Accidentally Pregnant with the Brother of my Secret Love Chapter 35

 Translator's note: I have edited this chapter again because some parts are missing. 

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Chapter 35 - Yan Sui and Grandmother Yan

The approaching figure made Yan Shiting slightly surprised.

Warm arms wrapped around his neck, and soft hair brushed against his face.

Yan Shiting's hand paused, and it took him a while before slowly resting on Yu Li's back.

He had thought this embrace was just Yu Li's excited and unconscious act.

But when his hand landed on Yu Li's back and he didn't receive any negative reaction, Yan Shiting seemed to understand something.

He lowered his gaze, just looking at his hand on Yu Li's back.

It was quiet in the mountains, with occasional bird calls.

Yu Li leaned on Yan Shiting's shoulder, savoring this embrace.

After midnight, the lights in the villa started to dim, and the lively night market street also gradually quieted down.

The "little fish" in the water park was still lively.

Yu Li released Yan Shiting and, before leaving, secretly took a photo of the little fish with his phone.

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The next morning, after sending messages to Liu Cong and Yan Sui, Yu Li left the villa with Yan Shiting.

At home, Yan Shiting changed into a suit, saying he had to go to the company to handle some urgent matters.

During this period of living together, Yu Li had also gotten used to him suddenly having to go deal with work on his rest days.

Standing at the entrance, Yu Li nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."

Yan Shiting looked at him for a long time before saying, "Eat well."

He then left.

The empty house was left with only Yu Li.

Sitting on the familiar soft sofa, Yu Li sighed.

He wasn't actually afraid of being alone at home, it's just that besides reading books, he didn't know what else to do, and would feel a bit bored.

After a while, Yu Li raised his hand and carefully looked at the watch on his wrist.

After returning to the room from that platform last night, he had fallen asleep immediately, not even having a chance to look at Yan Shiting's gift.

In the sufficient light, Yu Li saw that the bottom of the dial had a small fish pattern made of blue rhinestones.

The little fish... is it him?

If so, does that mean Yan Shiting also has... feelings for him?

Just as he was lost in thought, his phone suddenly vibrated.

Yu Li snapped back to his senses and saw a message from Liu Cong:

[Fourth, did Xu Bin say something to you that made you come back early?]

He no longer used the nickname "Old Three" for Xu Bin, it seems he had sensed something.

Yu Li didn't hide it and briefly explained what happened last night.

However, he omitted the part about Yan Shiting's appearance and their marriage.

Liu Cong fell silent for a while and didn't reply.

Until Yu Li had finished his lunch and was about to doze off, Liu Cong sent another message:

[Fourth brother, I know you're not that kind of person. When Xu Bin first told me about it, I thought he had seen someone else's rumors, but I didn't expect him to be the one spreading the rumors.]

[For three years, to truly see a person's true colors, it shows how good he is at pretending. Fourth, don't take what he said to heart, it's not worth being affected by that kind of person. From now on, we won't have anything to do with him, and in a few days, I'll also move out.]

At the same time, in their dormitory group chat, Xu Bin had quietly left the group.

Yu Li looked at the messages Liu Cong sent, realizing that the time from morning to noon, the other party must have gone to confront Xu Bin.

Yu Li wasn't afraid that Xu Bin would tell others about his and Yan Shiting's legal marriage.

Xu Bin was jealous that he was close to Yan Sui and could "curry favor" with the Yan family. Now that he had married the person with the most say in the Yan family, Xu Bin, who needed to "curry favor" with him, would definitely not reveal it.

Yu Li calmed his mind and looked at what Liu Cong said, realizing that the other party must also be feeling bad.

In these three years, their four-person harmony was largely thanks to Liu Cong's efforts.

Liu Cong was closer to Xu Bin, and now that he knew the other party's true nature, he must have been struck a blow.

Yu Li pressed his lips tightly, comforting: [It's never too late to see a person's true colors. Old Big Brother, no matter what, we'll always be friends.]

Liu Cong replied with a tear-eyed expression pack.

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A few days later, Yan Sui also learned about Xu Bin's incident.

However, he only knew that Xu Bin had confessed to Yu Li but looked down on Yu Li for currying favor with the Yan family.

As for the other things, since they involved Yan Shiting, Liu Cong didn't dare tell Yan Sui.

Yan Sui already disliked those who spoke ill of Yu Li behind his back, and after learning that Xu Bin was also such a person, he simply and decisively deleted Xu Bin from his friends.

When Yu Li knew about this, he was on his way to the hospital with Yan Sui.

Grandmother Yan's condition had worsened, and the night before, the butler had rushed her to the hospital. Now that she had stabilized a bit, she wanted to see her grandson.

But for some reason, Yan Sui didn't want to go alone, and since Xue Changke was out of town attending a competition and hadn't returned yet, he asked Yu Li to accompany him to see Grandmother Yan.

In the Yan family car, Yan Sui cursed Xu Bin once, then fell silent, leaning against the window.

Yu Li looked at him, thinking about what Doctor Yan had said that day.

Grandmother Yan truly cared for Yan Sui...

What about Yan Shiting then?

Last time at the birthday party, he had also noticed the difference in Grandmother Yan's attitude towards the two grandsons.

Yu Li had doubts, but he didn't dare ask Yan Sui directly.

Soon, the car arrived at the Yan family hospital.

Yan Sui stood at the hospital entrance, staring at the main entrance for a long while before leading Yu Li inside.

Arriving at the VIP ward on the eighth floor of the inpatient department, Yu Li was somewhat surprised to see Grandmother Yan on the bed.

Unlike the last time he saw her at the birthday party, the old lady now looked haggard, her gaze cloudy, and her spirit very poor.

Yan Sui walked to the bedside and said, "Grandmother, I'm here. Elder Brother still has some matters, he'll come a little later."

Grandmother Yan weakly raised her hand and grabbed him, saying, "You're here, that's good, that's good."

She looked at Yu Li and asked, "Who is this?"

"My good friend, his name is Yu Li. He came to see you at your birthday party last time."

"Oh, oh." Grandmother Yan nodded weakly, "Young student, please don't mind, my memory is not too good since I'm old."

Yu Li sat aside, smiling and shaking his head, indicating it didn't matter.

They had only met once, and he didn't care if Grandmother Yan remembered him or not.

Yan Sui looked at Grandmother Yan's complexion, worriedly asking, "Grandmother, do you feel a bit better now?"

Grandmother Yan forced a smile, "Just so-so, you know how it is."

She tightened her grip on Yan Sui's hand and said, "Ah Sui, have you carefully considered the matter I've been telling you about?"

Presumably out of consideration for the presence of outsiders, she didn't explicitly state what the matter was.

Yan Sui pressed his lips tightly and lowered his head, "Grandmother, my thoughts haven't changed. I don't want to join the company."

Grandmother Yan looked at him, anxiously wanting to sit up, but the next moment she frowned in pain and lay back on the bed.

The grip on Yan Sui's hand also gradually loosened.

"Grandmother!" Yan Sui was a little worried, wanting to press the call button on the bed.

Grandmother Yan shook her head to stop him, "I'm fine."

She lay on the bed for a while before saying, "Ah Sui, you're not young anymore, you should plan well for your future."

"Think about your uncle's family's fate, the reason you don't want to join the company, is it because you're afraid of ending up like them, right? If that's the case, then why don't you..."

Grandmother Yan didn't finish, glancing at Yu Li, then raised her hand to press her painfully throbbing head.

Yu Li frowned, silently observing Yan Sui, noticing that the other was silent, seeming to have been persuaded.

Yu Li couldn't help but think of the rumors he had heard.

Those people said that Yan Shiting was callous, and had personally sent his uncle and cousin to prison, with his uncle and cousin even being sentenced to death, with no chance of redemption.

Could it be that Yan Sui also thought this way? That he also felt his brother was callous?

Yu Li pressed his lips tightly, about to speak, but then heard Yan Sui softly say, "But Grandmother, the reason my uncle's family ended up like that, isn't because they really did something wrong, so they deserved to be punished?"

Yan Sui looked at Grandmother Yan and said, "I don't want to join the company because I'm self-aware, I know I'm not capable of managing the company, and will only drag my brother down."

"Please don't bring up this matter again, I don't need your shares either."

Grandmother Yan was taken aback, seeming a little unbelieving.

She tremblingly reached out to try to grab Yan Sui, but Yan Sui took a step back.

He turned and said, "I still have some things to do, I'll take my leave first. Grandmother, please rest well."

With that, Yan Sui left the ward directly, even though Grandmother Yan urgently called out his name, he didn't look back.

After leaving the ward, Yan Sui let out a long sigh.

He led Yu Li to the end of the corridor and sat down on a public chair.

"It's good that I called you to come today." Yan Sui tried to raise the corners of his mouth in a smile, but the next moment his mouth drooped down again. "If I didn't see you here, she would have used all kinds of methods to force me to join the company again."

Yu Li comforted, "If you don't want to, she can't force you."

Yan Sui shook his head, "She can."

"Yan Corporation was listed when my father was in charge, he and my mother hold the most shares, 48%. After they passed away, the shares were equally divided between me and my brother, as well as Grandmother, we each have 16%."

"Now she wants to give me her shares, then..."

Then his share ratio would be higher than Yan Shiting's.

"That's not right." Yu Li instinctively said.

When signing the prenuptial agreement, he clearly saw that Yan Shiting's shares in Yan Corporation were sixty percent...

Yan Sui looked at Yu Li, "What's wrong? Where is it not right?"

"Ah?" Yu Li came back to his senses.

"Uh... it's just that I feel your brother shouldn't only have 16% of the shares." 

Yu Li was a bit nervous, he still couldn't explain why he knew Yan Shiting had so many shares.

Fortunately, Yan Sui didn't notice, and explained, "That's right, it's not just 16%, because my uncle also had 15%, which was later all bought by my brother."

"Oh."

Yu Li pondered.

It seems Yan Sui wasn't paying attention to Yan Corporation, so he didn't even know his brother had 60% of the shares.

"Your grandmother, is she trying to make you the largest shareholder of Yan Corporation?"

Yan Sui leaned back in the chair, "En, she's always saying..."

He paused, clicked his tongue in annoyance, "She says I can't be worse than my brother, I have to be careful, in case my brother wants to do something to me."

"But she also doesn't think, if my brother really wants to do something to me, what's the use of having so many shares?"

Yan Sui covered his eyes with his hand, "She's always saying, always saying, using her illness to threaten me, saying she's so worried about me, if I don't join the company, don't be like my brother, she won't be able to rest in peace even after death."

"I have no choice, I just hid in school, wanting to take the postgraduate entrance exam, I don't want to be the kind of person she says, I just want to be an ordinary person... but I'm really not cut out for studying either, I can't focus at all."

"Thinking about it carefully, those two classmates, although their words were harsh, aren't they right? The way I am, isn't it just like a playboy using the postgraduate entrance exam as a joke?"

By the end, Yan Sui's voice carried a nasal sound.

Yu Li listened quietly, handing him a pack of tissue paper.

Yan Sui turned his head away, not letting Yu Li see, took the pack of tissues and wiped his reddened eyes with one.

"I know I'm not as good as my brother, I've always known that."

"Many people around me are constantly comparing me to him, I don't know what his thoughts are, whether he will also be disappointed in me."

"For sixteen years, he taught me how to calmly deal with things, but I'm still so impulsive."

Yu Li said, "That won't be the case."

"Your brother doesn't think that way about you, he's just too direct in his way of expressing it. Perhaps he wants you to pull yourself together, not become the kind of person others gossip about, not live in the mouths of others."

"That sentence of his, it absolutely wasn't meant to blame you."

"But the things you said to him..." Yu Li paused, "He would also be very hurt to hear that."

Yan Sui took another tissue and wiped his face in a hurry.

The two fell silent.

Yu Li didn't know how else to persuade him.

The brothers lacked the opportunity to have a calm face-to-face talk. Yan Sui didn't dare, he had respect and fear towards his brother in his heart.

And Yan Shiting was taciturn, unwilling to take the initiative to express himself.

Yu Li sighed softly.

Yan Sui wiped the traces from his face, suddenly said, "Oh, right, Yu Li, I left my phone in Grandmother's ward, can you go get it for me?"

Yan Sui frowned, "I'm worried that if I go, she'll say those kinds of things again."

"Okay."

Yu Li patted Yan Sui's shoulder and walked towards the ward.

But just as he turned the ward door handle, he heard Grandmother Yan's voice, as if she had used up all her strength to say:

"Shiting, let me beg you, please let me see that child."

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