CHAPTER 305: CHAPTER 306: GENTLE WORDS AND KIND TONE

"Mom, don’t worry, it’s just a minor injury, it’s nothing..."

"What do you mean a minor injury? You can’t fool your mom, I’ve just asked the doctor, the knife pierced into your back, and if it went a bit deeper, you could have died. If something happened to you, how would mom live? You’re mom’s only flesh and blood, the only bloodline of the Chu Family..." Yunrou started crying as she spoke, and Chu Zhan felt sorry for his mother, quickly comforting her with kind words.

Behind them, disregarded, Chu Huan pressed her lips tightly with dissatisfaction. Her mother’s words were too hurtful. Although she was an adopted child of the Chu Family, she was still their daughter in the adoption papers. Since they adopted her, why do they only recognize her brother as their blood? She also carries the surname Chu, doesn’t she?

Yunrou and Chu Tianjun often said they treated her like their own daughter, but it was all lies. The whole family only thought about the daughter who died seventeen years ago. To them, Chu Huan was just an outsider.

Especially the old, stubborn Chu patriarch. Even though he was full of ailments, he refused to die. With dementia, he kept mentioning Nannan, and forbade her to call him grandpa, threatening to fall ill whenever she did.

Hmph, since she wasn’t allowed to call him that, she did so on purpose when no one was around, hoping it would upset the old man to the point of death. Only when he was gone could she escape the shadow of the Chu Family’s true daughter and legitimately be Chu Huan.

"Brother, I heard from the nurse that you got hurt taking a knife for a girl. Who was she, that she’d make you risk your life like that?"

Chu Huan said jealously. Her brother was truly infuriating, ignoring her as his sister, yet risking his life for another girl. Did she mean less than an outsider to him?

"What? You took a knife for someone?" Yunrou, having just calmed down, got angry and her eyes turned red, "Zhan’er, are you crazy? How could you just shield someone like that, treating yourself like a shield? Who is that girl? Is she someone you like? How could she bear to let you take a knife for her, was she trying to kill you on purpose?"

Chu Huan was really meddlesome, couldn’t she see Yunrou was already crying, why add fuel to the fire?

Chu Zhan gave Chu Huan a glance and quickly explained, "Mom, you misunderstand, that girl is a little sister I just got to know. She was right beside me at the time, if I didn’t save her, would I still be a man?"

Chu Zhan didn’t mention Nianyang’s relationship with Li Tingyan, fearing Chu Huan would make things complicated, and he worried Younrou might misunderstand Nianyang.

For some reason, Chu Zhan didn’t want his mother to have any resentment towards Nianyang, perhaps he truly considered Nianyang as family.

Hearing Chu Zhan’s explanation, Yunrou’s bias against the girl faded away.

Chu Huan pouted and said, "Brother, weren’t you assisting Tingyan? Where did he go?"

Chu Zhan’s expression turned cold, "He had business at the company, so I let him go."

"Brother!" Chu Huan suddenly panicked, "You knew I was coming, how could you let Tingyan go? I haven’t seen him in three years, and he’s by the seaside, I can’t go find him easily. He’s supposed to be your future brother-in-law, how could you not consider that we need to build a relationship!"

Frankly, if it weren’t for knowing Li Tingyan was here, she wouldn’t have traveled all this way.