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Chapter 14: The Distance of the Heart
update icon Updated at 2023/6/30 12:10:12

Chapter 14

"Rain, have you decided which university you want to attend?"

Roxie Lin was holding the newly issued survey form for applying for universities.

"Not yet, how about you?"

"Me neither, but I'd like to go to a university far away and explore the outside world~"

"A place far away? It sounds good, why don't we go together?"

"So we'd be university classmates? Hee hee."

"Mmm~"

If they went to university together, that would indeed be an astonishing fate, from middle school to university, a full ten years.

"Then count me in! Don't forget to take me with you!"

Bell Tong raised her hand from the side.

"By the way, wouldn't some dog be very pitiful if you go somewhere else to study?"

"My brother?"

"Right, can that guy bear to let you go?"

"I don't think so."

She wondered. When Samson Nan left home, she thought she would find it hard to adjust to life without her brother, but it turned out not to be the case. Everything transitioned so naturally...

"Tsk tsk, I bet he's going to bawl, holding onto your legs, and say: 'Rain, brother doesn't want you to go! Without you, your brother can't live!', something like that. Ha ha."

Bell Tong vividly imitated Samson Nan's appearance.

"He wouldn't!"

She couldn't imagine her brother saying anything like that.

"I don't think so either~"

Roxie Lin agreed with Raina Nan.

"Because Brother Nan likes Rain so much, anything decided by Rain, he would support."

"Like, likes?!"

She was a little flustered, only heard half of the sentence and knocked the eraser on the desk to the ground.

"Yeah, I've never seen a brother so fond of his sister."

"Oh, that's what you mean..."

She let out a sigh of relief.

"Other than that, what did you think it meant?"

"No, nothing..."

She felt awkward for her overthinking and quickly turned to look out the window.

"Ahh, we don't understand the world of sister-obsession."

Bell Tong sighed.

"Little Bell, you always say Brother Nan is a what sis-con? Wait...what is a sis-con?"

Roxie Lin looked at Bell Tong curiously, and Bell Tong gave her a strange look back.

Her eyes were filled with waves of curiosity. As expected of a good child who only reads saint's books...

"That's a good question, you asked the right person!"

"Really?"

"Yes, the so-called sis-con... uh, let Rain explain to you, I'm afraid I'll say it wrong~ Hehe."

She stopped speaking halfway through and grinned mischievously.

Roxie Lin turned to Raina Nan.

"I don't know!"

She emphasized, word by word.

"Well then, I have a good solution! Why don't we ask the person involved?"

Bell Tong took out her phone.

"Both of you, come and watch!"

The two of them gathered around her.

Only she knew what crazy idea she had come up with this time.

She was scrolling through her phone's contacts, searching for his name.

Samson Nan

Then started typing:

"Brother Wind, are you there?" ---- Sent.

After 2 minutes

"What's up?"

“I want to ask you something, do you like girls?”

Raina Nan and Roxie Lin almost laughed out loud.

Beep beep, he replied.

"Is Rain with you?"

It was strange why he would avoid the question just to ask this?

"Nope"

Beep beep, he replied super fast this time.

"Bell Tong, you're a total nutjob, go back to the hospital and take your meds!!"

So he checked to see if Raina Nan was present just to curse? He was still at work and didn't have time to mess around with this crazy kid.

"Rain, your brother is so educated! Ha ha, it's really fun though!"

"Uh..."She was at a loss for words. Roxie Lin found it quite amusing because she had just discovered that the gentle Nan Ge also had this side to him. "It's not over yet, watch this!"

"Brother Feng, don't get angry just yet, because Yu Yu told me today that she suspects that you're gay because you've never had a girlfriend!" --- Send

"Really?"

He responded very quickly.

"Look quickly, he believes it, he believes it!"

"Bell, let's just leave it. What if he gets angry at me..."

Raina Nan was laughing, but she feared that he would get angry once he found out.

"Don't worry, it'll be okay."

"So, are you really gay or not?" --- Send

"No"

He answered truthfully.

"Really, do you have any proof of it?"

"No"

"Well then, to make it easier, you're allowed to pick one from me, Yu Yu, and Ruoxi, we are pretty enough, right? And we are all different types. If you don't like any of us... well, it means you're not a man!!" --- Send

......

Before the other two had a chance to prepare, she had already hit the send button. "What are you doing! Cancel it, quickly, give me the phone!"

"No!"

Raina Nan shouted, trying to seize her phone. She had finally managed to tease Samson Nan and certainly wouldn't give up easily.

"Ruoxi, come help!"

"I, I want to see who Nan Ge will pick..."

What?! Roxie Lin blushed, seemingly looking forward to it. Drip. Drip. Drip. Another text message arrived.

Bell Tong with her heart in her throat pressed the confirm button.

“I’ll just pick the one with the biggest breasts.”

Six words.

The three of them were instantly silent and only the sound of someone swallowing broke the silence.

Bell Tong looked down at herself, flat as a field.

Then she looked up at the other two.

In an instant, she understood…

She dialed his number silently

Taking a deep breath

“You bastard! Are you trying to get yourself killed? You did it on purpose, didn’t you?!!”

She roared into the phone.

After cursing him, she realized that the other end of the phone was just a busy tone...

It seemed that he had accurately hit Bell Tong's soft spot without missing a beat.

Bell Tong was very cunning, always playing tricks on others, but when it came to Samson Nan, she never won…

"Yu Yu, when you go back, make sure to give that damn rascal a piece of my mind, that damn pervert! As a girl, how could he make such a joke! Wuhu...”

Only then did she truly realize that she also had a status called 'girl'.

“I know, don't cry... that's right! You just need to drink more milk... probably?”

“Probably?! Wah!!”

Contrary to intentions, she cried even louder...

...

The bell rang for class.

Raina Nan took her seat.

"Brother, come pick me up after school."

She typed on her screen, thought for a while, confirmed.

"Busy"

He replied quickly.

“Jerk...”

She angrily threw her phone into her bag.

She'd originally planned to discuss the career survey with him...

After school, she left the classroom.

Head down, she always didn't look at people when she walked.

“Ah”

She bumped into something and looked up.

"Little one, how do you walk? ~"

"Brother?!"

He looked down at her with a smile.

“Aren't you busy? Why are you here again...”

She turned her head away and complained with a pout.

“Today I observed that the sun didn't rise from the west, you purposely asked me to pick you up? I guess it's because...”

He bent down, got close to her face, and stared at her.

So close, she could feel his breath making her inexplicably nervous, her eyes darting left and right.

“I guess you missed me, right? Hehe”

He grinned mischievously and ruffled her hair.

“Go to hell!”

She knocked his hand away."This!"

She presented a piece of paper before his eyes.

"Volunteer survey? What is this?"

"Regarding future enrollment..."

"Oh"

He took it over, reading the text on it.

"In sum, I... I might be... going somewhere else to study..."

She lowered her head, her lips trembling as she whispered.

It was still undecided, but she wanted to know how he would react, was he really reluctant to part with her like Bell Tong said? For some reason, she was so eager to find out.

"Somewhere else?"

He stopped smiling.

"Well, maybe it's far away...”

She felt like something was choking in her throat, making it difficult for her to speak.

......

He remained silent, just giving her a strange look. Was it disbelief? Or what?

She didn't know...

......

A moment of silence...

"Ah~ I'm hungry, what do you want to eat?"

He suddenly said, with a smile quickly returning to his face, as if the previous hesitation was just a pretense.

"Huh? Bro..."

She wanted to say something else, but was cut off by him:

"Can we stop talking about this?"

"Why, why?"

She was so eager to tell him first, to hear his thoughts, but why was he being so indifferent?

"No reason~"

He strode forward with a smile tipping the corners of his mouth, walking ahead.

After a while, he stopped and turned around.

"Raina Nan"

He called her name with a smile.

"Running away from me? You're a decade too early."

......

She stood there, looking at him, speechless.

She wanted to smile, but tears welled up in her eyes uncontrollably...

"Hey kiddo, why are you crying?"

He quickly wiped the tear from her eye with his finger, unsure of what he said that has triggered her tears.

Perhaps he was selfish, not allowing anyone to make her cry, but ironically, he was the one who made her cry.

......

"Okay, stop crying, it's not like you can't go study abroad...but..."

He stopped talking again.

He held her hand and put it in his pocket, walking ahead.

"Dummy"