Seeing her brother walking back to the living room, she raised her head and pointed, “Ge, you and Shao Ming-ge seem to have a good relationship.”
Hearing her calling “Shao Ming-ge” with extraordinary familiarity, Zhu Tong could only say helplessly, “Do you know how old he is when you call him by ‘ge’?”
Then he sat down on the sofa and continued, “Well, he takes care of me quite a bit.”
The corners of his lips were slightly raised, a natural smile that came from his heart.
Zhu Xin stared at him for a while, then lowered her eyes to curb the emotion in her eyes, then took a sip of the sweetened milk.
Soon Shao Ming came out of the kitchen with a bowl of noodles – egg noodles with chopped green onion, with a soft boiled egg and shrimps as its toppings.
“Thank you for your hard work.” Zhu Tong happily took it, and took the chopsticks and handed it to Zhu Xin with practiced motions. “Hurry up and try it.”
“…”
Zhu Xin didn’t understand how her brother, famous for his indifference towards others, seemed so eager to dig into this humble bowl of noodles, while the cook was looking patient.
She didn’t rush to move her chopsticks, but smiled and thanked Shao Ming first, then said, “I heard that he has received a lot of care from you after transferring her. Shao Ming-ge, you’re so kind towards all your friends, right?”
Zhu Tong: “…”
This is an innocent question, but why did he detect an undercurrent of hostility when he heard it carefully?
Shao Ming had already seen that this girl had already formed some opinions on him. Her attitude was impeccably polite, but she definitely wasn’t friendly.
But he ignored the thorn in Zhu Xin’s words. Instead, he glanced at Zhu Tong with his trained smile. “That’s not true. Who I am good to depends on how good others are to me.”
Zhu Xin: “…”
–Doesn’t this imply that between them, it was her brother who took the first initiative?
Zhu Xin looked at Zhu Tong, and Shao Ming lowered his head, the tenderness in his eyes overflowing!
How dare he say they’re only “friends” with those eyes?
The acidic bubbles inside Zhu Xin chest almost overflowed.
Zhu Tong was a little embarrassed by what he said. He didn’t seem to do anything, but Shao Ming took more care of him.
He was about to speak when Zhu Xin said again, “Then Shao Ming, you are so good-looking and your cooking skills are so good, you must have a girlfriend, right?”
Shao Ming immediately replied, “No.”
Zhu Tong suddenly felt alarmed by this question. “What kind of girlfriend can a high school student have? Why are you asking this? Have you fallen in love already? Do you want to engage in puppy love?!”
Zhu Xin: “…”
She just wanted to know if this man is eating from the bowl while looking at the pot1Thank you Lilian_Cho for helping me with this! In this passage, Zhu Xin was trying to figure out if Shao Ming was actually trying to cheat. Eating from the bowl = being ambiguous with Zhu Tong; looking at the pot = already having a girlfriend..
Suddenly being targeted by her brother, Zhu Xin suddenly acted as if she was unjustly treated. “How can there be? I just think that Shao Ming-ge is so good at taking care of others. It’s a pity to not have a girlfriend.”
“…”
Zhu Tong suddenly stared at her strangely.
Zhu Xin was dumbfounded by him, and said, stunned: “What’s wrong?”
Zhu Tong: “Why are you talking in tea language2yes, as in “green tea”. Zhu Tong knew that Zhu Xin is really double-speaking lol today? You sure are able to master it so well.”
Shao Ming pursed his lips, trying to suppress a smile and a chuckle.
Zhu Xin: “…”
Incredible.
‘You can see that I’m being a green tea, but you can’t see that he’s plotting3‘plotting’ here means… trying to make Zhu Tong fall for him. Implicitly wooing, in that manner. against you??’
Zhu Xin was beyond jealous. She’s heartbroken already!
But Zhu Tong turned around and said to Shao Ming, “She… She’s not like this usually, don’t mind her.”
Shao Ming said very generously: “Okay, I won’t mind.”
Zhu Xin: “…”
Her brother is hopeless!
Zhu Xin couldn’t bear it any longer. She stayed silent and eat her bowl of noodles.
She was stunned for a moment.
Zhu Tong and her are worthy of being twins. He immediately said with understanding: “How is it? Does it taste good?”
He said it like asking for praise.
Zhu Xin raised his eyes to look at him, she really couldn’t say the word “not delicious” without any conscience. So she could only nod her head with some indifference and reservedness.
Then she rudely ate a whole bowl of noodles, and even drank all the soup.
After that, maybe because she was “bribed” by the noodles, she no longer spoke with barbs hidden in her words.
After dinner, Zhu Tong sent his sister out.
Before going out, Zhu Tong turned around and said to Shao Ming inside the room, “I’ll be back soon.”
Shao Ming nodded and smiled, “Okay.”
Zhu Xin: “…”
Is this the legendary “no room for a third person”??
Zhu Xin’s complicated gaze fell on Shao Ming, but after watching him for a while, the man seemed to have sensed it, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at her.
Zhu Xin was slightly startled, and quickly averted her gaze.
At the intersection of the parking lot, Zhu Tong told Zhu Xin about going to their Aunt’s house for dinner tomorrow morning. He remembered what he was worried about, so he asked, “Has Qin Junhong contacted you recently?”
Zhu Xin replied, “No, we haven’t been in touch for a while.”
Zhu Tong breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhu Xin asked back, “What’s wrong?”
Zhu Tong shook his head and said, “It’s nothing, I had a little trouble with him. Don’t contact him for now.”
“…”
‘A little trouble with him?’ Zhu Xin thought and paused in place. She then nodded obediently, and said, “Alright. Ge, go back quickly, see you tomorrow.”
Zhu Tong smiled at her. “See you tomorrow.”
The window slowly slid up, and Zhu Xin smiled slightly in the car.
She knew that Qin Junhong was taught a “lesson” by their father. A maid in the family who had a good relationship with her told her about that. However, the said maid wasn’t in the villa at that time, so she didn’t know the reason.
Zhu Xin didn’t care at all, but why did his brother suddenly mention that he and Qin Junhong were having trouble?
Uncle Liu was driving. He glanced at her from the rearview mirror, and asked, “Young Lady, do you have something on your mind?”
Zhu Xin met his gaze and replied, “Uncle Liu, you can tell?”
Uncle Liu said confidently, “Young Lady, no need to worry. I’m optimistic about the boy that became Young Master’s roommate. However, I will not let him have the opportunity to be detrimental to him!”
Zhu Xin: “…”
‘You are fine with them being roommates?’
Of course, she didn’t think it was due to Uncle Liu’s irresponsibility. What she could know, her grandfather would definitely know, and what she cared about would not be ignored by her grandfather.
Uncle Liu was arranged by her grandfather to take care of her brother. Since Uncle Liu did nothing, he must have been instructed by his grandfather.
So Zhu Xin was not worried about what Shao Ming would do to her brother. On the contrary, although she was bubbling with sourness, she was actually quite grateful to that person. She hadn’t seen her brother so energetic for a long time.
The way he reported to that Shao Ming before going out felt… like this place is much more a “home” to her brother compared to the Zhu family’s villa in A City.
Zhu Xin couldn’t tell how she felt in her heart.
There is joy, mixed with imperceptible sadness.
Some changes are invisible, but they become apparent over time.
For example, over the years, the estrangement between her brother and their family. The communication between their father and her brother has become less and less, gradually turning into strangers living under the same roof. Although Zhu Tong is still Zhu Tong, her beloved twin brother, he clearly isn’t the same “person” as before.
Zhu Xin’s eyes darkened. “Uncle Liu, do you know why my Dad taught Qin-dage a lesson?”
Uncle Liu was surprised by her question. “doesn’t Young Lady already know about this?”
Zhu Xin shook her head. “I don’t know.”
“…”
The matter of Zhou Sui was handled by Uncle Liu himself. No one knew the cause and effect better than him. Hearing this, he immediately frowned. “Young Lady, please excuse this old man talking impolitely. That kid surnamed Qin is really not a human…”
Uncle Liu was filled with righteous indignation. He didn’t realize that the person in the back seat had lowered her head, and there was a bit of chilling coldness in her beautiful eyes.
Zhu Xin bowed her head and sent a message.
In a high-end bar somewhere in A City, Qin Junhong was drinking with a few friends to relieve his worries.
A man hooked his shoulders and said, “Young Master Qin, how come you are so diligent these days? Today is the National Day. Why don’t you go back to accompany your beautiful sister?”
Qin Junhong shook a glass of wine and said, “She went to Gongshui County to find Zhu Tong.”
“Who? Zhu Tong? He’s not dead yet?”
“…”
The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the speaker coughed awkwardly, “I didn’t expect him to be able to live this long, that’s it.”
Qin Junhong gritted his teeth and thought, ‘Yes, it’s really too fucking bad he hasn’t kicked the bucket.’
It’s okay if he left the Zhu family’s house, but he even sent Zhu Xin away!
Now he is suspected by Zhu Shoushan. He is not allowed to interfere in the company’s affairs, nor is he allowed to contact Zhu Xin. Zhu Xin does not go home during the holidays, so he does not even have a chance to meet her!
Could it be that he can only live by the charity of Zhu Shoushan in this way?
Qin Junhong squeezed the wine glass in his hand, and the veins on the back of his hand bulged out.
No, he can’t sit still.
Suddenly, there was a commotion on the dance floor of the bar. A woman was standing on the high platform, dancing with a handsome boy with alcohol in their hand.
A person next to Qin Junhong said, “It’s Jiang Wan.”
“Who is Jiang Wan?”
“You don’t know her? She’s the eldest lady of the Jiang family’s conglomerate, she’s a big-shot. She became the head of the Jiang family at a very young age. She always refuses to come, and occasionally searches for ‘prey’ by herself. I heard that she was scolded by her father not long ago and stopped for a while, but now it seems that she has started to hunt for ‘food’ again.”
“Ouch, she’s leaving already, it seems that there is nobody that she is truly interested in here.”
“…”
There was constant discussion next to him, Qin Junhong looked at the eldest lady they were talking about, and suddenly got up and walked towards her.
“Hey, Young Master Qin, are you leaving as soon as you come?”
Qin Junhong said politely, “I’ll leave early tonight. You guys have fun, I’ll pay for everyone’s drink.”
“Young Master Qin, you’re so generous!”
“Young Master Qin, please walk slowly.”
Qin Junhong nodded, glanced at the direction Jiang Wan was leaving, and got up to check out.
He handed a card to the front desk of the bar and kept looking outside the bar, wanting to leave after swiping the card.
As a result, the young man at the front desk swiped his card on the card machine and said apologetically, “My apology, Sir, but your bank card has been frozen and cannot be used.”
Qin Junhong: “…”
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