Lin Nan saw through Yan Xi's inner doubts and couldn't help but smile lightly, saying, "Fu Yan Ting and I are brothers, born of the same parents. It's just that when they divorced, I was taken away by my mother, and my elder brother was left with the Fu family. Although my mother hasn't paid much attention to my elder brother's affairs over the years, my relationship with him is quite good."
Hearing Lin Nan's explanation, Yan Xi felt a little embarrassed and said, "Actually, you don't have to explain to me so deliberately. I didn't mean anything else."
"I know."
Lin Nan looked at Yan Xi and couldn't help but respond softly.
Yan Xi really didn't expect that Fu Yan Ting and Lin Qian didn't have a good relationship, but Fu Yan Ting and Lin Nan had a very good relationship. This made Yan Xi look at Lin Nan with a bit more admiration.
However, did Lin Nan really care about Fu Yan Ting? He wouldn't even know that Fu Yan Ting didn't eat spicy food, would he?
Yan Xi looked at the table full of dishes, recalling Lin Nan's words just now, and couldn't help but frown, scrutinizing Lin Nan. Lin Nan seemed to have guessed Yan Xi's thoughts and couldn't help but smile lightly and explain, "Miss Yan, you may not know this, but my elder brother used to love spicy food very much. However, due to some incidents, his stomach was damaged and could not withstand stimulation, which is why he doesn't eat spicy food."
When Lin Nan first started talking to Yan Xi, he was quite reserved. But as time went on, Lin Nan opened up, and his conversation with Yan Xi was no longer as cautious and guarded as before.
Lin Nan told Yan Xi many interesting anecdotes about playing with Fu Yan Ting when they were young, and how he used to do mischievous things like a naughty child at school to get Fu Yan Ting's attention. Every time the teacher asked to call their parents, Lin Nan would be incredibly happy to call Fu Yan Ting.
Every time, Fu Yan Ting would go to school to clean up Lin Nan's mess.
But later, the teacher never asked Lin Nan to find his parents again. At that time, the young Lin Nan thought that Fu Yan Ting didn't like him as a brother, so he had instructed the teacher not to call them anymore.
Lin Nan was downcast for a long time because of this.
But when Lin Nan accidentally overheard a conversation between Fu Yan Ting and the school principal, he realized that Fu Yan Ting's concern for him far exceeded his imagination.
At that time, Fu Yan Ting was only two years older than him, yet he dared to negotiate with the principal.
He directly bought the school with money and said to the principal, "I only have this one brother. Don't let him have any negative experiences at school or become averse to studying. If those people bully my brother again, then let them get lost. The Fu family has plenty of money, but the Fu family doesn't have the magnanimity to tolerate even the slightest grievance."
The principal knew that Lin Nan was deliberately causing trouble to get Fu Yan Ting's attention, but facing Fu Yan Ting's face, even though it was still young, he dared not tell the truth.
From then on, everyone at the school treated Lin Nan like a little overlord, and no one dared to provoke him. Even if Lin Nan initiated trouble, those people would stay as far away as possible.
Yan Xi quietly listened to Lin Nan recount his relationship with Fu Yan Ting.
Yan Xi suddenly realized that even though Lin Nan was taken away by Lin Qian from a young age, he was still a Fu family member at heart, not a Lin family member.
He had not inherited any of the traits that Lin Qian detested.
Hearing Lin Nan speak, Yan Xi simply felt that Lin Nan was quite likable.
Yan Xi looked at Lin Nan, patiently listening to him talk about his past with Fu Yan Ting.
Suddenly, Lin Nan got back to the point and looked at Yan Xi, asking, "Miss Yan, I can see that you and my elder brother have a good relationship. Why did you get divorced in the first place?"
When this topic was brought up, Yan Xi became tight-lipped.
Lin Nan cared so much about Fu Yan Ting as an elder brother, how could Yan Xi explain to Lin Nan that she divorced Fu Yan Ting because Yan Xi's maternal grandfather had done something very excessive to Fu Yan Ting?
Yan Xi had to divorce Fu Yan Ting to protect him.
Seeing that Yan Xi was unwilling to say more, Lin Nan didn't press further.
However, Lin Nan was now very interested in the relationship between Yan Xi and Fu Yan Ting. Especially after seeing Yan Zi Tong at the entrance of the emergency room. Although he hadn't seen Yan Zi Tong in the past two days, Lin Nan felt an innate sense of closeness to Yan Zi Tong.
This was mainly because Yan Zi Tong's face looked exactly like Fu Yan Ting's.
It made Lin Nan unable to feel any aversion.
Lin Nan didn't know if that child was the crystallization of his elder brother and Yan Xi's love.
He didn't beat around the bush and directly asked, "Miss Yan, no, perhaps I should call you sister-in-law. That boy, is he actually your child with my elder brother?"
Although he was asking Yan Xi, before asking this question, Lin Nan already had a definite answer in his heart.
As expected, after hearing Lin Nan's words, Yan Xi's expression changed drastically.
Although Lin Nan had talked a lot with Yan Xi, and Yan Xi had a changed perception of Lin Nan, when Lin Nan asked such a direct question, Yan Xi still felt very nervous.
Seeing Yan Xi's defensive look, Lin Nan couldn't help but say, "Sister-in-law, you don't need to be so nervous. I'm not like my mother; I won't harm my elder brother. I'm just curious. You and my elder brother even have a child together, and your relationship is so good, you shouldn't have gotten divorced."
"The adult world is not as simple as you think, especially marriage."
Yan Xi left Lin Nan with such an ambiguous statement.
Lin Nan could see that even though he had talked so much with Yan Xi, deep down, Yan Xi had not completely accepted him and was still wary of him.
Since that was the case, Lin Nan didn't ask any more questions.
Looking at Yan Xi, Lin Nan suddenly realized that Yan Xi was much smarter than those women who deliberately tried to please Lin Qian to be with his elder brother.
Her guard was also strong.
This was certainly a good thing.
Although Lin Nan genuinely cared about Fu Yan Ting, the Lin family did not. If Yan Xi were easily swayed by a few words, she would eventually stand in opposition to Fu Yan Ting because of the Lin family.
Inside the Fu family villa.
Yan Zi Tong stared at the computer, looking through Lin Qian's files.
Although Lin Qian had not found any clues when she investigated Yan Zi Tong, Lin Qian's files were all laid bare when Yan Zi Tong investigated her.
When Yan Zi Tong learned that Lin Qian was the internationally renowned painter Mu Qing,
Yan Zi Tong's lips curved slightly, and he began to search for everything about Mu Qing.
At this time, Lin Qian was still in the hospital, unaware of what was happening online. When she received a call from her assistant, her expression changed drastically, and she roared, "Say that again."