Chapter 79 The truth of that year
Nangong Yao was stunned for a moment before she realized what Lu Ting was talking about. She pursed her red lips and shook her head slightly, as if she didn't care much. "I swore that I would keep that matter to myself for the rest of my life."
Just eleven years ago today, beside the hospital bed of her beloved, she held her mother's weak hand and burst into tears.
In her last moments before leaving this world, Mom was thinking about her newborn brother and asked her and Dad to never mention the truth about her death in front of Nangong Jue...
When Madam Nangong was pregnant with Nangong Jue, she unfortunately fell and gave birth prematurely. The doctor asked the family to sign a critical illness notice. Nangong Wei finally chose Nangong Jue between Madam Nangong and Nangong Jue with trembling hands.
From then on, Nangong Yao treated Nangong Wei like an enemy whenever she saw him. She hated him for not choosing her mother in the critical moment, and she also hated her brother who was about to die...
Nangong Yao remembered that at the last moment of her life, her mother used up the last bit of her strength to touch Nangong Jue's little finger.
People outside were crying, but Madam Nangong smiled, her smile extremely pale. "Xiaojue, I'm sorry that I can't grow up with you..."
After saying this, Madam Nangong closed her eyes completely and never woke up again...
At that moment, Nangong Yao felt like her world had collapsed.
At first, Nangong Yao directed all her resentment and anger at Nangong Jue, believing that he was the one who killed her mother.
It was because of Nangong Jue that my mother died...
Nangong Yao thought so.
As if possessed by some mysterious force, she took advantage of the fact that no one was around and reached out her hand to Nangong Jue's almost invisible neck...
But suddenly, Nangong Jue woke up. His soft little hand grabbed her wrist, and he opened his big dark eyes and smiled at her.
She wanted to strangle him, but he was smiling at her...
The wrist that was grasped by the soft little hand seemed to be burned. Nangong Yao suddenly retracted her hand and fled in panic.
Later, as she grew up, she realized that her mother was powerless to change the situation. Even if her father had not chosen her brother, her mother would still have left.
But even so, she still hated Nangong Jue, because the moment he was born, his mother gave him all her love, and she was really jealous...
Slowly withdrawing from the memories, Nangong Yao's eyes reddened at some point, and she began to mutter to herself, "You know what? Nangong Jue's face really looks like hers. Every time I see him, her face on the hospital bed back then pops up in my mind... I have no choice but to do everything I can to avoid him and drive him away from me!"
Lu Ting glanced at Nangong Yao and said calmly, "Why not tell him the truth?"
Nangong Yao smiled bitterly: "What if he knew? Will he live in self-blame and pain for the rest of his life like me and my old man? That feeling, oh, it's really not pleasant..."
Perhaps from the moment Nangong Jue's little finger grasped her wrist, everything was destined.
It was destined that she would be his sister for life...
Lu Ting looked at Nangong Yao deeply, then walked out silently, leaving her enough space to calm down.
He paused, tapped the magnetic ring on his wrist twice with his long fingers, and then walked upstairs.
"Brother Lu Ting!"
Nangong Jue saw Lu Ting downstairs and hurriedly called him over. He pointed at the fluorescent blue image on his wrist and asked, "What did you just send me?"
Lu paused, resting his arm on the fence, "Birthday present."
Nangong Jue clicked play in confusion. The screen, which was only the size of a fingernail, suddenly became larger. The image looked like it was shot by a surveillance camera. The location was very familiar to Nangong Jue; it was his back garden.
I saw two small figures floating in the water, they were him and Xiao Taozhi.
After a while, another figure hurriedly jumped into the water. From behind, it was Nangong Yao. She swam hard towards Nangong Jue, but turned around just as she was about to get close to him because she saw Nangong Jue's bodyguard behind him, who was closer to him and better at swimming than her...
Nangong Jue was completely frozen in place.
It turned out that he had misunderstood his sister all along. His sister didn't mean to refuse to save him...
But what did he say to his sister?
His heart suddenly felt like it was being gripped by something, pulling at it and making his heart feel sour. Nangong Jue staggered towards the greenhouse.
But when he reached the door, he didn't dare to go in.
Sudden.
The door opened.
Nangong Yao raised her eyes and saw the young man standing in front of her. His eyes were red and he stood there silently.
Nangong Yao concealed the surprise in her eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Sister, I..."
Nangong Jue hung his head, his face flushed with shame and self-blame, his nails digging into his palms tightly, and after a long while he stammered, "I'm... I'm sorry..."
"?"
Nangong Yao was confused by what she heard.
I don't know what got this guy wrong, and now he's here to give her a proper apology.
"Before, when I fell into the water, I thought you didn't want to save me... Just now, Brother Lu Ting showed me the surveillance footage, and I realized that you didn't want to save me... I even ran away from home because of this incident... I'm sorry..."
Nangong Jue's words were incoherent, but Nangong Yao understood them.
But she didn't expect that Lu Ting, who usually didn't like to meddle in other people's affairs, would actually intervene to help her.
"This... this is the birthday gift I bought for you..."
Nangong Jue took out a shiny little thing from his pocket and placed it in front of Nangong Yao, looking at her face embarrassedly with his eyes.
Nangong Yao was stunned for a moment, and a momentary ripple flashed across her dark eyes, but she did not move.
Nangong Jue's scalp was tingling with nervousness.
Judging from my sister's expression, she doesn't seem to like this gift.
The young man was about to lower his hand in disappointment, "Sister, if you don't like it, then forget it..."
"Who said I don't want it?"
Before Nangong Jue could react, the hairpin in his hand had already passed into Nangong Yao's hand.
Nangong Yao lowered her eyes and carefully examined the hairpin in her hand. It was a low-quality stainless steel clip covered with cheap plastic rhinestones. At first glance, it looked...
It's just ugly.
Nangong Yao took a breath and was about to put the clamp away when she heard Nangong Jue ask her expectantly, "Sister, don't you want to try it?"
Nangong Yao paused, looking somewhat embarrassed.
"Sister, I bought this with my own money, not with the money earned by dad and you." The boy's eyes flashed with pride as he spoke.
"Your own money?"
Nangong Yao felt strange. Her younger brother was spoiled at home, always having everything provided for him. Where could he go to make money?
"Yeah." Nangong Jue nodded seriously. "Last time, I went to the street with classmate Shen to hand out flyers. We made some money and bought this clip at a convenience store."
Nangong Yao looked at Nangong Jue's innocent face, and her heart suddenly softened.
(End of this chapter)
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