Yu You You and Yu Ze were a pair of twin babies.
Yu You You’s full name was originally just Yu You.
But his nickname was You You, and the people around him always called him “You You”, leading him to believe that this was his actual name.
On the first day of kindergarten, during self-introductions, two identical, adorable babies took the stage together.
Although the two babies looked exactly alike, their expressions were quite different.
The one with a serious face spoke succinctly: “My name is Yu Ze. I’m three years old.”
After saying this, he closed his mouth, indicating that his self-introduction was over.
The baby next to him, with smiling eyes and a sweet expression, spoke up: “My name is Yu You You, and I’m also three years old. I have lots of hobbies, and my favorite is riding my bike.”
“My big brother bought me the bike. It’s a little blue bike. It’s so pretty!”
Yu You You’s self-introduction was getting more and more off-topic.
In the end, it was Yu Ze who nudged his arm and reminded him, “Alright, it’s time for us to go down.”
Hearing this, Yu You You obediently nodded.
He held Yu Ze’s little hand and returned to their seats together.
The two little twins sat together.
The other children also began their self-introductions one after another.
Without a doubt, Yu You You and Yu Ze were the most eye-catching babies in the entire class.
Many children were secretly watching them.
Yu You You noticed the children sneaking glances and smiled good-naturedly.
Yu Ze, on the other hand, frowned.
The teacher, who was also observing them, silently labeled the two babies in her mind.
The smiling one was You You.
The very cool one was Ze Ze.
After labeling them, the teacher walked over with a smile.
Twins were hard to tell apart. For convenience, the best option would be to place them in different classes.
But this had already failed before.
The reason for the failure came from the seemingly good-natured You You.
You You was a clingy baby.
He didn’t want to be separated from his brother!
Yu Ze didn’t mind whether they were separated or not, but Yu You You couldn’t accept it.
When Yu You You heard the adults were going to separate him from his brother, his previously smiling face instantly turned tearful.
The little one hugged his brother and cried pitifully.
Between sobs, he said in his baby voice, “You You wants brother.”
“Wants brother!”
Under Yu You You’s tearful assault, Yu Ze, with a stern face, wiped his tears with the back of his hand.
“Stop crying.”
“Real men shed blood and sweat, not tears.”
“We won’t be separated.”
After sternly lecturing his tearful younger brother, Yu Ze still ended up comforting him.
Since neither of the brothers wanted to be separated, the adults in the family naturally didn’t force them apart.
Yu Ye had already been unable to bear it the moment his younger son started crying.
Frowning, he directly informed the kindergarten—
His babies would stay in the same class!
Now, within just a few days of starting kindergarten, the two babies in the same class had become the most popular star babies in the class.
Both babies were just too good-looking!
Yu Ze was not only good-looking but also smart. He understood everything the teacher taught.
There was even a child who brought their older sibling’s second-grade elementary school homework. Yu Ze could solve the problems in it!
Such a clever Yu Ze had all the children in the class utterly in awe of him!
Whenever the other kids encountered problems they couldn’t solve, whether related to studies or daily life, they couldn’t help but turn to Yu Ze for answers.
Though Yu Ze’s little face often remained serious, he would still patiently answer their questions.
He had no choice. Yu You You would tug at his arm, urging him to speak.
Yu Ze’s intelligence, far surpassing that of his peers, also amazed the teachers in the class.
The teacher specifically brought this up with the Yu family.
“Your Yu Ze is truly exceptionally bright. With his current level of intelligence, attending kindergarten is practically a waste of time!”
“I believe he could thrive in a more advanced environment.”
The kindergarten teacher wanted Yu Ze to join a class for gifted children.
However, Chi Rong was the first to reject this suggestion.
“That’s unnecessary. Our Xiao Ze doesn’t need any special classes. He’s doing just fine at Little Sun Kindergarten.”
The teacher tried to persuade them further, but every member of the Yu family shared Chi Rong’s stance.
They had seen gifted children before. The Li family, for instance, had a pair of little prodigies.
They didn’t believe that sending their child to a gifted class would guarantee a better future.
Rather than letting Yu Ze attend a gifted class alone and receive specialized education, they preferred him to have a happy, normal childhood like other children.
At Little Sun Kindergarten, attending school with his younger brother, Yu Ze was genuinely happy.
All the adults in the Yu family disagreed with the teacher’s proposal.
Seeing this, the teacher decided to speak directly with Yu Ze himself.
But Yu Ze also shook his head.
“I won’t go.”
Without hesitation, Yu Ze replied, “I’m not interested.”
Both the adults and the child had firmly refused. Though the teacher felt it was a pity, there was nothing more she could do.
Yu You You was the last to find out about the gifted class.
When he learned about it, he didn’t say anything at the time.
But that night, he buried himself under the covers and cried so hard that he woke Yu Ze, who was sleeping beside him.
“Yu You You.”
Yu Ze sat up, his hair slightly messy, and turned on the bedside lamp. “What’s wrong?”
As he spoke, Yu Ze pulled back the covers.
He dug his sobbing brother out from under the blanket and, with practiced ease, held him in his arms, gently patting his back to comfort him.
“Are you hungry?”
Yu You You had cried from hunger when he was younger.
Back when he couldn’t speak yet, there was a time when their father was taking care of them. Their dad wasn’t as attentive as their big dad.
Before bed, their dad had fed Yu Ze twice but hadn’t fed Yu You You at all.
Then, in the middle of the night,
Yu You You cried from hunger. He didn’t cry loudly but whimpered softly, almost inaudibly.
When Yu Ze noticed him crying, he let out a loud wail that brought the adults running.
When their dad arrived, he couldn’t figure out why the little one was crying.
At the time, Yu Ze, who also couldn’t speak yet, was so frustrated by his crying brother and their clueless, anxious dad that he blurted out the first words of his life.
“Brother.”
“Hungry.”
“Brother, hungry!”
And so, the first words Yu Ze ever spoke weren’t “Daddy” but “Brother, hungry!”
His brother was a bit slow and had a soft temperament. If he felt wronged during the day, he would cry at night.
That’s why, whenever his brother wasn’t sleeping with their dad, Yu Ze would sleep with him instead.
This way, Yu Ze could always promptly notice if anything was wrong with his brother.
Just like now.
“Yu You You, what’s really the matter? Did someone bully you?”
“N-No.”
Yu You You tilted his tear-streaked little face upward, sniffling as he asked, “Brother, are you not going to the gifted class to stay with You You?”
“You You is dumb. You You can’t go to the gifted class.”
Yu Ze: “…”
Yu Ze finally understood as he looked at his sobbing younger brother.
His silly little brother thought he was holding him back.
“Alright, stop crying. I’m not going to that class because I don’t like it.”
“I don’t need the education from the gifted class.”
“Brother Qin Xun is very smart. Having him teach me is enough.”
Yu Ze explained that his reason for not attending the gifted class was simply a lack of interest.
After his repeated assurances, Yu You You finally believed him.
“Brother, why are you smart, and You You is dumb?”
Compared to Yu Ze, Yu You You was indeed a little less clever.
Especially in kindergarten.
Yu Ze was always first. He is a little genius in everyone’s eyes.
Meanwhile, Yu You You was consistently last. The little dummy in others’ eyes.
Yu You You didn’t want to be a dummy.
To avoid being called a dummy, Yu You You even went to Big Brother Yuan Yuan for extra tutoring.
But even after the tutoring, Yu You You was still dead last!
This made him a little sad.
He overheard other kids’ comments about him change from “little dummy You You” to “the little dummy You You who tries really hard!”
“You’re not dumb.”
Yu Ze lied with a straight face: “I’ve never thought you were dumb.”
“Big Brother Yuan Yuan used to be last in kindergarten, too.”
“Do you think Big Brother Yuan Yuan is dumb?”
Yu Ze gave Big Brother Yuan Yuan as an example.
Hearing this, Yu You You’s eyes immediately lit up.
“Big Brother isn’t dumb at all!”
In Yu You You’s eyes, Big Brother Yuan Yuan was a smart kid.
Big Brother Yuan Yuan was amazing. He could cook and play video games.
Big Brother Yuan Yuan wasn’t dumb at all!
Encouraged by Big Brother Yuan Yuan’s example, Yu You You finally stopped crying and smiled.
He spread his chubby little arms and wrapped them around his brother’s neck. After his brother wiped his face clean, he fell into a sweet sleep.
After he fell asleep, Yu Ze watched his little face for a while, sighed in relief, and also drifted off.
Although Yu Ze had used Big Brother Yuan Yuan as an example, he knew deep down—
Big Brother Yuan Yuan wasn’t truly dumb.
His little brother, however, really was a little dummy.
But even if he was a little dummy, it didn’t matter. With their dads around and with him there, this little dummy would never suffer any hardships in life.
And so, the two little ones continued their kindergarten life.
During this time, the little dummy brother in Yu Ze’s eyes did something that wasn’t dumb at all. In fact, it was quite clever!
He took his brother’s hand and softly proposed that they swap identities for a day.
Yu Ze agreed without hesitation.
He found the idea quite interesting.
Although it seemed like it might be easy to slip up.
“Brother, You You can do it!”
Yu You You blinked his beautiful big eyes, promising not to give them away.
Seeing this, Yu Ze nodded.
Soon, the two swapped clothes. Some of their outfits were matching sets, while others were styles they had chosen themselves.
The two had different tastes. Their self-selected clothes reflected very distinct preferences.
Yu You You, wearing his brother’s clothes, excitedly ran to look in the mirror.
“Brother, do I look good?”
“Yeah, you look good.”
Yu Ze studied his sweetly smiling brother for a moment before offering a reminder: “You You, I don’t like to smile.”
Yu Ze was a cool little kid who always looked up to his older brother Qin Xun as his role model in everything.
Since Qin Xun rarely smiled, Yu Ze also became a cool kid who seldom smiled.
Although Yu You You was wearing his brother’s clothes, his smile was just too sweet.
It made it all too easy to tell them apart.
At Yu Ze’s reminder, Yu You You tried hard to put on a stern face.
“Brother, You You won’t smile anymore!”
“You don’t have to call me ‘brother’ now,” Yu Ze reminded him further. “Right now, you’re the older brother.”
Yu You You: “!”
His eyes widened instantly.
Yu You You had always been the youngest in the family. He had never been the older brother before!
The sudden chance to play the role of the older brother made his little heart flutter with excitement.
“I—I’m the older brother now!”
“Mm, older brother.”
Yu Ze’s cooperation made Yu You You feel so giddy he was practically floating.
The two little ones, having swapped identities, stayed in the bedroom for quite a while before coming out.
When Yu You You emerged, he kept his chubby face expressionless. Even when he saw his big dad, he didn’t reach out to ask for a hug—something he would have done without fail in the past.
Yu You You didn’t ask for a hug. Yu Ze, who was wearing Yu You You’s clothes, didn’t ask for one either.
This struck Yu Ye as very odd.
Yu Ye lowered his gaze, studying the two children holding hands.
Yu You You noticed his dad watching and grew so nervous that his little hands clenched into fists.
Thinking of how his younger brother usually acted, Yu Ze reluctantly forced a smile and beamed at his big dad.
Yu Ye: “……”
He remained silent for several seconds.
A few moments later, he calmly picked up the child who had smiled at him.
“Good morning, You You.”
The real Yu You You: “……”
Watching his big dad carry his brother, the real You You’s chubby face was filled with envy.
As for Yu Ze, who was now in his dad’s arms, all he wanted was to get down as quickly as possible.
He didn’t like being carried!
“You You, why aren’t you giving Big Dad a kiss today?” Yu Ye asked the child in his arms.
Yu Ze instinctively tensed his face but quickly suppressed the reaction.
As if steeling himself, he planted a kiss on his big dad’s cheek.
Yu Ye chuckled. “You You seems a bit distant with Big Dad today. Do you not like Big Dad anymore?”
Yu Ze: “……”
He was nearing his limit.
But remembering the role he was playing, he stoically gave his big dad two more kisses.
After Yu Ze finished kissing his dad, You You, standing beside Yu Ye’s leg, could only watch longingly.
Yu Ye crouched down, pinched Yu You You’s chubby cheek, and asked, “Yu Ze, do you want to give Big Dad a kiss, too?”
“No.”
Yu You You firmly remembered that he and his brother had swapped identities, so he painfully resisted the invitation for a kiss.
Yu Ye carried one child and led the other, taking both little ones to the dining room for breakfast.
Before the meal, Yu Ze was forced to kiss every family member on the cheek.
There was no way around it. After all, Yu You You had picked up the habit from his older brother Yuan Yuan and was known as the “little kissing monster”.
The two children spent the entire morning at home.
During that time, Yu Ze was hugged and ruffled by every family member.
As soon as the two little ones left for kindergarten, the adults watched them go and burst into laughter.
At the kindergarten.
The other children interacted with the twin siblings as usual, but it didn’t take long for them to notice something was off.
When a classmate asked Yu Ze a question, he couldn’t answer it!
Another child came to hug Yu You You, but Yu You You pushed them away!
The unusual behavior of the two little ones left the other children completely bewildered.
After a whole day of swapping identities, Yu You You no longer envied his older brother’s role.
He didn’t want to be the smart older brother anymore!
He still preferred being You You!
Meanwhile, the adults at home, lying in bed, were also reminiscing about the joy the little ones had brought them that day.
Xiao Ze pretending to be You You was absolutely adorable.
And You You pretending to be his older brother was also quite amusing.
They just wondered whether the two would ever play this game again.
Sam Williams On TYMIMA Chapter 152