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“A bitch and a dog—may they last forever!” Shu Yiming hurled the White Bear original beer bottle in his hand with all his might toward the city moat of Jiangning.

He had just staggered onto the ring road when, all at once, a blinding car headlight flashed before his eyes.

Bang!

A violent impact struck his chest, and then Shu Yiming lost all sense of the world.

In a haze, he felt something cool on his forehead. Struggling to open his eyes, he saw a little girl, no more than eleven or twelve, resting her small hands on his brow as she dozed beside his bed.

Wait—wasn’t this how his little sister, Shu Miaoyan, looked when she was a child?

What was happening? Was he dreaming?

“Miaoyan? Why do you look like this? What’s going on?”

At the sound of his voice, the little girl woke with a start, her face lighting up with joy. “Big Brother, you’re awake? You scared us half to death—you’ve been sick for days!”

“Sick for days? Didn’t I die in a car accident?” Shu Yiming’s mind was reeling.

Shu Miaoyan looked at him oddly and reached out to feel his forehead. “Big Brother, what nonsense are you talking about? What car accident? You just had a high fever and were unconscious for days—did the fever fry your brain? Wait here, I’ll go get Second Sister. She’s brewing medicine for you.”

The little girl seemed flustered and hurried off toward the kitchen, calling as she ran, “Second Sister, come quick! Big Brother’s brain is broken!”

Soon, another girl, who looked only two or three years older than Shu Miaoyan, came run