There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Chapter 27.1

“Are you… related to the Huo family in Sijiu City?”

“……”

Hearing the girl’s words, Huo Jun raised an eyebrow slightly in surprise.

“You know about the Huo family.”

“Yes,” Qin Ke nodded.

“Then who told you I might be related to the Huo family?” Huo Jun’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Huo Jingyan?”

Qin Ke was silent for two seconds, then shook her head, “He only said that you two know each other.”

“He didn’t say anything else?”

“No.”

“—Then how do you know about the Huo family?”

As Huo Jun said this, various emotions visibly sank in his pitch-black eyes, even the hint of a smile turning cold.

Qin Ke looked at him silently.

After a few seconds of this eye contact, the girl slowly lowered her gaze, “I can’t tell you, but I just know. I know he’s related to the Huo family, so when he said he knows you, I came to ask you.”

“……”

Huo Jun chuckled softly.

That sound, mixed with the somewhat noisy background music, took on an especially heavy, metallic quality.

Qin Ke’s mind wandered for a moment. When she regained her focus, she found that Huo Jun had leaned down closer—the distance between their eyes even closer.

At this close distance where they could almost see their own reflection in each other’s eyes, Huo Jun asked with a smile.

“Isn’t it a bit unfair, Qin Ke, to not tell me why you know about the Huo family, but to ask me about my relationship with them?”

“……”

Qin Ke pressed her lips together.

She uncomfortably averted her eyes. “I’m sorry… but this is very important to me.” Qin Ke looked back up at him, “You said before—if I came with you, you would answer whatever I asked.”

“Yes, I did say that.”

Huo Jun narrowed his eyes slightly, smiling lazily.

“Are you sure that’s all you want to ask?”

“… Mm.”

Qin Ke nodded firmly, unconsciously clenching her fingertips.

Her gaze fixed tightly on the young man’s thin, attractive lips, waiting for him to give the answer that would make her heart tighten.

Two seconds later.

—

“I’m the Huo family’s illegitimate son.”

“……”

Qin Ke, who had been holding her breath for a long time, looked up at Huo Jun in shock, “You’re—?”

“Mm, you heard correctly.”

Huo Jun smiled carelessly, but deep in his pitch-black eyes, there was a hint of long-buried resentment.

Seeing the girl’s incredulous expression, Huo Jun’s gaze flickered for a moment, and he quickly smiled casually. “Do you have some prejudice against illegitimate children?”

“No, it’s not that…”

Qin Ke took a while to find her voice.

She was starting to doubt her own memory—how could Huo Zhonglou have had an illegitimate brother in her past life, and she knew nothing about it??

Qin Ke asked again, somewhat uncertainly, “Then your mother…”

Huo Jun’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Her? She got rid of this burden ten years ago. Now, who knows which country she’s married off to.”

Qin Ke’s expression froze.

At this moment, she had to admit that her guess was wrong.

—

In her past life, every year on the death anniversary of Huo Zhonglou’s mother—the only woman Huo Shengfeng had married—she would accompany Huo Zhonglou to visit her grave.

So she knew clearly that lady should have passed away more than ten years ago… It was impossible for her to have remarried abroad.

So, did Huo Zhonglou really have a half-brother like Huo Jun in her past life, and she knew nothing about it?

As Qin Ke was almost starting to doubt herself, Huo Jun spoke. “You look a bit disappointed?”

His gaze shifted slightly, as if thinking of something, and the warmth in his eyes gradually cooled—

“Or did you initially think I was the Huo family’s legitimate young master, and that’s why you let me get close?”

Qin Ke: “……”

Since her first encounter with him in this life, Qin Ke had deeply understood this person’s mad-like thoughts and logic. So now, after the initial shock, hearing these words didn’t cause much emotional fluctuation.

She just glanced at him expressionlessly, “If I say yes, will you turn and leave?”

“……”

Huo Jun’s eyes narrowed.

He suddenly leaned forward, forcing Qin Ke to instinctively back away. She stumbled over the piano bench behind her and sat down, but her upper body’s momentum still made her lean backwards unsteadily—then, she felt a tightness around her waist as Huo Jun pulled her back to stability.

The young man who steadied her took the opportunity to lean down, one hand pressing on the piano lid on either side of her body. The emotions in his eyes were so deep they bordered on madness:

“You’re–dreaming.”

After saying this, Huo Jun thought for a moment and added very reluctantly. “Don’t even dream about it.”

His breath was very close to her, his gaze unconsciously falling on the girl’s lips. After a few seconds, for some unknown reason, his face darkened and he turned away fiercely—

“Even in your dreams, you have to be mine.”

Qin Ke: “……”

Madman.

And the kind that would probably be rejected from a mental hospital for having symptoms too severe.

Seeing Qin Ke not speaking, Huo Jun finally turned back.