C30 What Elder Brother

After sending Xu Yuqing and Ling Yanhao to the hotel, Bai Yu Xi left early because of the company's matters.

"Remember that I'll come and take you home for dinner tonight. Don't go too far if you go out and play."

"I know!" "Yuxi, I'm not a child. I won't get lost. After all, I grew up here, okay?"

She was always treated like a little kid. Xu Xueqing was extremely unhappy as she mumbled to herself as she sent Bai Yu Xi out the door.

"I'm not worried about you, I'm worried about …"

Bai Yu Xi didn't continue speaking. He glanced at Ling Yan Hao in the next room and said worriedly, "You can help others, but you must do your best. Don't throw yourself in there too."

"I know, don't worry about me, I know what I'm doing."

Xu Xinqing didn't intend to tell them about her relationship with Ling Yanhao, so she lowered her head and gave him a perfunctory answer.

"It's good that you understand. I'll see you tonight then."

As soon as Bai Yu Xi left, the tightly shut door immediately opened, and Ling Yan Hao walked out with a sullen face.

Taking a deep breath, Xu Nianqing rolled her eyes at him and complained, "Ling Yanhao, are you addicted to eavesdropping? "Where did this bad habit come from?"

"The hotel room is only so big, not even a single suite. It's just a door away, don't tell me you want me to cover my ears and not listen?"

Ling Yanhao kicked open the door with his foot. The simple arrangement within was obvious.

"Enough!" It's not like it used to be like this. It's good enough that we can live in a standard room! You want to live in a presidential suite? "Sure, as long as you pay for yourself, I'll do whatever you want!"

Bai Yu Xi originally wanted to give the two of them a better room, but was rejected by Xu Nianqing. She was only thinking of not getting used to Ling Yan Hao's rich illness.

It seemed as if she was in debt. Even if Ling Yanhao wanted to enjoy life, he shouldn't use her money!

"I have no objections to the room, so don't misunderstand me." Ling Yanhao leaned against the door and lazily patted off the non-existent dust on his shoulder.

"Then you have a problem with me?"

Xu Xiangqing put her hands on her hips and asked coldly, determined to settle this with him.

"Who was that Bai Yu Xi? He said he's your brother. When did you get a brother with the surname Bai? "

Ling Yan Hao didn't directly answer Xu Nianqing. Instead, he changed the topic and moved it to Bai Yu Xi.

His understanding of Xu Xueqing was limited to the fact that she was the illegitimate daughter of the Xu family.

As for her birth mother, her past, the Xu Family had never said anything about it. They had only used the phrase 'brought up abroad' to summarize, while Ling Yanhao had never seriously understood his former wife.

"Before I was even a member of the Xu Family, Yu Xi was already my big brother. What do you think?"

Xu Nianqing didn't want to explain too much to Ling Yanhao, so she impatiently frowned, "I'm begging you, don't show such hostility to Yu Xi in the future. Otherwise, you can act on your own from now on and stop following me!"

"Do I have a grudge against him?"

Ling Yan Hao seemed to have heard a joke as he mocked, "This is the first time I've met him. We're not related in any way, and we don't have any grievances or enmity with each other, so why would I have any enmity towards him?"

The more Ling Yanhao spoke, the more others felt his guilt.

Xu Ruo Qing couldn't see through him. She sighed helplessly. "Fine, if you say there's no hostility, then there's no hostility."

Looking at Ling Yanhao's previous appearance, it was as if Bai Yuxi owed him money. Xu Nianqing was worried that her father and mother would be suspicious and had already made up their minds not to bring Ling Yanhao over at night.

Ling Yanhao was completely unaware that he had been excluded, so he quibbled, "He's your big brother, and is kind enough to help us arrange food and shelter. I should thank him and pay my respects to him. Why should I view him with hostility?"

Even Ling Yanhao himself didn't realize that even though he said the name "Bai Yuxi", his tone was so sour that it caused one's teeth to ache.

"OK!" If there's something wrong with my eyes, can I look at it the wrong way? "

Xu Xiangqing had had had enough of his chattering and had given up. She didn't want to listen to any more of it.

Then she rolled her eyes and turned to go back to her room.

"Wait!"

Halfway through closing the door, Ling Yanhao, who had been lingering around like a ghost, suddenly squeezed in, grabbed Xu Nianqing and asked, "You haven't finished answering, what kind of brother is Bai Yu Xi? In terms of reputation, your older brother is your cousin. Say it clearly! "

In their circle, even "father" had several meanings, not to mention his brother.

Seeing the way Xu Yuqing and Bai Yu Xi were getting along, Ling Yanhao couldn't relax at all. He didn't want to be hidden from them.

"Hey!" Ling Yan Hao, what is in your head? "

Hearing his question, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The corners of her mouth twitched, "You're a tenant that doesn't even pay rent, what right do you have to ask me that?"

Ling Yanhao's tone sounded like his husband was questioning his cheating wife, making Xu Xinqing furious.

When they had gotten married, Ling Yanhao had often stayed out of the night, so how could he care who she had anything to do with?

Now that they were divorced, Ling Yanhao began to ask about her life. What was this?

Compensation, or did he not see the reality?

"Even if we get divorced and we're just ordinary friends, can't we be concerned about you?"

Ling Yanhao clearly knew that the anger in his heart was directed at Bai Yuxi, and thus, he didn't dare to vent it on Xu Xiangqing.

He clenched his fists and suppressed his anger as he explained, "I don't know much about you and I don't know what friends you have abroad. That's why I'm worried about you. Don't misunderstand my intentions, okay?"

If his relationship with Xu Yuqing wasn't so distant in the past, he might not have been misunderstood now. Ling Yanhao knew that this was all his fault.

Ling Yanhao's tone was very sincere, and his expression of concern was impeccable, making it impossible for Xu Xinqing to continue to glare at him.

"You also know that I was only recognised by the Xu Family when I was about to turn eighteen."

Sighing, Xu Nianqing finally couldn't resist Ling Yanhao's pestering, and was the first to give in.

"I remember that before we got married, the Xu Family said that you've always lived abroad. As for the rest, that's all."

The Xu Family did not say, and he did not ask.

Ling Yanhao knew very well that at that time, he would probably be no different from a member of the Xu Family, treating Xu Nianqing as something that they could trade with as they pleased.

He didn't have the qualifications to criticize the Xu Family. He was also one of the people who had hurt Xu Xueqing.

"It's not that they don't want to talk, but they don't know how I grew up abroad either."

Xu Xiangqing sneered at herself, "They've never thought about how a seven-year-old girl without a mother could live such a life, and how she grew up to be used by them when they took her back."