Li Yunhui didn’t directly take Shu Yun to the biggest haunted house in the Imperial Capital right off the bat.

He cautiously found a small to medium-sized ordinary haunted house.

As soon as they entered the haunted house, Shu Yun was scared by the overly dark environment and grabbed the corner of his clothes tightly. Immediately after, eerie winds and ghostly screams surrounded their ears endlessly. Shu Yun let out a low “Woo!” and buried his head directly into his palms.

…Is it still too stimulating?

Li Yunhui’s heart tightened, and he immediately protected Shu Yun by his side, quickening his steps to take him out.

However, as soon as they left the haunted house, Li Yunhui saw his brother cautiously peek out from between his fingers, looking left and right, his eyes sparkling, looking as good as the weather today.

Li Yunhui: “…”

Seeing these sparkling eyes, his heart skipped a beat.

Fortunately, a haunted house wasn’t an extreme sport after all.

Li Yunhui thought about it left and right, but just couldn’t think of any danger a haunted house could pose.

He relaxed a little, smilingly held the hand tightly grasping his hem in his palm, and asked: “Does Shu Yun like it?”

Shu Yun shyly showed a small smile, bent his eyes, and said: “Mn, I like it, Brother. The haunted house is so exciting.”

Li Yunhui raised his eyebrows: “You like it, yet you grabbed onto me the whole time without letting go?”

Shu Yun looked at him eagerly, blinking slowly, and whispered: “Brother—it’s just my first time in a haunted house, I have no experience. Can’t I hold onto Brother?”

Li Shuyun said this softly and gently.

Like a small dandelion on the horizon, the words drifted with the wind.

Drifting into the ears, drifting into the heart, tickling one’s heart until it was all soft.

Li Yunhui couldn’t tease him anymore.

Li Yunhui: “…Yes, of course you can! It’s no problem if Shu Yun wants to stick to Brother the whole time!”

Li Yunhui hadn’t played with Shu Yun like this for a long, long time.

His fingertips silently stroked his brother’s cheek, suddenly sighed lightly, hugged his brother tightly, and patted his head.

He said seriously: “If Shu Yun likes it, Brother will bring Shu Yun to play more often in the future, okay? As long as we play safely and happily, Shu Yun can play as long as he wants!”

Shu Yun became happy instantly.

Seeing Shu Yun happy, Li Yunhui unconsciously felt his mood improve as well.

He felt that ever since he entered the dream and saw Shu Yun, some important things in his brain had been forgotten.

In his eyes and in his mind, only his brother remained.

However, if this was truly a dream, did it mean… the dream could shatter and end at any time?

…If all this was actually happening, if he really was reborn back to the age when Shu Yun was in middle school, reborn back to when everything could still be redeemed… how wonderful that would be.

Li Yunhui took Shu Yun for a serious tour around the Imperial Capital.

Of course, he completely excluded extreme sports and all other activities that could potentially endanger life, only taking Shu Yun to play various safe options.

The weekend passed in a flash.

When Monday came, and Li Yunhui suddenly realized that he and Shu Yun still had to go to school…

Li Yunhui: ???

Wait, what normal person enters a dream and spends the whole day sitting in school attending classes and preparing for exams?!

Li Yunhui had absolutely no intention of taking the college entrance exam again in his dream and immediately decided to apply for a suspension of schooling.

What a joke. He waited seven years for such a dream, and now he was expected to spend dream time on such boring things?!

But before he could act, after school that day, Shu Yun came out hopping with his backpack, happily held his hand, and said to him with great anticipation:

“Brother, I heard from the teacher today that Brother’s grades in the high school division are amazing, even good enough to get into University A or B! Brother, Brother~ Shu Yun wants to get into the same university as Brother, okay?”

Li Yunhui looked down at his brother, thinking calmly, analyzing that it had been thirteen years since he finished his college entrance exam. If he put in some effort in the dream, could he get into University A again based on his natural score?

Soon, Li Yunhui reached a conclusion.

He took Shu Yun’s backpack, carried two bags on his back, held his brother’s hand, and nodded reservedly: “If I can get in, of course, Shu Yun will have no problem either. Does Shu Yun like University A or University B? Whichever Shu Yun likes, Brother will go to next year.”

Li Yunhui’s grand plan of suspending schooling was officially declared a failure. He began living a regular life in the dream: cramming like crazy during class hours, and sprinting at the speed of light to the middle school division gate after school to pick up his brother and keep him company.

In the dream, his reputation seemed a bit strange.

Besides titles consistent with reality like “Study God” and “Top Student,” somehow, someone privately called him “School Tyrant.”

Li Yunhui hearing this rumor: ?

Li Yunhui was shocked: “Me? School Tyrant??”

Li Yunhui sneered: “Boring rumors. My time isn’t enough to accompany Shu Yun, where would I find time to bully others???”

His good friend Fang Ji, who secretly tipped him off, glanced at him and laughed ding-a-ling-ling.

Fang Ji asked: “Then do you want to hear what title the rumors have given Shu Yun?”

Li Yunhui instantly perked up, pricking up his ears: “Someone gave my brother a title too?”

Fang Ji raised his eyebrows: “Of course? Shu Yun is now the famous ‘School Grass-Flower’ of the middle school division!”

Li Yunhui: “?”

Li Yunhui: “I’ve heard of School Grass, and I’ve heard of School Flower. What breed is School Grass-Flower?”

Fang Ji laughed loudly: “Girls love to chase him, boys also love to chase him. Combine the two, so he’s called School Grass-Flower!”

Li Yunhui: “…”

Li Yunhui sneered darkly: “Heh, a bunch of kids not studying properly, actually bothering Shu Yun here?”

Holding back a bellyful of anger, Li Yunhui turned his head and waited seriously and intently for the dismissal bell.

The moment the bell rang, he sprinted out the door, jumping down three or five steps at a time, rushing to the middle school division gate first thing.

He waited at the middle school division gate for ten minutes or so, waiting for the crowd to disperse, and finally saw his brother’s head slowly emerge. Li Yunhui looked carefully and unsurprisingly saw several annoying flies behind his brother!!

Li Yunhui sneered, immediately rushed forward decisively, rescued Shu Yun from a group of annoying kids, protected Shu Yun as they left school and got into the car, then casually lowered the window to look out, flashing a big smile at the students staring resentfully and enviously at them.

Want to disturb his and Shu Yun’s stable life? Don’t even think about it!

The brother who wasn’t sick was healthy, happy, lovable from head to toe, making one completely reluctant to end the dream and leave.

Li Yunhui watched his brother every day, feeling that his life was once again filled with happiness.

But amidst this indescribable happiness, Li Yunhui would always fall into melancholy and worry at night. He was terrified that once he slept, he would wake up again in the cold reality without Shu Yun.

Time passed unknowingly amidst such worry and rejoicing for over half a year, arriving at his birthday.

This day, Li Yunhui rarely didn’t hold a banquet, nor did he invite all kinds of brothers and friends to celebrate lively together. Instead, he chose to simply play and eat cake with Shu Yun.

After eating the cake, Li Shuyun came before him with his hands behind his back.

The young boy’s eyes lit up, looking at him with a smile: “Brother, guess what gift I’m giving you?”

Li Yunhui pretended to ponder, thinking for a while: “Hmm… I guess it’s something Shu Yun made by hand.”

Li Shuyun’s eyes curved with a smile: “Brother is so smart!”

Li Shuyun took his hands from behind his back, holding a square wooden box.

He solemnly handed the wooden box to his brother and said: “Brother, Happy Birthday. Be happy every day in the new year!”

Li Yunhui took the wooden box and opened it, only to see a wood carving inside! On the wood carving, a young man with a light blond ponytail held a well-behaved boy with short brown hair, smiling at the person outside the box.

Li Yunhui also smiled.

He carefully put away the wooden box and sighed: “As expected, Shu Yun’s gifts are always so full of heart… Thank you, Shu Yun, Brother likes it very much.”

He blinked briskly at Shu Yun and said: “In the new year, as long as Shu Yun is by my side, Brother will always be happy.”

Li Shuyun widened his eyes in surprise and said: “That won’t do, Brother. Whether Shu Yun is here or not, Brother must be happy!”

The speaker meant nothing by it, but the listener’s heart skipped a beat.

Li Yunhui immediately covered Li Shuyun’s mouth, saying sternly and seriously: “Not allowed to say such things again, hear me! Shu Yun will definitely be here, Shu Yun will definitely be here!”

Shu Yun looked up blankly and nodded blankly as forced by him.

But even so, Li Yunhui still felt very uneasy.

So that night, he simply decided not to sleep. After Shu Yun fell asleep, he quietly moved a chair to Shu Yun’s bedside and sat there, planning to sit like this for the whole night, waiting for tonight to pass safely.

The night was long. By the moonlight, Li Yunhui gazed at the boy’s quiet sleeping face, his soft and well-behaved hair falling into his eyes. Li Yunhui suddenly remembered in a trance that when Shu Yun was sick back then, whenever the condition became critical, he would also guard by Shu Yun’s side night after night like this…

Vision gradually blurred.

Huge drowsiness suddenly descended on his head along with the memories.

Before Li Yunhui could resist, his eyes had already closed heavily…

Pitch black.

Pitch black.

Pitch black.

…Li Yunhui opened his eyes abruptly!

The morning sun fell on the bed, stinging Li Yunhui’s eyes into producing physiological tears. He frowned and immediately narrowed his eyes, turning his head away.

Turning this way, familiar furniture came into view. VR equipment, various documents and files, a small whiteboard with the latest plans…

This was… his bedroom.

His, bedroom.

Li Yunhui stared blankly at the bedside for a while, then suddenly rolled up and climbed out of bed. He walked dizzily to Shu Yun’s room, slammed open the door, and anxiously scanned the bed in the bedroom.

However, the bed was neat and empty.

Untouched bedding.

A bed without Shu Yun.

Gone. Gone. Gone. Everything was gone!

His dream…

Had ended.

Li Yunhui slumped onto the cold floor.

Not knowing how long he sat there, he suddenly gave a bitter laugh, lowered his head to cover his eyes, messy hair falling on his forehead.

That’s right.

It was a dream, after all.

There would always be a day to wake up.

“Buzz buzz buzz—”

Just then, his phone suddenly vibrated with a message.

Li Yunhui took a deep breath, tried hard to calm down, and picked up the phone to look.

It was a message from Lin Chen.

Lin Chen asked him: [Does the sleeping incense work well?]

Li Yunhui stared at the message for a long time, finally recalling the beginning of everything.

…Right. Last night, he used this stick of sleeping incense.

This was a birthday gift from Lin Chen, said to be able to let him see the person he wanted to see most.

The person he wanted to see most…

Shu Yun…

Shu Yun!!!

Li Yunhui’s eyes widened abruptly, and he rolled straight up from the bed!

He called Lin Chen back directly. As soon as the phone rang, he paced anxiously in place.

Finally, the call connected.

Lin Chen’s voice on the other end was somewhat surprised, carrying a smile: “Calling back directly instead of replying to the message, don’t tell me you want to give me a bad review?”

Li Yunhui answered very quickly: “Don’t say anything else, good brother, just give me one sentence. Do you still have this incense? Is the effect stable?”

Lin Chen answered leisurely: “Produced by me, of course it’s stable. But the production of sleeping incense is extremely complex, at most one stick per month.”

Li Yunhui sneered: “Don’t play the limited production price protection game with me, it’s not like I can’t afford it! Just say it, how much for one stick?”

Lin Chen smiled lightly: “Five million for one stick per month, sixty million for a yearly package of twelve. For the sake of our brotherhood, ordering on your birthday gets a huge discount, fifty percent off for the yearly package, thirty million.”

Li Yunhui: “…”

Li Yunhui: “Awesome!”

Li Yunhui laughed angrily, transferred the money, and hung up.

The summer breeze blew, lifting the curtains of the unmanned bedroom high.

Li Yunhui’s smile gradually faded. Gazing at the clear sky outside the window, he felt like he had bought a bottle of aged wine.

Drinking the cup of wine, knowing the joys and sorrows himself.

A dream… so what?

What the heart yearns for is truth.