“I’m not going to ignore you.”
Luo Lingsheng heard the unease in Shi Yunnan’s words, and replied with a tenderness that he himself hadn’t even noticed.
He opened the cap of the water bottle and handed it over, instructing word by word, “Rinse your mouth before drinking water.”
“Um.”
Shi Yunnan obediently did as he was told.
He first ran back to the canal to rinse his mouth and spit out the water, and then gulped down the remaining half of the bottle of water.
Seeing Shi Yunnan was still dizzy, Luo Lingsheng walked to his side and said, “Follow me to the main house. There should be a separate room on the second floor. I’ll find a waiter to take you to rest.”
Since Wen Yibei is Shi Yunnan’s twin, the other party should take care of him.
Shi Yunnan didn’t say a word; he just grabbed Luo Lingsheng’s wrist and pulled him in one direction, “I’m not going to the main house, you come with me.”
Luo Lingsheng had no need to defend himself against a drunken person like Shi Yunnan. He stayed in place for two or three seconds, and finally took a step, led by him.
Half a minute later, Shi Yunnan took him to a terrace at the corner of the backyard.
There was still half a bottle of whisky on the wooden floor of the open-air terrace. Obviously, this was the “secret place” where the other party had been staying after he ran out of the main house’s banquet hall.
Shi Yunnan sat by himself and handed the whiskey to Luo Lingsheng,”…Drink? I still have a lot left.”
Luo Lingsheng saw the remaining amount of whisky and his heart felt helpless, “Did you drink that much just now?”
With that burst of drunken madness, he thought he had downed a whole bottle in one go.
Luo Lingsheng put the whiskey back on the terrace. When he was drinking outside, he was accustomed to doing it superficially.
Luo Lingsheng stood diagonally in front of Shi Yunnan and casually asked, “Why don’t you want to go back to the front yard with me? The birthday party isn’t over yet.”
How can Shi Yunnan, as one of the protagonists of this birthday banquet, be attacked by others and hide here to drink alone?
“What should I go there? Those people didn’t come for me.” Shi Yunnan grumbled, then picked up the whiskey and took a small sip.
Luo Lingsheng was too late to stop him, and certainly did not have the position to do so.
Luo Lingsheng guessed again, “Do you have a bad relationship with Wen Yibei?”
Hearing this speculation, Shi Yunnan immediately glared at him “viciously,” “Don’t you talk nonsense! My brother and I are on good terms! Be careful, I’ll beat you up!“
“…..”
Why did he suddenly turn against him at the mention of this?
The corners of Luo Lingsheng’s mouth shook with a helpless smile, completely unafraid of his fake threat, and the curiosity in his heart could not help but grow even stronger.
As far as he knew, the Wen family was considered a musical family, and the Shi family was also a small wealthy family in the Imperial Capital circle.
Since they are brothers with the same parents, and they have a good relationship, why is the treatment so different? If he remembers correctly, only Wen Yibei’s name was written on the birthday party invitation today.
Shi Yunnan was addicted and took another sip of wine, saying, “Anyway, no one here knows me, and it’s no use if I go to the front.” mfn: Not sure how to translate this. 人菜瘾大: Literally translated to human are addicted to vegetable. This term implies a self-deprecating or ridiculing meaning of “Even though it’s bad/I’m not good at it, I still want to do it.”
The fact that the Wen family was going to hold a birthday party for Wen Yibei was told to him early on.
At first, Shi Yunnan insisted that he did not want to participate, and his attitude was very firm. He even refused to return to Wen’s house with the excuse of going on vacation with his friends, so his name was not on the invitation letter at all.
However, Wen Yibei called him again yesterday.
For the two brothers, whose father does not love them and whose mother is absent, their eighteenth birthday means adulthood and the ability to take on everything and live their own lives.
Parents can be absent, but they cannot be absent from each other. Therefore, Shi Yunnan still came in the end.
He worked hard to save for living expenses and bought a three-piece suit a long time ago as a coming-of-age gift for himself and his brother.
Shi Yunnan took a look at the clothes he was wearing and couldn’t help but take another big sip of whiskey. He took a deep breath when he accidentally choked on the spicy smell.
“Tsk, what’s the use of buying this suit for yourself and still being scolded by others.“
—Today‘s birthday party is all for Wen Yibei. Do you think someone knows you? You grew up being trash that nobody wanted.
Luo Lingsheng thought of the remarks he had just heard on the stairs, and a trace of dismay swept past his eyes.
Although he did not understand the cause and effect, nor did he understand the grievances between the Wen and Shi families, those words were truly heartbreaking and excessive for a teenager who had just turned 18 years old.
As he was thinking, a suppressed gasp suddenly came from the side. Luo Lingsheng turned back from his drifting thoughts and looked down…
Shi Yunnan lowered his head so hard that no one could see the expression on his face. His hands were tightly clasping the mouth of the whisky bottle. His knuckles were turning white with force. He must be holding back his emotions.
But how much heartache and grievance can the eighteen-year-old, who has just come of age, hold back?
It wasn’t long before Shi Yunnan’s shoulders began to shift slightly and tears fell on his trouser legs drop by drop, dipping the dark blue suit into an even darker shade.