Li Wan was stunned. The man smiled slightly: "What? You don't recognize me after not seeing me for a few years? When I was a kid, you used to follow me around all day long, calling me brother."
Hearing him say this, Li Wan recognized him.
"Ji Yao...brother?"
Ji Yao smiled softly: "Not bad, you still remember my name."
All in all, the two haven't seen each other for about seven or eight years.
Ji Yao originally lived next door to the Li family. Li Wan had been infatuated with him since childhood and followed him all day long. He was Li Wan's first love, but Li Wan was too proud and didn't know how to express her love. When she was fourteen or fifteen years old, she stopped talking to Ji Yao.
Later, Ji Yao moved away.
"Li Wan" lost the young girl's heart of love.
Li Wan looked at the man calmly. It could not be denied that Ji Yao had what it took to fascinate Li Wan. He was the same age as Li Zelin and had been classmates for a period of time. He had been exceptionally outstanding in his youth, otherwise Li Wan would not have missed him for so many years. Now, in addition to being gentle and handsome, he also looked mature and steady. His eyebrows were gentle and smiling, which made people feel like they were in the spring breeze and made them feel good about him.
It sounded like he had heard the conversation between her and Li Shu just now. For a moment, she didn't know how to face him.
After a long silence.
Ji Yao stopped smiling and said, "I heard about the Li family. I was a little worried about you, but now it seems that I was worrying too much."
Li Wan didn't know whether Ji Yao was referring to her current situation or alluding to what she had just said to Li Shu.
She smiled dryly: "You should come here to hide away, I won't disturb you."
She remembered that Ji Yao liked quietness. In such an occasion, he probably wanted to go to the balcony to find some peace and quiet, but he didn't expect to run into her and Li Shu's "quarrel".
When she was about to pass by Ji Yao, Ji Yao suddenly reached out and held her wrist, pulling her back. He stared at her with smiling eyes, with a hint of aggression: "Don't disturb me."
…
"Brother, as long as you believe in me, this project will definitely make a lot of money! Really, I have implemented it all this time!" Li Shu's brother was standing in front of Li Zelin, talking about his new project.
Considering that he was his cousin after all, Li Zelin did not leave. He listened absent-mindedly, but his eyes were searching for Li Wan's figure.
He was clearly by his mother's side just now, but in the blink of an eye, he disappeared.
The entire banquet hall was crowded with guests, and it was not easy to find someone. Li Zelin searched the crowd for several times but could not find Li Wan. His eyes inadvertently swept across the balcony entrance and saw a familiar figure standing there, but it was just familiar. The guests who came today were all related to the Li family, so it was normal for them to be familiar.
Li Zelin was about to look away when his eyes suddenly focused and he saw Li Wan walking out from the balcony. Just as she was about to pass by the man, the man reached out and grabbed her wrist.
Li Zelin's face suddenly darkened.
Li Feng, who had prepared a thousand times in advance, was talking confidently about the new project he had prepared. When he saw Li Zelin's face, he suddenly froze and swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth. Looking at Li Zelin's suddenly ugly face, he asked cautiously: "Brother, did I say something wrong?...Hey, brother, where are you going? I, I haven't finished yet!"
…
Li Wan looked at Ji Yao who was holding her wrist in astonishment.
Ji Yao: "After not seeing you for so long, don't you want to talk to me?"
After he finished speaking, his eyes fell on Li Wan's face with some inquiry, especially when he saw her pair of dark and clear eyes, "You have become very different."
Li Wan remained calm, "Everyone can change, especially since we haven't seen each other for so long."
Ji Yao smiled faintly, meaningfully, "It's different."
Li Wan's heart skipped a beat.
At this moment, Li Zelin's voice sounded like the sound of nature.
"Let her go."
"Brother." Li Wan looked at Li Zelin in surprise, then saw his gloomy face, and found that her wrist was still held by Ji Yao, so she pulled it away immediately.
Ji Yao did not force him to stay, so he relaxed and turned to look at Li Zelin, smiling calmly, "Zelin, long time no see."
"Ji Yao." Li Zelin called out his name, glanced at Li Wan, his eyes sank slightly.
"Don't get me wrong, I just haven't seen Wanwan for a long time and I wanted to talk to her more." As he said that, he rubbed the back of Li Wan's head twice very naturally, like rubbing his cat at home.
Li Zelin looked at Ji Yao's intimate actions, his eyes seemed to be frozen.
Li Wan was sensitive to the dangerous aura emanating from Li Zelin, and immediately made his position clear, moving to his side, and then looked at Ji Yao confidently and said, "Brother Ji Yao, it seems that we were not that familiar with each other before."
Ji Yao's eyes were filled with surprise for a moment, and then he had a rare mischievous thought and chuckled, "Well, who was that person who came to my house every day when he was a child, followed me around and called me brother, and even said he wanted to live in my house and be my sister?"
Li Wan looked innocent: "Is there such a thing? How come I don't remember it at all?"
Her innocent look made Ji Yao's heart move slightly. The smile on his lips deepened, and he pretended to sigh, "Then you must not remember that you said you would marry me when you grow up."
Li Wan searched her mind but couldn't find any memory of what he said, but she said without hesitation: "Well, I don't remember."
However, in Li Zelin's eyes, their "tit-for-tat" interaction seemed unusually intimate.
Li Zelin said coldly, "She has other things to do, so excuse me." After that, he grabbed Li Wan's hand and left.
Ji Yao looked at Li Zelin holding Li Wan's hand, his eyes narrowed, and the gentle smile in his eyes gradually faded.
Li Zelin grabbed Li Wan's hand and brought her back to the banquet hall. Tonight, both Li Zelin and Li Wan were the focus. Under the watchful eyes of the public, Li Zelin holding Li Wan's hand still attracted a lot of attention, and many people looked surprised.
Li Rou, who was the center of attention, saw it.
Li Shu, who was drinking to cool down, saw it.
Li Feng, who was left behind by Li Zelin, also saw it.
"Brother..." Li Wan called him hesitantly.
Li Zelin noticed it, whether it was the gazes of those people or the panic in Li Wan's hesitant tone, but he did not let go. Instead, he held Li Wan's hand tighter, and greeted everyone's dark and complicated gazes with a stern face. He led Li Wan all the way through the entire banquet hall and brought Li Wan to Jiang Wanjiao before letting go, "Just stay here and spend more time with mom."
Jiang Wanjiao looked at Li Zelin in some surprise. When did her eldest son become so considerate?
She had been talking to her good friend just now, and didn't notice how much attention Li Zelin and Li Wan attracted along the way.
Li Wan looked at Li Zelin.
Li Zelin glanced over with a warning look, his eyes seemed to say, "Don't run around."
For a moment, Li Wan didn't know whether Li Zelin knew what he had just done.
Li Zelin suddenly came over, the bright light above his head fell into his deep black eyes, and his low voice passed by his ears: "I'll come to find you later, don't run around, be good."
Li Wan was stunned.
Jiang Wanjiao said with a smile: "What are you doing? Brother and sister are still whispering."
Li Wan's face started to feel hot.
Li Zelin stood up, staring at her with his deep black eyes, as if waiting for her response.
Li Wan nodded quickly and blushed.
Li Zelin nodded slightly to his elders and reentered the social circle.
Jiang Wanjiao took her hand and said, "What did your brother say to you just now?"
Li Wan coughed lightly and embarrassedly: "Nothing."
Jiang Wanjiao joked, "The relationship between you two siblings is better than before. You used to ignore each other when you lived together, but now it's better. You can even talk to each other in private."
For the first time, Li Wan felt inexplicably panicked and a little shy, so she took Jiang Wanjiao's hand and acted coquettishly for a while to get away with it.
After listening to Li Zelin's words, Li Wan followed Jiang Wanjiao obediently the whole night.
She could always find Li Zelin in the crowd at first sight. In an occasion like tonight, he was dressed in his usual black suit, with a tall stature, exuding elegance and dignity from head to toe. From a distance, he seemed unattainable and people dared not approach him. His eyes would occasionally sweep over her, as if inadvertently, and then turn away indifferently.
Zhou Mengying came over with a wine glass in hand and smiled: "Happy birthday, Auntie. I am Zelin's college classmate."
Jiang Wanjiao smiled and nodded.
After Zhou Mengying greeted Jiang Wanjiao, she turned to Li Wan and said with a smile, "Wanwan, nice to see you again."
There was something else in her eyes.
Li Wan guessed that she must know that she was not Li Zelin's biological sister, and smiled back.
Zhou Mengying just came over to say hello.
She looked at Li Wan with mixed feelings. She had just witnessed Li Zelin holding Li Wan's hand and walking through the banquet hall. She originally thought that Li Zelin's reactions that day were just a brother's desire to protect his sister, but once Li Wan's identity changed, coupled with what happened just now, Li Zelin's reactions that day... she didn't even dare to think about it.
She just forced a smile and left with the wine.
"What's wrong with big brother? He and Li Wan were not close at all before, but now he is closer than before and even holds her hand???" Li Shu's face was full of disbelief and incomprehension.
Li Rou took a sip of the champagne in her hand and glanced at Li Zelin in the crowd with a dark look in her eyes.
Li Wan went to the bathroom, and when she came back she saw Jiang Wanjiao talking to a young man in a black suit, white shirt and bow tie. She walked over, and perhaps because the carpet was too soft, she twisted her foot and her body tilted. The young man quickly caught her.
Li Wan looked up shyly and smiled and said, "Thank you."
The man looked into her clear and smiling black eyes and was startled. Then he said shyly, "You're welcome."
Jiang Wanjiao looked at this one, then at that one, and suddenly asked with a smile: "Wanwan, do you still remember? This is Lin Zhe, the son of Uncle Lin, whom you loved most when you were a child. You met each other when you were young."
Li Wan turned to look at him, but really had no impression of him and could only smile at him awkwardly.
Lin Zhe felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by Li Wan, and a slight blush appeared on his handsome face. He said, "Wan Wan was too young at that time, and we only met once, so she definitely doesn't remember it."
Just then, Li Zelin came over.
Jiang Wanjiao hurriedly called Li Zelin and said with a smile: "Hey, Zelin, do you still remember when your uncle Lin brought Lin Zhe to my house when you were little, and Wanwan said that he would marry Lin Zhe when he grew up?"
When Li Wan heard this, his heart skipped a beat and he looked at Li Zelin.
There was no expression on Li Zelin's face, but he glanced at her with some displeasure.
Li Wan smiled at him guiltily, secretly blaming "Li Wan" in her heart. She had gotten into so many romantic troubles when she was a child, and now, they all fell on her head.
"I don't remember." Li Zelin said expressionlessly.
Lin Zhe was a little embarrassed. He glanced at Li Wan and said with a smile, "These are just jokes from our childhood."
Jiang Wanjiao's friend saw that Jiang Wanjiao wanted to pair Li Wan and Lin Zhe, so she smiled and said, "You said it was a joke when we were young, but I think it's fate. Now I think Lin Zhe and Wan Wan are a good match!" As she spoke, she asked Lin Zhe with a smile, "Lin Zhe, how old are you this year?"
Lin Zhe was a little embarrassed, but at the same time, his heartbeat uncontrollably quickened, "I'm 25."
The elder smiled and said, "Wanwan is 22 this year, right? She's exactly three years older, so the age is just right. Lin Zhe, you don't have a girlfriend yet, right?"
Normally, Lin Zhe would hate being arranged to be involved with someone, but if that person was Li Wan...
Lin Zhe was about to speak when he was interrupted by Li Wan.
"Aunt Jiang, I have someone I like."
Li Wan said.
Jiang Wanjiao and Aunt Jiang looked at her in surprise.
Lin Zhe also looked over and felt disappointed.
Li Zelin's gaze fell on Li Wan's face, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
Jiang Wanjiao asked in surprise: "Do you have someone you like? When? Who?"
Li Wan smiled slightly and said, "He's a colleague from my company."
Li Zelin felt his chest tighten, undercurrents surged in his deep black eyes, and finally condensed into a rich ink color.
…
From the end of the banquet until he got in the car, Li Zelin didn't say a word to Li Wan.
As soon as he got on the bus, he closed his eyes and frowned slightly, as if the five big words "Don't talk to me" were written on his body.
He drank quite a bit of wine later on and had a faint smell of alcohol on him.
When I got home, I went straight into my room without even changing my shoes.
Li Wan stood alone in the entrance hall, smiled helplessly, changed her shoes, went back to her room first, and then went to Li Zelin's room.
She stood at the door of Li Zelin's room and knocked on the closed door.
There was no movement inside.
Li Wan persevered and continued knocking.
I knocked on the door until Li Zelin opened it with a gloomy face.
"What's the matter?" he asked coldly.
Li Wan nodded: "Something happened."
She put her hands behind her back and blinked: "Can I come in?"
Li Zelin frowned. He didn't want to see her, but he couldn't bear to send her away. After all, he still held on to a glimmer of hope that she came to explain, so he turned around and went in with a cold face.
Li Wan followed him into his room and closed the door.
"Brother."
Li Zelin stopped, turned around to look at her, and then saw the box that Li Wan handed to him.
Li Wan said: "I was originally thinking of giving it to you on your birthday next month, but after thinking about it, I decided to give it to you today."
Li Zelin frowned, took a look and didn't answer.
Li Wan sighed: "Brother, are you angry with me?"
Li Zelin said, "I don't know what you are talking about." As he said that, he took the gift from Li Wan's hand, threw it on the desk, and then looked at her, meaning that you can leave.
Li Wan glanced at the gift he had casually thrown on the table and lowered her eyes.
Li Zelin felt soft-hearted for a moment.
Li Wan pursed her lips and looked up at Li Zelin: "Don't you want to see what's inside?" She said, without waiting for Li Zelin's response, she walked over, took the box back in her hand, and opened it. Inside was a black tie with dark patterns.
Li Wan took out the tie, looked at Li Zelin and said, "Can I put it on for you?"
Li Zelin didn't speak or move. The light from above his head cast a shadow through his thick eyelashes. In the shadow, his deep black eyes stared at her solemnly, his face still frosty.
Li Wan walked up to him, raised her face slightly, reached out to loosen the tie around his neck and pulled it off, then picked up the one she bought.
Li Zelin was too tall, and he didn’t look like he would lower his head to take care of her, so she had to stand on tiptoe, put her arm over his neck, and stretched it behind his neck. Her hand accidentally brushed the skin on the back of his neck—
Li Zelin finally responded. He held Li Wan's wrist, stared at her intently, and asked in a deep voice, "What do you want to do?"
Li Wan was not flustered. She raised her head and looked at him with her clear eyes. Then she tilted her head and smiled: "I was wondering why Big Brother didn't ask me who I like."
Li Zelin's hand holding her wrist suddenly tightened, then loosened, and said coldly: "It has nothing to do with me."
Li Wan freed his wrist from Li Zelin's grip and continued to pass the tie through the back of Li Zelin's neck. Then he held both ends of the tie in his hands and carefully tied the tie for Li Zelin.
Li Zelin's gaze couldn't help but fall on Li Wan's face.
The study was very quiet. Only a desk lamp was on, and the light was dim. Li Wan was very close to her, and he could almost hear her breathing. She raised her face slightly, her cheeks were white, her eyelashes were thick and dark, and her lips were full and rosy, like a fresh fruit... She had kissed him with this mouth before, she had hugged him with the hand that tied his tie, and her white cheeks had been softly pressed against his neck...
But she told everyone that she liked someone else.
She would use the hands that tied his tie to tie someone else's tie, throw herself into someone else's arms, and use the mouth that kissed him to kiss someone else...
A dark fire rolled up in Li Zelin's deep and dark pupils, and this fire burned away all his sanity.
Li Wan was unaware of it. In the frozen silence, she thought that it would be difficult to wait for Li Zelin to speak first. The atmosphere was already like this, so she might as well say it.
Thinking of this, Li Wan sighed softly, then raised her head and met Li Zelin's dark and deep eyes. Her heart skipped a beat and she subconsciously called out, "Brother..."
Li Zelin said nothing and suddenly kissed her fiercely.
Li Wan's pupils suddenly contracted, and the rest of the words were blocked in her mouth.
It was not the childish kiss that night. It was originally a kiss with a sense of punishment, but it changed its meaning once it touched Li Wan's soft lips.
Li Zelin couldn't help but put one hand around her waist and pressed her into his arms. He held the back of her head with one hand to prevent her from retreating. He lowered his waist and head, and pressed his lips on her warm and soft lips and rubbed them hard.
His Adam's apple rolled violently, and it felt like a fire was burning in his chest, burning him to the point of losing all reason and his heartbeat became a mess.
The man's kiss was too fierce and violent. Li Wan's lips were rubbed so hard that they hurt. Her heart was pounding wildly. She wondered if she had stimulated Li Zelin too much.
Li Zelin pulled his lips away from Li Wan's with difficulty and slowly opened his eyes. The dark color in his eyes was so thick that it was frightening.
Li Wan's chest heaved, and he gasped softly. He raised his eyes and looked at Li Zelin with fear.
Li Zelin's hand moved from the back of her head to the side of her face, his thumb rubbing the skin beside her ear with force, his deep eyes staring at her with repressed forbearance, his Adam's apple rolling with difficulty, his voice was low and hoarse, "Didn't you ask me to love you? Do you want to love you like this?"
Li Wan's face felt numb and burning hot, and tears welled up in her eyes.
She responded to Li Zelin with action. She grasped Li Zelin's tie with a little force, then raised her chin. Li Zelin's disordered and hot breathing was as close as it could be. She closed her eyes and gently pressed her lips against his.
Li Zelin's heart felt like it was being tightly gripped by a hand.
The lips sucked him, and then something soft and slippery licked his lips softly...
A strong electric current ran through my lips.
Li Zelin suddenly froze, his heart beating uncontrollably.
Li Wan stepped back, opened her eyes, and looked at him with a pair of moist black eyes, "I just want you to love me, because I only love you..."
The tail end of the sound was swallowed up by the man.
Li Zelin kissed her fiercely, pressing her down roughly and awkwardly, imitating her, sucking her lips with his lips, licking her with the tip of his tongue, until he kissed both her lips, then he tried to use the tip of his tongue to push open her lips, and probed into her mouth. When the tip of his tongue touched the soft tongue hidden in her mouth, the heart in his chest couldn't help but contract and tremble...
Li Wan's neck was pressed so hard by him that she had to bend it deeply backwards. The hand that was originally holding his tie tightly grasped his clothes. Li Zelin's hand across her lower back tightly held her and continued to exert force.
Her waist was so painful from being clamped, and her lips and tongue were numb and painful from being kissed. She felt like she was being eaten alive by him.
How could she have seen a sense of abstinence from this person at that time...
After an unknown amount of time of kissing, Li Zelin finally pulled his lips away from hers. He calmed his overly rapid breathing and heartbeat before slowly opening his eyes to look at her.
Li Wanying's white cheeks turned completely red, and her eyes were wet under her thick black eyelashes. She lay in Li Zelin's arms, breathing softly.
Li Zelin's Adam's apple rolled, and his eyes were glued to Li Wan's lips that were swollen from his kisses, so he moved closer and kissed her swollen lips gently twice. Then he suppressed the urge to continue kissing her deeply, and rested his forehead against Li Wan, rubbing his tall nose against her delicate and soft cheek, no longer suppressing the strong emotions surging in his heart.
Li Wan wrapped her soft arms around his neck and rubbed her face against him, acting coquettishly and softly.
"Brother, I love you so much."
Li Zelin's heart softened without any defense, his eyebrows and eyes softened, and he hummed softly.
"I love you most," she continued.
Li Zelin couldn't help but smile with joy.
"Um."
Li Wan raised her head, staring at him with dissatisfaction with her dark and wet eyes, "Now you have to say that you love me too."
Li Zelin's breathing slowed down and he was silent for a few seconds, "...I love you."
Perhaps because these three words were too unfamiliar to him, his tone seemed a little stiff.
But Li Wan was already satisfied. She leaned over and gave Li Zelin a loud kiss on the chin, then said with a smile, "I love you, too."
Li Zelin realized it belatedly and felt a little uncomfortable. He hummed, "I understand."
He tried to sound cold, but couldn't help but soften his features.
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