Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 454 - 467: Su Jinnian’s Warning

It seemed as if there was blood-red spreading before her eyes.

Time flowed backward, she was once again returned to the memory of when she was five, that little girl watching helplessly as her mother was hit by an out-of-control truck. The difference was that this time, she clearly saw a little boy being pushed away by her mother, wearing the same clean short top as her, hers had a bunny pattern, his was a bear...

"Ah..." she let out a low cry in the café, in extreme pain, her head feeling like it was about to split open.

She reached out weakly to hold her forehead, countless fragmented images flashed rapidly before her eyes, and in every scene, there was a little boy who looked exactly like her, standing in the depths of time, smiling at her innocently, calling her "sister" with a voice as soft and sticky as Han’s...

Sister...

Sister.

How could she have forgotten him?

Jinnian. Her Jinnian. Her twin brother, the frail and sickly Jinnian from young, whenever there was something good to eat or play with, she always thought of him too, and he did the same.

"I..." her tears flowed down, past cataclysmic events once again tore open like a wound, "I thought you were dead... Jinnian, I don’t blame you for implicating mom, if I were there I would have pushed you away too. It was them... it was grandpa and dad, grandpa and dad told me you were dead! I..."

That’s why she forgot him, she couldn’t bear such a blow, her mother’s death was already devastating, and to have her twin brother who was of the same blood perish as well?

In this world, from such an early time, it turned out she was left alone.

Suddenly she kind of understood Han’s almost obsessive closeness to Jue, for one of the twins, losing the other is a very painful thing, that kind of loneliness deeply buried in the heart, whether one realizes it or not, lurks like a black hole, requiring all the strength to fill. That’s why Han liked to be so close to Jue, maybe he saw that child of the same age as a substitute for the deceased twin? Just like her, longing for the warmth of family over these years, perhaps, was only in search of his substitute...

"Jinnian..." she trembled as she called his name.

Su Jinnian looked at her quietly with a pair of light brown indifferent eyes, somewhat aloof, showing no emotions.

However, he did not refuse the hand she reached out, allowing her warm yet trembling hands to clasp his cold ones.

"I really thought you were dead... they all told me so..." she murmured repeats.

"Dead?" A faint indifferent smile appeared at the corners of Su Jinnian’s lips, "No, I’ve always lived well. Grandfather intentionally deceived you, because the situation of the Mu Family was too dangerous at the time, and my life was also in jeopardy, he had to make everyone think I was dead, only then could I have a slim chance of survival."

Their grandfather was farsighted, even deceiving her.

Otherwise, with her being so little, if she let something slip, or behaved strangely, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Su Xingyu did not heed what he said, she only felt guilty, "Jinnian, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have forgotten you."

There was pain in her voice, her brother, fragile and pale as if he would shatter with a touch, had he gone through life not easily over these years?

While thinking this, he took out a thin black card from his pocket and tossed it in front of her: "Take it."

A voice as thin as ice.

She was startled: "What’s this?"

"Living expenses." He withdrew his pale cold hand from hers, lightly tapping the black card with his slender fingers that had an air of high-grade matte gloss, "Take Han and move out of the Lu Family, find another place to live. The money on this card is enough for you and your son to live without a care for a whole lifetime."

She was more stunned: "Why?"

She indeed wanted to reunite with a younger brother, but she didn’t expect to get anything from him, besides, where did he get the money?

She didn’t know what the standard of ’living without a care’ was that he spoke of, but looking at his attire, although seemingly a simple low-profile white shirt, the tailoring and material were exquisite, evidently not an inexpensive item. The watch on his wrist not particularly conspicuous but Su Xingyu recognized it, it was a custom model from a famous brand in Switzerland. According to his standard, living without a care was likely an amount of money ordinary middle-class people wouldn’t even dare to imagine, the Mu Family had long since gone bankrupt, and he was not a young master with ancestral shade, earning such an amount must be very very arduous.

"I don’t need it." She said.

"No, you need it." Su Jinnian insisted, his light brown eyes indifferent as thin ice, looking at her, "Leave Lu Shifeng, none of the Lu Family are good people. Many years ago, that old man from the Lu Family almost burned our grandfather to death, and many years later, Lu Shifeng almost got you killed."

Su Xingyu’s heart skipped a beat: "Lu, Mr. Lu almost burned our grandfather to death?" Heaven, what is going on?

The pale boy showed that faintly indifferent sarcastic smile again: "Of course you don’t know, no one from the Lu Family would tell you, back when Mr. Lu and the old lady were studying in the United States, that old man wanted to eliminate his rival — our grandfather to pursue the old lady. The old man set a large fire in a camellia garden, if our grandfather hadn’t been lucky, where would we have been born?"

"This!!" Su Xingyu had heard of the camellia garden fire, but it was not at all the version he spoke of.

She looked at Su Jinnian saying: "How could it be? Wasn’t the camellia garden fire an accident? Our grandfather accidentally dropped a cigarette butt that started the fire, Mr. Lu was just..." She initially wanted to say, Mr. Lu just happened to pass by and saved the old lady. But thinking carefully, is there really such a coincidence in this world?

Her face turned pale.

Su Jinnian looked at her sarcastically: "At least you’re not completely stupid."

He pushed the black card towards her with his pale fingers: "Here’s a piece of advice, move away from Lu Shifeng, he’s just a heartless bastard."

Su Xingyu’s mind was in a mess, what really happened with that camellia garden fire? Was it really purely accidental, or was there more hidden truth as Su Jinnian said? If there was hidden truth, did Lu Shifeng not know the truth or did he purposely hide it from her?...

So many questions lingered in her mind.

However, "I can’t move out now," she told her twin brother, "Jue —that’s Lu Shifeng’s son, still needs my care. He can’t be away from me and Han."

"Foolish." Su Jinnian looked at her disdainfully, "You’re obviously inextricably in love with him, don’t make these lame excuses."