“Admitting defeat is one thing, but one can’t admit defeat too easily! One still has to have some backbone!” Jiang Yao pursed her lips.
She felt awkward when her mother teased her. Then, she gave her mother a gentle push and urged her to hurry.
Mrs Jiang smiled and nodded. She did not have any intention to peek at the message. She felt that her daughter got more spoiled as she grew older. She could still change the way she acted.
“Xiao Lei.” Jiang Lei and Jiang Jie were in a conversation. Their mother walked toward them and handed the paper to her second son. “Yaoyao asked me to pass this to you.”
Jiang Lei glanced at Jiang Yao’s room suspiciously. As he expected, he saw a dark head move behind the window. He immediately pursed his lips and took the paper.
Jiang Jie stood at the side and watched as Jiang Lei pretended to be nonchalant as he tried to hold back his laughter. Then, he quickly opened the note. Jiang Yao’s handwriting was on it, and there was only one sentence on it.
[Second Brother, I was wrong. Don’t be angry.]
After he read it, Jiang Lei could not hide his smile. He took the pen from Jiang Jie’s hand and wrote a sentence under her apology.
[What did you do wrong?]
After he wrote it, he asked Jiang Jie to deliver it to his sister since their mother was busy. “Eldest Brother, please give this to her.”
He whistled proudly when he saw Jiang Jie looked at him with a childish look.
When Jiang Jie came back, he brought another note with him. As Jiang Lei took it with a smile, Jiang Jie immediately walked away as he said, “Send it yourself! You two are like five-year-olds!”
His sister, who was about to turn 20 soon, had acted childishly. His brother, who was already in his twenties, was also childish. Therefore, he chose to avoid his siblings’ silly games.
Jiang Lei touched the tip of his nose. After Jiang Jie left, he opened the paper to see how Jiang Yao had reflected on herself. However, when he opened it, he only saw a few words.
[I don’t know.]
So, there were three sentences on the note.
[Second Brother, I was wrong. Don’t be angry.]
[What did you do wrong?]
[I don’t know.]
She sounded so honest that Jiang Lei could not stay angry with her. He crumpled the paper and threw it to a corner. Then, he walked toward Jiang Yao’s room. When he saw her hiding behind the door and smiling at him with her tongue out, the anger in Jiang Lei’s heart completely disappeared. He walked toward her and knocked her on her head. “You don’t know what you did wrong, but you still admit your mistake?”
When Jiang Yao saw Jiang Lei walking toward her, she knew that she had succeeded. When he opened his mouth to scold her, she simply hugged his arm, shook it, and acted like his sweet sister. “Then, just take as I’m jealous that someone took over my second brother’s love for me. Perhaps I’m jealous and unreasonable.”
When his soft and delicate sister acted so sweetly with him, Jiang Lei immediately laughed out loud. He did not think the apology was a sincere one.
“Alright, you must have something to ask of me.” Jiang Lei patted Jiang Yao’s head. He had protected his sister since they were young; how could he not know her temper? If it were not for something she wanted, then the girl might be able to stay in a fight with him until the following year.
“It’s Lu Xingzhi’s birthday after the New Year. I want to go to the city to buy a birthday present for him. Will you come with me? You are a man, so you must understand his preferences.” Jiang Yao let go of Jiang Lei’s hand when she saw that the matter was settled. She turned around and took her backpack with her. She pushed Jiang Lei toward his room to get changed. Then, she told her family about her trip to the city before she left with Jiang Lei.
