Although he was renting a place outside, it wasn’t actually that far from the university.
However, when Gu Bai returned home, he found obvious signs that the cabinets and drawers had been rummaged through.
Furthermore, there was a “rustling” sound coming from the bedroom.
Seeing this, Gu Bai couldn’t help but grow alert.
Has a thief broken in?
Gu Bai immediately shifted into a combat-ready stance.
Because of his family background, he was a trained fighter with considerable experience in free sparring.
Years ago, when saving a girl, he had fought five people alone; even though the opponents were armed, he hadn’t been forced into a disadvantage.
He certainly wasn’t afraid of a petty house thief.
Gu Bai stepped lightly into the house.
He moved so silently it was as if he were invisible.
At the same time, he spotted unfamiliar footprints on the floor.
Judging by the size of the prints, the intruder wasn’t particularly large.
The footprints led straight toward his bedroom.
Seeing this, Gu Bai’s heart skipped a beat.
His computer contained very important data—not some “strange collection,” but actual work that generated income.
From the sounds of it, the intruder seemed to be tapping on the keyboard and using the mouse.
Their intentions were clear.
Gu Bai narrowed his eyes, crouched low, and in a single swift stride, flashed behind the thief.
Before they could react, he pinned them directly onto the bed.
“Ah! Ow, ow, ow, ow!!”
However, as soon as he held the person down, a pitiful and exceptionally sweet girlish voice rang out.
Feeling the soft warmth beneath his hands, Gu Bai realized the “thief” was a girl.
Wait…
Why does that voice sound so familiar?
It wasn’t until Gu Bai looked closer that he realized he wasn’t holding down a stranger, but his own younger sister—Gu Mixue.
“Brother! It’s me! It’s me!”
The poor little sister was pinned to the bed, unable to break free from Gu Bai’s large hands, and could only wail in agony.
“I’m your little sister! Your sister!”
Once he confirmed the sneaky “thief” was indeed his sister, Gu Bai helplessly let go and asked, “Mixue? Aren’t you supposed to be back home? Why are you in Nanjiang?”
“Uh…”
Gu Mixue said somewhat awkwardly, “Dad and Mom went abroad for a trip, so… so I had to transfer to a school in Nanjiang~”
“…”
Gu Bai, who was already exhausted to the point of collapse, looked like the life had drained from his eyes.
He had to admit his parents were quite willful; they raised both him and his sister with a very “hands-off” approach.
If there was one difference between him and his sister, it was the heaven-and-earth gap in their respective allowances.
Furthermore, Gu Mixue wasn’t his biological sister; she was an abandoned baby his parents had picked up from the side of the road a long, long time ago.
Gu Mixue, however, was unaware of this.
“Fine. So what were you doing in my room?”
After Gu Bai released her, Mixue immediately stood up and straightened her rumpled dress.
Gu Bai just watched her without saying a word.
A year had passed, and Gu Mixue had grown from that shy little girl who loved following him around into…
A “big” loli barely over 1.4 meters tall.
Though she was incredibly cute—especially in that pale blue dress that made one want to protect her—it felt strangely tragic to remember she was already a high school graduate about to start her freshman year of college.
“I just came in to check if you had any of those ‘strange collections,’ Brother,” Mixue grumbled with a pout.
“And as I thought, your computer password is the same as your phone—your birthday. Aren’t you afraid Sister-in-law would open your computer and see something weird?”
Mixue rattled off a long string of words. Her voice was very pleasant and melodic, making it comfortable to listen to.
After a moment of silence, Gu Bai spoke.
“No. She didn’t know my phone password, nor did she know my birthday.”
“Huh?”
Mixue was stunned. She scratched her head and asked, “That… isn’t she a bit too incompetent as a girlfriend?”
Mixue was unaware that Gu Bai and Su Shuhao had broken up, so she subconsciously assumed Su Shuhao had simply failed to remember his birthday.
But Gu Bai just shook his head.
“Mixue, you don’t need to call her Sister-in-law anymore. We’re just friends now.”
Mixue froze for a moment before saying in disbelief, “You broke up? You chased her for four years and were a couple for three, and it’s just over like that?”
“Mm.”
Gu Bai nodded indifferently.
There wasn’t much emotion in his eyes, but with Mixue’s blunt personality, she immediately flared up in anger.
“I knew it… it must be her fault. I don’t get it—even if you raised a pig for seven years, you’d develop feelings for it, right? That person is such an ungrateful ingrate.”
Mixue was the type who stood by Gu Bai no matter what, so she would never blame him for the breakup.
Moreover, she knew her brother well enough to know he would never do anything to let a girl down.
Hearing her blunt cursing—though, because she was so small and cute, the cursing didn’t sound unpleasant at all—Gu Bai felt a spark of warmth in his heart.
He smiled and said:
“Alright, don’t worry about it. I’ve already let it go. And don’t talk so crudely; it doesn’t look good for a girl to act like a street thug.”
“Yes, yes, yes, my ‘Nagging Mother’ Brother.”
Mixue crossed her arms and rolled her eyes.
She decided not to dwell on the breakup and instead shifted the topic back to the computer.
“So, Brother, why is there absolutely nothing ‘good’ on your computer? Where did you hide your collection?”
“…”
Gu Bai remained silent. Sometimes he felt his sister was a bit too straightforward with him.
“I don’t have that kind of stuff.”
Because he had been in a relationship with Su Shuhao, Gu Bai had kept both his computer and phone very “clean.”
He didn’t have any strange collections.
“Is that so?”
Mixue seemed to think of something.
She pulled a USB drive from her pocket and said, “I have some of my own ‘treasures’ here. Do you want them, Brother? They might help soothe the loneliness and emptiness of a breakup and help you release stress in a… reasonable way.”
Seeing her acting like a little adult, Gu Bai gave her a patronizing “thanks” and plugged the USB drive into the computer.
As it loaded, he asked:
“What genre is it?”
“Brother x Sister.”
Without a word, Gu Bai pulled the USB drive out and tossed it out the window into the rushing river below.