[R18] Paradox [siblings] – “Paradox [Sister and Brother]” Chapter 40 [English]

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The WeChat video invitation kept lighting up. Ling Sinan sat on the edge of the bed, lowered his head and glanced lightly.

She raised her head and took a deep breath, trying to calm down.

Finally… it broke out.

Ling Sinan, if you can’t keep calm, how can you stay in this family?

I had obviously made a decision, stayed until college, and left with just one move.

After the vibration of the phone stopped for a long time, Ling Sinan slid open the screen, which was filled with Ling Qingyuan’s video invitation records.

But she never answered, so Ling Qingyuan only left one sentence in the last message.

[Wait for me to come back.]

Wait for me to come back.

She suddenly felt a sore nose, lowered her head while holding her cell phone, and sobbed softly.

Bastard brother.

She didn’t want them to hear her crying again.

She don’t cry for them.

Ling Sinan wiped away her tears and typed a few words on her phone.

[Does your hand hurt?]

But there was silence all night.

the next day.

Ling Sinan left home early in the morning to go to school, bought soy milk and steamed buns on the roadside, and took the bus to school.

It was a beautiful sunny day, which opened people’s minds and made Ling Sinan forget the depression in his heart.

She was the first one to arrive in the class. She was the only one in the bright and clean classroom. She sat down silently and finished the breakfast that had not yet cooled down before the morning reading started.

“Were you okay yesterday?”

Maybe she was too distracted by eating, but when a sudden male voice intervened from behind, she almost choked on the bun.

Ling Sinan pressed her throat and turned her head, while Gu Ting looked at her with bright eyes.

Seeing that she had difficulty swallowing, Gu Ting picked up the soy milk bag on her desk and handed it to her.

“Drink first.” He smiled with his lips hanging.

Ling Sinan took a big sip and finally swallowed the bun stuck in his throat.

“Why are you so early today?” Usually he is either late or absent from class, but today he is actually the second one in the class.

Gu Ting raised his hand to touch the messy hair on the back of his head, and glanced to the side uncomfortably: “Just… I happened to be here early.” After saying that, he looked back at Ling Sinan: “Did you get scolded after you went back yesterday? Did she hit you?”

Ling Sinan smiled: “It’s okay to scold, but that’s it. It’s not a big deal.”

“That’s good. I’m afraid that you will suffer because I sent you home.” Gu Ting stuffed his schoolbag into the desk drawer and sat down carelessly: “But having said that, your parents seem to be really strict…” In fact, there was something Gu Ting didn’t say. He felt that Ling Sinan’s parents were a little unfamiliar with her.

But maybe I am too sensitive.

Ling Sinan just laughed and dealt with it.

During the morning exercises, the principal announced a major event in his speech. The Olympic team represented by the school won first place in the International Olympiad in San Francisco. Among them, Ling Qingyuan, a student from Class 1, Grade 2, won the first place in the individual group. The principal, with a bright face, told everyone to work hard to emulate him.

Only Ling Sinan knew that it was not a purgatory that ordinary people could enter.

Ling Qingyuan was forced to put in so much effort in studying that anyone else would have collapsed long ago.

[So far, half of my life has been spent in confinement waiting for you to come back.]

He said that he has been waiting for himself.

So she won’t be allowed to escape this time. This is the only reason for Ling Sinan to stay in this family – for her younger brother.

But…it might be difficult to stay any longer, right?

Her eyelids drooped lightly, and her curled eyelashes covered her pupils, casting a gray shadow.

Indifferent gray.

When he returned home in the evening, Ling Sinan, who once thought that he might have been excluded by the fingerprint lock, looked at his father Ling Miao sitting on the sofa in the living room with some surprise when he opened the door.

Ling Miao was on the phone at the time. When he saw her, he signaled to her to wait on the sofa next to her.

After ending the call, Ling Miao said something to her solemnly. Ling Sinan’s face remained calm, and in the end he just nodded with understanding.

At the beginning of the lanterns, at 6:30 in the evening, the last burning cloud in the sky disappeared.

Ling Sinan sat alone in the back seat of the Bentley for the first time and looked out the window quietly.

The mottled neon light and shadow on the street passed through the glass and fell on the girl’s calm face, as if a layer of colorful makeup was painted on it.

The car started slowly and gradually accelerated towards the main road.

Ling Miao was sitting in the passenger seat and glanced at his daughter, who was neither noisy nor noisy, from the corner of his eye. There was a hint of obscure emotion in his shrewd and majestic eyes behind his glasses.

Then the next second, the moving car suddenly turned the steering wheel, and the driver slammed on the brakes!

Fortunately, everyone was wearing seat belts. Ling Sinan’s head hit the back of the front seat, neither lightly nor hard. She touched her head, looked over her head in confusion, and looked at the windshield ahead.

In the center of the road ahead, illuminated by the headlights, stood a tall figure.

Stand on the path of vehicles without any scruples and intercept them.

Ling Sinan’s pupils dilated slightly.

Ling Miao was startled by the sudden change just now. He looked at the young man standing in front of the car like a ghost. He unbuckled his seat belt, opened the door suddenly, and walked out in an apologetic manner – “Qingyuan, what’s going on with you?!”

Ling Qingyuan was wearing a white and blue hooded sweatshirt, and his luggage was thrown on the roadside. He looked dusty, and he had obviously not been home yet.

The boy’s long legs seemed to have taken root on the road, and he refused to move, staring directly at his father walking in front of him.

“Where are you going?” The voice was hoarse, like a cold that hadn’t healed yet.

Ling Miao has been a businessman for more than 20 years. At this moment, because of the questioning momentum in his son’s eyes, he subconsciously dodges his eyes, “It has nothing to do with you.” He has never seen Ling Qingyuan’s eyes like this. Even if Ling Qingyuan usually maintains a sense of alienation when he is obedient and sensible in front of them, it is completely different at this moment. At this moment, his eyes are full of unfamiliar coldness.

Biting cold.

“Where are you going with your sister?” Ling Qingyuan asked again. There was already a few centimeters difference in height between the middle-aged father Ling and the young Ling Qingyuan. Ling Qingyuan was wearing sneakers and was a bit taller. When he spoke, his chin was raised slightly, and his voice dropped every word.

“Qingyuan.” Ling Sinan got out of the car and saw the two of them looking like they were confronting each other. He couldn’t help but want to stop them.

—— She is afraid that her brother will be exposed.

Ling Miao frowned when he heard Ling Sinan’s voice behind him: “When did you have such a good relationship with her?”

“She is my sister after all.” Ling Qingyuan did not explain further, “Didn’t we mention that after the mock test results are out, we will consider whether she will stay or leave? Because you had to send her away because of what happened yesterday, are you evading your responsibility as a parent? Dad.”

“What did you say?” Ling Miao’s voice rose. He couldn’t believe that his always gentle and sensible son actually dared to contradict him like this. He narrowed his eyes slightly under his frowning eyebrows: “What responsibility do we have as parents? It’s not your turn to speak – and you didn’t come back tomorrow. Why are you here now?”

The corners of Ling Qingyuan’s mouth suddenly twitched, and his usually gentle and clear face showed a rare hint of wantonness.

“If you want to come back, you will come back.” He looked at the father in front of him calmly: “Just like you, if you want to send your sister away, then send your sister away. That was the case ten years ago, and it will be the same ten years later.”

“Ling Qingyuan!” Ling Miao couldn’t believe that the person speaking in front of him was his son who was so good that he couldn’t find any flaws. He raised his finger and pointed at Ling Qingyuan, and clicked it a few times, but he was so angry that he couldn’t say the next sentence…

“Dad wants to take me to apologize to mom and have a meal together.” Ling Sinan walked over, his almond-shaped eyes slightly raised, looking at his brother who he hadn’t seen for almost ten days, and his empty heart suddenly calmed down a little, “I didn’t bring any luggage.” Ling Sinan added as if to make his brother believe it.

Ling Qingyuan lowered his head to look at her, his eyes filled with endless emotions, but in his peripheral vision, Ling Miao was close at hand, he closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, they were back to normal.

He turned to look at Ling Miao: “Sorry, Dad, I misunderstood.”

“…Go back to confinement.” Ling Miao looked at he with cold eyes, “When I think you can come out.”

When Ling Sinan heard those two words, he couldn’t help but panic: “Dad…”

Suddenly, someone held his hand by his side at an invisible angle.

Ling Sinan looked at his younger brother, Ling Qingyuan’s eyes were calm.

Ling Sinan knew that there was still an empty room at home, but she never knew that the small room at home that had always been locked was actually Ling Qingyuan’s solitary room.

The north-facing confinement room had a small locked window and not much furniture. There was only a corner desk and chair with a bookshelf and a bed. The room was less than 4 square meters in size and was not originally intended to be used as a bedroom.

Because of this twist and turn, Ling’s mother happened to be busy, so the meal was not finished.

Ling Sinan waited until midnight when her parents had returned to the room and were probably asleep, before she dared to sneak out of the room and run to the front of the solitary room.

Since it was confinement, the only thing Ling Qingyuan could do was study and sleep.

Ling Sinan didn’t know if he was asleep, so he carefully knocked on the door with his finger. The door of this room was locked with a key, and it couldn’t be opened without the key.

The key is in Dad’s hand.

“Qingyuan…” she called softly.

After a while, someone behind the door knocked lightly on the door panel.

Ling Sinan pursed her lips and smiled unconsciously because of that voice.

Afraid that the sound would attract his parents, Ling Sinan wrote what he wanted to say on a note and stuffed it under the door.

[Is your hand feeling better?]

It was quiet for a long time, and Ling Sinan simply sat down, hugged his knees and leaned against the door, imitating his brother’s appearance last time.

A piece of paper at my feet was pushed out from the crack of the door: [Not good, it hurts very much.]

Ling Sinan looked a little worried at these words, and wrote again——

[Begging mother, she will probably let you out. Why are you so careless?]

Ling Qingyuan almost rolled his eyes when he saw the last half of the sentence in the room.

[Ling Sinan, I broke the cup on my own initiative, and I inflicted the injury on my own.]

Ling Sinan’s eyes widened after receiving the note: “Why are you doing self-harm?”!!!]

The three “!” signs fully expressed the owner’s surprise. Ling Qingyuan looked at the note and shook his head, speechlessly raising the corners of his mouth.

[You are really stupid.]

Ling Sinan thought about last night’s scene: […Is it to interrupt us?] The more I think about it, the more I think it is.

When the note was stuffed out again, what was written on it was——

[Are you in love with Gu Ting?]

“…” Ling Sinan blushed and rested the pen on the note for a long time before writing the word “no” and stuffing it back. It was not because of any guilt, but because her brother heard what she said yesterday. She didn’t know how much he heard it, but he could still remember it at this time.

[If not, why does she think so?]

It seems that this hurdle cannot be overcome.

Ling Sinan had to reply word by word: [I went to he’s house to help the teacher deliver things, and he took me back by bike, and my mother saw him.]

[You cheated.]

Ling Sinan squinted at the four words on the note and replied——

[Why do you want to add drama to yourself?]

It was quiet for a long time this time, and then a small corner of the note slowly appeared under the door.

Ling Sinan pulled out and took a look, and his face suddenly turned red.

[Because I miss you.]

Forced teasing is fatal.

Ling Sinan was not aware at all of the expression she was looking at the note with, she only knew that her heart was beating very fast.

After waiting for a long time without a reply, another note was pushed out of the door.

[My sister doesn’t even miss me.]

Ling Sinan touched his hot cheek.

I wrote a line and stuffed it back.

Ling Qingyuan took it in his hand and read the first two words——

Thought.

The corner of he’s mouth curled up slightly, but at the end it was written: [I wonder how you had a good few days abroad alone.]

In an instant, the charming energy was wiped out a lot, and suddenly it became like a sister caring for a younger brother, and he was a little angry.[Since you miss me, what should you do when you see me?]

he asked, starting to steer the conversation towards flirtation again.

Ling Sinan looked at the note in confusion, his heart pounding. He wouldn’t even use words to do that kind of thing, would he?

How dissatisfied are you?!

[Hug you well?]

She strives to turn the tide of the battle.

Although the relationship had to be treated coldly, she still couldn’t hold it back when she saw Ling Qingyuan tonight – especially when she saw him blocking the car for her and contradicting her father, Ling Sinan felt that maybe she didn’t really have nowhere to go in this world.

…she may really miss her brother.

It’s not too much for a sister to hug her brother.

[Not enough hugs.]

…he still picks.

[Want to kiss.]

…extending too much.

[I still want you.]

Ling Sinan stared at the notes that were stuffed out one after another, and his whole heart felt like wrinkled spring water, with ripples spreading out in circles.

Knowing that it was useless to lecture him, she bit her lip and sent back a note.

[Let’s talk about it when we meet.]

She packed up the notes on the ground and was about to get up when another note slipped out.

[You said it.]

As soon as my eyes read these three words, I heard the doorknob twisting.

Then the door opened.

Ling Qingyuan was holding a bunch of keys in his hand, looking at her condescendingly and smiling.

“Hi.”