At precisely six in the morning…

Su Yuxi opened her eyes punctually, lifting the covers. Rubbing her drowsy eyes, she headed into the bathroom after a quick wash. Carrying a comb, she emerged and sat in the chair in front of the table, combing her hair while gazing at the screen of the spatial window.

Among the three screens, only one was active—directed towards a bed.

The autumn morning at six was still dim. Coupled with the curtains drawn and the lights off, she could barely discern a silhouette sleeping on the bed.

Legs curled under a light sleepwear, small feet rested on the chair, and ten adorable toes gently moved. Su Yuxi hugged her knees, resting her chin on them, gazing affectionately at the screen.

Since Su Yuchen started attending Sky University, she spends an hour watching the screen every morning and evening before she can fall asleep.

As dawn broke, sunlight filtered through the thin curtains into the room displayed on the screen. Su Yuxi’s eyes brightened, leaning slightly forward. Her eyes, faintly shining, remained fixed on Su Yuchen, who was sleeping flat on his back.

“Good thing I’m smart. The surveillance installed on the figurine can rotate 360° without blind spots. Hehe.”

Then… the screen suddenly shook, prompting Su Yuxi to lean forward more eagerly—seeing the figurine smack her brother’s face every morning was her favorite sight.

Though it pained her to see him get hit, it was a figurine she had given him… if it smacked his cheek, it was like she’d done it herself?

“Hit, hit, hit…”

Despite the anticipation of something good, Su Yuxi’s murmurs and expressions seemed akin to a dark magician’s ‘curse.’

“It hit… Huh?!”

Su Yuxi suddenly jumped off the floor, wide-eyed, watching as a hand grabbed the bikini-clad sword-wielding figurine, right before it ‘struck’ her brother. Her voice was filled with resentment. “Vixen!!!”

“Why did you come so early today? It’s disturbing my ‘cloud contact’…”

Her eyes widened again, Su Yuxi’s upper body leaned forward, hands gripping the edges of the spatial window. Her chest, still in development, heaved dramatically.

She was angered by the screen’s images.

Then… the screen went blank, because the figurine was pressed onto the bed by a hand from behind.

She didn’t need to see to know what the vixen was up to, but…

Vacuum cleaner!

Those words popped into Su Yuxi’s mind. In the split second the figurine was not aimed downwards at the bed, Xia Yushuang’s graceful pose resembled a vacuum cleaner to her!

Rough and forceful.

“This is over the line!!!”

Su Yuxi shook the spatial window vigorously—she couldn’t physically ‘hit’ someone through the screen.

“Foul, shameless, horny fox spirit… Like a dog in heat early in the morning…”

No longer looking at the pitch-black screen, Su Yuxi turned around and lunged onto the soft bed, pounding it with her hands and feet.

“Ah! Wretched fox spirit… even if it’s been ten years, I shouldn’t have asked you to help look after him!”

“If you don’t become my sister in law, I’d have to sew your mouth shut.”

“If my brother ends up liking you…”

Su Yuxi’s speech accelerated, her slightly gloomy eyes matched her voice, sounding like the chant of an evil sorcerer.

“To become my sister-in-law, you need to earn favor from this little sister. Otherwise, my brother will detest you the most!”

Glancing back at the pitch-black screen, Su Yuxi gritted her teeth. “Why haven’t you woken up yet?!”

Despite all of that…

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“Phew…”

Exhaling the air she’d held for two minutes, Xia Yushuang straightened up, looking at the peacefully sleeping Su Yuchen. “The price for ignoring Senior Sister…”

Lifting her hand holding the sword-wielding figurine, she hesitated for a moment, then aimed the base of the figurine at Su Yuchen’s lips.

‘If I hadn’t caught it in time, the figurine would still hit your face… Just pretend I arrived now… Also, you mustn’t know yet…”

Forcefully reasoning with herself, she loosened her grip on the figurine.

Thud!

The plastic base made contact with his lips, emitting a sound that seemed quite painful.

“It’d be better if you didn’t wake up.”

As Su Yuchen opened his eyes, he simultaneously heard the sound that never fails to be absent every morning.

However, he couldn’t focus on bickering with Xia Yushuang. Instead, he instinctively reached up to touch his lips… and found blood.

A faint taste of blood lingered in his mouth.

It stung a bit.

Without much thought, he knew it was the result of the figurine falling from the headboard.

“Sausage-lipped Junior, need me to call emergency services?” Xia Yushuang’s voice held a hint of satisfaction—it was her doing.

“It’s not a serious injury… Besides, how could getting hit once make my lips swell like sausages?”

Xia Yushuang remained silent, taking out her phone to open the camera and aimed it at him. “Isn’t it a sausage?”

She then puckered her cherry-pink lips.

Looking at himself on the screen, Su Yuchen was momentarily stunned. It did kind of look like a sausage… Was it a bit exaggerated?

Xia Yushuang retracted her phone and glanced at the figurine lying on the pillow. “Did you do it to yourself last night? Hmm? Overworked, huh? Otherwise, how could you sleep so deeply, forgetting how many times you were hit by the doll?”

“Late-night ‘exercise’ Junior, precisely because you’re young, you should take care of your health.”

Saying so, Xia Yushuang turned and left his bedroom—breakfast wasn’t prepared yet.

“How many times was I hit?” Su Yuchen picked up the figurine in front of him. Did he really sleep so deeply last night? He got hit and just put it back to be hit again?

Why did he have no memory of this?

Even if it had happened, why did it always hit his mouth?

He touched his slightly swollen lips with his left hand. How many times would it take for them to swell so evenly?

Returning the figurine to its place, he mumbled, “It would be better if one day you turn into a soft beautiful girl; then, getting hit wouldn’t hurt.”

After donning his pajamas and leaving the room, he glanced at Xia Yushuang preparing breakfast in the kitchen. “Why did you come so early today?”

“To rescue your mouth from becoming an extra-large sausage,” Xia Yushuang replied without turning her head. “Remember well the care Senior Sister gives you…”

“In this city, besides me, everyone will mock your sausage lips.”

Fine, he shouldn’t have asked.

He was still being disregarded for yesterday’s matter…