As the two of them aged, this difference became more and more apparent.
Gu Sheng’s eyebrows were long like bamboo leaves, leaning towards the austere.
Gu Nuan’s brows curved gently, exuding a clear and elegant charm like that of mountains and waters.
Gu Sheng’s eyes, she remembered most vividly, were like drops of ink falling into a pool of water, dark and concentrated, yet watery, as if they belonged to a beauty celebrated in paintings.
Back when they were in primary school, the boys interested in Gu Nuan could be counted on one hand, yet the girls who flocked around Gu Sheng could fill a whole cart.
Keep in mind, this was a small county town. Yet still, everyone knew that the boys from the Gu Family were handsome, beautiful, and the apple of their family’s eye. Furthermore, even the daughters of wealthy city families, upon arriving in the county town and laying eyes on Gu Sheng, couldn’t help but have their eyes light up and stare intently.
So many girls liked Gu Sheng, but he was stubborn and didn’t fancy any of them.
Indeed, simply because they were siblings and had grown up together, sharing blood relations deep in their bones. Otherwise, if they were not even slightly related, Gu Nuan didn’t believe that Gu Sheng would ever turn around to glance at her.
Her brother Gu Sheng was just as poor as she was, yet he harbored such pride.
From this perspective, that young man named Ou Yanan, who was filled with a similar chill, shared a peculiar temperament very much like her brother Gu Sheng’s.
The issue was, the way he looked at her now was just as cold and bone-chilling as when he looked at those strangers who had nothing to do with him in the past.
In the past, he didn’t look at her with such eyes, because she was his elder sister.
He would always, behind closed doors and contrary to his usual cold demeanor in front of others, follow her around, acting spoiled, asking her to cook him noodles, to feed him White Rabbit creamy candies.
From a very young age, this had always been the case, unchanged.
That year, when he suddenly fell ill, so severely ill that he couldn’t even distinguish whether it was their father or mother by his sickbed,
only when looking at her did he clearly utter: Sister——
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The sensation of his hand holding hers during his final moments remains vivid in her memory to this day, so much so that it’s deeply etched into her heart and bones.
Whenever she recalls that time, her heart feels like it’s being carved out, yet no tears can fall, not a single one.
They had no money left, unable to borrow from anywhere, because no one believed that their parents had the means to repay the astronomical medical expenses.
The hospital’s doctors advised them to carry the patient home.
To carry him home meant that her brother was going to die, to die——
She couldn’t understand how doctors, who are supposed to save the dying and help the injured, could say such cold words with such callousness.
The doctor said he was powerless, with only so much salary; he couldn’t possibly advance such expensive medical fees for them. Besides, with the local medical conditions, they couldn’t save the life anyway, and all the money would go to waste.
Hearing that, her comprehension faded even further; was saving the life of a loved one, saving her brother’s life, really something to be calculated for cost-effectiveness?
Money, the root of all evil.
She, still a child at the time, experienced the real taste of poverty in that moment: the day you lose what you cherish the most, watching helplessly as the person you love the most leaves you behind, yet you must continue to eke out an existence in this cruel world.
Later, when her brother asked for creamy candies, she ran out to buy them for him, but by the time she returned, the only thing she could hear from her parents was: Gu Sheng is dead——