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Chapter 9 - Coward

In his childhood, Zhao Jiadi was a little boy who liked to cry a lot. Mainly because he was bullied by Wang Banjin every day. That sister who loved pranks the most either flicked his penis or pulled down his pants. Zhao Jiadi's psychological trauma caused by Wang Banjin was formed during that time. A few minutes before taking the photo, little Bajiang was scared half to death by Wang Banjin's words "your penis is going to fly away", and then he cried his eyes out. Once he cried, the kind - hearted Qi Dongcao also started crying. The adults coaxed the two children for a long time before they stopped wailing. Wang Banjin, on the other hand, was heartlessly laughing all the time beside them.

Zhao Jiadi glanced at the watch on his wrist and smiled knowingly. It was a gift that Wang Banjin had spent all her private savings on and asked Zhao Sanjin to order before she went abroad. It took many years to reach his hands. It was a 5959P, black - and - white, not flashy at all. Maybe if it was on Ma Xiaotiao's wrist, many ordinary gold - diggers would deliberately study what "Patek Philippe" meant. However, when it was on Zhao Jiadi's wrist, where his T - shirt cost less than a hundred yuan, many people just ignored it automatically. Zhao Jiadi had always had a limited knowledge of luxury goods and no desire to learn more about them. Originally, he didn't want to flaunt it around every day, but Wang Banjin had threatened that if he dared not to wear it for a day, she would cut off one centimeter of his penis. Under her coercion, Zhao Jiadi could only submit. "Unyielding in the face of force" was just a beautiful and absurd ideal under Wang Banjin's high - handed tactics.

Around 1 o'clock in the morning, Zhao Jiadi went to bed. He had good sleep quality and wasn't demanding about the sleeping environment. Even if Ma Xiaotiao often swore when he got beaten in the game, Zhao Jiadi could still sleep soundly.

Around two or three o'clock in the morning, Zhao Jiadi was awakened by a burst of phone ringing. He picked up the phone at once, for fear of disturbing Li Feng and Shen Han.

On the other end of the phone came an extremely enchanting and charming voice, definitely the kind that could charm people to death. "Bajiang, it's been days since we flirted. Have you missed your pretty sister?"

"Wang Banjin, I have classes tomorrow morning. I don't have time to talk to you!" Zhao Jiadi said through gritted teeth.

"You heartless man. Don't tell me you found a girlfriend on the first day of college and abandoned your sister who has been waiting for you all alone?" The voice on the other end of the phone was extremely plaintive.

"Please just let me sleep soundly, Grandma Wang?" Zhao Jiadi pleaded with sleepy eyes.

"Let's have a steamy video chat first. Sister has recently mastered belly dancing and pole dancing all by herself. I'll perform a piece for you. I guarantee that you'll get a nosebleed, so get some tissues ready quickly." Wang Banjin's voice was shockingly charming.

"Wang Banjin, you must be crazy for a man. If you want to bring disaster to the country and the people, don't come to me. Go and harass others instead." Zhao Jiadi said angrily in a low voice.

"Sister is a traditional Eastern woman, very reserved. I'm only wanton with my man. I'm definitely a perfect woman who is great in bed and in the kitchen." Wang Banjin continued to be coquettish with the poor Brother Bajiang. Her delicate and charming voice was really like that of a vixen.

"I'm hanging up. If you bother me again, I'll turn off my phone." Zhao Jiadi said angrily.

"How dare you?! If you dare to turn off your phone, I'll call your dormitory. If you unplug the phone line, I'll call the dormitory next to yours and say that you had sex with a prostitute and didn't pay!" Wang Banjin screamed.

The shrill sound made Ma Xiaotiao couldn't help but turn his head to look at the upper bunk.

Zhao Jiadi didn't doubt at all that she would do what she said. She was such an unreasonable crazy woman. So he surrendered and said, "Sister, tell me. What will make you satisfied?"

There was a pause for a few seconds on the other end of the phone, and then she said with a giggle, "It's okay if you don't have a steamy video chat with sister. Run to the balcony and shout ten times, 'Super invincible young and beautiful girl Wang Banjin, Zhao Bajiang loves you for ten thousand years.'"

Zhao Jiadi exclaimed in despair, "Wang Banjin, you might as well kill me. I'll get you a knife."

"Coward. You have no sentiment at all." The voice on the other side mumbled.

"If I had sentiment, would I still be a virgin today? You know how much you tormented me when I was a kid. You left me with an incurable trauma. I've always had a psychological shadow over beautiful women, thinking that they are vicious." Zhao Jiadi said with a bitter smile.

"Alas, poor Bajiang." Wang Banjin sighed in a hypocritical way. "Don't worry. Sister will be responsible for you."

"Don't. I'm not that lucky. I'm just a peasant. You're the precious one in old Beijing. The overreaching Zhao Sanjin has been looked down upon by your Wang family for over twenty years. Even if I get over the psychological trauma, I can't get past your family." Zhao Jiadi said with a smile. His sleepiness had completely disappeared. It was probably around the time when Wang Banjin finished class. She was probably bored in her single apartment outside Imperial College London. At times like this, Wang Banjin would always think of her poor little brother. Unless Zhao Jiadi had something urgent at hand, he usually just let her be crazy. Wang Banjin seemed to be the kind of person who didn't take anything seriously or work hard, but puzzlingly, she could always achieve her goals in the end. Just like when she suddenly said in high school that she wanted to go to Imperial College for fun. With average grades, she actually got in. You know, Imperial College ranks fifth in the world in the THES ranking. Of course, THES is famously partial to British universities, but there's no doubt about the harsh admission and strict elimination at Imperial College. Zhao Jiadi had never understood how Wang Banjin, who seemed to be shopping, putting on makeup, and attending parties all day long, hadn't been kicked out of the engineering college. He could only explain all this with the word "miracle".

"Vulgar and weak!" Wang Banjin said resentfully.

"I'm just vulgar. So what? Bite me?" Zhao Jiadi said with a soft laugh.

"Don't be so smug. When sister comes back to China, see if I don't take you down!" Wang Banjin said with a sinister smile.

"Come on. Let's see who grandma will protect then. Be careful. If I get angry, I might really punish you on the spot. Then we'll see who will be crying and snotting. I won't be responsible for you. I can't afford you." Zhao Jiadi finally got out of Zhaojia Village. There wasn't much of Wang Banjin's presence in Shanghai, so for the first time, he felt more powerful. In the past, even if he had ten times the courage of a bear or a leopard, he wouldn't have dared to be so arrogant. Before he was sent to a remote boarding school in TS city, he had always been the pitiful one who was teased by Wang Banjin but didn't dare to say a word. Later, in middle school, life was a bit better. After all, Wang Banjin also started to rein in a little. It was more of verbal provocation and bullying. At least she finally stopped playing with Zhao Jiadi's little penis as a toy.

Wang Banjin went crazy on the other end of the phone, shouting that she would come back to China immediately and rape Zhao Bajiang.

Looking at the relatively unfamiliar ceiling, Zhao Jiadi recalled every bit of his childhood and adolescence. Suddenly feeling something, he said softly, "Sister, when you find a guy who catches your eye in the future, remember to let me check him out before you bring him home. That way, you won't be on the wrong track without even knowing it."

Wang Banjin on the other end also calmed down and said in a slightly more normal tone with self - mockery, "I've said it long ago that I'll become a nun at 30. So, although I look more like a social butterfly than a social butterfly, I'm actually a chaste woman. In ancient times, I'd be the kind of woman who could get a chastity arch. Well, I'll be 30 in a few years. So finding a wife for you is the top priority right now."

Zhao Jiadi didn't reply either. Listening to Wang Banjin's voice, he felt full and warm inside.

"I won't chat with you anymore. I'll write down this debt today. When sister gets the diploma by cheating, I'll come back to China and have a good heart - to - heart talk with you. Just wait to be in despair." Wang Banjin surprisingly magnanimously let Zhao Bajiang off today.

Zhao Jiadi smiled slightly, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

Back then, a stubborn girl named Wang Hou brought a cowardly younger brother named Zhao Jiadi to strange schools in an unfamiliar area. She accompanied him to school. When he was in class, she would squat outside the classroom, resting her chin on her hands and spacing out, just to prevent the little boy who was prone to crying from running back home.

It was a whole month later that she left there. And it was from that day on that the coward Zhao Bajiang began to be no longer cowardly.