“Wasn’t it supposed to take seven days? Why so fast? Is the result accurate?!”
Shao Yuye fired off his doubts like a rapid-fire cannon: “Also, what’s the result? Is she my sister or not?”
Brother Li explained to him point by point.
“They said within seven working days, and ours was marked urgent, so they notified me as soon as they got the results.
“As for the result, don’t worry, it’s definitely accurate…”
Shao Yuye listened to him ramble for a bit and couldn’t help but urge, “So what’s the result? What’s the result?! Is she my sister? She is my sister, right?!”
Brother Li said, “Yeah. The result shows: you and Shen Wanwan are full siblings, of the same father and same mother.”
The world instantly fell silent.
Brother Li waited for a while, but there wasn’t a single sound from the other end of the line.
Shao Yuye’s phone slipped from his hand onto the sofa, bounced twice, and disappeared between the cushions.
He stood in the empty room, body frozen, blood seeming to flow backward.
His heart pounded like a drum. For a moment, his ears were even ringing.
Even though he was already seventy percent sure in his heart, when the result was finally laid out so plainly, Shao Yuye still felt shocked and incredulous.
It took him a full few minutes to suppress his wildly beating heart and ask Brother Li to send him a photo of the test result.
When it came to scientific stuff, Shao Yuye was totally clueless.
But the one part he could understand was at the bottom—the conclusion:
He and Shen Wanwan were indeed biologically related.
Full siblings. Same father, same mother.
His head felt dazed, like someone had struck him hard, or like a bottle of champagne violently shaken—countless emotions bubbling up like fizz. His hands began to tremble.
Brother Li shouted “Hello?” several times from the other end of the call: “Ah Ye, are you listening? Ah Ye?”
“Brother Li, I have something to do. I’ll talk to you later.”
It took several more minutes for Shao Yuye to find his voice again.
He coldly hung up on Brother Li, then turned and dashed toward Shen Wanwan’s room.
After chatting with 001 about Su Tingxuan, Shen Wanwan scrolled through Weibo absentmindedly.
Suddenly, her door was knocked on with loud *bang bang bang*.
The knocking was aggressive, like someone had come seeking revenge.
001 was startled : {Who is it? Could it be Su Tingxuan?}
Shen Wanwan shook her head.
Didn’t seem like him.
Outside, Shao Yuye knocked frantically, heart pounding.
She was really his biological sister. Once he saw her, what should he say?
At the same time, he felt grateful—thank goodness he hadn’t picked a fight with her these past couple of days. Her impression of him should still be okay, right?
The longer he waited, the more anxious Shao Yuye became. He even started worrying about his appearance.
He ran over here; did his hair get messed up? Was his outfit okay? Would she dislike him?
He stood outside the door, overthinking like crazy, until it finally opened, revealing Shen Wanwan’s delicate face.
Shao Yuye’s gloomy eyes immediately lit up.
Shen Wanwan motioned for him to come in. “What are you doing? You’re noisy.”
Without another word, Shao Yuye grabbed her in a tight hug, spun her around in the air, and exclaimed excitedly:
“The test result is out!!!
“We’re real siblings!”
The little light orb 001 was also infected by his joy, trembling excitedly in midair.
{Really?!
{Wahaha, I’m so happy!}
Completely forgetting how confidently it had just declared earlier that they were siblings.
Shen Wanwan was speechless for a while, surrounded by these two overly emotional creatures.
But genuine joy seemed contagious, her lips couldn’t help but curl into a smile too.
After letting Shao Yuye vent all his excitement, she finally said calmly:
“Can you put me down now?”
Shao Yuye didn’t let go, sounding like a child:
“Nope.”
It had been sixteen full years since they were separated.
Sixteen years…
He had really, really missed her.
Shen Wanwan had no choice but to poke his shoulder:
“You’re hugging me too tight, I can barely breathe.”
Shao Yuye froze, then quickly loosened his arms.
“Sorry, sorry!”
Then, beaming, he stretched out his hand to her.
The small Ultraman bracelet on his wrist caught the light as it swayed, briefly dazzling Shen Wanwan’s eyes.
A sudden bad premonition rose in her heart…
Sure enough, he had already recited the line:
“Certain!”
Certain familiar childhood memories came flooding back—
—along with a force that felt like it could kill someone.
Shen Wanwan held her forehead helplessly.
“How old are you now?!”
“Hurry.” Shao Yuye urged her, “Say the code word! Get into the mood.”
Shen Wanwan didn’t move, continuing her complaint: “Did Shao Hongyuan abuse you so badly it broke your brain?”
Shao Yuye was clearly unfazed by her sarcasm.
He shook her arm, signaling for her to cooperate faster.
This scene, he had been fantasizing about it for so many years…
Since he was nine, all the way until now.
It had practically become an obsession.
“Hurry up, say it!”
Shen Wanwan clenched her jaw. Seeing the eager, almost desperate look in her brother’s eyes, she finally couldn’t bear to refuse. She reached out her hand and recited the line with him:
“Victory!”
Their arms crossed, forming an X.
According to the ‘setting’ her brother made up when they were kids, once they finished the chant, the spot where their arms crossed would shoot out a beam of deadly light.
—This light wave was incredibly powerful, because it combined both of their energies, and had even been ‘blessed by Ultraman,’ making it their unbeatable, original finishing move that could defeat any monster in one shot.
…She used to think her brother was the coolest person ever.
But seeing him do this now, she couldn’t help thinking his brain must have a screw loose.
A very big screw.
Shao Yuye solemnly made a *biu* sound, mimicking a lightsaber.
Then he patted her head comfortingly and said, “It’s okay now, we’ve scared all the monsters away!”
In that moment, he looked just like the childish little boy she remembered from long ago.
Shen Wanwan felt both exasperated and amused. She retorted, “I think you’re the one who looks more like a monster.”
Shao Yuye chuckled, scratching the back of his head with his free hand.
“I guess I am a bit silly, huh?”
He was already twenty-five, yet here he was doing something like this. If someone secretly took a photo and posted it online, his fans would die laughing!
But his heart felt so full it was almost overflowing with happiness.
001, the little light orb floating nearby, watched the scene unfold like a free show, laughing so hard it rolled through the air.
{Hahaha! Brother is so cute, so cute!
{You should spend more time with your Brother, so you won’t be so cold all the time…}
But the latter part of its comment got swallowed under Shen Wanwan’s death glare.
The little light orb’s survival instincts went into overdrive, and it hurried to flatter her : {What I meant is, you’re really cute too.}
Shen Wanwan snorted softly.
“That’s more like it.“
But almost immediately, she added, “Although I don’t think I’m cute at all.”
001 : {……}
A woman’s heart really is like a needle at the bottom of the ocean, impossible to read!
Just as Shen Wanwan was about to pull her arm back, Shao Yuye stopped her.
“Hold on.”
He moved quickly, pulling out his phone and snapping a photo of their crossed hands.
The little Ultraman keychain dangling between their wrists sparkled brightly under the light.
*Snap*—the moment was frozen perfectly.
His eyes shone even brighter than the keychain.
His voice carried a slight, choked joy:
“I…I’ve really…been waiting for this day for so, so long.”
—”If one day I could meet Ultraman, I wouldn’t want him to take me to fight monsters.
—I’d want to ask the almighty Ultraman to help me find my little sister.
—And when I saw her, the first thing I’d do is give her a big hug.
—Then I’d thank Ultraman together with her.“
This was an entry the little nine-year-old boy had once written in his diary.
The emotions buried for sixteen years surged up in that moment, filling Shao Yuye’s chest with bittersweet joy.
He rubbed his eyes. “I’m so glad…”
Before he could finish, Shen Wanwan stepped forward and wrapped him in a hug, completing his unspoken sentence.
“I’m so glad…you finally found me.
“And this time, we’ll never be apart again.”