Chapter 47: The Forty-Seventh Day of Restraint: Brother Treats You Differently...
"It's rare to see you get angry in front of outsiders." Zhou Yan put his fist to his lips and chuckled.
Pei Yunhe also turned over and leaned on the railing, with his arms folded behind his back, and glanced at Zhou Yan.
"How can you talk like that? What do you mean by outsider? Is she an outsider?"
Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment, his chest trembling, and he laughed even harder, "Who told me that if I were to marry one of us, at best we would just be respectful to each other, and I would never enter your heart?"
He tilted his head, his deep, narrow eyes flashing, "Why? Already walked in?"
Pei Yunhe turned his eyes back, took a deep breath, and crossed his long legs.
The warm wind blew his shirt from behind, and a few strands of bangs flew and scattered on his temples, cleverly concealing his heavy thoughts and emotions.
Zhou Yan looked at him and stood up straighter.
"What do you mean? Unusual?"
Pei Yunhe suddenly raised his head again. The sunlight coming down from above was so white that it was dazzling, and the rainbow between his eyelashes seemed so unreal.
But behind him, the laughter of Pei Yunmiao and Shan Yin in the courtyard came into his ears one by one, so clear and distinct.
He suddenly curled up the corners of his lips, as if responding to his own heart.
"Unusual. More than ordinary."
This aroused Zhou Yan's interest even more.
"What's going on?"
He knew that Pei Yunhe was not the kind of person who indulged in love easily, otherwise he would not have allowed any woman who tried to cling to him to get close to him for so many years.
Pei Yunhe also opened up to Zhou Yan and stopped keeping him in suspense. He laughed and said, "She went to the same year as me in high school, but she doesn't remember me."
Zhou Yan immediately guessed the deep meaning behind these words.
They have only been classmates for a year, so even if there was a marriage arrangement, there shouldn't be such a lot of affection between them. I'm afraid Pei Yunhe has already fallen in love with her a long time ago.
He was surprised for a moment, then his expression softened. "It's quite fateful. No wonder your classmates asked me to take care of them at the wedding."
Pei Yunhe shrugged his shoulders. Who said it wasn't?
Zhou Yan was a thoughtful person and thought a lot. While he was happy for Pei Yunhe, he couldn't help but think of some pessimistic possibilities.
He turned around and leaned his arms on the railing. "This is a blessing. But Ahe, have you ever thought about what if the marriage was with someone else?"
If the marriage was arranged with another person, would Pei Yunhe be able to love the other person as much as he loved Dan Yin, or, even if he could only treat each other with respect, would he still marry that person as usual.
Pei Yunhe also turned around and his eyes fell on the green in the yard downstairs.
Shan Yin and Pei Yunmiao stood beside a tank of water lilies. Pei Yunmiao was half-lying down, stirring the water with her hands, while Shan Yin just stood there gracefully, stretched out like an ink painting amidst the rippling green waves.
She happened to turn her head and look up, meeting Pei Yunhe's gaze from afar. She then smiled, and the water and flowers shone brightly.
He nodded, then shook his head decisively.
"I thought I could handle it."
His love for Shan Yin had been buried for too long, so long that he thought he had forgotten it. That was why he vowed at the time that it was just a marriage anyway, so what difference did it make who it was.
are different.
How can it be the same no matter who you marry?
He laughed, mocking the self who used to pretend that nothing mattered.
"Later, when I saw her again, I realized I had never forgotten her."
"If it really is someone else..." He answered Zhou Yan's question, "then maybe he wouldn't be able to bear it before getting married, and would think of other ways to replace the arranged marriage, and then remain single for ten or twenty years, until he's too old to be useful, and probably no one would say anything."
This was just a joke, but Zhou Yan himself had been thinking about her for many years, so how could he not know the hidden meaning behind it.
He lowered his head slightly, pursed his lips and said nothing more, then reached out and patted Pei Yunhe on the shoulder.
Pei Yunhe still curled his lips, but this time the self-mockery in his smile faded, and instead, waves of comfort and pride emerged.
“But there are no ifs.”
That person happened to be Dan Yin.
The person he married just happened to be Shan Yin. Zhou Yan was also cheered up by his sudden enlightenment and was genuinely happy for him. "Then congratulations, it's a match made in heaven."
"Thank you."
It had been a while since the two of them had gotten together to talk alone. Pei Yunmiao had been working hard on her career these years, and Zhou Yan had become the man behind her, also working hard with her. The two good friends could often only get together for a small gathering at Songlingju.
Thinking of Pei Yunmiao, Zhou Yan couldn't help but think of the look on Pei Yunhe's face when he first found out about their affairs a few years ago.
He shook his head. "Back then you called me a cunning old fox, but you've been thinking about it for years, haven't you? Now that you've succeeded, you've clearly gotten a huge advantage, yet you're still pretending."
Zhou Yan smiled at Pei Yunhe, acting like an experienced person.
"Just keep pretending like this, keep it a secret, and act a little dismissive."
His true feelings were exposed at the beginning, and he coaxed Pei Yunmiao for a long time.
It didn't feel good at all.
Pei Yunhe glared at him when he heard this: "I was your lobbyist back then, and now you're mocking me?"
"I'm just giving you a heads up."
After just a few words, the atmosphere became relaxed, and Pei Yunhe instantly remembered Dan Yin's praise for Zhou Yan's thoughtfulness.
Shan Yinke has never praised him in public like this, so why did he just ignore it and praise others?
Pei Yunhe felt a little unhappy in his heart, his eyes half closed, and the bags under his eyes just bulged a little. Zhou Yan knew at a glance that he was up to no good.
"A tip? Of course, our President Zhou is gentle and considerate. Should I thank you?"
Sure enough, when Pei Yunhe spoke again, his tone was somewhat strange.
Zhou Yan shook his head helplessly. He was about to say that he was in his thirties and should be more tolerant. But before he could finish his words, he saw Pei Yunhe stand up and walk out.
"What are you going to do?"
"Thank you for going."
On one floor away, Pei Yunmiao and Shan Yin, who were enjoying the flowers and playing in the water in the yard, had no idea what their husbands were talking about.
Pei Yunmiao likes his sister-in-law Shan Yin very much. She is gentle, dignified, speaks in a friendly manner, and is beautiful. She is likable at first sight.
More importantly, she treated her brother very well. Otherwise, why is it said that the gentle knife is the most deadly?
Pei Yunmiao leaned against the edge of the purple clay pot where water lilies were raised. There were a few koi fish in the pot, with gold and red colors alternating. A sway of her body created a ripple, which then spread to the edge of the water lily. She gently raised her head and kissed it.
She was delighted by what she saw, and couldn't help but say to Shan Yin: "Sister-in-law, I think my brother really likes you."
This incoherent sentence made Shan Yin speechless and embarrassed.
The bright afternoon sun shone into the open purple clay pottery jar, rippling the water, and reflected the fragrant water lilies on Dan Yin's face, the light purple-red color adding a touch of delicate color.
Pei Yunmiao didn't mean to tease Shan Yin. Seeing Shan Yin blush, he raised his head and said seriously, "It's true. I can see it."
Shan Yin nodded and smiled: "He is a good person and takes good care of everyone."
Pei Yunmiao smiled and said, "Brother, when you praise him like this, your mouth will curl up to the sky."
It's not like she doesn't know her own brother well. He is gentle and polite, but that's just because he is too lazy to even give a perfunctory response and treats others indifferently.
In private, I don’t have any major problems, and I’m not bad to my family, but I have a lot of minor ones.
In the past, I didn't allow her to do this or that. I was too controlling and it was troublesome. She was also very narrow-minded and petty, so it was really difficult to deal with her.
At the beginning, she was wondering what kind of young lady from a noble family could tolerate her brother, be worthy of him, and marry him. She also wondered what kind of person could make her brother willingly do it, and she couldn't pretend anymore.
Looking at Dan Yin again, he was as graceful as a breeze, gentle but hard to catch.
Not to mention the moon in her arms and her kind heart, just picking up the good points of others is enough to make people feel at ease.
Pei Yunmiao said "oh" in his heart.
It turns out my brother likes this.
She would like it too.
She smiled, and felt closer to Shan Yin in her heart, and she became more and more uncontrollable in her words.
"Brother treats you differently. He's extra protective of you."
Shan Yin still replied softly: "This is how it should be between family members."
Pei Yunmiao knew that Shan Yin had misunderstood her meaning. "That's different. He's not treating you like a family member. He's never treated any other girl like this before. He's moved. No doubt about it."
As if afraid that Shan Yin wouldn't believe him, he added, "From what I know, my brother has never been interested in any girl since he became an adult. The only time he almost confessed his feelings to someone was when he was in high school, but it didn't work out."
Shan Yin thought Pei Yunmiao was joking about what he said before, but when she heard this, she suddenly raised her eyelids slightly, as if she was concerned about it.
I haven't heard anything about Pei Yunhe's past. He has a good reputation and there has been no gossip about him in the upper class circles of Nanqiao for many years.
It turns out there was such a story when I was young.
Shan Yin couldn't help but feel a little curious, wondering what kind of girl Pei Yunhe liked.
Will you feel regretful if you fail to express your feelings successfully?
Do you always keep it in mind?
She opened her mouth to ask, but suddenly realized that she might be meddling too much. If Pei Yunhe knew, he would probably scream like a cat, "Who hasn't loved someone when they were young? So what if you failed? Failure is the mother of success!"
She just chanted nothing.
But putting himself in other people's shoes, Shan Yin still felt that it was inappropriate to reveal such things behind the backs of the parties involved and use them as a topic of conversation.
What's more important is that she suddenly found that she seemed to have some strange feelings.
If this matter was to be unpacked and dug deeper, she would always feel distressed and uncomfortable when she thought that Pei Yunhe still had someone in his heart who had once moved him and might even have always remembered him.
She didn't know where this feeling came from or why, but her original intention had changed by the time the words came to her lips.
Shan Yin stared at the two koi fish in the purple clay pot and asked casually, "High school? Also in Nanqiao? Which high school—"
"Single chant."
Before he finished speaking, Pei Yunhe's clear voice came from behind. Shan Yin and Pei Yunmiao turned around at the same time and saw him striding quickly. They didn't know whether it was because the weather was good and he was full of energy, or because he saw the person he wanted to see again.
"What are you guys talking about?" Pei Yunhe walked over and saw a hint of red on Shan Yin's face. He looked up at the sky and said, "It's so sunny here, why don't you go in?"
Pei Yunmiao, who was standing by, frowned and complained, "Brother, I used to play outside in the middle of the day, but I never heard you tell me to go in and rest."
Pei Yunhe immediately lowered his eyes and glanced at her, "Don't you still think I'm too nosy?"
He said, and glanced at Shan Yin again, "But you are not as tolerant and considerate as Zhou Yan."
Pei Yunmiao narrowed his eyes.
"So? What are you talking about?"
Pei Yunmiao also looked at Shan Yin and answered slowly: "Oh, nothing, just telling me about your love history."
Pei Yunhe frowned instantly.
Shan Yin quickly pulled Pei Yunhe and said, "It's really nothing. I haven't said anything yet."
She was busy changing the subject, "What about you? Why are you coming down here too?"
Pei Yunhe immediately raised his eyebrows again.
Catching a glimpse of Zhou Yan following behind him from a distance, he raised his voice: "You two didn't talk about anything, but Zhou Yan and I did."
He smiled slyly at Pei Yunmiao: "Zhou Yan said he wants to have a child and wants you to quit acting."
"What?"
Pei Yunmiao's first reaction was disbelief.
Compared with her three family members, Zhou Yan has always been the one who supports her development in the film and television industry the most.
Pei Yunmiao and Zhou Yan had been married for several years, but Zhou Yan had never mentioned having children to her. He knew that she was still focused on pursuing her career and was not fully prepared to have children.
"You're lying to me, brother? Brother Zhou Yan has never said anything like that."
"It's a different time now." Pei Yunhe shrugged. "Just because I didn't mention it doesn't mean I don't want to. Even if I didn't want to in the past, it doesn't mean I don't want to in the present."
He glanced at Zhou Yan in the distance, "You've seen how much Mom wants a grandson. Zhou Yan is a considerate and good son-in-law."
"Well, well... he wouldn't tell you without telling me."
Considerate, why is it considerate again?
But when it comes to consideration, Pei Yunmiao really started to think about it.
"My silly sister, how come you're still so naive after all these years?" Pei Yunhe suppressed a laugh. "He was so cunning when he was pursuing you back then. Now that he knows you don't want to retire, why would he tell you so clearly so early? You have to hold it in and make plans before you act."
Thinking about how Zhou Yan had been holding it in for many years and had to resort to some means to be with her, Pei Yunmiao frowned completely.
It’s not that I really have any problem with Zhou Yan, it’s just that I’m angry enough, and if it happens again, I’ll just feel uncomfortable no matter how I think about it.
Zhou Yan happened to walk over and wanted to embrace Pei Yunmiao, but before his hand touched her, he was brushed away by a hand.
Pei Yunmiao walked into the villa angrily.
"What's going on?"
Zhou Yan looked at Pei Yunmiao and then at Pei Yunhe.
Pei Yunhe smiled gently and kindly.
"Why don't you go and comfort him? Remember to be tolerant and considerate."
Zhou Yan understood what was going on when he saw his smile, so he glanced at him and left quickly.
Pei Yunhe finally breathed a sigh of relief.
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The author has something to say: I almost knew it, but President Pei ruined it himself [milk tea]
Miaobao and Yanzi's story "You Are More Seductive Than the Summer Wind" is next door. Pei also makes a cameo appearance in it. If you are interested, please read it [Red Heart]
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