Yan Chi was suspicious: “Really?”
“Really, really.” Luo Yang nodded frantically.
“Um?”
“She’s the prettiest girl I have ever seen!” His body trembled as he swore by raising his chubby hand. After a pause, with an eye roll, he thought of a new survival approach: “Brother, don’t worry, I will help you keep an eye on her when she goes to school.”
Yan Chi readily agreed, “Okay, remember to keep true to your words.”
Luo Yang: “.…..”
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And just because of this, the biased yet childish kid, Yan Chi barely let him off the hook.
Luo Yang could be said to be the lucky survivor from a holocaust.
After that, he was brought into the sister-holic team by Yan Chi
He slumped deep into it, and couldn’t pull himself out of it!
***** *****
The Yan family’s little sister,
Her full name was Yan Wanchu and her nickname was Yan Zaozao.
Her brother Yan Chi came up with all these names
It was mainly because both Yan Cheng and Chen Jinyao were lazy.
They wanted the easy way around this.
Seeing as Yan Chi really liked his sister, he threw the dictionary to him half-jokingly, and handed over the big naming task to him.
Anyway, Yan Chi took it seriously.
He nestled in the study, and thought long and hard about it.
He spent the whole afternoon in the study,
When he finally came out, he seemed energetic.
Chen Jinyao had washed some grapes and placed them on the coffee table. She looked up and glanced at Yan Cheng when she heard his son announce his sister’s name. Then she retracted her gaze as she raised her eyebrows at his son, “So, is there a meaning to this?”
Yan Chi puffed up his chest proudly, “Of course there is.”
“Oh?” Yan Cheng took off his gold-framed glasses and leaned on the sofa, his tone sounded lazy, “Then explain it to me.”
Yan Chi’s speech was clear, “Her name expresses the same meaning as mine, just in different words.”
“Early late, early late, think deeper into these two words, do you understand now?” His logical thinking was great, but he often just stops halfway, to get his point briefly across.
After thinking about it, he kindly pointed out the key word: “Late, late!”
This word expresses the same meaning as my “Chi”.
“Mom and dad, I did the math. When my younger sister goes to kindergarten, I will be graduating from elementary school, when she goes to elementary school, I will be graduating from junior high school, and when she goes to junior high school, I’ll already be in college.”
Chen Jinyao calmly looked away: “……”
The setting sun shined in from the window sill.
The ray of light gave off a sense of warmth.
His baby sister slept almost all day, in her crib in the bedroom on the first floor.
Of course, Yan Cheng could easily hear the complaints in his son’s words, and immediately chuckled, “Why don’t you name your sister Wansheng?”
“It sounds horrible.” He wrinkled his nose, and answered Yan Cheng with no doubt.
“What about Zaozao?” Chen Jinyao chose a grape and peeled the skin off. “Doesn’t the nickname Zaozao and Wanchu contradict in meaning?”
“No,” Yan Chi said.
Then, under the two adults’ inquiring gaze, he uttered an irrefutable sentence with great confidence: “My younger sister’s nickname is Zaozao. I think this shows that her birth was something that would happen sooner or later.”
Yan Cheng was convinced by his words: “……”
Chen Jinyao choked in silence: “??????”
After a long while, she turned to ask Yan Cheng for some input, “Does the name sound too casual?”
Yan Cheng just waved his hand, “As long as he’s happy.”
The name sounds nice anyway.
At this point in time, Yan Zaozao’s full name and nickname has been decided.
***** *****
The wheels of time kept turning.
In a blink of an eye, Yan Chi was already in sixth grade.
Yan Cheng and Chen Jinyao had great genes,
And blessed him with good looks.
When he was still young, people mostly described him as cute and chubby.
Now times are different. Starting from the fourth grade, Yan Chi began to change at a speed visible to the naked eye, as he started to grow taller.
It got to a point where his seat was shifted from the middle of the class to the spot near the back door of the class.
He became the tallest boy in class.
Information Age,
Children nowadays mature much sooner as compared to before.
At a young age, they would already pick out which guy was the most good looking and which girl was the prettiest in class.
Yan Chi was naturally on the list.
After all, his personality was more towards the colder side.
In school,
Yan Chi only had two best friends.
Except for these two buddies, he was indifferent to everyone else.