Dabao lay on the bed, savoring the words his mommy had said.
Previously, he only suspected that his mommy had noticed sothing, but now he was a hundred percent sure that she had seen through his unusual feelings for Nuonuo.
Moreover, his mommy’s words were undoubtedly also telling him that no matter who he liked, she would unconditionally support him as his mother. She would stand behind him unconditionally and lend him a helping hand whenever necessary.
He didn’t give his mommy any answer because, at present, he couldn’t be sure if his feelings for Nuonuo had reached the point of no return.
If the role that srized him had other substitutes, or if his feelings for Nuonuo were simply a montary infatuation and a misunderstanding, then exposing the truth now would be extrely irresponsible and greatly harmful to Nuonuo.
Conversely, even if he was a hundred percent sure of his feelings, recognizing that Nuonuo was unique and irreplaceable in his heart, and he was as certain of his feelings as Daddy’s love for Mommy.
Then what choice should he make? Should he confess to Nuonuo now?
If he truly confessed, Nuonuo was only eleven years old, and he wasn’t sure she could understand the difference between family love and other feelings.
If he confessed to her now, it would be like forcing her to make a binary choice: continue being siblings or beco lovers.
He believed that he had enough judgnt, but Nuonuo, did she really have the ability to make the right choice?
Would she, afraid of losing her brother, unwillingly choose the option of becoming lovers?
After all, even Dabao himself couldn’t be sure if he could seamlessly switch back to the brother mode if he received the answer to continue being siblings after the confession.
After another sleepless night of deep deliberation, Dabao finally gave Le Tong this answer, "Mommy, please keep Nuonuo’s matter a secret."
Hearing her son’s response, Le Tong seed not at all surprised.
"Mm, we respect your decision."
"Nuonuo is still young, and I don’t want to mislead her." The implication was that Le Tong should not interfere too much in this matter.
Le Tong hadn’t planned to interfere much in her son’s affairs anyway. She was rely reminding him that as long as affection is mutual, the siblings’ identity is not a barrier, indirectly telling him that as parents, they weren’t old-fashioned and wouldn’t obstruct anything.
After Dabao and Le Tong’s conversation, the mother and son laid their cards on the table.
Both were good at hiding their feelings, and on the surface, everything seed as usual. Although Ji Rui was present during the conversation, the two didn’t spell things out clearly. As the person involved, Dabao understood their words, but Ji Rui only grasped the literal aning, so he was completely unaware of his eldest son’s feelings for his daughter.
After that night, a few days later, Dabao once again beca a frequent traveler, and this ti he was away for more than half a month without returning ho. During this period, the ga smoothly entered the public testing phase.
The entire Ji Family knew that Dabao was in a particularly busy period, so apart from feeling sorry for him, they didn’t say much about it.
In the first week of Dabao’s absence from ho, Nuonuo didn’t notice much because she was busy catching up on the week’s worth of schoolwork she missed due to her leave.
Although Little Treasure gave her additional tutoring, her brain was just that of an ordinary person, and squeezing two weeks of classes into one naturally exhausted her. At an age already especially prone to drowsiness, on top of the intense studying, the little girl would fall asleep imdiately after finishing her howork each night.
Once she caught up with her overdue coursework and finally finished all her assignnts by nine o’clock one evening, stretching and yawning, she realized she hadn’t chatted with Brother Dabao for two or three days.
She directly picked up the phone and called, and the siblings talked for half an hour as usual before ending the call. After hanging up, Nuonuo rembered a detail.
In recent days when Brother was on a business trip, they would chat every night, and each ti, he was the one who initiated the call. But this ti, he had been away for a week, and they had only spoken three tis in total, and tonight was the first ti she called him.
It’s not that Nuonuo minded, but in the years of interaction between them, Dabao was mostly proactive while Nuonuo was passive. Dabao would do all caring and thoughtful things before Nuonuo asked.
So, in front of Dabao, Nuonuo never needed to take the initiative because her subconscious already recognized that if she wanted sothing, even without saying, Brother would take care of it for her.
When she was younger, she felt it was only natural for Brother to be good to her, but as she gradually grew older, she vaguely felt that Brother’s kindness to her was indeed excessive.
She didn’t know if other people’s brothers were like her Brother Dabao, but she knew there was a common na for the kind of unconditional pampering and indulgence her brother showed her: a "siscon".
Her classmates around her had started entering their rebellious phases, constantly complaining about family imposing restrictions, feeling annoyed and disdainful.
But Nuonuo thoroughly enjoyed this kind of discipline. To her, it wasn’t discipline; it was love.
Who would even bother to look at you if they didn’t love you?
So, she felt her group of constantly complaining classmates were blissfully unaware of their good fortune.
And she, in fact, thoroughly enjoyed any form of indulgence and pampering from her family and brother. Thus, when she went several days without receiving a call from her brother, she started feeling uneasy.
"Daddy, is Brother very busy?"
After finishing her howork, Nuonuo saw Ji Rui sitting on the sofa reading a magazine, so she went over and sat beside him.
Ji Rui closed the magazine and patted her head, "Miss your Brother?"
"Mm!" Naturally, she did, and she missed him a lot, but she didn’t outwardly express it too much. After all, at eleven, she was now a little lady and couldn’t just cling to Brother endlessly like when she was younger.
"Nuonuo can call and ask him!" Ji Rui found it odd, as the kids always had a great and straightforward relationship and rarely used him to understand each other’s situation in such a roundabout way.
"Wouldn’t that disturb Brother’s work?"
Nuonuo didn’t refrain from making the call out of pretense but truly feared disturbing Dabao’s work.
Since she was small, her daddy and mommy had often worked overti, and daddy sotis had to attend social engagents or business trips, and now Brother seed to be entering this busy work phase. So she wasn’t sure if, as soone with free ti, she should be more considerate and wait until Brother finished his work to call back.
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