Chapter 328: My Girlfriend is Overbearing
Lin Qingyan, wanting to uncover the truth, hurriedly continued reading.
[Sister has never replied to me before, but today she actually did. She wants to meet me, but Sister doesn’t like me. I don’t dare tell her that I am Brother Lin Xuan because I’m afraid she’ll misunderstand me or think I’m mocking her.]
“Really Ah Xuan, it turns out during that time when I was relentlessly attacked and even considered suicide, the one who stayed by my side all along was you.”
What exactly had she done?
Again and again, she spoke harsh words to him.
She didn’t deserve to be a sister!
“Ah Xuan, I’m sorry.” Tears blurred Lin Qingyan’s vision as she clutched the diary to her chest, feeling her heart ache with each beat.
“I’m sorry, it’s Sister who misunderstood you. I shouldn’t have treated you this way.”
Nope.
She had to go find Ah Xuan and beg for forgiveness.
Previously, despite how she treated him, he still tried to please her. If she sincerely asked for his forgiveness, Ah Xuan would definitely forgive her!
Lin Qingyan put down the notebook and rushed downstairs. As she was about to get in the car, she noticed a delivery person looking inside.
Seeing the delivery person reminded Lin Qingyan that today was her birthday.
Every year on this day, it was always the same delivery person who brought her a birthday cake.
It must be Xiaoli who ordered the cake for her again.
Lin Qingyan walked over.
“Are you Miss Lin Qingyan?” the delivery person asked.
“Yes,” Lin Qingyan took the slip from the delivery person and signed her name before handing it back.
The delivery person smiled and said, “Miss Lin, your younger brother really loves you.”
“Hmm,” Lin Qingyan smirked, “Li has always been like this, liking to surprise me.”
“Li?” The delivery person frowned, “Miss Lin, do you have two younger brothers?”
Lin Qingyan instinctively wanted to refute the delivery person—she only had one younger brother. It had almost become second nature to her.
But then she remembered the diary written by Lin Xuan, and swallowed the words on the tip of her tongue.
“Yes, I have two younger brothers,” Lin Qingyan nodded, asking curiously, “Why do you suddenly ask this?”
“It’s like this, Miss Lin,” the delivery person explained, “This cake wasn’t sent by the Li you mentioned.”
Lin Qingyan was startled, “Not Li, could it be Lin Xuan?”
“That’s right, it’s him!”
The delivery person pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Lin Qingyan, “This is what he left behind at the time.”
Lin Qingyan looked at the content on the paper.
It had Lin Xuan’s name, the delivery location, and her phone number.
It was Xiao Xuan’s handwriting.
So this cake was truly sent by Xiao Xuan.
“Then were the previous cakes also sent by him?” Lin Qingyan couldn’t help but grab the delivery person’s arm and ask.
“Yes, they were all sent by him,” the delivery person nodded, “My dad is the store manager of this bakery. Every two years, Lin Xuan would come to our bakery and pay for two cakes, instructing us to deliver them to you on your birthday.”
“Oh, and the pictures on the cakes were all designed by him. You’re allergic to peanuts, so every time he repeatedly warned us not to put peanuts in the cake—he’s really very meticulous.”
“When he was a teenager and didn’t have much money, the money he used to order the cakes was all accumulated from small change, collected in a box.”
At this point, the delivery person furrowed his brows.
Looking at where they lived—a grand mansion—it seemed like their monthly allowance should be tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. Why did he seem so stingy?
Lin Qingyan’s throat became unbearably choked up.
She took the cake and wandered home in a daze.
“Wrong, everything is wrong.” She muttered, “It wasn’t Xiaoli who sent the cake, it was Xiao Xuan who sent me a cake every year.”
She always thought it was Xiaoli.
Lin Qingyan placed the cake on the coffee table.
She opened the cake box.
A rich aroma filled her nostrils.
On top of the cake were the words, “Second Sister, Happy Birthday.”
Lin Qingyan scooped a piece with a spoon and put it in her mouth. She didn’t find the cake sweet; instead, it tasted incredibly bitter.
“Xiao Xuan, I’m sorry.”
“It’s Sister who has always misunderstood you.”
How could such a good younger brother be hurt this way by her?
When Lin Qingwan came downstairs, she saw Lin Qingyan sitting on the sofa, eating the cake bite by bite.
Tears almost covered her entire face.
Lin Qingwan sighed and sat beside her on the couch.
Because Lin Qingyan had eaten too much cake, she suddenly felt nauseous.
“Ugh—”
Lin Qingyan bent over and retched.
“Second Sister, stop eating,” Lin Qingwan helped clean the cake around Lin Qingyan’s mouth and hands.
“Big Sister.”
Lin Qingyan threw herself into Lin Qingwan’s arms and burst into tears, “Big Sister, do you know? It turns out I’ve misunderstood Xiao Xuan.”
“I thought Xiao Xuan sneaked into my bed, and I found it disgusting, but guess what? I had a high fever that wouldn’t subside, and he worried about me, taking care of me all night.”
“And he was also the one who encouraged me when I was in despair.”
“He also sent me a cake every year, which I thought was from Xiaoli.”
Lin Qingyan broke down in tears.
“He was so good to me, but I treated him like that—I’m not human, Big Sister.”
Lin Qingwan didn’t know what to say.
After all, she was also one of those who misunderstood Xiao Xuan and ignored him.
Xiao Xuan’s disillusionment with the Lin family, she was also one of the main culprits.
“Big Sister, what should we do now?” Lin Qingyan gripped Lin Qingwan’s arm, “Now Xiao Xuan has such hostility towards us. He doesn’t want to come back home.”
“It’s okay.” Lin Qingwan consoled Lin Qingyan by stroking her hair, “Xiao Xuan has always been sensible. He will come back eventually.”
“Big Sister.”
Lin Qingyan thought of something and anxiously said, “Let’s quickly change the broadcast time of Immortal Destiny. We can’t air it at the same time as Sky Canopy Group’s drama. Xiao Xuan will think we can suppress him and will have opinions about us.”
“No, we can’t change it.”
Lin Qingwan shook her head, “Second Sister, now Xiao Xuan has been bewitched by that woman and distanced himself from us.”
“To make Xiao Xuan come back, we need to suppress him. Otherwise, he will never return.”
Xiao Xuan is just that woman’s plaything.
She wanted Xiao Xuan to return to the Lin family not only to compensate him but also because once he returned, they’d have the ability to protect him from that woman’s harm.
Upon hearing Lin Qingwan’s words, Lin Qingyan frowned deeply.
Would this… really work?
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Brother Lin Xuan didn’t attend class that day.
Perhaps due to the weather, Lin Xuan noticed yesterday that Su Hua’s appetite wasn’t great, so he personally cooked a meal and delivered it to Suzhou Group at noon.
Jiang entered the president’s office.
“President Su,” she respectfully greeted.
Su Hua’s whole aura was icy cold, her gaze landing on Jiang, “You better have something important.”
Jiang remained completely calm.
“Young Master Lin has brought lunch for President Su.”
Upon hearing this,
the icy aura surrounding Su Hua disappeared instantly.
The high-level executives reporting work in the office brightened their eyes simultaneously.
Our savior has arrived; we’re saved.
Su Hua closed the file and tossed it in front of the executives. “Go back and improve this plan. Bring it to me again in the afternoon.”
“Yes, President Su.”
The executives all breathed a sigh of relief.
As they walked out of the office, they couldn’t help but discuss.
“Young Master Lin is truly our savior.”
“Yeah, probably the only person in this world who can handle President Su is Young Master Lin.”
“We must latch onto Young Master Lin’s coattails.”
Just as they were leaving, they happened to bump into Lin Xuan stepping out of the elevator.
The executives’ eyes lit up, and they immediately surrounded him.
“Young Master Lin, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Wang Yuan, the manager of the marketing department.”
“Young Master Lin, I also share the surname Lin. My name is Lin Jianghai. Perhaps our ancestors are the same.”
They all handed business cards to Lin Xuan.
“Young Master Lin, if you need anything, feel free to find me. As long as it’s within my capability, I will spare no effort, even risking life and limb, to assist you.”
Inside the office,
Su Hua occasionally glanced at the wall clock, frowning deeply.
“Why hasn’t Ah Xuan come yet?” Su Hua muttered.
“President Su, shall I go check?” Jiang asked respectfully.
“No need,” Su Hua stood up from her chair, “I’ll go myself.”
