Chapter 57 Brother: Brother is Husband 5 Brother
"Nonsense! I don't smell at all. Even if I do, it's just laundry detergent."
Chen Yan turned her head away to prevent her from smelling it.
"Brother, brother, let me smell it!"
Chi Wan has been well-behaved since childhood, and in the past two years, he has become more and more charming and likes to act like a spoiled child, especially in front of Shen Yan.
Chen Yan also stretched out two fingers to pinch her chubby face to prevent her from getting closer.
"Why are you still moving around like a little piggy, just like when you were little?"
"Brother is the pig!"
Chen Yan smiled again, patted her head and told her to finish her homework quickly, and helped her pack her schoolbag.
Ever since she was scolded by her teacher for forgetting to bring her homework to school when she was a child, she has developed the habit of asking her brother to check her schoolbag every night.
"Have you finished all your homework except math?"
Chi Wan lowered his head as he worked on the last problem in his math homework. Hearing this, he didn't even look up. He said, "I'm done. I put it all in my bag."
Shen Yan flipped through it and checked it, and suddenly saw a pink letter in the interlayer.
Chen Yan's eyes fixed, and he glanced calmly at Chi Wan who was working hard, then picked up the letter and opened it.
Written crookedly on it were a few words: Chi Wan, I am Niu Hailiang from Class 4 (3). I like you. Our Zang Ai family is short of a princess. Are you willing to be my princess?
The handwriting is so ugly and the vocabulary is so limited that it is hard to imagine that this was written by a fourth-grade elementary school student who couldn't even write the word "duke".
Chen Yan was so angry that he almost laughed. How dare such a bad boy think about his sister? His sister was only in the third grade!
"Wanwan, who gave this to you?"
Chi Wan was stunned for a moment, with a puzzled look on his face:
"What is this? No one gave me anything. Is this mine?"
Chi Wan would not lie. Chen Yan could tell that she really didn't know about the letter. It was probably that Duke of Dark Night who secretly put the letter in her schoolbag.
"It's not yours, it's garbage."
Chen Yan tore up the letter and threw it into the trash can with an expressionless face.
Chi Wan stared blankly at the scraps of paper in the trash can. Brother...seemed suddenly unhappy?
"elder brother?"
Chen Yan turned his head, pulled the corner of his mouth, and said: "Huh? What's wrong? Have you finished your homework?"
Seeing that Chen Yan looked normal, Chi Wan immediately forgot the strange feeling that had just flashed through his mind.
"Done."
Chi Wan handed the homework book to Shen Yan. Shen Yan put her math homework into her small schoolbag, sat on the chair, and said:
"Didn't you learn a few new dance moves? Show them to your brother."
Chi Wan suddenly felt embarrassed. She had only learned it for a month and was not dancing well. She was afraid of losing face in front of her brother.
But in fact, she danced very well. The 9-year-old girl had shed the cute chubby body of her childhood. The lines of her shoulders and neck extended smoothly, and her back was straight. Although she was just a thin little person, she had an indescribable uprightness.
Her fair and slender limbs stretched out, and in an instant, light, shadow and arcs flowed along her figure, graceful and agile.
After the dance ended, Chi Wan was breathing slightly, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and the tip of his nose was slightly red due to the exertion.
She asked uncertainly, "Brother, do I dance well?"
Chen Yan didn't know when he stood up straight, looking at it intently and seriously like a frozen statue, with unknown emotions surging in his chest.
He calmed down, walked over and touched his sister's soft hair, and said softly:
"It's beautiful, Wanwan dances very well."
His sister is the purest and most beautiful glass flower in the world. She is only 9 years old but she is as delicate as a piece of jade and very lovable. No wonder she attracts the covetousness of various little boys.
Chen Yan looked at his sister's innocent eyes, and for the first time he wanted to use a hard glass cover to hide her, this glass flower, tightly, so that no one could see her, and she would always be his sister only.
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Ordinary days slipped away one by one, and soon it was Wanwan's birthday.
Shen Yongxin booked a high-end restaurant, and the family had a lively and harmonious meal. Everyone gave Wanwan a gift. Among them, Chen Yan gave her a cherry bracelet with polished red chalcedony beads. It had a cute shape, was round and not harmful to the skin.
Chen Yan still remembers when Chi Wan was 4 years old, her braids were tied into two little balls, she wore a red cherry suspender skirt, her face was also red, and she was round like a little cherry, so cute that he polished a bracelet for herself.
Chi Wan liked this bracelet very much and put it on as soon as she received it. The blood-red bracelet made her slender white wrist look even more snow-white.
When she returned to school on the weekend, her deskmate Zuo Xiaoling asked her where she bought it. When she heard that it was a gift from her brother, she was immediately envious.
"Your brother is so nice to you, unlike my brother who doesn't give me gifts and even steals my pocket money."
Zuo Xiaoling was very angry and wondered why other people's brothers were so nice. She had seen Chi Wan's brother pick her up from school several times, and he would carry her on his back with a doting look on his face.
"My brother is very good, and I like him the most."
Chi Wan nodded, agreeing very much.
Suddenly, Zuo Xiaoling seemed to remember something and said:
"Hey, you know Niu Hailiang has been suspended again. I don't know what he did this time to deserve such a severe punishment."
Chi Wan was a little confused: "Who is Niu Hailiang?"
Zuo Xiaoling looked at her in surprise. "You don't know Niu Hailiang? The Niu Hailiang from Class 3, Grade 4, who had to read the self-criticism at the flag-raising ceremony every week. He even sent you a love letter. Have you forgotten?"
Chi Wan thought about it carefully, and there seemed to be such a person in his mind. He was often punished to read self-criticism in front of all the teachers and students in the school for skipping classes, not doing homework, fighting, harassing girls, etc. He was also a "famous" figure in their elementary school.
But Chi Wan was never interested in these things. She was only familiar with the students in her own class, and not very familiar with the students in other classes, let alone the "boss" of the fourth grade.
Even though the news that Niu Hailiang liked her was widely spread among the third and fourth grade students, Chi Wan knew nothing about it, let alone when he had sent her a love letter.
"When will he give me..."
“Ding-ling-ling——”
Before she could finish her words, the class bell rang, interrupting what Chi Wan was about to say. Therefore, she didn't know that the letter her brother tore up was the love letter Niu Hailiang sent her, and she didn't know that Niu Hailiang's suspension this time was related to Chen Yan.
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Chi Wan's birthday was in the spring. At that time, she was loved by her parents and had her brother by her side. The whole family gathered around a big cream cake and sang birthday songs for her.
At that time, Chi Wan was like a small flower carefully placed in a crystal cover, each petal immersed in the carefree light, completely unaware of the weight of the world's wind and rain.
Just one summer filled with the noisy chirping of cicadas, Qin Yiran suddenly fell ill. On an ordinary afternoon, she collapsed in front of Chi Wan without any warning.
The roar of an ambulance was heard in her ears, and the warm and peaceful life was quickly broken. Qin Yiran was sent to the hospital. The scene in front of her eyes turned white, and emotions such as fear, panic, and terror swept over her.
Only her brother hugged her tightly and told her not to be afraid, that her mother would be fine.
However, Qin Yiran was rescued in the hospital for three days, but eventually passed away. Chi Wan lost his mother before he even had time to feel the weight of life and death.
"Brother, I don't have a mother anymore..."
She was a little crybaby when she was a child, but she had never shed so many tears. Even when her eyes were swollen from crying, the tears still seemed to never stop flowing.
Chen Yan's eyes were depressed and distressed. He couldn't speak, but just wiped his sister's tears over and over again.
"Wanwan, don't cry, don't cry, brother will always be with you."
Young Chi Wan clung tightly to the corner of his brother's clothes, as if he had grabbed the last straw of life.
However, he broke his promise and did not do it.
The separation seemed to happen in an instant. On the 10th day after Qin Yiran's funeral, Chi Wan's biological father came and took Chi Wan away.
Shen Yongxin had no reason to object, nor did he want to. When Qin Yiran was around, he could play the role of a loving father, but now that Qin Yiran was dead, even if he had some feelings for a child with no blood relationship to him, it wasn't worth his effort to compete with her biological father for her.
He understood that Chen Yan would definitely be reluctant to leave Chi Wan, and if he was there, it would cause unnecessary trouble. So on the day Chi Zhongxing contacted him, he sent Chen Yan away, telling him that his grandfather was sick and wanted him to go back to see him.
Grandpa and grandma are both in City B, and it would take at least a day to go back and forth. If it was something else, Chen Yan would definitely not leave his sister at this time, but those are the grandpa and grandma who raised him.
He thought, just go see grandpa and come back right away.
But when he returned home again, his sister, his Wanwan, was gone.
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"Dad, where are we going?"
Early in the morning, Uncle Shen asked her to pack her things and said that her father would come to pick her up.
She looked up at Uncle Shen who was looking down at her, and vaguely understood something.
"Come to our house, Wanwan, you will live with dad from now on."
Chi Zhongxing held the luggage in one hand and held Chi Wan's hand with the other. Looking at his daughter's red eyes, he felt a little sad.
Although he always quarreled with his ex-wife when they lived together, she was the one he truly loved after all. Now that he has remarried, he hopes she can live a good life.
But how could such a living person suddenly disappear?
Now that Qin Yiran is gone, she has no other relatives in the world, leaving behind an isolated daughter. Chi Zhongxing naturally has to take her back.
Qin Yiran’s remarried husband is a snobbish and shrewd man. When he proposed to take Wanwan away, he agreed without saying a word. They had lived together for so long, but it seemed like they had no feelings for each other at all. How could he let such a man take Wanwan with him?
He looked down at his daughter again and his heart softened. This was his first child and his most beloved daughter. If he had not been unable to snatch her away from his ex-wife, he would have kept her by his side no matter what.
"Wanwan, now that your mother is gone, your uncle has no obligation to raise you. He doesn't want to raise you anymore, so you will follow your father from now on."
Chi Wan stared at her father blankly, tears slowly overflowing from her eyes. Her mother was dead, and Uncle Shen didn't want her anymore. So...what about her brother?
"...Brother doesn't want me anymore?"
Chi Wan felt her heart throb with pain. The sadness of her mother's sudden death and the sadness of being abandoned by her brother instantly overwhelmed this 9-year-old girl. She choked up and cried intermittently, saying:
"Brother said he would always be with me, he said wuwuwu..."
Chi Zhongxing was stunned for a moment, then realized that Chi Wan was talking about her stepbrother. He didn't expect that the relationship between the two was so deep.
Seeing his daughter crying so sadly, Chi Zhongxing felt distressed, but now his daughter was going to live with him, and he didn't want her to have any contact with that family anymore.
Chi Zhongxing hardened his heart and said something random:
"Your brother doesn't want you anymore. Look, he didn't show up when I took you away today. Be good, we don't recognize him as our brother anymore. He's not your brother. Come home with dad. There's a brother at home who will definitely love Wanwan very much..."
Later, she could not hear what her father said. She just kept crying and crying. She vaguely understood that she would never see her brother again.
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The author has something to say: It seems that everyone wants to read about the Demon Lord. I haven’t written any Xianxia yet. I’ll think about it in the next two days~
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