After eating, Huo Yao sat in the living room with the TV still on in front of him.
The phone in his pocket rang.
It was Yuan Xi calling.
Huo Yao thought about the relationship between Yuan Huan and her, paused with his fingertips for two seconds before pressing the answer button.
"Sister Yao, I just found out that you have also taken sick leave these few days. Are you okay?" Yuan Xi on the other end of the phone was still coughing when speaking.
Huo Yao raised his eyelids when he heard the low cough, "I'm fine, but you, are you still sick?"
Yuan Xi coughed a few more times, calmed down, and then frowned and complained: "Actually, it's almost healed, but this cough is like an addiction, endless."
Huo Yao nodded, "Drink more hot water."
"I know." Yuan Xi smiled, and she gently moved the figures on the table with her fingers, and her baby-fat face was now much thinner, "By the way, are you going to school tomorrow?"
"Let's rest for two more days." Huo Yao thought for a while and replied.
"Yeah." Yuan Xi responded lightly.
Her throat was always uncomfortable, and she coughed endlessly, so she hung up the phone without saying a word.
Yuan Xi put down his phone, got up and walked out of the room, covered his mouth with his hand, suppressed his cough and went downstairs.
Downstairs, Yuan's mother and Yuan's father were talking, both of them had sad expressions on their faces, but when they saw Yuan Xi coming down, their expressions restrained a little.
"Dad, Mom, what happened to you...?" Yuan Xi originally wanted to pour a glass of water, but seeing the strange behavior of the two of them, he walked towards them.
Mother Yuan watched her hesitate to speak, and after a while, she said: "It's your elder brother who had an accident."
When Yuan Xi heard it, he froze in place, "What happened, what happened?"
Mother Yuan's eyes were a little red, she always treated Yuan Huan as her own, "Yeah, it's about leaking information, and now it's locked in some special security bureau."
Yuan's father next to him has been sitting on the sofa, pressing his hand between his brows, looking helpless, as if he has aged ten years.
"Then what's the situation now?" Yuan Xi involuntarily clenched his fingers and asked.
"I asked your father through our relationship, and he said that the crime he committed was very serious, and the chance of him being released is very small..."
Mother Yuan was still talking behind her, but Yuan Xi didn't listen carefully. At this moment, only the words 'the chance of being released is very small' lingered in her ears.
A few years ago, she accidentally ran into Yuan Huan dissecting a living person for experiments, and she could no longer treat him as a normal person.
To this day, she still remembers his unwavering eyes, as if human life is an ant to him, and its only value is for him to do research.
She didn't know why Yuanhuan could disregard his life so recklessly without being sanctioned. She thought about exposing his hypocritical mask, but in the end she still didn't dare to do that.
Because she didn't dare to gamble with the lives of her family members, she tried desperately to escape from him all these years, but... she couldn't escape no matter what.
Yuan Xi covered her mouth and coughed again, as if something was about to be coughed up in her throat, she was obviously uncomfortable, but at this moment she felt extremely relaxed.
People like her elder brother should have been arrested long ago.
Yuan Xi lowered his head, and the corners of his lips curled up in a sense of relief that he didn't know how to describe.
It's fine if she can't get out... In this way, she no longer has to worry about it all the time, fearing that one day she will suddenly wake up and be lying on his laboratory bench.
(end of this chapter)