Chapter 345, Regret
After finishing the veal steak and fruit tea brought by Shen Yang, Jiang Ran lay on the rattan chair, feeling very satisfied.
Shen Yang sat beside her and casually brushed away the hair stuck to her face.
When the cool fingers touched his skin, Jiang Ran opened his eyes and looked at his brother: "Brother, have you been waiting for me?"
She had never asked him this question. After he called her Jiang Xiaoran, they both kept a common secret tacitly.
He didn't ask where she came from or where she was going, and she didn't ask what he had done over the years.
However, in fact, they all know in their hearts what the other party is doing, and they naturally accept the other party's preference and efforts.
The two followed the tacit understanding they had developed since childhood and gave each other the greatest freedom.
Shen Yang withdrew his hand and imitated her position, lying side by side with her. He put his hands behind his head and answered in a nonchalant tone, "Who's waiting for you? Don't be so narcissistic."
Jiang Ran was lying on the armrest, and when she heard that, she reached out and poked his arm, just like when they were taking naps in the same bed together when they were kids. She would poke him awake in this way when she woke up first, and then when she saw him jumping up and down in anger, she would say "lululu" to him.
Shen Yang grabbed her hand and said angrily: “Don’t mess around.”
"Brother, have you missed me all these years?" Jiang Ran continued to poke him, his chin resting on the armrest of the rattan chair, his eyes reflecting the stars, asking himself and answering, "I know, you must have missed me a lot."
Shen Yang closed his eyes, not looking into the girl's clear eyes: "Yeah, I do." He didn't dare to look into her eyes and say what was really in his heart.
Jiang Ran uttered an "eh" and muttered, "Brother, you're so corny."
Still as stubborn as when he was little, he chuckled: "Didn't you say that yourself?"
Jiang Ran stopped talking.
Thinking that his answer had upset her, Shen Yang opened his eyes and was startled by the enlarged face that came close to him.
"Jiang Xiaoran!" He subconsciously dodged backwards, "Why are you getting so close?"
Jiang Ran leaned his hands on the armrests of his chair, staring down at him with a frown: "Brother, are you hiding something from me?"
She was so close that he could smell her fresh fragrance.
Shen Yang: “…”
"You must be hiding something from me." Jiang Ran leaned closer, staring at him intently with her big eyes. "You don't even dare to look me in the eye when you speak."
A familiar breath enveloped him, and Shen Yang could feel the temperature in his ears rising. He turned his neck stiffly, avoiding the girl's breath: "What are you doing? Get off me!"
"Look, you really are hiding something from me!" Jiang Ran refused to move. "Hey, why are your ears so red?"
Shen Yang was about to speak when he suddenly felt soft, slightly cool fingers touching his earlobe. His whole body froze, and he instinctively raised his hand to push the girl off the chair: "Nonsense!"
Caught off guard, Jiang Ran fell backwards.
"Jiang Xiaoran!" Realizing he had lost control, the young man jumped up in shock. "Are you okay?"
Grabbing his hand and climbing up from the ground, Jiang Ran punched him: "Just get off! Why did you push me? Shen Yang! You're asking for a beating!"
Shen Yang let her fist hit him twice without any pain, and said helplessly: "You are such a grown-up girl, and you are climbing on me, how can you be so mean?!"
Jiang Ran rubbed his sore butt and sat back on the rattan chair: "Then why did you throw me to the ground when you disagreed with me? What's wrong with that?"
Then he muttered, "How can you be a brother like this? Humph!"
Shen Yang: “…”
The girl lay on the rattan chair for a while, then thought of the important matter: "Brother, you haven't told me about Xiaobai yet."
Shen Yang looked at the starry sky and replied absentmindedly: "You will know when he comes back."
"Xiaobai, let's not talk about it for now. If you don't go to save Sister Yaoyao, aren't you afraid of Qin Huai..."
Shen Yang interrupted her guess: "No."
"Um?"
"Qin Huai won't hurt her." Shen Yang smiled bitterly, "For Qin Huai, Yaoyao is an exception."
"Huh?" Jiang Ran was surprised. "You mean Qin Huai, how he treats Sister Yaoyao... Uh, have they ever met before?"
Shen Yang was reluctant to talk about the past events in the laboratory: "Yaoyao saved Qin Huai's life."
"So he's my savior." Jiang Ran was still worried. "People like Qin Huai are moody and murderous. I think it's better to bring Yaoyao back."
More importantly, will Chen Yao be with Qin Huai? Do they have a chance to be together? If not, wouldn't the longer they are together, the greater the harm to Chen Yao?
Sometimes, liking someone is unreasonable.
"The kind of person Qin Huai is?" Shen Yang asked, knowing what she was worried about. "What kind of person is Qin Huai?"
This question... To be honest, all she knew about Qin Huai came from other people's mouths. She had never had any real contact with Qin Huai, but judging from the man's actions, she could give a very certain answer.
"I don't know what kind of person he is, but I know that Qin Huai is not a good person."
"Good guy?" Shen Yang laughed. "Then do you think Si Xu is a good guy? Am I a good guy? In this base, among those with special abilities, who is a good guy?"
Not understanding why he was suddenly obsessed with this question, Jiang Ran sat up straight, looked at his brother, and said seriously, "Brother, Qin Huai is not a good person, Si Xu is not a good person, you are not a good person, and neither am I. We are entangled in all kinds of conspiracies and calculations, and our hands are stained with other people's blood. People like us have no right to call ourselves good people."
“…” She rarely spoke to him so seriously. Shen Yang’s gaze finally stayed on her face for a long time without moving away.
"But, big brother, Sister Yaoyao is a good person." Jiang Ran said word by word, "She is gentle and kind, and has never hurt anyone. She spends all day in the laboratory, researching vaccines to control the virus... We are not good people, she is."
Good people should not be dragged into the mud by bad guys like these. It would be not worth it if they sacrifice their lifelong happiness for one of them.
Shen Yang understood what she meant, but he did not agree with her: "Jiang Xiaoran, she was born in the Shen family and enjoyed all the honors and conveniences brought to her by the Shen family. She is destined to be unable to escape from this quagmire."
Jiang Ran pursed her lips and remained silent.
"Of course, I will do my best to protect my loved ones, but Ranran, you shouldn't treat her like a child." Patting the girl's head, the young man's eyes reflected the stars, gentle and bright. "Yaoyao is a normal adult. She knows what she is doing."
…
After returning to the room, Jiang Ran quickly took a shower and got into bed.
She covered her face with the quilt, and after a long time, her eyes were revealed, staring blankly at the ceiling.
She is too casual.
She believed that they had a brother-sister relationship since childhood and had never thought about the difference between men and women - only in front of him would she unconsciously ignore this issue.
But she shouldn't be like this.
She had never asked that man what he thought, and naturally regarded him as her brother. But in fact, there was no blood relationship between Jiang Ran and Shen Yang. She knew it, and Shen Yang knew it too.
When he accidentally pushed her off the chair, she looked into his painful and troubled eyes and suddenly realized her own selfishness.
It shouldn't be like this.
She did something to hurt him, and yet she was still unaware of it and asked him to respond to her unreasonable behavior.
Jiang Ran, you idiot!
(End of this chapter)
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