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All Alone in the World
After offering the incense stick, Sun Yi Lin seemingly turned into a wooden pillar again, staring at that bit of spark at the tip of the burning incense stick.
And during this time, it was also more than enough for the people in the surrounding to return to their senses. It really wasn’t easy to describe what they were feeling. There was sympathy and pity, also sorrow and sadness, but similarly there was indifference and also pleasure at another’s misfortune.
And as the one that once fought with Sun Yi Lin the most viciously, Sun Yi Bin clearly belonged to the last kind. In his eyes, Sun Yi Lin, since birth, just monopolized their mother’s attention, and as he slowly grew up, this younger brother’s splendor was just limitless, causing all the brothers of Ding Duke Manor, under his contrast, to all lose color. When mentioning Ding Duke Manor, there seemingly was just Sun Yi Lin alone.
And never mind just this, clearly he was the eldest di son, the one that should be the legitimate heir, yet his Majesty who was indifferent towards the entire Sun clan, also particularly liked this younger brother, and for his sake, suppressed him, not conferring him as the heir.
So how can he not be jealous, how can he not hate? When this younger brother was just a few years old, he already nearly had him killed. Sun Yi Bin didn’t regret in the slightest. In any case, even if his younger brother really died, and even if knowing it was done by him, his parents will still cover up for him. After all, it was the Ding Duke Manor, the head of the meritorious nobles. Their reputation was very important. Just, unfortunately, how come he didn’t die?
Ever since then, their mother just had this younger brother protected tightly, so he no longer had the opportunity.
For a long time now, he has always been the thorn in his eyes, yet he was unable do anything to the other party. However, grandmother had him given out for adoption, so in a certain sense, it can be said that he already didn’t have any threat towards him. But, on the inside, he still wasn’t that happy, because their grandmother’s inherent goal in doing this was still for Sun Yi Lin’s sake. Grandmother had them viewed as a burden to this younger brother. The entire Ding Duke Manor wasn’t an emblem of great power and glory, but rather a pile of shit, a pile of filth, so how can he not resent?
Unfortunately, this younger brother was far away in Jiangnan. The Ding Duke Manor had high status and great power, but he wasn’t even the legitimate heir, so how can he dispatch people to give Sun Yi Lin trouble. It truly was beyond his reach.
Now that he came back, even coming back in this kind of sorry state, hehehe….
“Fifth younger brother even knows to come back? Having sent you a letter that early, yet you only return to the capital now? The one that mother cared about the most and loved the most was precisely you. Never mind that because of your marriage, you had mother angered until she fell ill, you even stubbornly left the capital. And never mind leaving the capital, unable to return, to actually not even send a single letter, don’t know how heartbroken you made her. On her deathbed, she wholeheartedly just wanted to meet you one last time, yet in the end, you let her die with grievances! Sun Yi Lin, did you know, when entering the coffin, mother was all unwilling to close her eyes, you, you…..” The more he spoke, the angrier he got, the veins on his neck and hand all appearing, seemingly as if he was intensely suppressing his anger. Glaring at Sun Yi Lin, his eyes were filled with sorrow, wishing to devour him alive.
These words, that wasn’t just pinning Sun Yi Lin with a label of being greatly unfilial, but rather having the Ding Duchess’s death all blamed on Sun Yi Lin’s head. The people present weren’t just the people of Ding Duke Manor. If these words really were to solidify, then Sun Yi Lin can get drown to death in spit. Everyone would just criticize his wrong, and absolutely won’t ask the reason within. Beside, the matter of marriage was just under the parents’ orders to begin with. To anger the parent because of this, as the child, no matter what, it was all wrong.
And the worst of all was that Sun Yi Bin’s words weren’t all false, although it wasn’t all true either. The facts and lies mixing, that was the most fatal. He may be vicious, but he also truly grasped the most fatal weapon.
Sun Yi Jia was unable to restrain her anger. This eldest brother always had such a disgusting look at all times, “Eldest brother, to slander fifth brother as such, what are your intentions?”
“I’m slandering him? The ones that know this matter aren’t in the minority. Mother, precisely because of shielding him in all areas, thus did everything to have this matter pressed down, just fearing that it would harm his reputation. Yet in the end? He’s merely just a white-eyed wolf! An ungrateful bastard thing!”
“You!”
“Little sis.” Sun Yi Lin finally reacted, “It’s not good for a pregnant person to get angry. In Ding Duke Manor, we are merely guests outside of three relations. Right now, your situation is special, so after offering the incense, just go back, else with this many people coming and going, if by chance they bump into you, it won’t be good.”
“Fifth brother….” Sun Yi Jia looked to him, in a daze and somewhat confused. Not for anything else, just, was this really something her fifth brother would say? Prior to certain matters, her fifth brother, towards their mother, that was practically completely obeying.
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“What fifth brother, in this branch of ours, there’s just the two of us.”
That’s right, the two of them had been given out for adoption, given to their grandfather’s younger brother that had died young. Theoretically speaking, Sun Yi Lin’s words weren’t wrong, but it also can’t be said as such. They were born in the Ding Duke Manor and grew up in the Ding Duke Manor. Without the Ding Duke Manor’s upbringing, would he have been able to become the number one noble young master of the capital? He had already gotten splashed with dirty water by Sun Yi Bin, so once these words came out, he can immediately just get his spine broken.
Didn’t one see Sun Yi Bin this while all trembling in excitement?
Of course, Sun Yi Bin would just admit that he was shaking in anger.
The pros and cons in this matter, would Sun Yi Lin not be able to make out? Of course not. For him, it was just completely not caring. He already didn’t have future prospects to speak of, and in reality, towards being an official and whatnot, he didn’t have any interest anymore. Right now, the only thing he cared about was just this younger sister and his grandmother. His younger sister, one can just tell at a glance that she was doing very well in the Luo family. And his grandmother, no matter what, was still an old titled madam of the Ding Duke Manor, so needless for him to worry. Being alone in the world, reputation, that thing, what is there to care about?
“Alright, go back. I’ll go greet grandmother and great aunt, and afterwards go look for you. During my time in the capital, afraid will need to rely on little sis’s assistance.” Sun Yi Lin patted Sun Yi Jia’s shoulder, directly leaving the mourning hall.
Sun Yi Jia froze in place. She seemingly understood her fifth brother’s meaning, and precisely because she understood, her tears once again rolled down, her heart aching to the extreme.
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