At the mention of this, Gu Si was rather bothered. He frowned. “Sis, I am the first in my class for everything except for sports. My body is growing too slowly. I don’t even know when I can fight for you!”
“Do you think I need you to fight for me?” Gu Mang narrowed her eyes and looked at him. She walked towards the lift lobby and pressed the button. She put both hands in her pockets. “Excel at other things first.”
Looking extremely regretful, Gu Si sighed. “I guess I have no choice, then. I have to spare some face for the up and coming students in the class. I can’t possibly be first at everything, right, Sis?”
As he said this, he looked at Gu Mang with raised eyebrows. He appeared very arrogant and in need of a spanking.
Gu Mang laughed.
After giving Lu San some instructions, Lu Chengzhou approached the siblings. Lu Chengzhou looked at him and asked, “Do you want to learn computing?”
Gu Si frowned. His gaze was inexplicable. He asked in a weird tone, “Are you going to hire someone to teach me computing?”
Gu Mang turned around as well. Her gaze seemed ambiguous.
Lu Chengzhou took his hand out of his pocket and held her hand. “Gu Si’s fingers move very quickly when he plays games. He would probably be good at computing too.”
Expressionless, Gu Mang looked at him. Her well-defined eyes were very bright.
“I don’t see a need to…” Gu Si was not interested in wasting his time on computing lessons. He was willing to insult himself. “I’m pretty dumb. I don’t think I would be able to learn it.”
Lu Chengzhou glanced at him. “Just give it a try.”
After hearing this, Gu Mang raised her delicate eyebrows. “Sounds good. You can hire an instructor to teach him.”
The corners of Gu Si’s lip twitched. Just then, the lift arrived. The three of them walked in.
After they entered the apartment, Lu Chengzhou looked down at Gu Mang. “Go take a shower first. There’s strawberry mille crepe cake in the refrigerator. You can eat it after.”
Gu Mang acknowledged him before hanging her baseball cap on a nearby chair and walking towards the bedroom languidly.
Feeling hopeless, Gu Si threw himself onto the sofa. He took out his phone and sent a message to Lin Shuang, “Sister Lin, you might not believe this but Lu Chengzhou said that he would look for someone to teach me computing and my sister agreed.”
Lin Shuang replied to him quite speedily, “…”
She took a sip of alcohol while admiring the very handsome male DJ from her deck seat at the nightclub. Actually this could be easily explained. After all, a certain Big Boss was too dominant. She even extorted Lu Chengzhou multiple times.
Gu Si sent her a “shrug” emoji. “As long as my sister is happy.”
Lin Shuang was rejoicing at Gu Si’s misfortune. She took her own sweet time to type her message. “Pity you. Good luck learning computing.”
Gu Si looked at his phone with an annoyed look on his face.
Lu Chengzhou glanced at Gu Si. “Aren’t you going to shower?”
Gu Si sat up straight. Holding his phone, he walked towards the other bedroom.
Gu Mang got out of the shower. She started drying her hair after dressing in a white T-shirt and joggers. She felt rather refreshed after a short nap and a shower.
There was a glass of honey water on the coffee table.
Lu Chengzhou seemed to be busy with something at the bookshelf.
Gu Mang picked up the glass of honey water and took a sip. Holding the glass in her hands, she approached him. As she drew closer, she realized that he was choosing a CD.
Without looking up he could tell that it was her. “Let’s light some candles at midnight. After that, I will watch a movie with you.”
“We don’t have to light candles.”
After hearing that, Lu Chengzhou looked up. Seeing that Gu Mang was standing next to him, he turned his body such that his shoulder was leaning on the bookshelf. His gaze looked indifferent.
Gu Mang took another sip of the honey water. She was still not used to explaining herself. Hence, she took a few seconds before explaining, “I don’t like that ceremony. I also don’t have any wishes to make.”
Looking at her, Lu Chengzhou nodded after a while. He smiled subtly. “Then let’s eat the cake and watch a movie.”
Gu Mang raised her eyebrows and acknowledged with a hum. Lu Chengzhou held her hand and led her to the kitchen to retrieve the cake. After a few minutes, the pendulum clock in the apartment chimed to signal midnight. Gu Mang had turned 18.
At that moment, Gu Si’s bedroom door opened and the doorbell rang.
The ringing of the doorbell was especially unexpected considering the time.