Chapter 35: Treating Her Like a Sister

Shen Shichu was startled and immediately turned around, his peripheral vision just catching a glimpse of a shadow by the window, and he roughly pushed Ye Shiqing away.

Ye Shiqing was also about to stand up, but her body had grown accustomed to leaning on Shen Shichu, so she intended to slowly rise by rubbing against him.

The delay was enough for Nan Jiaojiao to see their intimacy; however, she hadn’t expected Shen Shichu to push her, causing her to really twist her ankle.

“Brother Chu, it hurts so much, my foot is really painful!”

Shen Shichu ignored her and headed straight toward Nan Jiaojiao, sitting next to her with a tense expression.

“Jiaojiao, are you alone?”

The page of the menu that was open displayed several fruit salads.

“Have you ordered?

Are you just planning to eat this for dinner?”

Shen Shichu waved to call the waiter and ordered several dishes according to her taste, “Add an extra portion of sugar to the milk tea, make it warm, the steak should be seventy percent done, the fried eggs cooked on one side only, these two items to be served first.”

Nan Jiaojiao focused on eating her ice cream, utterly ignoring what he was doing.

Ye Shiqing waited a moment, thinking to play hard to get, expecting Shen Shichu to come back and help her up.

Instead, she saw Shen Shichu being attentive to Nan Jiaojiao, surrounded by many who were laughing at her.

No matter how reluctant Ye Shiqing felt, she had to leave disgracefully on her own.

Sitting opposite Nan Jiaojiao, she intentionally said, “Sister is here too.

I remember you don’t like Western food, right?

The dishes here are quite expensive, let me treat you, sister.”

Nan Jiaojiao and she were twins.

When in the hospital, someone took Nan Jiaojiao away.

The Ye family members searched for many years and found her three years ago in some underdeveloped village.

When they brought her back, Nan Jiaojiao was unrefined, covered in various suspicious injuries, and she wouldn’t speak about them.

Besides her face, there wasn’t anything presentable about her.

Madam Ye cared most about appearances and, not willing to let people know she had a daughter who looked like a bumpkin, she adamantly refused to acknowledge Nan Jiaojiao, even denying her pocket money.

Ye Shiqing naturally assumed that Nan Jiaojiao couldn’t afford this meal.

However, her provocation had no effect on Nan Jiaojiao whatsoever; she just continued to eat her ice cream, head down.

Without a word, it was unnervingly disquieting.

“Sister, what would you like to eat?

Shall I order it for you?

Brother Chu and I come here often, usually…”

“Enough, Ye Shiqing.”

Shen Shichu scolded, giving her a cold warning glance.

The waiter brought the milk tea and steak, Shen Shichu stretched out his hand to receive them, placing the milk tea beside Nan Jiaojiao.

He conscientiously picked up the knife and fork and began cutting the steak into small pieces.

“Jiaojiao, eat this, don’t keep eating cold things, your stomach isn’t good.”

Shen Shichu tried to take away the ice cream, and Nan Jiaojiao protected it, their fingers touching, coincidentally sticking to a chocolate ball.

Her expression suddenly turned cold, she lightly placed her spoon into the glass bowl, and coldly said, “Everyone leave.”

“Jiaojiao?” Shen Shichu was stunned; this woman never dared to talk to him like this.

“I said, everyone leave.” Nan Jiaojiao arched her brows, her voice growing icier, “Go hug somewhere else, why come here to disgust me?”

“What are you talking about, Shiqing twisted her foot, I just helped her.”

Shen Shichu feigned composure, “What are you suspecting?

It’s because of you, I’ve always treated Shiqing as my sister.”

A sister he’d slept in the same bed with?

Some things don’t need to be spoken too clearly, nor do some matters need to be exposed incisively.

Shen Shichu had always felt Nan Jiaojiao couldn’t possibly be unaware of his relationship with Ye Shiqing, but she had pretended ignorance for so long that as long as he gave her an out, she had to keep pretending.

After all, she had nobody else to rely on, and given his superior status in all aspects, without him, Nan Jiaojiao would truly be nothing.