Morning Star

As Yang Wanqing smiled, her eyes became more tender as she looked at him. She raised her hand and gently stroked his head, rubbing it, and sighed, "I told you that Xiao Shi looks more like me. They always say that you look more like your dad. Now it seems that I was right."

As she spoke, she glanced at Chujiu and Chu Wenxuan, whose faces were filled with happiness: "That's great, our children all look like me."

The brother and sister Chujiu and Chushi stood there in a daze for a moment, staring at her blankly, their cheeks slightly red.

Even Chu Wenxuan looked at her blankly with a slightly red cheek.

Obviously she is not his biological mother, but he still feels warm in his heart.

But if you look closely, Chu Wenxuan does look a bit like Yang Wanqing.

Yang Wanqing sighed softly with pride in her voice, "It's good to look like mom. Children who look like mom will be rich and powerful. The children in our family are the best."

She smiled proudly, as if this was the most worthwhile thing in her life to boast about.

Xiao Xiao, who was standing by, subconsciously looked at her mother, and Xiao Xuerong happened to be looking at her as well. The mother and daughter looked at each other and smiled silently.

The atmosphere is cozy and warm, and anyone who sees it will be envious.

However, people's happiness is not the same, and it seems like there are two worlds in the same room.

One is warm as fire, the other is cold as ice.

Mo Xinglan looked at the scene in front of him indifferently. It would be a lie to say that he was not envious, but he was filled with more inexplicable panic.

One of his hands had unconsciously been clenched into a fist, his nails digging into the palm, and a trace of blood fell to the ground without anyone noticing.

After a while, several people left the dressing room. Chu Chengyu and Xiao Chen, who were bored and sitting in the rest area playing with their phones, were also amazed when they saw Chu Shi. Chu Shi couldn't help showing off again, and this time he was finally not despised.

On the contrary, if he dressed up as a woman, he would definitely look very similar to Chujiu.

After hearing this, he decided to be a real man in the future and never be as effeminate as Chujiu.

After that, they picked and bought some accessories and left the jewelry store.

We had almost finished shopping and it was getting late, so we decided to go to the hot springs for our next project.

It was almost dark when they arrived at the hot spring center. It just so happened that they had specifically been looking for a hot spring center where they could stay overnight.

There are naturally two separate hot spring rooms for men and women.

Both parties packed their clothes and walked into the room, but Mo Xinglan stood there absentmindedly. He pulled Chujiu and didn't want her to be with Yang Wanqing and the others.

But this was the first time Chujiu had come to the hot spring with her family since she was a child, and she didn't want to miss this opportunity. But no matter how much he tried to persuade her, he refused to let her go. Later, Yang Wanqing didn't see Chujiu, so she came out to see what was going on, and then she let Mo Xinglan let her go.

Mo Xinglan stared with a gloomy face as Chujiu was pulled into the girls' hot spring room by Yang Wanqing, and did not take his eyes away until the door was closed.

After a while, Mo Xinglan was not seen in the boys' hot spring room. Chu Chengyu came out to ask, and saw Mo Xinglan standing in the corner leaning against the wall with his eyes downcast and his arms folded across his chest.

"Xinglan, what are you doing here? We were wondering where you went. Why haven't you gone in yet?" Chu Chengyu walked over and asked.

His long eyelashes trembled slightly, he raised his eyes, and his lips curled up slightly: "You go to the bar with Uncle Xiao and the others, I won't go."

Chu Chengyu smiled and said, "I see. Are you embarrassed? Well, we are all men, don't think too much. It's not easy to get out and play once, so just enjoy it to your heart's content. Relaxing is good for your health. Young people should enjoy life more."

As he said this, he habitually raised his hand and patted Mo Xinglan's shoulder.

Mo Xinglan glanced at the hand on his shoulder, tightened his grip on his arm, and tried to suppress the discomfort. He turned his head and said, "I know what you mean. I..."

"What's wrong?" Seeing him hesitating, Chu Chengyu was a little worried.

He was silent for a moment, clenched his hands again, and said softly: "I, I feel a little uncomfortable, I want to rest here for a while."

As he said this, he raised his eyes and looked at Chu Chengyu: "You go in, don't worry about me."

Chu Chengyu was worried after hearing this. How could he just go in like this? He immediately looked him up and down, staring at his fair face. Thinking of the scene where he vomited blood and fainted, he said worriedly: "Is the injury from last time not healed yet? What's wrong with you?"

Mo Xinglan said that he was just making up an excuse for feeling uncomfortable, but he didn't expect Chu Chengyu to believe it. He was stunned for a moment, his eyes flashed: "I... I'm fine, I'll be fine in a while, don't worry."

Chu Chengyu had lived for more than twenty years after all. Hearing him say that and looking at his unnatural expression, I roughly understood what he meant. I didn't force him anymore. I sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay. But if there is anything, you must tell me. We are all family, don't be so polite."

Mo Xinglan froze after hearing this, staring at him blankly for a long while before coming to his senses, lowering his eyes and nodding: "Yeah."

After that, Chu Chengyu said nothing more and turned to walk towards the hot spring room.

……

As time went by, everyone inevitably started to talk about gossip while taking a hot spring bath. Several people in the boys' hot spring surrounded Chu Wenxuan and asked him questions, as if they were interrogating a criminal.

"Wenxuan, how long have you been together with Xiaoxiao?" Although Chu Chengyu knew that Chu Wenxuan and Xiaoxiao were together, he didn't know the specific situation.

Chu Wenxuan was also straightforward and answered: "If you really count it, it's been almost seven months."

"So who fell in love with whom first, you or Sister Xiaoxiao?" Chushi asked curiously.

On the other side, a few girls in the hot spring also asked Xiao Xiao the same question.

Xiao Xiao thought for a moment and sighed: "I guess... I should fall in love with him first."

Chu Wenxuan looked as if he was lost in memories, with a smile on his face, "I fell in love first."

In the girls' hot spring, Yang Wanqing's eyes lit up and she asked curiously, "Then how did you fall in love with Wenxuan? Who confessed first? Under what circumstances?"

She asked a lot of questions, and Xiao Xiao thought for a while and answered helplessly: "Because I often stayed with him at Chu's house for a period of time, and he was also good-looking and calm. I just... fell in love with him unconsciously. Then one time..."

So she told them the scene of her first confession to Chu Wenxuan.

"What?!" Yang Wanqing and Xiao Xuerong were shocked as if they were listening to an incredible part of a story, "He actually refused! Why?"

Xiao Xiao himself couldn't figure it out, and later he didn't think of asking Chu Wenxuan about it. He shook his head and said he didn't know.

Chu Wenxuan at the boys' hot spring was also asked a similar question.

Chu Wenxuan smiled helplessly and looked at the three people surrounding him. He secretly sighed that it was a wise choice for Mo Xinglan not to come. At this time, he really envied Mo Xinglan.

Looking at the anxious looks of the three people, he had no choice but to answer honestly.

"You might laugh at me if I tell you this. I fell in love with Xiaoxiao five years ago..."

At that time, he was seventeen years old. There was a family trial that year, and as the eldest son of the family, he had to get good grades and enter the Misty Realm.

Just after the Chinese New Year, he went around to train in order to improve his skills and arrived at the Manzani grassland.

It was early March when he rescued her from the claws of a clouded leopard.

She was unconscious at the time, and he had been taking care of her. Later, she woke up, but her every move always gave him a very strange feeling. It was as if she didn't grow up in Hualing. But he just thought so in his heart and didn't ask.

After that, they spent some time together, mainly because her injuries had not fully healed. She also seemed to have a brain injury and could not remember some things clearly. It was during that time that he gradually fell in love with her.

But he didn't show his feelings. He knew he had his own things to do, and her words and actions at the time didn't seem like she had any feelings for him. Instead, it seemed like she treated him like a brother. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

After her wounds healed, she also remembered some things. He then knew that she was the youngest daughter of the Lord of Manzani. When he sent her back to her home, he thought that maybe they would never meet again. He became more and more afraid to express his feelings, and even buried them deep in his heart.

Unexpectedly, he met her again three years later. He was so happy to see her again.

But in that situation.

The family was in a critical situation, and her family members were also captured. Her father was seriously injured and in a coma, her mother was also seriously injured, and Furong had just woken up and her injuries had not yet healed. The family members were also injured and killed by other families. The situation of the Chu family was already very bad.

He was the eldest son in the family, and the survival of the entire family depended on him. At that critical moment, he was not worthy of talking about love. He could not even see the future.

During that time, he lived every day as if it were his last. He didn't know when or where he would die. He didn't want to see her worried, and he didn't want her to be in danger, especially for him.

When he heard her say that she liked him he didn't dare to admit it, or even look at her.

When he applied medicine and bandaged her wounds, he felt heartbroken when he saw her wounds all over her body. His hands were shaking while applying the medicine, but he didn't dare to show it.

He told Chu Chengyu, Xiao Chen and Chu Shi a rough outline of his past. He spoke easily, as if he was telling someone else's story. But only he knew the bitterness and hardship in it.

After hearing this, the three of them sighed and lamented the difficulties he and Xiao Xiao had to go through.

After talking about this, they talked about when they planned to get married. After all, Chu Wenxuan gave the betrothal gift on the day he came to the Xiao family, but he didn't say when to get married.