Chapter 70: He Was So Poor That All He Had Left Was Money

Qin Zhaoyu immediately protested stubbornly, “I’m not joking!”

“You’re still talking!” Ye Wuqi threatened to smack Qin Zhaoyu on the head again, but Qin Zhaowen stopped him, so Ye Wuqi let it go and didn’t hit Qin Zhaoyu this time.

Not wanting to continue the conversation with Qin Zhaoyu, Ye Wuqi turned to Qin Zhaowen and asked, “Weren’t you supposed to be back in a few days?”

Qin Zhaowen smiled. “My parents are always busy and have no time for us, so we just played around by ourselves for a bit and came back early. By the way, Xiaoyu bought gifts for you all—after all, we did go abroad.”

As he spoke, he fetched a bulging backpack.

“I bought them. I’ll hand them out!” Qin Zhaoyu, like a child, immediately grabbed the backpack.

“Alright, you do it,” Qin Zhaowen said indulgently, his tone especially gentle, his gaze toward Qin Zhaoyu filled with warmth.

Ye Luo was speechless.

Um…

Something didn’t feel quite right…

Sensing her confusion, Ye Wuqi leaned over to her, grinning as he explained, “This guy is obsessed with spoiling his little brother. What you’re seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg. The longer you know him, the more you’ll realize he’s beyond saving, hahahaha…”

Ye Luo had nothing to say.

Yan Baba looked on enviously. “I wish I had a brother like that.”

Ye Wuqi also put on an envious look. “Me too.”

Yan Baba glanced at him sidelong. “Don’t you have one?”

At that, Ye Luo immediately looked at Ye Wuqi. Her ancestor actually had a brother?

“Well, yes, but he’s nothing like Zhaowen,” Ye Wuqi sighed.

Noticing her gaze, he immediately grinned. “Surprised? That an orphan like me actually has a brother? Haha, I adopted him! Not blood-related! You silly thing! Hahaha…”

He ended up doubled over with laughter.

Such a clown.

Ye Luo remained speechless.

She hadn’t even assumed it was by blood…

Why was her ancestor like this…

Yan Baba sidled over playfully. “Sis Luo, let me tell you, the brother he adopted is even more mysterious than his own background. I only know he has a brother, but I’ve never met him. If I hadn’t seen them talk on the phone once, I wouldn’t have believed he actually had a brother.”

“You talk too much, you know you’ll die from it one day!” Ye Wuqi immediately hooked an arm around Yan Baba’s neck, pretending to strangle him.

The next second, he turned to Ye Luo with a smile. “Actually, it’s not that mysterious, and there’s really no need for you to meet him. He’s not presentable, otherwise I’d have introduced you.”

“Why not presentable?” Yan Baba asked.

Ye Wuqi replied angrily, “Because he’s so stingy! He’d rather see me go hungry than give me another cent!”

“Then why did you make him your brother?” Yan Baba was speechless.

“I didn’t know he was so stingy at first. I got tricked onto a pirate ship!” Ye Wuqi lied without batting an eye, making it sound utterly believable. “But maybe it’s because he’s poor. He’s really dirt poor.” Poor except for his piles of money.

The last sentence, he kept to himself.

Yan Baba nodded in understanding. “Must be because he’s too poor—that’s why he’s so stingy.”

Ye Luo found the reasoning convincing, believing it about eighty percent.

The remaining twenty percent she doubted.

It was because her ancestor had tricked her before—he had a record with her, and she’d learned her lesson and wouldn’t blindly trust him anymore.

Bzzzt.

Suddenly, her phone vibrated in her jacket pocket. Ye Luo instinctively took it out and saw that the caller ID read “An Qianqian.”