"Do you want to hear it?" Liu Nian asked him.
Jing Baisen looked at him and asked, "So, do you want to ask?"
"What?" Liu Nian looked completely bewildered.
"Okay, go ahead and say it." Jing Baisen freed his wrist. "Speak."
“…I had nothing with him. What you saw back then was just a joke. It was just bad luck,” Liu Nian said.
Jing Baisen asked coldly, "Are you finished?"
Liu Nian: "...That's all."
“Of course I know there’s nothing between you,” Jing Baisen said, holding his hand and placing it on the bedding. “Do you think I just saw it, went crazy, and that’s it?”
"Of course I checked and asked."
"The places you've been to in the past six months: schools, bars, arcades..."
“I know everything you’ve done and said.”
Liu Nian's eyelashes trembled slightly.
"What do you think I did to him?" Jing Baisen asked him. "What should I do to someone so insignificant?"
“You guys make fun of me, your ‘ex,’ every day. How many times have you told her we’ve broken up?”
Liu Nian's hands tightened slightly.
Jing Baisen touched his face, "When did we break up? Why did we break up?"
Liu Nian wanted to recount what he had seen on surveillance footage six months ago.
But what's in that scene?
Jing Baisen was drunk, and a man helped him inside...
Then, the man came out, his clothes disheveled.
What about the others?
there is none left.
He didn't ask, he didn't check, and Jing Baisen didn't explain... He just said, "Let's break up..."
Feigned affection is ultimately fake; there will always be omissions.
And Jing Baisen seized upon this oversight.
Or perhaps... there's more than just this one place...
Jing Baisen picked up the iron chain and said, "I'll get you a longer one."
Liu Nian looked at him, unsure of what to say.
Jing Baisen looked at him, as if seeking his opinion.
"……good."
Sure enough, Jing Baisen got him another chain, a thin and long one.
When Jing Bolin learned about this, he thought his guess had been confirmed. He was glad that he had told his older brother, but at the same time, he felt sorry for Liu Nian.
After admiring the new chain, Jing Baisen went out.
Liu Nian pulled on the chain and went downstairs to have tea.
Jing Bolin came out of his room on the second floor, but before he even reached the stairwell, he saw Liu Nian downstairs and was so startled that he turned around and was about to go back to his room.
"Don't you have to go to class?" Liu Nian looked up at the building and asked him.
Jing Bolin stood there awkwardly, chuckled twice, and then dawdled downstairs. Once downstairs, he didn't dare approach Liu Nian and said hesitantly, "Sister-in-law, I'm going to school..."
Liu Nian: "Don't go to class today, stay home and keep me company."
Jing Bolin: "Uh... huh?"
“If you feel you’ve fallen behind in your studies, I can tutor you,” Liu Nian said sincerely. “Come and sit down.”
Jing Bolin had no choice but to walk over, but he missed his target and fell to the ground.
Liu Nian went to help him up, but Jing Bolin was so frightened that he quickly got up.
He wondered if his older brother had already told Liu Nian, or if he himself had told him about it.
Liu Nian knew what he was feeling guilty about, but he had no intention of settling scores with Jing Bolin.
Jing Bolin wouldn't let him help, so Liu Nian wasn't so kind anymore. He just sat there, drinking tea, and said, "Tell me about your older brother."
Jing Bolin: "...Wh-what is it?"
Liu Nian thought for a moment and said, "Tell me everything about him, everything that happened when he was a child."
"Huh?" Jing Bolin thought to himself, why did his sister-in-law suddenly ask about his older brother's childhood?
Seeing that Liu Nian was serious, Jing Bolin also became serious and said, "When my older brother was a child... I actually know very little about him."
Jing Bolin told him everything he knew.
Jing Baisen's mother was his father's right-hand woman and also his father's lover.
Something must have happened back then; his mother was shot and killed while trying to save his father.
Jing Baisen was raised in a villa until he grew up and became useful to his father, at which point he was taken over.
Then, among his father's many sons, he gradually stood out and eventually took over his father's "business." After his father's death, he went ashore and laundered his money... That's how he became the current Master Sen.
“My mother was also my father’s mistress,” Jing Bolin thought this was quite normal. “When my older brother was young, he was supported by my mother, which is why my older brother was somewhat close to me.”
After saying that, Jing Bolin advised Liu Nian, "Liu Nian, my brother really cares about you. Even if you are his lover, you are the lover he likes the most. My brother will definitely support you for the rest of your life!"
Liu Nian raised an eyebrow and said, "So you mean to say that your older brother, you, are planning to keep mistresses in the future?"
Jing Bolin didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
If they were to get married in the future, it would most likely be a business marriage; they couldn't spend their whole lives with someone they didn't like.
These things are all consensual; what's wrong with that?
Jing Bolin wanted to persuade Liu Nian again, but suddenly noticed that Liu Nian was wearing a ring on his finger.
A ring was worn on the ring finger of the left hand.
This is……
"How did you get a ring?" Jing Bolin's eyes widened slightly in surprise.
"You mean this?" Liu Nian raised his hand, examining the ring on it. "This ring was given to me by your older brother. What do you think your older brother meant by it?"
Jing Bolin was somewhat incredulous, saying, "My, my older brother is..."
Liu Nian: "Would your older brother give the ring to his lover?"
Jing Bolin: "..."
Liu Nian took off the ring.
"You, you mustn't pick it!" Jing Bolin was a little anxious. "My older brother gave it to you, don't pick it!"
Liu Nian held the ring on his finger, looking at Jing Bolin's trembling appearance, and found it rather amusing.
These two brothers... I really don't know whether to envy them or pity them, these rich people with tragic backgrounds.
Liu Nian stood up, clutching the ring, ignoring Jing Bolin who was still sitting there, and went straight upstairs.
Relieved that he hadn't been scared, Jing Bolin watched Liu Nian walk upstairs and called out, "Big sister-in-law, I'm leaving now!"
Liu Nian completely ignored him.
Thinking about his courses abroad, Liu Nian sat down in the chair in the room and sighed.
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