I held onto my uncle, who was reluctantly accepting the situation, and the atmosphere subtly intensified.
He tightened his grip on my hands, his tone restrained: "Xiaoyan, please don't... do this..." His eyes were inexplicably red.
In that moment, he finally realized that this wasn't a sickness, but it needed to be treated. I looked at him with tears in my eyes, but he turned his head away: "No, I can't... do this... to you..."
Yet I felt even more excited; hearing him restrain himself only made me more eager to provoke him.
"Uncle, don't you like me anymore?"
He hesitated before answering: "I do."
As I gazed at his strangely alluring lips, I took the initiative to kiss him.
He was caught off guard.
At that moment, his once warm lips felt even hotter than before.
He couldn't push me away because I was too close and held on tightly.
Just as he tried to refuse, I would grab his hand again; back and forth, he was caught between wanting to resist and giving in.
The emotions he had suppressed finally burst forth at that moment.
He gripped my hand tightly, leaned down close to my ear, gritting his teeth as he spoke each word deliberately: "You brought this upon yourself."
He let out a light laugh, and I laughed too.
I recalled the necklace he had fitted with a tracking device that had shattered at Xu Chen's place.
I felt an inexplicable pang of sadness.
But without it, my uncle and I wouldn't have gotten any closer.
I could feel his affection for me; in fact, I didn't even realize when I had fallen for him too.
Perhaps it was the first time I saw him, or maybe it was when he pinched my face and called me a child for the first time, or perhaps it was a long-planned scheme from long ago.
Uncle, you agree, right?
The next morning, my uncle was sleeping beside me. As soon as I turned over, he wrapped his arms around me.
"Awake?"
His voice was hoarse, clearly having caught a chill.
I felt a bit embarrassed: "Uncle... is your throat okay?"
He chuckled lightly and adjusted the blanket for me: "My throat hurts a little."
"It feels a bit prickly."
I listened, my eyes filled with concern as I leaned closer to my uncle.
"What's wrong? Are you catching a cold?"
My uncle glanced at me, smiled, but his gaze inexplicably lingered on my lips.
"I need your healing."
In an instant, my thin lips were covered by my uncle's, and the electric sensation swept through my entire body once again.
It's over; my uncle planned this!
In the following days, my uncle was very happy that I finally accepted him and no longer had to hide his feelings for me.
However, it seemed like he had never hidden them at all.
Until one day, my mother suddenly called both me and my uncle back, her face serious as she threw her phone at us.
"Yanyan, what’s going on here?"
On the video was my uncle kissing me.
Seeing this, my uncle's face darkened immediately. He took the phone, said nothing, and stormed out.
My mother then took my hand and sat me down, her eyes filled with concern.
"What did he do to you?"
"Did he force you?"
My mother asked me, but I shyly lowered my head.
Seeing this, my mother immediately understood and patted the back of my hand.
"I didn't expect that guy to take the initiative."
"Huh?"
I exclaimed in panic, but my mother smiled mysteriously.
"In the past, Yanyan would even call your uncle's name in her dreams!"
As soon as my mother said this, my face turned even redder, but at the same time, I became more worried about my uncle's safety.
My uncle returned around sunset, his hands covered in blood and his body marked with signs of a fight.
Looking at him, my eyes instantly welled up.
"Uncle, you..."
He glanced at me and smiled reassuringly.
"I taught that scumbag a lesson for you."
I only learned about Xu Chen being beaten two days later. Ever since that last time when my uncle had kicked him so hard he couldn't function normally anymore, he had been harboring resentment. He secretly restored the deleted video from backups and sent it to my mom.
Fortunately, my mom already knew; after all, my uncle wasn't really a blood relative. He was just my dad's adopted brother. My mom felt more at ease with me marrying him than with Xu Chen.
On that day, after seeing the video, my uncle not only angrily rushed over and beat Xu Chen again, but also smashed his phone and threw it into the sea.
The defeated Xu Chen was pinned to the ground as he moaned: "From now on, Xiaoyan is mine. Don't get any ideas about him, understand?"
Xu Chen's mouth was a bloody mess, unable to utter a complete word. My uncle even kindly helped him by sending all the videos and photos that contradicted his relationship with his biological sister to his family.
My uncle said this was self-inflicted. I gazed into my uncle's affectionate eyes, carefully contemplating his words. After a long while, I blinked innocently like a fawn and looked at my uncle, slowly curling my lips into a smile: "Then, it seems like I'm also self-inflicted."
Upon hearing this, my uncle laughed and interrupted me: "Xiaoyan thinks I wouldn't know about your little tricks?"
"The tracker in the necklace was bound to my phone by you, right?"
"And the sleeping pills in the coffee—how did they suddenly change to something else?"
My uncle picked me up and casually played with the back of my neck, his tone somewhat peculiar: "I think you owe me an explanation."
"Hmm?"
Hearing this, my uncle leaned closer to my ear and murmured: "An explanation that satisfies me."
He smiled and tightened his grip on my hands, emphasizing: "If the explanation isn't good, Uncle might get angry, and the consequences will be very serious."
"Uncle?!"
[The End]
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