Chapter 114

Chapter 114: He Knows How to Be Sarcastic

Du Bi Xiao’s eyes narrowed, and the faces of the others also changed.

“You suspect that criminal has a grudge against me, or against us?” she asked.

“I can’t say for sure. It’s just… a feeling.”

After she sorted through all the fragments, Du An Rao had felt a strange sense of wrongness about the whole thing.

If that criminal really wanted to take revenge on society and hurt people at random, he could have just blown up all the bombs after he finished planting them.

If he did that, he could kill everyone in the most unexpected way and not give anyone any chance to react.

But instead, he chose the most attention-grabbing way, so it was hard not to overthink it.

It was a bit weak to ask people to believe her based on “a feeling” alone. But the one saying it was Du An Rao, and the one listening was Du Bi Xiao.

No one knew better than Du Bi Xiao that intuition might sound vague, but it really had saved her life several times in past missions.

So she didn’t think there was anything wrong with what Du An Rao said. In fact, she took it all to heart and quietly started planning how to check the possible suspects after she went back.

“I understand. No matter what, I want to thank you on behalf of me and my colleagues, and also on behalf of those people who might be dragged into this.” Du Bi Xiao looked at her seriously. “Next, I will do my best to get to the bottom of this and change this tragic future.”

Being stared at so earnestly by her cousin made Du An Rao a little embarrassed: “All I did was tell you what I know. The ones who can really save them are you and your colleagues.”

“But without you, we would still have no way to know about this ahead of time, just like in the future you saw.” Du Bi Xiao paused. “Let’s add each other’s contact info. If you think of anything else later, you can tell me anytime.”

Du An Rao had no opinion about that suggestion. She took out her phone right away, and they added each other.

Out of caution, Du He Xuan also added Du Bi Xiao.

After they finished this, the color finally returned to Du An Rao’s face.

She looked around and saw that her papa, mama, eldest brother, second brother, and fourth sister were all around her.

“You all came up. Then downstairs…”

Only then did the Du family remember that when they saw Du An Rao faint just now, they had been so worried that they had all followed her upstairs, and no one had stayed downstairs to calm the guests.

They all looked a bit guilty, but none of them regretted it.

“It’s fine. You fainted, they will understand. But we really can’t stay upstairs all the time.” Father Du thought for a bit and said: “How about this, we will go down first to greet the guests. Yu Xi, you stay upstairs and look after An Rao.”

“No need, I’ll go down with you,” Du An Rao said.

“But your health…” someone started.

“I’m really fine now. I don’t feel uncomfortable anywhere.” Du An Rao waved her hand. “Today is my and Fourth Sister’s birthday party. The guests are still there, and the two main characters are hiding upstairs. How does that look? Besides, I fainted just now in front of so many people. If I don’t show up again before the party ends, who knows how they will spread it tomorrow.”

[Shocking! The Du family’s youngest daughter faints at her birthday banquet. It turns out to be because…]

[The Du family rising star’s fainting incident. Is it the twist of human nature or the collapse of morals?]

[Is it sisters turning against each other or parents playing favorites? Click to see the smokeless war between the real and fake rich young ladies…]

Everyone present: “…”

[Oh boy, if things go wrong, my brother’s yesterday might be my tomorrow. Rumors really can kill.]

Du Jun Yan: “…” Enough. All those rumors were obviously made up by your brain!

Even so, Du An Rao’s worries weren’t groundless. With the relatives who were close to them, there was no need to be afraid. Even without them saying much, those relatives could guess what had happened and would not go around talking nonsense.

But today, the banquet guests were not only relatives and friends who could hear Du An Rao’s Inner Voice. There were also some business partners who knew nothing.

To stop the story from spreading in some outrageous way, the Du family finally agreed to Du An Rao’s idea of going downstairs again. The only condition was that at least two people had to stay by her side to stop any accident from happening.

Du An Rao felt they were making a big fuss, but she also knew they had been scared by what happened just now. So both sides took a step back, and she agreed.

The group had gone upstairs in a grand, noisy bunch, and now they went downstairs the same way.

To their surprise, when they reached the main hall, they saw many guests gathering in one area, as if watching some drama.

Father Du and Mother Du’s hearts sank. They thought that while they were upstairs, someone had started trouble downstairs on purpose.

But when they walked closer, they saw that the ones being surrounded were all old acquaintances, especially that familiar figure in studded denim, totally out of place among the guests in formal wear.

“…Third?” Father Du blurted out.

Du An Rao had been secretly keeping an eye on the three people from the Li family. As soon as she heard this, it felt like the antenna on top of her head stood straight up.

[Who? My third brother is here?! Don’t tell me that guy dressed like some non-mainstream shamate in front is him?]

The “shamate” in question: “…” What shamate? This is fashion!

It wasn’t strange that Du An Rao was shocked. Before today, she had never seen this legendary third brother. Her impression of him all came from an ID photo Mother Du had shown her, and from a single brief, beautiful description in Ye Meng Zhen’s story.

So, before this, in Du An Rao’s imagination, her third brother had always been like that kind of campus male lead in school novels, wearing a white shirt, looking up at the sky at forty-five degrees, handsomely elegant, a gentle top student.

Who would have thought that when she finally met him, her third brother was neither gentle nor elegant. As for “top student,” it seemed he only matched the “top” part in “top problem child.” He was clearly a rebellious troublemaker teenager.

After realizing this, Du An Rao instinctively turned her head and looked at Ye Meng Zhen at the edge of the crowd. Sure enough, she saw the girl frozen in place with a shocked, ghost-seeing expression.

[What a sin. A good, elegant young man got forced into becoming a problematic shamate. Who can handle that? Miss Ye’s filter has been smashed to dust, her fantasy completely broken. A first, young crush ends quietly in such a cruel way. Third Brother, your sins are heavy!]

Du Yi Han: “…” Who had such bad eyes that they liked him? He really had no idea!

Mother Du and Du Yu Xi, who knew the truth and also knew exactly what kind of person he really was: “…” Some people being doomed to be single really does have a reason.

Even Father Du and the others hadn’t expected this twist. Their expressions almost cracked.

“What happened here? Yi Han, you explain…” Father Du said.

“It’s just that some people go out without bringing their brains, and their mouths are connected straight to their backside,” Du Yi Han said lazily. “So young and already shaking like they have Parkinson’s and still don’t know they should go to the hospital. I don’t think they’ll ever get smart when they get old. Staying alive is a waste of rice. They might as well save some money and pick a nice feng shui grave for themselves, so they can build up some merit and blessings and fight to be a human in the next life.”

The Du family: “…”

The surrounding guests: “…”

[Pfft… Third Brother not only dresses like a non-mainstream kid. That mouth of his also really knows how to be sarcastic. Hahaha, “mouth connected to his backside” means he’s saying the guy spews crap when he talks, right? And “fight to be a human in the next life” means he thinks the guy is a sinful beast in this life, not even a person? Is this that legendary way of cursing someone without using a single dirty word? Hahahahaha, why is this so funny?]