Chapter 52 Sister, could you ask my brother to come and help me with my luggage? ...
Jiang Xiliu followed Jin Zhao's gaze downwards and belatedly noticed that Shen Xiu was still firmly holding onto her clothes.
"Sister, who is he?" Shen Xiu deliberately raised her voice, intending for the man who had suddenly appeared to hear. "Why is he standing next to our car?"
He had never met Jin Zhao; he only knew that Jiang Xiliu and Shen Yu had been together.
As for Jiang Xiliu and Jin Zhao getting their marriage certificate, although she didn't deliberately hide it, she also didn't publicize it, so not many people know about it now.
Shen Xiu's words struck a nerve with Jin Zhao.
"Our car?" Jin Zhao heard it clearly. He repeated it in a low voice, watching Jiang Xiliu standing intimately with others.
If she and this boy are considered "us," then what is he?
Although Jiang Xiliu hadn't done anything wrong, she felt inexplicably guilty when she met Jin Zhao's gaze.
She ignored Shen Xiu beside her, slapped away the hand that was grabbing her, and walked up to Jin Zhao.
Before Jin Zhao could speak, Jiang Xiliu had already raised her hand and touched his face.
She touched it on the left and brushed it a few times on the right. She blinked gently, her eyes filled with concern: "I heard you got into a fight with Shen Yu. Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?"
"It's nothing," Jin Zhao asked her. "How did you end up here?"
Jin Zhao's gaze never left her, thinking: Jiang Xiliu's original destination must not have been here. If she had planned to come to the vicinity of Peking University, there would have been no need for her to separate from him.
Unless, of course, she simply doesn't want to be in the same car as him.
The moment the thought crossed Jin Zhao's mind, his heart sank. He then recalled what Shen Yu had told him.
—Did she feel sorry for Shen Yu after seeing him? So she simply abandoned them both, to save Shen Yu from being saddened by seeing them again?
Jiang Xiliu had no idea that Jin Zhao had already mentally rehearsed a 24-episode soap opera. She turned around and pointed at Chen Xiu, saying naturally, "I hit him on the way, so I took him back to school."
Jin Zhao then noticed that the boy standing next to A Biao had a large tear in his pants.
He reached out and took Jiang Xiliu's hand, without asking any further questions: "Have you finished dealing with your business? Are you leaving?"
"Sister isn't leaving." Shen Xiu's voice suddenly broke in. He had been watching from the side for a long time and finally realized that the relationship between this man and Jiang Xiliu was unusual.
He walked over, squeezed between the two, and cheerfully took Jiang Xiliu's other arm: "I still want to go eat with my sister."
"Sister, you promised to go out to eat with me, you can't go back on your word." The boy's voice was a clear, youthful voice, and even his complaints weren't unpleasant. "My legs hurt so much, and I'm so hungry. Sister, you bumped into me, you're not just going to leave me alone, are you?"
Jiang Xiliu clearly felt Jin Zhao grip her hand tighter. She glanced at Shen Xiu, who was still acting: ...What is he up to in front of Jin Zhao? What does he mean by getting involved? Is he trying to provoke her?
[System 0777 promptly clarified for her: Miss, the villain and the male protagonist are natural enemies. They instinctively dislike each other, and whenever they meet, they can't help but compete with each other.]
Jiang Xiliu understood: "So?"
[System 0777: So, when Shen Xiu saw Jin Zhao, his subconscious reaction was to try and steal your attention from him. This is a normal reaction, Miss. Don't worry that they're crazy.]
Jiang Xiliu rolled her eyes: she wasn't worried at all that they were mentally ill.
Jin Zhao's gaze fell on the boy's hand clinging to Jiang Xiliu's, his brows furrowing almost imperceptibly, and his tone instantly turned cold: "If there's anything you need her to do, you can come directly to me."
After saying that, Jin Zhao exerted a little force and pulled Jiang Xiliu behind him, almost completely blocking her from view: "I am her husband."
"Oh." Shen Xiu was stunned for a moment, not yet realizing what those words meant, but his mouth had already instinctively opened its mouth and said, "Oh, it's my brother. Hello, brother."
Shen Yu is the elder brother, and Jiang Xiliu's husband is also the elder brother.
But this brother is not that brother.
Jin Zhao instantly understood what he meant, and he corrected him with a grim expression: "I'm not your brother."
Jiang Xiliu was too lazy to watch the two of them fight meaninglessly.
Since the system says they are natural enemies, Jiang Xiliu would never bring either of them along just to have a proper meal.
One is his newly appointed legal partner, and the other is a new collaborator he reluctantly accepted.
Jiang Xiliu wasn't at the point where she couldn't distinguish between near and far.
"Shen Xiu, let's eat together again next time. You go back to your dorm and pack your luggage first." Jiang Xiliu's tone was calm. She wasn't morally blackmailed by Shen Xiu's words. Even if she was susceptible to his coquettishness, it depended on the person. Shen Xiu, her cheap younger brother who had clung to her like this, wasn't one of them yet.
She turned to look at Jin Zhao, her voice sounding gentler than before: "Let's go eat."
Jin Zhao's displeasure vanished instantly, and the corners of his mouth even turned up slightly. However, he felt a little awkward hearing the surname "Chen," and he couldn't help but glance at the boy in front of him a few more times.
Shen Xiu's appearance was not as refined as Shen Yu's, but he had the advantage of youth. His wheat-colored skin exuded the vigor and vitality of a young man, and he even had two shallow dimples when he smiled.
He seemed harmless, but Jin Zhao had already made up his mind: he was definitely not a good person.
Shen Xiu grunted, his long eyelashes drooping, and said disappointedly, "Alright then, I guess I'll have to let my brother go with my sister."
"Don't randomly claim to be my older brother or sister," Jin Zhao emphasized again. He opened the car door, shielding the roof with his hand, and let Jiang Xiliu get in first.
Jiang Xiliu glanced at the two of them, too lazy to interfere. She turned around and called out "A Biao" to the bodyguard standing not far away, then bent down and got into the car.
Jin Zhao stood outside the car, staring at Shen Xiu with a wary look, and only said "Stay away from her" before getting into the car with Jiang Xiliu.
He came in so fast that Jiang Xiliu had barely sat down when she heard the car door beside her close.
The car slowly started moving; their destination remained the same: the food street near the entrance of Peking University.
Jin Zhao leaned back in his seat, sniffed the air, and keenly noticed a different fragrance in the car.
Shen Xiu is a sophisticated and trendy man. He has a habit of wearing perfume, but he mostly uses woody scents, which are light yet long-lasting and not noticeable unless you smell them carefully.
Jin Zhao subtly moved closer to Jiang Xiliu, trying to mask the scent of soap emanating from the other man with his own scent.
"How did you end up in this neighborhood?" Jiang Xiliu was surprised by the coincidence. She rarely did a good deed, and Jin Zhao happened to see her doing it.
Jin Zhao lowered his gaze slightly, holding one of her hands for a sense of security.
“I saw your car on the way back to school.” Jin Zhao’s voice was low. “We even drove side by side at one traffic light. I asked the driver to honk the horn, but you didn’t notice.”
Looking back now, Jiang Xiliu must have been disturbed by Shen Xiu, which is why she didn't see him outside the window.
Although Jiang Xiliu set off before Jin Zhao, she and Shen Xiu wasted some time by the roadside, and after getting in the car, they wandered off in the opposite direction without a destination.
This is why the car that was taking Jin Zhao back to school was able to catch up with her car.
The car moved forward smoothly. Jin Zhao squeezed her hand and asked casually, "By the way, who is Shen Xiu? Is he related to Shen Yu? What did you mean by telling him to go back to his dorm to pack his luggage?"
“The literal meaning.” Jiang Xiliu didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. She spoke very frankly, “Shen Xiu has been kicked out of the Shen family and can only live in the school dormitory now. He said the dormitory conditions are too bad and he is not used to living there, so he wants to move to this community.”
In exchange, what she could get from Shen Xiu was far more than just money; however, there was no need to tell Jin Zhao about this, as he didn't need to understand.
Jin Zhao, who now lives in the school dormitory, looked at Jiang Xiliu and asked, "Why did you come up with me?"
"Because he lives in my house." The neighborhood is only a few hundred meters away from the food street, a quick drive away.
The car had already turned into a small alley next to the food street. Jiang Xiliu stared at the stalls outside the window with bright eyes, completely unaware of how pale Jin Zhao's face turned after hearing those words.
Of course, even if she noticed, she would only feel confused and even suspect that Jin Zhao was possessive of her house.
The entrance to the food street is too narrow for cars to drive in, so drivers have to park at the alley entrance.
As soon as Jiang Xiliu got out of the car, she smelled the rich aroma of spices in the air. She was curious about all kinds of snacks.
However, she only bought one of each item. After tasting them, she would put the ones she thought were delicious into Jin Zhao's hands and have him carry them, while the ones she thought were just so-so would be stuffed directly into Jin Zhao's mouth.
Then, innocently, she said, "Jin Zhao, I think this tastes good."
After watching Jin Zhao swallow food that was either too oily, too salty, or too sweet without any expression, the young lady still wanted to take credit: "Hey, see, I'm so good to you."
Yes, be good to him.
But I never imagined that he also lived in a poor four-person room without a private bathroom.
Instead, she cared so much about Shen Xiu, even letting him move into her house.
Jin Zhao didn't care about the house; he never had high material demands, as long as he had a place to live. What he really cared about was that he suspected Jiang Xiliu was being so good to Shen Xiu because of Shen Yu.
But he swallowed all his emotions and didn't ask anything in the end.
Meanwhile, Shen Yu, upon learning that Shen Xiu had been taken away by Jiang Xiliu, experienced even greater emotional turmoil than when he learned that Jin Zhao and Jiang Xiliu had registered their marriage.
Although Shen Xiu is young, he is very shrewd and good at acting.
From a young age, he would deliberately hurt himself and then pretend that Shen Yu was bullying him.
This trick didn't work on Grandpa Shen, but it worked very well on Dad Shen. It can be said that Shen Xiu was responsible for 99% of the reason why Shen Yu and his father had a bad relationship.
Shen Xiu loved to snatch everything from Shen Yu, from small toy cars to large Shen family shares.
However, over the years, he has only ever won against one father who was unwilling to accept his father's advances.
Although Shen Yu had long been utterly disappointed in his father, it didn't mean he enjoyed seeing Shen Xiu standing beside his father with a smug look in his eyes.
So he prepared a forged "paternity test report".
The paternity test results were genuine; however, the person being tested had been replaced by Shen Yu.
It wasn't Shen Xiu and Shen's father, but Shen Yu and Shen's father.
Shen Yu considered dozens of ways to counter Shen Xiu and prepared various countermeasures.
But I never expected him to come to Jiang Xiliu.
"Sister~"
Jiang Xiliu and Jin Zhao had heard this voice just over half an hour ago, so there was no way they wouldn't recognize it.
"Finally found you." Shen Xiu was carrying two large suitcases. He wiped away non-existent sweat and looked at Jiang Xiliu pitifully, his voice aggrieved. "I have so much stuff. I can't move it all by myself. Abiao isn't a student at our school and can't get into the dormitory area. Sister, could you ask my brother to come and help me?"
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Author's Note: The seemingly magnanimous first wife gritted her teeth: No way!
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