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Although Zhou Yu didn’t care much about the thoughts of his so-called family anymore, he still didn’t want to listen to their nagging.
Especially his little sister’s.
Thinking of this, the handsome teenager wrinkled his nose in disgust as if he could hear his sister’s ugly scream.
While Zhou Yu was carrying his luggage down the stairs, he happened to see his sister was complaining about him to their mother.
“Mom, Zhou Yu actually dared to ignore me! I’m so mad! You need to punish him!”
The girl, whose hair was turning from blond into its original colour, was whining at a middle-aged woman.
Zhou Yu secretly curled his lip as he glanced at his fat little sister that weighed over 135 pounds.
Her mouth never stops complaining all day long.
“Zhou Zhi! Be quiet!” A middle-aged man frowned as he walked downstairs with a large bag.
The man felt very embarrassed when he got many dissatisfied looked from others because of his daughter.
In this family, his father, Zhou Guoren, had absolute authority. Even his sister, Zhou Zhi, who was always full of arrogance, would obey him.
Zhou Yu felt this farce was a little funny.
It’s really a happy family.
Zhou Yu didn’t feel lonely and envious like in the past.
Now, he had lost all of his affection for this family, in other words, he was already tired.
After seeing through everything, he made up his mind to leave his family after this trip, ran far away, and never came back.
The three people, who didn’t realize that Zhou Yu had come out, promptly walked downstairs.
Zhou Yu didn’t say a word either, dragging his suitcase down the stairs.
Soon, he arrived at the hotel lobby on the first floor. There were two lounge sofas for resting —— both were already full.
The other resting place was occupied by his family —— they finally noticed Zhou Yu.
“Zhou Yu, you’re too late. Next time, you must come at once when I call!” said a beautiful middle-aged woman coldly.
As if his mother, Lu Meng, didn’t see Zhou Yu had no seat, she put her handbag on the last seat.
“Okay, I’ll go there first and wait for the bus.”
Zhou Yu didn’t take Lu Meng’s actions to heart and replied her reprimand indifferently. He walked away and stood next to a pillar in the lobby —— near the door, just enough to see if the bus came.
The grey-haired youth was staring dazedly, making people who didn’t know him would definitely think he was a shy little girl.
Whoosh——
Suddenly, a red magic ball swept across his forehead with a cool breeze.
Huh?
Zhou Yu blinked, a sliver of surprise flashed through his eyes.
What was that?
Pitter—— patter——
Footsteps sounded from his side. A man wearing a clown mask, holding a red magic ball in his hand, greeted him.
Zhou Yu raised an eyebrow, delightedly exclaiming, “Wow!” —— It’s so cool!
The clown was wearing a well-ironed suit. He stood in front of the crowd in the lobby and began his magic performance, every movement was full of indescribable elegance.
One ball.
Two balls.
Three balls.
Swish——
All balls disappeared.
The clown showed everyone his empty, white-gloved palm. An eerie smile and two red tear-like shapes were painted on his ghastly mask.
At the end of his performance, the clown tucked up his somewhat wrinkled sleeves.
He bowed gracefully and said his gratitude to the crowd.
However, no one gave a response, they were just looking at him indifferently.
Zhou Yu watched all of the clown’s performance seriously. He saw the clown stuffed the balls into his sleeve, as the result, his neat cuffs bulged.
Anyone could see that the clown’s trick was so unskilled.
But he was performing seriously.
Although his performance was bad, it made Zhou Yu amused.
Clap, clap, clap——
Zhou Yu clapped, making his pale face flushed. He said cheerfully, “Amazing! Keep going!”
When the clown stood up straight, his perfectly-proportioned tall figure came into sight. Even if people could not see his face, they would admire his extraordinary demeanour.
Zhou Yu smiled, his eyes filled with appreciation toward the clown.
The clown wore a mask, only his eyes were exposed, so Zhou Yu couldn’t see his expression clearly. But, Zhou Yu could see the clown’s excitement from his exaggerated body language.
The clown put one of his hands behind his back and extended out the other toward Zhou Yu, performing a western greeting[1]. His pose looked very natural, full of gentleness and elegance. As though he came from a western aristocratic family.
Zhou Yu didn’t know much about this kind of thing, but he still followed along and bowed at the clown. After all, it would become awkward if he didn’t respond to the other’s greeting.
When Zhou Yu raised his head again, he was startled by the clown. Without notice, the clown appeared in front of him and handed him a bright red rose.
Seeing the still dewy rose, Zhou Yu’s beautiful almond-shaped eyes[2] widened.
This magic trick is amazing.
The author has something to say:
The clown was inspired by a short film called “The Jester” from station B, that clown is handsome!
Thank you so much to xiāo jiǔ x3, Ă n yĂĄng Ă i yĂĄngyĂĄng, xÄ«ngzi, kĆ« quǎn, jĆ«nzǐ rĂș fēng, □□ x2, zǐ yǐn, xiǎo hān, huĂ fǎng yān zhĂČng qiǎn, xiǎo wĂ©i, hĂ©xĂč mĂ©ng mĂ©ng dĂĄ, wāng jÄ« shĂ ng xiĂ nle, yĂš lĂ­ng xiāo, wǒ chĂĄng bĂč gāole qwq x3, and guÄ« lĂ­ng dĂŹ dĂŹlĂ©i~ Thank you for the mines, little angels~ Cost little angels some money! You give me so many mines. It makes me a little flustered, thank you, little angels~ I will work hard QAQ
Thank you so much, nǐ shĂŹ yĂș de shǒuliĂșdĂ n~ Thank you for the grenade, little angel~ Little angel spent a lot of money~ Love you~ Mwaah~
Thank you for your nutrition~
Small theatre:
Hell world’s consciousness: (bow politely) I’m honoured to join the small theatre~
Spiritual world’s consciousness: (dumbstruck) I, I feel the small theatre has levelled up recently

Cthulhu world’s consciousness: (drag Spiritual home) What’s so good to see?! Tsk, pretentious! (jealousyburnsme.jpg[3])
Future world’s consciousness: (greet Hell back expressionlessly) Welcome, welcome. You’ll soon discover that it’s better to be in Hell than in this place.
Nightmare world’s consciousness: (learning how to greet Future like Hell) Future! Future! Look at me! Look at me! I can do it too!
Hell world’s consciousness: (stiffly smiling) Somehow I feel overwhelmed.
Tn
[1] : “performing a western greeting”, in the raw, it’s written as â€œèĄŒäș†äžȘè„żćŒçš„ç€Œä»Ș” which literally translated as western-style etiquette
 but, I think greeting fits the context more, so I change it.
[2] : “almond-shaped eyes”, the picture below.
[3] : â€œć«‰ćŠ’äœżæˆ‘æœ‰äžćˆ†èŁ‚.jpg”, translated as jealousyburnsme.jpg. This is like a joke for jealousy, the picture below.