Chapter 92 Rainy Night
At one o'clock in the morning, a sudden downpour, accompanied by thunder, pounded against the windowpane. As the muffled thunderclap exploded in the night sky, Lin Yiluo was jolted awake from her dream.
She curled up in the corner of the bed, her arms tightly wrapped around her knees, tears streaming down her face like broken beads. The door creaked open, and Mo Ziyuan stood barefoot in the doorway, his bangs still damp from running there. He didn't say much, but quickly stepped forward and pulled her into his arms, gently patting her back with his palm.
"It's thundering... Brother, I'm scared." Yiluo's voice was trembling with tears, her fingers gripping the hem of his clothes tightly.
"I'm here." Mo Ziyuan's voice was low, carrying a reassuring strength. "Don't be afraid."
Hurried footsteps echoed down the corridor. Just as Lin Yi'an was about to push open the door, Shi Jingsheng pulled him back from behind.
"What are you doing?" Lin Yi'an turned around, his brows furrowed tightly, his tone full of impatience.
"Stop me." Shi Jingsheng gestured with his chin towards the inside. "Ziyuan is inside. If you go in now, wouldn't Yiluo be even more scared if she saw you looking flustered? We'll just stay here and keep watch."
"What are you guarding? That's my sister!" Lin Yi'an struggled. "I should be the one going in to be with her."
"What are you saying?" Shi Jingsheng quickly tried to smooth things over. "Isn't Yi Luo our little sister? When she grows up, I'll give her a dowry, which will definitely be no less than yours."
Lin Yi'an's face was still long, and the awkwardness in her heart hadn't dissipated—Mo Ziyuan going in to coax people just didn't seem right.
Shi Jingsheng could only try to work on both sides: "Let's go, let's go. If Ziyuan can't handle it, he'll definitely call us. You haven't finished dealing with that pile of documents on your desk yet? I'll go help you."
Lin Yi'an raised an eyebrow at him: "I asked you for help yesterday, and you said you were tired."
"That's a special case, we'll help you today."
"Whoever lies is a dog."
"Okay, okay, I'll be a dog if I lie to you."
Inside the room, Yi Luo's crying gradually subsided, leaving only Mo Ziyuan's gentle words of comfort, mingling with the fading sound of rain outside the window, spreading through the quiet night.
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As Yiluo cried, her eyelids gradually drooped. She noticed a dark stain on Mo Ziyuan's pajamas from her tears and muttered softly, "I'm sorry, Brother Ziyuan..."
"It's okay, how about your brother stays here with you to rest today? Yiluo, sleep peacefully, your brother is here."
"But what if it thunders?"
The girl looked up at him with wet eyes, filled with fear and worry.
"The thunder has passed, there won't be any more thunder, baby, don't worry. And even if there is thunder, your brother is here."
"Okay, brother, you have to stay here."
"Okay, go to sleep peacefully."
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Lin Yi'an and Shi Jingsheng were looking at documents in the study.
The man started crying as he looked at the document, tears falling onto Mo Ziyuan's file.
Shi Jingsheng really wanted to comfort him, but after hesitating for a second, he still spoke up.
"That document is quite important. How about I get you a piece of paper before you start crying?"
In Shi Jingsheng and Mo Ziyuan's hearts, he has always been a crybaby. He used to cry a lot when they were on the island.
She cries when she's hungry, when she's hurt, when she misses her sister, when she's unhappy—in short, she cries frequently.
However, he has rarely cried since Lin Yiluo came.
"It's none of your business, I'll just cry like this."
After he finished speaking, he very willfully picked up the document and wiped it on his face repeatedly.
Shi Jingsheng didn't stop him; it was just a document, he could do whatever he wanted with it.
The two rarely asked him about his childhood because everyone who came to the island had a tragic past, and if they had loving parents or a lucky childhood, they wouldn't be on this island.
"Okay, that's enough crying for a while. You're so old, why do you still cry so much?"
"What's wrong with me crying? Why can't I cry?"
Shi Jingsheng comforted her from the side.
"It's not that I don't want you to cry, it's just that I recently saw baby Yiluo crying and suddenly realized that you look pretty ugly when you cry."
Are you sick in the head?
After scolding him, Lin Yi'an went to the bathroom. When he came back, he pretended to be serious and said to him.
"Alright, hurry up and look at the documents, there are still so many."
Mo Ziyuan got up from the girl's bed right on time.
Just as I sat down on the small single sofa next to me, Shi Jingsheng and Lin Yi'an walked in.
Shi Jingsheng: "Let's go eat."
Mo Ziyuan: "Quiet down, he's still sleeping."
He almost forgot that there was a little girl next to him.
Upon arriving in the living room, the two saw Mo Ziyuan pull the bandage on his hand aside, creating a small opening, and then pick up a spoon to eat.
Lin Yi'an really, really wanted to take a picture of him like this, but Mo Ziyuan was glaring at him, actually glaring at him, and he was so sad!
In fact, when Mo Ziyuan saw that smug look in his eyes, he knew what was going on.
How old are you to still act like this? So childish.
"By the way, try to postpone that cruise ship banquet in a few days."
A banquet on a cruise ship?
If Mo Ziyuan hadn't mentioned it, the two of them would have almost forgotten about it.
A cruise ship banquet is held approximately every three years, inviting wealthy businessmen, nobles, and prominent figures from all over the world, regardless of whether they are from the underworld or the legitimate world.
Lin Yi-an: "How can we postpone it? I'm not the organizer of the banquet. Am I supposed to tell them that you're injured and the banquet will be postponed until you recover? That would be blatantly telling everyone that you're in trouble."
People sometimes feel like laughing when they're speechless. Take Mo Ziyuan, for example. How come he didn't realize how stupid Yi'an was? Has his brain deteriorated?
Shi Jingsheng: "Can't you even think of a solution?"
"But what method should we consider?"
Mo Ziyuan: "Go and find a few important people on the invitation list to target. Don't go too far. Just keep them in bed for a few days. Find a few more."
Lin Yi'an: "I didn't know it could be like this. I didn't expect that. Mo Ziyuan, you're quite clever."
"Alright, you idiot, be careful not to get caught."
"Don't worry about me, I'll be careful."
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