519 Small steps
The day filled with chaos eventually came to a grim end. The fate of Sky still hung on a light thread as the accusations against Yunru and Sun Bai still made headlines. Sun Bai was extremely worried about what course the whole predicament might take but Jun and Hou Lin assured her.
The rest of the family showed their full support to Jun too. The twins stood at either side of Jun and ruffled his head harder. “We know you will solve this mess in a mess without a hitch little brother! After all, you have the Liu blood flowing inside you~ I am just waiting for hell to break loose~”
Liu Hai waved his hand. “Of course. Nobody can challenge the Liu family and stay alive after that~”
The twins and Liu Hai’s quirkiness brought the atmosphere back to normal.
Nana pouted and held his face. “Yes, so don’t worry Jun. And don’t even think about skipping meals. Everything will be fine.”
Jun smiled. “I know, Mom. I promise I won’t skip my meals.”
“En. If you skipped, Ai is there to inform me.”
His brow twitched.
“When did she become your spy?”
“I don’t have a choice when you boys don’t take care of yourself!” She harrumphed.
Nuo nodded. “I will scold you a lot if you ignore your health because of this.”
“I think I am the older brother here.”
She snorted. “The twins are my older brothers too but when do you see me not scolding them?”
Jian wiped his teary eyes. “We have a lot of grievances regarding that, little sister.”
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Nuo patted Jun’s head and smiled. “That’s why you need to be strong.”
“Little sister, you are blatantly ignoring us!” The twins exclaimed in protest.
Liu Hai looked at them with disdain and dragged them out. “Oh shut it. You two are so petty!”
“You are the last person to say that old man!”
Nian remembered an important thing and escaped from his grandfather’s grasp. “Xing Biiiiii!”
Xing Bi, who was talking to Ai and Shui, turned to see Nian furiously waving his hand at her. “Let’s go! Let’s go! It’s time for our date! We promised to go on our lovely date after the celebration!”
“…”
Xing Bi suddenly came into everybody’s scrutiny and her brows twitched heavily.
This man! For God’s sake your family is right here! Does this man have no shame!?
Her face flushed hard, especially that his parents and family were in front of her.
“Hehe…hehehe…” Xing Bi burst into an awkward laughter and grabbing his hand tightly, she pulled him away.
Nian blushed. “Aish, Xing Bi. You are holding my hand so tightly. I didn’t know you were this excited for our date.”
Xing Bi slowly turned her head and gave him a deadly stare. “Let’s talk, Mr. Liu.”
“Why is your expression not matching with my imagination, dear?”
“My violence won’t be matching with your imagination either,” she said as she dragged him away from everyone. She then glared at him. “How can you think of our date when so much happened today? Jun is so troubled. Can we really enjoy when there is a crisis going on at Sky?”
Nian cocked his brow with interest. “Don’t underestimate my little brother. There is no need to worry about him. He will deal with it with finesse, I assure you. There have been many such pests in the past trying to take us down but have always failed miserably. It will be the same outcome this time too~ So we can enjoy our date with ease!”
Xing Bi watched Jun and Ai and pursed her lips.
Will it really be okay?
Well Nian knows his brother better than me. I hope it’s just as he says…
Seeing her expression falter, Nian swiftly took advantage of the situation and dragged her out of Sky before she could protest. “Date time! Date time!”
Ai pursed her lips. “Nian stole her away from me.”
Shui shook her head. “What else can you expect from the twins?”
Her gaze fell on Jin for a moment, but she quickly looked away. She faced Ai and said, “I will take my leave too.”
Ai blinked. “You are not going with Siying?”
“Ah Bro said he will be late. Hehe it’s definitely a date with Nuo just like Nian and Xing Bi’s. I just pray Uncle Jinhai doesn’t show his claws to him haha.”
Which Jinhai already was as he threw deathly glares at Siying with his eyes who stood with Nuo and was ready to take her out. The helpless victim, Siying, could feel his gaze brutally burning and drilling a hole in his back.
When Jin saw Shui leave alone, he fell into a predicament. He wanted to follow her but his feet didn’t move.
Jinhai was about to speak when Liu Hai’s booming voice echoed in the room. “Aish my dear Shui, why are you going all alone? Let somebody accompany you!”
“Ah? I will be fine, Grandpa,” Shui smiled.
“Bah! How can you be fine? It’s so late in the evening now! What if you meet some pervert on your way?” He gasped.
“…”
“No I mean, the driver is there to-“
“Jini-boy, you seem to be jobless at the moment. Go and drop her home!” He chirped.
Shui stiffened while Jin scowled at him. “Don’t call me Jini-boy.”
“Zhou Yichen gave such a cute nickname to you. How can I not use it?” He made an innocent expression. “Anyway, go with Shui.”
Shui quickly said, “Grandpa, it’s really alright.”
Nana joined in too. “It’s no trouble dear.”
Jin walked past her and cleared his throat. “It’s not a big deal. Let’s go.”
“Wait I…”
Ai nudged her elbow and nodded. “Don’t hesitate.”
She wanted to hope that with Jin taking little steps to improve his relationship with Shui, something could soon change between them. It was imperative for them to be in each other’s company as much as possible for that to happen.
Shui agreed in the end. “Sure.”
Jin paused and nodded and then followed after her.