CH 1.1

“A healthy body, an ordinary office job, a good brother, are there any other requirements?”

“No more. ”

“Are you sure you don’t want to upgrade the chip and continue to support hosts? You can apply for an excellent system for yourself as an award.”

“No need.”

Realising that he couldn’t keep system No. 11, the mastermind felt a little pity, and let out a sigh.

“Ok, fine. But the brother assigned for you will not show up until you are used to the new body and environment.”

“Can’t he show up right away?” No. 11 was a little disappointed.

“Friendship needs to be formed over time. If you haven’t been together for a long time before, how can you develop a deep brotherhood? If you developed it in the past, it is not friendship with you, it is with someone else, and you would not want to be someone else’s replacement.”

No. 11 thinks the mastermind was right; some things cannot be avoided, so he agreed.

Then, he woke up from a dream.

The morning sunshine fell in and summers in the south were like hot furnaces. The master bedroom, which was facing south, was very dry, making it very stuffy at 7 o’clock in the morning.

Zhuang Yanyu did not sit up immediately when he woke up as usual, but continued to lie on the bed and think.

This was probably because the human brain was not as fast as a chip processor. It took Zhuang Yanyu 2 minutes and 32 seconds to realise from a daze that he had woken up. He was now an ordinary human being.

This slow-response brain processor, similar to lagging, made Zhuang Yanyu frowned slightly, and he couldn’t help but patted his head.

He thought his head was like an old TV, just tap it lightly and it starts working again.

Zhuang Yanyu got out of bed to wash up.

It took him three minutes to brush his teeth, one minute to wash his face, and twenty minutes to finish his breakfast. When it was exactly 7:30, he went out.

As soon as he closed the door of the house, the next-door neighbor’s door opened too, it was an old woman who was going to take her grandson to school.

The old grandma smiled: “Good morning, Xiao Zhuang, go to work?”

The little boy also shouted: “Good morning, brother¹, Nan Nan is going to kindergarten too!

Zhuang Yanyu replied with a wide smile: “Good morning.”

The three of them went to take the elevator and left the neighborhood together.

The little baby, Nan Nan, kept secretly glancing at Zhuang Yanyu from time to time, and then suddenly covered his mouth after watching for a while, as if he had discovered a big secret.

In the end, he couldn’t bear it anymore, and said softly, “Grandma! Brother is like a robot!”

Zhuang Yanyu paused, his smile froze slightly, and only six teeth showed in the arc of his smile.

The old lady was amused: “What robot, you have watched too many cartoons.”

She said so while looking at Zhuang Yanyu.

Zhuang Yanyu looked very good, he was tall and thin, with long legs and long hands, and fair skin, which made his amber eyes under his curly eyelashes more clear and translucent. His face was very delicate but not feminine, which instead gives people a youthful and sunny feeling. His youthful temperament made him look like a college student.

However, after looking at him very carefully, the old lady suddenly understood why her little grandson said that.

She had watched a lot of cartoons with her grandson so she naturally knew which cartoon her grandson was talking about.

The Zhuang Yanyu in front of her had a straightened back; every step he took seemed to have been accurately calculated so when he walked, his arms swayed, just like a boy in the army marching forward.

The difference was that his arms were relatively stiff when he swung them as if he was not used to them very much, thus when he swung them, he really looked like a robot.

It was no wonder that the child misunderstood; the more she looked at it, the more she felt like it was true too.

The grandma laughed at her thoughts and said: “Don’t mind Xiaozhuang, Nan Nan has been obsessed with robot cartoons recently, he was just seeing how good-looking you are.”

Zhuang Yanyu forced a smile: “No, he is very smart. ”

The child was even happier when he was praised, and he kept jumping up and down all the way saying that he was Monkey King², with piercing eyes³.

After leaving the neighborhood, they separated and Zhuang Yanyu let out a long breath of relief.

Human children were so terrifying!

When he arrived at the company, just as he finished checking in at the front desk, he heard someone calling him.

“Xiao Zhuang! Hurry up, the elevator is coming!”

Zhou Quan stood at the door of the elevator and waved to him.

Zhuang Yanyu walked over quickly but the elevator was still on the floor below, so he said, “You came a little early today.”

As a colleague in the technical service department, Zhou Quan had always struggled to check in at the last minute when going to work. In a few seconds, the stubbornness of the social animal was fully reflected in him.

Zhou Quan yawned and said, “A notice was sent to the group in the morning, saying that the special elevator at our boss’s side seemed to have shut down for maintenance for some reason. We are all trying to come as early as possible, so as to not be seen by the boss when we are about to be late; we must show the boss the diligent spirit of everyone coming to the company early.”

Then he yawned again: “Besides, taking the elevator with the boss is so embarrassing – it’s impolite to talk less, and it is like flattering if you talk too much. It’s obvious that the elevator only takes tens of seconds, but it becomes so embarrassing it is as if it’s been centuries! Direct people like me are easy to pack up and leave if we are not careful.”

1 → brother – 哥哥, a name used to call older people. Though preferably not too old, that will be uncle(叔叔).

2 → Monkey King – he is a famous character from 《journey to the west》, one of the four must read books in China.

3 → piercing eyes – 火眼金睛， an ability that the Monkey King can use to see through illusions, something like X-ray visions.

Helen XD: Hiii, I will be translating 《Do good brothers not have any pure friendship?》from now on. I will be uploading chapters every Wednesday with part 2s on Sundays(if any). Hope you like it! P.S. MC will be meeting ML in chap 1.2