Volume 1 Chapter 20 Blood Suppression
At 11:00 p.m., Du Ruo had just come out of the shower when her cell phone suddenly rang with a video call.
She picked up her phone, took a look at it, then switched to a voice call and answered it. A clear voice came from the other end.
"Sister, why did you switch to voice?"
"I'm outside. It's inconvenient. What's the matter?"
Du Ruo turned on the speakerphone, casually placed the phone on the table, opened the laptop, logged into the academic website, and answered the questions at the same time.
"Nothing, I miss you, is it convenient for you to chat with me now?"
"Where are Mom and Dad?"
"Mom and Dad are asleep."
"Then why aren't you asleep yet? Don't you have to go to school tomorrow?"
"I want to talk to you."
"It's convenient to chat, but time is limited. Just say whatever you want to say." Du Ruo directly exposed his shy courtesy.
Du Yao shrugged helplessly at Xu Siyan and said silently, "You see, I can't hide it from her, right?"
Xu Siyan's eyes urged him to continue.
Du Yao coughed lightly and said hesitantly, "Sister, our school had a monthly exam a few days ago, and I ranked last in the grade."
Perhaps because this ranking was unfamiliar, Du Ruo was stunned for a moment, and then calmly replied: "Well, then what? Don't dare to tell my parents?"
Du Yao: "No, I told them, but my parents didn't say anything and told me to try harder next time."
"Then try harder next time." Du Ruo replied perfunctorily, not having any expectations for his younger brother.
Du Yao: "Xu Siyan got first place in the grade."
Du Ruo commented: "Well, Si Yan has always been excellent."
Du Yao glanced at Xu Siyan and saw that his friend's ears were red and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised. He sighed inwardly that he was really useless.
Du Yao asked, "My parents don't care about me, so you don't plan to care about me? Something like, let me learn more from Xu Siyan."
Du Ruo asked back: "You ranked last in the exam, is it because you don't know how to do it or because you don't want to learn?"
Du Yao said honestly: "I don't want to learn."
Du Ruo: "If you don't want to learn, what's the point of others controlling you? Are you sure that if everyone strictly supervises your studies, you won't become rebellious? The kindergarten teacher started teaching you to study hard and make progress every day. You have listened to this truth for so many years, but you haven't changed, have you?"
Du Yao choked and glared at Xu Siyan. It was all his fault. He had eaten his fill but still wanted to let him be defeated by Du Ruo. He sighed and continued to charge forward for his friend. "Would you and your parents feel ashamed? I always rank last in the exams. You guys are embarrassed, right?"
Du Ruo said with certainty: "No."
Du Yao asked: "Why? Is there any parent who doesn't want their child to become a successful person?"
Du Ruo: "First, the most intuitive value that everyone presents is self-worth, followed by the value that others attach to you."
"Mom and Dad both have their own careers. I am your biological sister. You ranked last in the exam. No one would doubt our family's genetic problems. They would just think that you can't even learn by 'copying and pasting'. You are the one who loses face. Don't drag us into this."
Du Yao said, "What if I just want to be a second-generation rich kid and never learn anything? What will happen to our family business?"
Du Ruo smiled helplessly, "Brother, I find you really silly and cute."
This didn't sound like compliment, especially Du Ruo's laughter. Du Yao felt it was mocking and couldn't help but retort: "I'm chatting with you seriously!"
Du Ruo shook her head with a bit of exhaustion, and said patiently, "You think too much. Whether or not to inherit the family business is not a question of whether you want to or not, but a question of whether your parents are willing or not. Even if you grow up to be exceptionally good, it does not mean that your parents will hand over the business to you in the future. An excellent professional manager can create more value for the company. The only thing you can be sure of is that no matter how much wealth your parents have, you will have half of the inheritance rights in the future. Of course, the premise is that you will always be alive and well."
Du Yao: “…”
He doesn't want to do this crappy job anymore! He is just looking for trouble, it's so insulting!
Du Ruo had more than just no demands on him. It was good enough that he was alive, because only if he was alive he would have the right of inheritance.
He was so angry that he didn't want to talk to Du Ruo anymore. He just threw the phone to Xu Siyan and asked him to ask whatever he wanted.
Xu Siyan was at a loss holding his phone. In his mind, if Du Ruo was his idol whom he had blindly admired for many years, he would blush when he saw her, let alone chatting with his idol alone.
Originally he was confused and couldn't solve it, so he wanted to hear Du Ruo's ideas and let his good brother do it for him. Unexpectedly, Du Yao suddenly gave up the task. Xu Siyan was so nervous holding his phone.
Suddenly, there was no sound from the other side. Du Ruo asked, "Anything else? If not, I'll hang up now."
Xu Siyan quickly said, "Sister Du Ruo."
Du Ruo took a second to react to the sound and asked, "Si Yan?"
"Yes, it's me, Sister Du Ruo."
Since he was not her own brother, Du Ruo's perfunctory attitude became much more serious, and her voice became polite and gentle. She began to praise him, "I just heard from Du Yao that you got the first place in the exam. That's amazing. If you want any reward, you can tell me."
Du Yao was beside him, feeling sour in his heart: "Who is your real brother? I won first place in the last Taekwondo competition, why didn't you give me a reward?"
Du Ruo sneered, "You are so arrogant because you are taller than your peers? What's the point of beating up a brat? You can only talk about it when you can beat me."
Du Yao hid again.
Xu Siyan suppressed his smile and replied, "Thank you, Sister Du Ruo. I'll tell you when I've made up my mind."
"Okay." Du Ruo replied casually. When he saw that the other party was silent again, his patience ran out. He sighed that the child was really troublesome, and took the initiative to ask, "You two suddenly came to me tonight. Is there something going on?"
"Yeah." Xu Siyan responded, and after a few seconds, he seemed to muster up the courage to say, "There are some things I can't figure out, and I want to hear your opinion."
Du Ruo: "Tell me about it."
Xu Siyan: "Since I was a child, I have almost always won first place in every competition I have participated in. All of you have praised me for my excellence, but my father has never praised me. He said that my brother got full marks in every subject when he was my age. Although I got first place in the exam, I still have a lot of room for improvement, so I should keep working hard."
Du Ruo couldn't help but frown after hearing this. Uncle Xu was really enough. He used violence against Xu Jingmo before, and now he was mentally suppressing Xu Siyan. Did he think he was the emperor? He was so dictatorial.
Before she could respond, Xu Siyan seemed to want to pour out his heart and continued, "I envy A Yao so much. He doesn't have to learn anything he doesn't want to learn. Even if he gets last in the exam, his uncle and aunt won't blame him."
"My dad always told me that my brother was useless and asked me not to be a bad student like him. The Xu family's business will belong to me in the future, so I must study hard and work hard to inherit the family business. I can't imagine how angry my dad would be if I didn't get the first place in the exam."
"Also, I think my brother is very good. He is the top scorer in the college entrance examination. He started investing and making money when he was in junior high school. He is very capable and can do what he wants to do, and he does it very well. But in my father's eyes, he seems to be a bad guy. He feels ashamed to mention him. Why do you always compare my brother with me? I am indeed not as good as my brother, but I am also very good compared to my peers, and I am more obedient than my brother. I never refute him. Is it so difficult for him to compliment me..."
"Ah Yao said that your family has never had such high demands before, and he couldn't understand it. We didn't know who to ask, and after thinking about it, we thought of you. You should be able to understand what the adults think, right?"
Du Ruo closed the academic website, stood her phone upright, and switched to a video call. However, she unilaterally turned off the camera on her side.
Xu Siyan was obviously startled and quickly straightened his appearance.
Judging from the background, they are in Du Yao's bedroom.
Du Ruo immediately saw Du Yao lying on the bed playing Switch behind Xu Siyan. She suddenly said in a cold voice: "Du Yao, turn off the game and sit over here."
Fearing the suppression of his blood vessels, Du Yao instinctively got out of bed, threw away his Switch, and sat down obediently.
Du Ruo glanced at the two people sitting upright and found it funny for some reason. Suddenly, an idea popped into her mind: if she didn't want to do experiments in the future, maybe being a teacher would be nice...
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