Chapter 124: Chapter 124: What It Feels Like to Complain to Mom

“Ji Zeqiu, I never expected it to be you.”

The man walked over with a smile, as if familiar, and heavily clapped Ji Zeqiu’s shoulder.

When facing others, Ji Zeqiu always had a gentle and harmless smile on his face.

However, at that moment, a cold chill emanated from him, and his silent eyes were exceptionally icy.

“You’ve mistaken me for someone else.” Ji Zeqiu’s voice was so indifferent it was almost ruthless, as he took Lin Xu’s hand and headed outside.

“Hey, don’t go.” The man quickly caught up and blocked Ji Zeqiu’s path.

“I’m your cousin, Wu Yanghui!” Excitement flickered across the man’s face, then he started rambling, “We haven’t seen each other for over a decade, I’ve changed quite a bit, you might not remember me, but my mother, who is also your aunt, once had you and your siblings stay at our house for a while.”

“Who would have thought that the kid who always cried for his mother would become a big star now? I always see you on TV, haha…”

As the man rambled on, Ji Zeqiu’s face grew darker, as if dripping with ink, his brows filled with an irritable air.

“I’ve said, you’ve got the wrong person,” Ji Zeqiu stepped away.

Wu Yanghui seemed determined to recognize him.

“How could I possibly mistake you?” Hearing his repeated denials, Wu Yanghui’s tone suddenly became uncertain, reaching out to grab his mask.

Ji Zeqiu quickly stepped back, creating distance between them.

Lin Xu also extended her arms to shield Ji Zeqiu behind her, “He said you’ve got the wrong person. If you keep harassing us, we’ll call the police.”

Lin Xu suddenly came forward, and Wu Yanghui then noticed her, staring for a moment, “Who is this?”

The next instant, his eyes lit up.@@novelbin@@

“Is this Lanyue?”

“Women change so much by eighteen, I didn’t expect my sister to have become so beautiful. If you didn’t still resemble how you looked as a child, I might not have recognized you, haha…”

Just as he reached out to touch Lin Xu, Ji Zeqiu grabbed his hand forcefully, his eyes filled with anger, “Don’t touch her.”

Wu Yanghui chuckled nervously, “I just wanted to greet my sister.”

Ji Zeqiu’s grip on his hand grew even tighter, his indifferent expression fracturing moment by moment.

“Wait here for me,” he said to Lin Xu, then pulled Wu Yanghui away to a distance.

Lin Xu couldn’t hear their conversation, only seeing Ji Zeqiu’s body tensed up, remaining cold and heartless throughout.

After a while, Wu Yanghui began to look anxious, pulling at Ji Zeqiu and saying something.

Ji Zeqiu paid him no heed, walking straight towards Lin Xu, then without looking back, they left the airport.

Back in the car.

Even though they had long left the airport, Ji Zeqiu’s body was still tense, his dark eyes harboring a chilling storm, his expression devoid of warmth.

“That person just now… was he your aunt’s son? He used to resemble your aunt quite a bit as a child, I didn’t expect him to change so much that I wouldn’t recognize him,” Lin Xu started, trying to break the heavy atmosphere in the car.

“Ji Tingyang mentioned before that you stayed at your aunt’s when you were kids, but you guys never talk about that time, I don’t know how you were treated then, whether someone bullied you…”

“If it was happy, that’s good. If it wasn’t, I…” Lin Xu’s voice suddenly stopped, her heart tugged by sorrow and discomfort every time she thought of the twenty years missing from their growth, “I’m sorry, if only I could have been there as you grew up.”

Ji Zeqiu pulled the car over to the roadside, the harshness in his face faded, replaced by a touch of urgency.

He held Lin Xu’s hand, “That’s not your fault!”

He had thought so before.

Lanyue resented why others had parents to accompany them, while his parents were not by his side.

He even hated them at times.

Ji Zeqiu’s mood became somber, he reached out to hug Lin Xu, resting his head on her shoulder, his voice muffled, “It’s not your fault…”

Lin Xu touched his head, asking softly, “Did Wu Yanghui bully you when you were a child?”

She could only think of this reason for Ji Zeqiu’s coldness towards him, his demeanor filled with hostility.

“Tell mom, and shall I help you take revenge?” Caressing his hair slowly like petting a dog, Lin Xu spoke softly.

A schoolchild tattling?

This déjà vu made Ji Zeqiu’s heavy chest release a light chuckle.

As children, when classmates were bullied at school, they would rush into their parents’ arms the moment school ended, crying and tattling to their parents.

Those parents would angrily accompany their children to talk to the teachers, backing them up.

Each time Ji Zeqiu saw their overreactions, he would scoff disdainfully.

His brother said that a true man should always solve things on his own.

So, when he saw Wu Yanghui take his sister’s toy, he raised his little fists and went for it.

But this approach never worked at his aunt’s place.

After Wu Yanghui cried from being hit, he would immediately pull his aunt over to back him up.

“Your cousin just wanted to play with your sister’s toy for a bit, what’s wrong with letting him play?” Without further ado, his aunt snatched the little duck toy from his sister’s hands.

“This was bought by mom for my sister!” Ji Zeqiu lunged to snatch the little duck back.

However, a seven or eight-year-old child could not overpower an adult in their thirties and could only watch helplessly as his aunt took the little duck away.

“You’ve been living at my place for two or three years and I haven’t said a word. Is it not okay for your cousin to play with your sister’s toy? Once he is done, he’ll give it back.”

The aunt handed the little duck to Wu Yanghui and turned to leave.

“Besides, it’s been so long since your parents passed away, it’s just a toy, what’s there to treasure,” a murmuring voice came faintly.

Ji Zeqiu clenched his fists tighter, and before he could storm over, his sister’s crying pierced the air.

“Wuu wuu wuu… my little duck…”

“I want my little duck, wuu wuu wuu…”

Before his rage could erupt, he suppressed it and knelt down to comfort his sister.

That’s when he realized all that talk about relying on oneself was false.

Ji Zeqiu’s grip around Lin Xu’s hand tightened gradually, a sour feeling surged in his chest, horribly distressing, and his eyes subtly reddened from the sourness.

He buried his head deeper into Lin Xu’s neck, not wanting her to notice his abnormality.

Fortunately, his mother was back, and she said she’d back him up.

“Yes, he bullied me.” The feeling of tattling felt so good, a subtle smile lifted the corners of Ji Zeqiu’s lips.

Hearing her son’s grievance, Lin Xu’s fury ignited, “I must teach him a lesson!”

She just didn’t expect the opportunity to teach him a lesson to come so soon.

During a meeting with Xie Changyan, Lin Xu encountered Wu Yanghui again in a restaurant.