"Since it was my first time here, and the pond looked pretty nice, I took a look around."
Tang Tang defended herself without batting an eye. "Do you think so too, Little Senior Brother?"
Chu Yun thought for a few seconds, then shook his head. "No."
Tang Tang: "..."
It was bad enough that her teenage Little Senior Brother was hard to talk to. Why was he just as difficult as a child?
"Then are you going to keep looking around?"
"Yes, I am."
"Be my guest."
Tang Tang stepped aside for him and found somewhere else to sit.
Chu Yun glanced at her, then continued along the path.
Tang Tang: "..."
Had he brought his compulsive habits straight out of the womb?
Chu Yun really did walk a complete circuit of the little courtyard. Finally, he stopped at the entrance, back where he had started, not one step more or less.
After finishing his circuit, he should have gone back inside.
He glanced into the room, then turned and walked to the stone table in the middle of the courtyard. Finding a clean stone stool, he sat down.
His parents were discussing something with his master. There must have been things they could not let him hear, which was why his master had sent him outside. In that case, he should not go back so soon and disturb the adults.
Tang Tang: "..."
How did he manage to stay exactly the same for ten whole years?
When she had first been born, she could still see hints of their future selves in the younger members of the Tang Family. But as they grew, every one of them changed a great deal. Her Little Senior Brother, however, was like a copy-and-paste job—there was absolutely no difference between him at five