Secretly, Secretly; But Unable To Hide It Chapter 2

That man watches her for a while and seems to think of something. He somehow feels excited. He frowns and purposely lowers his voice:”Em.”

“……” Sang Zhi is unable to control herself, she almost falls apart. “Papa and Mama approved this?”

It’s a few seconds silent.

That man licks his lips and says: “Isn’t enough if I could have a perfect one?”

Sang Zhi is startled.

Compared to Sang Yan’s voice, this voice sounds so fresh and smooth. His final sound of a syllable sounds dubious and pleasant.

Her Ge Ge always talk in cold tone and mood.

It’s completely different.

“Kid.” He laughs lowly and continues to say: “Come here and see whether Ge Ge’s plastic surgery looks great?”

Sang Zhi feels something is wrong.

This time she hears noise behind her and her sound of footsteps.

She looks back.

A man comes out from the bathroom with a wet hair and a towel on his shoulder. He looks at Sang Zhi and takes the fork on the fruit plate. He eats the watermelon.

Sang Zhi looks like she encounters a ghost. She calls out her while shivering. “Ge, Ge Ge……”

“What?” Sang Yan looks at her and bites the watermelon. “You are impressed of my handsomeness?”

“I…..”

She hasn’t say anything and the man behind her laughs out loud and cuts her words off.

It’s a rare chance for Sang Zhi to be fl.u.s.tered. She looks at that man. The man stops frowning. He looks like an alluring man.

Sang Zhi’s heart seems to stop beating at that moment.

Sang Yan thinks that man is mocking him so Sang Yan looks at the man. “Duan Jia Xu, what are you laughing..”

Because of Sang Zhi, San Yan doesn’t say any bad words. He takes his phone and opens the ma.s.sager app. He sways her hand in front of Sang Zhi’s face.

“Xiao Gui (Little demon: a term of endearment for a child), what trouble do you make?”

Sang Zhi immediately denies: “What trouble can I make.”

Sang Yan watches her and raises his brow: “It’s good that you make no trouble.”

“……..” Sang Zhi has request for him so she tries to speak again. “But Ge Ge, I have something…..”

Sang Zhi looks at the unfamiliar man to signal to Sang Yan to let that man go a while.

Sang Yan just acts like he doesn’t notice it.

Afterwards, that unfamiliar man speaks up and asks excitedly. “Sang Yan, she is your Mei (Younger sister)?”

Sang Yan goes and sits down on his bed. “Is it possible that she is my daughter?”

“……..”

Sang Zhi asks politely: “Ge Ge, who is this person?”

Sang Yan says concisely and comprehensively: “My roommate, Duan Jia Xu.”

“You don’t recognize me?” Duan Jia Xu says: “Didn’t you call me Ge Ge before?”

This question makes Sang Zhi remember her dim-witted thought before. She breaks down and feels annoyed.

Sang Yan snorts lightly: “You are affectionate.”

Duan Jia Xu walks toward Sang Zhi’s front and kneels down. He looks at her eyes seriously. His eyes are warm and charming. “I am Duan Jia Xu, is your Ge Ge’s friend.”

Sang Zhi looks away and acts unease: “Oh.”

After Duan Jia Xu introduced himself formally to this little kid, Duan Jia Xu looks at Sang Yan. “Sang Yan.”

Sang Yan doesn’t even lift up his head and continues to play with his phone.

Duan Jia Xu asks: “It seems I and you look quite similar?”

What does he mean?

Sang Yan stops and looks at him. “Please look at the mirror.”

“Then.” Duan Jia Xu continues: “How can this kid asked me….”

“……..”

It’s a two-second silence.

Duan Jia Xu laughs again: “Whether I did a plastic surgery?”

“…..”

A short silence.

Sang Yan says cooly: “What do you mean?”

“Ge Ge!” Sang Zhi is afraid that Sang Yan will be unhappy and he will not help her to meet up with the teacher. Sang Zhi changes the topic quickly: “Didn’t you tell me that you will not come home?”

“Xiao Gui.” By looking at Sang Zhi’s expression, Sang Yan says expressionlessly. “You thought that he is me?”

“….. No, No.”

“You thought that he is me after the plastic surgery?”

“……”

“How could you think about it?” Sang Yan’s self-confidence starts to crumbling. He says with arrogantly and nastily: “I have a plastic surgery? Moreover I change my appearance to look like him……”

Seeing that he is not yet finished to boast about himself, Sang Zhi says: “Isn’t it proper and right for you to mend yourself to him!”

“……..”

“Mama didn’t tell me that you bring your friend home.” Sang Zhi says angrily, she shows her true self. “In this bedroom there’s only him here, it’s normal for me to think that way!”

Sang Yan is impatient. “Lower your voice.”

Sang Zhi calms dowm: “Why should I lower my voice, I also don’t disturb the others.”

The brother and sister are confronting each other.

Sang Yan seems to not back down, he continues: “You disturb me.”

This is getting intense.

Duan Jia Xu takes initiative to smooth the situation. He waves his hand toward her. “Little kid, come here and eat the fruits.”

With his friend here, Sang Yan has no interest to bully his sister again. He glances at his phone and says to Duan Jia Xu. “Do you want to take shower? Then you can go back to school.”

“No need.” Duan Jia Xu takes another watermelon with a fork and pa.s.ses it to Sang Zhi. “Eat the watermelon before you leave.”

Sang Zhi pursues her lips and looks at Duan Jia Xu.

This moment she compares Sang Yan and Duan Jia Xu. Sang Yan is childish and ugly Ge Ge, this big brother looks kind. She remembers about the embarra.s.sing moment before.

She feels wronged and finds it hard to explain her feeling.

She feels like she is abandoned.

Her face starts to turn red and hot. Her eyes are starting to become teary.

She feels so embarra.s.sed.

Sang Zhi takes the fork from her and finally she starts to chokes.

Duan Jia Xu pauses.

Sang Yan also hears it and looks at Sang Zhi: “….. It can’t be…..”

Then Sang Zhi’s tears start to fall down nonstop. She even cries loudly.

It is so loud that the person in the living room can hear her.

“……”

Both men are startled at the same time and cannot move.

Li Ping immediately comes inside the room. “What happened?”

Sang Yan responds quickly and says shamelessly: “Duan Jia Xu, how could bully my Mei ah.”

Duan Jia Xu is stiffen.

He never encounters this thing, for a short time, he cannot respond.

He isn’t sure whether he is the one that makes her cry or not.

Without his explanation. In the next moment, Sang Zhi just pulls Duan Jia Xu’s sleeve and hides behind him. She looks like she is afraid. She looks Li Ping and chokes. She points at Sang Yan: “Mama… wu wuh…. Ge, Ge Ge…..”

Li Ping looks at Sang Yan cooly that he feels chilly.

Sang Zhi cries even more harder: “Ge Ge hit me…..”

Sang Yan: “……”

The little kid cries miserably. Her tears keep on pouring down. It’s a rare moment to see Sang Zhi cries this way. Li Ping feels sorry for her and pampers her for a while. Then she changes her expression, she pulls Sang Yan to the living room to scold him.

The door is closed.

The atmosphere turns calmer. Sang Zhi releases Duan Jia Xu’s sleeve and stops crying.

Duan Jia Xu turns his head to look at him.

This young girl is young. Her development isn’t as good as the other girls around her age. She is less than 150 cm. Her eyes are big and red. She looks like a little rabbit.

Then she takes bite of a watermelon. She has completely stopped crying.

Duan Jia Xu laughs and doesn’t ask why she is crying. He takes a tissue for her. “You are not crying again?”

Sang Zhi feels her mood turns better after crying. Yet she stills feels a bit embarra.s.sed.

She lowers her head and says nothing.

Because of their height difference, Duan Jia Xu kneels down and wipes her tears. “Later on go by yourself and wash your face.”

Sang Zhi is used to being taken care of so she doesn’t avoid his action.

In the silence.

Sang Zhi suddenly thinks of something.

It’s a quite sudden thought.

After a while of thinking, Sang Zhi speaks up. She says with her cute baby voice: “Ge Ge, are you leaving?”

Duan Jia Xu says: “Em, why?”

“Are you free tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow?”

“Yes.” Sang Zhi says in low voice: “Tomorrow.”

Duan Jia Xu laughs lightly: “Why are asking about my schedule?”

He doesn’t make it clear whether he is free or not tomorrow, Sang Zhi also cannot speak it out: “It’s … it’s just……” at last she talks about her question again. This time she tries to add another appellation win favor by fawning him. “Ge Ge, are you free tomorrow?”

Duan Jia Xu looks at her and says lazily: “If Ge Ge has no free time tomorrow?”

Sang Zhi is worried. “No!”

Before she provoked Sang Yan, he definitely will not help. Her only hope now is only this man.

She clenches her hand and threatens him dully. “You definitely have free time. If you have no time then I will… I will just tell my Mama that you both hit me. Two man hit a little girl…..”

“……….”

Duan Jia Xu pursues his mouth: “Little kid, why are you acting irrationally?”

Sang Zhi glances at him and says confidently: “I am still young.”

“Em.”

“I don’t know what you mean by acting irrationally?”

“……”

Okay.

Duan Jia Xu smiles yet it’s not really a smile. “Then tell me first, what do you want me to do tomorrow.”

Sang Zhi hesitates for a while and says: “Could you pretend to be my Ge Ge, biological one.”

Duan Jia Xu raises his brow.

“Then tomorrow.” She feels a bit embarra.s.sed to speak out about it. She lowers her voice: “go and meet with my Lao Shi (Teacher) for a while….”

Duan Jia Xu finally understands: “Your parent are called over?”

Sang Zhi just answers silently.

“What is the reason?”

She recalls the made-up reasons she made on the bus, Sang Zhi doesn’t know whether he will believe her or not. She scratches her scalp and hesitates. “Could I not tell you about it?”

“You could.”

Duan Jia Xu doesn’t wait till she sighs, he just adds mindlessly: “Then Ge Ge has no free time tomorrow.”

Intermezzo:

Sang Zhi is furious: “Okay, you are great! No free time! Then just no free time! Good! Bye! !!!!

Two seconds later: “Okay, I’ll tell you.”