If You Are A Dodder Flower Chapter 55 Part2

Cao An was speechless. "Well, of course. It's not like she's the only woman in the world."

Xia Rou continued to softly rub in the ointment for Cao An. Inside her heart, she sighed a long sigh of relief.

As a reincarnator, she believed her existence itself was a variable. Everything that happened had been changed from the past, and the root cause of all those changes was Xia Rou herself.

In this life, she had tried her best to plan so that she wouldn't impact Cao Yang's marriage, but she had never imagined that the two couldn't even get together.

She had been very worried in the last few days. Translated by The Novelst

All she could do was continue to comfort herself that in the past big brother and w.a.n.g Man had been unhappy together as well. Maybe in this life he was just slated for something better because he hadn't chosen w.a.n.g Man?

But… As she thought of w.a.n.g Man's family, education and ability, her heart began to feel heavy. She couldn't relax.

But now, hearing from Cao An's mouth that w.a.n.g Man… was not Cao Xiong and Cao Yang's only choice, her guilt and anxiety finally let up a bit.

When Cao Yang returned home, he saw his two annoying little brothers laughing happily in the courtyard. He asked after it and it turned out that the last annoying little brother had been beaten by their father.

How old was he now, still getting beaten up! The corner of Cao Yang's mouth twitched.

He heard that this d.a.m.n little kid had gone to look for Xia Rou's help in applying ointment. So as the big brother, he should drop by and check on him.

Xia Rou's door was wide open. He walked to the entrance and saw his fourth little brother lying on Xia Rou's bed with half his body exposed. As for Xia Rou, she was kneeling beside the bed, carefully rubbing ointment on the bruise.

Cao Yang flew into a sudden rage.

He strode in and dragged Cao An up by the ear.

"Bro! Bro! I didn't say anything bad about you!" Cao An screamed. "I only asked father about it and he already beat me!"

Xia Rou was frightened. From the past to now, she had only seen the brothers joking around, but had never seen Cao Yang actually beat his brothers before!

Although she had witnessed the little brothers' change in expression when lectured by their big brother, she had never seen it personally until now… It was truly frightening!

She felt that there was a ruthlessness between his brows that was completely different than his usual calmness and composure. She opened her mouth to comfort him, but when Cao Yang gave her a sharp glance from the side, she immediately turned into a wimp…

Fourth brother, don't blame me… It's big brother, after all…

And so, she helplessly watched as Cao An screamed like a pig due for slaughter as he was dragged up to his floor by Cao Yang.

And after that, there were new bruises on Cao An's body. But this time he didn't need to find Xia Rou to help him apply ointment, since Cao Yang personally rubbed it in for him…

Over the next few days, Cao An hung his head. Whenever Cao Yang saw him, his face would turn dark.

And when he threw him a cold glare, Cao An felt an immediate chill…

Xia Rou thought that Cao Yang was angry with Cao An because of w.a.n.g Man's matter. She even comforted Cao An personally, "Since he doesn't want to talk about w.a.n.g Man, then don't bring it up in front of him anymore…"

Cao An threw the clueless Xia Rou a complicated look. He thought in his mind… That day, big brother didn't bring up w.a.n.g Man even once!

He really couldn't forget the way Cao Yang looked as he smiled coldly at him that day.

"Do you think you can climb on a girl's bed so simply? If you want to be so casual with her and she gets used to it, and in the future when she meets a man she doesn't know how to draw that line and someone takes advantage of her, what are you going to do?"

And then it was yet another round of whipping with that leather belt…

What the heck! He was truly his father's son. Even their ways of whipping were the same!

But he couldn't voice his excuse for it. There was actually a somewhat special relationship between Xia Rou and himself. Although Cao An could accept women, he liked men more. Xia Rou also knew this, so when they hung out, they ignored the lines of gender; it was comforting.

But he didn't have the courage to confess this to Cao Xiong and also didn't have the guts to tell Cao Yang the truth.

But this big brother of his really looked like their father! He was already shivering in fear just looking at him!

But Cao An had to admit what Cao Yang brought up was also true.

The heck! He's indeed the real son of his father! Even their ways of whipping were the same!

Xia Rou was now growing more beautiful by the day, a rosebud going to bloom.

After being lectured by Cao Yang, he knew that… Second and third brother had already been keeping Xia Rou at a distance already.

No matter what, she was a girl, and it was different than raising a boy.

And most importantly… in the end, Xia Rou was not blood related.

It was too embarra.s.sing to say that he had been beaten up by his brother only because he had been on her bed…

Cao An snorted and in the end did not tell Xia Rou what it was truly about.

Also, he somehow felt that… the way big brother treated Xia Rou… wasn't… it seemed too…

Too overprotective? Translated by The Novelst

But he remembered back in high school when he had gotten into a fight. In the end, the person had grouped up with others to beat him up. The teacher wanted to see his parents, but his father wasn't in town. At that time, big brother hadn't even graduated from military school yet but went to meet the teacher as his "parent" in uniform.

He had scanned that group of children, politely asking the teacher about the situation and then apologizing.

Such a handsome and young military man, with such a nice att.i.tude. Even the teachers were embarra.s.sed, so they let Cao An off easy and asked him to write a letter of apology.

Big brother had promised to do so with a smile.

After they left the office, big brother stuffed his cap into his hand and… in just a few minutes' time, had taken down all the kids who had ganged up on him.

The teachers were all dumbfounded. After that incident, his teacher handled his matters very carefully.

He let out a sigh. Maybe big brother wasn't too overprotective towards Xia Rou after all.

He had always been like this. Cao Yang couldn't bear to see his family bullied outside the house; his sense of responsibility was too strong. He had taken the role of a second parent already.

But Xia Rou was different. She was a girl and wouldn't go out to fight with others. And the most worrying thing about her was that she might be tricked by a man and be taken advantage of.

Now that he looked at the matter like this, what big brother was saying was correct.

He should pay more attention in the future!

Proofread by: Hannah