This wasn't a difficult question to answer.
At least, Yan Yi'an didn't think it was.
But after he asked it, Yan Xianjue suddenly fell into a suspicious silence.
Yan Xianjue had tried. He had attempted to phrase it tactfully, but it was hard to change the way someone spoke overnight.
He had never been someone particularly good at being tactful.
But for Yan Yi'an's sake, he still carefully weighed his words in his head.
To Yan Yi'an, though, it looked like his little brother's brain was spinning at the speed of light, only to turn itself into mush from spinning too fast.
Yan Yi'an: "..."
Yan Yi'an didn't say anything. He decided to give the little brat another chance.
Then he heard Yan Xianjue slowly ask, "Big Brother, would you rather be the second male lead or the villain?"
Yan Yi'an: "???"
What kind of bullshit question was that?
Forgive Yan Yi'an for swearing, but if he hadn't been certain there wasn't the slightest hint of teasing on Yan Xianjue's face, he really might not have been able to suppress the urge to hit the kid.
But he was Yan Yi'an, after all. He tried to analyze the question using Yan Xianjue's usual train of thought.
He immediately realized the problem.
It seemed no one had ever said that a villain couldn't also be the second male lead.
Didn't they have a living example right beside them—Ji Xi?
At that moment, Yan Xianjue finally realized that the tactful question he had struggled so hard to come up with didn't seem to mean much after all.
So he closed his eyes and spoke with overwhelming momentum, as if marching to his death. "When Uncle and Aunt's deaths were first written, it was simply because the plot needed you to be adopted.