Every Day the Protagonist Wants to Capture Me [ BL ]

Chapter 62 - Like a dream but not a dream

Chu Yu could clearly see Chu Sheng’s body trembling but his big brother didn’t turn around. Chu Sheng just straightened his back even more and said in a hoarse voice that sounded very tired: “…You’ve only just arrived so go and rest first. Big brother will come to see you later.”

Chu Yu stared silently at Chu Sheng’s back for a moment. Stepping forward, Chu Yu carefully lifted the hem of his robe as he knelt down beside Chu Sheng. Taking an incense stick, he lit it and bowed down to pay his respects, then he inserted it on top of the small cauldron in front of the memorial tablet after straightening up. Pursing his lips, he stayed kneeling upright, with his back ramrod straight, on the prayer mat.

Chu Sheng was shocked and turned his head. “What are you doing, little brother?”

Chu Yu saw Chu Sheng’s face for the first time since he arrived when he turned his head.

As expected, his face was pale and haggard-looking but, in addition, his eyes were red. Chu Yu couldn’t tell if it was because of anger or whether Chu Sheng had been crying.

Thinking of the day when Chu Shuangtian died and Chu Sheng held his father’s ice-cold corpse, crying until his heart broke and he couldn’t cry anymore,1 Chu Yu felt his eyes inexplicably stinging with unshed tears. His lips trembling, Chu Yu said, “Big brother, I’m worried about you.”

Chu Sheng was stunned. Quickly raising a hand to cover his red eyes, he laughed a little awkwardly: “To think that I made my little brother worry about me… Big brother is alright.”

It’s alright even though your voice is choked with sobs?

Chu Yu sighed. “Big brother, didn’t you say that there are only the two of us left in the Chu family now? If you really want to treat me like a close family member, don’t force yourself to bear all your troubles and worries alone.”

Chu Sheng gritted his teeth. He seemed to want to be strong and say something. Yet, not wanting to open his mouth only to start crying in front of his little brother, Chu Sheng paused for a moment, then shook his head. He took a deep breath and looked directly at Chu Yu: “Little brother, believe in your big brother. The Chu family will definitely be able to survive this crisis.”

In fact, things weren’t that bad. The Chu family were united in their fury. The members of the branch families were unconditionally obedient to the Chu family’s direct descendants.2 When the news broke out, Chu Sheng had kept a cool head and explained to his three uncles everything that had happened in detail. He had also gathered together all of the Chu family members.

The Chu family elders had known about Chu Shuanghe but the old family head had sealed this knowledge, thus people did not normally talk about him. After finding out what had happened, no one said a further word about it

The Chu family can certainly stand united against outsiders, which is the best-case scenario. At the very least, they shouldn’t be listening to malicious gossip from the outside. The danger was if chaos started in the Chu family from the inside.

But to say that things are not bad would also be bad. Whoever publicized this matter, their motives were hard to fathom.

Before Chu Shuangtian’s mishap, the Chu family had been one of the biggest forces to be reckoned with in the battlefield. Now that the war between the Righteous and Demonic Path cultivators was over, it would be reasonable to suppose that the Chu family should be even better off than before when they returned. However, with the gossip that “Chu Sheng killed his own father” spreading so far around it was inevitable that the Chu family will not be peaceful.

The truth of this incident is somewhat complicated and involves some deep secrets that shouldn’t be revealed to outsiders. Therefore, even Lu Qingan can only keep silent. Even if outsiders knew the truth, they still don’t know who Chu Shuanghe really is. They will only think of it as Chu Sheng’s patricide.