Olivia Carter translated, “He said his English isn’t good, and he didn’t understand some parts just now, so he thought the other person made a mistake.”

The people around finally breathed a sigh of relief. The sales assistant took the foreign uncle to check out, while Olivia Carter followed Ethan Carter back. The foreign uncle suddenly turned around, gave Olivia Carter a thumbs up, and awkwardly said in Chinese, “Awesome, thank you!”

Olivia Carter had also become familiar with the foreign uncle and replied, “Незачто.”

Ethan Carter looked puzzled. He really didn’t understand why both sides insisted on speaking each other’s native language—was it so hard to just use one language?

After the foreign uncle paid and left, Olivia Carter had made quite a splash in the store, making it hard for Ethan Carter to stay any longer. He was dressed rather low-key, but Olivia Carter was extremely high-profile, directly engaging in international friendship right in the store—who could stop her?

Ethan Carter had no interest in watching any longer, so he simply took Olivia Carter and left, deciding to go to the supermarket to buy some fruit. Noticing that he left empty-handed, Olivia Carter even grabbed two bottles of mineral water from the store. She couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, feeling like her brother was just out to scam some free water.

After the siblings left the store, Ethan Carter finally exclaimed, “Is your English really that good? Even better than the sales assistant? Is it the magical effect of watching pigs every day?”

Seeing how calm and composed Olivia Carter had been just now, Ethan Carter finally realized the language talent their mother had mentioned. He had thought Olivia Carter was just a bit smart, with a richer vocabulary than her peers, but he hadn’t expected her to have such strong foreign language skills.

Because Olivia Carter was unwilling to play the teacher-student game with her cheap brother, he had never seen the foreign language list on the iPad, so he naturally didn’t know his sister’s true abilities.

Olivia Carter showed a complicated and sympathetic expression, hesitating as she asked, “Your English isn’t good?”

Ethan Carter looked away and forced himself to say, “Uh, it’s okay, I can understand a little of your English conversation…”

He still wanted to save face in front of his little sister and didn’t want to seem too clueless, so he was vague.

Olivia Carter blinked, her gaze growing more subtle: “He’s Russian, and he was speaking Russian, not English.”

Ethan Carter: “……”

Olivia Carter: “Your English listening must be pretty bad. There’s no trilled ‘r’ in English.”

Looking at the serious little girl, Ethan Carter really didn’t want to look even more confused, but at this point, he truly couldn’t understand what his sister was saying. What was a trilled ‘r’? Why was there suddenly a snake involved?

Chapter 8

Ethan Carter was someone who couldn’t keep things to himself. Sometimes, when his emotions ran high, he would talk back to reporters’ tricky questions and inevitably fall into their traps. His agent, Brian Clark, had reminded him about this many times, but Ethan Carter just couldn’t change right away. However, now that he was with Olivia Carter, he finally obediently kept his mouth shut.

Ethan Carter realized he couldn’t keep talking—he was just exposing more and more of his weaknesses, full of loopholes everywhere. Olivia Carter wouldn’t directly mock him, but her subtle and sympathetic gaze made the pressure even greater.

The family had long since experienced Olivia Carter’s abilities, and in most cases, treated her as an adult in conversation. This was also Emma Harris’s suggestion: if adults tried to act superior in front of a gifted child, they might end up falling flat on their faces. Emma Harris had even given a real-life example: a prodigy attending a regular school ended up clashing fiercely with the teachers, partly because the teachers wanted to establish absolute authority, which made the prodigy resistant.

Ethan Carter had only been living at home for two or three days and didn’t know Olivia Carter that well yet, but he was already feeling a bit of pressure. Wisely, he kept silent and casually changed the subject, leading his little sister to the supermarket.

In the supermarket, the atmosphere between the siblings was quite harmonious, and neither mentioned the trilled ‘r’ again. The supermarket in the shopping center specialized in high-end products—even the fruits were famous varieties, with many exotic imports, all piled colorfully on the shelves.

Ethan Carter: “What do you like to eat? Go ahead and pick it yourself.”

Olivia Carter carefully observed the shelves, her gaze lingering among the beautifully packaged fruits, lost in thought.

Ethan Carter spotted some plump, round Shine Muscat grapes, so he simply grabbed a bag and put it in the shopping basket. He’d tried these grapes before—they had a rose fragrance and were very sweet.

The bunch of green grapes was wrapped in a transparent bag, tied with a pretty bow at the top, looking quite exquisite. Olivia Carter happened to glance at the price tag on the bag and immediately showed a slightly troubled expression. She felt she should have a serious talk with her cheap brother.

Although Olivia Carter didn’t have a full understanding of money yet, she knew the usual price of grapes—they were a common fruit at home, after all. Great-uncle William Carter usually bought grapes for 29.9 yuan, Dad David Carter’s grapes were usually 99.9 yuan, but the grapes Ethan Carter bought were actually 199.9 yuan?

As the youngest in the family, Olivia Carter had always been straightforward with her elders, sometimes even criticizing her father’s actions, let alone the unreliable Ethan Carter. She picked up the green grapes from the shopping basket and, for the first time, called out to her brother in a serious tone: “Brother.”

Ethan Carter was picking out fruit and turned around in confusion: “?”

Olivia Carter paused for a few seconds, then said earnestly, “People have the right to pursue beauty and precious things, but it’s best not to spend beyond your means.”