Chapter 45 If storyline: As they grew up, even the older brother...

After the college entrance examination, Tongcheng officially ushered in a high temperature. The whole city was so hot that it felt like it was being roasted on a furnace. The camphor leaves on both sides of the road drooped, and even the cicadas seemed weak and listless.

As soon as the holiday arrived, Lin Yu was invited by her classmates to travel to Dali.

There were seven people in the group: three girls and four boys.

In front of the camera, several people stood at different positions. The person at the front raised a selfie stick, and everyone posed and looked at the camera, except for Lin Yu and another boy.

His gaze fell on the screen, and his fingertips slowly pulled away as his eyes followed. The photo was gradually enlarged. Through Lin Yu's WeChat Moments, Zhou Ke was staring intently at the photo. In the picture, everyone was grinning and laughing in front of the camera, except for her and another boy who were standing in the corner of the line. She tilted her chin up and looked up at the sky, while the boy next to her was standing in front of her at an extremely intimate distance. He looked down into Lin Yu's eyes, his fingertips resting on the corner of her eye, his lips just a fraction of a second away from her nose.

Zhou Ke lowered his eyes, his gaze fixed on the screen, his eyes growing even more profound in the darkness.

After a moment, he could no longer bear the stinging in his eyes from staring for too long. He raised his finger to turn off the screen, then closed his eyes heavily, rubbing his temples in frustration.

After returning from Dali, Lin Yu found a tutoring job through a classmate's introduction. It was four hours a day and the salary was very high.

Zhou Ke initially disagreed with her going, but Lin Yu insisted that the holiday after the college entrance examination was too long and it would be boring to stay at home, so it would be better to go out and earn some money.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ke's face immediately turned cold. He didn't seem to have made his sister suffer, did he?

At that time, Lin Yu was sitting next to him, and she assured him that the job was really good. The person who introduced her was her classmate, who was the youngest daughter of his aunt. Her family was in business and very rich, so the salary offered was very attractive.

Zhou Ke then asked her, "Then why didn't your classmate go by himself?"

Lin Yu blinked and said shamelessly, "Because not everyone is like your sister, who consistently ranked in the top three in every exam during her school years."

The tutoring hours are not fixed. Lin Yu goes out every afternoon and only returns after completing four hours of tutoring.

But recently, Zhou Ke noticed that Lin Yu was coming home later and later.

Not only that, she's been looking at her phone more and more lately.

That day, Zhou Ke stood on his balcony, his hands lazily resting on the railing, glancing out of the corner of his eye at the distance from the entrance of the community to his apartment building.

In the phone chat window, ten minutes earlier, Zhou Ke had asked her how long it would take to get home, and Lin Yu had replied three minutes.

Ha, three minutes, my ass.

The Lin family lived on the fifth floor. Looking down from the balcony, they could clearly see everyone entering and leaving the community. Zhou Ke had good eyesight and could spot his sister even at night.

He looked closely and, upon noticing that there was another man beside her, his expression slowly changed.

Very good, that's what they call three minutes.

Zhou Ke stood firmly on the balcony, his eyes deep and cold in the darkness. He stared intently at the young man beside Lin Yu. He was dressed casually in a simple white T-shirt and jeans, with frameless glasses perched on his nose. Due to the angle, Zhou Ke couldn't see his features clearly. The only thing he could see was the short distance of about ten meters. His gaze never went beyond the road in front of him; it remained fixed on Lin Yu's face.

He stood with his hands in his pockets, looking down at the two of them. They had clearly reached their doorstep, yet they were still dawdling without any intention of saying goodbye, and it was unclear how much more they wanted to say.

Five more minutes passed, and twelve minutes had passed since Lin Yu had mentioned three minutes.

Zhou Ke's patience ran out, and he started walking downstairs.

"Then it's settled, we'll go together tomorrow..." Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Chi noticed a tall figure suddenly appear behind Lin Yu. The person was dressed in all black, which made his already expressionless features even more unapproachable. Jiang Chi paused, immediately recognizing him as Lin Yu's brother. He had always had a good memory, even though he had only met him once at the senior year's pep rally.

Zhou Ke recognized the boy in the photo at first glance.

Upon seeing the person, Jiang Chi immediately straightened his back, forced a smile, and politely greeted the newcomer, "Hello, brother."

Lin Yu was taken aback, then slowly turned her head and, as expected, met her brother's obscure and complicated gaze. Her heart skipped a beat, and she keenly sensed that her brother seemed unhappy at the moment.

Hearing the other person's polite address, Zhou Ke remained unmoved, only looking at him coldly with little emotion on his face, secretly thinking, "Who is your brother?"

Seeing that her brother had come down to pick her up personally, Lin Yu pursed her lips and turned to look at Jiang Chi: "It's getting late. Thank you for bringing me back. You should go back now. We can contact each other on WeChat if needed."

Jiang Chi wanted to say something more, but seeing Zhou Ke's expression, he had no choice but to give up: "Alright then, I'll go first, see you tomorrow."

Watching Jiang Chi leave, Lin Yu turned around and looked at Zhou Ke, "Brother, let's go up too."

There was no elevator in the building, so the two of them had to walk one after the other in the narrow, old stairwell. The building was old, and in some places the paint on the walls was peeling and crumbling. When they got to the third floor, the light bulb in the stairwell had broken at some point, and it was pitch black. They could only walk by the dim light.

Suddenly, Zhou Ke stopped in his tracks.

Zhou Ke suddenly turned around, half of his face hidden in shadow. He was already tall, and now, standing on a step that was even higher than Lin Yu's, his stature appeared even taller. He lowered his eyelashes and stared at Lin Yu, his tone icy and chilling: "Are you in a relationship?"

The collision had given Lin Yu a headache. She raised her hand to cover her forehead, and before she could even ask her brother why he had suddenly stopped, she heard this nonsensical question. Her eyes widened, revealing a pair of clear and bright eyes, and she looked at her brother in disbelief, "What are you talking about? What love?"

Zhou Ke raised his hand, his fingertips landing on her forehead where she had bumped it, his expression unchanged, a faint smile playing on his lips: "You've grown up, you even lie to your brother?"

Lin Yu was slightly taken aback, realizing that he must have misunderstood her relationship with Jiang Chi. Lin Yu let go of the hand covering her forehead and hurriedly explained, "Brother, you misunderstood. He and I are just classmates, we are not dating."

Upon hearing the explanation, Zhou Ke remained silent for a moment. His previously frosty expression softened slightly, and he gently stroked her forehead with his warm fingertips. He said softly, "That's good."

The next day was the quarterly settlement day. Zhou Ke drank more than usual. When the socializing ended, it was almost midnight. He loosened his tie and sat in the back of a taxi. The neon lights outside the car window turned into blurry blocks of color. He closed his eyes and, for some reason, thought of the photo on his sister's WeChat Moments and the person who drove her home that day.

The longer I thought about it, the more pronounced the throbbing pain in my head became.

Twenty minutes later, the driver dropped the person off at the building entrance.

Alcohol made him dizzy. Standing at the front door, he tried to insert the key three times before it clicked into the lock. When he pushed the door open, the warm light in the living room made him squint. Lin Yu was curled up watching TV. Hearing the noise, he immediately stood up: "Brother, you're back!"

Zhou Ke stood in the entryway and paused for a moment when he heard Lin Yu's voice, as he was changing his shoes.

Knowing that Zhou Ke had a social engagement tonight and worried that he would come home too late, Lin Yu deliberately watched TV in the living room while waiting for him to return.

After changing his shoes, Zhou Ke walked over to her and casually draped his coat over the back of the sofa.

As they got closer, Lin Yu smelled a strong odor of alcohol in the air. She blinked and asked worriedly, "Brother, have you been drinking?"

Zhou Ke, legs spread wide, leaned wearily against the sofa, glanced at Lin Yu, and asked indistinctly, "Why aren't you asleep yet?"

"I was a little worried because you hadn't come home so late." Lin Yu knew that Zhou Ke was always very busy with work and had a lot of social engagements, but she had never seen him drink like this before. Lin Yu sighed and said gently, "Brother, please sit down first. I'll go make you a cup of honey water."

As Lin Yu was about to get up after speaking, her wrist was suddenly grabbed by a force. Caught off guard, she was about to fall backward.

Just then, a pair of hands suddenly covered her waist, tightly gripping her waist. She felt dizzy and spun around. When she came to her senses, she had already fallen onto her brother's lap. The smell of alcohol hit her face, blurring her mind. Her lower back was pressed against her brother's hot palms, making her skin feel hot and itchy.

Such an intimate gesture caused Lin Yu's head to buzz. She was about to get up when Zhou Ke suddenly pressed down on her chin. Lin Yu's eyes widened and her back stiffened.

She slowly turned her head, her gaze falling on Zhou Ke's face. In the dim light, her brother's pupils were unusually filled with lust. Lin Yu had never seen Zhou Ke show such a dangerous expression, which made her feel scared. She hurriedly spoke, her voice trembling slightly at the end: "Brother... are you drunk?"

"I'm not drunk." Zhou Ke's dark pupils stared at her, his large hand tightly gripping her waist, preventing her from leaving. He raised his other free hand, his fingertips slowly tracing the corner of her eye, the touch as light as a feather brushing against her skin. "Did he... touch you like this too?"

Lin Yu's brows furrowed, her amber eyes filled with confusion. "Brother, what are you talking about? What do you mean, 'touched'? Who are you talking about?"

Zhou Ke's eyes darkened, and he said in a deep voice, "The boy who brought you back yesterday, in Dali, on the day we took the photos."

After Zhou Ke's reminder, and seeing the hand that was near the corner of her eye, Lin Yu suddenly remembered.

"No...that day was just..." She couldn't wait to explain to her brother, but before she could finish speaking, a warm sensation suddenly pressed against her lips.

Lin Yu froze, her blood rushed to her head, her eyes widened instantly, and she sat on her brother's lap in a daze, as if she had been dumbfounded.

What is my brother doing? Has he gone mad?

Lin Yu closed her eyes and subconsciously began to struggle, pounding her arms against his broad chest, making incoherent moans: "Hmm... Brother... Hmm."

However, her strength was no match for anything. Her lips were easily pried open in the next second, and her warm, moist lips and tongue plunged in, stirring up her saliva. She could smell the scent of alcohol coursing through her mouth.

"Ugh... Brother..." The broken voice was swallowed up by their intertwined breaths. Zhou Ke supported the back of her neck with one hand, and the hand that was originally around her waist slowly slid down her back, pressing her forcefully against himself. Through the two thin layers of clothing, Lin Yu could clearly feel his violent and surging heartbeat.

Lin Yu twisted her body again, letting out soft moans, trying to stop his absurd behavior, but was met with an even deeper kiss in return.

Desires roamed freely within his body; his taut frame could not contain his wicked soul, his brain throbbed with pain, and his reason was burned away.

Zhou Ke pressed her back against him, his tongue sweeping forcefully across her mouth, not missing a single inch. His breath lingered on her nostrils, and his eyelashes cast fine shadows under the light. His collar was open and disheveled, revealing the tiny mole on her collarbone.

Even though she hadn't been drinking, a blush was visibly rising on her face, and even her earlobes, hidden behind her hair, were as red as if they were dripping blood. Slowly, Lin Yu felt her consciousness begin to sink and become dizzy. She weakly supported herself on her brother's shoulders, her breath filled with his scent. Her body temperature, which was originally natural, began to rise to a feverish level, as if she were in a sauna, and the surrounding air also rose to an unbalanced temperature.

In the darkness, a thin layer of sweat appeared on their bodies from the intense kisses, and a flush ran down their cheeks, gradually turning their fair skin a pale pink.

Taboos were quietly broken on this ordinary night, and the body, in a paradoxical state of mind, released something uniquely its own.

The moonlight was hazy, and the quiet living room echoed with the soft sound of water. The thin nightgown was unknowingly lifted up and piled up at the hem of her legs, exposing a pair of slender, white, and shapely legs to the air.

After kissing for too long, Lin Yu gradually felt short of breath and whimpered again.

Noticing her reaction, Zhou Ke held the back of her head and slowly withdrew.

Lin Yu leaned against him, her body aching all over. The intense kiss felt like an extreme sport, and when it ended, both of them were panting heavily.

Zhou Ke lowered his eyes, his gaze settling on her lips, which were red from being kissed and still covered with a layer of glistening moisture. Through her slightly parted lips, he could almost see her soft, light pink tongue. The sight was so striking that it intensified the desire in his already turbulent eyes.