The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 306 Sister and Brother

March 1st, Sinan Mansion.

"Lin Xiao, you've been grinning like an idiot for several days. Can you be more normal?"

On the large round sofa in the middle of the living room, Gu Li was holding a glass of champagne, flipping through this year's latest issue of "The Monthly Review" while talking to Lin Xiao, who was rolling on the sofa with a pillow beside him and grinning foolishly.

"Gu Li, Lin Xiao has been recognized by her future mother-in-law, so what's wrong with letting her smile foolishly for a while?"

Tang Wanru, whose waistline had grown bigger due to overeating during the Chinese New Year, was lifting dumbbells nearby. When she heard Gu Li's words, she interrupted at the right time.

"Tang Wanru!" However, Lin Xiao only laughed when he heard this. Then he remembered something and immediately stopped Tang Wanru, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Lin Xiao glanced at Gu Li beside him. Isn't it like stabbing Gu Li in the heart to say such things between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law?

The conflict between Gu Li and Ye Chuanping is known to all Demon City.

Gu Li also reacted quickly. He looked a little unnatural at first, and then said unhappily: "Why are you looking at me? Ye Chuanping and I are getting along well now, okay!"

When Gu Yuan came to see me during the Chinese New Year, I didn't see Ye Chuanping making any noise!

Tang Wanru stuck out her tongue after hearing this, realizing that she had said something wrong, so she changed the subject and said, "I don't know when Nan Xiang will come back?"

"..."

The atmosphere in the living room suddenly became quiet, and Lin Xiao's face froze. This time it was Gu Li's turn to secretly peek at her best friend.

Everyone already knew that Nan Xiang was on a business trip with Jian Xi a few days ago, and it couldn't be concealed. It's been so many days since the Chinese New Year, what excuse could Nan Xiang make up?

She works under Jian Xi, so isn't it unreasonable for her to follow him on business trips?

It makes sense, but Lin Xiao still feels a little aggrieved. He has been worried that something might happen, and now it turns out that the weasel and the chicken are celebrating the New Year together.

Who would believe that nothing would happen? Unless the weasel becomes a vegetarian.

As for whether Jian Xi was a vegetarian... before he was with Lin Quan, Lin Xiao believed it, but now...

"It should be soon. I asked Jian Xi yesterday and he said he would return today."

Lin Xiao forced a smile and answered dryly.

Seeing this, Tang Wanru realized that she had said the wrong thing again, so she had to shut her mouth and lift the dumbbells silently.

Gu Li knew what her best friend was worried about. She coughed and said, "Nan Xiang sent me a message saying that she was almost exhausted from following Jian Xi on a business trip. She was busy all day. If she hadn't been paid triple the salary during the holidays, she would have definitely run away."

After a pause, she saw that Lin Xiao's expression had eased a little, and she continued, "She said that she thought that a business trip would be like traveling, where she could eat and drink everywhere, but she ended up getting up early and going to bed late every day and being treated like a donkey, and she was scolded by Jian Xi from time to time. She even wanted you to help her get revenge!"

"Really?" After hearing this, Lin Xiao's expression really improved a lot. "Why didn't I hear Nan Xiang say that?"

"Isn't it because Nanxiang is afraid that you will tell Jianxi right after she tells you? What if Jianxi adds more workload to her?"

As someone who had slept with a best friend's man, Gu Li could understand Lin Xiao's worries very well. She naturally didn't want the quarrel that had happened to her to happen again to her best friends, so she spoke well of Nan Xiang in front of Lin Xiao.

Well... this should be considered a good thing, right?
But at least Lin Xiao no longer looked as worried as before. After hearing what Gu Li said, she laughed and scolded, "What? I won't tell Jian Xi. I'm on the same side as our sisters!"

Regardless of whether he was still worried or not, Lin Xiao couldn't continue to show it on his face.

Besides, they say that if you catch a thief, you have to seize the stolen goods, and if you catch an adulterer in bed, she can't show anything now.

The weasel...is not entirely a carnivore. It also eats plant-based food occasionally. Well, it can barely be considered an omnivore!
Lin Xiao thought so in his heart, and Tang Wanru, who was doing a set of barbell exercises, said at this time: "Is Jian Xi so cruel to Nan Xiang? I thought they get along like friends at work!"

"Work is work, life is life. Bringing the habits of getting along in life to work is not good for Nan Xiang or Jian Xi!" Gu Li chuckled and said, "In ME, I am still Lin Xiao's boss. Do you think she dares to act presumptuous in front of me?"

"..."

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment when she was suddenly mocked by Gu Li. Then she turned over in anger and pressed the other person under her. She slapped her best friend on the butt and said, "You are right, I dare not, but you forgot that we are not in the company now. Do you think I dare to do it?"

"Lin Xiao, get out of my way! You've spilled my wine!"

“Who dares to be presumptuous in front of whom?!”

"Get off!"

"No!"

"..."

Just as the two were playing, the doorbell of the villa suddenly rang, and the three people in the house instantly stopped what they were doing.

"Is Nanxiang back?"

Tang Wan asked this question subconsciously, and the next second she saw Lin Xiao, who had just been pressing on Gu Li, immediately stood up and hurried to the door in slippers.

Lin Xiao, who had pretended to be indifferent just now, now revealed her true thoughts.

My man went traveling alone with his best friend... He was on a business trip, so who wouldn't think too much?

We can just call each other sisters, but don’t really become sisters.

Well... best friends are best friends, but don’t become comrades-in-arms who have fought from the same gun.

Gu Li and Tang Wanru looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.

Lin Xiao rushed to the door and took a deep breath before opening it. After adjusting her anxious expression to a smile, she opened the door and called out enthusiastically, "Nan Xiang, you're back... uh..."

Lin Xiao's words got stuck in his throat, and the smile on his face froze.

There was no other reason. The person standing in front of the door was not her "long-missed" best friend, but a strange handsome guy.

"Hello."

The handsome guy nodded and greeted him. Lin Xiao came back to his senses and asked, "Hello, who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for Gu Li."

"Gu Li?" Lin Xiao frowned, but still turned around and called out, "Gu Li, someone is looking for you!"

Gu Li, who was pouring himself another glass of champagne on the sofa, asked in surprise, "Looking for me? Who? Isn't Nan Xiang back?"

She put down her glass and walked towards the door.

"It's not Nan Xiang, he is..." Lin Xiao paused, then looked at the handsome guy in front of him and asked, "Who are you?"

The handsome guy at the door smiled but didn't answer immediately. After Gu Li came over, he looked at her and greeted her with a smile, "Hello, my dear sister whom I have never met. I am your brother, Gu Zhun."

"..."

The garden house in Sinan Mansion immediately fell silent after Gu Zhun's words came out. Lin Xiao and Gu Li stared at the handsome guy in front of them in a daze.

After hearing this, Tang Wanru in the living room immediately threw the dumbbells to the ground, making a dull sound on the solid wood floor.

After coming to his senses, Gu Li's eyes showed many emotions, just like the pie chart, with three parts of doubt, three parts of anger, three parts of relief and one part of disbelief.

Lin Xiao couldn't help but look back and forth between the brother and sister, as if she was trying to discover something. After looking for a few times, she began to nod frequently.

"You big head ghost!"

Gu Li rolled his eyes at Lin Xiao in annoyance, then looked at Gu Zhun and said, "You said you are my brother, so you are my brother? Not just any Tom, Dick or Harry can be my brother these days. I only have a cousin who is still studying in the United States."

"I know, his name is Neil, his Chinese name is Li Ao, he is a mixed-race, he can't speak Chinese fluently, and his obsession with luxury goods is even crazier than yours." Gu Zhun and Gu Li looked at each other, whispering the information about their biological sister's other brother, "But, he is your cousin, and I am your biological brother."

At this point, he paused for a moment, then laughed again: "Brother from the same father and mother."

"..."

Gu Li didn't reply, but Tang Wanru, who rushed over to watch the fun, immediately shouted, "Wow, Gu Li, he looks like you, he's simply a gender-reversed version of you!"

Narcissism and infatuation have always been twins. When Tang Wanru saw Gu Zhun at the door, she immediately started infatuation: "Brother, I am your sister's best friend, what should you call me?"

Gu Zhun glanced at Tang Wanru and was about to say something when Gu Li elbowed her: "Tang Wanru, shut up! What are you yelling about?!"

Then he looked at Gu Zhun in front of him and said in a bad tone: "What you said does not prove that you are my brother. Neil's affairs are not a secret. He lived with me when he was studying in Shanghai. Many people know him."

In fact, when she saw the other person for the first time, Gu Li figured out a lot of things and almost believed that the other person was her. However, figuring it out did not mean that she really wanted to acknowledge this biological brother whom she had never met.

These were all historical issues left over from his dead father. Gu Li suddenly had the urge to go to his father's grave and curse him.

Coincidentally, Gu Zhun spoke again at this time: "Father likes to smoke Cohiba Behike cigars and often drinks Krug Clos du Mesnil champagne. When doing these things, he always plays a videotape, which is..."

"Shut up!"

Gu Li's face was moved, and he hurriedly stopped him, but Gu Zhun smiled and said, "It was your performance at the elementary school art performance. The song was called "Little Girl."

"..."

After she finished speaking, Gu Li's face looked a little unnatural, especially at this moment, the two best friends around her were looking at her with strange eyes.

After all, Gu Li has been exuding the aura of a pretentious queen all the time since the first day she met them. Who would have thought that she had such an "unbearable" past!

When they thought of the scene of little Gu Li standing on the stage in a baby dress and singing "Little girl, get up early in the morning...", Lin Xiao and Tang Wanru looked at each other and simultaneously pursed their lips to avoid laughing out loud.

Gu Li's expression flickered unnaturally for a few times before he forced himself to calm down. He frowned and said unhappily, "Didn't you hear me telling you to shut up? You have no manners at all. How annoying!"

"Do you believe now that I am your biological brother?"

Gu Li did not answer directly, but said thoughtfully: "So when I went to visit Gu Yansheng's grave before, you were the one who placed the wine and cigar in front of his tombstone?"

"Of course, he is my biological father. When he died, I couldn't go to his funeral. I could only see him when I visited his grave."

Hearing Gu Zhun's words, a trace of mockery flashed across Gu Li's face, and he sneered:
"So what are you doing here now? Are you trying to stage a scene of brother and sister recognizing each other? Or are you trying to fulfill Gu Yansheng's last wish and let him die peacefully in the underworld?"

Gu Li's tone was filled with uncontrollable anger. When Gu Yansheng died, he not only left her with a mess, but also told her that she was actually an illegitimate daughter, not Lin Yilan's biological daughter.

Before this, she and Lin Yilan had always had a good relationship, and she really regarded her as her own mother. Although the grace of raising her for more than 20 years could not be erased by such a sentence, it was somewhat like adding a rat shit into a pot of delicious porridge.

Gu Yansheng's bastard father is so fucking disgusting!

It was just like the gossip news on TV. After raising children for decades, when they had their blood taken for a checkup, they found out that they were type O, their wife was type A, and their child was type B...

It's so complicated and a tragedy.

Gu Li's mood at that time was like that of the husband with type A blood who found out that his baby was type B blood.

How could she not be mad with anger!
Do you still need to act like a tadpole looking for its mother when you are in your twenties?

So when she saw another tadpole appear in front of her, she suddenly felt angry.

Gu Zhun didn't know the complicated emotions in his sister's heart at the moment. Hearing this, he just smiled and said, "Sister, our blood relationship cannot be denied. Although father is gone, I think he hopes that we can recognize each other."

"Who is your sister? Don't yell like that, little brat! If you think Gu Yansheng wants us to recognize each other, go and talk to him yourself. It has nothing to do with me!"

Gu Li's answer was very straightforward, and Gu Zhun in front of him was a little stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that even after all this, the other party still refused to admit their relationship.

Seeing that the situation was becoming increasingly serious, Lin Xiao, who was standing by, quickly tugged at Gu Li's sleeve.

"Gu Li, let's talk it over nicely, or should we sit down and talk slowly?"

"Who wants to sit down and chat with him?" Gu Li's face looked extremely ugly.

Seeing this, Gu Zhun's stunned expression disappeared, and he just smiled and said, "In that case, I won't bother you anymore, sister. Goodbye."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave. Lin Xiao quickly poked Gu Li and said, "Gu Li, you really don't plan to recognize him? He looks so much like you, and he is the only person who is related to you by blood!"

Gu Li didn't say anything, but just watched the other person walk step by step along the cobblestone path in front of the door. When she was about to reach the front door, she called out, "Wait!"

Gu Zhun stopped, as if he had expected this.

"Is there anything else, sister?" Gu Zhun turned around and said with a smile.

Gu Li said expressionlessly, "Is Dad's 20% of the hidden inheritance in your hands?"

"of course."

"You..." Just as Gu Li was about to continue speaking, Lin Xiao, who was following him, suddenly shouted, "Nan Xiang!"

For a moment, everyone looked towards the door of the front yard. Nan Xiang, wearing a windbreaker and dragging a suitcase, just pushed the door open and walked in.

Seeing so many people looking at him, the weasel who had just finished his honeymoon, no, on a business trip, was stunned.

What happened? I ate my best friend’s man and it happened before I even got home?
(End of this chapter)