Chapter 48: Should I Prove It?

Bai Shuruo grew increasingly nervous, her hands gripped tightly together, then she bit her lip and said, "I just feel... uh... I'm not saying this is bad... I just feel like you guys should, should be together."

She was incoherent, nervous to death.

Ni Xianglei did not speak again, but instead rose and walked toward the billiards room.

He walked to Han Yangting's side and tugged at him, "Come out with me for a second."

Seeing Ni Xianglei's serious expression, Han Yangting thought something major had happened, so he immediately put down his pool cue and went out.

They walked to the north-facing balcony, where there was no one, and the two grown men chatted for a while with their hands in their pockets.

Sitting in the living room, Bai Shuruo saw Han Yangting's face slowly turn dark.

After a while, the two came back in, and Han Yangting's face was livid.

"Bai Shuruo, come out for a second," Han Yangting said.

This was the first time he had called her by her full name, carrying emotion; he was clearly angry.

Bai Shuruo couldn't help but put down the melon seeds in her hand and walk out to the balcony with him.

As soon as Ni Xianglei returned, he was grabbed by Ling Feng: "Leizi, what just happened?"

Bai Shunan was also curious: "Brother Han seems to be angry. What on earth did he and Ruoruo do?"

Ni Xianglei had been holding it in the whole time, and now that Han Yangting wasn't there, he couldn't help it anymore and burst out laughing with a "pfft."

"Leizi, hurry up and tell us, don't just laugh," Ling Feng asked anxiously.

Ni Xianglei said while laughing: "I always thought it was miserable enough that Yangting couldn't win over the little sister-in-law, but I never expected that the little sister-in-law would actually misunderstand that he likes men. She thought the three of us were gay, hahaha..."

"Ah?" Ling Feng was stunned.

"What is going on?" Bai Shunan still didn't quite understand; what did it mean that Han Yangting couldn't win over Bai Shuruo?

Ni Xianglei finally stopped laughing: "You don't know? They haven't consummated their marriage since they got their certificate. Yangting feels the little sister-in-law is still young and wants to take it one step at a time, and the little sister-in-law just thinks Yangting is

gay."

"Damn!" Bai Shunan was completely blown away.

The three looked at each other, then burst into loud laughter, laughing so hard that Ali and the others were baffled.

On the balcony, Bai Shuruo and Han Yangting had already been standing in the wind for quite a while, and Bai Shuruo's nose was running from the cold.

Yet Han Yangting kept his hands in his pockets, watching her without saying a word.

His handsome face was full of dissatisfaction, helplessness, and anger!

Bai Shuruo sniffled and couldn't help but speak up: "Brother Han, you called me out... what is it for exactly?"

"What do you think?" His anger had not diminished in the slightest.

Bai Shuruo's nose was frozen red; she thought for a moment and said, "Is it because... because Brother Leizi told you?"

"Told me what?"

Bai Shuruo thought of Ni Xianglei's last sentence; he had used a question, so she became uncertain again, "Brother Han, do you like them?"

"I like them." His expression grew even angrier.

At that moment, Bai Shuruo let out a sigh, feeling a bit more at ease in her heart.

He had finally admitted it.

Watching Bai Shuruo's look of relief, Han Yangting was furious; suddenly, he pulled her in front of him and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"Bai Shuruo, listen to me, I am not gay. Ling Feng, Leizi, and I just have a pure brotherhood; the ones I like are women!"

"..." Bai Shuruo widened her eyes, looking at him imploringly, "Not gay... then Brother Han, why did you get the marriage certificate with me?"

Han Yangting's expression was as cold as it could possibly be.

Had he given her too much freedom? To the point where she had such fantasies; no wonder she acted like a cat seeing a tiger whenever she saw him.

So he also said angrily: "Getting the certificate with you is naturally to carry on the family line!"

Bai Shuruo knew it; it could never be because he liked her.

The wind on the balcony seemed to grow stronger, but he still held her tightly.

She sniffled again.

Seeing she was cold, he finally let her go.

As soon as he let go, she couldn't wait to run back inside.

The laughter in the living room came to an abrupt halt; the scene was comparable to the moment Wen Zhang saw Deng Chao in *The Mermaid*.

Bai Shuruo's face was flushed red; seeing the people inside, she didn't know whether to sit or stand, so she simply picked up her bag and said, "I, I'm going home first."

Afterward, she slipped out the door in a flash.

Han Yangting also returned to the living room with a livid face.

The others had been holding back their laughter; Ling Feng couldn't hold it in, laughed twice, and then covered his mouth hard.

Bai Shunan was a professional; she held it in, but her gaze toward Han Yangting was full of sympathy.

Her own little fool of a sister was simply beyond saving.

Han Yangting said: "I'm leaving first, you guys continue playing."

Then he picked up his coat from the entryway and also went out the door.

Once the door closed, the few in the room clutched their stomachs and laughed again.

Ling Feng asked Bai Shunan while laughing: "I, I really don't get it, hahaha, clearly Yangting is quite good to your sister, giving her watches and phones, does she... does she not feel Yangting's affection at all?"

Bai Shunan stopped laughing, as if thinking of the distant past, and then said: "Maybe it's just the inferiority complex from childhood. When my mom left, she was only two, and when Dad left, she was still small. Although I'm older than her, I'm ultimately not her parents, and there isn't much I can give her. She always feels that good things shouldn't belong to her; she knows how to think for everyone else, except she never considers herself."

Ling Feng and Ni Xianglei looked at each other, then nodded, understanding.

Bai Shuruo took a taxi home first. Once home, she ran back to her room and covered her head with her quilt.

She had been like this since she was a child; whenever she encountered something embarrassing, she would return to her room and cover her head.

She had actually misunderstood Han Yangting to be gay!

But he said he wasn't.

At the time, Ling Feng and the others laughed so loudly, so he definitely wasn't.

If Han Yangting wasn't gay, then the reason he married her... could it really just be for the sake of their grandfathers' promise?

That was the only way to explain it.

In that case, he could have actually married her older sister, but since her sister had Gu Yunting in her heart at the time, he found her instead to marry?

Any girl with the surname Bai would do.

If Bai Shuhua were a girl, he could have also waited for Bai Shuhua to come of age before marrying her.

It must be like that!

She lay stifled under the quilt, letting her imagination run wild for a long time, until later she heard the door sound; he had returned.

She buried her head even deeper, not wanting to face him.

She didn't know how much time had passed, but the quilt over her head was lifted by someone, and she clutched the quilt tightly.

But her strength was not as great as Han Yangting's; the quilt was lifted bit by bit, and then his handsome face appeared before her.

"Stop stifling yourself, look at you, you're covered in sweat; if you keep stifling yourself, you'll get heatstroke!" Han Yangting leaned close to her and said.

She had no choice but to let go.

At this moment, she was lying down and he was sitting, but he was leaning over, his face very close to hers.

She opened her eyes wide, staring at him blankly.

"Should I prove it to you?" he said.