Chapter 32: Chapter 32 Is this a proposal? Chapter 32: Chapter 32 Is this a proposal? Lu Changyuan looked at the busy figure outside, exhaled a ring of smoke, and his expression was the sa as usual, a seemingly smiling but not quite smiling visage.
“So, you brought him back?”
Han Jiaojiao felt sowhat embarrassed, she had to admit that she’d only kept the man in the car at the ti to annoy Su Xue, but who knew that after taking him to the hotel, the guy would say he didn’t have the money to pay for the room, and then shalessly rambled on and on, ending up following them back…
Han Yi lifted his head slightly and said, “He can fix cars.”
“Huh?” Han Jiaojiao looked towards her brother, surprised. The foreigner could fix cars? Why didn’t she know that?
Han Yi said indifferently, “This guy is a travel enthusiast; he’s been on various road trips for the past two years, having covered more than half the globe.”
That much she had been told. Han Jiaojiao nodded, “Mhm, he said his final destination is the Great Wall. He didn’t expect that his car would break down here.” But what did this have to do with fixing cars?
Lu Changyuan nodded, “It’s not bad to have him stay.” Then he looked out to the yard again, and Han Jiaojiao felt that Lu Changyuan looked at Bai Kairui as if asuring up a free labor force…
—Bai Kairui had already swiftly set up the tent they lent him, and even happily made an OK sign to them, showing no dissatisfaction whatsoever about Han Yi’s arrangent for him to stay in the yard.
Han Jiaojiao really envied his thick nerves; not only did he lack the awareness of being a guest, but he also seed quite happy-go-lucky.
There was laughter in Lu Changyuan’s voice, “Can fix cars, has rich camping experience, and possesses an ‘Ability’ that isn’t exactly brilliant—we’ve made quite the gain, haven’t we?”
Han Yi’s gaze was heavy, “Let’s wait and see for now, and when the ti is right, we’ll let him inside the house.”
When would the right ti be?…
Han Jiaojiao followed Han Yi to the second-floor study, looking utterly perplexed.
“Brother, actually… we could give him so money and let him go…” Han Jiaojiao still felt uneasy. Their place was no refugee camp, and this Bai Kairui was a stranger of unknown origins, and a Superpower User at that. What if he turned against them halfway… Even if he did sothing as simple as stealing so supplies while they weren’t watching, it would be quite disgusting… The more Han Jiaojiao thought about it, the more she felt that keeping him was a risk—a risk that had co about because of her clash with Su Xue…
Han Yi didn’t answer her, but instead sat down and naturally pulled her to sit on his lap.
“Jiaojiao, what’s going on with you and Su Xue?”
Han Jiaojiao’s eyes darted around, “Nothing really, we just had a fight, so we fell out.”
This reason was hardly convincing.
Han Jiaojiao and Su Xue had been very close before the beginning of school, and even though they didn’t see each other much due to attending different universities, they were in frequent contact over the phone, all of which the bodyguards reported to Han Yi in a tily fashion. But once Han Jiaojiao woke up, things seed to have changed. At that ti, Han Yi thought he could find out sothing, but so much ti had passed without a single clue. What Han Jiaojiao did every day, who she t, what she said—all of it raised no suspicions.
“Oh?” Han Yi’s eyes darkened, “What did you argue about? Tell your brother.”
Han Jiaojiao fidgeted on his lap, “Ah, it’s just so won’s issues, you wouldn’t be interested, brother. It’s pretty boring.”
Han Yi stared at her without speaking.
Han Jiaojiao dared not raise her head, her gaze flitting away, “Brother said whatever she does, let’s talk about that foreigner downstairs instead, I have no idea what his Ability is…”
“Jiaojiao,” Han Yi asked her in a deep voice, “did sothing happen between you and Su Xue in your dream?”
Han Jiaojiao was so nervous that even her heart trembled. Her entire body was taut, and her facial expression was very stiff.
“Maybe… Dreams are just fragnts, and it’s been so long, I can’t really rember clearly.”
“What about brother?” Han Yi asked her, “In the dream, did sothing happen between Jiaojiao and brother?”
Han Jiaojiao could no longer restrain herself, her body beginning to tremble slightly. She kept her head down firmly, without any response.
Han Yi extended his hand to forcefully make her look up. When he saw those eyes brimming with tears, Han Yi felt as if his heart had been violently struck with a heavy hamr!
In that instant, Han Yi suddenly didn’t want to ask anything else. He just wanted to hold his treasure tightly.
Han Jiaojiao rely blinked lightly, and the big, scalding teardrops ran down her cheeks.
She didn’t care about the tears, her tear-stained face blossoming into a smile, “What is brother talking about, in the dream, you and I are together just fine…”
“In the dream, brother is very powerful, and has always been really good to . We live in the best district inside the base, never worrying about food and water, and everyone is very envious.”
Seeing the extrely blissful expression on Han Jiaojiao’s face, Han Yi’s heart felt heavy, as if it was being pressed down by an invisible boulder.
The trembling body in his arms was no longer quivering, her tone calm, smiling faintly as if discussing a happy mory—
“Once, when brother returned from a mission, he brought back a frozen lamb leg. Back then, most animals were mutated, and it wasn’t easy to get normal at, but I threw a tantrum at you.” Han Jiaojiao recounted, imitating her tone from back then, “at every day, I’m sick of it! I won’t eat! — Later, you took the lamb leg to the exchange and ca back with two cabbages…”
Reaching this point in her recollection, Han Jiaojiao laughed out loud. She collapsed into Han Yi’s embrace, tears flowing even more fiercely, “Two big cabbages… For such a big lamb leg, you got back two big cabbages, haha… Although vegetables were rare at that ti, they had too low calories to fill the stomach. So, everyone’s staple food was still at and tuberous plants. Brother must have been angry, right? Hehe, even if brother was angry, he still exchanged the lamb leg for cabbages, brother spoils the most… Right?”
Han Yi’s expression was somber and inscrutable as he gently stroked Han Jiaojiao’s hair, responding softly, “Mhm, brother spoils you the most.”
Hearing Han Yi’s response, Han Jiaojiao plunged into a strange emotion, her face bearing a peculiar radiance, as if enveloped in happiness, filled with an otherworldly daze.
“Although brother seldom talks, he has always been very kind to . When the base reduced the heat, they issued only a small amount of coal. It was terribly cold at ho. I said I hated the sll of burning coal, it’s too unpleasant, and then when you were away, I gave the coal to other people. When you found out after you ca back, you didn’t say a word. Brother… I’m sorry, I was deliberately provoking you at that ti… I didn’t think… you would leave the city on the day of huge snowfall, when the weather was too bad and no one else would go on missions, only you went… and you brought back an electric heater for after coming back…” At that ti, so districts in the base had electricity, although there was power for only five to six hours a day, it was enough to charge the heater fully, and then sleep a warm good night’s sleep.
Han Jiaojiao felt that her once cold heart was being gradually, bit by bit, lted by her brother. It’s just a pity that she had started to develop feelings long ago, yet she stubbornly refused to admit it…
Han Jiaojiao leaned ever closer to Han Yi, “Brother, brother… brother…” In this life, I will definitely never leave you again.
Through the thin layers of clothing, her tears rolled down onto brother’s slightly cool skin, causing Han Yi to shudder, and then he held her even tighter.
“Jiaojiao, let’s get married.”
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