Chapter 20: Xie Yinhe, What Does “Brother-in-law” Mean?!

“It hurts…”

Tu Yuan pouted, tears welling up in her eyes.

They fell onto Xie Yinhe’s fingers, blurring on the surface.

Xie Yinhe saw Yang Zhengbo’s ugly face in his mind, his eyes as deep and cold as an ancient well, radiating a murderous aura.

Tu Yuan, however, was lost in her own world, nervous, scared, and helpless.

She was still debating whether to tell her brother.

He would worry if he knew.

“Let’s go home. The lawyer will handle it,” Xie Yinhe pulled out a tissue and wiped her tears.

Tu Yuan froze, her eyes blank.

Xie Yinhe was wiping her tears!!!

In the dim car, Xie Yinhe’s face was inches away, close enough to smell the faint scent of alcohol on him.

He had been drinking tonight.

Tu Yuan asked softly, “Brother Xie, why were you there?”

“Business dinner.”

“But you should’ve been on the first floor. How did the elevator open on the third floor?” Tu Yuan’s eyes were still wet. Even at such close range, Xie Yinhe’s handsome face was blurry to her, but his features were still strikingly handsome.

This was what they called “handsome to the point of being blurry”!

Xie Yinhe knew the address of her classmate gathering tonight, and knew she was on the third floor.

After their business dinner, Si Yun and Si Feng said they would check if the gathering was over.

Si Feng pressed the button for the third floor, and Xie Yinhe didn’t stop him.

He tacitly agreed.

Xie Yinhe was incredibly grateful that he hadn’t intervened. The elevator opened, revealing Tu Yuan with disheveled hair, a bloodstained hairpin in her hand, and a man behind her clutching his stomach, his face contorted in pain. Xie Yinhe’s heart jumped to his throat.

He rushed out in a single stride.

Xie Yinhe threw the tissue into the black bin, “Someone else pressed it.”

“I guess I’m lucky!” Tu Yuan touched the corner of her eye, “Brother Xie, do you think it’s better not to tell my brother about this?”

Xie Yinhe was serious, “No.”

This was a malicious incident, unlike the last time when she got sick from eating the wrong thing.

“Okay~ I made a mistake, I actually stabbed someone.” Tu Yuan’s tears started flowing again, “Next time, if anyone dares to bully me, I’ll do it again.”

If she hadn’t had that hairpin tonight, Yang Zhengbo’s lips would have been on hers.

“My phone is dead, can I use Brother Xie’s phone?”

Xie Yinhe took out his phone, a simple swipe unlocked it with facial recognition, and handed it to Tu Yuan.

“You did great. You don’t need to feel guilty about that kind of person.”

“Right? I think so too! You can’t be lenient with people like that.” Tu Yuan entered her brother’s number, and after the first few digits, “Tu Yue” appeared.

She called him.

Uh…

He didn’t answer.

He hung up.

Why did her brother hang up on Xie Yinhe? She felt a pang of awkwardness.

It was like he was abandoning his sister and leaving her with someone else, not caring anymore.

Was he running away?

Tu Yuan’s fingers started trembling as that terrifying thought arose.

No way?

“My brother wouldn’t abandon me and run away to another country, would he?” Tu Yuan dialed again, “Or did you two fight and he’s not answering your calls?”

Xie Yinhe understood that kind of person.

They were obsequious before getting the money, and acted like they were the boss after getting it.

Would he even answer the phone?

Tu Yue still didn’t answer.

Tu Yuan’s heart sank, “Can I send a message?”

“Yeah.”

“Or you send it, what if I see something I shouldn’t…” Tu Yuan handed the phone back to him.

Xie Yinhe didn’t take it, instead he asked her, “Would you look at something you shouldn’t?”

“No!”

“Then it’s fine.”

Tu Yuan opened Xie Yinhe’s green bubble, a string of company group messages, interspersed with one from Xie Jingzhu.

She found Tu Yue’s name and sent a message: Answer the phone, it’s your sister.

This time, Tu Yue sent a voice message.

Tu Yue’s furious roar came from the phone, “Xie Yinhe, what do you mean you’re my brother-in-law!! What did you do to my sister?”

“You bastard, I thought your family was upright and well-mannered, that you wouldn’t do such a thing, but you’re no different from other men, you actually, you actually…”

“Sister ah…”

“Sister…”

Tu Yue cried on the other end of the phone.

Xie Yinhe didn’t speak, his eyes fixed on Tu Yuan, as if to say, you typed those words, you explain them.

Tu Yuan rubbed her forehead, “Ge, I meant ‘sister’, not ‘brother-in-law’, you misread it!”

“Sister! Why are you using Xie Yinhe’s phone? Are you two together?”

“Oh my god!!! Xie Yinhe, you said you wouldn’t seduce my sister last time! You broke your promise, you actually…”

“My phone was dead, I borrowed Brother Xie’s phone. Tonight, there was an incident at my classmate gathering, Yang Zhengbo harassed me, and I defended myself and stabbed him.” After Tu Yuan finished speaking, she wished she could bury her head in the car floor.

Would her brother scold her?

The Tu family was not the same as before.

She had actually hurt someone.

“Which bastard dared to bully you, sister, are you okay, are you hurt?”

“Xie Yinhe, how is my sister? Is she injured?”

“Check her for me!”

Xie Yinhe’s eyes swept over Tu Yuan, landing on her neck, “She’s a bit scared, I’ll have the lawyer handle this.”

“Okay, then see you tomorrow, I’ll go to the company to find you.”

“Sister, take a bath and get a good night’s sleep tonight, don’t worry about anything else, your brother is here.” Tu Yue comforted Tu Yuan in a gentle voice.

“Okay.”

The moment she saw Xie Yinhe, her heart had settled.

Now it had landed firmly.

Tu Yuan handed the phone back to Xie Yinhe, “Brother is going to the company to find you tomorrow, can I go to the company with you?”

“You’re not afraid of seeing him tomorrow?”

“No, I didn’t do anything wrong! It’s Yang Zhengbo’s fault, he wanted to keep me as his mistress, said he would give me an apartment and make me his gold digger, but I have a place to live, I don’t need that, besides, he’s so ugly, not even half as handsome as Brother Xie.” Tu Yuan touched her neck, she had to put some ice on it when she got home.

Xie Yinhe rubbed the screen of his phone with his fingertips, a hint of coldness in his eyes, “If he was handsome, would you have gone with him?”