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What’s going on? Did I catch a cold because I didn’t rest well last night?
At this moment, the doorbell rang. Mu Xingfeng had returned to the Guard Team yesterday, and he had some days off, not needing to participate in early training. Not many people knew he had come back.
Opening the door, he saw Lin Junyang and Lin Ruonan, the sibling pair, standing outside.
As soon as Lin Ruonan saw Mu Xingfeng, she spoke first, "Second Brother, I came over today to handle some transfer procedures. I heard you returned, so I wanted to see you and also tell you something."
Since Old Mr. Lin’s birthday banquet last time, Lin Ruonan had started calling Mu Xingfeng Second Brother. For her, addressing him as Second Brother marked the end of her lingering thoughts about him.
Lin Ruonan was neither indecisive nor a manipulative person, but her love for Mu Xingfeng over the past twenty years was too persistent.
When she saw Mu Xingfeng’s meticulous care and genuine affection for An Ran, she realized that what she had been pursuing for twenty years would ultimately remain unattainable.
She was unwilling to give up, but she didn’t harbor resentment. After the incident at her grandfather’s birthday banquet, even that little bit of unwillingness vanished.
Nothing could make her more sober than the man she loved for twenty years pointing a gun at her for another woman. She knew they could never be together no matter what.
If she continued being stubborn, the decades of friendship between the Lin and Mu Families would be ruined by her own hands.
If she wanted the Lin and Mu Families to continue in harmony, and for the bond with Mu Xingfeng over the past twenty years to continue as friends, she knew she had to change her attitude towards him.
When she finally addressed him sincerely as Second Brother, she found it wasn’t as difficult as she imagined. Instead, it felt like a relief, a kind of mental and physical relaxation she had never experienced before.
Reflecting on her feelings for him over the past twenty years, it was merely an obsession. There was something she had felt uneasy about, and upon hearing that Mu Xingfeng had returned to the Guard Team, she wanted to confess it to him.
Mu Xingfeng looked at Lin Ruonan’s calm eyes. It was clear that she had figured things out and didn’t want to make things difficult for her anymore.
"Come in," Mu Xingfeng said, turning to enter the house.
Lin Junyang, who had been worried that his big sister would get turned away again when she mentioned coming to see Mu Xingfeng, was also surprised to hear her call him Second Brother.
Considering he was the youngest among five people, and Lin Ruonan was his twin sister, she had always called Gu Haoyu, Chen Yankun, and Sun Wangbei as Brother, Third Brother, and Fourth Brother respectively, but had never called Mu Xingfeng Second Brother.
Seeing Mu Xingfeng’s attitude towards her, the weight on his heart was finally lifted.
He suddenly thought about the last time their Brother Gu Haoyu insisted on taking his sister to apologize to Mu Xingfeng. It seemed that Brother held significant influence over his sister; he just wondered how far that influence went now.
As Lin Junyang’s thoughts wandered, Mu Xingfeng and Lin Ruonan had already sat down.
"What’s the matter?" Though Mu Xingfeng didn’t blame Lin Ruonan, he remained as indifferent as ever to any woman other than An Ran.
Having been accustomed to his attitude for twenty years, Lin Ruonan got straight to the point and admitted her mistake.
"Second Brother, I’m sorry. When I first transferred to Nan’an, I went to Longteng Xinyuan looking for you. Initially, it was just to find you, but when I noticed An Ran lived there as well, I lost my rationality and went to her in your absence..."