Ye Qinglan added casually, "You also have a younger brother named Shiyi, Ye Shiyi." He glanced at Xiaojiu too. What kind of coincidence was this?
Ye Chuqi was stunned by the coincidence as well, though what shocked her even more was that she actually had a younger brother. How was she supposed to get along with a creature called a younger brother?
"Don't be nervous." Ye Qinglan patted Ye Chuqi's shoulder reassuringly. "Shiyi is a very sweet, well-behaved child."
So well-behaved it made your heart ache.
Ye Qinglan had not been home in a long time, and he did not know whether the boy was still so considerate and obedient.
For a long time after Ye Chuqi disappeared, their mother had been in a daze, trapped in grief she could not escape. Ye Shiyi had been an accident. Their mother had even felt that having this child was a betrayal of Ye Chuqi, and in the beginning, she had desperately tried to destroy him. Only the family elder's intervention had saved him. After all, the child was innocent.
Their mother had never held Ye Shiyi after he was born. The family elder had raised him single-handedly, and he understood his position in the family all too well. Obedient, well-behaved, and unobtrusive, he never approached their mother, yet always longed for her attention from the shadows.
Over the past few years, their mother had finally regained her senses. Learning that, after losing one child, she had nearly lost another filled her with guilt. Yet she did not know how to get along with Ye Shiyi, and the atmosphere between mother and son had remained awkward.
They were all victims. The ones who truly deserved hatred were those who had secretly targeted the Ye Family!
Ye Qinglan's gaze turned icy, and the