"Ah—Li Changzhou! I'll kill you!"

"You started it!"

The brother and sister chased each other, and in the sweltering heat, they were sweating profusely after just a few steps, their bodies feeling like they were on fire.

"Ceasefire, ceasefire." When he arrived at the bus stop, Li Changzhou was slightly out of breath, exhausted and hot, feeling like he was about to turn into mush and collapse to the ground at any moment.

"I'll deal with you when we get back!" Li Qianxia said, pulling at her sweat-soaked collar.

She took a mineral water bottle out of her bag, tilted her head back, and gulped down a big mouthful.

Li Changzhou was too weak to speak, so he beckoned to her, indicating that he wanted some too.

Li Qianxia handed him the water in her hand.

While he was drinking water, Li Qianxia looked around.

At 10 a.m., there was not a single person at the bus stop near the hospital.

The sunlight was blinding, there wasn't a breath of wind, and the leaves of the roadside trees on both sides were like a painting, completely still.

Li Qianxia turned her head and saw her brother, who had just finished drinking water, staring blankly into one spot, looking somewhat lost in the heat.

Sweat soaked his bangs, making them so wet that you wanted to wipe them away for him.

"We," she hesitated before speaking, "should we take a taxi back?"

"Huh?" Li Changzhou snapped out of his daze and turned his head. "Why?"

"It's so hot. I don't know when the bus will come. I want to go back early, take a shower, lie in my dorm with the air conditioning on, and play on my phone."

Li Changzhou thought about it. Taking a taxi was a bit expensive, but in this hot weather, his sister wanted to go home as soon as possible, so there was no need to save money.

He also wanted to go back as soon as possible.

“Okay,” Li Changzhou nodded, “Let’s take a taxi.”

He took out his phone and opened a ride-hailing app.

Just then, the No. 5 bus, which runs from the 'Life Plaza' to the 'Science and Technology Park', drove through the air distorted by the heatwave.

"Oh, here it comes. Good luck." Li Changzhou turned off his phone and put it in his pocket.

The bus came to a smooth stop at the station, and the two boarded one after the other.

"I'll swipe my bus card," Li Qianxia said.

"Oh no, the sun will rise in the south tomorrow."

Li Changzhou couldn't accept that his sister, who always tried to spend his money, would actually pay for the bus fare.

Li Qianxia glanced at Li Changzhou, who was walking into the car, and said nothing. She took out her phone and scanned it twice on the machine.

The bus was nearly empty, but the air conditioning was still quite warm and comfortable inside.

Li Changzhou, clutching his collar, walked along, his gaze involuntarily drifting towards the single seat in front of the back door of the bus.

A young girl was sitting there.

A white French-style shirt, short-sleeved, with pleats.

A dark blue belted skirt, the hem of which just covers the knees.

She wore a black baseball cap with the brim deeply obscuring her eyes, but just from her delicate and straight nose, her pale pink lips as beautiful as flowers, and her fair and radiant profile, one could tell that she was an exceptionally beautiful person.

Li Changzhou took a few more steps back, went up to the small platform, and sat in the first row on the right, which was behind and to the left of the girl.

Her hair was as straight and black as silk, flowing like a waterfall down to her waist.

He finally understood the feelings of the girl who had been watching him intently during evening self-study in the summer of his sophomore year.

Li Qianxia walked over and sat down, glanced at her brother, and nudged him with her elbow with a mixture of disdain and teasing.

“Sigh,” Li Changzhou sighed, leaning back and speaking in a lazy tone as if he were enjoying the air conditioning in the summer, “If only I had money, enough to buy a house and a car, how wonderful that would be.”

"Maybe she doesn't want a house or a car?" Li Qianxia said, suppressing a laugh.

"Whether she wants it or not is her business, but I need to have it."

"Without a house or a car, I don't even have the confidence to ask for someone's WeChat?"

"Full of confidence!" Li Changzhou was very confident because his only advantage was his good looks, so he was a staunch member of the "looks-matter" club.

As someone who values ​​appearance and is handsome, how could I not be confident?

Only occasionally do I think—if only I had a little more money, it would be perfect. It really is only occasionally.

"I heard that a kidney that has passed a physical exam and is a good match can sell for 800,000 yuan if a good buyer is found!"

"Girls can also sell their kidneys."

"It's not like I'm the one getting married."

"If we weren't siblings, I could marry a wife without needing a house or a car."

"It's hopeless."

"You don't want to marry me? You used to be begging to marry me when we were kids."

"That was when I was a child, now..."

"What's going on now?" Li Changzhou asked curiously.

Li Qianxia glanced at her older brother's casual pants, sighed dramatically, and said, "Do you think a woman would marry a man who doesn't have a girlfriend but is excessively promiscuous?"

"That's a quack!"

"They said you're perfectly normal, and they didn't prescribe any medication or try to make money off you. They were just reminding you to pay attention to your lifestyle."

"I'm abnormal, who wants to be normal?!"

"Yes, you're not normal. You just need to be happy."

“...You’re becoming less and less lovable,” the older brother said.

“Your health is deteriorating day by day,” the younger sister replied.

At this point, both of them were exhausted.

The sweat on my body was dried by the air conditioning, and sleepiness suddenly washed over me.

Li Changzhou's eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and the cool breeze from the air conditioner gently caressed his cheeks.

As he was falling asleep, he vaguely heard singing.

(Buses, subways, ships, and airplanes, just like us, are destined to wander.)

(Someday, though we don't know when, we will become our true selves.)

I don't know how long I slept.

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