Li Chunhua snorted, "I highly doubted that."
"Now, don't say that. You can just try it for yourself if you doubt my ability." Shao Jingfei puffed out his chest proudly. Li Chunhua thought he looked stupid.
But she was indeed a bit lost right now, so it might not hurt to tell him a bit. Yes, just a bit.
"Hmm, so this isn't actually about my story. It's a story about my friend…."
"Hm, sure, sure," Shao Jingfei smiled knowingly and urged her to continue.
"So my friend had a sister, and those two were inseparable since birth. It's just that recently the older sister told my friend they had to separate because it wouldn't be good for them to be together. My friend can't understand the reason behind it, so she is in a pretty bad mood right now. I want to cheer her up, but I don't know what advice I can give. If it were you, what would you say to her?" Li Chunhua asked curiously.
"Well, I think the younger sister needs to chill down first. Did she know why her older sister would say that to her?"
"Well, the thing is…." Li Chunhua hesitantly told Shao Jingfei about how her friend had secretly sowed discord between her sister and her friends, which caused a rift between the siblings. At the end of her story, she added, "Don't you think the older sister is too much? She just wants to make an excuse to leave my friend behind, isn't that right?"
Shao Jingfei didn't know where he should even start. Was this girl an idiot or what? Wasn't she supposed to be one of the top students in class A?
However, it was his job to give enlightenment to this lost little lamb, so he carefully chose his words before saying, "The way I see it, your friend is more of the problem here."
"What?! Why? What did she even do?" Li Chunhua was dissatisfied with his answer.
"I mean, I understand if she wants to be with her sister, but does she really need to go that far? She can't prevent everyone from approaching her sister just because she doesn't like it. Who the heck would do that, anyway? If I have a sister like that, I will run far away."
"But what if those who approach her sister are the bad guys? Shouldn't she feel happy about being protected instead?"
"Isn't that just what your friend thinks? Even if they are bad people, your friend's older sister should be the one calling the shots. She has the right to decide if she wants them around her or not. Your friend can't barge in anytime they want and decide that is the best for her sister. It's selfish and uncalled for."
Li Chunhua couldn't believe what she had just heard. Why wouldn't anyone understand her? It was as if she was the only one weird here!
"Her older sister is weak and too nice for her own good. There are so many people who want to take advantage of her, so my friend has no choice but to do it." Li Chunhua still hadn't given up yet and argued again.
Shao Jingfei sighed in exhaustion. He could imagine what kind of ordeal Li Caiyi had to endure because of her sister. Honesty had always been his policy, so he didn't hold back in his words at all.
"Nevertheless, no one will like it if other people keep butting into their own business. Frankly speaking, your friend is an annoying and busybody person. No wonder her older sister is fed up with her if she is like that. The older sister did the right thing by taking some distance from her sister."
Shao Jingfei's words baffled her. Did he just call her annoying and busybody? Even Li Caiyi never spoke that harshly to her before!
"Then again, your friend needs to have some life for herself. She wouldn't have so much time in her hand to bother her sister if she had gone out and found something she was interested in instead."
"Easy for you to say…." Li Chunhua mumbled with her head lowered. "Even if she goes out and wants to do something, there is not much she can do alone. Anyone who is supposed to be her friend will eventually leave her because she is too troublesome and gets in their way."
"Well, there are plenty of things you can do, even without other people. You can be happy if you know how to play by yourself. I don't think that excuse is a valid reason for your friend to hinder her older sister's happiness. We should live by sharing our happiness, not our misery. At least, that's what I thought."
Shao Jingfei continued, "My advice to your friend is that she shouldn't think of this situation as a bad thing. Her older sister probably did that to push her to live for herself. Tell your friend to reflect on her actions properly, and it's about time to get out of her small world."
Li Chunhua pressed her lips into a hard line. She was stupid for thinking that she could feel better by telling her problem to a stranger like him.
It felt horrible for being told off by a person like him.
It shocked Shao Jingfei when she saw Li Chunhua had tears rolled out of her eyes. He might sound harsh, but he had nothing but the twins' best interest in mind. He considered himself a gentleman, but seeing Li Chunhua cry like that felt like a massive pang on his conscience.
"A-ah! Don't cry. My bad, okay? I shouldn't have said something like that about you—I mean, your friend." He said in fluster. His hands hovered in the air without knowing where he should place them.
Would it be better to let her cry it out in this situation? Or should he try to crack funny jokes here? But he couldn't think of any good joke right now!
Shao Jingfei kneeled down in front of Li Chunhua with a package of unopened bread in his hand. "I'll give you this. This is a limited edition curry bread. I got scratches while fighting for this, so this bread is equal to my life. Please stop crying, okay?" He blurted whatever his brain could squeeze out at the moment.
"You are… so annoying…." Li Chunhua said shakily in the middle of her hiccups.
"Yes, yes, I'm the annoying one."
"You are… so hateful…."
"Yes, yes, I'm the hateful one."
"Why do you have to come here and talk to me? If I knew it would make me feel like this, I shouldn't have talked to you at all."
"Eehh… This is technically a public place, and no one forced you to talk, but I guess I'm a bit too nosy and pushy. I apologize, okay?"
Li Chunhua sobbed for a few more minutes before she finally calmed down.
After her cries subsided, a sense of shame rose inside her. She couldn't believe she had just cried in front of this boy, and she kind of whined like a child too in front of him. So embarrassing!
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