"Senior Brother Si Jiangyu."
Si Zhuoxi started the car, the engine sounded, she pulled the handbrake, stepped on the gas, and drove away from the parking lot.
When Si Jinyan heard that it was his senior brother, he couldn't help but shudder.
I typed the message, deleted it, and rewrote it, but another message popped up on the other end.
[Junior Sister!]
There was an exclamation mark! Si Jinyan felt a chill run down her spine, and she wanted to cry but couldn't.
...
【Senior Brother~】
Are you with Zhuoxi?
"Hmm, my second senior brother said we should go to that private restaurant, Anzhitinglan."
【good】
Si Jiangyu on the other end of the chat sent a single "OK" and then ended it.
Si Zhuoxi caught a glimpse of Si Jinyan's slightly furrowed face out of the corner of her eye.
"What? Afraid to see Senior Brother?"
Si Zhuoxi asked softly.
Si Jinyan nodded heavily, muttering, "Before, when I didn't eat vegetables, my senior brother would say I wouldn't grow tall and would scold me."
"I was bad at math when I was in elementary school, and they would often hit my palm with a slap, boohoo."
Si Jinyan couldn't help but touch his palms whenever he thought about being slapped on the hand; his clean face was filled with frustration.
Si Zhuoxi couldn't help but laugh when she heard her junior sister's sigh.
"Actually, my senior brother has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. He gets very worried whenever you don't eat vegetables, and we often work together to figure out how to make vegetables look like what you like."
“Every time he slapped your palm, he felt very sorry for you, but you were too playful at that time. You couldn’t even do addition and subtraction within ten in first grade.”
As Si Zhuoxi spoke, the image of her junior sister catching fish in the fields when she was little automatically came to mind, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Hearing her second senior brother laugh at her like that, Si Jinyan's face immediately flushed red.
Am I that stupid?
"It's not because you're stupid, but because you're always playing and you just rush through your homework," Si Zhuoxi said, glancing at her self-doubting expression.
Hearing her second senior brother say that, she breathed a sigh of relief; at least it wasn't because he was stupid.
However, if she were stupid, she wouldn't have been able to score nearly 700 points on the college entrance exam.
I've filled out my application, but the acceptance letter hasn't arrived yet.
I don't know if I was admitted to my first choice, but it's only the beginning of July now, and the admission results are usually released around July 20th.
Si Zhuoxi parked the car in the underground parking lot of Anzhitinglan Private Restaurant, and then took her up the elevator directly to the restaurant.
Anzhitinglan is a private kitchen restaurant, so it has individual rooms, which ensures the privacy of guests.
Moreover, each private room is individually decorated with a different style.
For example, the clivia-themed private room they booked had clivia murals and floral arrangements, making the whole room simple and elegant.
It perfectly matches the temperament of Si Jinyan and Si Zhuoxi.
Si Jinyan was wearing a moon-white cheongsam today, with a blue lotus hairpin in her hair, looking elegant and pure.
Her long, slender, fair legs were sometimes visible and sometimes hidden as she walked.
Si Zhuoxi pulled out a chair for Si Jinyan to sit on, and then gently pushed her about two fists' distance from the dining table.
Only then did he walk across to the other side, pull out a chair, sit down, pick up the exquisite menu beside him, and say to the waiter:
"This set meal consists of three portions and will be served in twenty minutes."
"Okay, Mr. Si." The waiter made a note and then left the private room.
Before Si Jinyan could speak, another person appeared at the door.
He was wearing a loose, pure white shirt with the collar open at the top and the sleeves rolled up to his forearms, revealing his well-defined forearm muscles.
She wore a pair of dark, loose-fitting suit trousers.
He is tall and thin, but he has the kind of figure that looks slim in clothes but muscular when undressed.
With handsome features and excellent bone structure, he looks to be around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, exuding the charm of a mature man.
However, there was a hint of fatigue between his brows.
"Senior brother is here." Si Zhuoxi stood up and called out.
Just as Si Jinyan was about to stand up, Si Jiangyu walked in a few steps and pressed her back into the chair.
The warm touch from the large palm sent a chill down Si Jinyan's spine. She had no choice but to sit obediently in the chair, not daring to utter a sound.
"Sit down." His voice wasn't as gentle as Si Zhuoxi's; it was deep and gave people a strange sense of pressure.
Si Jiangyu felt Si Jinyan's stiff back with his hand, and chuckled almost imperceptibly, but then became serious again.
"Greetings, Senior Brother."
Si Jinyan frowned and called out. He had been most afraid of his senior brother since he was a child.
He exudes an aura of immense pressure just by standing there.
"Stop torturing your junior sister."
When Si Zhuoxi saw her frowning and looking both amused and exasperated, she immediately spoke up to help her out of the predicament.
If Si Jiangyu has this expression throughout the meal, then Junior Sister won't need to eat.
Si Jiangyu deliberately sat down in the chair next to Si Jinyan. As he sat down, a breeze blew in, carrying with it Si Jiangyu's unique masculine scent. But all of this made Si Jinyan break out in a cold sweat.
"You insisted on going back back then, and you almost lost your life!" Si Jiangyu still harbored resentment about his junior sister crying and wanting to go back back then.
It wasn't just that I almost died, it was that I was really dead!
After Master brought it back, he treated it for a full forty-nine days!
Si Jiangyu sat down and began to settle accounts, settling scores for how his junior sister had abandoned them back then!
What angered her even more was the Jiang family's actions, which hurt her one after another.
At Lingxu Temple, Si Jinyan was the apple of his senior brothers' eye, and even if he was bullied, it was only by them.
"Senior brother, are you rubbing salt into junior sister's heart? If you're going to do this, I'll take junior sister away first."
Si Zhuoxi knew that her senior brother was disappointed in her, because their precious child had been treated so badly by the Jiang family.
But at that time, my junior sister was only nine years old. Her longing for family and affection was understandable.
Si Jinyan was already somewhat intimidated by his senior brother, and upon hearing his words, he immediately buried his head under the table.
She knew she was foolish and stupid back then, treating the Jiang siblings and her own parents with utmost sincerity and humility.
But in the end, he was cruelly abandoned a second time.
She also hated herself for being so useless and for hurting her senior brothers who were truly devoted to her.
Tears streamed down her face as she thought about it. "I know I was wrong."
A faint sound came from under the table, tinged with a heartbreaking sob.
She cried and wiped away her tears, her slender shoulders trembling with each sob.
Si Jiangyu sensed the girl's somber aura beside him, his expression faltered slightly, and he swallowed back the words he was about to say.
Si Zhuoxi glared at her senior brother, then immediately stood up and walked to Si Jinyan's side.
"Si Jiangyu, you're a thirty-year-old adult, is it really necessary to hold a grudge against her? You're eleven years older than her! You were already in college when she left."
Si Zhuoxi gently lifted Si Jinyan's head, reached out and grabbed two tissues, and gently wiped away the tears on Si Jinyan's face.
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