Xiang Xiaochuang was packing his luggage when Tang Xiangtian walked in without knocking.
"I have already booked a flight for tomorrow morning. I feel like I will lose a whole day when I return to China from the United States, which is a bit uneconomical." Xiang Xiaochuang joked while stuffing a coat into his backpack.
"Then don't go back." Tang Xiangtian said silently.
"Aren't you going back?" Xiang Xiaochuang laughed. "I don't think I have any use in the United States. It's just for me to be a eldest lady. I can stretch out my hands with clothes and open my mouth with food. If I live like this for a few more days, I will probably
Become crazy."
"You are... the eldest lady of the Tang family." Tang Xiangtian seemed to have a negative tone.
"Maybe I was born to work hard!" Xiang Xiaochuang zipped up his backpack and breathed a sigh of relief, "I have been working since I was in high school and I am used to it. If you want me to wander around with nothing to do,
A few days is fine, but if it lasts longer than a week, I’ll definitely go crazy!”
"If...if you weren't...oh, I mean, I wasn't your brother, would you like me?" Tang Xiangtian asked hesitantly.
Xiang Xiaochuang raised his eyes in surprise: "Of course I do. Every time we meet, I feel very cordial. Whether you are my biological brother or not, I will like you as much as I like my younger brother."
Tang Xiangtian opened his mouth and suddenly closed it again.
This time, it was Xiang Xiaochuang's turn to hesitate: "What's wrong? You...are not my biological brother?"
Tang Xiangtian shook his head hastily: "I was just making an analogy."
Xiang Xiaochuang smiled with relief: "You will always be my brother." She lowered her head to smooth a wrinkle on her clothes, so she did not see Tang Xiangtian's suddenly stiff facial expression.
"You have always been in contact with Du Jiawen. He booked the air tickets, right?" Tang Xiangtian sat next to her, sniffing the fragrance of her hair, and suddenly felt at peace.
"Yes." Xiang Xiaochuang's face was lightly pinked, and he seemed a little guilty, "He is my immediate boss, how could there be no contact?"
"Xiaochuang, I really can't bear to leave you." Tang Xiangtian approached her.
"I can't bear to part with you either, Xiangtian." Xiang Xiaochuang tilted her head to look at him, her raised lips barely a millimeter away from his chin.
Both of them fell silent immediately, and Xiang Xiaochuang tilted his head back slightly in embarrassment.
"Xiaochang, do you still remember when you were very young...your mother..."
Xiang Xiaochuang's mood dropped: "No, I have almost no memory. I should have been five years old when I disappeared, right? Logically speaking, I should have some memory, but I really don't remember my father or my mother.
I……"
"No impression at all?"
Xiang Xiaochuang thought hard and answered hesitantly: "I have a vague impression that my mother...she seems to have a gentle embrace, and...she...she..."
She frowned, obviously she felt something in her heart, but she couldn't express it.
"Dad said, your mother's name is Xiang Chenbi."
Xiang Xiaochuang nodded hurriedly: "Yes, I seem to remember someone named Mama Bi'er. It seems like this... He... I only have a vague memory, he is..."
Why didn't the man in her memory seem to be Mr. Tang? Because she was so absorbed in thinking, when she suddenly woke up, she found that Tang Xiangtian's light brown eyes were even brighter than the bright sunshine outside the window.
"Xiangtian?" Her eyes flashed with panic, and Tang Xiangtian quickly sat up straight.
"I just... saw that you were lost in thought, so I took a closer look."
Xiang Xiaochuang gave him an uneasy smile: "Have you finished writing your thesis?"
"Thesis?" Tang Xiangtian was confused.
"Didn't you go to the library specifically that day to look up information? I think it must be difficult. You looked up it for a long time."
"Oh, I have almost completed my credits. I have already handed my thesis to the professor and am waiting for the defense notification!" Tang Xiangtian shrugged. It seemed that the homework was just a piece of cake for him.
"That day, I went to investigate... an old case from ten years ago."
"Ten years ago... was it the year my mother died?" Xiang Xiaochuang's eyes brightened slightly, "She... she died of illness. At that time..."
Her voice of hope was slightly trembling, obviously she wanted to know, but she was also faintly afraid.
"She has been in poor health, but if there had been no gang fighting at that time, she might not have died so quickly. I checked many newspapers, and they all just called her Mrs. Tang. Only one Chinese newspaper mentioned her name.
.”
Xiang Xiaochuang took a deep breath: "Her name - isn't it Xiang Chenbi?"
"Yes, her name is Xiang Danqing. When I was a child, I always called her Aunt Xiang, and I always thought she was your mother. But then my father said that your mother's name was Shen Bi, and I became suspicious. In the past two days, I
I asked the elders in the gang and found out that Xiang Chenbi does have a descendant, and she is Xiang Danqing's biological sister."
"What do you mean, I'm not my father's daughter?" Xiang Xiaochuang was silent for a long time before asking. Mr. Tang treated her with meticulous care, so how could he not be her father?
"No, I think you may be the daughter of your father and Xiang Chenbi. After all, you have always been the eldest lady of the Tang family, and the old people will remember it." Tang Xiangtian smiled uneasily, "Xiao Chuang, I originally wanted to completely
I will tell you when the truth comes out, but since you are in a hurry to return to China, I...can you stay, and we can investigate together."
Xiang Xiaochuang bit his lip and shook his head: "It's nothing. Maybe I am an illegitimate daughter. My mother... she did not marry my father. She may have left me to be raised by my sister. That is also... possible."
Her fingertips trembled slightly, as if she wanted to confirm her argument. There was an inexplicable fear in her heart that maybe things were not like this.
"Maybe... I am not my father's daughter, I..."
"Xiaochang!" Tang Xiangtian stretched out his hand and put her small hand in his big palm, "Stay here, let's find out together."
Xiang Xiaochuang's fingers were slightly cool: "But... if you can't find out, what can I find out? The United States is a completely unfamiliar existence to me."
"You will gradually become familiar with it."
Xiang Xiaochuang lowered his head and said nothing, obviously struggling and hesitant in his heart.
Tang Xiangtian almost held his breath, waiting for her reply.
"It's a foreign country...I...no matter what my identity is in the end, I am still Xiang Xiaochuang." She raised her head and suddenly had a relieved smile, "For me, nothing has changed. I still rely on my own hands."
, earn your own living expenses.”
"But, for me... it's completely different!" Tang Xiangtian sighed in a low voice. Xiang Xiaochuang could no longer hear the second half of the sentence clearly.