Tang Shiba helped her up, her expression unchanged and as calm as ever.
Seeing her like this, her adoptive mother looked briefly flustered.
Why did she look like that? Did she not care about her brother at all?
Her adoptive mother clutched Tang Shiba's hand and pleaded, "Shiba, please help your brother. If anything happens to him, what are we supposed to do?"
[Host, are you going?]
[Do you think I would? If I go, that'll cement my status as his child bride. My adoptive parents may be honest, decent people, but they aren't stupid!]
"Mom, Dad, start a video call with him. I'll talk to him!"
"Well..."
The elderly couple hesitated. Before they came, their son had told them to bring Tang Shiba back no matter what. If they couldn't, he would die right there in his hospital bed.
Faced with a threat like that, how could they take any chances?
Seeing their hesitation, Tang Shiba showed a rare degree of patience. "I'm only going to talk to him, honestly. If you're worried, you can listen in!"
In the end, her adoptive father took out his phone and started a video call with his son.
Soon, a simple, honest-looking man with a somewhat pale face weakly answered the call.
"Dad, did you find Shiba?"
Tang Shiba took the phone and stared coldly at the man on the screen.
"Brother, long time no see!"
The man froze at the sight of the somewhat unfamiliar Tang Shiba and asked incredulously, "You're Shiba?"
"Yes. What, don't you recognize me? Even you can go blind sometimes, huh?"
He remained silent for a long while before asking when she would come home.
**"I'm not coming back. Brother, if having one less person at home makes you threaten to kill yourself, then I suggest you