Treasure Hunt: Tycoon's Priceless Runaway Wife-Chapter 698 - 696: Da Bao, Confused and Anxious (Part 1)
Nuonuo obediently sat on the edge of the bed, and Da Bao took the towel from her hand to dry some of the droplets from her hair, then picked up the hairdryer and carefully blew her curls.
"Brother, I want to pick tea leaves tomorrow. Will you come?"
During dinner, Daddy said he would go fishing tomorrow, and at that time, Brother seemed to agree to go with him.
But Nuonuo wanted Brother to accompany her, because she had rarely had the chance to see Brother recently, and even less opportunity to play with him.
"Let’s talk about it tomorrow..." Da Bao knew the little girl’s thoughts, but he didn’t dare to indulge himself lately.
Nuonuo was very disappointed, but vaguely felt that Brother had been a bit different recently, so she didn’t dare to act spoiled and force him like usual. She just silently played with her fingers with her head down.
Da Bao felt very confused. During this period, there were too many things happening with the company, and he wished he could have forty-eight hours in a day to use.
As a result, the issues bothering him were temporarily set aside.
But now, the person who unsettled him was sitting right in front of him, and yet he couldn’t say anything to her, which really felt like shit.
Da Bao couldn’t even remember how old he was when he first realized what he wanted.
He only knew that at three or four years old, he would poke at Daddy’s soft spots, occasionally crying and fussing for Mommy.
As a young child, he was very aware that a crying child gets more attention.
At that time, Mommy was more important to him than anything in the world.
So when he met Le Tong again, even though he didn’t yet realize she was his biological mom, he instinctively felt a fondness for her and tried every way to get close to her, repeatedly urging Daddy to pursuer her.
Later, he got sick.
Le Tong stayed by his side day and night, and from then on, he was unwilling to let go.
Eventually, when he found out Le Tong was his long-missed birth mother, he would rather forgo Daddy than give up Mommy.
Back then, his feelings for Le Tong were an almost pathological obsession.
Fortunately, Le Tong responded to him.
Occasionally, when Da Bao reminisced about the year he was reunited with Le Tong, he couldn’t help but wonder if he would have been so persistent if Le Tong were not his birth mother.
If Le Tong weren’t his biological mom, would his persistent emotions have been reciprocated?
If this situation were to occur now, Da Bao might not be able to behave so relentlessly like he did back then.
Because now, he understands that love cannot be forced.
Whether it’s family love or romantic love.
He couldn’t trace back to when his feelings for Nuonuo began, because from the first moment he saw the little girl in the woods, he was certain that she was his!
His feelings for her were longstanding and deep, long enough to become a habit, deep enough that he couldn’t let go. So much so that now he’s unsure what kind of feelings he really had toward this little girl?
Clearly, he developed feelings he shouldn’t have toward her.
But, she’s only eleven years old, and she’s his sister...
These two ironclad facts made Da Bao feel despicable.
He also wondered if, aside from the physical, he had feelings for Nuonuo that went beyond sibling love.
Of course, others might not know, but he knew that Nuonuo had no blood relation to him.
But having no blood relation doesn’t mean they’re not siblings!
For the past eleven years, to himself and everyone around them, they are just a pair of siblings who love each other deeply.
So before Da Bao could fully understand his physiological and psychological confusion, he wouldn’t hastily break this barrier.
Because her being an adopted daughter might be an immense bombshell to Nuonuo, whose mind is sensitive and stubborn to an alarming degree.
Of course, if Nuonuo was seventeen or eighteen now, and capable of understanding her own emotions, Da Bao would definitely choose honesty to explain the situation with her.
But the reality is, Nuonuo is only eleven years old. Let alone understanding what love is, she couldn’t even distinguish between family love and romantic love now.
To achieve what he wanted, Da Bao could force many people, but he couldn’t bring himself to force Nuonuo!
So, before he was 100% sure of his feelings for Nuonuo, he chose not to reveal them.
At the same time, he hoped for time and space to calm down, to sort out whether his feelings for her were purely emotional or a psychological need and, if it were, whether she was irreplaceable to him.
And throughout this process of exploration, Da Bao didn’t want to alarm anyone, least of all Nuonuo, because only in this way could he avoid hurting the family he loved the most, including Nuonuo.
"Brother..."
After a long silence, Nuonuo finally spoke.
"Hmm?!"
"How long are you going to be busy?" Nuonuo didn’t dare mention tomorrow, so she could only hope Brother would finish his work soon and move back home.
That way, he could sit beside her listening to her play the violin every day, like before he could tutor her with her homework, and accompany her in combat training...
"I don’t know, maybe a while longer."
Originally, moving to the company’s temporary accommodation was just because work was too busy, and commuting took too much time. So Da Bao chose to stay at the company apartment.
But now, Da Bao even had the idea of moving out to live alone.
Because now, it was getting increasingly difficult to control himself from thinking recklessly alone with Nuonuo.
This was very dangerous; Da Bao knew it better than anyone.
Inside him slumbered a ferocious beast that, if awakened some day, and if his conscious self couldn’t control that other self, the one who would be hurt would be this little girl he cherished most.
"Brother, why?"
Nuonuo suddenly turned around, put her arms around his neck, her bright eyes locked with Da Bao’s gaze.
Da Bao was startled, fixed his eyes, and saw the little girl’s eyes reddened, and the brightness was the reflection of tears.
Da Bao’s heart ached as he gently wiped away the tears from her eyes, trying to continue using the universal excuse of work to brush it off.
"Nuonuo, Brother isn’t a kid anymore. Brother needs to help Mommy and Daddy with a lot of work and can’t be as capricious as before, okay?"
Although he knew better than anyone, the real reason was not entirely about work.
Nuonuo shook her head vigorously, "No, Nuonuo doesn’t know! Didn’t Mommy and Daddy say? If we don’t want to, we can have someone to help, and it’s not necessarily us to do it."
Nuonuo, usually so obedient, was rarely this willful. It was evident how much she missed Brother lately!
