Chapter Thirty Brother and Sister

  When Xiaoyan Fei pushed open the door of the study and entered, she smelled a puff of smoke without surprise. Xiaoyan Tai was sitting there with his back to the door, holding in his hand half a pack of cigarettes that Xiaoyan Fei had left on the desk.

  She looked at Xia Yuanting's back and suddenly didn't know how to speak.

  In this case, Xiaoyan actually knew that if she followed the normal routine, she should have poured out all her own painful experiences, the confusion and terror she felt after discovering that book, and her unspoken worries to Xiaoyu.

  But Xiaoyan had been absent from her life for too long, and by the time she returned, Xiaoyanfei had grown into a person who only believed in herself and became a vivid example of "falling teeth and swallowing blood".

  But anyway, Xia Yu Fei silently told himself in his heart that he was still her blood-related older brother after all.

  Xia Yuanchi was actually sitting here, and the cigarette in his hand had only been lit for a mouthful.

  For the rest of the time, he just watched as the cigarette slowly turned into ash and then slowly fell to the floor until it was gone.

  In fact, his feelings for Xia Yifei are very complicated.

  Xia Yu Fei's talent surpassed his, this was an undisputed fact. And the two of them were actually the opposite of others in their growth process - while other families had sisters living under the shadow of their brothers' achievements, he was always looking up to Xia Yu Fei who could easily reach heights that he couldn't even with his utmost efforts.

  So when Xiaoyan was young, he didn't care about her not because of the rebellious period, but because he didn't know what other attitude to use to face this sister.

  But now their two careers have no intersection.

  It wasn't until he started designing jewelry that he realized how much he owed Xia Yu Fei, but by then Xia Yu Fei had already returned to this land.

  Xia Yanxi had always thought that he didn't have any of those weird, possessive feelings towards Xia Yifei, but when he saw Ao Yuan opening the door today, a surge of jealousy rose up from the bottom of his heart.

  What right does he have, he thought to himself, I've been so devoted to my dear sister, I've tried my best to make up for the absence in her life, how can you be with her so easily?

  Besides Xia Yu Fei, how could there be a second person who makes him feel that it's clearly not love, yet he can't help but miss and worry about this person, and feel deeply proud of every one of their successes?

  How can this person yield so easily?

  In the end, it was Xiaoyan Fei who broke the eerie silence in the room. She slowly walked to Xiaoyan Tai's side and sat down on the ground, gently resting her head on his knee.

  Just like the little girl who was bullied and cried all the way home back then.

  "Brother, did you know?" Xia Yu Fei's voice was as calm as a lake without a single ripple. "It seems I only have three years left to live."

  Xia Yanxi's body shook violently as he heard the words, and the cigarette in his hand fell to the ground. But he didn't have time to care about that, his eyes blazing red as he almost shouted at her: "What kind of joke is this?"

  Xia Yanyan's voice was still calm, what else could be exciting or resentful? The most difficult part had already passed: "I'm not joking."

  Afterwards, she recounted the entire incident from start to finish in that calm tone, from Fang Chenye coming to her doorstep to the small mountain village, then to the dark snake room, and even the desperate escape of several people, including everything that happened at the old mansion, along with Ao Yuan's identity.

  Fang Ying had once told her to try believing that it wouldn't hurt, and Lan Ruoxue had also pointed at her and asked Xia Yifei if she had lost most of her emotions when she fell in love, otherwise how could she not trust anyone except herself?

  At this moment, Xia Yu suddenly realized that the person in front of her was her own blood brother, inseparable forever. If she couldn't trust him, who could she trust?

  So she ultimately chose to tell without reservation, and chose to believe without reservation.

  After Xia Yanfei finished speaking, it was unknown how long the two had been sitting quietly like this. But when Xia Yanzai's hand was placed on her head and began to smooth out her long hair, she suddenly felt wronged.

  This feeling emerged out of nowhere, even when she saw the book in the old house, she only felt anger and confusion, for so many years, it was the first time she felt very wronged.

  Then she burst into tears.

  She cried and thought it was really unscientific that she had cried twice in less than a week.

  "It's okay." Xia Yuetai said to her while combing her hair, her voice firm and unquestionable, "I'm here."

  "What's the use of having you around?" Xiaoyan cried while still managing to make a sarcastic comment, her tear-stained eyes darting a glance at him, "People who rarely return to their hometown shouldn't deceive others."

  But this tone made Xia Yuetai feel surprised and delighted: "I said you finally have the idea of relying on your brother? I'm so touched...... Hey, why did you bite my hand?"

  "Who let you talk nonsense?!" Xia Yu Fei sat up and wiped away her tears.

  Xia Yanchao thought that her tone just now must have been her own misconception.

  The tooth marks on his hand, which were about to break the skin, served as evidence.

  "Are you looking for clues now?" Xia Yuetai asked, rubbing his hands, to the sloppy and nose-picking Xia Yufei, who didn't even look at him: "Yeah, but this morning Zhang Xuan called me saying he might have some news, and tonight he'll organize it and send it to my email."

  "He's still persistently pursuing you?"

  "Can't you just calm down?!"

  After finishing this sentence, the two of them stared at each other for a while. Then Xia Yu leaned back against the chair and Xia Fei directly lay down on the ground, laughing softly.

  "Don't tell Dad about this." Xia Yu Fei said with a smile, "Otherwise he'll worry and rush back to the country immediately."

  Xia Yuanyu also smiled: "Of course I know, otherwise it won't just be Dad, Mom will have to come back too."

  "How dare you say that again in front of your mother?"

  "I'm not looking for death yet, unlike you who's courting it day and night. Girl, if you don't do stupid things, you won't die, why can't you understand that?"

  Two people chatted easily, completely without the deliberate estrangement and fawning of previous years.

  Why?

  In this world, there are only each other in the blood vessels with the same blood that cannot be separated for a lifetime.

  No matter how others try, they can't get as close as this distance.

  It's just because of you that we are blood-related siblings, and we only realized it too late.

  Fortunately, I finally understood this simple truth, and there is no lifelong obsession, and the masses are not trapped in this dead alley.

  That's enough.