[Happy Kids Swimming Pool 19] Kid Bro's Tragic Past, Redeemed!

The livestream viewers were blown away by Chen Han's move too.

"Holy shit, Boss Chen Han, are you kidding me? You can actually do that?!"

"That kid actually stopped making things difficult for Chen Han!"

"Your daddy is still your daddy."

"I'm seriously impressed. Boss Chen Han's ability to think on his feet is fucking awesome!"

"He even got through that! Look at Fang Lei's face. He's practically dying of shock!"

Chen Han himself had originally thought he was certain to die this time.

So he had decided to hand the bath towel to Kid Bro as slowly as possible.

Sure, he said he was someone who had already died once.

But when Chen Han actually faced death again,

he hesitated once more.

That was why he had slowly taken off the bath towel.

Once that towel was gone, all he could do was wait to freeze to death.

He had never expected that, just as he sank into utter despair,

Kid Bro would suddenly ask to share his bath towel!

Holy shit!

Chen Han took the opening and agreed to Kid Bro's request.

Wasn't that just perfect?

Although sharing a bath towel with Kid Bro let in a few drafts,

it still fell within the system's warming coverage, so Chen Han would not feel cold.

And so Chen Han walked ahead with Kid Bro.

Fang Lei stayed behind Chen Han and Kid Bro the whole time, so they still met the rules' requirements.

They walked for about five minutes.

This path was much longer than Chen Han had thought, mainly because there were too many weeds.

It was also almost dawn, so a lot of things were hard to make out.

He had no idea how much farther they had to go, but they could only keep walking.

What was even more outrageous now was that the path no longer just had weeds covering the ground.

Branches grew wildly in every direction.

They had to be extremely careful not to fall.

Normally, they would need a walking stick. Looking at all the branches scattered around, Chen Han soon had an idea.

Chen Han turned sideways and said to Kid Bro,

"Wait a moment. I'm going to pick up a branch. This path is hard to walk on."

Kid Bro then nodded, seemingly quite understanding.

Because Chen Han could not let Kid Bro stand behind him, he could only turn around with him to pick up a branch.

After searching all over, Chen Han finally found a fairly sturdy branch in some obscure corner.

But getting over there was rather difficult.

A tangle of small branches blocked his way.

So he had no choice but to ask Kid Bro to crouch down with him.

Soon, he was about to reach the branch in the corner.

Just then, Chen Han's swimming trunks suddenly made a ripping sound.

Puzzled, Chen Han looked down at his swimming trunks and discovered that a branch blocking his way had torn them.

All he could say was that, fortunately, the tear was not too bad. Otherwise, his swimming trunks would have been ruined.

He would also have risked exposing himself.

With no other choice, Chen Han continued trying to retrieve that sturdy branch.

He would leave the sorry state of his swimming trunks aside for now.

After all, he couldn't end up with torn trunks and no branch to show for it.

Wouldn't that be a huge loss?

His efforts finally paid off, and he managed to pick up the branch.

Only, the tear in his swimming trunks was even more noticeable now.

Once Chen Han picked up the branch, walking really did become much easier.

Having this branch to probe the path also put him considerably more at ease.

He had a flashlight, but there was no telling whether leaves might be covering some holes, so he still needed a stick to probe the way.

Seeing that Chen Han had retrieved the stick, Kid Bro obediently continued on his way.

Nothing seemed wrong.

Only Fang Lei, behind Chen Han, keenly noticed that something was off.

Why was Boss Chen Han dropping candy as he walked?

Fang Lei watched Chen Han drop a piece of candy every few steps, then another after a few more.

Obviously, the pocket of his swimming trunks had been torn.

But Fang Lei sensed something amiss!

Logically speaking, someone as cautious as Boss Chen Han

would never take the risk of going so far to retrieve a branch.

That posed a risk to him!

But why had Chen Han deliberately gone so far to pick up a branch? Most likely, picking up a branch was not his real purpose.

Instead, it was to deliberately tear his trunks and drop the candy!

Boss Chen Han was trying to leave a trail!

But who was this trail for?

Fang Lei now looked utterly bewildered.

Some sharp-eyed viewers in the livestream had naturally noticed this too.

"Why does candy keep leaking out of Boss Chen Han's pocket?"

"Hahaha, even Boss Chen Han has his careless moments!"

"Are you an idiot, commenter above? Boss Chen Han isn't dropping candy on purpose!"

"Could Boss Chen Han be deliberately leaving a trail?"

"Who could Boss Chen Han be leaving a trail for?"

"Holy shit, the more you think about it, the scarier it gets!"

"What are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"

"I'm so confused! What's going on?"

Just as a handful of clever people were gradually getting close to figuring out the truth,

Kid Bro suddenly spoke.

"Big brother, why do you think I always get bullied?"

Chen Han had thought Kid Bro only served as a guide NPC.

He had not expected him to also serve as a storytelling NPC.

Chen Han thought for a moment.

At last, he came up with a reasonably acceptable answer.

"Because you're cute."

Following behind Chen Han, Fang Lei almost laughed out loud.

What made Chen Han's remark funny was not what he had said.

It was that he had actually managed to give that compliment.

Kid Bro's head was covered in blood, and it really was covered in blood. As he was now, you could make out where his facial features were,

but not what they actually looked like.

Kid Bro ignored Chen Han's answer.

Instead, he continued on his own, like a mandatory story sequence in a game.

"My mom and dad both work away from home."

"I've always lived with Grandma, collecting plastic bottles with her."

"Then one day, they saw me, and they laughed at me for being a kid without a mom."

"He even picks through garbage? No wonder he stinks every day!"

"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter!"

"So that's your grandma! I saw her rummaging through the trash cans outside school last time!"

At this point, Kid Bro imitated their expressions and mannerisms.

Brows furrowed, the corners of his eyes raised, his voice shrill.

He seemed utterly disgusted.

Watching Kid Bro like this, Chen Han felt a trace of pity.

The livestream's bullet comments flooded the screen too.

"I feel like Kid Bro is the most tragic NPC."

"He gets beaten at such a young age, and he doesn't even have his parents around."

"Boohoo, my heart hurts for him..."

"School bullies deserve to die!"

"He's so pitiful. Kid Bro hasn't done anything bad, has he?"

"From that day on, they often kicked my schoolbag around like a soccer ball."

"They even stole the lunch money Grandma gave me."

"I was so, so hungry..."

"One day, they beat me up because I didn't have any money. I didn't dare go home, because Grandma would scold me for running wild outside again, then beat me again."

"So I could only stay at school until everyone had left."

Then Kid Bro suddenly introduced a twist.

"But then, it turned out our class monitor hadn't left yet because they were cleaning..."