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ay.”

Yu Ran replied in a matter-of-fact manner: “Oh, it’s because I haven’t reviewed the contents of today’s lecture.
I’ll finish reading the last unit today, and I’ll listen to the lectures from tomorrow.
”

 

“… Did you study at home?”

Yu Ran nodded, and proudly said, “I finished memorizing all the Physics formulas from last semester in one night.” 

Chu Mian was stunned for a moment, and looked at Yu Ran suspiciously.
Although the formulas of last semester were simple and easy to remember, he didn’t think Yu Ran could correctly use them, so he said, “You have to solve a set of questions right after you memorize them, so as to consolidate them.”

Yu Ran sneered with disdain: “Oh my, do you have to tell me that?”

Chu Mian breathed a sigh of relief.
It turned out that he had been worried about the other party for nothing today.

Seeing him pretending to be arrogant, Chu Mian pushed his head and instructed: “I’ll send you a few online class lectures when I go home.
And remember to read my notes.” 

“Sure.” Yu Ran smiled, carried his school bag, waved goodbye, and walked across the crosswalk.

Back at home, Yu Ran logged in to QQ to receive the documents sent by Chu Mian, and then decided to take a shower first.
Before going out, he didn’t forget to tell Yu Jin: “I’m downloading videos on QQ.
If you use a computer, don’t meddle with it.”

Yu Jin was playing with his mobile phone with his head lowered, and asked inadvertently, “What video?”

Yu Ran also didn’t know the name of the specific course, so he just said, “It’s not for your age anyway.” 

Oh?

Yu Jin became interested and said “Oh” lightly.

As soon as Yu Ran left, Yu Jin’s eyes lit up.
He threw away his mobile phone, tumbled from the bed to the computer chair and stared at the file transfer in Yu Ran’s QQ chat box, waiting for it to be completely received.

The moment the video was successfully received, Yu Jin plugged in the data cable and sent a copy to his phone.
When he heard the sound of water in the bathroom stop, he unplugged the data cable and jumped back into his bed, his heart pounding . 

Yu Jin felt no guilt about stealing his brother’s video, and murmured to himself, “As siblings, we should share our joys and sorrows together.
And our stash.”

Unable to contain his inner expectation, he plugged in his earphones and shrank into a corner to quietly enjoy the “Collector’s_Edition.avi”.

The screen was pitch black, and a line of bold white letters slowly emerged:

Super Strategy for the New Curriculum Standards for 2009-2012 

Soon, there was a noise in the earphones and the picture became clear.
Yu Jin saw a woman wearing glasses who said with a smile, “Hello, students.”

Oh, a teacher-student moresome story? Yu Jin was stunned, and felt respect for his brother who had such a heavy taste.

 

He fast-forwarded nervously, trying to get straight to the main thing.

“Sliding friction is the resistance created by any two objects…” 

“…well, after talking about sliding friction, let’s look at static friction…”

“…The static friction refers to the friction present when there is no movement between the surfaces…”

Yu Jin kept sliding the progress bar, and jumped from 10 minutes to 30 minutes.
He saw that the video was almost over, but there was still not the “friction” he wanted to see.

“Ptui!” Yu Jin spat hard in the air. 

He couldn’t believe that his brother actually watched this kind of unsightly thing in the middle of the night.

After taking a bath, Yu Ran went back to the room.
He felt a little cooler with his upper body bare.
He wiped his hair and opened the newly downloaded popular mini game “Hitting the Plane“, completely unaware that his brother was staring at him with hidden bitterness behind his back.

He operated the mouse and fired the rocket launcher to knock over the small planes on the screen.
The gameplay of this game was similar to that of “NS-SHAFT“.
He made mistakes and had to start again in less than a minute each time.

Yu Ran ran out of patience, so he called Chu Mian.
He didn’t have anything special to say, but he happened to miss him now, so he dialed the number without hesitation. 

Chu Mian answered very slowly.
His voice was husky and lazy.
He seemed to have just woken up.
He asked him, “Have you watched the video?”

“Not yet.” Yu Ran clicked on the game interface with the mouse.
“I'm in the middle of 'Hitting the Plane'.”

Chu Mian suddenly became silent.

Yu Ran said excitedly, “We can play together.
Let’s have a competition to see who can hold on for a long time.” 

There was silence on the phone for a while, and Chu Mian’s voice came after a while: “This kind of thing… Do you really want to compare?”

“Although I’ve just started, isn’t it easy for me to win against you?” Yu Ran laughed heartily.
“I think you can hold on for only 30 seconds.”

Halfway through the laugh, he heard Chu Mian say the word “Get lost” gloomily to him before directly disconnecting the call.

Yu Jin deleted the Physics video from his mobile phone and couldn’t help asking, “Brother, you’ve been so out of sorts these past two days that you’ve started studying.” 

Yu Ran started another game and answered casually: “There will be a placement exam this semester, and I want to stay in the experimental class.”

“Why?” Yu Jin was puzzled.
“Didn’t you say that you don’t need to get a high score to study art?”

 

“Chu Mian is in the experimental class, so of course I will stay.”

“Chu Mian…” Yu Ran muttered the name, and suddenly realized.
“I remember, it was that rich brother who put you to bed last time!” 

Yu Ran’s hands paused.
He turned his face with the towel on his head and asked suspiciously: “What do you mean he ‘put me to bed’?”

“Once when you drank too much, he sent you back and then put you on the bed.” Yu Jin recalled that scene that was not suitable for children.
He still remembered it vividly.
He stood up and walked towards Yu Ran.
“You two were so close at that time.
I’ll show you.”

As he said this, he raised Yu Ran’s arm and let his brother lie on the bed, leaned over and pressed him down.

“Fuck, you stay away.” Seeing his brother getting closer and closer to him, Yu Ran pushed him away.
“Why don’t I remember?” 

“You also grabbed his scarf!”

Yu Ran remembered that time when he woke up the next day, he’d seen the scarf and hadn’t thought much about it.
He had thought that Chu Mian had just forgotten to take it away.

Lying on the bed, he recalled the distance between Yu Jin and him just now, and subconsciously replaced his brother’s face with Chu Mian’s.

“It’s so hot…” Yu Ran hadn’t worn a shirt in order to cool off, but now he was feeling uncomfortably dry from head to toe. 

Moreover, there were palpitations in his chest every few seconds, as if in a panic, and he was unable to make head or tail of it.

Yu Ran couldn’t help covering his left chest, and asked Yu Jin in deep thought: “Have you ever felt like you have seen a ghost?”

Yu Jin shook his head.

“Hey, let me think about how to describe it to you.
Chu Mian seems to have had this situation before.” Yu Ran touched the position of his heart, and his brain searched for what Chu Mian had said, “It just feels like… I’ve a hole here.” 

“Where ah? Brain?”

“No.” Yu Ran raised his chest at him.
“Tits.”