He Yuan, dressed in a faded shirt and rumpled jeans, had a gentle look on his mature and handsome face: "Your teacher called me and said that since you're going to participate in the provincial physics competition, he's worried that you're under too much pressure and asked me to take good care of you."

He Jing smiled sweetly: "I was planning to go to school to see you this weekend, but I didn't expect you to come back early. That's great."

He Yuan patted her head: "There's new progress at the lab. The other students are working on it, so I asked for leave from my job to come back and be with you."

He Jing was both delighted and touched. She said, "Actually, there was no need to come back specially," while pulling He Yuan into the residential area.

He Yuan said, "I can't be absent from your important moments."

He is, after all, her brother, and he should have witnessed every step of her growth.

Upon arriving at the He family's door, He Jing took out her key to open the door, but the door opened first. He Sui exclaimed happily:

"He Jing, you're back! What did you bring me...?"

Food.

Upon seeing He Yuan, his words froze on his tongue, and then he obediently and docilely called out, "Big Brother?"

He Yuan nodded and asked He Jing, "Why didn't you come back together?"

He Jing coughed and said, "Spring cleaning."

It was all because some school bully insisted on dragging her to do practice problems together. While they were doing them, she missed the time to go to No. 1 Middle School to meet He Sui. He Sui thought she had something come up and came back first.

He Yuan believed it, asked no more questions, and went into the house first.

He Sui followed behind He Yuan, walking beside He Jing. The more he stared at He Yuan's back, the more dissatisfied he became: "It's over, my brother is back, you definitely won't talk to me anymore."

The only person in his entire family who could threaten his position was He Yuan.

When he treated He Jing that way, only He Yuan sided with her.

He Jing found it slightly amusing: "...Indeed."

He Yuan stayed at home for two days and was somewhat surprised to learn that the family had a new washing machine.

Before He Jing could speak, He Sui rushed up and rattled off the whole story, looking as if he was afraid He Jing would say a few more words to He Yuan.

After listening, He Yuan remained silent for a moment, then looked up and said, "He Jing, thank you."

He Jing shook her head: "This is nothing, it was an unexpected result. It was my brother who worked really hard. The experiment must have been very difficult, right?"

Once the topic came up, He Yuan seemed to open up and recounted the entire experiment, including its contents and process. Only after finishing did he realize that He Jing couldn't understand him.

He stopped abruptly, somewhat apologetically: "I'm sorry, are you hungry? I'll cook today."

He Jing smiled and said, "That's very interesting."

He Sui immediately became jealous again: "You don't even understand what I'm saying, what does it mean?"

He Jing ignored him and turned to talk to He Yuan. After a while, He Yuan got up from the sofa to cook. He Sui pestered He Jing, very dissatisfied: "You have never said that I am interested."

He Jing was utterly exasperated by him; his jealousy was just too much. She immediately called out to He Zhou, who was passing by, "Third Brother."

He Zhou stopped and looked at her expressionlessly.

"Teach me how to do the problems."

He Zhou gave a cold laugh: "What question can't you answer?"

He Jing: "emmmm..."

He Zhoujing walked past her, took two steps, then turned back and said, "What are you standing there for? Come with me."

He Sui also wanted to follow, patting his chest and saying, "If there's any problem you don't understand, I'll teach you."

He Jing said, "It's a political question."

He Suiren was dumbfounded. How could someone who studied science know anything about political questions?

No, He Jing is also a science student, why would she be asking political questions?

He Jing followed He Zhou into the room.

As soon as the two entered, He Jing, who was walking behind, immediately closed the door to block He Sui's view. She turned her head and said, "Let's hide from Fourth Brother. He's too noisy."

He Zhou stared at her coldly, his tone sarcastic: "He dotes on you the most."

He Jing smiled, a pleasant yet gentle smile, and asked in return, "Hasn't Third Brother been very fond of me lately?"