Chapter 1518 - 1517: Rejected

Chapter 1518: Chapter 1517: Rejected

The two of them faced each other in the lab, four eyes meeting—one a little nervous but still staring straight at the other, the other with a faint trace of surprise in the eyes.

After quite a while, Jiang Lihua still hadn’t said anything.

Fan Xinglan couldn’t hold it in anymore: "C-can I? I’ve liked you for a long time."

Mr. Fan had always been the one getting confessed to since he was a kid; this was his first time confessing, and he was stammering all over the place.

As soon as he finished, he felt it wasn’t cool enough, and he practically wanted to slap himself, fall over, and rewind to say it again.

He hadn’t expected to confess in such a rushed, random way either.

Jiang Lihua was just too smart. Before, maybe it was only because he hid it too deep and She was too focused on research to think about this messy stuff. Once She started thinking, though, nothing could stay hidden.

Under those beautiful, sharp eyes of hers, Fan Xinglan was so nervous his scalp was tingling.

And yet at the same time he was falling for her completely.

Just having her stare at him for this long—he felt that even if he got rejected, he could die without regret...

After a while, Jiang Lihua finally spoke.

Her voice was soft but serious: "I’ve never thought about that. I only think of you as a little brother."

Like She didn’t know how to reject him, there was even a hint of gentleness in her tone.

"You’re just like Fu Lifei, Ji Ruofeng and the others, all existences like little brothers."

When Fan Xinglan fled in disgrace from the Yan Family villa, his head was still full of that sentence.

Little brother—She actually only saw him as a little brother...

The key point being, he was no different from the bunch of them like Fu Lifei!!!

Fan Xinglan felt like he’d just taken a hundred thousand critical hits!

After that he didn’t even know if his brain had short-circuited; he went and asked, "Then what about Gu Yixuan?"

Then Jiang Lihua froze for a second and said Gu Yixuan could count as a peer, but still only a friend.

Fan Xinglan did feel a bit relieved, but he still couldn’t snap out of it for a long time, like someone had dug a chunk out of his heart.

In the end he couldn’t help slamming the steering wheel hard.

He grabbed his phone and sent his mom a message:

[Mom, why didn’t you have me a few years earlier! Why did you have my sister first instead of me??]

Mrs. Fan, who got hit by stray bullets out of nowhere: [?]

[Is your brain sick? What nonsense are you on about again? If you’re not feeling well, go find Little Gu to check you out yourself.]

Seeing this, Fan Xinglan felt even more pissed.

He suddenly got jealous of Gu Yixuan! Two years older than him, and he could be seen by Sister Li Hua as someone the same age!

And they even shared the same interests, the same circle!

So jealous!

From that day on, Fan Xinglan barely showed up to check in at the Yan Family anymore.

He was forcing himself to use work to numb everything, to walk out of the shadow of heartbreak.

Besides that, he secretly swore he’d work hard to grow up. Age didn’t matter—he could rely on what’s inside to grow into a mature man!

The whole troublemaking gang all thought he’d gone crazy, suddenly like he’d been injected with chicken blood.

Only his parents in the Fan Family were grinning so wide their teeth were about to fall out. They thought it was all thanks to Yun Qiluo, and had people send her a bunch of gifts.

No one knew about him getting rejected.

Jiang Lihua wasn’t the type who liked to make a fuss. After he left, She dove right back into her research.

So not even Yun Qiluo knew. She was sprawled on the big bed in her room, eating snacks sent over by his parents from the Fan Family, still muttering:

"What’s up with Fan Xinglan lately? He doesn’t come to see Hua Hua anymore, but his parents are pretty nice, they keep sending me food."

Yan Yan had just finished showering and came out, drying his hair as he walked.

He heard this and, not surprised at all, said calmly, "He probably got rejected."

Yun Qiluo’s eyes widened on the spot.

"Rejected? By Hua Hua?" She immediately jumped off the bed, asking excitedly, "Did he confess to Hua Hua?"