Your Distance

64 - Oh, My Sister-In-Law Is Back

Zhu Wenjia thought: his brother had already come out, so what was he afraid of?

He replied casually, “Oh, my sister-in-law is back.”

It was a bolt from the blue.

Ting Shuang didn’t even have the time to fly over and cover Zhu Wenjia’s mouth.

“Your sister-in-law?” Zhu Ao stared at the person in the video. He couldn’t have been mistaken. It was his ol’ brother Bai. He hadn’t seen him in just a few months, how did his ol’ brother Bai become his younger son’s sister-in-law? “Zhu Wenjia, make yourself clear, which one of your sister-in-laws is this?”

Zhu Wenjia said, “Which sister-in-law can he be, I only have one—”

Ting Shuang quickly snatched Zhu Wenjia’s phone and quickly hung up on the video.

Ting Shuang himself was also to be blamed for this.

If he didn’t refer to him as “your sister-in-law, your sister-in-law,” in front of Zhu Wenjia all day, and earnestly called him “Bai ge”, the situation might still have been salvageable.

Now Zhu Wenjia also referred to him as “my sister-in-law” all day long. The moment “sister-in-law” made it out of Zhu Wenjia’s mouth, they didn’t have any buffer time to think of a solution.

Zhu Wenjia hadn’t realized what happened, “Ge, why did you steal my phone?”

“Half of your pocket money is gone,” Ting Shuang said.

Zhu Wenjia felt extremely wronged, “What did I do to make you deduct my money again?”

“… Forget it,” Ting Shuang calmed down quickly. Blaming Zhu Wenjia was useless.

He had always been like this – able to differentiate between things worth dwelling on, and things that weren’t.

If Zhu Wenjia had sauntered in front of Bai Changyi stark naked, he could scold him half to death, but now, this situation obviously could not be solved by scolding Zhu Wenjia, so there was no point in doing so.

At that moment, Zhu Wenjia’s cell phone rang again. One didn’t need to look at it to know that it was Zhu Ao.

Ting Shuang hung up again, turned off the phone, and turned off his own phone too.

“What the hell is going on?” Zhu Wenjia looked at Ting Shuang, and then at Bai Changyi who was making his way over.

Bai Changyi put it more euphemistically, “Mr. Zhu is my business partner.”

“So what?” Zhu Wenjia was still dumbfounded.

Ting Shuang didn’t know how to explain it, “… Just, um, oh, actually, your sister-in-law— I mean, your Bai Ge is someone our dad recognizes as a brother at the wine table… But no, they didn’t really become sworn brothers… But, in dad’s mind, their brotherhood must have been decided long ago… Now if he suddenly found out that his brother has be-become…”

What has become what?

His daughter-in-law?

That would be awkward no matter how one said it, and Ting Shuang couldn’t finish his sentence.

“Wait, my Bai Ge is my dad’s younger brother?” Zhu Wenjia pondered for a long time, his brain capacity obviously failing to comprehend these words. He gestured in the air with both hands, and almost wanted to draw a family tree on paper right there and then. “… Ge, you mean, my sister-in-law… is actually my uncle?”

Immediately afterwards, he further reasoned, “Then… then Ge, wouldn’t you become my aunt?”

Ting Shuang opened his mouth, but found that Zhu Wenjia’s logic surprisingly made sense, and didn’t know how to refute it for a long time.