Half an hour later.

A crowd had gathered around, watching the game console screen with great interest. Ruan Qing'an smiled, his eyes crinkling with laughter: "Yo-ho, another win!"

"...Sister, is this what you meant by 'teaching me'?"

Qin Xi, his face expressionless, turned his head to look at her—for a full half hour, he had been completely humiliated, and Ruan Qing'an had no intention of teaching him whatsoever.

Ruan Qingan, however, shamelessly said, "Practice makes perfect. Haven't you gradually figured out some tricks of the trade?"

Qin Xi is naturally smart, and he's good at playing games too. But it's impossible for a novice to go toe-to-toe with a pro right away after just learning how to play.

Noticing Qin Xi's bad mood, Ruan Qing'an remained "unrepentant," moving her stool closer to him and suddenly saying, "Little brother, it's okay if you can't learn it."

"Admitting you're not good enough isn't a big deal."

Ruan Qing'an's smile was full of affection, just like a loving older sister who cares for her younger brother, but Qin Xi, her younger brother, was already twenty-one years old.

Seeing her arrogant demeanor, Qin Xi was unusually roused by his youthful arrogance. He had never lost in his life before, and he was so angry that he almost broke the game controller in half...

Ruan Qing'an whispered a reminder: "Ahem, we'll have to pay compensation."

But the next moment, Qin Xi suddenly stood up and called over the boss: "Hey, boss, give me your payment QR code."

"Little brother, you wouldn't spend hundreds of dollars to buy game coins to practice just to beat me, would you?"

Before Ruan Qingan could finish speaking, the boss's phone already chimed with a payment notification: "You have received 50,000 RMB."

Ruan Qing'an, who rarely saw the original owner living a poor life this time: ...Damn rich people.

Qin Xi patted the three nearby game consoles: "I'll buy these three for 50,000 yuan. Is that enough?"

The shop owner beamed and nodded repeatedly. The game machine was already quite old, and now he had gotten 50,000 yuan for free. It was like a windfall, leaving him completely dizzy.

He quickly replied, "Hey, have fun."

After the boss left, Ruan Qing'an retorted, "Little brother, do you have so much money you're going to burn it? If you're going to throw money around like that, you might as well give it to me next time."

"A thousand pieces of gold can't buy my happiness. To me, it's just a number. But—if you can make me happy, I can give you a lot more."

As Qin Xi spoke, the dog's eyes crinkled into a smile, looking very obedient.

Ruan Qing'an raised an eyebrow: "You're not happy playing games?"

"Aren't you the one who's really happy, sister?"

Qin Xi, unusually youthful, complained, clearly quite annoyed by Ruan Qing'an. He bent down and fiddled with the game console, eventually breaking one of them. Ruan Qing'an couldn't figure out what Qin Xi was doing.

A moment later, after he seemed to have connected the data from the game console to his phone, his round, puppy-like eyes looked at Ruan Qingan.

"Come on, let's play another round."

What did you do?

Ruan Qingan glanced at it warily, but couldn't figure out what was going on, so he started a new game with Qin Xi. But this time—in less than a minute, the character Ruan Qingan was controlling fell to the ground.

She smirked: "Invincible cheat, no health loss cheat, no cooldown on ultimate skill... You're amazing, little brother. You've used quite a few cheats to beat me."

"Sister, this is something I'm good at. I'm not just good at hacking systems; I can make a cheat program more than capable of it."

Qin Xi, who used cheats, showed no embarrassment whatsoever, just like when Ruan Qing'an bullied newbies. His smile was very docile.

However, in every subsequent game, the cheat was fully activated, and the character controlled by Ruan Qing'an became the one who was beaten to the ground.

Ruan Qingan pouted: "Tch, childish brat."

Qin Xi rolled her eyes: "Heh, boring sister."

037, after watching the whole thing: [Stop talking, you two are absolutely identical...]

These ancestors and the main god are not just a copy of each other; their madness is also inherited in their childishness.

After Qin Xi completely crushed the big shot Ruan Qing'an using cheat codes, before he could even feel happy, someone suddenly appeared behind him—Ruan Qing'an was clinging to him from behind like a sloth.

Her jade-like arms wrapped around Qin Xi's neck, pulling him back, and she snorted coldly: "Little brother who cheated with cheat codes, do you admit your mistake or not!"

"You're not taking advantage of my lack of skill?"

Qin Xi, of course, denied the charge and retorted sarcastically before getting up to throw Ruan Qing'an off.

However, Ruan Qing'an reacted even faster. Without hesitation, he pushed off the ground and then hung directly on Qin Xi, his long legs tightly wrapped around the young man's lean waist.

Her arms wrapped around him even tighter, the cool fragrance lingering around Qin Xi, while his back pressed tightly against Ruan Qing'an's soft body, yet she still stubbornly held onto Qin Xi's neck.

The last time he was this close to Ruan Qing'an was when he had a seizure at night, and when he regained consciousness, he held her in his arms.

She was clearly calling him "sister," yet she fit perfectly into his embrace, easily encircling and restraining him.

Even if she was frivolous and unrestrained, that night he pinned her down, biting her neck like a large wild beast biting its female, their necks intertwined in passionate embrace.

Ruan Qing'an whispered in Qin Xi's ear, continuing to threaten, "Little brother, do you admit your mistake or not, hmm?"

"I was wrong, I was wrong, sister."

"Good sister, please don't cling to me anymore, get down quickly."

Qin Xi's mind had long since wandered off, and she no longer tried to maintain her defiant spirit. She coughed softly to cover her mouth, and apologized repeatedly in a sweet voice.

Ruan Qing'an snorted, then jumped off Qin Xi's back and turned to find the boss who had just left: "Boss! Pack up the game console and send it to the Qin family villa area in the suburbs!"

"Okay, okay, I'll send it to this young master tomorrow!"

Watching Ruan Qing'an's retreating figure, Qin Xi, who was standing still, couldn't help but laugh out loud, and the dark look in his eyes softened little by little.

The two didn't play any more competitive games after that, lest the two childish kids start "fighting" again. Instead, they played some other games, like racing, basketball... all sorts of things.

It was quite late when we came out of the arcade. There were hardly any pedestrians on the street, except for the barbecue stalls which were still packed with people.

Ruan Qing'an stretched leisurely: "Let's go, we need to go back to the Qin family. Those security personnel who were unconscious must have woken up by now."

"Yeah, I think so."

As Qin Xi spoke, he looked down at his phone and saw countless missed calls, but he ignored them all and even cut off the signal tracking.

He silently put the bag back in, looked up at Ruan Qing'an, and suddenly chuckled: "Actually, my mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to me, just like you, sister."

Upon hearing this, Ruan Qing'an also quieted down. She looked at Qin Xi earnestly, her eyes filled with encouragement.

For him, who had always chosen to isolate himself, every step he took was an unexpected delight.

"I don't know much about your affairs, Qin Xi—because I'm waiting for you to tell me."

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