A cute, timid mushroom mistakenly takes the zombie king for her boyfriend and sticks close to him.

Pei Sinian felt that his zombie ears weren't working properly, otherwise why would he suddenly hear some nonsensical words?

He stared at someone's little head and saw that the tuft of hair on it was sticking up and down, which made it clear that the person was up to no good.

He expressionlessly stretched out his long, slender fingers and smoothed out the troublesome hair. "What kind of messy relationship is this?"

"Well..." Meng Xiaoyou's brain was practically fried, and she said shyly in a low voice, "Are you my brother, or something else?"

Pei Sinian: "?"

"You want me to call you brother, but I feel... our relationship is a bit complicated. How can a brother and sister kiss? So I just don't understand and don't know how to talk to you."

Meng Xiaoyou carefully searched the original owner's memories. In the original owner's memories, only blood relatives could be called "brother." However, in the human world, blood relatives cannot kiss or hug each other.

She didn't know why she was so attracted to Pei Sinian before, and wanted to kiss him. But after she finished kissing him, she found that the taste was just so-so and she couldn't even swallow him, so she immediately changed her mind and started to worry about their relationship.

Their relationship was definitely not ordinary; she originally thought that since they did this and that all the time, they were a couple.

However, Pei Sinian made her call him "brother," so they were siblings.

The mushroom's brain was tiny, and it almost burned out its CPU during the relational calculations.

Clearly, Pei Sinian's zombie brain had also been dried out by her questions.

He looked at Meng Xiaoyou, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.

Unfortunately, those few troublesome zombies growled.

Both the mushroom and the corpse understood in different ways.

Why...why is this happening to me, my lover...ugh, he's become my own brother.

Meng Xiaoyou: "!!!"

Pei Sinian: "..." Stop messing around.

At this moment, Meng Xiaoyou no longer disliked the ugliness of these zombies. She picked and chose among the thoughts in her mind and found the owner of the thoughts.

She was a petite zombie who had lost her eyes. Like other zombies, she had incomplete memories, spoke incoherently, and said whatever came to mind.

They loved each other so passionately... but in the end, they became siblings.

The zombies were indignant:

If... I could turn back time, I would... start all over again.

The mushroom's mouth was wide open, its dark eyes looking at the zombie, then at Pei Sinian, observing it repeatedly. Although it didn't say anything, Pei Sinian could see a hint of curiosity, a touch of melancholy, and a dash of sorrow on its fair face.

A vein throbbed on his forehead. "Meng Xiaoyou!"

At the same time, another zombie growled and thought to itself:

【man!】

Meng Xiaoyou was pondering her life when she was suddenly startled and looked over timidly, only to see another zombie waving its arms and legs wildly.

When men love you, they're your sweetheart and darling; when they don't, they're blunt and impatient. Men are heartless and cruel.

Meng Xiaoyou turned to look at Pei Sinian, her clear black and white eyes conveying the message: Did you just yell at me by name?

Pei Sinian's pale face darkened, and he took deep breaths, "Don't think such things..."

Zombie: [Saying you shouldn't think such things, how could I not love you? Actually, my legs are already spread across the Milky Way.]

Pei Sinian squeezed out two words from his fangs: "Stop talking."

I want to mine your crystal cores again!

The zombies shuddered and were instantly stunned. Meng Xiaoyou only knew that Pei Sinian could control zombies, but she did not know that Pei Sinian could understand the zombies' words.

When she heard Pei Sinian's words, her first reaction was that Pei Sinian was ordering her not to overthink things.

When has he ever called the Mushroom Ancestor in that tone?

Even knowing that Pei Sinian wasn't as bad as the zombies made him out to be, she couldn't help but feel wronged. She let out a soft sob and told the zombies, "Let's go, let's ignore him."

So he turned and left with a small group of zombies.

Pei Sinian was left behind, holding his forehead and explaining, "Little... You, I wasn't talking about you."

Mushroom wouldn't listen, and said to the zombie crickets, "Those men are too much! Let me tell you, I suspect that not only did my muddle-headed father switch the babies, but he also secretly had a brother who is dating me!"

The zombies, whose minds had been blank from Pei Sinian's orders, all thought the same thing upon hearing this:

That's going too far.

"Of course! He even asked me to call him 'brother' and wanted to kiss me. How could I accept that?"

As a polite and proper person, I can't do something so wrong. Even if I like Pei Sinian a lot, I can't mess around with him.

The zombies echoed in unison. At this moment, every zombie present stood on the same side as Mushroom, launching a heavy attack on the zombie boss and letting out a chorus of roars to condemn him.

Pei Sinian: "Meng Xiaoyou, can you even hear me? Do you believe me, or these brainless zombies?"

Meng Xiaoyou paused, her back to Pei Sinian, preventing him from seeing her expression. Her obsidian-like eyes darted around, and she cleared her throat: "Zombies aren't very bright, so they can't lie."

So, you don't believe him anymore?

He was just momentarily tempted and asked her to call him "brother" a couple of times. What's with all the overthinking? Does calling someone "brother" mean they're related?

Pei Sinian strode forward, maneuvered the few annoying zombies aside, grabbed Meng Xiaoyou's slender shoulder with his large hand, turned her around, and was about to teach her some common sense with a serious face when he suddenly realized something was wrong.

His eyes narrowed slightly behind his glasses. "Were you secretly laughing just now?"

Meng Xiaoyou's eyebrows twitched, and she put on a stern face, mimicking his usual cold and ruthless demeanor, "I didn't."

Little did she know, she wasn't the aloof type at all. Her feigned composure not only lacked Pei Sinian's usual aura, but instead resembled a kitten secretly drinking its owner's water and pretending nothing had happened.

In fact, Pei Sinian had seen everything Pei did.

well.

She's become quite cunning; she's gotten wicked and managed to completely fool him.

As Pei Sinian breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help but pinch her cheek with his finger.

His knuckles dug into her soft flesh, instantly turning her face bright red. Meng Xiaoyou protested and struggled, even trying to run away, but he grabbed her by the back of the neck, coldly watching her flailing about, "Will you dare to do it again next time?"

Meng Xiaoyou's hair stood up shakily, and she held her face in her hands, looking exactly like a pitiful little girl who had been bullied, angry but dared not speak out.

Pei Sinian curled his lips, "Would you dare to do it again next time?"