Elder brother's garrison

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...I'm so angry, so angry.

...I'm so angry, so angry, so angry.

Luo Lian stopped.

Luo Lian let out a soft breath.

The morning air was cool, as if it could take away the anger in one's mood.

She is a calm person.

Luo Lian turned her head to look at the willow tree beside her.

The willow leaves were damp in the early morning, with glistening dewdrops flowing over them like crystals, making the already wrinkled brown trunks look even older.

There was almost never a second-place finisher in the written exam.

Yes, there was one time it failed.

It was taken away by a little girl named Lu Lin.

That was when Luo Lian was in the first year of junior high school.

A student named Lu Lin, who skipped a grade, joined the class.

As a student who skipped a grade, he was the same age as Luo Lian. It seemed that he had undergone surgery when he was young, which delayed his schooling. It wasn't until that year that he was qualified to skip a grade and return to the grade he should have been in at his age.

Luo Lian initially didn't care about this girl named Lu Lin.

This girl named Lu Lin, even with the protagonist's flag of skipping grades, should have been just a passerby in her own life.

Just like the companions beside the still-immature protagonist, they will eventually fall behind the protagonist's progress and become just another face in the crowd.

Then, in a subsequent monthly exam, Luo Lian lost her halo.

That was the first time Luo Lian had lost the lead to someone else.

Even a simple monthly exam, even an ordinary test, is not something Luo Lian can accept.

She tasted defeat for the first time.

So Luo Lian began to observe this girl named Lu Lin.

Lu Lin is a girl who, at first glance, has no distinguishing features other than being somewhat cute.

He doesn't study hard.

He wasn't serious about his studies either.

He was very approachable and seemed completely unaware that he was an outstanding talent.

Like Luo Lian, she is someone who can become a superior person without having to work particularly hard.

Later, Luo Lian and Lu Lin became friends.

Becoming friends with her is actually quite easy. Lu Lin is a submissive person, so as long as you spend time with her, you can naturally become friends.

From childhood to adulthood, Luo Lian has never encountered a peer who can rival her.

Sometimes she wondered what her companions would be like if they were also characters with the "overpowered protagonist" archetype.

A powerful and handsome blond man, a playful and gentle loli, an all-knowing older sister, or a cross-dressing master who can fool anyone.

No matter how I thought about it, I never imagined that my companion was actually such a seemingly frail and ordinary girl.

He was someone who didn't even know his own level, someone who was outwardly "just another face in the crowd".

After that monthly exam, Luo Lian began to work hard.

In order not to lose the top spot, Luo Lian began to work hard for the first time in her life. She studied late into the night, did a lot of practice problems, and didn't want to be distracted for even a second during class. She recorded her lessons and studied them carefully, trying to understand the meaning of every word the teacher said. She bought materials that were beyond the curriculum and used all her free time to improve herself.

And sure enough, they reclaimed first place.

When the rankings came out, Luo Lian felt a genuine joy in every cell of her body.

That's the joy of seeing your efforts finally pay off.

—I still need to work hard. This thought, which should belong to ordinary people, appeared in Luo Lian's mind.

If you don't work hard, you won't be able to stand ahead of Lu Lin.

When Luo Lian and Lu Lin stood in front of the ranking list, she saw the little girl named Lu Lin beside her giving her an innocent smile.

"Congratulations, Lianlian, you're number one!"

what.

Yes, I'm number one.

Luo Lian looked at Lu Lin's score, which was a few points lower than her own.

If we don't do this, we will be surpassed.

This sense of crisis enveloped Luo Lian.

Throughout junior high school, Luo Lian lived in constant fear of things going wrong.

To be honest, I initially became friends with Lu Lin because I thought that strong people should stick together. But as time went by, that mindset did change.

Lu Lin is a very peculiar person; she lacks ambition that matches her abilities.

Compared to Luo Lian, who is always striving to be someone of high status, Lu Lin always seems to be trying to be ordinary.

Weak yet strong, cowardly yet brave.

This fascinatingly contradictory personality makes it impossible to look away.

By the time Luo Lian realized it, she had become someone who couldn't help but want to ask Lu Lin out every weekend.

He wanted to see Lu Lin, to become stronger in front of her, to receive her praise, and to eliminate anyone who might harm her.

I want to be with her, I want to make her happy, we want to be neighbors after we get married, our children want to be friends, we want to live together, we want to die together, we even want to share a grave.

By the time Luo Lian realized what was happening...

"Ah, so I've become a complete pervert." She had become someone who could call herself that.

After graduating from junior high school, I went on to high school.

Lu Lin chose an ordinary high school that was relatively close to her home.

Although I heard that she originally wanted to become an admiral, something happened in her family, so she ended up enrolling in an ordinary high school.

Luo Lian should have gone to the best high school in the city and continued to be the strongest among the outstanding students.

No way.

However, Luo Lian did not like this; she wanted to become Lu Lin's partner.

As mentioned before, she had long since lost the goal of becoming stronger after losing Lu Lin.

So she rejected her parents' suggestion and enrolled in the high school that Lu Lin had chosen.

If we stay together like this, we can go to high school, university, graduate school, master's degree, doctorate, or even drop out to do research or start a company. As long as we're with Lu Lin, there's nothing we can't do.

Thinking this way, Luo Lian pretended not to know anything and reunited with Lu Lin at the new school.

……

Then, Lu Lin disappeared.

They vanished as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth.

Luo Lian investigated all the information about Lu Lin, but it all disappeared as if it had been erased by some mysterious force.

There is no longer any news about Lu Lin in the world.

Luo Lian became a person again.

He became someone who could become number one without having to work hard.

Luo Lian pursed her lips as she walked down the street.

Go faster and faster.

Anyway, there's no one in this world who can keep up with me anymore.

Testimonials

My editor contacted me this Wednesday and said it would be available on Friday.

That is tomorrow.

...(sighs deeply.)

First, let's talk about the policy: If the first subscription exceeds 1000, the daily word count will be 6000 for the first week.

Okay, let’s get down to business.

I broke my promise.

That's incredibly embarrassing.

As many people probably know, this book was previously serialized on Baidu Tieba, with updates every three or four days, which can hardly be described as diligent.

Later, I felt frustrated by the constant censorship and inexplicable deletion of posts on Tieba (plus, no one really reads these posts, which is the main reason), so I came here instead.

I said at the time that I didn't plan to put this book on the shelves, or at least I didn't have that idea at the time.

Wow, I felt like I was radiating saintly light.

Well, in the end, it was still put on the shelves.

...Disgraceful thing.

I can only apologize to the friends who followed me from the forum.

I am sorry.

I am sorry.

Repeat again.

Really sorry.

In order to give those who were disappointed in me and left after seeing the release announcement a relatively happy ending to the first volume, I worked like crazy today to finish writing the first volume (although I still haven't finished making up for the extra chapters I owe).

I'll start updating the VIP chapters tomorrow morning at 10 AM. I hope the first subscription tomorrow will be... 1,000.

Initial subscriptions are very important for authors whose books are published.

I hope everyone can support this shameless author (even if you don't read it, just subscribing to one chapter before leaving would be great!).

Thank you to all the readers who have been with us along the way. See you tomorrow!

Oh right, I think I forgot to mention why I agreed to list it.

—Because I'm going to spend money on Merlin!!!

Chapter 111 A girl went out to buy fried dough sticks!

Yuxiu is a city of moderate size.

Because of the idiom "钟灵毓秀" (zhōng líng yù xiù), many outsiders assume it's a place of beautiful mountains and clear waters, where birds sing and flowers bloom, and where the spirit is vibrant.

But I'm sorry, Yuxiu is really just an ordinary small city.

If you really want to say what Yuxiu is special about, it's that it's by the sea.

—These days, there aren't many cities that dare to be located by the sea.

You might say it's big, but it's not really that big. You could ride a bicycle around the city in less than two days. You might say it's backward, but it's not really backward either. Even a sparrow has all the necessary organs, let alone a city.

This is just an ordinary, simple city.

The boy kept his head down as he walked, fiddling with his phone.

As a high school student and a day student, he has become accustomed to commuting in the early morning.

An early-rising city is like a steamed bun, reserved like a lump of pure, unblemished dough. Only when the sun's heat bakes the surface like steam can the city expand like an amusement park.

He opened his mouth and yawned.

There are advantages to waking up early, namely that there are fewer people in the city.

There were very few cars to be seen early in the morning.

The boy's rented house was very close to the school, so he didn't even need to take a car; he could walk to school before class.