Dashing Student

Chapter 335 - 335, The Campus Belle is Actually My Sister

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Confused, so confused, utterly confused!

Chen Nan was completely baffled.

A tingling sensation crawled across his scalp, sending shivers down his spine.

He had never dreamed he would meet Lin Xi here.

Even more unexpectedly,

Lin Xi turned out to be his stepmother’s daughter!

This melodramatic twist was so outrageous that not even Auntie Qiongyao would dare write it, right?

Lin Xi was also staring at Chen Nan with gaping disbelief.

Her beautiful eyes revealed a look of incredulity, never expecting to see Chen Nan in this place.

Aunt Yan looked at her daughter with confusion, then at Chen Nan, and couldn’t help asking, "Do you two know each other?"

Chen Nan reacted very quickly and hurriedly said, "I’ve seen Lin Xi at school."

Aunt Yan was relieved and then explained, "Xixi, this is your Uncle Chen’s son, Chen Nan. Given your ages, you should call him ’Brother!’"

"Huh?" Lin Xi’s face was full of astonishment. Chen Nan was Uncle Chen’s son?

This guy was actually her brother?

Lin Xi simply couldn’t accept this fact.

After all,

she had just parted from Chen Nan, and the two of them had done that kind of thing...

"Let’s talk inside the house!" Aunt Yan, not realizing her daughter’s emotional state, enthusiatically took the fruit basket and two bottles of red wine from Chen Nan’s hands.

"Oh, okay."

Chen Nan pretended to be calm and assented, then followed Aunt Yan back to the familiar home, not daring to look at Lin Xi even as he passed by her.

Because he felt conflicted, he hadn’t expected Lin Xi to be his stepmother’s daughter and did not know how to face her.

It had been two years since he’s been home.

Everything in the house was still so familiar.

Even the ornaments on the TV cabinet were in their original places.

Standing to the side, Aunt Yan was somewhat apprehensive and said with an awkward smile, "Chen Nan, I heard from your aunt that you’re back to study. Although I’ve missed you and wanted you to live with us again, I didn’t dare call you. I hope you won’t hold it against me."

"How have you been doing living outside these past few days?"

She was obviously an elder.

Yet she behaved very meekly in front of Chen Nan.

As if she was afraid of inadvertently upsetting him.

Chen Nan hadn’t expected Aunt Yan to be so nervous, and it left him with mixed feelings. She was, after all, his elder!

Feeling tangled inside, Chen Nan also realized that if it hadn’t been for his willfulness two years ago, she would never have acted so nervously in front of him.

This deepened his sense of guilt.

Taking a deep breath, he said with a shamefaced expression, "Aunt Yan, two years ago, it was a younger relative’s fault for being unreasonable and opposing your relationship with my dad. I know it’s late to apologize now, but I still want to say sorry to you!"

As he said this, he bowed deeply to Aunt Yan.

He faced the mistake he had made two years ago.

He chose not to run away.

Aunt Yan looked at Chen Nan with astonished eyes, tears welling up in them, seeming not to expect an apology from him, and it made her feel touched and surprised.

Without a moment’s hesitation, she hastened to help Chen Nan up, her voice choked with emotion, "Silly child, we’re a family, and a family needn’t say these things, there’s no need for them."

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Lin Xi herself harbored quite a few grievances against this older brother, knowing that their mother had suffered greatly because of him, but seeing Chen Nan’s sincere attitude, much of the resentment in her heart had dissipated.

"Come on, let’s go offer incense to your father. He would be very happy if he knew you had come back," Yan Jin said tearfully, taking Chen Nan by the hand and entering a room on the first floor.

The room was dimly lit, with a portrait and memorial tablet of their father, Chen Dashan inside. Two candles were burning beside the tablet, and the incense in the censer had never ceased burning.

Chen Nan knelt before the portrait and lit three sticks of incense, his eyes reddening as he said, "Dad, I’m back! You can rest assured, from now on, I will never act rashly again."

"I will abide by your last wish and take good care of Aunt Yan and her daughter!" he said, kowtowing three times.

Although Chen Nan had accepted the existence of Yan Jin, he couldn’t bring himself to call her "mom."

However,

Yan Jin didn’t mind these things, because receiving Chen Nan’s acknowledgement had already made her very happy.

After offering incense to their father, Chen Nan and Yan Jin went to the living room, where Yan Jin said joyfully, "Chen Nan, don’t leave now that you’re back. I’ll go buy some groceries later, and we can all get together as a family and have a good time."

"Okay," Chen Nan readily agreed. Although he felt uncomfortable being around Aunt Yan, he also knew that if he left, she would be disappointed.

And that was why he decided to stay.

Yan Jin nodded excitedly, then turned to Lin Xi, who was playing with her phone in the living room, and said softly, "Xixi, I’ll go buy groceries. You stay and chat with your brother, as you young people probably have a lot in common to talk about!"

"Oh," Lin Xi replied reluctantly.

Once Yan Jin had left the villa, Chen Nan sat on the sofa with an embarrassed face, "I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were Aunt Yan’s daughter!"

"Hmph!" Lin Xi snorted irritably. "If you hadn’t gone off to practice in the mountains on a whim two years ago, how could you not know about my existence?"

"Do you know that because of you, my mom spent two years as a living widow?"

"Do you realize how much pressure she’s been under these past two years?"

Chen Nan remained silent.

Because he knew that anything he said at that moment would be feeble and powerless.

As Lin Xi spoke, she grew more agitated, a look of grievance spreading across her innocent face: "Yes, my mother and I did indeed move into the Chen Family’s mansion, but even now, we stay in the guest rooms."

"We’re already like guests living on someone else’s goodwill, and so we must have the awareness that comes with it. Besides, we have been prepared to be kicked out by you at any moment!"

"You see these decorations? Have they been moved even slightly?"

"It’s not that we don’t want to move them."

"It’s that we dare not, even cleaning with great care, placing things back exactly where we picked them up from."

"Fearing that we might do something wrong and provoke your anger, Young Master Chen, when you suddenly return!"

Chen Nan’s face reddened, unable to help but retort, "I admit I was a bit rash two years ago, but I’m not as hateful as you’re making me out to be, am I?"

He could not deny the mistakes he had made.

But he simply couldn’t accept his father suddenly bringing home a stepmother.

"You’re definitely not any good anyway!" Lin Xi snorted disdainfully.

Chen Nan chose to remain silent.

Because in this matter, he indeed had no grounds to refute Lin Xi.

He was indeed not any good.

"Well, I’m going back to my room," Chen Nan said with an awkward smile, stood up, and headed towards the elevator. Since Lin Xi didn’t like him, he might as well stay out of her sight as much as possible.

It would spare her the annoyance of seeing him.

Chen Nan’s room was on the fifth floor.

Even though he hadn’t come back in two years, the room had been kept spotless.

The bedding was also clean, carrying the scent of having been aired out in the sun.

Just as Chen Nan had returned to his room, Lin Xi pushed open the door and entered, her face of innocence now bearing a look of grievance: "I gave you my first time, why are you avoiding me?"