"Ayase, this child is Chu Xuan, your long-lost brother."

"Huh? Huh—"

On a fake afternoon, in a single-family house with a beautiful garden in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, a girl's loud exclamation was heard.

This is a typical two-story house, which is very common in the city of Yuben, and most of the people living in it are middle-class families.

Although it is far from the exaggeration of "mansion", the good taste of the homeowner can be seen in the clean and tidy walls and well-tended courtyard.

The family, which reads "Aragaki" on the door, is a typical "nuclear family", that is, a family with only parents and unmarried children living in the house, and no grandparents.

There are three members in this nuclear family, of which the father is a councilor, the mother is the president of the parents' association, and the remaining daughter is 14 years old this year, a second-year student in the middle school of the cherry school.

Looking at the occupations of the Aragaki parents, it is not difficult to understand why they own a beautiful house with a garden.

But not only are the parents in a very powerful position, but even the 14-year-old daughter is a model with an office, which is by no means comparable to those messy wild models.

The parents are engaged in a respectable industry, and the daughter has inherited the beauty of her mother, and she is a rare black long straight beautiful girl, and she has a dignified character and excellent grades......

Perhaps the only fly in the ointment of this family is that it still lacks a boy - an older brother or a younger brother, otherwise it would be too happy.

But now, even this small deficiency has been filled.

"Dad, Dad...... What did you say? ”

In the spacious living room on the first floor, Ayase Aragaki, a pure beautiful girl dressed in home clothes, leaned back exaggeratedly, leaned on the expensive sofa, looked at her parents with wide eyes, and asked again in disbelief.

Ayase has always exuded a calm temperament, but even so, she is just a 14-year-old girl, and it is impossible not to be surprised to suddenly learn of such an unbelievable thing.

"This is your long-lost brother."

Having just entered the house with his wife and a man with blank glasses, Congressman Aragaki was still dressed in a suit, reached out and grabbed the young man who was sitting between him and his wife like a soldier, and repeated his previous words to his daughter apologetically.

"I'm sorry Mom and Dad didn't tell you.

In fact, 19 years ago, my father, who had just been working for a short time, was sent to China for a long time, and your mother also lived with me in China.

Two years later, my father and mother's first child were born in China, but they were lost soon after due to some accident, and the Chinese police helped to search for them.

Soon my father was transferred back to China, and although the Chinese police said they would let us know as soon as we had a child, my colleagues in the area privately advised me not to get my hopes up.

After all, if you want to find it, you should have found it a long time ago, and if you haven't found it yet, maybe the child has been abducted by traffickers.

China is so old that the child is still new, and if it is taken by human traffickers to sell elsewhere, it is almost impossible to find it at all.

A year or two after returning to Yueben, my father and mother had a second child, that is, you.

Your birth has been a great comfort to both Mom and Dad, especially Mom, but the loss of a child in China is an eternal pain in our hearts.

That's why Mom and Dad haven't told you that you actually have an older brother whose life and death are still unknown. “

Councilor Aragaki, who is usually very dignified, is like an ordinary father at this time, frowning and sighing as he recalls this incident that he wanted to bury in his heart forever.

His wife, who is the president of the parents' association, is also very strong, and has been hugging her child and sobbing quietly.

Maybe one day they will tell their daughter this secret, but it may be when they are dying, hoping that their daughter will remember that she once had a poor brother in this world.

But I didn't expect that after 17 years, their children were really found by the Chinese police.

"Yes, is that so...... I have a lost brother...... No wonder you've been ...... since you were a kid."

Seeing her parents' weak and happy looks, which were completely different from usual, Ayase also accepted this fact for the time being, and returned to her usual dignified sitting posture on the sofa.

However, she secretly glanced at the man with glasses who was sitting among her parents who had a faint military air of fortitude, and had been expressionless and silent since she entered the door, and asked cautiously tentatively:

"That...... Dad, although it is a bit rude to say this, but how did the Chinese police determine this ...... Is my brother your lost child? ”

"Ayase, this is our child, this is our child! Both of us have already done paternity tests with him, and this child is really our lost child......"

Ayase's mother, when she heard the words questioning her poor child's identity, her pupils immediately shrunk, and she raised her head sharply, crying and talking excitedly, completely different from her usual calm and graceful.

"Okay, okay, don't get excited...... This is our child and our child has returned......"

After Ayase's father comforted his extremely excited wife, he nodded apologetically to his daughter who was a little frightened:

"I'm sorry Ayase, but your mother was too excited, after all, we've been keeping this matter in our hearts for seventeen years.

Let's get to know your own brother, we are all a family, and we will live together in the future. ”

Ayase's father is very good at adjusting his mood, but there is still a longing and joy in his words that cannot be concealed and does not need to be concealed.

Perhaps whenever his colleagues or neighbors around him talk about "our sons and daughters", he will think that his family should also be a family of four with a son and a daughter.

"Ah...... Good, good ......"

Although the well-behaved and sensible Ayase was a little dizzy from the impact of this family secret history that seemed to suddenly appear out of thin air, and she was still a little puzzled by this brother who had always behaved too coldly, she still nodded obediently.

She got up from the sofa, tidied up the hem of her skirt habitually, and then smiled a little stiffly and bowed deeply to this completely strange brother:

"I'm Ayase Aragaki, so please take care of me in the future. That, that...... Eldest brother. ”

The man with facial paralysis and glasses, who had been sitting in the middle of the sofa and letting his "long-lost parents" hug him left and right, gently broke away from his "mother's" arm and stood up.

He nodded expressionlessly to the beautiful girl's sister, raised his hand and pushed down the reflective glasses, and introduced himself in a smooth and uninhibited, boring voice as if it were mechanical:

"I'm Chu Xuan."

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