After running out, Huo Zhen went to the garden. When he got there, he saw his fifth younger sister sitting in the pavilion.
Instinctively, Huo Zhen wanted to walk over. In fact, he liked his fifth younger sister very much. However, he had been a withdrawn person since childhood, and he thought his fifth younger sister was afraid of him.
"What are you doing here, Fifth Sister?"
Huo Zhen tried his best to soften his voice and tone, but he still startled his fifth younger sister.
Huo Xin finally managed to get out and take a breath of fresh air in the garden. Who would have thought that she would run into Huo Zhen.
Huo Xin had been afraid of this third elder brother since childhood. It wasn't for anything else. She just thought Huo Zhen was always gloomy and exuded a low - pressure aura.
Although Huo Cheng was often like this too, the feelings they gave people were different. Looking at Huo Zhen, Huo Xin only had one feeling: horror.
"Ah? Third Brother, hello. You've come, Third Brother. Do you have something to do?"
Huo Xin felt that she was acting very abnormally, but there was nothing she could do. In front of Huo Zhen, it was already a great thing that she could even speak.
"Nothing. I just came out to take a breath. What about you, Fifth Sister?"
Huo Zhen's calm tone made Huo Xin secretly glance at his side profile.
The people of the Huo family were all extremely good - looking. Huo Zhen was no exception. Moreover, Huo Xin was surprised to find that Huo Zhen and Huo Cheng looked very much alike.
Huo Xin had never noticed this before. To be precise, she rarely saw her third elder brother. Even when she did, she never stared at him.
Since Huo Xin could remember, her third elder brother had always lived alone in a building and rarely showed up. Usually, he would only appear at major family gatherings.
But on those occasions, Huo Xin would always stand far away from Huo Zhen and stand with Huo Cheng. Since Huo Cheng and Huo Zhen had little to do with each other, Huo Xin naturally rarely talked to Huo Zhen.
In her impression, her third elder brother, Huo Zhen, was always associated with gloom, solitude, and mystery. Huo Xin was not an adventurous person. She had no interest in the unknown and didn't want to know what kind of person her third elder brother was.
"Fifth Sister?"
"Ah? What's up, Third Brother?"
"Nothing. I just wanted to ask if there was something on my face. You've been staring at it."
Oh no, I've been caught...
This was the only thought in Huo Xin's mind. She never expected that she would be so absorbed in looking at Huo Zhen that she didn't even notice when he had already found out.
Huo Xin instantly covered her face. How embarrassing, how embarrassing.
"Nothing... nothing," Huo Xin shook her head in a futile attempt to cover up.
"Do you think I look a lot like the fourth brother?" Huo Zhen was the first to voice what was on Huo Xin's mind.
"How do you know, Third Brother?"
"Haha," Huo Zhen laughed, as if he was in a very good mood.
Realizing that she had let something slip, Huo Xin accidentally bit her tongue in a hurry.
But seeing Huo Zhen smile, Huo Xin suddenly thought that maybe her elder brother wasn't that gloomy and withdrawn.
He really looked good when he smiled.
Huo Xin was startled by the thought that popped into her head. How could she think like this? She was actually having a crush on her own elder brother.
"Actually, it's quite normal to think that I look like the fourth brother. I think so too. It's just that the fourth brother and I are different."
So you know you're different, Huo Xin silently complained in her heart.
She had always had the best relationship with Huo Cheng. Since childhood, she had been clinging to him. As for her other elder sisters and brothers, the eldest sister had been proud since childhood and didn't play with her much. The second elder brother was always buried in books, and both of them only had schemes in mind. Where was there room for her, their little sister?
Only Huo Cheng was truly kind to her. When she was young, he always brought her food. When she grew up, he bought her gifts. He never missed her birthdays or Christmas. Even when Huo Xin didn't want to stay in the Huo family, it was Huo Cheng who helped her go abroad smoothly.
Huo Xin was able to stay freely abroad now largely because of Huo Cheng. For this reason, Huo Xin was very grateful to Huo Cheng in her heart.
Thinking of this, Huo Xin couldn't help but worry about Huo Cheng again. After all, this matter now involved the treasures of the Huo family, and this was no trivial matter. Even though she knew that her fourth elder brother was smart, Huo Xin still worried about him.
As for her third elder brother, since they rarely saw each other, Huo Xin thought that if it weren't for the blood - related bond and the fact that Huo Zhen and her fourth elder brother, Huo Cheng, really looked alike, she might not even be able to recognize her third elder brother.
"You're right, Third Brother. You and the fourth brother really look quite alike."
"Haha, so, Fifth Sister, did you come here to relax? You're worried about the fourth brother, aren't you?" Huo Zhen seemed to be in a very good mood and laughed a lot today.
Huo Xin fell silent. He had hit the nail on the head again. Was this third elder brother a worm in her belly? He seemed to know everything.
"Yes..." Huo Xin admitted.
"Don't worry. I also don't believe that the fourth brother did this. Since it wasn't him, Father and Mother won't wrong him. It will be okay soon. Don't worry, Fifth Sister." Huo Zhen gently patted Huo Xin on the shoulder to comfort her.
Huo Xin looked at Huo Zhen with a strange look in her eyes. To be precise, she looked at the hand that Huo Zhen had placed on her shoulder.
Following his hand, she saw Huo Zhen staring at her with a caring look on his face. Huo Xin suddenly realized that her current expression was a bit impolite and quickly lowered her head.
Seeing the strange expression on his fifth younger sister's face and looking at his hand on her shoulder, Huo Zhen suddenly understood something. He cleared his throat and took his hand back.
"I'm sorry, Fifth Sister. It was impolite of me. Don't take it to heart."
As soon as he said this, Huo Xin suddenly felt like a jerk. Her third elder brother just wanted to care about her, but she had reacted like this.
"No, no. Third Brother, don't misunderstand. I don't dislike you," Huo Xin quickly explained.
"It's okay. Third Brother knows that you rarely see me, so it's normal for you to be afraid of me." Huo Zhen wanted to touch Huo Xin's head, but he was afraid that she wouldn't be used to it, so he held back.
"Third Brother... actually, I am a little afraid, but I still really want to get closer to you," Huo Xin lowered her head and murmured.
She was really afraid of seeing her third elder brother with a hurt expression. Huo Xin had always been soft - hearted. Anyway, he was her elder brother, and Huo Xin just couldn't bear it.
"I see. Thank you, Sister."
Huo Zhen seemed very happy, with a big smile on his face. The hand that had just been about to touch Huo Xin's head was raised again. He gently touched her head and took it back before Huo Xin could bear it.
Probably not expecting that her words would make her third elder brother so happy, Huo Xin was very surprised to feel her third elder brother touch her head, such an intimate gesture.
"Okay, how about Third Brother taking you shopping? That will help you relax more."
"Go... shopping?! Has Third Brother forgotten that although the ban on us has been lifted, we still can't leave the Huo Mansion?"
Speaking of shopping, Huo Xin really wanted to go, but in the face of the ban, she had to give up.