Chapter 2: My Childhood Dominated by That Girl
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I was wearing heavy clothes and a motorcycle helmet, which in gaming terms, would be called a level one helmet and a zero-level armor.

The motorcycle helmet was "borrowed" from my elder sister without asking for permission, but as long as I put it back after using it, I would definitely not get caught.

In this scorching summer day, a strangely dressed helmeted man suddenly appeared, and passers-by looked at me with astonishment, making me feel like I was going to commit a crime.

Although I knew dressing like this was silly, it was necessary. Let me analyze why a tough guy like me needs to dress like this.

First: If I wear thin clothes, the other party will definitely use the excuse of whether I have muscles or not to reach their hands inside my clothes and stuff some strange things.

Second: Although it's an airport, who knows if she has bribed the janitor to set up a clever trap in the waiting area, giving me a blow on the head.

Third: Dressed like this, even the most familiar people wouldn't recognize me right away, so I would have the advantage of going first. Even if she got my picture in advance, she wouldn't find me first.

All these brilliant calculations are for that terrifying she-devil, who sent chills down my spine when I think of what she did to me when we were young.

I took off my helmet, gasping for breath, and to be honest, it's really hot. No wonder my sister doesn't dare to go out on an electric bike, with a helmet like this, anyone would suffocate.

Upon taking a taxi to the airport, the driver watched me vigilantly all the way, as if hesitating whether to call the police, making me feel like I would get shot as soon as I entered the airport.

Looking at the spacious airport entrance and the occasional roar of airplane engines in the distance, my heart was filled with mixed emotions and an indescribable complex taste.

The first time I met Xi Qiao was when I was five years old and attending kindergarten.

That year, an old French man named Blanch came to China to spend the New Year's holiday with us. I was delighted because he always brought me a huge red envelope.

Although it was always "kept" by my mother, this didn't affect my mood because toys and other things would occasionally be brought as well.

That day, little me stood at the gate of our courtyard, waiting for that cool red Ferrari.

However, to my surprise, a black Bugatti Veyron stopped in front of my house. Although the old man who got out of it was still very stylish, I had an uneasy feeling at that moment.

As expected, Hulk Grandpa opened the door with a doting look on his face and led a little girl about my age out of the car.

She had light brown hair like young Hulk Grandpa, her big eyes seemed to speak, and she held a cute stuffed doll, which made her both adorable and intelligent.

Considering my experience of being beaten up by my high school-aged sister since I was little, I didn't let my guard down around this foreign girl; on the contrary, I was very cautious.

It was strange that due to having an elder sister who loved to bully me, I never won fights against girls; however, I was quite steady when fighting with boys.

"Yo, little emperor, you've grown taller again."

Hulk Grandpa still spoke fluent but strange Chinese, but my eyes were all on the little girl. My years of being bullied have taught me that she might be dangerous, so I gave her a fierce look as a warning.

Now that I think about it, that look might be similar to that of a cat cornered by a tiger.

However, at that moment, Xi Qiao showed something completely different from me.After Hulk Grandpa introduced her, she first stretched out a small hand toward me, and then looked at me with a cute smile.

I admit that I let my guard down at that moment and shook hands with her without any dignity. Holding her soft little hand, I felt my face blush first, and then a strange electric sensation.

"Little emperor! What's wrong with you!"

Damn it! It was real electricity! Not some love-struck tingle! I was just a kid at the time, and I had no idea what love-struck tingling was!

I was almost electrocuted, and the girl, holding her doll with a worried look on her face, made me think it might have been static electricity, so I gritted my teeth and shook my head at Hulk Grandpa.At that time, I was indeed too young.

"Sigh..." I recall the past events with a serious expression under my helmet.

As it turned out, a little girl who was rich, smart, and pampered by her grandfather was really terrifying.

The first meeting gift was actually an electric shock trap from a lighter. Though it seems childish and ridiculous now, it was undoubtedly a clever trick for a kindergarten me.

But it wasn't over yet.

From the day Hulk Grandpa returned to his country and left her in this kindergarten, my nightmare had truly begun.

I don't know when, but my status at home began to decline every day.

When Xi Qiao cutely said she wanted to eat snacks, my mother would not hesitate to take out a small cake from the refrigerator and feed her with a doting face, leaving me, who wanted to share a bite, to play with the egg.

The most outrageous was my sister. My biological sister. She secretly took out and ate the small cookie I had painstakingly hidden under my bed for a week with Xi Qiao when she sent me to buy drinks. She even said that boys should give in to girls, making me long for a country called Thailand for a while. (By the way, the drink which was supposed to be mine was given to Xi Qiao. Yes, that's right, I ran errands for nothing.)

But these were not physical injuries to me.

The most terrifying thing about Xi Qiao was her ingenious tricks that I couldn't have possibly thought of during my kindergarten days!

Suddenly crying in fear in the room about a mouse, making me who just met her, show manly courage.

Who would have thought that as soon as I entered, a huge fake mouse would fall from the door and bounce on my face, scaring me to pee on the spot and revealing my ugly side.

As for things like putting crabs in my shoes and shrimps in my underwear, I won't talk about it, just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable.

If this were only physical, it might not be considered smart.

But if I ever find out who taught her those chemical knowledge as a kid! I will definitely show them my fist as big as a casserole!

After being pranked for a day, I crawled out of the toilet exhausted after spending a night sleeping in there.

After opening the door, I saw an angelic girl handing me a bottle of cola with a worried face. At that moment, my young self was almost moved to tears.

If there wasn't any Mentos in that damned cola! She would have been the cutest angel in the world!

As expected, I washed my face with cola. Since then, I have never bought cola again.

Sigh...What a tragic memory, fortunately no one told her that combining persimmons with crabmeat and vitamin C would form arsenic, otherwise if I ate it back then, I might not have lived till today.

Anyway, she went back to her own country around the first grade of elementary school, leaving me with miserable kindergarten memories. Now when I see girls, I still have a little phobia.

A big part of why I tried hard to get into a high school in another city was out of fear that she might come looking for me. If I was still studying in that same place, I'd probably be bullied to the point of having no friends.

However, what I fear the most is the way my parents looked at us when we were children.

Those ambiguous and impure gazes, as if looking at a couple who had been cultivated since childhood.

Damn it, how could this be possible?

I must have remembered it wrongly. Hulk Grandpa's family was so rich, Xi Qiao must have just wanted to prank me. I swore when I was young, I would rather jump off a building than marry her. It's all an illusion.

Yes, it's all an illusion.