CH 34

They say the eldest brother is like a father figure and given the circumstances where their father was always too busy with the company and never had enough time for anything else, this rings quite true for Huo Ming Chen.

It did not help that Mrs. Huo had also passed away early in his life. So Huo Ming Chen could say definitively that he was one handedly raised by Huo Ming Cheng. But even so, Huo Ming Cheng has never been able to fully understand Huo Ming Chen’s flippant hot and cold personality that has appeared since this little brother of his was young.

The ceiling of the hospital’s private ward was as white as snow, and the lights above were swaying a little too much that it stung his eyes. Huo Ming Chen could feel his whole body aching with the multiple scrapes and wounds of different levels on him. His calf had a light fracture, and with the cast, he was unable to get out of the bed and move or walk.

Huo Ming Chen sat up, asking about Lu Qi’s situation, who was situated in the ward next to him. Only after hearing from the doctor that Lu Qi did not sustain any serious wounds did he lay back down.

Huo Ming Cheng took all of this in with his eyes, and after he escorted out the policeman who came to take Huo Ming Chen’s testimony, he could not help but turn to take a long look at this worrisome little brother of his. He dragged a chair over to sit near Huo Ming Chen and folded his hands together in a posture that implicitly stated that he was the one in control.

Huo Ming Cheng pushed up his glasses and asked,

“Who was that man that was kidnapped with you, a friend?”

What needs to come will always come. After all, one can never hide a fire that was burning with paper. Huo Ming Chen was afraid of his brother having a heart attack from hearing the truth, but after mulling it over a bit, he tried to say it as gently as possible in hopes for his brother’s acceptance, 

“……Yes. A friend. But you have to add a word in front.”

Hearing this, Huo Ming Cheng’s heart began to race. He furrowed his eyebrows and uneasily switched his sitting posture, 

“What word?”

Huo Ming Chen: “Boy.”

Adding a “boy” in front of friend, then isn’t that……

The pupils behind Huo Ming Cheng’s glasses dilated, and when he came back to his senses, his body had already stood up, and the chair was thrown back from the force at which he stood up.

“How could you dare! —-!”

His eyes were widened from shock, and the first reaction he wanted to do was to slap Huo Ming Chen. His hand was already high in the air, ready to strike, and he was angry to the point where his fingertips were shaking. But as he looked towards the bed where his little brother laid, body full of wounds, that hand could not come down.

“Pang.” 

The hand slammed down heavily onto the bedside table. The vase on top shook from the force. Huo Ming Cheng gritted his teeth, and anyone in the room could see his veins popping out from his forehead. His usually pristine hairstyle was now all flustered and out of place. He no longer had the face of someone who could rule at the top of the business world, 

“Who let you touch this dubious habit?!”