CH 23

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Mu Xiaoke walked in quickly, and Mu Kai was standing in front of his workbench, looking at him fiercely and mockingly, “Mu Xiaoke, I didn’t expect you to have such leisure time making hairpins. Why, is it because mental illness is not enough to make a sensation in school, do you have to be an internet celebrity to be satisfied?” Mu Kai asked Mu Xiangyang for the gate code as soon as he got out of school. His purpose was to make trouble for Mu Xiaoke but see what he found; he was so depressed that he did crafts to ask for attention. This is a big joke.

Mu Xiaoke rushed over and found that Mu Kai not only opened his hairpin materials but also looked at his computer.

Mu Xiaoke really felt that Mu Kai was unreasonable, and angrily signed to Mu Kai: “What are you doing? Why are you here?”

“Why am I here? To see how you study. To see how you enter the top ten in your grade. Our Mu family has a top student like you. I came to live up to my father’s entrustment. He has taken care of me and asked me to always take care of you.” As he spoke, Mu Kai smashed a hair clasp made by Mu Xiaoke to the ground.

The sound of the hairpin colliding with the ground almost shattered his heart, it was his hard work! Mu Xiaoke rushed over to pick up the hairpin for inspection. The hairpin made of shellfish could not withstand such a heavy impact, and a flower in the shape of a begonia was damaged!

Mu Xiaoke was very distressed. This week he had almost no time to do manual work because of the exam. This hairpin was going to be sent out on Saturday. He has already packed everything. Why is it damaged by Mu Kai? Can he still deliver this on time?

“Are you distressed? Xiaoke, my heart hurts. Since you became mute again, I thought you would not argue with me anymore, but now I know that you have learned to be smart and know that it is useless to mess around. So you started to refuse to welcome you back, right?”

Mu Xiaoke looked at Mu Kai’s vicious and ugly face, and couldn’t help shaking his head. Mu Kai was simply hopeless. He had already told them plainly that he hated Fu Jiayun and Rong Yanzhe, but why did Mu Kai have to be so forceful?

“I hate Fu Jiayun, and I also hate Rong Yanzhe. I won’t rob any of them from you. Let me say it clearly again! Can you please stop being whimsical!”

Mu Xiaoke put the hairpin away and locked it up, turned around, and looked at Mu Kai. Mu Kai looked in disbelief, so he simply made it clearer, “I can also promise you, I don’t want any of the Mu family’s property. Only this house is left by my mother and I want to take it away.”

Mu Kai was stunned for a moment, then suddenly sneered: “What are you talking about? I said that I will take care of you for the rest of my life. How can you say anything about separation?”

Mu Xiaoke was stunned. How could Mu Kai say such a thing? Care for a lifetime? Like the previous life, sell him to Rong Yanzhe and let him die?

“How do you want to take care of me?” Mu Xiaoke stared into Mu Kai’s eyes.

Mu Kai shrugged, “Of course I want you to stay at home obediently and don’t run around. Oh, and now I have to add one more thing, don’t make trouble everywhere on the Internet.”

Mu Kai said it very easily as if obliterating the existence of a living person in this way was as simple as crushing an ant to death.

Seeing Mu Kai’s vicious look, Mu Xiaoke couldn’t help but wonder what happened when he slept with Rong Yanzhe, married Rong Yanzhe, was imprisoned by Rong Yanzhe, and everything. It was calculated by Mu Kai. Mu Kai was only in his third year of high school and had the idea of ​​wanting Mu Xiaoke to disappear from this world forever. The older Mu Kai would naturally try his best to make everyone ashamed to mention this mute and let this mute die completely.

“Xiao Ke, why don’t you like Fu Jiayun, who is such a perfect school grass?”

“Why should I like him!” Mu Xiaoke gestured angrily. What does Mu Kai want to do?

“If you don’t like him, how can I take him from you and live in my shadow all your life?”

“You are crazy!”

“I’m not crazy, it’s you who is crazy, you forgot you are the one taking medicine?”

Mu Xiaoke frowned. He suddenly felt that Mu Kai was very pitiful. He had already been recognized by the Mu family and was already the designated successor of the Mu family. Why did he find confidence in the twisted pleasure of beating him?

Even if you beat him emotionally, what can you prove?

“Your eyes are exactly the same as your mother’s. That’s how she looked at me when I came back. I really want to gouge her eyes out, ha, and then she died, right, and died a terrible death. Xiaoke, you said you were pathetic, but you still came to pity me. Do you have the right?”

Mu Xiaoke’s hands were trembling, he clenched his fists hard and punched him.

Mu Kai was unprepared and was hit hard on the cheek, staggered, and fell to the ground. He sat on the ground as if he had been beaten, and stared at Mu Xiaoke dumbfounded.

Mu Xiaoke signed in sign language: “You don’t have the right to mention my mother!”

Immediately afterward, Mu Xiaoke made a video call to Fu Jia.

Mu Kai was startled, and got up quickly, “What are you doing, who are you calling?”

Mu Xiaoke walked around Mu Kai and opened the door, but something frightened him again, he didn’t close the door!

He pushed open the door, and Chu Han was leaning against the opposite door and looking at him.

When Mu Kai, who was chasing after him, saw Chu Han, his heart rose in his throat.

Chu Han said expressionlessly: “Hung up the phone, Xiao Ke.”

On the other side of the phone, Fu Jiayun was happy because of Mu Xiaoke’s initiative to contact her but was cut off ruthlessly before she could speak.

Mu Xiaoke walked up to Chu Han and looked up at Chu Han, his round deer eyes were still a little red, but he didn’t show any weakness, which made Chu Han very satisfied. Chu Han comforted and rubbed Mu Xiaoke’s head, and said to Mu Kai: “It’s rare for you as an older brother to see your younger brother and make such a mess. You are really a considerate and gentle brother.” However, Chu Han’s gaze stayed on Mu Xiaoke all the time, and he didn’t give Mu Kai, who had always been arrogant about his beauty, the slightest glare.

Mu Kai gritted his teeth and lost the mask he had worked so hard to create in front of outsiders. This was more embarrassing than being punched by Mu Xiaoke, not to mention that the other party completely ignored him at this time. He squeezed his fist and finally decided to leave.

“Wait, Xiao Ke, how long has he been at your house? Go and see if you lost anything.”

Mu Xiaoke looked at Chu Han in surprise, and then at Mu Kai. Mu Kai’s expression changed suddenly, “What do you mean?!”

Mu Xiaoke immediately remembered that in his previous life, Mu Kai also stole something from him – a painting, an insignificant painting, but Mu Kai posted it on his every social account.

Mu Xiaoke didn’t hesitate any more and ran back to look for the things on the workbench. His mother’s notes and posthumous works were all locked in the locker under the sofa. Mu Kai didn’t know the structure of the sofa, so of course he couldn’t find it. But his own drafts had apparently been turned over.

Mu Xiaoke thought for a moment, then went to the door and asked Mu Kai, “Did you take a picture?”

Mu Kai stiffened his neck and refused to admit it, “What nonsense are you talking about, what am I taking pictures for?”

“Then show me your phone. “Mu Xiaoke signed in sign language, then reached out to Mu Kai.

How could Mu Kai agree, “What right do you have to look at my phone? Are you invading my privacy? Do you know how will Dad teach you when he knows you bully me?”

Mu Xiaoke was extremely disappointed, “So, are you going to tell Dad?”

Mu Kai sneered, “Of course, you do such a job in private without telling Dad. Do you think Dad will let you go easily?”

Mu Xiaoke was helpless, he looked at Chu Han. Chu Han shook his head lightly, he had no choice but to give up. The two of them couldn’t grab Mu Kai’s phone by force, and if there was big trouble, maybe more people would know about him.

“Hmph, Xiao Ke, you still listen to your brother’s advice and don’t mess around on the Internet.  I can’t help you if you lose the face of the Mu family.”

Mu Xiaoke stared at Mu Kai. He always knew that Mu Kai was selfish, but he didn’t expect that Mu Kai, who was only a high school student, would be so relentless.

That being the case, he will also ask Mu Kai not to blame him for not showing family affection in the future.

Mu Kai was a little surprised when he saw Mu Xiaoke’s expression. Mu Xiaoke was really different from before. Before the summer vacation, Mu Xiaoke was naive and stupid, and he was extremely dependent on his brother. But now he saw a trace of coldness on his face, “Mu Xiaoke, what the hell are you planning?”

“I’m not as smart as you, so I can’t think of so many tricks. But I won’t recognize you as my brother again in the future. From today onwards, you are no longer my elder brother.”

After drawing a clear line with Fu Jiayun and Rong Yanzhe, he finally made up his mind to make a clean break with Mu Kai. Ever since he was imprisoned by Rong Yanzhe in his last life, he knew that he was too weak and incompetent, so he never attributed the failure of his life to other people. After his rebirth, he only wanted to be independent. He wanted to repay what his family had done to him, in order to gain the power to dominate his life, but he never thought about breaking up with his blood-related relatives.

But everything that happened after he was reborn made him unable not to make such a decision. He has already seen clearly that as long as he retains this family relationship, he will be pressured by all parties, and he has to live in the shadow of Mu Kai, and once again step by step back to the original old path.

“Mu Xiaoke! How dare you!”

“I will do what I say.” Mu Xiaoke finished signing and stretched out his hand to ask him to leave.

Mu Kai wanted to say something else, but since Chu Han had been standing by the door, he didn’t want to say anything embarrassing, so he could only leave.

After Mu Kai left, Chu Han came to Mu Xiaoke’s side, and patted Mu Xiaoke’s shoulder lightly, “You did a good job.”

Mu Xiaoke closed his eyes, and things finally came to this point. What’s the point of using the way of severing family ties to solve the problem? No matter how well he does it, what’s the point?

“Teacher, thank you.”

“You’re being polite again, but I remember that I warned you to close the door, but you forgot this time.”

Mu Xiaoke smiled wryly, “I know I was wrong.”

After saying goodbye to Chu Han, Mu Xiaoke immediately sent those design drawings to Weibo and station X. He would not give Mu Kai any chance to hurt him.

Sunday morning and afternoon are the parent meeting time for Senior one, Senior two, and Senior three respectively.

(TN: I assume it’s Grades 10, 11, and 12.)

Mu Xiaoke was busy repairing the hairpin that Mu Kai broke and ignored the parent meeting.

It wasn’t until Luo Jiaming sent him a message that his father had arrived that he realized that he was going to face Mu Xiangyang and Mu Kai’s attacks.