If You Are a Dodder Flower

Part 28

What Cao Yang said was really what he felt.

Although Xia Rou was already a grown lady, like a blooming rose, Cao Yang didn't look at her as a woman at all.

From the day of her arrival to the Cao Family, he could already see in her eyes that this girl had a kind of longing for him. This was different than the lust other women had in their eyes when they looked at him. Xia Rou's gaze indicated she longed to be close to him.

She seemed to desire his care, wanting to become close to him.

When he smiled and patted her head, he could see an indescribable satisfaction in her eyes. When he relaxed before her and laughed aloud, her eyes could curve happily into crescents.

Her attitude toward him was truly from the heart, and her eyes had always conveyed this to him clear as day.

And so Cao Yang was slowly able to reveal his relaxed self before Xia Rou.

This made him feel very comfortable and at peace.

He liked it a lot. Translated by The Novelst

"About you, I can be rest assured," said Cao An. He angrily rubbed at his shoulder and continued, "But you still have to think from her perspective."

"Ah, a young girl growing into puberty, who knows if she can enter spring easily. And ah, with big brother, such a charming person... Ouch ouch ouch, take it easy! Let go!"

"It's been a long time since I've taught you a lesson, eh? There you go, speaking nonsense again," Cao Yang held a cigarette between his lips and stared at him.

Cao An rubbed the bones that had almost been crushed by his brother. He had actually missed that death stare from his big brother.

No matter how bad his brother was, only his siblings could understand him the best.

In the past few years, his big brother had started to act more like their father. Each year when they returned home, the brothers realized that Cao Yang liked to act strictly. That posture, that aura; if it wasn't that his face wasn't wrinkled, they would have believed their father had learned to use a shadow clone.

Where did that handsome tyrant of a big brother who used to bring the three of them along to run wild and rampant through the four provinces go? Could it be that during the time the brothers were away, his father had exchanged him with an alien?

Even his second brother had changed. He went around smiling every day, looking like a fake gentleman. Who didn't know he was a wily man with tricks up his sleeve!

Third brother had also turned much more honest after being trained by his father; it had been a long time since Cao An heard his third brother beat someone until their bones broke.

Haiz, all his brothers were turning more and more serious by the day. Wait, no, fake serious. He was the only person in the house that maintained his real personality...

"I'm being serious here!" Cao An said unevenly. "I know you're fine, but think of Xiao Rou. It would be so easy for a naïve girl like her to fall in love with a mature man like you. You may think you're not hitting on her, but sometimes it still hits even when you're not trying. What are you going to do then? You'll be alright, but isn't Xiao Rou going to be sad?"

Originally, he didn't want to let Cao Yang keep asking why he'd returned so early in the weekend, so he'd tried to change the topic. But as he continued to speak, he began to become serious about it.

"You should be careful," he reminded his big brother.

What Cao An had said made a lot of sense.

But Cao Yang took a puff, thinking back to the look in Xia Rou's eyes. That child, toward him... didn't have any of the desire between a man and a woman. He could confirm that. Women had always been weaker than men when it came to emotion, and their eyes always easily showed their feelings.