CH 128

hapter 128: Outing (2)

T/N: We’re at a turning point! I’m so excited, I’m tearing up. Send a happy birthday to Yserieh!

Lin Xin said, “I’m bored, accompany me down for a walk.”

The hand holding the door loosened. “You go by yourself, I have to take a bath.”

“You don’t sweat much in the daytime, what will you wash? Come out and accompany me.”

Seeing his reluctance, Lin Xin sneakily grabbed the door and quickly slipped into the room. Jumping onto Lin Shuhao’s bed, she rolled on it and lay spreadeagled when done (in the form of ‘大’).

“Lin Shuhao, it’s a fine day outside. Go out for a walk with me. What are you doing alone in the room?”

She took the cell phone by the head of the bed and tried accessing the web. When she was about to unlock it, Lin Shuhao grabbed his phone.

“Don’t touch my phone.”

Lin Xin thought he must have some hidden secrets. She jumped up and grabbed the cell phone from Lin Shuhao’s hand, quickly unlocking it.

The headline of a certain page jumped into her eyes: ‘Help me see if my sister is in love with me, what do I do, waiting online, urgent~’

‘My sister and I are boy-girl twins, and we have a good relationship. She’s so clingy, she calls me wherever she goes. I thought all this was normal, but yesterday she broke up and suddenly wanted to kiss me.’

Lin Xin asked Lin Shuhao awkwardly, “Did you send this?”

Lin Shuhao, who was also embarrassed, took back the mobile phone from Lin Xin’s hand and said, “Mm-hmm.”

It was a huge misunderstanding, she had to explain it clearly! But how was she to explain it? Say she was testing Lin Xinyu? See if she’s being watched? She had brought her family away so that they wouldn’t know about it.

How was she to explain that?

When Lin Shuhao saw that she was not talking, he thought of all the netizens saying that his sister must have been ‘in love’ with him. His heart ‘thumped’. He hardened his heart.

“Sister, we are brother and sister. Brother likes you, but he doesn’t like you the way you think. If you do that again, don’t blame your brother for not treating you like a sister.”

Lin Xin’s heart was also churning. They say a fly wouldn’t hover over an uncracked egg. Nothing came out of thin air. But just because she wanted to ‘kiss’ him… She didn’t mean to lead him to think that she’d ‘fallen’ for him.

She had no brothers or sisters for more than twenty years, and it was only after Lin Xinyu appeared that she had a brother. And her current body and Lin Shuhao got along well too. After a period of daze, she’d naturally accepted the fact that Lin Shuhao was her brother. The closeness between them stemmed from their genes, and as Lin Shuhao said, they shared the same blood. Compared to Lin Xinyu’s pure devotion, she’d accepted Lin Shuhao much faster, he’d become her closest person. She transferred her previous friendship with Lin Xinyu directly to Lin Shuhao.

It seemed to be too close, beyond the way a brother and sister should get along. She thought of Lin Xinyu. No wonder he had such feelings for her, half of the responsibility lay with her.

Lin Xin was in a bad mood, her voice fell flat. “Brother, you think too much, I really did not mean that. It was a joke.”

Lin Shuhao didn’t believe it. Seeing his sister’s face sink, he said, “We are brother and sister, you and I will get married one day. Mom’s right. No matter how close we are, we’ll always have a family of our own. At that time, it will be our other half who will accompany us to our old age, not our children or our kin.”

“When we go back this time, Brother will introduce you to a boyfriend, and this time my eyes will be clear.”

Lin Shuhao’s sentence, ‘it will be our other half who will accompany us to our old age’, deeply touched Lin Xin. She had never thought of this before, but now she thought of Lin Xinyu uncontrollably. At that time, she looked at him and often thought that one day he would have a wife and children. She never seemed to ask him if those things were what he wanted. She now had a slight sense of how he came to like her. But she could not understand what he had done.

How could a person do whatever it takes, hurting others, to achieve his goal? And the so-called power and wealth he revered were unimportant to her.

Lin Xin decided to go for a walk and think about what she could not understand. She explained to Lin Shuhao where she was going, and this time stopped pestering him to accompany her.

Lin Shuhao looked down the stairs, far away from his sister, guilty and a little sour, but also a little lost. He took his cell phone and leaned on the window, sending a message to the netizens: I made it clear with my sister, she said it was just a joke. I think I misunderstood her.

[Netizen 1: tell the truth, you just like your sister, right?]

[Netizen 2: you’re deceiving us.]

[Netizen 3: obviously you secretly love your sister…]

…

Argh, the secretary lied to me, saying that the people here are amicable and helpful. I’m not coming here anymore. The people here are crazy. 

Lin Xin went downstairs and walked along the lake (with her shoes). The water had just passed her ankles, and the temperature was a little cold. She had something on her mind and unwittingly went to the wharf. Three or four black boats docked on the shore. One of them swayed with such might that it rippled the lake.

When it caught Lin Xin’s attention, it piqued her curiosity.

Why is this boat swinging so hard?

She came closer and heard the intermittent sound of ‘mm-hmm’ coming from the black cloth-covered boat. And it seemed that there was a man gasping for breath.

There are a man and a woman in the boat. 

At this time, the cloth on the boat was lifted and a tall man came out of it.

Lin Xin calmed down and saw that the man looked familiar. About thirty years old, the facial features are as sharp as a knife, a pair of eyes as piercing as an eagle’s, and the temperament, calm and introverted.

Xiao Tian?! 

However, the woman who came out behind him surprised Lin Xin even more. Her hair was slightly disheveled, and her face was wet and red. Bright eyes with tears, hands tightly gripping her collar, timidly but resentfully looking at Xiao Tian.

Looking at Han Keman, the face she had used, Lin Xin thought of what they had just done on the boat.

She felt a disgusting feeling of being raped. This wouldn’t do, she had to find a place to hide and never play with them again.

As she was leaving with her shoes in her hand, Xiao Tian called out to her.

“Stop!”

Lin Xin had a bad feeling in her heart. He won’t recognize her, will he? On second thought, she had changed her appearance and he was with Han Keman, who looked exactly like her previous self. Not everyone, like Lin Xinyu, could recognize her by seeing her.

She turned, holding her wet shoes behind her back. She stepped forward twice, splashing a little bit of water, and merrily asked, “Uncle, did you call me?”

Bah, it’s disgusting pretending to be young and tender.

Xiao Tian saw the girl in front of her. She looked to be in her teens. Long hair, designer clothes, and a clean countenance. She should be a Young Lady of a family, not the women his gang brought this time. He nodded politely to her and asked, “Who is your father?”

Although he asked her politely, she didn’t want to have anything to do with him. She giggled and said, “Is Uncle trying to chase after me? But I just heard you and that sister do something bad on the boat. Mother said love is a very sacred thing and must be done in bed. So, goodbye.”

She waved to him coyly. Thinking to herself: doing that kind of thing in public in broad daylight, and you’re not afraid of nauseating passers-by. 

Xiao Tian was stunned. Many years ago there was a girl who with this look, patted him on the shoulder and said to him: do you like me? He always dreamed of that scene in the middle of the night. In the dream, he said: yes, I like you, very much. But no matter the beginning, he’d always wake up in a sea of blood. The pillow was so strange, there is no shadow of her.

That obsession took root and sprouted in his heart, and without blooming, it bore fruit, bitter and astringent.

He was always thinking, if he had agreed to her request, he would have taken her out of the orphanage. They’d have a different ending, at least she wouldn’t have died for him.