Chapter 52: The Winner of Life

Chen Ziyi licked a mouthful of strawberry ice cream, swayed her legs back and forth, and slapped her forehead, “Wow, it’s so cold.”

Cheng Li sat on Cheng Ming’s lap, hugging the shark ragdoll, her little hand rubbing the shark’s head, her little pink tongue sticking out to lick the rainbow crushed candy from the ice cream.

“Cheng Ming, is this your sister?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Pro?”

“Of course it’s pro.”

“Eh, that’s nice, I want a real brother too.”

“That’s a bit hard, it’s easier for you to want a real brother and sister.”

Or that your mom and dad have illegitimate children out there.

“It’s not pro, it always feels almost fun.”

“Yeah? What’s the difference? Even if they’re not related by blood, as long as they grew up together, they can’t be too far apart, right?”

Chen Ziyi shook her finger and said, “No, no, no, your thoughts are too naive, if there is no blood relationship, even if they grew up together, wouldn’t they still be childhood outsiders?”

“Not so much, not so much, it’s a bit much to call it an outsider, isn’t it?”

Chen Ziyi really doesn’t normally hate childhood friends.

“It’s so easy to break the bond of childhood friends, to lose contact because of schooling, moving, etc., and maybe you have to wait until the time of their wedding to be reunited.”

Cheng Ming and Jing Jing were reunited because of a blind date. If they hadn’t been accidentally reborn, would they have walked down the aisle of marriage?

“There is no way to change the city, and then change the phone number, maybe when they first parted on good terms, they can still be pen pals and communicate by letter. But when both sides have made new friends, to adapt to a new environment, a new life, there is not so much energy and time to maintain the previous relationships.”

“That’s just it, but family bonds don’t break so easily, and that’s the beauty of biological siblings! It’s not something that can be compared to a fake sibling like a childhood friend.”

It always felt like Chen Ziyi was a bit off topic, her grudge against her childhood friend was really deep.

Cheng Li tilted her head up, the back of her head leaning against Cheng Ming’s chest, looking at him with a puzzled expression, at her age she really couldn’t still not understand these things.

Cheng Ming just smiled and rubbed his sister’s little head, his fingers scraping off the cream from the corner of her mouth and asked, “Want another ice cream?”

“Want marshmallows next.”

Chen Ziyi clapped her hands and got up, “Intermission is over, go on and play the game, I didn’t say I’d give you the shark ragdoll if you bought me ice cream, don’t try to take the shark from me until you beat me.”

Is that any different than giving it away for nothing?

“You’re only good at boxing, you can’t necessarily beat me at any other game.”

As a result, Chen Ziyi didn’t sit on the King of Fighters’ sparring machine, but on the War of the Three Kingdoms 2’s machine, tilting her head and asking, “Why are you standing still? Scared?”

“No, this game is a two-player co-op clearance type of game, right? Does it depend on who has the most points?”

Though it’s not impossible to say.

“Take me through with one coin or you lose.”

That’s pretty harsh.

“Right, I’m going to get my sister a marshmallow first.”

“Cheng Ming, I want one too.”

“Don’t you have any feet of your own?”

“No.” Chen Ziyi said with a straight face.

Two player co-op games also have the benefit of two player co-op, at least for the arcade, which finally doesn’t have to be hammered by Chenzaiyi anymore.

Chen Ziyi was still the proper mole, waiting for Cheng Ming to drop the rice ball after crashing the minions and bosses, she immediately snatched it away and ate it, smiling villainously, “Hmph, didn’t think of that.”

Luckily, Cheng Ming’s blood level stayed pretty healthy, it was just not a good part-time job.

“Xiao Li, do you want to come and try?” Cheng Ming asked as he looked at his sister standing at his side.

Now it’s just fighting small monsters, so it doesn’t matter if you just press it randomly. If the blood is broken, Cheng Ming will just come back and lock the blood operation.

“I’ll just watch you play.”

Cheng Li seems to enjoy watching more than playing.

The only time she had a stronger desire to join them and make trouble or crowd out Jing Jing was when Cheng Ming was playing with her.

War of the Three Kingdoms 2 as the hot new arcade game, a lot of tips, hidden props and methods of recruiting generals have not been popularized among players, only to rely on some of the players crookedly played out and then passed on by word of mouth with the same way to verify.

Soon, some people noticed some of Cheng Ming’s novel operations and hidden props, and called their friends to come over to learn, and those who took out small notebooks to record were not unheard of.

Behind the two surrounded a large group, Chen Ziyi was originally accustomed to the attention, but also nothing, is embarrassed to be a mole again, and do not blindly force, do not speak to pretend to be a master.

Cheng Ming was thirty years old anyhow, not so much so that being stared at would affect his operations.

But the younger sister was a little too much to handle, especially with so many people she didn’t know standing behind her with a blank, confused look on her face.

Seeing this, Cheng Ming directly took his sister’s shoulders and made her sit in his arms.

Sitting in her own exclusive seat, Cheng Li was quite relieved and grabbed the shark ragdoll and swam around in the air, playing with herself.

Passing through the barrier without any danger, Cheng Ming stretched out a big lazy waist.

The crowd gradually dispersed, but no one came up to ask Cheng Ming, everyone went to turn on the machine and try with friends.

Girls were supposed to be rare in the game room.

Cheng Ming can play the game with a beautiful girl, with a pocket-sized little girl sitting in his arms, and on the contrary, he is not a good player of the game, so it is really exasperating to see the winner of life.

A rather handsome middle-aged man holding four glass cans of iced cola with straws inserted into them said, “Hard work, it was wonderful, the points seem to have broken the record.”

Although he didn’t recognize the man in front of him, Cheng Ming still took the two bottles of coke and handed one of them to his sister, considering that the owner was Chen Ziyi’s uncle, it wasn’t surprising that anything happened.

Chen Ziyi snatched the ice coke and bared her teeth.

The middle-aged man asked with interest, “Zi Yi, is this your boyfriend?”

“Pfft …… cough cough ……”

Chen ZiYi directly without the image of a beautiful woman sprayed out, a mouthful of spit on the arcade, choked and coughed, hard to slap the throat.

Seeing Chen Ziyi get defeated, Cheng Ming was happy in his heart.

Still, she couldn’t show it, this was her territory, and said with an expressionless face, “We’re classmates.”

“Uncle what are you saying all of a sudden!” Chen Ziyi squinted and glared at the middle-aged man, taking out a pink handkerchief to wipe the corners of her mouth.

“My new machine!”

The middle-aged man didn’t mind the dirt, and heartily wiped the machine with the sleeve of his white shirt.

“Serves you right, who told you to make fun of me.”

“My name is Chen Jun, I’m this child’s uncle, thank you for playing the game with her, this child is too proud of her temperament and stubborn, and she hasn’t been wronged since she was a child, I’m really afraid that she won’t be able to make any friends.”

The middle-aged man smiled and tried to touch Chen Ziyi’s head, only to have her slap her hand away in disgust, “Dirty, don’t touch me.”

Sharing the same surname as your uncle? Cheng Ming’s focus was rather strange, but taking the mother’s surname wasn’t that rare. Especially in a family of cadres, it would be easy for the school to make associations if the father had a relatively rare surname.

Sometimes it’s not so much that some people want privilege as it is that some people can’t wait to slip through the cracks.

“Who needs you to worry about it, having to act like you can’t live alone, deserves that you can’t get a wife.”

“We’re just classmates, not friends.” Cheng Ming clarified, he also didn’t want to get close to Chen Ziyi and get involved.

Classmates and friends are still pretty far apart.

“Young people nowadays, completely confused.” Chen Jun shook his head and sighed as the cola went down his throat and his heart ached.

“Cheng Ming, are we still not considered friends?”

“Does it count?”

“Obviously, we’ve all been through thick and thin together.”

“You mean being called on by the math teacher to answer questions together?”

“Just you wait, one day I’ll make you cry and beg me to be your friend.”

“It’s something that couldn’t even happen in a parallel world.”

Besides, what kind of friend is that? It’s not like he’s a dog licker.