Chapter 45 - 8.1- 8.2

Xue Jing Yi stood on the balcony and waited for one day, from morning to evening. From start to finish, she never saw her brother's black car coming from the freeway ramp.

"Young Miss, go back to your room and sleep for a while. How can you endure such fatigue for a whole day?" Fu Bo's eyes were red with distress.

"Did Brother say when he would be back?" Xue Jing Yi asked in a heavy tone.

"He didn't. How about, I give the young master a call?"

"No need, I will call myself." Xue Jing Yi picked up the phone to dial.

The phone rang twice before it was cut off. She called again, but was completely unable to connect this time. She couldn't believe it. She called dozens of times, again and again, and then she finally gave up helplessly. Her whole figure was like a puppet that had lost its soul, tottering on the verge of collapse.

Fu Bo quickly stepped forward to support her. His heart was filled with complaints towards the young master. That person was still like usual before, how come he changed so suddenly? Could it be some kind of evil possession? He had to speak with the master and the mistress, and find some expert to exorcise evil.

Just when Fu Bo's thoughts were becoming more and more serious, the roar of a car engine sounded from the end of the freeway ramp, and a fiery red high-speed supercar approached quickly. In the blink of an eye, it appeared in front of the Xue manor's iron gate. It drifted beautifully and then came to a steady stop.

The doorman did not recognize the car. The Xue family members all had reserved personalities and the cars that they bought were very low-key. A car that looked like it was lit on fire, like the one in front of his eyes, could only be seen in the East District, owned by the hedonistic sons of rich parents.

Who was this? Muttering, the doorman stepped forward and saw Young Master Xue sitting in the driver's seat. His eyes bulged out, and he immediately ran back to open the iron gate.

"Brother, at a glance, this car really isn't your style. Look at them, they look like they've seen a ghost." With Xue Zi Xuan slapping down eight million yuan just like that, Zhou Yun Sheng's attitude towards the young man finally improved. And he occasionally revealed his true temperament, saying a few teasing words.

It was evident that Xue Zi Xuan really enjoyed this kind of intimacy, and he extended a hand out to rub the back of the teenager's head. He just laughed and did not speak.

Seeing this scene, Xue Jing Yi, who was standing on the balcony on the second floor, pushed away Fu Bo, and said weakly, "Go and see who is here."

Fu Bo called the doorman to inquire about the people at the gate and learned that it was the young master. His complexion became subtle. How come the young master went out for a trip and ended up changing his car, and he drove it so flamboyantly.

"Young Miss, it's the young master." He had barely finished speaking when Xue Jing Yi ran out. The eager look and agile movements really didn't look like a frail congenital heart patient.

When she passed by the bedroom, Xue Jing Yi paused, walked inside and put on a thick down jacket, snow boots, and earmuffs. After wrapping herself up tightly, she went downstairs to go out.

The fiery red supercar stopped beside the icy fountain, looking more and more eye-catching. The two people sitting inside had no intention of getting out of the car. One of them was looking here and touching there, and the other was resting against one hand, looking at the former with an expression of pampering indulgence.

"Are you having fun? But you can't drive it yet. This kind of supercar's performance is very superior, the braking time is very short, almost as soon as you step on the accelerator pedal, the body of the car will move forward like a whirlwind, so it is very dangerous for a novice driver, especially now that it is snowing, the road is very slippery. I have an Audi in my garage. I'll teach you with that car first. When you've learned well then you can drive this car."

Xue Zi Xuan tirelessly advised when he saw that the teenager had his head buried, single-heartedly devoted to studying the autopilot system, and only responded perfunctorily to him a few times with "en en ah ah," but he not only felt happy, but also found it laughable, nevertheless, he loved the teenager even more dearly.

"Are you even listening to your elder brother? Hmm?" Xue Zi Xuan leaned forward, and squeezed the youth's pink cheek.

"I heard it." Zhou Yun Sheng had no choice but to find the time to give the young man a quick look.

"What did you hear? Repeat it once." Xue Zi Xuan wrapped an arm around Zhou Yun Sheng's shoulders, his lips pressed against the youth's ear, his warm breath continuously breathing against the cartilage.

Zhou Yun Sheng was ticklish, and could not help shrinking his neck back. He vaguely said, "I can't drive it now. Wait until I have my driver's license before I can drive it."

Look, from the start he wasn't listening at all, a bunch of nonsense, but fortunately, the basic meaning was the same. Xue Zi Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. With one hand on the teenager's shoulder, giving off the natural quality of an embrace, and one hand supporting his forehead, he stared at the youth infatuatedly.

"Big Brother*, Second Brother, why aren't you going inside?" Xue Jing Yi bent over and knocked on the window. Her smile was very bright. She was also a master who could stand tall, or bow and submit**. Before, she would not give Huang Yi a good face, but after realizing that the other part was quite valuable, she could immediately be intimate and affection. "Big Brother" and "Second Brother," even the terms of address changed so naturally.

[*T/N: Before, XJY just called XZX 哥哥 ge ge (older brother), when she didn't acknowledge ZYS as her brother. But here she called XZX 大哥 da ge (big older brother) to differentiate from 二哥 er ge (second older brother)]

[**T/N: can bow and submit, or stand tall – an idiom from the Book of Changes, meaning to be flexible in action and disposition]

For a moment, Zhou Yun Sheng was terrified by her. But Xue Zi Xuan's eyebrows did not even wrinkle. He knew better than anyone, how forbearing and how bigoted Xue Jing Yi's personality could be. She could stab a sharp blade into her brother's body while smiling. And that was even her only blood-related relative in the entire world.

"Let's play again. Jing Yi, this is the car that Brother bought for me. Doesn't it look good?" Zhou Yun Sheng was also not some good little birdie. When he saw through her love for Xue Zi Xuan, he practically changed methods to provoke and stimulate her.

Xue Jing Yi's complexion slightly congealed. Forcing out a smile, she said, "Looks good. Big Brother's vision has always been very good."

"It's good, but it's too expensive. More than eight million yuan. I don't even dare to drive it." Zhou Yun Sheng's expression was of one who was overwhelmed by favor from a superior. At this moment, his peach blossom eyes were overflowing with a film of mist, as if genuinely helpless.

Xue Zi Xuan was not a fool, how could he not see that Zhou Yun Sheng was intentionally or otherwise showing off? But he did not feel disgusted at all, instead, he pressed his fist against his lips to cover up the smile curving the corner of his mouth, because he knew that the youth was not flaunting the expensive sports car, but showing off Xue Zi Xuan's doting love.

He liked this doting love, wanted this doting love, and even intended to occupy it by force, which was why he used this as a pretext to supplant Xue Jing Yi. This kind of situation, it should be that he's jealous of a rival in love, right?

[T/N: The above paragraph is XZX's thoughts, not actual reality.]

Xue Zi Xuan finally couldn't hold it back and chuckled out loud. He cupped the youth's cheeks in his hands and gave him a soft kiss.

Here he comes again. After the confession fiend, it's the kissing fiend again. This person was beyond cure. They could give up treatment on him. Zhou Yun Sheng silently criticized Xue Zi Xuan in his heart, but on his face, he was showing an appropriately bashful expression.

Xue Jing Yi said, with a forced smile, "Since Brother bought it for you, then you can receive it with ease. After all, we are a family now." She cast a glance at the inside of the car and saw that there were only two seats, so she had no choice but to give up her intention of getting in the car.

"The weather is cold. Go inside the house after you've played for a while more, okay?" She urged with a soft voice.

Zhou Yun Sheng hasn't studied all the functions of this car yet, so he was naturally unwilling to get out. As for Xue Zi Xuan, he really enjoyed this feeling of staying with the teenager in a narrow space and firmly feeling this sense of intimacy with the youth, so he was even more reluctant to get out of the car.

He ignored Xue Jing Yi and said to the teenager simply, "You play what you want." Then he rolled down the window, took out a cigarette, and lit it. The thick smoke blew into Xue Jing Yi's face, making her take two steps back while coughing.

Fu Bo, who had finished making dinner and came out to call them, saw this scene, and said in a voice of reproach, "Young Master, I won't talk about when you started to learn to smoke, but you know that the young miss is not in good health, and you let her inhale secondhand smoke, this is your error. When the master became addicted to smoking, he would hide in the study room and smoke, he would never bring the smell outside of the study."

"Who're you?" Xue Zi Xuan's cold question put Fu Bo into a state of speechless embarrassment.

Xue Jing Yi quickly waved her hand. "It doesn't matter. If Brother likes to smoke, then just smoke." Before she could finish speaking, Xue Zi Xuan had stepped on the throttle and drove around the manor towards the garage, leaving behind choking exhaust.

Only then did Fu Bo recover and said in distress, "How could the young master become like this? Who in the world taught him to be bad?"

Zhou Yun Sheng sat in the front passenger seat, and did not speak a word, but in his heart he repeatedly evaluated whether Xue Zi Xuan's aversion to Xue Jing Yi and Fu Bo was an act or true emotional expression. Why did he hate those two? It made no sense!