"If you keep kissing me, I'll become too numb to speak." Ni Sitian cupped his face, preventing him from succeeding further.
Xu Tingchuan had no choice but to give up. He moved off her, leaned against the headboard, pulled her into his arms, and held her small hand to play with it. "Go ahead and say it."
"You saw Li Yinan putting a coat on me because I accidentally stained my skirt with my period." Ni Sitian felt really embarrassed about this.
Xu Tingchuan tightened his grip on her hand.
Ni Sitian sensed that he was jealous again, so she immediately said, "We're not on a date, we're going to a paternity testing center."
Xu Tingchuan was stunned upon hearing this. "You and him... it's not really what we joked about back then?"
“Well, although I’m reluctant to admit it, we’re siblings in a different sense.” Ni Sitian grabbed Xu Tingchuan’s big hand and played with it, then said, “It’s a complicated story. In short, my mother, who set fire to the house and ran away, married Li Yinan’s father. The person Li Yinan mentioned who wanted to see me was her.”
"So you disappeared for ten months because he took you to see her?" Xu Tingchuan frowned. That shouldn't have taken ten months, right?
“Listen to me, it all started on September 16th of the 23rd year…” Ni Sitian recounted to Xu Tingchuan everything that had happened ten months ago, tilting her head back and cautiously observing his expression. She was afraid he would mind, even though she and Xu Haicheng were no longer related by blood, the discord in the Xu family over the years could be attributed to her mother.
Of course, Gu Linping wasn't the only one at fault for acting recklessly while drunk; Xu Haicheng was certainly also at fault. However, it left Jin Rulan with a lingering resentment that lasted for ten years.
"You mean the woman who was with my dad at the hotel that day was your mom? Your mom even found my dad's cufflinks, so you mistakenly thought you and I were siblings?" Xu Tingchuan looked shocked.
"Yes, Gu Linping herself thinks so too. Because I'm not Ni Qianshan's daughter, I must be the cufflink owner's daughter. So she had Li Yinan fake my death and take me away. She didn't want to see us... Do you believe such an absurd thing? How are we like siblings?" Xu Tingchuan said, both amused and exasperated.
“Of course I didn’t believe it, but I was really shocked when I first found out. Later, they took me to the United States, and the toxins that were still in my body were triggered because of the birth, and I was in a coma for seven months,” Ni Sitian said to Xu Tingchuan, turning her head to the side.
Upon hearing this, Xu Tingchuan tensed up and grabbed Ni Sitian's shoulders: "So how is it now?"
"Li Yinan found an expert to treat the poisoning, and now she's completely cured. There are no toxins left, and it won't recur in the future." Ni Sitian felt she should thank Li Yinan for this. Although he had caused them to be separated for so long, he had indeed saved her.
"What's next?" Xu Tingchuan wanted to know more.
“I was too weak and needed to recover, so I didn’t come back immediately,” Ni Sitian said, pausing and lowering her eyes. “Later, Gu Linping died, and after some time, I came back.”
Xu Tingchuan gently squeezed her palm and said, "You won't let me touch you because you think it might be?"
"I always feel uneasy about it; I'll only feel at ease once it's confirmed."
"That's why you acted so strangely when Jia Yue plucked Dad's gray hairs that day." Xu Tingchuan suddenly understood many things.
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