The past of my brother and best friend
After tossing and turning all night, only when she was sure that Yue Lanjing was not in danger of life did Chao Rirou go back to her room to rest due to exhaustion.
April Sakura stayed by her side all the time. When the two of them returned to Chao Rirou's room, Hua Chuyu was waiting inside.
As soon as April Sakura saw him, she rolled her eyes and didn't want to see this person again, but he turned out to be Asahirou's brother. What kind of evil fate was this!
Hua Chuyu didn't dare look at her, fearing that it would affect his self-control. He stared at the cup of tea in his hand and asked, "Did she die?"
"She wasn't hurt anywhere vital, so she escaped." Chao Rirou understood Hua Chuyu's hatred for Yue Lanjing. She would not say anything for Yue Lanjing, but she also hoped that Hua Chuyu could leave Yue Lanjing to her.
Hua Chuyu sneered. He dared to say, "A person who wants to die would stab you directly in the heart. He was able to avoid the vital parts. It seems he was prepared! He hasn't caused enough harm yet. You'd better stay away from him!"
"How can your words be so cold when your body temperature is 36 degrees?" April Sakura stared at his profile in disbelief.
He was still incredibly handsome, but his coldness and ruthlessness were so unfamiliar. She had always thought that his coldness was just his appearance, and that he was actually very soft-hearted, but how could he say such inhumane words now?
Asahirou noticed that April Sakura was a little emotional. She knew that she said that because she didn't understand the whole thing. She would explain it to her later. But she also felt that it was not just because of this incident!
Is there anything else going on between her and Hua Chuyu? They shouldn't be familiar with each other, at least judging from Hua Chuyu's reaction, he didn't even look at her.
Asahirou thought she might be overthinking it.
"Xiaoying, you didn't sleep well last night. Go back to your room and rest!" They originally planned to sleep together, but it would definitely be inconvenient with Hua Chuyu here.
Turning to Asahiro, April Sakura's expression also turned worried. "You too, don't think about anything. Get some sleep first. Your body hasn't fully recovered yet, and you're already tossing and turning like this. Look how awful you look!"
Hua Chuyu glanced over at them after hearing this. The two yellow and lifeless faces under the light made him feel distressed. So he stood up and said, "You two should rest. I won't disturb you anymore."
Before leaving, he added, "But after you wake up, I hope you can still leave with me!" This was all he wanted to say.
"I plan to wait for him to wake up and tell him before leaving. I can't just leave without saying a word." Chao Rirou insisted.
Hua Chuyu looked into her eyes and knew that it would be difficult for him to change her determination.
"I support you. Anyone with a conscience would do the same! Disappearing without saying a word is not something a human being would do!" April Ying suddenly spoke angrily, staring at Hua Chuyu with an extremely unfriendly look.
This shouldn't be the case. If this is the first time they meet, there shouldn't be such emotions. Asahirou was certain that Sakura was targeting Hua Chuyu! Standing between the two of them, she asked curiously, "Uh, do you know each other? I don't think you two are the first time you meet!"
The two people being asked turned their faces away in unison, not knowing how to describe their relationship.
Zhao Rirou became more certain of her thoughts and approached Hua Chuyu and asked, "Do you owe her money?"
"Yes! It's a lot of money if you calculate it!" April Sakura said bluntly, but a look of sadness could not help but appear in her eyes.
For so many years, she had spent countless resources trying to find out about him. She had suffered immensely emotionally, missing him, worrying about him, resenting him... and yet he had practically forgotten her, not caring about her at all! Given this, all her efforts couldn't be wasted. She had to cash them in! And her sincerity, it was priceless! How could she have given it to a man like this?
Hua Chuyu still didn't respond to April Sakura. His eyes seemed to only focus on Zhao Rirou. He said to her gently, "Have a good rest. Since you have your plans, I won't force you!"
After saying that, he closed the door and left, making April Sakura so angry that she wanted to pounce on him and scratch him to death!
Asahirou felt that there was something wrong with Hua Chuyu. His attitude towards Sakura didn't seem like he was indifferent, but rather like he was avoiding something.
His inquiring gaze shifted to April Ying, only to see hatred in her eyes and a look of deep pain. It was far from being as simple as owing money! Could it be that...
It was late at night, and the two people on the bed looked at the ceiling with their eyes getting wider and wider.
"Why aren't you sleeping?" April Sakura asked with a dull look in her eyes.
"I want to hear a story." Asahirou said meaningfully.
April Sakura laughed at herself, "What's so good about it? It's just a melodramatic story about a silly woman who had a failed marriage but still couldn't learn her lesson and still had illusions about love!"
"Tell me, let me see if this brain can be cured! I have a bold guess. Could your ex-husband be Hua Chuyu?" No wonder Hua Chuyu had asked her about Xiaoying once. He was clearly interested then, so why did he act so nonchalant about her now? Could there be some hidden secret? Chao Rirou speculated secretly.
"So Hua Chuyu is him!" A ripple of emotion still rippled in Si Yueying's lifeless eyes, but it was a trace of sadness. Si Yueying had always heard of this name. It turned out that he had always been around her, just under a different name!
"He wasn't called this when I knew him!" No wonder she couldn't find him. He didn't even bother to tell her his real name!
"What? He married you under a false name? No wonder, you must have heard of Hua Chuyu's name, but you never reacted."
"Your guess isn't bold enough! He's not my ex-husband, he's my lover, the one I cheated on!" April Ying took a deep breath and said indifferently. In her heart, she kept telling herself that this was the end of it. She shouldn't waste her energy on this man anymore!
This was beyond Zhao Rirou's expectations. She seemed to be stunned for a few seconds before she reacted and said, "Well, he is indeed impeccable and has the ability to seduce decent women with ease!"
"I seduced him!" April Sakura continued to say shockingly.
"Oh." Chao Rirou's head was like a webpage that couldn't be opened, spinning in circles. It took her a long time to utter a word. "Then your ex-husband must have done something wrong to you first!"
"You really are the one who understands me best!" April Ying was very pleased. Past memories flooded back to her mind, and before she was about to be overwhelmed by the bitterness, she sat up and asked, "Is there any wine?"
"Wait a minute!" Then the two opened a bottle of red wine, sat on the floor by the window, and continued the previous topic.
"At first, I just wanted revenge on my ex-husband because he slept with my best friend at the time. He even said meanly that he'd never loved me, that he'd always loved her, and that marrying me was just a spur-of-the-moment thing! Because she fell in love with him again, he was going to kick me out..." April Ying showed a look of disgust, and it was obvious that she no longer had any attachment to this relationship. "Of course I wouldn't do what they wanted. I refused to divorce! They continued their affair, becoming more and more blatant. After all, we'd been husband and wife and friends for several years, but they had no regard for my feelings at all. So I wouldn't let him have it easy. The first step in my revenge was to pick on his best friend, to make him feel what it was like to be betrayed by the person closest to him."
"And then you fell in love with Hua Chuyu at first sight?" Chao Rirou knew April Sakura too well. If she wasn't attracted to her, why would she let her get close to her?
"Yes!" April Ying didn't deny that she had a crush on him the moment she saw him. At least she didn't mind his approach. She felt uncomfortable just by looking at other men, let alone getting close to them. "If it weren't for him, my revenge plan might not have been possible. But he dragged me deeper into the swamp of love!"
She spoke her last words with immense frustration. Perhaps it was because of the alcohol, she could no longer suppress her emotions, tears streaming down her face. "Although he looked cold back then, after getting to know him, I realized he was actually very understanding and thoughtful. You didn't even need to ask for anything you wanted or needed; he'd already seen it and taken care of everything for you! With him around, you didn't have to worry about anything; you'd be well protected... But now, he's almost forgotten I even exist!"
Considerate and caring? Zhao Rirou thought that the person who could make Hua Chuyu do this must be either truly in love or have ulterior motives! "Since you two were together, why did you break up later?"
"I originally thought he left without a word because he felt sorry for his good brother. After all, his good brother got into a car accident because of our betrayal!"
"Dead?"
"No, he just lost his mind! He completely forgot about his first love, whom he loved madly, and now he comes back to pursue me!" April Sakura said with a gloomy face.
By then, she had already signed the divorce papers, but upon learning of her affair with Hua Chuyu, he flew into a rage and admitted himself to the hospital. With his life on the line, Hua Chuyu left, and his first love vanished, leaving her alone. Feeling a responsibility she couldn't shirk, she stayed, caring for him until he recovered. However, she refused to identify herself as his ex-wife; she told him, with his amnesia, that they were just friends.
"Oh my god! This is just another cliché! So Hua Chuyu returned you to your ex-husband?"
"I thought so until yesterday, but now I know that my brain is broken! He didn't take me seriously at all! So why was he so nice to me before? Is he sick? Or is he a pervert who likes to play with women's hearts and then disdains them once he gets them!" April Sakura said gritting her teeth.
"I think half of the reason is because of your ex-husband!" As for the other half, Chao Rirou felt that Hua Chuyu didn't want to drag her down! He was working for Yan Mingchi, and dangerous things could happen at any time. He probably wanted her to live a stable life, which he couldn't give her, so he stayed away from her. "What's the situation with your ex-husband now? Is he still pestering you?"
"It's true that the ghost is still lingering!"
"But I've never seen him." Asahiro was very surprised.
"How come you haven't seen it? You've seen it many times."
Now Asahirou was even more confused. "Huh? Who are you talking about?"
"Haven't you seen Li Kexiao?"
Zhao Rirou's jaw nearly dropped when she heard that. "It was him? It was him! No wonder you didn't even bother to look at him. If it were me, I would have blasted him before he even got close! But then again, does he really not know that you're his ex-wife? Even if he forgot, his subordinates should know, right? Shouldn't you remind him?"
"His current subordinates don't know me. The group of people who worked with him before, during the month or so when he was in a coma after the accident, they dispersed without waiting for him to wake up! He is quite pitiful. Such a serious thing happened, but his family never showed up! Do you know? Although I married him, I didn't know who his family was at that time. According to him, he has a family but it is equivalent to having no family. His mother passed away a long time ago, and the only remaining father always treated him as air. Even when he ran away from home, his father had no intention of looking for him." April Sakura was abandoned by her parents since she was a child, so she developed a special feeling for him and mistakenly thought it was love.
Hearing this, a hint of pity blossomed in Zhao Rirou's eyes. She had almost forgotten that Li Kexiao's father was Li Ao, her father! He was both lucky and unlucky. Lucky for him, he had a father by his side since he was a child. Unlucky for him, his father took his hatred for his mother out on him!
"By the way, Li Kexiao's father is Li Ao, so you and he are brother and sister! Then he and Hua Chuyu are real brothers!" April Ying suddenly thought of the relationship between the three of them, and found it unbelievable!
"I just thought of this too. I've figured out one thing. Have you figured it out yet?"
"What's up?"
"If Hua Chuyu and Li Kexiao are brothers, then it would be even more clear that the reason he left you is not because he doesn't care about you, but because he still cares about the brotherhood!"
"Oh, I dare not think so." April Sakura said this, but she still had some expectations in her heart.
But her expectations were soon dashed, because Hua Chuyu was nowhere to be seen the next day. He left without saying goodbye again!
But this time he kept his right-hand man Albert.
At this time, Albert was completing the task assigned by his master. He handed a card to April Sakura one by one. "My master asked me to give this to you. You must accept it. He asked you to calculate whether it is enough to pay back the debt."
"You want to pay back all this?" April Ying was eating breakfast, and when she saw the bank cards, she was so angry that she couldn't eat a single bite. Did he really think that what she wanted could be offset with money?
"Well, as far as I know, this is all the young master's belongings. It's all given to you!" Albert emphasized the four words "all the belongings".
"So what?" April Sakura was angry and didn't understand what he meant.
Asahirou, who was standing by, took a sip of her soup and said with a smile, "As far as I know, all the family property will only be handed over to the most important person, right? What do you think?"
So she was the most important person to him? April Ying smiled, but it was a fake smile.
"Miss Sakura, I can't speak, but please believe that what I say is the truth." Albert suddenly bent down slightly, covering his mouth and whispered, "My young master is actually an abstinence type!"
Poof—Asahirou sprayed a mouthful of porridge all over his right cheek.
April Sakura handed him some tissues.
"Thank you!" He took the tissue, wiped it, and continued seriously, "I've been with him for so many years, and he's never been interested in women. It's like he has no desire. I also suspected that he didn't like men, or that he wasn't good at that. It wasn't until I saw Miss Sakura's photo that I realized the reason why the young master didn't look at other women was because he already had someone in his heart!"
His eyes were fixed on April Sakura's face, as if to say, it's you.
April Sakura's face was red all the time. She was angry before, but now it was just shyness. "Where did you see my photo?"
"The young master's phone and computer screensavers are all your pictures. He'll look at your pictures whenever he has some free time. He has to check them every day like he's punching a clock in!"
"What a pervert!" Asahirou said she had goosebumps.
April Ying rolled her eyes at her, unable to believe that Hua Chuyu would really be like this?
"He's really perverted!" Albert has always admired his master very much. Except for this aspect, he expressed his disdain. He had been holding it in his heart before, and now he finally found the opportunity to complain. "You didn't see how intoxicated he was when he was looking at the photos. It's almost vomiting... There are many other perverted aspects. Many of the things he uses now are used by Miss Sakura!"
"Why does he have things I've used?" April Ying was puzzled, then she thought about how sometimes things do get lost inexplicably at home: cups, toothbrushes, towels, quilts...
Seeing the fear in April Sakura's eyes, Asahirou winked at Albert to stop. How come this guy was helping and now he was ruining things?
"Well, anyway, the young master has you in his heart! And only you! You are the sun in his life!" He couldn't let the young master lose the sun, so he said these words today. And if he didn't say it today, he was afraid he wouldn't have the chance to say it later.
"If it's just as you said, why does he still ignore me and always leave without saying a word?" The reality made April Sakura dare not have any expectations.
"The young master has to leave for something. He will definitely come back after he finishes his work! Because the two most important people to him are here!" Albert kept muttering that he would definitely come back.
"What did the young master do? And why didn't you follow him?" Chao Rirou asked casually, but Albert's subsequent reaction made her a little concerned.
"I would like to follow, but the young master won't let me." Thinking that his master was in danger, Albert frowned more and more.
We got the news that the master was critically ill and probably wouldn't last more than two or three days! But even so, the police had no intention of withdrawing their troops. They maintained a tight security and did not allow anyone to visit.
The young master originally planned to settle Miss Xiaorou down before rescuing the old master, but after hearing this news, the plan to rescue the old master had to be brought forward. The old master must not be allowed to die alone in the hospital!
It was still unknown whether the young master could rescue the old master this time, and he was afraid that he might get himself into trouble as well! The more Albert thought about it, the more uneasy he became.
"Where on earth has the young master been?" Chao Rirou stared at him and asked why he was so worried.
"Well, it's a very urgent matter that must be dealt with immediately, but it's not a problem for the young master, so don't worry about it..." Albert hesitated, avoiding the topic. The young master had repeatedly warned that Miss Xiaorou must not know about this.
Seeing how tight-lipped he was, Asahirou didn't push him any further. "It must be boring for you to follow us. Just do whatever you want!"
Albert's eyes lit up, but he said with embarrassment, "But the young master asked me to stay and look after you..."
Asahirou interrupted, "We're not babies, so why do we need someone to look after us? Besides, we're not used to you being a grown man following us around all the time! Go back to your master!"
Albert's brows immediately relaxed, "Thank you, Miss Xiaorou! We will definitely come back to pick you up, and Miss Xiaoying! Please rest assured, I will definitely protect the young master!" Before he finished speaking, his feet moved uncontrollably towards the door.
Looking at how anxious he is, it would be strange for Asahirou to feel at ease.
Although he was unwilling to reveal anything, she could send someone to investigate.
Just two days later, the people sent by April Sakura to investigate received a response. They rescued the seriously injured Albert! But there was no news of Hua Chuyu.
Asahirou couldn't stay here any longer. Her intuition told her that something bad must have happened and she had to leave.
Before leaving, she went to see Yue Lanjing again. In fact, except for eating and sleeping time, she was with him almost every moment these days.
Although Yue Lanjing is out of danger, she hasn't woken up yet and has been lying quietly in bed. Every time I look at her, my heart aches. Why does he use this method to hold her heart?
She wanted to leave for a while, whether he was awake or not, she still wanted to talk to him.
"I want to leave..." Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Guan Shaoling who was in Yue Lanjing's room.
"Do you have any conscience? He has done this for you, and you still want to leave him!" Guan Shaoling looked at her with eyes full of disgust and hatred.
"I will come back, I will definitely come back!" After leaving these words like an oath, she turned and left without even looking at Guan from beginning to end.
Not long after she left, Yue Lanjing woke up.
"Hua Chuyu was arrested, but it is not certain who did it. Chao Rirou must have known about this and that's why she left in a hurry! She knew about her father and brother, and she will definitely find a way to save them!" Guan Shaoling's eyes were asking what to do next. He naturally didn't want to get involved in muddy water, but he knew that Yue Lanjing would never let that woman go!
"The police haven't caught him, and there's no movement from Yan Mingchi, so Yue Lanxiu must have captured him!" Yue Lanjing guessed easily, "Rather than capturing him, it's better to say he protected him!" If his guess is correct, Chao Rirou will also be captured by Yue Lanxiu!"
"Although he's the son of my enemy, he's also my brother-in-law! Between hatred and love, Yue Lanxiu chose love! It seems that guy won't give up on Zhao Rirou so easily!"
Yue Lanjing sneered, "It's not up to him!"
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