Chapter 32 - 32 If elder brother is going to have this attitude, he might as well not bother with his younger sister anymore.
Chapter 32: Chapter 32 If elder brother is going to have this attitude, he might as well not bother with his younger sister anymore.
After disembarking from the helicopter, a luxury car entered their villa district.
The car first went to the Bai Family's residence, where the wrought iron gates were still tightly shut, and the garden's pathway lights emitted a faint glow. @@novelbin@@
It was already eleven o'clock at night. Tiantian wanted to get out of the car to help Qin Jiangsheng call for someone at the gate, but Ji Qilin held her back with a gentle command, "Drive."
"Why are you getting out after we've already brought him here?"
Tiantian looked at Qin Jiangsheng's lonely figure outside the car and feared that the Bai Family might be so heartless as to not let him in, so she said, "I want to escort him inside, otherwise what if he keeps standing out there and catches a cold?"
Ji Qilin hadn't expected Tiantian to be so concerned about this illegitimate child. The affairs of the Bai Family were too complex, especially those involving Qin Jiangsheng, which were too enmeshed and chaotic to untangle, practically a vortex of contradictions.
Getting involved with him was like inviting trouble.
Ji Qilin naturally didn't want her to have any other connection with Qin Jiangsheng, so he said, "This isn't your concern; it's his affair. The Bai Family won't be so mean as to bully an illegitimate child."
As the car drove away, Tiantian stuck her head out of the window to look at him. The weak light stretched his shadow long, and the boy stood there quietly, creating a world of his own.
He turned his head and looked towards Tiantian.
Suddenly, raindrops fell on her cheeks. Tiantian looked at the gloomy sky and said, "Second Brother, it's starting to rain, and Qin Jiangsheng is still outside."
Seeing her worry, Ji Qilin had no choice but to say, "I will call Tingyu, he will get inside in a moment."
Ji Qilin could only phone Bai Tingyu. Hearing that Qin Jiangsheng had arrived at the gate, Bai Tingyu responded without much emotion.
Ji Qilin hung up the phone: "Are you relieved now?"
Although Tiantian was still worried, she could only nod. Surely, Bai Tingyu wouldn't be that petty.
"Why are you so kind to him?" Ji Qilin asked.
Tiantian wanted to curry favor with him to use his future influence to change the destiny of the Ji Family and her own.
The second reason was that Qin Jiangsheng reminded her of her past self, isolated, ignored, and bullied, even though he had done nothing wrong. One can't choose their birth.
He must also yearn for a complete original family, rather than growing up in such a distorted environment.
She closed the car window and sighed, "Because he is pitiable, nobody loves him."
"There are many pitiable people in the world, Tiantian, you can't save them all."
Tiantian remained silent, and after they arrived home, the rain outside intensified.
Ji Lingyun went to his study for a video conference, while Ji Qilin made Tiantian a bowl of Calming Soup, fearing that she would be frightened by tonight's events and hoping it would help her sleep well.
Tiantian looked at the increasing rain outside the floor-to-ceiling window and asked anxiously, "Second Brother, has he made it home?"
Ji Qilin patted her head, "Don't overthink it, the Bai Family won't bully him openly, they'll let him go."
Ji Tian took a deep breath, gulped down the Calming Soup, and decided to distract herself by finding something to do. She went to the fridge, found a small piece of onion, and then, fuming, ran to Ji Weinan's bedroom door and started banging on it like thunder: "Open up!"
"Fuck, Ji Tian, are you insane? I was asleep."
Ji Tian gritted her teeth and repeated, "Open up!"
A minute later, Ji Weinan, dressed in pajamas, got up and opened the door, his eyes bleary and his face filled with irritability. He nearly started cussing when he saw Ji Tian.
But her teary eyes made him swallow his words. He sobered up and became a bit frantic, "Hey, why are you crying? I didn't even say anything, and you're acting as if I've bullied you."
Ji Tian rubbed her eyes, which were stinging from the onion so intensely she couldn't stop the tears. She looked at him accusingly, "Today, I was kidnapped and taken to the outskirts, almost died, and look at you, so carefree, going out to watch a movie with a girl, so romantic under the moon and flowers!"
Ji Weinan was bewildered. He noticed the mud on Ji Tian's shoes, her crumpled sky-blue dress also stained with dirt, and faced with her reddened eyes, he felt a twinge of guilt: "I... I didn't know."
He then turned to Ji Qilin, who was watching the drama unfold, seeking confirmation, "Big bro, is she telling the truth?"
Ji Qilin nodded, "It's true, we just paid to get her back. Those three kidnappers are now in police custody."
Only then did Ji Weinan start to panic, "Are you hurt anywhere? Did they injure you?"
Ji Tian showed him her wrist, where the blood had clotted, and started rambling, "Look, this is from the rope. If I hadn't been waiting for you at the school gate to walk home with you, and chased after someone who looked like you, I wouldn't have been taken away by the kidnappers to that deserted place."
Ji Tian wiped her eyes again, thinking to herself how damn effective the onion was. Her eyes stung so badly, her tearful display was painfully genuine, "I care so much about you, always thinking about you, my brother. But these past few days, I couldn't find you anywhere. I was so worried something had happened to you, only to find out you're off falling in love! Completely ignoring your little sister. If that's your attitude as a brother, you might as well just stop caring about your sister altogether, that way I'll seem more unreasonable."
Ji Weinan: "..."
What was he supposed to do? He couldn't object and even felt guilty after Ji Tian's words, thinking he was truly worthless.
"I... I'm not in a relationship, and I didn't go watch a movie. It's Shen Zhiyi, she had something for me. She returned the clothes I washed last week, and we just chatted a little longer on the street. Then her mother's illness relapsed, and I ended up accompanying her to the hospital."
"It's not your mother, so why accompany her? Are you paying her medical bills? Or will her mother magically get better because you're there? If you have nothing to do with them, why do you care so much about her?" Ji Tian continued her tirade, taking unreasonable to new heights.
Ji Weinan was an easy target, and she blew up his argument with ease.
Ji Tian disapproved of Shen Zhiyi's behavior. Since she didn't like her third brother, why act pitiful and keep him on a string? In the past, she was the quintessential Mary Sue heroine, but now, she seemed like the ultimate combo of a white lotus and a green tea bitch.
And men always fall for it.
Ji Tian was testing how much Shen Zhiyi meant to Ji Weinan, and sure enough, when she spoke ill of Shen Zhiyi, his expression turned sour, "Ji Tian, how can you say that? Shen Zhiyi isn't like that. I just saw she was really panicked, so I accompanied her to the hospital. She didn't ask me to pay for the medicine, and even if it had nothing to do with her mother, visiting her at the hospital wasn't a big deal."
"She's a very nice girl, don't be biased against her."
Ji Tian felt a bit nauseous. It hadn't been long, yet Shen Zhiyi's image was already so favorable in Ji Weinan's eyes. She remembered the days when he used to pick on her, and now he was close to being an outright lapdog.
She wiped away her tears, her expression turning cold, "I don't like her. If you insist on being involved with her, then you might as well not have me as your sister!"
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