Lovely Allergen

Chapter 8: My Childhood With You

"You're not wearing your watch?"

Song Yu didn't immediately respond, and Yue Zhishi continued, "Why not?"

This way of repeatedly, straightforwardly questioning him reminded Song Yu of the time Yue Zhishi gave him the watch. When Song Yu had refused to take it, he'd questioned him directly just like this.

"Why don't you want it?"

"Xiao Yu gege, you don't like it?"

Yue Zhishi had been especially naive when he was younger. He'd carried the gift box with the watch, looked at it and thought it looked quite nice. He'd raised his head again and asked, "Doesn't it look nice? I asked the lady at the counter to help me pick it out, and she promised you'd like it."

It wasn't that Song Yu hadn't liked it. To an elementary school student, he knew that the amount of money looked like a fortune. Yue Zhishi could've entirely bought many things for himself and not spent the entire amount on a watch for him. Song Yu had also been very clear at the same time that it would be no use if he said these things to Yue Zhishi, who was a silly and stubborn little child.

So he'd decided to directly speak to the lady at the counter.

"Hello, I want to ask for a refund. I haven't used this watch before, and the packaging and receipt are all here. I should be able to refund it based on this shopping centre's policies."

The lady clearly remembered the cute mixed-race child who'd come alone to buy a watch. Now that his brother was here and carried himself with a maturity far beyond his peers to ask for a refund, it was hard to not marvel at the two of them.

"No problem." The lady kept slightly smiling. "Can I please see..."

Yue Zhishi was right in front of the counter, and he loudly yelled no before directly sitting onto the floor. He tightly held onto Song Yu's leg, crying and begging. At first, Song Yu refused to give in and brought out the receipts to give to the lady, but Yue Zhishi was crying so bitterly that the lady couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure you don't want to discuss it with your younger brother?"

Song Yu thought for a bit before kneeling down. He took out a pack of tissues from his bag and gave it to him. "Why are you crying?"

"You, you don't want my present," Yue Zhishi sobbed. The more he spoke, the more he felt wronged. "I haven't even finished saying happy birthday yet when you, you..."

Seeing that he was about to start crying again, Song Yu immediately said, "It's not that I don't want your present."

Yue Zhishi immediately hushed, his big eyes brimming with tears as he listened to Song Yu speak.

"It's just too expensive. It's not good to spend like this."

Maybe one day he'd look back and regret spending his entire first pay check in one go.

The tears continued rolling downwards. Yue Zhishi used the back of his hand to wipe them away. "But I thought about it for a long time. You all keep thinking I don't understand anything, but I do."

Hearing this, the counter lady standing by the side couldn't help but say, "It's true. Even I thought your little brother was just playing around the first time he came. But he came three times and took a long time to choose. He didn't pay until the last day."

He'd taken his money pouch out of his bag and carefully counted his money three times.

The lady looked at Song Yu. "He was really cautious about it."

Song Yu fell silent. He was still helpless in front of Yue Zhishi's loud tears, so he decided by himself to make the decision he thought was right. The watch was temporarily not returned. Yue Zhishi thought he tacitly agreed to accept the present and happily followed him home.