Chapter 608

After Shu Xuan finished looking through it, he didn't speak, and handed the phone back to Shu Xia.

Then he walked over to the balcony.

The dormitory was on a high floor, and one could stand there and gaze into the distance.

The sky had grown dark.

The entire Jing City became extremely desolate before their eyes.

Shu Xia watched Shu Xuan's somewhat lonely back, and her heart sank along with it, as if her heart were twisted together, with dense, scattered pain spreading out.

These matters should not have involved Shu Xuan in the first place.

Yet Shen Anran, for the sake of her own interests, had dragged the innocent Shu Xuan into this.

While Shu Xuan was lost in thought on the balcony, Shu Xia tidied up the dining table and cleared away the bowls and chopsticks.

When she had finished cleaning up and walked out of the kitchen, Shu Xia saw that Shu Xuan was smoking.

She rarely saw Shu Xuan smoke; it should be said that he had almost never smoked at all.

At home, she, her second brother, and Shu Hong could be rebellious during their adolescence, but Shu Xuan had carried heavy burdens on his shoulders since he was young, helping them hold up the sky like a father figure.

Buying cigarettes cost money, and he couldn't bear to spend the money.

Later, when he started working, he also had to help out the family.

Sometimes, if he kept a pack of cigarettes on him, it was just for show.

Shu Xia felt distressed watching him, her eyes damp, when a message arrived on her phone from Qiao Muting.

【I am downstairs at your brother's dormitory, waiting to take you home. No need to rush; if there is anything you can't resolve, you can call me, and I will go upstairs to talk.】

The tears in Shu Xia's eyes immediately became unstoppable.

With somewhat blurry eyes, she typed back a "Mm."

Then she paused for a moment and added a "Thank you."

She had come by taxi, and she didn't have much strength; she had let Zhang Tezhu find someone to help drive her car back to Xinghai Villa, and Qiao Muting had wanted to take her, but she was still angry at the time and went straight out of the hotel to hail a taxi.

Now...

Her anger had actually already dissipated.

It wasn't until the entire sky had entered into the night, and a few bright stars appeared on the horizon, that Shu Xuan withdrew his gaze.

When he turned around, he saw Shu Xia with her eyes slightly red.

Seeing him looking at her, she immediately beamed a smile.

Shu Xuan's originally gloomy heart was instantly healed.

The person worrying about him before his eyes was the younger sister he had pampered as she grew up; no matter what, family would always stand firmly by his side.

It was he who had made Xia Xia worry instead.

He walked over.

"Big brother has already made a judgment, don't worry, brother knows what to do. Do you know what brother was just thinking about?" Shu Xuan's voice was gentle, fearing that his silence just now had made her worry and also frightened her.

From childhood to adulthood, many things had happened in the family; things his younger brother and sister had no impression of, he remembered. After entering university and then starting work, the things he experienced were even more numerous.

He just never thought that the first time he took a relationship seriously and liked a girl, it would actually...

Shu Xia shook her head, "I can't guess what brother is thinking. I am a little afraid, afraid that I have implicated you because of me. Brother, to me, you are the most important; the thing I least want to see is my family getting hurt, but as it happens..."

Her throat suddenly felt both painful and astringent.

Her eyes couldn't help but turn red again.

Perhaps in front of the elder brother who had pampered her the most since she was little, she couldn't hide her emotions; just like when she was a child, whenever she felt wronged, she would come to Shu Xuan to recount her grievances.

Shu Xuan gently rubbed Shu Xia's head, "You have never implicated me. You are my younger sister. I know you have encountered many things recently and experienced much darkness, but just when you were experiencing these things, I didn't accompany you to face them, nor did I discover you were going through them. Just now, I was blaming myself."

"Blaming myself for being your brother yet failing to take good care of you. From the moment you met Shen Anran until just now, you have been considering my feelings every single moment. Xia Xia, you have grown up."

"It is brother's fault for making you worry."

Shu Xia sobbed uncontrollably, "Brother, it is my fault."

Half an hour later.