"So you'd better take that 'stink—'"
Wang Kai reconsidered. No, just removing the word "stink" wouldn't help at all. He was about to finish what he'd been saying when Wang Man quickly cut in, "All right, kid."
"Are you some kind of delinquent—no, wait, are you the head of some gang?"
Wang Kai teased.
"...Wang Kai!"
Wang Man had been about to call him "stinkface" out of habit, but realized something was off and managed to correct herself at the last moment.
"Pfft~"
Chi Xiuke, who had been watching the siblings bicker, couldn't help laughing aloud.
Whenever the two of them were together, they always struck her as hilarious.
Their way of getting along was completely different from hers and her brother's.
She found it really interesting.
"Xiuxiu."
Wang Man called out helplessly. "Sometimes I feel like you're watching us put on a monkey show."
"Oh, no."
Chi Xiuke quickly waved her hands. "I just think the way you and Xiao Kai get along is so different from how my brother and I do. It's unusual and fun to watch, that's all."
"My brother always lets me have my way."
"As far as I can remember, he's never argued with me. I'm the only one who's ever sulked at him."
"Brother Xiuchuan is a total siscon."
As someone who'd been watching them for years, Wang Man knew that better than anyone. "How could he bear to argue with you?"
Chi Xiuke smiled. She'd heard people say the same thing many times.
At first, she'd argued back because she didn't think the label sounded very nice. Her brother was good to her, but he wasn't blindly indulgent.
Later, though, she heard it so often that she stopped trying to explain.
"That's probably the difference between having an older brother