Chapter 2 You Should Call Me Brother

After leaving the kitchen, Xie Yanyu went to the Xie family pharmacy.

She didn't personally deliver the hangover soup because she felt it was insignificant and wouldn't affect the plot.

Helan Wei appears gentle on the surface, but his methods are not gentle at all. He is used to doing the most malicious things with the most gentle and frivolous attitude.

He didn't like being schemed against. If he found out there was love poison in the hangover soup, and knew she had sent it, he would definitely send someone to take her there. He was the type who wanted to personally pour the soup into her mouth and watch her suffer the consequences.

Whether she delivered the soup personally or not, it would probably end up in her stomach.

In this case,

She might as well take this opportunity to prepare the antidote for the love poison.

Love thread Gu is a very special kind of poison. After taking it, you will become inseparable from the person you make love with. Every time the full moon night comes, the poison will attack and you must find that person to cure it.

However, after taking the poison, if one can take the antidote before having sex, the poison will only have an aphrodisiac effect and will not have any subsequent effects on the body.

She gave Helan Wei the love poison with the intention of making Helan Wei subject to her control.

However, now she is the one who takes the love silk Gu...

She didn't want to be inseparable from Helan Wei as written in the original plot.

The antidote to the love thread Gu needs to be refined, but fortunately, the materials for refining the antidote are available in the medicine cabinet.

Although Xie Yanyu was unable to cultivate immortality, she had not wasted her time over the years and had learned something, so refining the antidote was not difficult for her.

She walked into the medicine cabinet with ease, walked around the shelves where medicinal herbs were placed, and stopped in front of the stone wall at the end of the cabinet.

Behind the stone wall is a dark room where various poisons are stored. The materials for making love poison and antidote are all inside. It is one of the forbidden areas of the Xie family.

Xie Yanyu was not qualified to enter such a place, but she figured out how to enter and exit the dark room on her own.

She looked around to make sure there was no one around, then she activated the mechanism at the door with a bit of skill.

Then the stone wall clicked and a gap slowly opened.

Xie Yanyu was about to go in,

But the next second, she found that there was a candle on in the dark room.

There was a man sitting in a dark room, looking through the record book of poison use.

Hearing the noise, the man looked up and glanced at her——

His eyebrows and eyes were handsome and cold, as if painted in ink, his nose was straight, and his lips and skin were light in color, but they did not make him look pale. Instead, they deepened the coldness around him, like a piece of ice that could not be chiseled.

This is her stepbrother,

Xie Chengjin.

Xie Yanyu was stunned.

Why is Xie Chengjin here?

She was not familiar with Xie Chengjin. Although they were nominally siblings, she was jealous of him and hated that he was born into a high-ranking aristocratic family.

Xie Chengjin didn't think much of her either.

He never revealed it, but Xie Yanyu now knew the plot, so she naturally knew what Xie Chengjin thought of her.

In the original text, he only had two sentences to evaluate her.

The first sentence: It is a disgrace to the family.

The second sentence: He has high expectations but poor skills, and is not smart.

She quickly recalled the plot and found that there was not much between her and him.

She has some emotional entanglements with several other male protagonists, but with Xie Chengjin, there is only a plot of house arrest and escape——

After her fiancé broke off the engagement, her affair with Helan Wei was spread out and caused a sensation. Xie Chengjin therefore put her under house arrest to prevent her from going out and embarrassing the Xie family again.

Xie Yanyu was thinking about it.

On that side,

Xie Chengjin spoke first, his voice low and pleasant, but his tone was as cold as he was: "What are you doing here?"

Xie Yanyu suppressed his thoughts and bowed to answer, "Sir, I'm here to find something."

She and he had little interaction, and this was even their first conversation. However, she was very clear-headed and knew that although she was an adopted daughter, she had to act like a servant in front of him, and had to bow to him and call him "Master".

However, as soon as these words fell.

She felt Xie Chengjin's gaze pause on her.

After a while.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Xie Chengjin stand up and walk towards her.

He was very tall, and when he stood in front of her, his shadow cast a shadow over her, as oppressive as he was himself.

Then his voice came down from above his head: "Are you going to call me Master?"

Xie Yanyu didn't expect him to say that. He was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted.

Xie Chengjin is a very law-abiding person. Given their step-sibling status, he looks down on her, but he still abides by the rules and asks her to call him brother.

Really.

Xie Yanyu sneered in his heart, but still called him, "Brother."

Xie Chengjin didn't comment, and then said, "Aren't you here to look for something?"

He didn't ask her why she could open the darkroom or what she was looking for. After saying this, he just slightly turned sideways and motioned her to go in: "Go ahead and look."

He had no intention of leaving. After all, this place was considered a forbidden area for the Xie family, and he should keep an eye on her.

Xie Yanyu understood this logic. She had already said it, so she had to go in. However, she came here to steal medicinal herbs. In front of him, she couldn't pull out the drawers one by one and take the things away openly.

His eyes fell on her, and the sense of oppression was very strong.

Xie Yanyu had no choice but to walk in, pretending to look for something. He walked around twice perfunctorily and then walked out under his gaze.

Then I heard him ask, "Didn't find it?"

Xie Yanyu smiled and said, "I didn't find it."

She came at an inopportune moment, as he was there, so she could only wait until he left and then come secretly.

She didn't want to waste time here, so she prepared to leave: "Maybe I remembered it wrongly, the thing is not here, I'll look for it somewhere else."

Xie Chengjin didn't respond.

He has always been a cold and restrained person, never showing any emotion. When he looked at her, his eyes were also deeply cold, just like the way he looked at people at other times. He didn't say anything, and Xie Yanyu couldn't leave. She didn't know what he was thinking, so she could only lower her head slightly and let him look at her.

The air was very quiet for a moment, and the atmosphere seemed to be frozen.

She lowered her eyes, her eyes were cold and she began to feel a little impatient.

But at this moment, she saw him open his palm.

The old and new scars on his palms covered his lifeline, which didn't look very nice.

But now is not the time to focus on that.

Because Xie Yanyu saw that he was holding the love thread Gu in his hand.

Then she heard him ask—

"Looking for this?"

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The other side.

In a guest garden to the west of Xie Mansion.

The attendant looked at Helan Wei's face, feeling frightened and confused.

He was afraid because he had never seen Helan Wei lose his composure like this before.

The confusion is because——

Helan Wei just took a nap after drinking. I don’t know if he had a nightmare, but his first reaction when he woke up was to touch the accessories around his waist.

Then his face quickly darkened, his voice turned cold, and he asked the attendant, "Where is my sachet?"

Helan Wei likes to wear white jade and has never worn a sachet before.

"Young Master... Young Master, what sachet are you talking about?"

What sachet?

Of course, it was Xie Yanyu's sachet. After her death, Xie Yanyu left him nothing, except for her old sachet, which he had dug up from somewhere. Over the years, the sachet had turned dusty, but he had gotten used to wearing it, never leaving it behind. So, how could it be gone now?

Helan Wei's eyes were filled with a thick ink color.

The usually reserved and uninhibited young man seemed a little gloomy at this moment.

The servant clearly sensed a hint of murderous intent from him. He lowered his head, not daring to look at him, and banged his head on the ground, saying, "Sir, there really is no fragrance..."

This sentence has not been finished yet.

Next second.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, followed by the voice of the security guard: "Sir, Miss Xie has brought the hangover soup and is waiting at the door."

In the house,

The attendant was still kneeling on the ground, trembling with panic, and was suffocated by the coldness of Helan Wei.

However, when the guard's voice fell, he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he suddenly felt that the murderous aura disappeared -

What's going on?

The servant secretly raised his head, only to find that Helan Wei seemed to be stunned for a moment.

Then,

Helan Wei lowered his eyes and met his gaze.

The attendant shuddered and was about to kowtow again when he heard Helan Wei ask, "...Miss Xie? Who?"

The servant's lips trembled, not knowing whether to answer.

Helan Wei didn't wait for his answer. He only then looked around and noticed that the surrounding decoration was wrong.

This is clearly the Xie family's guest room.

He paused, as if he had thought of something. After a long silence, he asked in a low voice, "What year is it?"

The attendant murmured a year.

Helan Wei heard his words and remained silent for a moment.

The fact of rebirth was not difficult to accept, and he kept thinking about this year in his mind.

This year,

He was invited to stay at the Xie family for a while. After the banquet, Xie Yanyu gave him a hangover soup with a love poison in it. She said she had no other request and gave him the drug just because she liked him.

But in the years that followed, she got engaged to someone else and married someone else. She said she liked him at the time, but later she never looked at him again, and the love Gu was also solved.

Helan Wei always felt that he could not express his love to her. She ignored him, and he did not go to look for her at all. He just watched her in the dark, and kept watching her until she died, and he never said another word to her.

He thought maybe she was unwilling to accept it. He was high and mighty, and she was of humble status. She had no right not to love him, no right to change her mind, so why should she leave cleanly without leaving any entanglement.

He never took off the sachet.

He didn't love her, how could he love her? He just wore it as if he could laugh at her.

You see, our breakup wasn't that clean. I've been wearing your sachet for many years.

But when I opened my eyes again, time went back to this year.

For the first time in his life, Helan Wei felt a little dazed, as if a part of his heart was torn open, and very complicated emotions began to flow, finally settling on a subtle sense of anticipation.

If I take her back to the Helan family, will she not get engaged and married to someone else like in her previous life?

She likes him now.

She is outside the door now.

His expression returned to its usual gentle and casual state. He unconsciously pinched the corner of his clothes, then walked to the door and pushed it open.

Next second.

I saw a strange maid's face.