Two days later, Smoke City.
Since it was the weekend, Zhao Dong had gone over to a friend's place to hang out—more precisely, Jiang Xin's house.
Because Jiang Xin's parents were away from home year-round, this place had become the base for the three brothers.
As for why Chen Yingluo was clearly a girl yet counted among the three brothers—naturally, it was because the other two brothers treated her like one of their own.
Such pure friendship was indeed hard to find in the adult world, but teenagers could have it.
Chen Yingluo and Jiang Xin had been fine these past few days, but Zhao Dong was thoroughly numb. The moment he got home, he faced a three-pronged interrogation from his father, mother, and older sister. As for what they were questioning him about, naturally, it was Zhao Cheng's situation.
At present, Zhao Cheng's reputation among the relatives was nothing short of explosive.
Rumors only grew more outrageous the further they spread.
The original news had merely been Father Zhao accidentally letting it slip that his son was already engaged.
At first, the relatives naturally offered their congratulations and asked when the wedding would be. The atmosphere had been cheerful and harmonious—until someone with a better memory suddenly recalled that Zhao Cheng was still in high school.
That was when the wind began to shift.
Of course, the discussions in the family group chat were still fairly normal.
But in private, things got a little absurd.
Pregnant before marriage, a drunken mistake...
Everyone fully exercised their subjective initiative to flesh out the story.
By the time Zhao Dong learned about it, the story had already gone through nearly ten versions. The current version was that Zhao Cheng had been diagnosed with cancer at such a young age and did not