My younger brothers are so fierce!!! I'm clearly the eldest brother!

Jiang Yan knew Jiang Guanqing's personality well. After reviewing the surgical debriefing materials in her hand, she got up to check if Jiang Guanqing was asleep.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at Jiang Guanqing's room, they could faintly hear a fast-paced ringing of a bell.

Jiang Yan raised her hand and knocked on the door. She pushed the door open and saw Jiang Guanqing sitting properly on the edge of the bed with his hands on his knees, looking like he hadn't done anything.

Upon seeing this, Jiang Yan immediately realized that something was definitely fishy!

"Xiao Yan, it's so late, is something wrong?"

Jiang Guanqing curled his fingers. The doors in the house weren't very soundproof. Could Xiao Yan have heard him?

"What was Big Brother doing just now?"

Jiang Guanqing's eyelashes fluttered, and her voice was a little weak, "I didn't do anything?"

"Yeah?"

Jiang Yan raised an eyebrow, picked up the phone that Jiang Guanqing had tossed onto the bedside table, unlocked it with her fingerprint, and stared at the screen full of alarm clocks, her temples throbbing.

Jiang Yan took a deep breath and changed the alarm clock back to its original setting, leaving only the alarms for 7:20 and 7:30.

"Big brother, do you remember what you promised me?"

Jiang Guanqing lowered his eyes, "I'm just afraid I'll oversleep. Xiao Ning can't be late for her first exam..."

Jiang Yan sighed heavily and shoved the phone back into Jiang Guanqing's hand. "Big brother, Xiao Zhuo and I are all here, along with Butler Li and the aunties. Xiao Ning definitely won't be late."

Jiang Guanqing nodded sullenly. It wasn't that he didn't understand, but he was just afraid.

"Big brother, it's getting late. I'll watch you sleep."

"Oh." Jiang Guanqing obediently lay down, pulled the blanket up, and only showed his beautiful eyes looking at Jiang Yan. He secretly thought that after Xiao Yan left, he would reset the alarm clock.

Jiang Yan, exasperated by Jiang Guanqing's gaze, reached out to tuck the blanket around him and turned off the overhead light. "Big brother, you're not allowed to reset the alarm clock, or I'll get angry."

Knowing that his older brother wouldn't set an alarm anymore, Jiang Yan chuckled and coaxed, "Big brother, you can have two more pieces of pastry tomorrow."

Jiang Guanqing buried his face in the blanket and stopped talking. After he could no longer hear Jiang Yan's footsteps, Jiang Guanqing picked up his phone, his finger hovering over the "Add Alarm" button. He hesitated for a long time, but finally gave up.

Jiang Guanqing slept restlessly, waking up several times in a daze. His dreams were bizarre and fantastical, intertwining events from two lifetimes.

At 4:17 a.m., Jiang Guanqing was no longer sleepy and lay in bed counting his fast and heavy heartbeats.

Jiang Guanqing got up at six o'clock in the morning, tiptoed downstairs to the kitchen, and helped the aunt prepare breakfast for Jiang Ning.

At 7:30 sharp, Jiang Guanqing went upstairs to wake Jiang Ning up. While Jiang Ning sat down to eat, Jiang Guanqing checked Jiang Ning's stationery over and over again.

On the way to the exam, Jiang Guanqing would repeatedly remind you, "Your admission ticket is in the document bag, and I brought you two extra pens... Don't be nervous, just do your best."

Jiang Ning was truly helpless. "Big brother, I'm really not nervous. You've said it so many times, I've remembered it. Just do my best, I'm not nervous."

Jiang Guanqing was taken aback. Had he said it many times?

Jiang Guanqing reached out and ruffled Jiang Ning's hair. "Do your best on the exam. Your older brother is waiting for you outside."

As candidates entered the examination hall one after another, the area outside gradually quieted down. Jiang Guanqing stood under the shade of a tree, his eyes fixed on the teaching building inside the examination hall.

Jiang Yan and the others also arrived and stayed by Jiang Guanqing's side.

"Brother, it's hot outside. Why don't you get in the car and sit down to wait, or we can find a shop to sit in?" Jiang Yan frowned slightly. How could her brother's body take it if he stood any longer?

"No need." Jiang Guanqing shook his head and refused, unconsciously licking his dry lips.

Seeing that Jiang Guanqing's face was getting paler and paler, Jiang Yan forcefully led him to a restaurant a few hundred meters away.

Jiang Yan sat Jiang Guanqing down in a window seat at the restaurant and ordered a cup of warm honey water.

"Brother, have some water."

Jiang Guanqing picked up the cup but didn't drink it. Instead, he looked through the glass window at the teaching building of the Seventh Middle School in the distance.

"Big brother?" Jiang Yan waved his hand in front of Jiang Guanqing's eyes, and Jiang Guanqing came back to his senses, lowered his head and took a sip of honey water.

Jiang Yan frowned deeply. Something was wrong with her older brother; he was acting strangely from head to toe.

Jiang Xiaoliu's mock exam score was the highest in the whole school, so his college entrance exam score should not be too bad. Even if he does poorly, it doesn't matter. Even without Yuehua's annual dividends, can't his older brothers support a younger brother?

My older brother always lets them have their way and hopes they will do what they want to do. He would never force Xiao Liu to get high scores. But why is my older brother so nervous? He wasn't this nervous when he sent Xiao Liu off to take the college entrance exam.

Repeatedly giving instructions can create more pressure on a person's heart. On the way here, the older brother gave Xiao Liu similar instructions no less than five times.

Jiang Yan's heart tightened as she suddenly remembered Jiang Guanqing's psychological problems.

"Big brother."

Hearing Jiang Yan's shout, Jiang Guanqing slowly shifted his gaze from the direction of the teaching building back. "...What's wrong?"

Jiang Yan shook his head as he looked at his elder brother's slow movements and expression. He felt a tightness in his chest, and the things Jiang Guanqing had done during this period of time floated into his mind. Those behaviors that he had thought were normal suddenly seemed a bit abnormal.

Suddenly I started tidying up old things over and over again, I often get distracted, and sometimes it takes me half a day to read a single page of a book...

"Brother, I'm going out to make a phone call."

"Ah? Okay." Jiang Guanqing nodded and turned his gaze back to the teaching building.

The moment Jiang Yan stepped out of the restaurant with his phone in his hand, a wave of heat hit him, but he felt a chill run through his body.

Jiang Yan called Tao Yaxin, who answered quickly, her voice carrying a professional gentleness, "Dr. Jiang?"

"Miss Tao, I'm Jiang Yan." Jiang Yan leaned against the wall, her gaze falling on Jiang Guanqing inside through the glass window. "My older brother... he's acting strangely."

Jiang Yan briefly recounted what she had discovered to Tao Yaxin.

After a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone, Tao Yaxin spoke again, her voice serious, "Dr. Jiang, your brother's current condition is a typical case of high-functioning exhaustion; his psychological defense mechanisms are on the verge of collapse."

Tao Yaxin spoke quickly, "I told you before that President Jiang locked himself in the role of 'family guardian' to shield himself from trauma, but now, Jiang Ning's college entrance examination is about to end, and her youngest brother has grown up."

Jiang Yan's heart sank.

"The college entrance examination is a highly stimulating time. Your parents' accident happened just before Mr. Jiang's college entrance examination."

Jiang Yan's breath caught in her throat for a moment.

Yes, before my parents passed away, my eldest brother was preparing for the national-level botany talent training program's advanced assessment, which would allow him to pursue a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree without having to take the college entrance examination.

After their parents passed away, my older brother gave up the assessment and took the college entrance examination as normal.

My older brother took the college entrance exam alone that year, and they only found out after the exam that he had given up the leadership program.

Jiang Yan closed his eyes, his heart throbbing with pain. His older brother and younger brothers had accompanied him to the college entrance exam. What was his older brother like back then? During that time, his older brother was busy with company affairs. Did he, like last night, set more than a dozen alarms for himself, afraid that he would forget the time...?

Jiang Yan wiped away her tears. "What should I do now?"

"Go along with him, cooperate with him, and let him finish these three days of the college entrance examination." Tao Yaxin paused, "But you must stay with him every step of the way. If you experience palpitations, difficulty breathing, or dissociation from reality, contact me immediately. If necessary, take him directly to the hospital."

Jiang Yan murmured repeatedly, "...Reality dissociation?"

"Yes, Mr. Jiang is now excessively organizing his old belongings, which is a sign of dissociation. His consciousness is withdrawing from the present moment and returning to the point in time when the trauma occurred."

Jiang Yan hung up the phone and stared blankly at Jiang Guanqing through the glass for a long time until the back of her shirt was soaked with sweat. Only then did Jiang Yan raise her hand to wipe her face and walk back into the restaurant.