Shen Yi was different.
She had no past holding her back; she was absolutely free.
That was very good.
Shen Yi: "Is that so?"
She thought about it and it seemed to be true. If Song Sijun didn't have her, he would probably always be a carefree, sweet, and innocent person. He had no ambitions for the family.
"If that's the case, you don't need to think about my affairs anymore. Whatever happens to me has nothing to do with you."
"Besides, I rarely think about the past," Shen Yi pinched his cheek, earnestly warning and comforting his worrisome mental state. "Don't go crazy. I'll solve it myself. There were a few people from our past lives who were indeed very hateful. If we meet, I can take revenge myself."
She wasn't a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, after all.
It was just that she had never run into those bullies, so they had been at peace with each other.
Hearing this, Song Sijun silently lowered his head, not daring to speak.
The people who had bullied them the most in their previous lives had already been taken care of by him.
"Mhm, I know," he agreed vaguely. "But, maybe you won't see them anymore. They might have already gone abroad to study, disappeared... or something..."
Shen Yi felt his words were strange, but before she could ponder over them, Song Sijun was already asking how her life in the Shen family was.
"By the way, are the people around you nice?"
People around her?
Shen Yi rested her finger on her chin and spoke her true feelings. "I always feel that the people around me are all a bit crazy. But actually, being a bit crazy makes you live happier."
The only people who could live happily in this strange world were those like Shen Wenta, Shen Xun, and the homeless.
They were typical of extremely self-centered personalities.
They never experienced internal friction, went their own way, and when things happened, it was always someone else's fault.
Song Sijun thought of Shen Xun, who had a faint expression and a sneaky personality, and then of Shen Wenta, who generously treated a group of classmates to bullets.
He had to admit.
The Shen family's atmosphere, full of purely external-friction personalities, was incredibly suitable for Shen Yi.
He hugged her, burying his face in her shoulder, and whispered.
"I'll go to your school to find you in a while."
"Okay," Shen Yi was still a little confused. "Did you come here to attend the birthday banquet for a reason?"
One must know that Song Sijun never socialized before.
He played dumb: "Just planning to make some friends."
—To make it easier to stab them in the back later.
Shen Yi didn't expect her younger brother to like socializing after being reborn. She felt a bit relieved and patted his head.
"Sister, I have to go now," he rubbed against her palm, whispering. "The family driver has been waiting outside for a long time. If I don't go back, Song Guanyan will probably come here to catch me."
Song Sijun could feel that the man was becoming increasingly strict in his supervision over him, afraid that he would mess around outside.
Shen Yi leaned close to him, couldn't help but rub against him, blinked, and answered, "Okay, remember to come find me."
"Mhm."
The two little ones cuddled briefly and quickly separated.
When the door opened, Shen Wenta was leaning against the wall in the corridor, staring straight at the two coming out.
His face was pulled long, and he was in a bad mood.
As Song Sijun passed by the two Shen family members, he smiled and said lightly, "Goodbye."
Shen Wenta: "?"
Shen Xun: "..."
Shen Xun: "Is he saying goodbye to us?"
Shen Wenta: "He's mocking you, idiot."
Shen Xun tilted his head: "Is this mocking?"
Then next time he would also say goodbye to Song Sijun and fiercely mock him back.
After coldly mocking his emotionally unintelligent brother, Shen Wenta immediately observed Shen Yi's expression.
Shen Yi had been faintly conflicted before, but now she looked visibly bright and cheerful.
"Does acknowledging your relatives make you this happy?" he asked, his tone carrying a sourness he didn't even notice.
"Of course not," Shen Yi walked past him, the hem of her skirt swaying, her steps much lighter. "It has nothing to do with that."
What she was happy about was that they had finally talked things out.
Those words accumulated in her heart, the complicated matters, could finally be laid out and explained a little.
Most of the people at the banquet had left, and waiters were walking back and forth with trays.
Shen Wenta was in a bad mood right now, and yet a man came over with a cheeky smile, wanting to put an arm around his shoulder.
He didn't even look at him, casually throwing the drink he had just taken coldly into the man's face.
"Get lost."
Under Shen Wenta's cold glare, the man finally retreated dejectedly.
Before a second dreamer trying to get close could step up, Shen Wenta, unable to tolerate the place any longer, took the lead and quickly left the center of the hall.
After taking two steps.
He turned back, looking at the two little ones left behind, and raised his voice coldly: "Are you two going to live here?"
Shen Yi blinked. "Brother, are you really angry?"
Shen Wenta rarely showed such disrespect in public; he actually cherished his persona quite a bit.
As a result, not many people actually knew his mean nature.
Shen Wenta's emotions were clearly a bit anxious.
In comparison, Shen Xun was much more rational in emotional management. He could tell that his third brother was very emotional.
Shen Wenta could only calmly view problems when they didn't involve important people. When it came to people he cared about, he was simply too prone to acting foolishly.
The eldest brother seemed to have been dissatisfied with the third brother's personality, which was easily influenced by external forces, for a long time.
"Of course I'm not angry." Shen Wenta smiled lukewarmly.
It was a very fake smile, but Shen Yi pretended not to see it and smiled brightly: "That's good."
"Do you believe I'm not angry?" Seeing her trying to play dumb, Shen Wenta decisively stopped, resisting the urge to glare at her coldly, his tone listless. "Where did he come from?"
"Why do you even have a brother?"
Shen Yi stood on his left, holding tightly onto him. "A brother is just a brother, just like an older brother is an older brother."
"I like you two older brothers the most." She was very sweet-talking.
However, not mentioning the two was fine, but mentioning the two, Shen Wenta lowered his eyes, suddenly remembering something he had forgotten:
"Shen Xun, have you seen Shen Ruxu recently?"
That wild boar seemed to have disappeared for a long time?
If he could be this well-behaved for so long, he was definitely either causing trouble or on his way to causing trouble.
Shen Xun stood on his right, recalling: "No. The last time I saw second brother was because he was gambling, caught by eldest brother, and sent to prison to be a reform-through-labor convict."
"But he complained that the food there tasted bad and that he had to get up early to pedal the sewing machine, so he broke out of prison the next day."
"Wait a minute," Shen Yi tried to interject. "Gambling? Prison break? Doing time?"
Shen Xun: "Yeah, Dad used to like gambling too, but his luck was really terrible. Mom used to frequently take a knife to the casino to save him."
Shen Yi: "..."
The Shen family was still too full of drama every day.
Shen Wenta was obviously hearing this story for the first time too. He froze for two seconds, speechless at his biological father's behavior.
"...It's best if we haven't seen him. You two stay far away from eldest brother and second brother."
So far, having Mom, Dad, a younger brother, and a younger sister in the family was enough.
As for the other two older brothers they rarely saw, he had already unhesitatingly expelled them from humanity.
Shen Wenta had rarely interacted with his family ever since he was a child.
The only younger brother he was close to was Shen Xun, who frequently sent him gifts and occasionally called to keep in touch.
As for his two older brothers, he had a terrible relationship with one, and barely knew the other.
But he wasn't the only one.
The entire family barely knew their eldest brother.
Shen Zhizhao's personality was just like a green bean.
Not only was he incredibly stubborn and closed off.
But he was also downright toxic if you weren't close to him.
