They are still close to me today despite their negative feelings

I can't keep up with this girl's thought process.

With my mental state, let alone falling in love with anyone, I'd be considered to have been very self-disciplined by not stabbing anyone.

"...If that's the case, this is the last time I'll seriously advise you."

"Senior Lü Ning and Senior An Yu have been friends since childhood, and he seems to be very close to Senior An Yu."

"If you really like your senior, please try to change yourself, make yourself better, and stop bothering other girls."

“If not, then please stop bothering me. Because right now, I want Senior Lü Ning to be happy more than you. He’s a good person, and honestly, I think he deserves you more.”

No way, how can you consider An Yu a source of happiness? That guy is a complete idiot! And "Lü Ning," whom you arranged for her to be, is just too pitiful!

However, my inner grumbling was just a way of finding amusement in the midst of suffering.

Ning Ruoxin gave me a slight bow, as if saying goodbye to a stranger, polite and courteous.

I suddenly burst out laughing.

"Hey, could it be that you've fallen for Lu Ning because he's so handsome?"

"..." Ning Ruoxin seemed surprised that I would ask such a strange question, and answered after a moment of silence.

"...Senior Lü Ning is very handsome, and I also like his character very much."

"Oh, I see~"

I interrupted my serious younger sister's spiel. I didn't want to hear anything about inner beauty being more important than outer beauty; my styling skills were definitely still sharp!

"Have you ever thought about how nice it would be if Lü Ning were your brother?"

I looked at my sister with a half-smile.

This was originally just a provocative jest, a twisted foreshadowing of my later confession.

After all, her identity will eventually be revealed, and I look forward to my sister's shock.

but.

"Believe it or not, I never thought about it."

Ning Ruoxin lowered her eyes slightly and stopped looking at me.

"I've just thought how wonderful it would be if my brother could learn from him."

"But now, I don't care anymore."

She said that, stopped talking nonsense with me, and turned to go back to her room.

creak.

She closed the door gently.

...Well, even though I'm a scumbag, I'm genuinely a little sad right now.

It's not acting.

……

"Big brother, you've been beating me for four days now! At least tell me what I did to offend you!"

In the alleyway, several men were punching and kicking a boy wearing a T-shirt. These men seemed to have some experience in fighting, avoiding vital points while leaving no marks, clearly engaging in torture.

"...Boss, seriously, why are we beating this kid up?"

One of the buck-toothed men kicked the boy in the chest and asked the man behind him who was smoking.

"Just fight, why worry about everything else?"

The man said impatiently.

"Please, please, have mercy!"

The beaten boy clutched his head and wept bitterly.

"I really don't know what I did to offend you guys! Tell me! I'll definitely change!"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

The smoking man squatted down and slapped him.

"Brother Ning said he'd beat you up for a week straight, and I won't be able to explain myself if he beats you up even a day less!"

"Wait! We're discussing something here, you get out of here!"

A commotion arose at the alley entrance. The man smoking looked up and then hurriedly ran over.

"you idiot!"

He tapped the man who was blocking my way, bowing and scraping as he smiled at me.

"Brother Ning, why did you come in person? -- Put your work aside for a moment and come over to say hello to Brother Ning."

"Don't mess with me, I'm just a regular high school student."

I was really in a bad mood, so I waved my hand and didn't joke around as usual.

“That’s right, that’s right, of course you’re a high school student!” the smoking man said cheerfully.

"Brother Ning, you all need to get to know each other. He was the one who proposed and set some of the new industry rules recently. From now on, when we're on the street—"

He glanced at me.

"No need to greet them. But please show some respect. Understand?"

"understood!"

During my summer vacation, besides enjoying my youth, I occasionally got in touch with some of the behind-the-scenes figures in the local gray industry through Uncle Gold Tooth.

Perhaps because life here is more affluent and comfortable than in my previous life, the gray industries here are in dire need of development.

I distributed the rules and procedures summarized by some bigwigs from my previous life to a few key figures as suggestions, thus making a small contribution to reshaping the basic rules.

My intention was to protect the safety of my surroundings, at least to prevent any more foolish kidnappings in the woods. But I also earned some respect and friendliness for it.

After all, I'm not competing with them for any core interests, and the solutions they offer are all the best practices I've had in my world. They're happy to help me with minor matters.

"Do you know me?"

I squatted down expressionlessly, looking at the boy who had been harassed for four consecutive days.

He shook his head in fear.

"My surname is Ning." I smiled.

"...!"

A look of realization and disbelief flashed across his eyes.

"Oh dear, it seems I've remembered."

I propped my right cheek up with my hand.

"Yan Xuejun. Male, a student in Class C of the second year of the affiliated middle school. He attended the Experimental Primary School and was classmates with my younger sister. After the middle school class was divided, he confessed his feelings to her online during the summer vacation, but was rejected and was unwilling to accept it."

"After my younger sister was ostracized for some reason, she spread rumors. What were those rumors again?"

I pretended to be blank as I looked at the man smoking next to me.

He understood immediately, picked up the stick, and struck the boy hard on the back.

"I'm asking you a question."

The smoking man said in a cold voice.

"I won't do it again, I'll never do it again!" The boy trembled all over as he struggled to apologize to me.

"I've already told you, what exactly are you spreading rumors about?"

I sighed, and the man smoking struck me again with his stick.

"Stop hitting me! I'll talk, I'll talk!"

"...That guy has, has a brother who's in heat like that."

"I don't know, I don't know what happened to me last night..."

"Did you make him stutter?" I said impatiently to the man smoking. "I heard that nerve disorders can be cured with pain management?"

Several burly men surrounded them.

"How can you play with me?!"

The boy shouted.

"That guy looks all serious and aloof, but behind my back he's probably been sucking up to my brother so well he's practically licking his boots!"

"You usually look aloof and innocent! But actually, your mouth is quite expressive, isn't it?!"

……

I sighed softly.

"I was wrong, brother, I was really wrong."

After the boy finished speaking, he frantically tried to get up and give me a deep bow.

"I was so ashamed, I was so out of my mind. Please forgive me, I was really wrong..."

"I'm a monster, my mouth is full of excrement! Please, stop torturing me!"

He kept kowtowing, tears streaming down his face.

"...How did you manage to turn him into this?" I asked the smoking man, pointing at the guy.

"I followed your instructions exactly, pulling him over every time he was alone. He's been much more wary lately, so today I pretended to be a girl confessing my feelings to trick him into coming over."

"Awesome, you've graduated."

I saw this guy who was completely terrified.

"You're something else, daring to go out during this time. Your lower half has taken control of your brain, so wouldn't you say your lower half has become your brain, and your brain has become your lower half?"

I patted his face with a smile.

"It's heartbreaking; it seems my dear sister is having a tough time at school."

"Brother Ning, do you need our help with the school?" the smoking man asked, leaning closer.

"No need, I always handle housework myself."

I shrugged helplessly. "But my strict younger sister always says I don't do housework."

The man smoking had a forced smile on his face.

"So—"

I picked up a stick and smashed it hard on the back of the boy who was still kowtowing. He lay down with a yelp, like a stray dog ​​whose spine had been broken.

"I've already been reprimanded by my sister, what right do you have to bully her?"

Honestly, seeing my sister like that at home just now, I'm a little bit irritable.

"I rarely want to repair a relationship with someone, and I rarely obediently accept being scolded while continuing to get closer to them, right?"

"Damn it, even after I became awesome, the store manager couldn't make me work overtime, but that little guy is now forcing me to go out and work late at night."

"A little girl I have to try so hard to please—"

Who the hell do you think you are?!

The wooden stick broke.

The quality is really poor.

I sighed.

"There's no need to insist on seven days anymore. Just beat them up whenever you see them, no matter what. You've recorded all the scenes of them resisting on your phone, right?"

"As you said, Brother Ning, we occasionally showed weaknesses in the first few days, giving him a chance to resist and get the wooden stick."

"Yeah, that way even if it gets out of hand, it'll just be classified as a fight, not intentional assault." I looked at the boy, who was either unconscious or faking death. If it's just kids fighting, those white-robed people won't care.

“Remember to change the people each time. About a month, a month should be enough to leave a psychological scar—oh right, remember to remind him that if my sister finds out anything I don’t want her to know, I’ll hold him responsible.”

I kicked the guy.

Actually, what I did wasn't excessive, was it? I didn't threaten my family or anything like that.