceptibly sweeping over the boy's legs, and nodded with a smile: "Hello, Pei classmate, I am Yu Ci. I have heard Chaochao mention you before."

"?"

Xie Jingcheng glanced at Yu Ci with an unfriendly expression.

How come he didn't know such a person existed?

However, the surname Pei sounds familiar. Have I heard of this person somewhere before?

Xie Jingcheng leaned against the wall, his eyes lowered in thought.

Pei Yushen did not respond to Yu Ci's greeting. He only looked at them quietly for three seconds before coldly turning his head away.

If more people were present, they would surely marvel at how a boy who is only fourteen years old seems more mature than a seventeen or eighteen-year-old high school student.

Yu Ci didn't take the boy's disregard to heart and maintained a gentle smile.

Jiang Chi scanned the room, finally stopping at the sliver of a pale yellow skirt peeking out from behind the boy's wheelchair.

"So it really is here."

Jiang Chi bent down and reached out to pull the little dumpling out from under the table.

"Awooo!"

Caught, Chaochao cried loudly in fear, knowing that her brother was about to carry her out and fry her in oil.

Her survival instinct erupted like a volcano, and with a desperate struggle, she grabbed Pei Yushen's arm, which was resting on the wheelchair.

"Waaaaah, Brother Yu Shen, save me!"

Touched unexpectedly, Pei Yu's dark eyes widened, veins bulged on his thin arm, and his lips tightened as if he had been struggling with a dilemma.

He didn't shake off her hand.

Jiang Chi's eyes revealed a hint of surprise upon seeing this.

He remembered that the boy was very resistant to being touched by Chaochao on his first day of staying at the hotel.

Chaochao was still holding tightly to her older brother's hand, her wet eyes brimming with tears.

"Brother Yu Shen, save me! Save me! Save me!"

"Wait a minute." Jiang Chi requested a pause, his lips twitching as he asked with a hint of doubt, "Do I look like a human trafficker?"

When asked the question, Chaochao unconsciously loosened her grip, "It doesn't seem like it..."

"So you still look like a butcher?"

Chaochao asked, puzzled, "What is a butcher?"

Jiang Chi: "...Then why are you hiding?"

When this topic came up, Chaochao tearfully recounted what she had overheard her brothers discussing.

That's terrifying for a little kid.

Jiang Chi: "...I don't know how to use that."

"Really? Really?" Chaochao asked hopefully.

"Yeah, really." Jiang Chi glanced casually at the two people standing at the door. In the end, they came to the conclusion that they should just let things take their course.

“However…” Jiang Chi glanced at her hand still resting on Pei Yushen, “Since you’re so reluctant to part with him…”

Isn't there still one person here who hasn't tried it yet?

Then, Chaochao was packed up and handed over to Pei Yushen.

Holding a bag of various early childhood education flashcards and toys, Chaochao looked down at the bag with a bewildered expression, then looked up at the older boy.

Pei Yushen: "...Did I agree to that?"

Not understanding sarcasm, Chaochao thought for a moment, "Hmm, let me think... Ah, Brother Yushen, you've agreed."

Pei Yu was so angry that he didn't want to speak, and he kept a cold expression, refusing to look at her.

The very understanding Chaochao put the small bag on the ground and said, "Brother Yushen, it's okay if you don't know how to do it. How about we play a game?"

No, I won't do it.

Pei Yu took a deep breath. He felt that at the age of fourteen, he was going to be driven crazy by a three-year-old.

Just as Chaochao was excitedly thinking about what to do next, she heard the older boy say in a tight voice, "Take the things out."

When Jiang Chi packed the little dumpling and sent it inside, Yu Ci stood there silently, her smile gradually fading.

"Pei what?"

Xie Jingcheng suddenly asked Jiang Chi.

Jiang Chi paused, then raised an eyebrow at him, "Pei Yushen."

Pei Yushen... Pei Yushen...

It was him.

Despite his young age, he displayed exceptional talent in physics and was quite well-known in all the key middle schools in B City, but he has been out of the public eye for a long time.

I heard that he returned to school less than half a year after the car accident, then withdrew after that incident and never came back.

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