Chapter 39: Shen Ye Is My Senior Martial Brother

The next morning, before dawn.

Xie Wantang, who was sleeping in the guest room, was awakened by the phone's ringtone.

Still half-asleep, Xie Wantang kept her eyes closed, reached for the phone on the nightstand, held it to her ear and said, "Who is it? So early?"

"Xie Wantang, it's me," Lu Rourou's cold voice sounded as if laced with poison.

Xie Wantang opened her eyes, sat up, leaned against the headboard, and said helplessly, "Lu Rourou? What are you doing?"

"What am I doing? Come downstairs, I have a question for you. If you satisfy me, I can let go of the slap you gave me last night, but if you disappoint me, don't blame me…"

Lu Rourou threatened in a cold voice, but before she could finish, Xie Wantang cut her off.

"Sorry, I won't indulge you. If you want to complain, go ahead," Xie Wantang truly thought Lu Rourou was sick early in the morning, staying up just to threaten her over a phone call.

What's wrong with slapping her?

She even thinks the slap came too late?

She's been spoiled to an extreme by her family, which makes her act selfishly today, never considering others.

After speaking, Xie Wantang hung up.

Lu Rourou called back quickly, but Xie Wantang turned the phone off and silenced it.

After a few attempts, Lu Rourou appeared outside, pounding on the door forcefully.

Xie Wantang was truly exasperated.

She lay in bed for a while, and only got up when she heard Lu Yanshen open the door.

As soon as she stepped out of the room, Lu Yanshen had already opened the door and let the crazy woman Lu Rourou inside.

Having learned the lesson from last night, Lu Rourou didn't dare to do anything to Xie Wantang.

She glanced at Xie Wantang leaning by the guest‑room door; Xie Wantang's calm eyes stared at her, as if to see what Lu Rourou wanted now.

Lu Rourou, pulling Lu Yanshen along, walked toward Xie Wantang to confront her.

Last night she didn't go home, she came looking for them, originally for Shen Ye.

Later, things suddenly got out of control and shifted to other matters; Lu Rourou hadn't slept all night and had reflected on it.

"Xie Wantang, I was truly captivated by you last night; today you dare to tell my second brother where you were last night?" Lu Rourou's tone was especially forceful; she was convinced Xie Wantang wouldn't admit she went to the airport to pick up Shen Ye.

Nevertheless, Xie Wantang nonchalantly and openly admitted her whereabouts to the siblings: "What's there to hide? I didn't do anything shameful."

"I was at the airport picking up a friend last night, and that friend was a man, got it? Lu Yanshen—"

She mentioned Lu Yanshen because Xie Wantang knew Lu Rourou only wanted her second brother to know she was with her Senior Martial Brother last night.

So what?

She behaved properly, sat upright.

Lu Rourou's eyes widened, unable to believe she truly dared to be so frank.

Isn't she afraid her second brother will get angry?

"Not only that, second brother, they're very close; I saw Xie Wantang grab his hand. Second brother, I'm not hiding anything—I went to the airport last night to pick up Shen Team."

To make Xie Wantang fully convinced, Lu Rourou gritted her teeth and simply confessed everything.

"Shen's team? Shen Ye?" Lu Yanshen frowned and asked back.

"Yes," Lu Rourou nodded.

"How did you know where Shen's team was?" Lu Yanshen asked again.

"I asked around; I like him," Lu Rourou bluntly confessed, hoping to get her second brother's help.

At home, she's always been pampered.

Since childhood she wanted stars, and they gave her the moon.

Her needs have always been met abundantly.

Whatever she wants, she can get.

Everyone even says she can like any kind of man in the future; she decides her own marriage.

Now she finally met the great hero she likes.

She wants Shen Ye, only Shen Ye.

But Xie Wantang turned out to be the first stumbling block on her path to Shen Ye.

That woman is truly detestable.

"You like him just because he saved you?" Lu Yanshen frowned.

"So what? Second brother, are you opposed?" Lu Rourou pursed her lips, her delicate little face looking pitiful and extremely aggrieved.

Seeing that, Xie Wantang felt a bit of sympathy.

She kept quiet and stayed here to listen to the siblings' dialogue because she also wanted to hear exactly what Lu Yanshen thought about repaying a life‑saving debt by offering herself in marriage.

After all, she had initially approached him with that very idea.

However, hearing his contemptuous tone and seeing his facial reaction, Xie Wantang thought Lu Yanshen probably didn't approve of this method.

Lu Yanshen indeed disagreed: "Rourou, it's not that second brother opposes; he just thinks that because someone saved you, you're rashly trying to rush into marrying them, and that mindset is wrong."

"You should know, a special police officer like Shen's team, how many people have they saved in their lifetime? If every older girl like you wanted to repay them by offering herself in marriage, Shen's harem would be larger than an ancient emperor's harem."

"…"

Pfft—

Those words left Xie Wantang speechless for a while.

Nevertheless, she approved of Lu Yanshen's remarks.

And very incisive!

That's also why Xia Meng's circle made her uneasy, while she didn't mind the mysterious person's photo of Lu Yanshen giving Xia Meng a princess‑carry onto a car.

When she was fifteen, that summer she experienced a mudslide; she and a group of friends were trapped halfway up the mountain. At that moment, Lu Yanshen descended from the sky like a deity, cradling one in his arms, hooking another on his back, and rescued them.

In the photo, Xia Meng's condition is clearly uncomfortable.

She, Xie Wantang, doesn't have a saintly heart, but she hasn't yet reached the point of being cold-blooded enough to see someone die and not help.

"Second brother, you haven't grasped the main point; the main point isn't with me, nor is it about whether I like Captain Shen or not, but about her—you don't ask Xie Wantang, she's holding Captain Shen's hand, what is her relationship with Captain Shen?"

"Shen Ye is my Senior Martial Brother." As Lu Yanshen's gaze shifted, Xie Wantang said directly.

Open and sincere, her eyes clear and pure, without lying or deceit.

Regarding what Xie Wantang said, Lu Yanshen believes it, but Lu Rourou does not.

"Captain Shen is your Senior Martial Brother? Xie Wantang, you're telling such a lie—are you trying to make people die laughing?" Lu Rourou retorted.

She simply doesn't believe that Shen Ye and Xie Wantang have that kind of relationship.

She also doesn't accept that Xie Wantang and Shen Ye have that kind of relationship.

If what Xie Wantang says is true, then what hope is there for her liking Captain Shen?

Their senior-junior sibling relationship is good; if Shen Ye dotes on Xie Wantang this little junior sister, then Shen Ye should know that she usually despises Xie Wantang, looks down on her, and even encourages Xia Meng this mistress to sabotage Xie Wantang's marriage with her second brother……

Can Shen Ye still look up to her?

Thinking of these, Lu Rourou only felt her vision go dark.

No, no, no, she does not accept.

Absolutely not accept.