Treasure Hunt: Tycoon's Priceless Runaway Wife-Chapter 712 - 710 Sister Control (One More Update)

Dabao lay on the bed, savoring the words his mommy had said.

Previously, he only suspected that his mommy had noticed something, but now he was a hundred percent sure that she had seen through his unusual feelings for Nuonuo.

Moreover, his mommy’s words were undoubtedly also telling him that no matter who he liked, she would unconditionally support him as his mother. She would stand behind him unconditionally and lend him a helping hand whenever necessary.

He didn’t give his mommy any answer because, at present, he couldn’t be sure if his feelings for Nuonuo had reached the point of no return.

If the role that mesmerized him had other substitutes, or if his feelings for Nuonuo were simply a momentary infatuation and a misunderstanding, then exposing the truth now would be extremely irresponsible and greatly harmful to Nuonuo.

Conversely, even if he was a hundred percent sure of his feelings, recognizing that Nuonuo was unique and irreplaceable in his heart, and he was as certain of his feelings as Daddy’s love for Mommy.

Then what choice should he make? Should he confess to Nuonuo now?

If he truly confessed, Nuonuo was only eleven years old, and he wasn’t sure she could understand the difference between family love and other feelings.

If he confessed to her now, it would be like forcing her to make a binary choice: continue being siblings or become lovers.

He believed that he had enough judgment, but Nuonuo, did she really have the ability to make the right choice?

Would she, afraid of losing her brother, unwillingly choose the option of becoming lovers?

After all, even Dabao himself couldn’t be sure if he could seamlessly switch back to the brother mode if he received the answer to continue being siblings after the confession.

After another sleepless night of deep deliberation, Dabao finally gave Le Tong this answer, "Mommy, please keep Nuonuo’s matter a secret."

Hearing her son’s response, Le Tong seemed not at all surprised.

"Mm, we respect your decision."

"Nuonuo is still young, and I don’t want to mislead her." The implication was that Le Tong should not interfere too much in this matter.

Le Tong hadn’t planned to interfere much in her son’s affairs anyway. She was merely reminding him that as long as affection is mutual, the siblings’ identity is not a barrier, indirectly telling him that as parents, they weren’t old-fashioned and wouldn’t obstruct anything.

After Dabao and Le Tong’s conversation, the mother and son laid their cards on the table.

Both were good at hiding their feelings, and on the surface, everything seemed as usual. Although Ji Rui was present during the conversation, the two didn’t spell things out clearly. As the person involved, Dabao understood their words, but Ji Rui only grasped the literal meaning, so he was completely unaware of his eldest son’s feelings for his daughter.

After that night, a few days later, Dabao once again became a frequent traveler, and this time he was away for more than half a month without returning home. During this period, the game smoothly entered the public testing phase.

The entire Ji Family knew that Dabao was in a particularly busy period, so apart from feeling sorry for him, they didn’t say much about it.

In the first week of Dabao’s absence from home, Nuonuo didn’t notice much because she was busy catching up on the week’s worth of schoolwork she missed due to her leave.

Although Little Treasure gave her additional tutoring, her brain was just that of an ordinary person, and squeezing two weeks of classes into one naturally exhausted her. At an age already especially prone to drowsiness, on top of the intense studying, the little girl would fall asleep immediately after finishing her homework each night.

Once she caught up with her overdue coursework and finally finished all her assignments by nine o’clock one evening, stretching and yawning, she realized she hadn’t chatted with Brother Dabao for two or three days.

She directly picked up the phone and called, and the siblings talked for half an hour as usual before ending the call. After hanging up, Nuonuo remembered a detail.

In recent days when Brother was on a business trip, they would chat every night, and each time, he was the one who initiated the call. But this time, he had been away for a week, and they had only spoken three times in total, and tonight was the first time she called him.

It’s not that Nuonuo minded, but in the years of interaction between them, Dabao was mostly proactive while Nuonuo was passive. Dabao would do all caring and thoughtful things before Nuonuo asked.

So, in front of Dabao, Nuonuo never needed to take the initiative because her subconscious already recognized that if she wanted something, even without saying, Brother would take care of it for her.

When she was younger, she felt it was only natural for Brother to be good to her, but as she gradually grew older, she vaguely felt that Brother’s kindness to her was indeed excessive.

She didn’t know if other people’s brothers were like her Brother Dabao, but she knew there was a common name for the kind of unconditional pampering and indulgence her brother showed her: a "siscon".

Her classmates around her had started entering their rebellious phases, constantly complaining about family imposing restrictions, feeling annoyed and disdainful.

But Nuonuo thoroughly enjoyed this kind of discipline. To her, it wasn’t discipline; it was love.

Who would even bother to look at you if they didn’t love you?

So, she felt her group of constantly complaining classmates were blissfully unaware of their good fortune.

And she, in fact, thoroughly enjoyed any form of indulgence and pampering from her family and brother. Thus, when she went several days without receiving a call from her brother, she started feeling uneasy.

"Daddy, is Brother very busy?"

After finishing her homework, Nuonuo saw Ji Rui sitting on the sofa reading a magazine, so she went over and sat beside him.

Ji Rui closed the magazine and patted her head, "Miss your Brother?"

"Mm!" Naturally, she did, and she missed him a lot, but she didn’t outwardly express it too much. After all, at eleven, she was now a little lady and couldn’t just cling to Brother endlessly like when she was younger.

"Nuonuo can call and ask him!" Ji Rui found it odd, as the kids always had a great and straightforward relationship and rarely used him to understand each other’s situation in such a roundabout way.

"Wouldn’t that disturb Brother’s work?"

Nuonuo didn’t refrain from making the call out of pretense but truly feared disturbing Dabao’s work.

Since she was small, her daddy and mommy had often worked overtime, and daddy sometimes had to attend social engagements or business trips, and now Brother seemed to be entering this busy work phase. So she wasn’t sure if, as someone with free time, she should be more considerate and wait until Brother finished his work to call back.