THE BELOVED AND PAMPERED GIRL

Chapter 1148: Chapter 1148: Dust-covered Past

“What exactly happened?” Jian Dan had always thought she was an only child, because her parents never mentioned anything about a brother.

“Our father was an extraordinary mechanical expert. At that time, the new weapons they developed caught the attention of criminals, so they were pursued. It was during this pursuit that I accidentally fell off a cliff, but luckily I didn’t die. A tree saved my life, and afterwards, a recluse in the mountains rescued me.”

Once I healed, the hermit took me back to search for our parents, but we didn’t find anything. Clearly, someone had cleaned up the site afterwards, so no trace was left.

Because I was too young at the time, I couldn’t do anything but stay with the hermit to learn his skills.

When I became an adult, I left the mountains and joined the army, but I never gave up on finding them. However, all these years, there has been no news of them.

Later, while on a mission, I saw them!”

“It’s impossible, they died when I was five years old. You couldn’t have seen them!” Jian Dan immediately retorted. She had witnessed their last breaths, and it was a long time before she dared to go to the hospital afterwards.

“In fact, they didn’t die at all. They were injected with a drug that slowed their heartbeat and breathing to the slowest, just like they were dead.”

“But how could the hospital’s devices not detect it?”

“Fool, of course, someone was in on it!

I guess they must have been switched out just as they were about to be pushed into the cremation furnace.”

“How could that be?

So where are they now?” This was Jian Dan’s utmost concern at the moment.

“They—are dead!” Jian Dan’s expression grew dark.

“How did that happen?”

“By the time I found them, they were already on their last breath. Before they passed away, they told me I had a sister, and they made me promise to take good care of you!”

Jian Dan’s tears had already breached their banks at this moment.

She had just heard the news that her parents were alive again, only to immediately learn of their death, an experience that penetrates the bone with its chill.

“Dan Dan, don’t grieve. If they see you crying in heaven, it will make them sad too!” Jian Hui patted Jian Dan’s shoulder to comfort her.

“Yes! They’ve always been the best parents!” Jian Dan’s mind was flooded with happy memories of time spent with her parents in her childhood. “But why didn’t they ever tell me I had a brother?”

“I guess my departure must have deeply affected them, and that’s why they chose to deeply bury this wound.”

“Do you happen to have a little red hat?” Jian Dan suddenly asked, as if struck by a thought.

“Yes! That was made by mom herself; it’s my favorite hat.”

“Now I finally understand why mom would always stare blankly at that red hat.”

As a child, Jian Dan would often see her momholding that red hat, lost in thought.

So, she had been missing her brother!

“Brother—” Jian Dan called out softly.

Upon hearing Jian Dan’s call of “brother,” Jian Hui’s face broke out in a broad smile, “Ah—” And to his excitement, he couldn’t help shedding tears.

“Uncle, do you need to be that emotional? Isn’t there a saying, ‘A man does not lightly shed tears’?” Kuaikuai, upon seeing Jian Hui’s reaction, crossed her arms and frowned in complaint.

“I’m excited! Not only did I find my sister, but I also gained such a remarkable brother-in-law.

The most, most, most important thing is that I now also have four such smart and adorable little nephews and nieces. How could I not be excited?”

“Smart I can accept, but please don’t use ‘adorable’ to describe me. It doesn’t fit my image and ruins my persona,” Kuaikuai said coldly.

Jian Dan looked at Kuaikuai, unsure how to react—there are actually girls who don’t like to be described as cute!

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