Chapter 83 - Could It Be, Could It Be That She Is A Lesbian?
It didn’t take me long to figure out that the so-called problems of Chu Yuan and Xiao Yike were just a pretext. Most likely, they were discussing something about novels, otherwise, it was impossible to exclude the Dongfang Lianren.
I dragged over a chair and sat down opposite Dongfang. I was a bit concerned and hesitant, but the doubt seemed to be stuck in my throat, and there was always a feeling of unpleasantness if I didn’t say it out, “Hmmm… Dongfang, there is something that I don’t quite understand, I don’t know if you mind me asking?…”
Dongfang Lianren was dazed, and then said with a smile: “if elder Brother Nan wants to ask something, then just ask, there is no need to be scared. Haha, you are really interesting.”
I blushed in embarrassment, thinking that it was indeed a useless question. So I cleared my throat and asked directly, “You and Yike know each other in the past?”
“No,” Dongfang Lianren’s answer was short and simple. Then she looked at me with her cute face and said, “but I think that elder Brother Nan didn’t seem to just know her today.”
My heart instantly dropped. The eyes of this little girl were really sharp. “Yes, she and Yuanyuan met online. I went to meet her with Yuanyuan yesterday, but I was hiding on the side.”
“Oh, so that’s what it was.”
The sudden realization of Dongfang was very pretentious. No matter how I looked at it, I felt like she was testing me. I guessed that maybe Yuanyuan hasn’t mentioned the thing about “Smaller Boobies are better” to her.
Only after I saw Dongfang’s reaction did I just realized that if Yuanyuan had told her about Xiao Yike, she probably wouldn’t have asked me to go to meet Xiao Yike with her. No wonder Dongfang was a little bit resentful, and it seemed like it was not just toward Xiao Yike.
I knew that this girl was very scheming, so I deliberately pretended not to understand what she said, and asked with a suspicious tone, “Then you only get to know her today?”
“Mhm,” Dongfang Lianren nodded honestly, “What’s wrong?”
“Are you always hostile to the people you meet for the first time?” My suspicion was affirmed, but my mind was calmer, and my tone of voice became more straightforward. “Don’t tell me that you don’t want to pull a ‘prank’ on her, just like what you did to me yesterday.”
Dongfang Lianren was surprised, but she quickly covered it up with a sweet smile. “Elder Brother Nan’s words, I don’t seem to quite understand…” No matter how scheming she was, she was still a kid. After her secret was exposed by me, it was inevitable that she would reveal some true emotions.
“Pretending, you can continue pretending,” I couldn’t help but sigh, “Dongfang, I indeed said that I have forgiven you, but you have to understand that the reason why I forgive you is that Yuanyuan trusts you, and she believes that you have a good intention, But I’m not a fool. The reason why you tricked those kids to beat me, is it really that you want them to stop harassing Yuanyuan?”
“Yes-”
“Yes, my ass!” I removed the gauze on my right hand, revealing the long shocking scar,
“Then how do you explain this? You are scared that I would be able to chase them away easily, so you want to injure me first. Do you think that if it wasn’t me who was beaten up, it wouldn’t reach your desired outcome?”
“Yes-”
“My ass!”
Being interrupted by me using vulgar words twice in a row, Dongfang Lianren finally couldn’t hold it anymore, “Elder Brother Nan, why are you being so rude!”
I ignored her dissatisfaction and continued: “I am not denying the fact that you may really want to help Yuanyuan, but do you really have no other intentions? Five teenagers beating up me, this old man, it is already an easy task. But you still wanted to scratch my hand?”
Dongfang Lianren’s eyes moved and she suddenly smiled, “Yes, I admit that I deliberately scratched you, but you have said that you have forgiven me. Don’t tell me that you want to take back your words?”
I frowned: “I won’t take back my word, but I just don’t understand, did I do something to you in the past? Why do you dislike me?”
“I don’t know,” Dongfang Lianren pouted her lips and answered, “as long as I know that Yuanyuan is with you, I just feel uncomfortable.”
A sweat bead appeared on my forehead and then ran across my cheek. “Then, why don’t you like Yike? Don’t deny it, I just saw your look, it was very malicious.”
“Malicious? Elder Brother Nan, how could you say something like this about me,” Dongfang Lianren blushed as if I was not criticizing her, but rather praising her, and replied shyly, “this little girl is only sixteen years old, how can I be that scary?”
If you’re not sixteen, then having that kind of look will not be scary, but… how would a sixteen years old girl have that kind of look!
I looked at her coldly with a stern face. Seeing that I wasn’t amused, she also said in a bored manner, “Okay, okay, I admit that I also don’t like her, why does she have to stay that close to Yuanyuan.”
I was speechless. Of course, I knew the fact why Xiao Yike wanted to get close to Yuanyuan. Although I knew it was shameless to say something like this, it was because she wanted to get closer to me, and although I didn’t want to get closer to Xiao Yike, I didn’t want Dongfang Lianren to help me to get rid of her. Besides, comparing Xiao Yike to Dongfang Lianren, Xiao Yike had a much more lovely character.
“Because Yuanyuan wants to hang out with her, so you don’t like her?”
“No,” Dongfang Lianren corrected me with a straight face, “It is because she is harassing Yuanyuan, and Yuanyuan doesn’t like other people to harass her…”
What she said wasn’t all wrong. Yuanyuan was indeed quite cold and arrogant like a swan, even if she admired Xiao Yike, it would be impossible for her to take the initiative to make friends with Xiao Yike, but who Yuanyuan wanted to make friends with was not her business, right?
But when I was just about to ask, I saw Dongfang Lianren sneered at me, “Of course, you are an exception, so I want to pull a prank on you.”
I was an exception? Was she trying to say that Yuanyuan liked to get closer to me? What kind of joke was this? That bratty girl would only want to avoid me as much as possible. After thinking it over and over again, I couldn’t help but think that could it be that Yuanyuan moved in with me, so she had this misunderstanding?
At this time, even if I didn’t want to have the wrong idea, the answer of Dongfang Lianren was like a red cloth in the hands of the matador, drawing me in one direction. I couldn’t help but ask nervously, “You, you… like Yuanyuan?”
“Yes, a lot!” Dongfang Lianren’s simple and straight answer made me want to hit the corner of the table with my head… No, I prefer to hit her head with the corner of the table!
Seeing me with a strange expression on my face, Dongfang Lianren’s body suddenly shudder, and as if she finally realized it, her face instantly blushed and hurriedly shook her hands and said, “No, not that kind of like, Elder Brother Nan, what are you thinking!?”
“Not that kind of like?” I also no longer cared about if it was polite or not, and decided to dig deeper, “What kind of like?”
“It is kind of like between friends. Very good friends!”
Friend? Is it really that simple? I don’t quite believe it.
Why would Dongfang Lianren want to deliberately drive away Lv Siqi and others from Yuanyuan? Why did she scratch my hand? Why would she dislike Xiao Yike who she met for the first time? There seemed to be only one answer that could solve them all at the same time.
She was jealous, jealous of all of those people who pursued Chu Yuan, and had a close relationship with Chu Yuan!
I could still faintly feel the pain of the wound on the palm of my hand. I guessed the real reason why she scratched me was probably that she knew that Chu Yuan and I were sister and brother who were not related by blood, but we were now living under the same roof…
She was jealous!
Could it be that she was a lesbian?!
Dongfang Lianren calmed down a little, took a drink from the table and took a small sip, glanced up at me, and saw me look at her, and then quickly lowered her head. Only after a while, she murmured quietly, “Elder Brother Nan, I’m really not a lesbian, can you please not stop Yuanyuan from hanging out with me?”
“When did I say you are a lesbian?”
Dongfang Lianren looked at me with a pitiful look and her big eyes were filled with pleading expression, “If you don’t believe it, I can prove that I am not a lesbian!”