Chapter 157

Yu Tingyun pressed both hands against Ling Wu's shoulders; the young man's lowered brows and eyes carried a heavy sense of oppression. He maintained this posture and turned his head, only to see the tall and long-legged Yu Shixue standing at the doorway holding a fruit platter, his gaze locked onto the part where he was in physical contact with Ling Wu.

Ling Wu poked his face out from behind Yu Tingyun's arm, showing a bashful expression, his eyelashes trembling slightly.

That appearance was clearly that of someone who had been bullied.

Yu Shixue was instantly furious!

He walked over aggressively.

"Bang!"

Yu Shixue slammed the fruit platter onto the tabletop; he certainly knew what kind of person his own younger brother was.

He knocked his knuckles against the table, pulled Ling Wu up from the chair, successfully rescuing the person from Yu Tingyun's clutches, and then scolded: "Yu Tingyun! Have you grown guts or something? I invited Ling Wu over to teach you how to study! Not for you to close the door and bully him!"

Yu Tingyun rolled his eyes in his heart.

Heh, Yu Shixue was just being hypocritical! Clearly, he had teamed up with him to trick Ling Wu into coming home, yet now he was leaving him to play the villain alone.

To hell with teaching and studying.

You clearly have your eyes on him.

And Yu Shixue truly could not imagine that Yu Tingyun would be so unruly as to be willing to bully even someone like Ling Wu.

Yu Tingyun's face darkened: "Which eye did you see me bullying him with?"

"You didn't bully him?!" Yu Shixue thought he was being unreasonable: "Then why were you pressing him with your hand? And why was he blushing?"

Ling Wu stood to the side, watching the fire from across the river; he stood close to the table at Yu Shixue's side, lowered his head slightly, revealing a fair stretch of his neck, appearing especially docile and humble. His left arm hung naturally, while his right hand felt for the micro-listener in his pocket, and while they were arguing most fiercely, he stuck it onto a hidden spot behind the table with a very small movement.

At this moment, Yu Tingyun said nonchalantly: "Brother Ling Wu is blushing, of course, because... I touched his face."

I! Touched! His! Face!

These words fell intermittently, like a thunderbolt from the blue!

Yu Shixue gritted his teeth and glanced at Ling Wu: "He dared to touch you?"

"It's not like that." Ling Wu had a serious expression, his bangs obscuring the dark light that flashed across his eyes for an instant; he went with the flow and said: "Tingyun was just putting a hat on me, and his fingers touched me by accident. I'm sure he definitely didn't mean it."

【Hahaha... Baby, you are such an adorable little green tea.】

【Little robot, so cute!】

【Acting until you shed tears.】

【The male supporting character knows how to act spoiled, and Shixue's soul will drift away!】

【I bet neither Yu Shixue nor Yu Tingyun noticed these green tea quotes; there's really no helping it, who told our baby Ling Wu to have such a humble, polite, upright, and kind image in the eyes of outsiders?】

【They really didn't notice. Having grown accustomed to the male supporting character's decisive and ruthless nature, seeing this kind of pretentious "house-fighting" drama now is no less shocking than Lin Daiyu uprooting a weeping willow, hahaha...】

Yu Shixue was both shocked and angry; it had taken Ling Wu so much effort to finally be willing to call him by his name, and how long had he known Yu Tingyun?

Yet it was "Tingyun" this.

And "Tingyun" that!

Yu Shixue looked at Ling Wu with a gaze of frustration that he wouldn't live up to his expectations and said: "Ling Wu, stop speaking up for him! I know best what kind of person Yu Tingyun is. If he really bullied you, just tell me, complain to me! Don't hide it; could I possibly shield him and let you suffer grievances?!"

"You surnamed Yu." Yu Tingyun said with displeasure: "Why are you yelling at him?"

Like a firecracker.

So noisy!

Yu Shixue hadn't reined in his anger, which was why he couldn't control his shout; seeing Ling Wu startled into taking a half-step back, he hurriedly softened his tone: "Ling Wu, don't misunderstand, I'm not yelling at you, don't be afraid."

He placed his palm on Yu Tingyun's back, his attitude did a 180-degree turn, and he said in a sinister tone: "Get out here, you brat!"

Yu Tingyun straightened his collar and broke free from him: "I'll go out, so what? Do you think I'm scared?"

【Free-style wrestling has begun!】

【Streamer, streamer, are you going out to fight one-on-one?】

【It's still clearer from the God's-eye view; did the male supporting character secretly put something under the table just now?】

【Are you guys watching with a microscope? Could there be surveillance in the room? What if it gets discovered?】

【As far as I know, there is no surveillance in Yu Shixue and Yu Tingyun's rooms; after all, what decent person would install surveillance in their own room? It would be too lacking in privacy.】

Ling Wu tucked one hand into his pocket, his pace very slow; he opened his phone, confirmed that the prompt on the app had changed from a red dot to a green dot, and only after confirming the listener was working normally did he walk out of the room and enter the surveillance range of the hallway.

As for the two brothers Yu Shixue and Yu Tingyun, they didn't know where they had gone; there was no one in the hallway, and soon a pretty little maid walked up and said respectfully to Ling Wu: "Young Master, please follow me this way."

Ling Wu understood that this was someone Yu Shixue had ordered to come.

He followed her downstairs.

In the room on the other side, Yu Shixue said coldly: "Keep those perverted and disgusting thoughts of yours to yourself; Ling Wu has never seen those things, don't scare him."

"Brother, are you heartbroken?"

Yu Tingyun sat on the sofa with his legs spread; the expression on his face was not at all as sunny and cheerful as he usually appeared, and his dyed-gold hair set off his exquisite and three-dimensional features, as if he had walked out of a medieval oil painting: "Wasn't it agreed upon at the beginning? I helped you trick him into coming over; it was clearly you who instigated it, how can you blame me for bullying him?"

"Brother Ling Wu is so pure and cute, the one who bullied him is clearly you."

"Heh, sophistry." Yu Shixue tugged at the collar of his turtleneck sweater, revealing a bit of his neck; his jawline was smooth and attractive: "Did I tell you to press him onto the chair?"

"If I hadn't come in, what else were you planning to do?"

"Yu Tingyun, I advise you to behave yourself; do you think you're someone others like?"

Yu Tingyun said smugly: "Of course I'm likable; Brother Ling Wu likes me so much, and he even affectionately calls me Tingyun. His voice is clean and clear, it sounds so good."

Yu Shixue: "If your brain is sick, go get it treated."

"If anyone needs to go, it's you!" Yu Tingyun was his own brother, but deep down, they both looked down on each other a bit: "Brother, you ruined the marriage alliance with Miss Bai; actually, you want to enter a marriage alliance with Brother Ling Wu, right?"

"Your calculations are really good; borrowing my name to trick him into coming over to cultivate feelings, then calling it 'Ling Wu has close dealings with our family' to create a false impression that he likes you too, and then waiting for Mom and Dad to return to the country to visit the Jin Family?"

Every word he said stepped on Yu Shixue's heart.

In fact, Yu Shixue did think that way; discussing such a private topic as a marriage alliance at someone else's banquet was truly inappropriate, but he did not like Bai Yimo, and Bai Yimo was equally unwilling to enter a marriage alliance with him.

The moment he found out, Yu Shixue felt relieved in his heart.

Since a marriage alliance is inevitable, why shouldn't he be able to choose someone he likes? Yu Shixue is a match for Ling Wu in both family background and appearance.

In the past, he couldn't like Ling Wu.

Could not, rather than would not.

Yu Shixue can now make a subjective choice; he is likewise no good person—cruel, ruthless, lacking empathy, and stopping at nothing to achieve his goals.

He likes Ling Wu, and whether by deception or by force... he must have him!

Yu Tingyun is, after all, Yu Shixue's own younger brother; the two are bound by blood, and having lived under the same roof for so long, he knows his brother's thoughts all too well.

Yu Shixue: "So what?"

"I've already spoken to Mom and Dad in advance."

"You really are overbearing." Yu Tingyun's gaze was dark and unreadable as he accused him mercilessly: "Just because you like Ling Wu, you're going to recklessly force him into your hands? Does he even like you? Have you no shame!"

Yu Shixue lit a cigarette and pondered for a long time, his voice raspy from the smoke: "Even if he doesn't like me, he will."

You bastard.

Yu Tingyun was annoyed at the sight of him smoking: "Do you think you're the center of the world? As if he's forced to like you."

"Tsk tsk tsk... It's truly unfortunate for Brother Ling Wu to be eyed by you."

Yu Tingyun thought of the scene in the room, sitting right next to Ling Wu, the curtains drawn back as light and shadow fell upon his handsome face; his voice while explaining the problems was fresh and clear, his attitude upright and earnest, like a pure sheet of white paper, completely unaware of his famished gaze, immersed in his own world, and in the end, when pushed to the limit, he only asked him not to speak that way.

His Adam's apple bobbed, and he crossed his legs.

Yu Shixue's eyes were sharp: "Do you have feelings for him?"

It wasn't that he was overly suspicious; it was just that Ling Wu was someone who attracted too much attention.

Feelings?

The small mole hidden in the fold of Ling Wu's eyelid was the first thing to surface in Yu Tingyun's mind; he licked his lips, which felt a bit dry, and denied it flatly: "Do you think I'm you?"

"I just feel sorry for him, being targeted by a dark, paranoid mad dog like you."

Yu Shixue crushed the cigarette butt in the ashtray and warned him: "You'd better not interfere; don't think that just because you're my brother, I can't deal with you."

"By freezing my bank card?" Yu Tingyun said nonchalantly: "Brother, I forgot to tell you, the money on that card has already been transferred out by me; what you see are all fake accounts."

"Mom and Dad told you to look after me, not to bully me."

Yu Shixue: "Your wings have grown stiff."

"Brother, don't blame me for not warning you." Yu Tingyun leaned back slightly, his expression playful, the corners of his lips curled into a mocking arc: "If you want to enter a marriage alliance with Ling Wu, you have to ask Brother Shao Yu if he agrees first."

"If he finds out about your filthy intentions toward his brother, he could beat you into the hospital."

Yu Shixue pondered.

A bit troublesome.

Yu Tingyun shrugged, patted his hem, and stood up; as he reached the door, he said this to Yu Shixue: "Brother, have you ever seen that little mole hidden in the fold of Ling Wu's eyelid? It's fucking sexy."