Chapter 188 - I'm not going to hurt her

Without even looking at him, Xiao Lei replied in a soft voice, "Yeah." 

Lu Ziyan had to strain his ears to listen to her. "You guys fought again?" 

"No." She was not really in the mood to talk, but Lu Ziyan had been nothing but kind to her, so she did not want to be rude to him. 

"They fought!" Mo Yuan said while looking up at the two of them. 

"Hey, no snitching me out, Yuan Yuan," Xiao Lei said before gently pinching the toddler's cheek. "That's your punishment." 

"Hehe..." Mo Yuan giggled before sitting back down quietly. 

"What did you guys fight about this time?" Lu Ziyan asked. He felt that these two often fought about senseless things, and that he might be worrying too much about them. 

Xiao Lei sighed. With a shrug, she then waved her hand nonchalantly as she said, "Nothing. Just a little misunderstanding. He was being a blind idiot as usual."

"Blind idiot?" Lu Ziyan chuckled softly. "I see Angela is involved in this argument..." 

He had had the same sentiment; that Han Ye was very blind when it came to Angela Zhang. Lu Ziyan and Tian Le had tried to tell Han Ye that Angela Zhang might not be who she appeared to be, but Han Ye always ignored them, and he would always come up with excuses for her. 

Once, when she came over and Han Ye went out to get something from a nearby convenience store, Angela Zhang actually tried to get Tian Le to do things for her. As a host, Tian Le obviously obliged. However, when Tian Le was a little slow in bringing her the item that she wanted, she called him a "useless cripple". 

Of course, she muttered this under her breath, but nonetheless, Tian Le overheard it as well, and he was furious! Still, he pretended not to hear it, and when Lu Ziyan returned home from his date, he told Lu Ziyan about it, and the latter never doubted his words. 

He had always felt that there was something wrong with Angela Zhang. Han Ye said that Angela Zhang was very much like Wu Yuexue, almost like they were the same mold... But because of this, Lu Ziyan felt uncomfortable. It was fine for two people to have similarities, but when everything about Angela Zhang reminded Han Ye of his late wife, then something was wrong. 

Same favorite food, favorite movies, favorite animals, and so on... 

Honestly, if Lu Ziyan had been there that day, he would have kicked Angela Zhang out.  

He then looked up at Xiao Lei and thought, "These two would make a better pair... Opposite in everything... and she's a completely different person from Wu Yuexue."

"Argh!" Xiao Lei groaned. "Enough about him. I don't even want to talk about him now... By the way, this is?" 

She glanced at Kai An, who smiled and extended a hand as he said, "My name is Kai An. I'm Kai Xin's older brother." 

"Oh?" Xiao Lei shook his hand as she said, "That means you're An Xin's older brother as well! I don't believe we have met."

Kai An smiled and nodded. "I see you know my youngest sister..."

Xiao Lei nodded. "She helped me out a lot when I first started working at Du Corporation..."

She then glanced at Lu Ziyan and asked, "Does he know..." 

She knew that Lu Ziyan and An Xin had been going out with each other, and they had been walking quite close as well... In fact, Xiao Lei had caught An Xin sneaking out of their house in the wee morning once. 

She had teased An Xin about it, but the latter merely said that she got drunk the night before.

Lu Ziyan smiled wryly. "Not really..." 

"Know what?" Kai An asked with a smile as he looked between these two. 

With a sigh, Lu Ziyan nodded. It was not like he hid it on purpose. He just thought that Kai An would come to know about it. Either that, or that he might have known about it earlier but he was too awkward to talk about it.

Looking up at Kai An, Lu Ziyan answered, "That I'm dating your youngest sister..."  

"Wait... What?!" Kai An gasped. "What the f....udge!" 

He looked at Xiao Lei with eyes wide open before looking back at Lu Ziyan. There was confusion, and there was shock. Then... there was anger. "When did this happen? I knew she got a divorce, good for her, but why is my dear sister dating you?!" 

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Lu Ziyan asked coldly. 

"Well, you're-" Kai An stopped himself before he said anything that he would regret. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before looking at Lu Ziyan again. With a calmer tone, he snarled, "My baby sister, Ziyan?! What are you thinking about?!" 

If Kai An was honest with himself, he would not have Lu Ziyan to be with any of his sisters. He might have forgiven the man for what he did to Kai Xin, but that did not mean that he would feel safe letting him be with An Xin. 

"I love her..." Lu Ziyan said. He was surprised that no one told Kai An yet, but given the identity, and Kai An's protectiveness toward his sisters... It was no surprise that he would be reacting in the way that he did. "We've been seeing each other for a while now, ever since she got divorced. And... she has been reciprocating my feelings."

She had never said anything about loving him, but she had never said otherwise either. And that was a piece of good news for Lu Ziyan. 

Kai An wanted to grab the man's collar and lift him out of his wheelchair, but with the toddlers around, he had to refrain himself from doing so. Besides, he had been spending some time with Lu Ziyan the past two years, and the two of them could be considered as good friends, so he did not want to rock the boat either...

"My sister..." Kai An scowled and turned around so that he was facing the door instead of Lu Ziyan and the toddlers. 

"I'm not going to hurt her..." Lu Ziyan said softly. 

"You never intended to hurt Kai Xin either..." Kai An replied. His tone was a little harsher than what he wanted, but nevertheless, the words had been spoken... and Lu Ziyan was hurt by it. 

Lu Ziyan thought that Kai An would be more understanding, especially after all the times that they hung out with each other. 

There was an awkward silence that even the toddlers were affected by it. The two little ones sat quietly on Lu Ziyan's laps as they looked at the two men who were now looking away from each other.  

Meanwhile, Xiao Lei looked at the two of them with a confused expression as she thought, "Is there some bad blood between them?"

She quickly searched through her mind and tried to think back to all the news from two years back. After a while, she gasped loudly and quickly covered her mouth when the men turned back to look at her. 

"Are you alright, Xiao Lei?" Lu Ziyan asked. 

She nodded. A second later, she shook her head. 

Seeing the expression on her face, Lu Ziyan sighed. "Did you realize something?" 

Xiao Lei stared at him for a few seconds before nodding. However, before she could say anything else, the door opened, which meant that they had to keep moving. 

Nobody talked about this after that, but Xiao Lei could understand why Kai An's reaction was that big earlier. 

She did not realize it before. The famous hacker that was partly responsible for the misfortune that befell Kai Xin... Xiao Lei did not remember his name or face, but she distinctively remembered seeing a photo of a young man in a wheelchair, and that his surname was Lu.  

For some reason, this was not talked about that often. Ever since the story of how three young men from reputable, prestigious families attacked Kai Xin back in their youth, the focus of attention had always been these young men-- Shangguan Xing, Ye Tian, and Luo Yin.

Almost none of the newspapers or even the news channel talked about Lu Ziyan, the man who led Kai Xin into the classroom back then. It was almost as if someone had suppressed anything related to Lu Ziyan after the initial revelation.   

But now that she saw Kai An's reaction... 

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