Chapter 74: Sorry, Great-Aunt-In-Law… Don’t Be Sad, Wait Until We Go Back, This Ship…
[I absolutely won’t hold you back!]
A battle intent as sharp as a knife gathered in the young man’s eyes. His amber pupils lit up, shining brightly like two miniature suns.
Dazzling and blinding, impossible to look at directly.
Inside the helicopter, the others, unaware of the reason, couldn’t help but be influenced by this sight, straightening their backs and putting on their best postures one after another.
Xi Yun, the only one who knew what Le Can was truly thinking, fell into a strange silence for a moment after seeing everyone’s reaction.
After a slight shake, the fuselage stabilized completely. The speed of the propeller overhead gradually slowed down, and the noise in their ears diminished, signaling that the landing was complete.
“Don’t worry, I…”
Full, rosy lips touched together as words that would give one a heart attack were about to burst out.
Xi Yun slowly closed his eyes briefly.
After opening them, he placed his hands on the black shells of Le Can’s noise-canceling headphones on both sides and leaned forward slightly. His pale, thin lips gently pressed against the young man’s lips, stopping the words he was about to say.
When his head was held in place, Le Can had already hesitantly stopped speaking. When the gentle touch landed on his sensitive lips, his head buzzed, followed by a blankness.
This kiss was as light as a feather.
Before Le Can could capture its existence more deeply, it fluttered away.
With a click, the seatbelt restricting his waist was undone. The over-ear noise-canceling headphones were also removed. Le Can paid no attention to any of this; instead, his burning gaze was fixed tight on the person close at hand.
Xi Yun allowed the young man to look at him, with no intention of opening his mouth to explain.
After ensuring that everything on Le Can and himself had been unfastened, he reached out to smooth down a tuft of hair sticking up on the other’s head and said calmly, “Don’t think too much. Let’s go down.”
Le Can’s eyes widened instantly.
[Don’t think too much—about which aspect?]
[Don’t think too much about what will happen at the wedding banquet later, or don’t think too much about that dragonfly-skimming-water kiss just now?]
However, Xi Yun didn’t give Le Can extra time to think. He stepped off the helicopter and turned back, extending his hand.
A very gentlemanly gesture, paired with a suit the same color as the young man’s, seemed like a preview of the scene at the wedding handover ceremony where he would wait for his partner to walk toward him.
Le Can lowered his eyes to look at the slender, powerful hand in front of him, then raised his hand and slapped his palm into Xi Yun’s. subsequently, he stood up from the seat with agile movements and leaped down from the cabin lightly.
Xi Yun stood in place. When the young man jumped down from his side, the breeze stirred up lifted the hair on his forehead.
He looked at his empty palm for two seconds, then lowered his head and laughed silently. The hand held in mid-air slowly clenched as if feeling something, and only after a good while was it withdrawn.
After standing firm, Le Can took the opportunity while tidying his clothes to look up and size up the circle of glamorous strangers surrounding the helicopter.
Probably because they were attending a wedding, none of the guests invited onto the cruise ship were dressed too casually tonight.
Looking around, Le Can’s eyes were filled with suits, formal dresses, shirts, and so on…
And because the protagonists of tonight’s wedding were not themselves, most people chose attire that was very appropriate yet not ostentatious, with most colors being soft tones.
Except… for a lady wearing a bright red evening gown.
Le Can noticed this lady in the crowd not only because of the overly flamboyant color of her dress but also because of the gaze she cast immediately after he jumped off the helicopter—a gaze impossible to ignore.
How to describe that look?
Probably, if looks could be materialized, Le Can would have been pared down from head to heel. Such an aggressive look was really… hard to ignore even if one wanted to.
When he saw clearly the appearance of the lady whose whole body was written with hostility, Le Can, who had obtained photos from Gao Dan, instantly matched her identity.
The person Butler Ben Nelson specifically warned him to be careful of, the crazy former Great-Aunt-in-law he needed to properly “return the gift” to—Bai Xiaotong…
Le Can hadn’t expected to meet her so soon.
The young man put a kind smile on his face and lifted his foot to take a step forward. After taking the step, he paused for half a second and then withdrew it backward.
Le Can hooked his lips and turned back, reaching out to hook Xi Yun, who was following behind, to his side. “Husband, let’s go.”
The moment the sugary voice rang out, Xi Yun, who knew his partner’s nature well, immediately knew the other party had started acting on the spot again. And this action usually signified that someone would be unlucky soon…
Xi Yun’s waist straightened secretly. His steps, originally prepared to go to the right, turned, and under Le Can’s lead, he gradually walked in a certain direction.
While walking, he casually raised his eyes to look ahead.
A face that wasn’t unfamiliar but was exceptionally loathsome appeared in his line of sight.
The silver-gray pupils, which had carried helplessness, instantly shed all softness, revealing their most primitive sharpness and coldness.
When did Bai Xiaotong get on the ship?
Seeing the two young men with uniquely blessed appearances—the protagonists of today’s wedding—walking intimately arm in arm toward her, the swaying of the wine glass in Bai Xiaotong’s hand gradually slowed down.
The rich and silky red wine in her mouth became tasteless. In those eyes with exquisite makeup that still couldn’t hide the fine lines at the corners, mockery and disgust grew thicker and churned ceaselessly.
She first looked at the good nephew who had perfectly inherited the appearance of her good sister, and who had justifiably and completely inherited all of the other’s legacy.
The fingers pinching the red wine glass turned white from force, curses constant in her heart.
Why were some people so lucky? Clearly having done nothing, born into a wealthy family with nothing to worry about, someone cleared all obstacles for him.
Because he was lonely from childhood, an older child was adopted from outside to “accompany the crown prince in reading” since childhood.
Hahaha… She, Bai Xiaotong, was that “lucky,” well-known foil character!
The only suffering Nian Furou endured in this life was encountering a husband unfaithful in love. Oh right, and riches don’t ensure a long life—she was unlucky and died early! Hahahaha…
Every time she thought of this satisfying event, Bai Xiaotong had to open a bottle of good wine to celebrate properly.
From the moment she knew her true identity, Bai Xiaotong thought all the time: how great would it be if she were the biological child of the Nian family?
Why wasn’t she Nian Furou? Clearly, she had also lived in the Nian family for so many years; why couldn’t she become Nian Furou?!
Once Nian Furou disappeared, would everything the other enjoyed become hers?
—This thought, from a long, long time ago, became something Bai Xiaotong couldn’t help thinking about day and night.
It was just that those side branches of the Nian family were too cowardly and stupid; they couldn’t even understand instigation. Bai Xiaotong also didn’t dare to do it herself, fearing she would lose the identity of the Nian family’s adopted daughter.
Although she was dissatisfied with this identity from the bottom of her heart, Bai Xiaotong was reluctant to completely cut off the various conveniences this identity brought…
Finally, after Nian Furou fell in love, Bai Xiaotong, who keenly discovered Xi Chong’s abnormality, knew she had finally waited for her chance.
Although Nian Furou was as pure as a sheet of white paper in relationships, she wasn’t a fool easily deceived. That Xi Chong could win the beauty back then, hahahaha… he had to thank her for her strategies and cleanup behind the scenes.
Bai Xiaotong witnessed her good young mistress fall into passionate love step by step, willingly marrying and having children.
Then… at her happiest moment, Bai Xiaotong casually helped Xi Chong, a dog who couldn’t change eating shit, to cheat, dealing Nian Furou the heaviest blow!
Originally, she just wanted the other to live as unhappily as she did, but she didn’t expect the person she had secretly cursed for years to die so simply. Speaking of which, Bai Xiaotong had even felt regret.
Regret… that Nian Furou died so quickly!
Of the thousands of pains in this world, how could her dear young mistress only taste that little bit? She should have lived on in pain, on and on, just like her!
After Nian Furou died, Bai Xiaotong, who thought she could pluck the Nian family, didn’t expect someone to discover what she had done through those brainless fools.
At the last step of reaching the sky, Bai Xiaotong was kicked out of the Nian family. She fell from the peak to the valley bottom instantly, and the things she had meticulously calculated were so easily obtained by a wet-behind-the-ears brat…
That person was still Nian Furou’s son.
Even with half the blood of that fool Xi Chong, and born with different pupils, a biological son who was still outstanding enough to be known by everyone!
The unwillingness that had briefly silenced Bai Xiaotong after Nian Furou’s death surged into her heart even more fiercely…
She casually tossed the wine glass in her hand to someone beside her. Her lips, painted with bright red lipstick, slowly turned up. Looking at the two young people who walked straight up to her, she opened her mouth prepared to speak.
“Nian… oh no, I forgot, Auntie, you don’t have the surname Nian anymore. Sorry, Great. Aunt. In. Law.”
How could Le Can give the other party a chance to speak?
With a look of suddenly realizing he had misspoken, he raised a hand to block his mouth, revealing only a pair of peach-blossom eyes without any apology, looking with teasing laughter at the person in front of him whose spell-casting was interrupted and who instantly clenched her teeth.
“What to do, Husband?” Le Can leaned his head on the shoulder of the man beside him. “Will Great Aunt get angry if I say that?”
The cold air constantly radiating from Xi Yun seemed to freeze suddenly like a machine malfunction.
He looked sideways at the youth blinking at him, raised his other hand, and patted comfortingly on the back of the hand holding his arm.
“Don’t worry, she won’t.”
Even if she got angry, so what?
An uninvited evil guest. If the cruise ship hadn’t already sailed to the open sea, Xi Yun would have had someone throw Bai Xiaotong and the person who brought her in directly off the ship.
“Hmph, just a plaything who doesn’t know their place.”
Bai Xiaotong, caught off guard, took two deep breaths in anger. Her upturned eyes were filled with undisguised malice and contempt.
“If it weren’t for the rush to inherit that legacy, do you think you could stand in front of me now with just what you are?”
Mixed within the malice was deep jealousy.
Bai Xiaotong actually bore such great malice toward Le Can whom she had never met. No, it should be toward the person standing next to Xi Yun who might share the inheritance with him.
Le Can and Xi Yun’s eyes turned cold in unison.
Subsequently, Le Can reached out and held the large hand of the person beside him, suddenly pressing it over his heart. “Husband, I’m so sad…”
Xi Yun opened his mouth but hadn’t had time to speak when he saw the youth, whose brow was filled with disappointment and depression, weakly half-lift his face.
“So you giving me ten million a month in pocket money, casually throwing me a house worth one hundred and fifty million, and saying you’d transfer the private island to me when you got tired of playing with it—was just treating me as a plaything!”
The crowd, which had been whispering, suddenly fell deathly silent.
Bai Xiaotong screamed in disbelief: “What?!”
Xi Yun, listening to the inner voice by his ear that couldn’t stop laughing, helplessly raised his hand to cover those peach-blossom eyes that revealed a little fox-like smugness and cunning at the bottom.
“Don’t be sad. Wait until we go back, this ship will be given to you too.”
One second ago, he was still bumping his forehead lightly against the palm blocking his vision in dissatisfaction. The next second, hearing clearly what a certain person interrupting his performance said, Le Can petrified on the spot.
[What? This ship is yours too?!]
[Wait, who did you say you were giving it to?!!!]
Author’s Note: Yaoyao (Green Tea Version): Sob sob sob (Pissing you off). Half true, half false; I said it so well I almost believed it myself. Big Xi (Serious Version): Forget it, let’s give the ship too. Me: [Dog head holding rose][Dog head holding rose][Dog head holding rose]
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