Chapter 2024: Chapter 2024: Yaya (Part 1)
Jiaojiao asked while sizing up the other person.
It should be a little girl, looking about ten years old, with clothes full of patches, gray and dirty, wrinkled like dried plums. She smelled slightly sour up close, and her long, unkempt hair was messily draped over her head and face, making it impossible to tell her features, only barely recognizing her age and gender.
The little girl heard her question and glared at her angrily before turning to look at Ruan Wei, with a bit of blood from a bump topping her forehead, calling him piteously and helplessly, "Brother."
"Brother?" Lu Zishu glanced around to everyone, finally resting his eyes on Ruan Wei: "Who is she calling, Ruan Wei, is she calling you? Do you have a sister other than Jiaojiao?"
Jiaojiao also looked at Ruan Wei.
Ruan Wei’s face turned pale when the other party called him brother, and now, being watched by everyone, he froze completely.
He even dared not meet Jiaojiao’s eyes.
Seeing no response from him, the little girl shouted louder again, "Brother!"
Ruan Lei, standing next to Jiaojiao, said nothing; his gaze swept over the little girl and flashed thoughtfully, resting on the rigid Ruan Wei, with furrowed brows as he reckoned a possibility.
Indeed, in this world, there was more than one person besides Jiaojiao who would call Ruan Wei brother.
Jiaojiao looked at the little girl, evidently arriving at the same conclusion as Ruan Lei. She was not the only sister to call Ruan Wei brother—Liao Zhaoji remarried, and she seemed to remember the child being a little girl.
Still, she hadn’t expected this sudden appearance after nearly a decade.
Jiaojiao felt complicated emotions, especially when met with the little girl’s near-hostile gaze, which made her uncomfortable, so she looked away.
She asked Ruan Wei, "Wei brother, who is she..."
Jiaojiao didn’t know how to refer to Liao Zhaoji and couldn’t recall what the little girl was called, pondering how best to address her when the girl shouted out upon hearing Jiaojiao speak, sharp and piercing at around ten years old, "I am my brother’s sister, not you! We have the same mother! I am my brother’s sister!"
After shouting, dissatisfied, she spat and used her hands and feet to crawl towards Jiaojiao, tilting her head to spit at her. freewebnσvel.cøm
Of course, Jiaojiao didn’t let her spit land, swiftly dodging.
This action disgusted everyone.
Especially Yu Rou, raised in Capital City, always pampered by family with good conditions, even when returning with the Ruan Family to Yuansu, not everyone she met might be cultured, but they were at least honest—she had never witnessed anyone spitting at others like this, utterly revolted, furiously rubbing her arms and retreating several steps, fearing contamination.
"Yaya!" Seeing the girl behaving this way, Ruan Wei angrily called out.
Then Jiaojiao remembered, yes, Liao Zhaoji’s child was called Yaya; she recalled the baby had a large head like a big-headed doll, never crying or fussing, even when Liao Zhaoji threw her on the ground, unmoving as if unaffected.
She didn’t expect her to grow so much in the blink of an eye.