The Untamed : Another story

Brothers !

Lan Xichen 's pov

I followed Meng Yao to a corner of the West Wing garden. The scent of jasmine floated in the air. A fountain could be heard lapping the stones with its soft water. After making sure no one could hear us, he turned to me.

"Brother, I have to ask you a question that's been on my mind, and I'm sure you know it. " He did not blink.

"I am listening to you" I answered quietly.

"Is Jin Guangshan my real father?"

I should have known that his deductions would lead him to discover this secret. I felt his gaze on me. He lowered his head and shoulders and sighed.

"Your silence is my answer. " I wondered what thoughts could be going through his brilliant mind.

"How did you find out?"

"I was outside the command tent when Wei Wuxian spoke about Jin GuangYao and revealed that he was the second son of Jin GuangShan. The rest was easy to understand, the similarity of our names, the fact that Wei Wuxian doesn't like me very much and then just now the reaction of young Jin Ling and his uncle Jiang Cheng, to which we have to add little things that were said... not to mention that warning from Wei-Gongzi asking me to stay away from Jin GuangShan if I wanted to stay alive!!!"

"You didn't know that, did you?"

"My mother never wanted to tell me who my father was. She said he didn't deserve to have a son like me. Since he didn't marry her or take her as a concubine. I don't even know if he knows about me or if he deliberately ignored me".

"Does it really matter? Look what kind of man he is! Even you call him untrustworthy, underhanded and selfish! Your mother was right, he doesn't deserve a son like you!"

I felt my heart clench. I had to convince him not to try to get close to his father. I looked at him. The memory of that night came back to me. I felt the fire rise to my cheeks as he looked up and his eyes fell on me.

"Brother, do you feel well? Don't be angry with me! I promise I won't try to get close to him."

I sighed. He had thought I was upset because of our talk about his father!

I still wondered if it was him that night who had come into my room to give me a gentle caress and kiss my lips. I could still feel the warmth of my "assailant's" lips. I would have liked to know, but if I was wrong? He was not embarrassed. There was nothing in his attitude towards me! At the same time, he was used to hiding what he felt and acting to survive. What could be more normal that his behavior was the same as the one I had always known!

"Brother I have something else to tell you! It's about young Master Lan. I may be wrong but I think that neither Lan nor Wei are his real names."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, I knew Wen Ning, before that branch of the Wen family was eliminated by the Jin clan. He and his sister had a young cousin named À-Yuan and that was the name Jiang Cheng used earlier in front of Nie MingJue, to refer to young Master Lan! Moreover, they really look like him a lot..."

"So you mean, this young man would be a Wen?"

"Yes, Wei Wuxian surely adopted him and raised him as his son..."

"And then Wangji took over!"

"Yes."

"Meng Yao, can you not reveal this information to MingJue for now?"

"If you ask me, I will be as silent as a grave!"

"Thank you, I think we'd better go back and see what's going on in the big room. Jin GuangShan looked furious!"

"He should be! Our 'guests' have put themselves under MingJue's protection and not his!"

I looked at the water in the fountain for a moment, then we left the garden and followed the gallery. As we passed the rooms, we saw Jin ZiXuan talking to young Jin Ling! When he saw us approaching his face closed while young Jin Ling's face lit up with a smile. ZiXuan stared at Meng Yao. His gaze was filled with contained anger and he muttered.

"It's clear that between his father's and uncle's doubles, he has made his choice!" after muttering these words ZiXuan turned around and left, furious.

Meng Yao and I had the answer to the question we had asked ourselves a few moments before! If ZiXuan knew that Meng Yao was his half-brother, Jin GuangShan knew about his son's birth!

Jin Ling watched him leave. He made a move as if to catch up with him but gave up and sighed.

"You find it hard to express yourself, don't you? And sometimes your words go beyond your thoughts?" said Meng Yao.

"Yes, except for uncle Wei, you were always the only one who understood me, Uncle. " Meng Yao smiled.

"I hope your uncle Jiang Cheng will change his mind about me. And we can really get to know each other, at least for the time you stay here!"

"I hope I didn't get you into trouble with ZiXuan!"

"Don't worry about that! It's my problem, not yours, and I'm nothing and nobody to them! So don't turn your head for that! Tell me instead if you need something."

"I'll leave you and go see how Uncle Wei and Uncle Lan are doing."

"Tell Uncle Jiang Cheng that we will come back to see them in the late afternoon"

Jin Ling nodded and left us after a brief nod. He then headed to Wuxian and Wangji's room.

"Meng Yao, before we go back into the turmoil, why don't we go and have a cup of tea to calm our minds?"

" Good idea, but MingJue must wait for us "

"Well, we'll say that our guests kept us a little longer than expected.

I smiled at him and motioned for him to follow me. I didn't want to go back right away and be caught between MingJue and GuangShan! One was sneaky and selfish and the other was brutal and uncompromising, but between the 2 only MingJue had my trust and was the one I really considered as brother.

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