For instance, this brand of sanitary napkin, if she remembers correctly, there was a time before when she tidied up her bag in front of him, and he happened to see the sanitary napkin inside.

It really happened just once, but she hadn’t expected him to treat her matters as his own and remember them so clearly.

"I’m hungry." Shi Keke suddenly turned her head to look at him,

acting like a little girl and pouting to him: "I want you to take me to eat crayfish, the place you took me to when I was little."

She still remembers when she was fifteen, graduating from middle school, planning with her classmates to sing karaoke all night long.

However, plans couldn’t keep up with changes. Before she even stepped into the KTV, he forcibly dragged her away and scolded her harshly.

Saying things like "What does it look like for a girl to be out at all hours", "Do you know how complicated that kind of place is", "Try going there again if you dare", all in all, gave her a very domineering lecture.

She was upset, but he didn’t care; he pulled her to the arcade, making her sit aside watching him play games.

He cleared one level after another, and her patience was almost worn out. So, she slipped away while he was in the restroom.

She thought she escaped his clutches, but it turned out to be a trap. As she exited from the backdoor of the arcade, he was leaning against the wall, smoking. Smoke rings came one after another from his mouth, the swirling smoke blurred his face, yet added a hint of mischievous allure.

From that moment, she felt he was a man, a scheming man.

Unable to outsmart him, she had to give in, shaking his arm while sweetly whining: "Brother..."

He couldn’t resist her acting like that, so in the end, he let it go, taking her to a seasoned snack shop near the old pier in the east of the city.

It was a shop that had seen better days, with facilities and decor very outdated, but the place was clean and tidy, and business was quite good.

That was her first time eating there, copying people at the next table as she ordered a plate of shrimp, a plate of crab, and many kinds of seafood.

While eating shrimp, she was too lazy to peel off the shell and begged him to do it. He was unwilling, coldly refusing.

Seeing his indifferent attitude, she got upset, threw her chopsticks on the table, and pouted: "I won’t eat then!" then sulked on the table.

He began peeling the shrimp shell slowly and deliberately. She thought his heart had softened and was delightedly waiting for him to feed her, but unexpectedly after he prepared a shrimp, he put it into his own mouth!

In a fit of anger, she gathered all the food on the table into her arms, not letting him eat.

Probably finding her response too childish, he finally laughed, reached out to pat her head, and said, "I’ll peel them for you, okay?"

After that, she ate all the shrimp herself, all personally peeled by him. Throughout, he did not eat a single one, just quietly sitting across from her, watching her eat.

Back then, she knew she was his first service recipient, but never thought that one day she’d walk the path together with this so-called brother.

Thinking of this, Shi Keke couldn’t help but laugh. In retrospect, all those little squabbles were actually a form of romance, a romance not everyone gets to experience and understand.

She and he were little green plum and little bamboo horse, journeying from innocence to where they are today together.