Shen Wenta had clearly underestimated how poor the children's self-control could be.
He himself had been strictly trained since childhood, and self-discipline was carved into his bones, but these two little ones...
"Shen Xun, you weren't like this before." He looked at this younger brother who had always been so worry-free.
Shen Xun retorted, "I didn't get plastic surgery."
If he hadn't gotten plastic surgery, and he wasn't like this before, what else could it be?
Shen Wenta: "..."
"I was always like this." Before she could be accused, Shen Yi quickly proved her innocence in advance. "I just like playing games!"
She just liked playing games.
If it weren't for her young age and the fear of being scolded by her mother, she could easily stay up for three days and three nights playing.
During this past week, she and Shen Xun had also met two friends on a mobile game, a boy and a girl, and the four of them had teamed up to play together for a long time.
Shen Wenta ruthlessly confiscated their phones, game consoles, and computers, saying coldly, "Now, get out of your pigsty."
"..."
The two of them, who were driven out of the room dejectedly, were very depressed.
"Brother, you're like Mom." Shen Xun sat obediently in the living room, deep in thought.
Shen Yi: "Nonsense, Mom isn't that scary!"
Mom was very gentle.
Shen Wenta was just very irritable.
By the time the nanny quickly went in to clean up the room, the stylists who had been hired in advance had already been waiting in the reception room for a long time.
Shen Wenta frowned, finally remembering what the purpose of today was.
"What are you planning to do at the birthday party today? At that kind of little girl's birthday party, the people who go are basically children, and very few important people will attend."
Shen Yi subconsciously lowered her head, glancing at the stylist gesturing back and forth on her body. "Do you want to hear the truth?"
"Otherwise, am I here specifically to listen to you tell lies?"
Shen Yi was silent for a second.
Then she gave up and said, "I have a younger brother."
She thought this sentence would cause a little ripple.
At least it should make Shen Wenta raise an eyebrow and pause.
But it didn't.
Shen Wenta's tone was flat.
"Why do you have a younger brother?"
"...?"
Shen Yi looked up, her expression management almost collapsing.
"Are you serious about this question?"
"Besides the Monkey King, no one else can jump out of a rock, right? Is it strange to have relatives?"
Shen Wenta purely reflexively asked, "Who is the Monkey King?"
Which blond guy is it this time?
Shen Yi: "..."
She blinked in astonishment, unable to imagine her third brother saying something that sounded like he wasn't a citizen.
"You don't know my idol?!"
"If you say that out loud, you'll be exiled abroad, brother!"
Shen Wenta thought for a moment, remembered who the Monkey King was, calmed down, and pointed out suspiciously, "But wasn't your previous idol that dead pig in red tights?"
Are girls always this fickle?
He had very little contact with girls.
He only remembered that Pei Wanyan was exceptionally fickle.
One second she was screaming at a celebrity on her phone screen, saying something like what's the point of life if she couldn't sleep with xxx.
The next second, when she saw him come in, she immediately put on an affectionate smile, looking deeply devoted, and said that he was the most important person to her.
He had a polite smile on his face at the time, but in his heart, he had already concluded that Pei Wanyan could play a lunatic if she entered the entertainment industry in the future.
The kind that was completely playing her true self.
Not wanting to waste time on such boring questions, Shen Wenta picked up a small top hat with his slender fingers, switching his tone back to a normal frequency. "You have a younger brother? You didn't meet him at the orphanage, did you?"
People who come out of a place like an orphanage together often stay in touch when they grow up if they had a good relationship when they were young.
It was reasonable for him to guess this.
Shen Yi was quiet for a moment.
She watched Shen Wenta hold the hat over her head, adjusting the angle. The lines of the young man's profile looked exceptionally soft in the light.
She suddenly wanted to laugh a little.
"He's a real younger brother," she said.
"I don't believe it." Shen Wenta gently placed the small top hat on her head, adjusted the angle, and stepped back half a pace to examine it.
He said, "How could you possibly have a biological younger brother?"
There was no mockery in his tone, only pure confusion.
Not only did he not believe it, but even Shen Xun didn't quite believe it.
Compared to a biological younger brother, they believed more that it was someone she had met at the orphanage.
Shen Yi blinked, looking at her careless third brother, and suddenly realized something.
Shen Wenta hadn't checked Song Sijun's background.
If he had checked, he wouldn't be saying things about not believing it.
What surprised her the most was that he actually hadn't checked?
Such a self-centered young master actually respected people's privacy?
Actually, it wouldn't have mattered even if he had checked, since it was a request she had made on her own initiative.
"It doesn't matter if you don't believe it," Shen Yi said, obediently lifting her head and letting him decorate her. The small top hat on her head was black, with a circle of dark red ribbon, tilted to the side on her head.
She added in her heart.
—Anyway, you'll believe it when you see him.
After a lot of tossing and turning, by the time the styling was finalized, it was already very late.
Shen Yi had urged him to hurry up the schedule several times.
But Shen Wenta remained methodical.
He had people toss the two children inside and out.
Shen Yi changed into three dresses before finalizing the plan, and Shen Xun was forced to try on four or five suits.
When it was Shen Wenta's turn, he was quick. The cuffs of his dark red shirt were lightly rolled up, his thin white wrist bones dazzling, and his black jacket casually draped over the crook of his arm, watching with interest as the two children were tossed back and forth.
After everything was successfully completed, by the time they arrived at their destination, the banquet had basically been going on for half the time.
Shen Yi lifted the hem of her skirt, stepping softly on the carpet laid out by the host of the banquet. Whenever she thought of what she was going to do next, she felt a little nervous, mixed with an indescribable excitement.
"Brother, I might cause you some trouble later, will you mind?"
Shen Wenta: "For example?"
"For example, someone might ask you for compensation for some expenses later."
Shen Wenta: "Hmm?"
