I Don't Understand, but I'm Deeply Shocked

"Yan Xianjue."

Yan Yi'an gripped the steering wheel. "You're making my head hurt."

Yan Xianjue: ???

Little question mark, do you have many friends?

He puffed up angrily in rebuttal. "Big Brother, I just said hello!"

[Two words made his head hurt? That's way too unreasonable!!!]

Yan Yi'an's ears hurt from his suddenly raised voice.

He rubbed his temples. He had been so busy that he had forgotten.

He wasn't overbearing enough to control what Yan Xianjue thought in his heart.

More importantly, he knew it would be useless even if he tried.

Yan Xianjue might look more obedient than Yan Ci at home, but he was actually far more difficult to handle.

The information Yan Xianjue had revealed yesterday was limited, but shocking enough.

Yan Yi'an didn't dare believe it all, nor did he dare dismiss it.

He had spent the entire day investigating the matter.

And after looking into it, he really had found some loopholes.

He hadn't even had time for lunch and had been working nonstop until now.

He glanced through the rearview mirror at the little ancestor still sulking in the back.

Yan Yi'an softened his voice and offered a dry excuse. "I was on the phone with my assistant just now. I wasn't talking about you."

Yan Xianjue didn't believe him. "Really?"

Yan Yi'an turned his head and pointed at the Bluetooth earpiece in his ear.

He silently thanked his luck that he had called his assistant on the way over and hadn't had time to put the earpiece away yet.

Yan Xianjue felt that he was being fooled, but he had no proof.

Half-believing and half-doubting, he put away his backpack and asked curiously, "Why are you driving yourself, Big Brother? Where's Uncle Liu?"

[I haven't figured out how to get rid of him yet.]

[If he's not hanging around me, won't I have even less reason to do it?]

Even a Maybach had to crawl along this stretch near the school gates.

As Yan Yi'an carefully avoided students recklessly running red lights, he gave the excuse he had prepared long ago.

At the same time, Yan Yi'an let out a fierce sigh of relief.

This time, he had successfully predicted Yan Xianjue's prediction.

"The company's vice president has a gala to attend today. The assistant responsible for driving him took leave, so I temporarily assigned Uncle Liu to him."

It was logical, well-supported, and highly detailed.

Yan Yi'an nodded to himself. Since he already knew Uncle Liu might be a problem—

He certainly couldn't just sit around and wait.

By transferring him to the vice president's side, if Uncle Liu really was up to something, he definitely wouldn't be able to stay put. The moment he made a move, he would expose himself. That was what Yan Yi'an was waiting for.

If Uncle Liu was fine for now and was only bribed later, moving him away from Yan Yi'an might also help him avoid that fate.

Yan Yi'an didn't think the latter possibility was very likely. He was more inclined to believe that Uncle Liu had already been bought off by now.

Still, there was no need to explain all those twists and turns to Yan Xianjue.

Yan Xianjue was deeply shocked. What kind of selfless act of using private resources for public purposes was this?!

He didn't understand. "But isn't he our family's driver?!"

Yan Xianjue might not understand corporate management, but sending their family driver to drive the company's vice president—

Why did that feel so wrong?

Yan Yi'an said evenly, "It's fine. The Yan Household holds enough shares in Yan Corporation."

"The vice president is also surnamed Yan."

They simply didn't get along very well.

At that, Yan Xianjue propped his chin on one hand, leaning lazily against the car window as he looked outside.

He asked with certainty, "Big Brother, did you fool Second Brother yesterday?"

Yan Yi'an: "Hm?"

Yan Xianjue didn't continue asking, as though Yan Yi'an's reaction had already given him the answer he wanted.

[My uncle I've never met definitely left Big Brother some shares.]

Otherwise, it was hard to explain the relaxed confidence Yan Yi'an showed whenever he mentioned Yan Corporation.

He simply didn't think Second Brother posed any threat to him.

Yan Xianjue clicked his tongue in wonder. He had always thought his eldest brother was the type who disdained telling lies.

Now it seemed that his ability to lie through his teeth was no worse than anyone else's.

Hearing Yan Xianjue ponder the matter of his biological father, Yan Yi'an's brow twitched.

He and Father Yan had investigated for so many years without finding any clues.

Could Yan Xianjue know something?

Yan Yi'an probed, "You didn't seem surprised at all yesterday."

"Um..." Yan Xianjue really couldn't come up with an excuse.

[I can't exactly say I read it in a novel, can I?]

[You big villain were pretty important in the novel too!]

[The author described a lot of the setting. Let me think—how do I fool Big Brother?]

He blinked, thought for a long while, and still came up with nothing. In the end, he could only desperately change the subject. "This doesn't seem like the road to Second Brother's team base?"

Yan Yi'an answered concisely, "Traffic jam. Taking another route."

"It's not really a secret. Yan Wan knows too."

After all, Yan Wan was only two years younger than him and was, in the truest sense, the first child in this family.

Seeing that Yan Xianjue didn't respond, Yan Yi'an deliberately said, "If you're willing to study finance in university, I wouldn't mind having you join Yan Corporation in the future."

"I think your personality suits it quite well. Dad would be very happy too."

[How could that possibly work! I just want to lie around!]

Yan Xianjue panicked and cut off his eldest brother's dangerous words. "Big Brother! I'm not suited for it!"

[I'm not like that idiot Second Brother!]

[Really! Believe me!]

"Ah," Yan Xianjue said, half-truthfully, "I've forgotten who I heard it from, actually."

"I knew about it quite a while ago, but I didn't really understand it back then, so I gradually accepted it."

"Second Brother only found out suddenly, and someone had been stirring him up. You know what his rotten temper is like." Finally, he said with complete sincerity, "Actually, none of us are interested in the company."

Eldest Sister was a pure dancer. If the law allowed it, she could practically marry ballet.

Second Sister had genius syndrome and simply didn't want to talk to people.

Second Brother was an idiot with nothing but esports on his mind.

As for him, he was just an ordinary salted fish.

Yan Yi'an believed that last sentence, but for some reason—

He felt that Yan Xianjue's words carried the implication that he was being treated as nothing more than a working tool!

He gave a light snort and warned, "No matter how you found out, don't tell anyone else. Especially anything about your uncle."

Even now, Yan Yi'an couldn't determine whether his biological parents' deaths had been an accident or deliberate.

Although all the evidence over the years pointed to it being an accident.

Neither he nor Father Yan believed it.

Yan Xianjue nodded listlessly.

[Big Brother just doesn't know how to talk. If he'd explained one more sentence, he would've said he was worried about my safety.]

[It's only because I'm so thoughtful and understanding!]

Yan Xianjue sighed to himself:

[If Second Brother heard that, who knows how much he'd overthink it again.]

[Come to think of it, the novel only said that Big Brother was adopted by Mom and Dad from birth. They had only just gotten married then, and lots of people seemed to oppose it.]

[Uncle must have already had his accident by then, right? Otherwise, why would he give his son to his younger brother, who had only just married, to raise?]

Yan Yi'an listened silently and nodded along in his heart.

Then he heard Yan Xianjue make a bold guess: [Although the novel never mentioned Uncle, according to the usual tropes, something happening to a villain's family absolutely can't be unrelated to the protagonist!]

[If we start with the protagonist, we'll definitely find clues!]

As Yan Xianjue was still agonizing over it, he heard Yan Yi'an continue, "There may have been hidden circumstances behind what happened to my dad back then. I'm telling you not to speak to others about it for your own safety. Don't overthink it."