Tan Zhuishi first met Tong Chuhe when he was ten.
His father had brought him to a dinner party. While his father chatted with the other adults, he told him to play with the other children.
Among all those children, he spotted Tong Chuhe sitting quietly in a chair at first glance.
She was a little different from the others. They had gathered in groups of various sizes and were all rather noisy, but she sat silently in her chair, holding a crystal globe without crying or making a fuss.
Inside the crystal globe was a little rabbit wearing a tutu.
A little girl who had been chatting with someone else noticed Tong Chuhe's crystal globe and marched over haughtily to demand it. "Give me your crystal globe to play with."
Tong Chuhe looked at the little girl, first shaking her head to make her refusal clear, then scooting sideways in her seat to move farther away.
When Tong Chuhe refused to give it to her, the little girl's lips puckered and she began to cry. "No! I want it! I want that one! Hurry up and give it to me! Waaah..."
Her older brother saw his sister crying and hurried over to comfort her, then frowned at Tong Chuhe.
"My sister's younger than you. What's wrong with letting her have her way?"
Tong Chuhe still ignored them. She did not even shift in her seat, treating them as though they were invisible.
But Tan Zhuishi laughed at that twisted logic.
He walked straight over to stand in front of Tong Chuhe and looked at the girl's brother.
"My little sister's younger than you, too. Why don't you let her have her way and get your sister to fix that rotten temper? Oh, so your sister counts as a little