PPS Chapter 115

Chapter 115: Turns Out I’m Really Just Your Older Brother【Revised】

Chu Zhaoyi and Zhang Anru talked outside for a long time. Mostly, Zhang Anru was talking, and Chu Zhaoyi was listening quietly.

Zhang Anru’s red eyes never faded. At first, it was because of heartache, but now it was excitement.

As it approached dinner time, the servant called them to eat.

Zhang Anru followed the servant to the guest room to change her clothes. Chu Zhaoyi had his own room in the old house, as well as spare clothes.

They had been sitting on the ground for so long, and still in someone else’s house, so they should be polite.

After calling out those two words, Chu Zhaoyi also felt some joy in his heart, and he wanted to share this joy with Gu Yusen.

But after he changed his clothes and sat at the dining table, he didn’t see Gu Yusen.

Instead, Madam Gu and Father Gu walked out of the study.

Both of them had appropriate smiles on their faces.

Chu Zhaoyi keenly realized that when they looked at him, there were more emotions mixed in their eyes than the initial kindness and enthusiasm.

Chu Zhaoyi didn’t say a word, but quietly looked at them.

“A-Yi, Sanmu has something to deal with, so he won’t be down for now,” Madam Gu said, feeling inexplicably guilty under Chu Zhaoyi’s gaze, and explained in a soft voice.

Father Gu invited Xie Tingyun and the others to take their seats.

Chu Zhaoyi remained silent, his searching gaze fixed on Madam Gu.

Something was wrong.

He opened his phone, but there wasn’t a single message from Gu Yusen.

No matter how urgent the matter, Brother Sanmu would always tell him before leaving, unlike today, when he left without a word.

Chu Zhaoyi was thinking hard, not suspecting that he had been hurt in any way, since who would dare to hurt him in the Gu family.

He was thinking intently, unaware that Zhang Anru had sat down next to him.

“A-Yi?” Zhang Anru called Chu Zhaoyi’s name before sitting down beside him.

Xie Tingyun and Xie Yuyin looked over with their usual poker faces. They really wanted to know what had happened between Zhang Anru and Chu Zhaoyi outside just now.

Why didn’t Chu Zhaoyi resist Zhang Anru’s approach?

Zhang Anru raised her eyebrows triumphantly.

Haha.

No one knows yet that A-Yi has already called her “Mom”!

“Serve the food,” Madam Gu waved to the servant.

Zhang Anru didn’t know what Chu Zhaoyi liked to eat, so she picked up her chopsticks and put a piece of beef in his bowl.

Chu Zhaoyi stared at the suddenly appearing piece of meat in his bowl, and looked up at Zhang Anru.

Noticing the caution in her eyes, he was silent for a moment, but still picked it up and ate it.

Just because he called out that title didn’t mean he immediately accepted this relative.

But this small action was enough to make Zhang Anru happy.

Next, she kept putting his favorite foods in his bowl.

“A-Yi, eat more.”

Chu Zhaoyi couldn’t eat anymore after a few bites, but he couldn’t bear to refuse Zhang Anru’s kindness, so he forced himself to eat two more bites before he couldn’t eat anymore.

“I’m not eating anymore,” Chu Zhaoyi grabbed Zhang Anru’s eager chopsticks with one hand and said softly.

He had a small appetite and couldn’t eat much.

“Only this much?”

“A-Yi is too thin.”

Zhang Anru didn’t force him to eat, but instead grabbed Chu Zhaoyi’s overly slender wrist, her eyes full of heartache and worry.

Compared to his peers, Chu Zhaoyi was too thin.

Like a piece of paper, easily broken.

Mothers always want their children to eat well and be chubby.

That’s healthy.

Chu Zhaoyi subconsciously wanted to dodge, but realizing that the person in front of him was Zhang Anru, he obediently let her hold his wrist.

He shook his head.

“I can’t eat anymore.”

Xie Tingyun was awkward and at a loss for words. Seeing his wife and Chu Zhaoyi getting along well, he could only watch silently.

Xie Yuyin was a little better, but it was obvious that this dinner table was not a good time to talk, so she remained silent.

Madam Gu and Father Gu didn’t say anything, but silently observed the people at the table.

Their expressions were different, but no one’s attention was on the meal.

Seeing that they had eaten enough, Madam Gu slowly said, “I know about A-Yi. Originally, I wanted to go through the formalities to officially adopt A-Yi and announce it at tonight’s banquet.”

“But since A-Yi’s family has been found,”

“This matter needs to be considered carefully.”

Chu Zhaoyi was a little absent-minded. After finishing his meal, he stared at the bowls and chopsticks on the table in a daze.

Gu Yusen’s absence was a bit abnormal.

Hearing Madam Gu’s words, Zhang Anru said, “Thank you for your care, Madam Gu. We also want A-Yi to return to his roots.”

“However, the child’s wishes are the most important.”

After saying this, Zhang Anru turned her head and touched the young man’s head.

Chu Zhaoyi wasn’t very resistant to Zhang Anru’s closeness, but he was a little unaccustomed to it and stiffened for a moment.

He raised his head blankly.

He realized that all five people at the table were looking at him.

He thought about the conversation they just had, and before he could speak, Zhang Anru added, “If A-Yi doesn’t want to, we can buy you a house in A City and separate your household registration, but the police are still closely monitoring your subsequent life.”

“They are worried that you don’t have the ability to live independently, so they may not agree.”

Zhang Anru had some selfish intentions and didn’t say that as long as she wanted to, it wouldn’t be difficult to separate Chu Zhaoyi’s household registration.

But in her eyes, Chu Zhaoyi was just a child who hadn’t grown up yet, and the police thought he didn’t have the ability to live independently.

His mother thought so too, and she wanted to protect her child under her wings.

Chu Zhaoyi didn’t answer their questions.

He just looked into Madam Gu’s eyes, his dark eyes devoid of any emotion.

He thought of it.

In Brother Sanmu’s house, the only people who could hurt him were these two.

In traditional concepts, parents are the children’s sky and cannot be disobeyed.

Gu Yusen had a good relationship with his family, he could feel it.

So at first, he didn’t question Madam Gu.

“Where is Brother Sanmu?” Chu Zhaoyi didn’t mention his household registration. He didn’t care whether his household registration was under the Gu family or the Chu family, or whether he was independent.

He just wanted to know why Brother Sanmu wasn’t by his side.

This time, Xie Tingyun spoke, “Just now, Mr. Gu and Madam Gu called Gu Yusen to the study to talk.”

And then he hadn’t come down.

He also thought that something had happened to the Gu family temporarily and Gu Yusen was dealing with it, but it didn’t make sense. Mr. Gu was here, so no matter what happened, it wouldn’t fall on Gu Yusen’s shoulders.

Madam Gu lowered the expression on her face and explained in a calm voice, “The company has some minor matters to deal with temporarily. We can’t abandon our guests and not show our faces, so we handed this matter over to Sanmu.”

A very reasonable explanation.

But it couldn’t fool Chu Zhaoyi.

When some people lie, their eyes will subconsciously glance downwards, and Madam Gu was like that.

Chu Zhaoyi noticed this the first time he met Madam Gu.

The movement wasn’t big.

Madam Gu probably hadn’t even realized this behavior herself.

Chu Zhaoyi felt that the two might not be telling the truth, so he put down his chopsticks, stood up, and was about to go upstairs to the study to see.

In his mind, there was no such thing as junior and senior. He only reluctantly remembered to respect Professor Qin after Gu Yusen had nagged in his ear for a long time.

Chu Zhaoyi, who had no worldly concepts, didn’t think there was anything wrong with his behavior.

If Madam Gu didn’t tell the truth, he could go find it himself.

But as soon as he turned around, before he could even take a step, his face collided with a hard chest.

A familiar teasing voice came from above.

“A-Yi, what’s wrong? In such a hurry?”

Chu Zhaoyi’s nose felt sore from the impact.

“Brother Sanmu.”

His tense nerves completely relaxed the moment Gu Yusen appeared.

“What’s wrong? Not eating properly again, Little Chu Jiao,” since there were elders present, Gu Yusen didn’t dare to say that name loudly, but whispered in Chu Zhaoyi’s ear.

Gu Yusen looked at the untouched rice in Chu Zhaoyi’s bowl, sighed, and pressed him back into the chair.

“Eat a few more bites.” He put the chopsticks in Chu Zhaoyi’s hand. Chu Zhaoyi had been doing well recently, and he had been eating more, although it wasn’t much more, but it wasn’t enough to eat just this little.

Otherwise, he would have ascended to heaven long ago.

Chu Zhaoyi listened to Gu Yusen. Perhaps realizing that Gu Yusen wasn’t in danger, his nerves relaxed, and he really ate a little more than half a bowl.

Zhang Anru looked at her son eagerly, with endless gratitude to Gu Yusen.

The Gu family had helped Chu Zhaoyi too much.

“Brother Sanmu, did you smoke?”

Chu Zhaoyi had a keen sense of smell.

He smelled the tobacco on Gu Yusen, who had probably sprayed some perfume to cover it up for fear of being discovered.

“Yeah, I smoked two cigarettes. Is the smell very strong?” Gu Yusen asked the servant to bring him a bowl of rice.

“It’s okay,” Chu Zhaoyi shook his head.

“Were you talking about A-Yi’s belonging just now?” Gu Yusen asked, knowing full well what he had just heard.

Madam Gu glanced at Gu Yusen lightly, exchanged a glance with Mr. Gu, her eyes full of unconcealable helplessness.

“Yes.”

“What does A-Yi mean? This matter still depends on your wishes. If you want to, it’s no problem to separate your household registration. Brother will take care of it for you.”

The reason why Gu Yusen didn’t mention letting Chu Zhaoyi separate his household registration at first was because he also thought that Chu Zhaoyi was unable to live independently.

But as their relationship deepened, removing the pitiful image that Chu Zhaoyi deliberately created in front of the psychologist and the police, Chu Zhaoyi was someone who had the ability to live independently.

That’s why Gu Yusen mentioned this matter.

He saw Zhang Anru sitting next to Chu Zhaoyi and probably guessed that their relationship had improved, and this little bit of improvement was enough to change his relationship with Zhang Anru.

So he gave Chu Zhaoyi three choices.

With Gu Yusen sitting next to him, Chu Zhaoyi’s mind began to think about this question.

“Being with the Gu family means being Brother Sanmu’s younger brother, and being with the Chu family means being Mom’s child?”

Chu Zhaoyi sorted out this relationship.

He wasn’t considering being independent at the moment.

Brother Sanmu was always the most important person to him.

“That’s the logic,” Gu Yusen nodded.

“No matter what, A-Yi is Mom’s child,” this was Zhang Anru’s answer. Even if Chu Zhaoyi didn’t choose to return to the Xie family, they would always be related by blood.

Xie Yuyin secretly tugged at her father’s sleeve and whispered in his ear in a tone that only the two of them could hear, “Did A-Yi just say ‘Mom’?”

Xie Tingyun was equally shocked.

But they were both too awkward to speak here.

“Then I want to be the Gu family’s adopted son.”

Zhang Anru was a meticulous woman, and from the beginning, she knew that their relationship seemed unusual, but Gu Yusen’s actions were so appropriate and thoughtful that she really liked him more and more as a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law.

So she thought that Chu Zhaoyi would choose to be independent, but she didn’t expect this answer.

She was rarely a little confused.

Could it be that she felt wrong?

If they were in a romantic relationship, why was Chu Zhaoyi so eager to be Gu Yusen’s adopted younger brother?

Madam Gu and Mr. Gu also exchanged glances, seeing the confusion in each other’s eyes, and then turned their attention to Gu Yusen.

Gu Yusen’s teeth itched so badly that he couldn’t wait to bite Chu Zhaoyi’s annoying face.

Calling him “Brother Sanmu, Brother Sanmu” all day long.

Did he really treat him like a brother?

His back was almost whipped to pieces by family law, and he finally caught a breath to come down.

Turns out he just came down to be this little thing’s brother?