Edited by Elanor
“Xing‘er?” Xie Tingyue was very surprised, “Why are you here? Is the academy on vacation?”
Xie Tingxing clenched his fists and his voice trembled, “Why did Brother marry secretly behind my back? Why is he living in someone else’s house! Why didn’t he even tell me! I couldn’t find Brother anywhere when I went home… They said he won’t come back again!”
Xie Tingyue sighed, reached out his hand to his Brother’s round face, and wiped his tears, “So Big Brother did something wrong, why is Xing‘er crying?”
Xie Tingxing pursed his lips and shed more tears.
The child was only ten years old this year. When facing his favorite and gentlest brother, he couldn’t show off his anger even when questioning him. He was like an abandoned, ferocious puppy, very pitiful.
“Well……”
Xie Tingyue bent over and lifted his Younger Brother to carry him in his arms, patting him, “Xing‘er is a big boy now, don’t cry anymore.”
“Don’t – don’t carry me -” the child refused with a tigerish face and pushed hard, but was afraid of hurting his Brother, so he pushed with his little hand and took it back— unwillingly. His Brother was already holding him in his arms as if he were a child!
“I’ve grown…very heavy!”
The child’s face turned red, and he didn’t know whether to struggle or to continue pretending to be tough.
“You’re not heavy,” Xie Tingyue held up his Brother’s little buttocks and bumped it, “Or now that you have grown up, you won’t even let your brother get close to you, eh?”
While talking, Xie Tingyue pinched his Brother’s fleshy cheeks and kneaded the tender little face into various shapes.
“La…la… just let Elder Brother kiss, okay?”
Xie Tingxing struggled to slide off his brother. Looking at his silly smiling Brother, feeling very tired.
His Big Brother was so stupid, if no one was watching him, he would only suffer and be bullied!
“Why did Elder Brother want to marry the Eldest Young Master of the Chu family? Did that woman surnamed Lin forced you to do so? I asked about it, and they all said that Chu Mu is very sick and is about to die!”
The child frowned, and mentally voiced a sentence: I don’t agree with this marriage!
Xie Tingyue knew this would happen, so he didn’t tell Xie Tingxing.
Most of the time, the care of family members was blind, and they would protect their loved ones even to death. No matter what the environment or situation was, as a man and a great Brother in the heart of his Younger Brother, choosing to marry could not come from his own heart. He must have suffered a lot of grievances, a lot of oppression, and he didn’t know how difficult it was… The person who married his Brother was almost dead!
What kind of marriage was this? It was simply humiliating!
Xie Tingyue could almost imagine how much content had been added to his Younger Brother’s little brain.
It was not that children were unintelligent, they didn’t understand anything and could only make trouble willfully. It was just that they had too few life experiences and could not see many things. Even if they saw it, they couldn’t figure it out for the time being.
Xie Tingyue rubbed his brother’s head and said in a gentle voice, “You came here to find me. Have you ever returned home first?”
Xie Tingxing’s face was solemn, “Of course! Elder Brother taught me that no matter what happens, you must go home first. This is basic courtesy.”
Xie Tingyue smiled, “Have you seen Luo Momo?”
“En…” Xie Tingxing frowned, “Luo Momo is now in charge of everything at home, and that woman surnamed Lin is grounded.”
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Xie Tingyue’s smile deepened, “And you still don’t understand?”
The child uttered an “en en”, stared at his Brother with round eyes, still full of disapproval.
He was not stupid. His Brother suddenly got married, the family situation changed, the annoying woman was locked up, and Luo Momo came back, the meaning was self-evident.
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Xie Tingyue flicked his brother’s forehead, “This is not something you should worry about. Eat well and study well, eh?”
Xie Tingxing covered his forehead, “I have grown up, Brother, you can’t bully me like a child!”
“Okay, you have grown up,” Xie Tingyue smiled, “Now that you have grown up, Young Master of the Xie family, can I take you home?”
Xie Tingxing clasped his hands behind his back, coughed, glanced at him covertly, and said politely, “Young Master Xie, I don’t want to go home, I want to go to your house for dinner.”
Xie Tingyue paused.
Xie Tingxing’s sharp little tiger teeth flashed out, “Isn’t it possible? Then the Eldest Young Master Chu won’t even let his Brother-in-law come to the house for dinner?”
What a broken family position! Still boasting about having rules!
Forget it!
No matter how tough the child was, he was still a bit stubborn and shy, like a paper tiger. In the final analysis, he was just worried about his Brother and wanted to see with his own eyes whether he was living well where he lived.
Xie Tingyue’s heart softened for a moment and took his Brother’s hand, “Okay, let Chu Mu treat you to dinner today.”
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When his young Brother-in-Law came to visit, Chu Mu, the ‘Brother-in-Law’, naturally wanted to entertain him and keep him company.
As soon as the two met each other, they looked at each other, feeling dissatisfied and unhappy.
Xie Tingxing was very dissatisfied with the sickly young man sitting in the wheelchair. He was thin and white, not just an ordinary good-looking white skin, but rather bluish-white. Coupled with a pale and deathly lip color, this person was definitely not far away from meeting the King of Hell. He smiled as soon as he met him, smiled like a fool and he seemed elegant and gentlemanly, but he was actually a fake, just pretending! He actually asked his Brother to help him pour water, arrange his clothes and cover him with blankets – you are just sick, not dead. If you want to drink water, can’t you pour it yourself? Are your clothes in a mess? Are you blind? You’re afraid of the cold, don’t you know if you should cover yourself with an extra blanket! You have to have to be surrounded by others to be happy, right?
Childish! boring!
The child’s eyes widened.
Chu Mu was much more restrained. His eyes slid over the hands held by the two brothers, and glanced at Xie Tingyue’s undisguised indulgent smile. The child’s possessive and provocative actions showed how good the relationship between the two was.
It was a pity that the child was not an obedient little tiger. He blushed and acted coquettishly at Xie Tingyue, and his round eyes were as soft as water, but as soon as Xie Tingyue turned around, his round eyes immediately turned into leopard eyes and his little eyebrows were raised high, unruly, his glare towards him was almost as if he was ready to start a fight.
This was not a poor abandoned puppy at all, this was a little wolf with little fangs!
Chu Mu’s smile was warm and elegant, and he was still very much the gentleman. Except for some very special angles that might reveal some profound meaning, everything else was perfect.
Xie Tingxing smiled, he smiled, Xie Tingxing made a face, he smiled, Xie Tingxing glared over, he still smiled…
His childish teeth snapped shut in anger and he almost jumped up!
This bastard was doing it on purpose!
A variety of dishes were served, and Xie Tingxing was very impolite. He looked at Chu Mu provocatively and pointed his chin towards the duck paw in the distance, “Brother, I want to eat that!”
What could Xie Tingyue do? He had to cater to his spoiled Younger Brother no matter what. While picking up vegetables to feed his Brother, he gave Chu Mu an apologetic look.
This child usually didn’t behave like this, but instead often took good care of his older Brother. Today’s behavior… lacked a sense of security.
Of course Chu Mu would not care about the child’s impolite behavior and smiled back.
Xie Tingyue was grateful for his generosity, and paid more attention to him. Seeing that he didn’t move his chopsticks much, he picked up a few light and palatable food that were a little far away, and gave him some.
Xie Tingxing’s eyes almost popped out!
Treacherous! Cunning! Shameless! Black belly! Chu Mu was playing dirty tricks! This is a provocation!
While the child was feeling both aggrieved and angry, and was about to explode with anger, Chu Mu, with a perfectly elegant smile, tenderly gave him a piece of rock sugar pig’s trotters and said, “Xie’er’s Younger Brother is my Younger Brother. If you want anything, just say it and I will satisfy you.”
Xie Tingxing: !!
Who wants to tell you? Who wants something from you? I am not your brother, never will be!
After the rock sugar pig’s trotters, a round of dishes was removed from the table, and another bunch of them were served——
A dish that made Xie Tingxing’s eyes dazzle.
Chu Mu smiled elegantly and warmly, “I didn’t know you were coming before, so I wasn’t prepared enough. I asked your Brother and I know these are your favorite flavors. Can you eat more?”
Xie Tingxing was so angry that his eyebrows almost flew away.
But the food… was innocent. The first thing his Elder Brother taught him since childhood was that it should not be wasted.
Chu Mu, you big bastard, wait for this Young Master to finish eating!
In short, the seemingly harmonious and beautiful interactions were actually all knives in the dark. It was just that the big one and the small one had a tacit understanding to avoid Xie Tingyue and didn’t let him know.
“The tea pot is empty, I’ll go refill it.” Xie Tingyue had sent away all the servants before, and now he could only work by himself, “You guys eat slowly.”
As soon as he left, Xie Tingxing put down his chopsticks.
Chu Mu gathered the blanket on his knees.
Xie Tingxing’s eyes were dark and he said, “Don’t bully my Brother! You – you haven’t bullied him yet, have you?” His eyes glanced at Chu Mu’s lower body, and his words became even sharper, “You shouldn’t be able to bully him either?”
Chu Mu smiled lightly and held the tea cup, “If your Brother knew that you knew so much, he would be ‘very happy’.”
The child immediately became anxious, “Don’t tattle! This is a conversation between men!”
Chu Mu’s eyebrows were as slanted as a distant mountain, “So in your eyes, your Brother is not –”
“Nonsense!” Xie Tingxing thought that this person would react the same way as others. Attacking his manhood, at most it would stink like spoiled milk. Who would have expected that he would turn it around and would actually criticize his Brother as not being manly; immediately his anger soared, “You are not a man! Your whole family is not a man!”
Xie Tingyue happened to come back from brewing tea, “What are you talking about?”
They both turned around, one with a smile as bright as a spring breeze, the other with a cute smile.
“We’re talking about the food.”
“En en, Brother Chu said that the cook is a man and he knows all the eight major dishes. He’s very good!”
Very harmonious.
“Is the cook a man? I didn’t know…” Xie Tingyue was in a good mood and walked over to the table, lowered his head to pour the tea.
Xie Tingxing approached Chu Mu, his eyes as sharp as a wolf’s, and warned in a low voice, “Anyway, don’t bully my Brother, or I’ll kill you!”
To prove the truth of this statement, his chubby little hand lifted the corner of his robe and let Chu Mu take a look at the dagger hidden in his boots.
Whoever bullies his Brother will be killed!
Chu Mu raised his eyebrows, “It seems that I have to live well.”
Xie Tingxing: ??
Chu Mu: “This way I can take care of your Brother for a long time.”
The child’s angry eyebrows were about to disappear into his forehead.
Chu Mu’s inky eyes curved with a smile, and he said coldly, “If a knife hurts someone, it also hurts oneself. Put it away, don’t let your Brother worry.”
“You don’t need to tell me!”
Xie Tingxing adjusted his pants to ensure that no one could see it.
With this last sentence, he gave Chu Mu a high look.
When he saw his knife, he didn’t make a big fuss and complain, and he didn’t snatch it away and say it was unsafe, which was fine. A real man should be like this, not making a fuss, not acting casually, and not letting his Brother worry.
The child rolled his round eyes and came up with a new idea. He approached Chu Mu again and said, “I see that other people’s Brothers-in-Laws are very skilled. If their Brother-in-Law is in trouble, just let them know and they will solve it. What about you, can you?”
Chu Mu looked at him with a smile: “Aren’t you denying my position?”
“I will admit it if you solve it,” the child said shamelessly, “So why don’t you do it?”
Chu Mu tapped the back of the chair with his slender fingertips, and his smile grew bigger, “Tell me, who bullied you?”
“Who bullied you?”
Following these words, Xie Tingyue walked over and frowned slightly, “Don’t cover up or lie. I heard what was just said. Xie Tingxing, who bullied you?”
Xie Tingxing suddenly looked like a deflated ball, he became timid, neither arrogant nor harsh. He only glared fiercely at Chu Mu. Brother is so close and he didn’t even know. What the use of you!
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Zaki~ Xingxing is the cutest! hahaha
Oh, there is a long way before those ‘brothers-in-Law’ haha 😂 This small guy stole my heart away~
Thank You for the chapter ♡(ŐωŐ人)
Looool, this kid, how cute
Little bro is retaliating so cutely 😂 he do be dancing around in chu mu’s palm hahaha
😅😅cute kid, as long as he is other people’s problem. I wouldn’t be able to stand if some relative’s kid came to try and bully me like that.
It’s kinda hard to believe that he is 10 years old, he behaves like a toddler
Awww this is so cute <3 the husband meeting with the brother in law who worship his elder brother, too bad he’s just a cub now but he’ll grow strong in the future to protect his elder brother when his husband “dies” (lol which is never, at least not until they hold hand in the underworld).