3 Chapter 3: Reunion of the Family
"What are you doing here?"
Said Shi-yun while breaking off the hug.
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"Of course I'm waiting for my one and only little sis!"
Said the male while smiling brightly.
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"What 'one and only'? I'm not your 'one and only little sister', I remember you have another one"
Shi-yun mocks while making an indifferent face.
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"Huh? Another one? Who? I only remember my cute sister (¹)Xiao-yun!"
Said her brother pretending not know while pinching her left cheek.
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"(²)Aiya! Zhi-ming! Don't treat me like that anymore could you! I'm not a little child anymore!"
Complains the girl.
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No matter how much time passes, Huang Zhi-ming and her two other brothers would only regard her as their one and only little sister and treating her like a child forever. For them, Shi-yun is the apple of their eyes.
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"Where's Zhi-lin and Zhi-lan? Not welcome me anymore, huh?"
Pout the girl.
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"Not welcome you? How could we?"
A calm but somehow excited voice came from the other side of the gate making her heart swell with happiness.
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'(³)Da ge? Why is he here?'
Thought Shi-yun while saying,
"Yo, why's a person that's supposed to go to a business trip with President Huang is here?
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Approaching the smaller girl, another male said,
"Our plump sugar is home, how can your brothers miss out?"
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"I'm not that surprised that Zhi-lin ge is here. But why're you here? Aren't you supposed to be abroad?!"
Said Shi-yun although confused, she's clearly excited.
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Her first brother, Zhi-lin and her third brother, Zhi-lan, approached her and give her a hug that almost squeezed the words that she has long been kept in her heart, 'I miss you guys too'.
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As soon as the hug breaks off, her first brother took her luggage and just went inside without any words to say. And her third brother, Zhi-lan quickly pull her inside making her walk with a unorganized steps. They then place her in a seat at the dining table as if interrogating her.
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Her usually calm first brother questioned her with a calm but irritated tone,
"Why didn't you call us? You could've been in danger!"
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She then simply answer,
"It's okay, big bro. I'm unscathed you see?"
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Her third brother then said,
"Then you intended to let us take a beating from mother, huh? Why did you left the airport alone?! Where have you been the past two days?"
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Not letting her to answer the question, her second brother added,
"Eight years felt like eighty years to us don't you know?!"
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"Eighty years? Then two days to a Xiao-yun is like two thousand years. Why did you made your sister wait at the airport? Not only slacking around, you didn't even spare some time to look for your sister but instead go flirting with some girl. And now blaming her, do you want to take another beating?!"
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An elegant but clearly angry voice of a woman made the bunch of siblings loss for words.
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"Mother? Mother!"
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Scream Shi-yun as soon as her stepmother, Ning Yu-die was seen on the front door. The girl then ran for a hug to her stepmother that she has always regard as her birth mother. Shi-yun was raised as a daughter of the second wife although born by the first wife. Although she's not the birth daughter of hers, Ning Yu-die raised Shi-yun unscathed and full of love. Ning Yu-die has always wanted a daughter, but after three attempt she just got Shi-yun's first, second and third brother.
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After Shi-yun was born, Ning Yu-die was excited and at the same time took a pity at the newborn for not having a mother. Ning Yu-die and Yu Shang-lin's relationship has always been good although in that kind of situation. Ning Yu-die was always grateful that Yu Shang-lin not only accepted her into the family but also regard her as her own sister. She not only just took a pity at Huang Shi-yun's condition but after years of loning for a daughter, she was glad that Shi-yun was born to this world.
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(¹)Xiao= little. It doesn't necessarily meant she's small. It could also refers to the way of calling someone(nickname).
(²)Aiya!= an exclamation (chinese)
(³)Da ge= eldest brother
