Suddenly, even the food didn’t taste good anymore.
Except for the four little kids, all the adults perked up their ears.
Since it involved themselves, everyone was nervous.
Yun Jinxian thought: I just want to know where I was when Xu Chengyan jumped off the building.
The Xu family members thought: Our family is so big—this is serious, we have to listen carefully.
【Huh?】
【The sister of the emotionally played “heavenly chosen one”?】
【Why does this description feel kind of familiar?】
Xu Nannan: Mom, you just said that at the airport when you picked me up.
Liao Jingna suddenly felt an ominous premonition.
This so-called “heavenly chosen one” couldn’t be…
【I remember now, I saw that label at the airport.】
【But he walked too fast, I didn’t get a good look.】
【So?!】
【The one who got emotionally played… is Liao Jingna’s brother?!】
Liao Jingna: Fuck!
No way… it’s really my brother?!
Is my brother that miserable?
He doesn’t look like someone without a brain.
Wait a second… could he, like me and Nannan, also be controlled by someone?!
Xu Nannan: “……”
Oh ho.
My best friend’s brother. Not close.
She secretly glanced at Liao Jingna to see her reaction.
But Liao Jingna’s face was expressionless—more accurately, she had no reaction at all.
Ruan Yaoyao was truly surprised.
【What a coincidence.】
【So Liao Jingna’s storyline is…】
【She discovers that her brother somehow got entangled with a girl from their family.】
Liao Jingna: A “sister”?!
Incest?!
That’s a bit creepy.
Liao Jingna silently prayed: Please not me, please not me, please not me.
Everyone else: ?! Incest?!
【Liao Jingna also realized that although Liao Shumei shares their surname, she is actually an adopted daughter and has no blood relation with the family.】
Liao Jingna breathed a sigh of relief: Oh…
So it’s Liao Shumei. Not my problem.
Well… not completely unrelated. I do call her my sister.
Sister becoming my sister-in-law…
That doesn’t seem impossible.
Everyone else: Oh! Pseudo-incest? That works.
【So after brief shock, Liao Jingna felt it might not be such a big deal.】
【She even quietly started helping her brother, trying to bring him and Liao Shumei together.】
【But at that moment, her younger brother Liao Xuwei confronted her, asking why she was being biased—why she only helped the eldest brother and not him. Did she think he was worthless?】
Liao Jingna: Why is my younger brother involved too?!
Everyone else: A love triangle?
【Liao Jingna was stunned—how did her younger brother get involved?!】
【She didn’t know what to do, helping either side felt wrong.】
【As the only informed person in the family, she watched the three of them entangled in a chaotic love triangle full of emotional pain. Seeing her brother and younger brother suffering, she felt she had to intervene and make them choose clearly.】
Liao Jingna: That does sound like something I’d do.
Xu Nannan: That does sound like something my bestie would do.
Everyone else: This feels… not that simple.
【But unexpectedly, Liao Jingna’s good intentions backfired.】
After seeing the brothers’ pain, Liao Shumei chose neither of them and decided to step away entirely. She didn’t want to become the trigger of a brotherly conflict…
【Wait, wasn’t this already established? How did the triangle even form in the first place?】
Liao Jingna: I want to know too.
Everyone else: Where are the details?!
【Liao Shumei’s withdrawal caused a problem. Liao Minghai and Liao Xuwei both thought Liao Jingna was behind it, believing she had forced Liao Shumei away.】
【They even suspected she had bullied Liao Shumei behind their backs and wanted revenge for her.】
【At that point, they completely forgot she was their own sister—using methods meant for enemies against their own family.】
【How could anyone do something like this?!】
【Poor Liao Jingna didn’t even know what was happening before she was targeted by her own brother and younger brother. They showed her no mercy. But she couldn’t fight back—after all, they were her family.】
【Liao Jingna could only avoid them, and when she couldn’t avoid them anymore, she hid at Xu Nannan’s place.】
【And then she was dragged into Ma Aotian’s mess by Xu Nannan.】
【……】
【So miserable!】
Liao Jingna: I’ll sympathize with myself for one second.
Xu Nannan also felt it was kind of tragic—trusting her best friend for help, only to fall into an even deeper pit.
What happened next?
What about her brother and younger brother?
And her parents?
Xu Nannan secretly observed Liao Jingna’s expression, feeling that things were getting bad.
Would Liao Jingna want to kill her?
Everyone else: It’s already pretty obvious what’s going to happen.
【Sigh…】
Ruan Yaoyao sighed, unable to bear looking further.
【What happened afterward was simple: Liao Jingna realized something was wrong with Liao Shumei, but couldn’t deal with her. Knowing Ma Aotian was dangerous, she still had to rely on him, hoping he would help her handle Liao Shumei.】
【But she didn’t know that Liao Shumei’s mysterious boyfriend was actually Ma Aotian himself—he was orchestrating everything behind the scenes.】
【So Liao Jingna asking Ma Aotian for help was like sending meat buns to a dog—never coming back.】
【Not long after, her parents had an accident.】
【Then her brother and younger brother were ruined, and the company fell into chaos, eventually controlled by Ma Aotian.】
【He reaped everything.】
Liao Jingna: “……”
Heh.
Everyone else: This Ma Aotian guy is seriously that powerful?!
Why is he involved everywhere?!
How many women does he even have?!
Ruan Yaoyao also wanted to know. Was Ma Aotian’s entire fortune built off women?
Disgusting methods.
Yet… he still succeeded. What now?
Originally planning to stay at the Xu family for a few more days, Liao Jingna couldn’t sit still anymore and went early the next morning to her brother Liao Minghai’s office.
“Brother, I want to ask you something.”
Liao Minghai looked confused.
“Aren’t you staying at your best friend’s place? Why come to the office so early just to ask one thing? Couldn’t you just call?”
“It’s not clear over the phone. I didn’t notice it before, but now something feels off. Brother… do you like Shumei?”
Liao Minghai was speechless.
“Are you bored? Reading too many novels? How could I possibly like my own sister?”
“Shumei is adopted. There’s no blood relation. Brother, are you sure you don’t like her? If you don’t, I’ll set her up with our younger brother. Don’t regret it later.”
“Who? Liao Xuwei? If you want to play matchmaker, go find someone else. Why her specifically?” Liao Minghai frowned. “What kind of nonsense novels are you reading lately? Stop reading those internet stories—they ruin your brain.”
Liao Jingna rolled her eyes.
“As if you don’t read them.”
Liao Minghai replied, “I only read them occasionally to relax. At least I read normal ones.”
“For example?”
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