Fortunately, Ioan didn't know that Julien spent the previous night with Lucius.
Julien knew it was wrong to just use your friends for his own benefit, but nonetheless, Etienne was pretty useful. For example - helped him cover up the whole thing. It was called a friend shield. Julien already forgave Etienne for leaving and abandoning him in his drunken state. Those were feelings of friendship.
Julien decided to give his friend a call.
As they spoke, Etienne suddenly realized something: "About that time... let me explain."
He left Julien at that time because he thought that the other called and asked Lucius to come in the first place.
Julien said in a low voice with a smile on his face: "No need to explain, I understand and hope your piano will recover quickly."
Etienne was confused: "No. It's about you and Lucius. There must be some kind of emotion between you two. I don't know if it is love or not. But as the saying goes, where there's an omega, there's a way."
Julien's face cracked up for a brief moment when he heard that.
The saying seemed to be wrong?
Etienne hurriedly continued: "Don't worry, no matter what you do, I support you!"
Julien almost choked and then he looked at his phone with disbelief. He expressed his displeasure in a childish tone and angrily said: "Humph! I'm not doing anything! Why are you being so annoying? I'm going to be annoyed to death."
Etienne pursed his lips and sighed internally: "I want to ask you about something. Can you answer me truthfully?
Julien blanked, but after that, he nodded: "Ask away."
Etienne asked his friend cautiously: "Do you like him?"
There was only silence in response because Julien didn't expect Etienne to ask that.
Thinking about Lucius's actions from the past events, Julien was inclined to believe the villain isn't such a bad man. He hesitated before nodding: "Alright, I'll tell you."
Julien said with a poker face: "I don't know. I am hopeful that every one of us can have a happy ending, that's all."
The plot of the book was already changing to an unknown destination. If that was not the case he would go to the countryside to buy a small courtyard to farm and there he would be feeding chickens, ducks and fishes while planting some flowers and other plants on the side. Julien was picturing his blissful life with plenty of fishes in the pond.
He couldn't help but smile at the thought: "Oh! You are eating so well!"
Meanwhile, Ioan knocked: "Julien come out. Breakfast is ready!"
There were no movements in the room. His brother was ignoring him.
When Ioan opened the door to the room, he saw Julien sitting on the bed with a foolishly happy expression on his face.
Why was he blubbing like a fish?
Ioan was looking at him in surprise: "What are you doing?"
Julien blinked. It took him a moment to understand his brother meaning: "I… used to be in charge of feeding the koi fish back when I was in school. The koi fish is a particular type of fish. Its main distinctive feature is its blubbering month."
Ioan scratched his head: "So?"
Julien subconsciously looked up at him. Then he pouted before he humphed and looked down as he stopped looking at his brother.
Ioan felt helpless: "Time to eat."
His little brother was really awkward sometimes. He smiled and went downstairs to wait there for Julien.
Julien lowered his head and stayed silent. After a while, he climbed down from the bed and followed Ioan into the dining room.
While eating breakfast Julien suddenly said: "I signed the contract with one of your friend's company."
Ioan suppressed the suspicion he had in his heart: "Which one?"
Julien's eyelashes moved quickly, he wasn't willing to look up at the other: "Lucius is my boss now."
Ioan was staring at him with curiosity and surprise: "Are you short of money?"
Ioan knew that one of his brother's hobbies was collecting wine and it could be very expensive. He looked at his pitiful little brother and it caused the man's heart to soften.
Ioan took out a wallet from his pocket and took up a card from the wallet. He handed Julien the card: "Take it."
Julien's eyes fell on the titanium credit card in front of him and blinked his eyes in excitement. He pointed a finger at his nose: "Is this for me?"
Ioan directly said: "Take it and spend as much as you want."
Julien rolled his eyes at this cheesy line and put the card into his pocket in a sneaky way: "I'm not short of money, but thanks. And about the contract, I will only work when I want to."
Ioan nodded, assuring him of his support: "When you're ready to get serious, then I'll talk to Lucius about it."
Julien looked stiff: "I don't think it's necessary!"
After staring at each other for a while, Julien was the first to forfeit, so he looked away. His ears were red as he silently jumped down from his seat and ran heading towards the door: "Big Brother, I'm going out now."
Since Ioan had given him a titanium card, shouldn't he use it right away?
Julien spoke with a soft voice: "Please work hard in the future!"
Ioan smiled, the youth appeared very happy with just a card: Okay, I will go to the company."
Two brothers left the house together.