Forced Pampering: Haughty Husband, Please Restrain Yourself-Chapter 937 - 947: Could There Be a Thief at Home?

An Ran only knew that she was adopted by An Youcai in a small mountain village in C Province, and Aunt Xia told her that her father had died.

It turns out... her father was not dead and had adopted her into his own home.

An Ran smiled bitterly inside, realizing why her father was alive in this world, yet Aunt Xia told her that her father was dead.

Rather than letting her know she had such an unbearable father, a father who abandoned their mother and daughter, a father who raised her as an adopted daughter while suffering abuse from his wife and daughter, it was probably better for her to just think her father was already dead.

When Shen Qi and Zhu Pengfei arrived at Shen Family Village, it was already getting dark.

"My house is at the back of the village. When our house collapsed, the villagers felt sorry for my brother and me as we were children without parents and helped us build this house. Although it’s small, it’s very sturdy, enough to shelter my brother and me from the wind and rain."

An Ran pointed to a few houses in the distance.

The house indeed wasn’t big, with only a total of three rooms, built against the side of a hill, and with a half-high courtyard wall.

As they approached the yard and saw lights inside, Shen Qi’s eyes suddenly brightened, "Someone’s home, could it be my brother knows I’m back, and he’s come back too?"

After saying this, she ran a few steps forward, pushed open the yard gate, and yelled loudly, "Brother, is it you who’s back?" 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

There came a clattering sound from inside the house, and Zhu Pengfei pulled Shen Qi, "Qiqi, could it be a thief in the house?"

Shen Qi shook off his hand, and laughed, "Impossible, folks in the nearby villages all know it’s just the two of us siblings in the house, and we are too poor to make a sound, even if a thief came, they wouldn’t steal from us."

While saying this, her hand already touched the door, but just as she was about to push it, it opened from the inside.

"Brother~"

Upon seeing the man inside, Shen Qi happily called out, only to find him with a gloomy face and two unfamiliar faces in the room.

Shen Qi glanced at the people inside, then looked at Shen Bin standing at the doorway, her voice no longer as cheerful as before, she softly asked, "Brother, when did you come back?"

Shen Bin did not answer Shen Qi’s question, he stood in the doorway not intending to let Shen Qi in, just blocking there, and said to Shen Qi, "I should be asking you that? Weren’t you supposed to be with your classmates? Why did you come home at this time?"

After saying that, he glanced at Zhu Pengfei with a tone full of displeasure, "What’s with this guy? Who allowed you to bring a man home? What have you been doing out there this year? I’m making money to support you going to school in Nan’an, not for you to catch guys."

Shen Qi didn’t expect her brother to react so strongly to Zhu Pengfei’s appearance, instinctively wanting to defend herself, "Brother, Zhu Pengfei and I are in a normal relationship, not as you think, he’s genuinely good to me."

"Genuinely good to you? If he truly cares for you, he shouldn’t be alone with you coming to our house at such a late hour. That’s because I’m home now, if I weren’t home, who knows what he might be plotting when you’re alone with him? Qiqi, you’ve really disappointed me. Brother doesn’t oppose you having a boyfriend, but the premise of having a boyfriend is you must get my approval. Look at this person you’ve found, with his slicked-back hair, he doesn’t seem like a reliable man at all."

This was Zhu Pengfei’s first encounter with Shen Qi’s brother. Knowing that Shen Qi was an orphan who grew up with her brother, with the elder brother acting like a father, meeting Shen Bin for the first time, he felt a bit nervous...