Chapter 1345
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After dinner, Huo Yao sat in the living room. The television was still on.
Huo Yao's phone rang in her pocket.
It was a call from Yuan Xi.
Huo Yao recalled her relationship with Yuan Huan. Her fingers paused for two seconds before she answered the call.
"Sister Yao, I just found out that you were on sick leave. Are you okay?" Yuan Xi was still coughing as she spoke.
Huo Yao raised her eyes when she heard Yuan Xi's soft coughing. "I'm fine. What about you? Have you recovered yet?"
Yuan Xi coughed a few more times to ease her coughing. She frowned and complained. "I'm almost fully recovered. It's just that I feel like I'm addicted to coughing. It won't stop."
Huo Yao nodded. "Drink more hot water."
"Got it." Yuan Xi smiled. She gently fiddled with the figurines on the table. Her face, which still had some baby fat, had lost a lot of weight. "Oh yes. Are you going to school tomorrow?"
"I'll rest for a couple of days," replied Huo Yao after contemplating.
"Uh huh," acknowledged Yuan Xi softly.
Her throat was unbearably dry, and she could not stop coughing. Hence, she hung up the phone without saying much.
Yuan Xi put down her phone and walked out of the room. She covered her mouth with her hand to suppress her coughing as she went downstairs.
Mother and Father Yuan were talking downstairs with worried looks on their faces. However, they calmed down when they saw Yuan Xi coming downstairs.
"Dad, Mom, did something happen?" Yuan Xi wanted to get herself a glass of water, but she walked over to them when she noticed their strange expressions.
Mother Yuan looked at her hesitantly. After some time, she said, "Something happened to your brother."
Hearing this, Yuan Xi froze on the spot. "Something … happened?"
Mother Yuan's eyes turned red. She had always treated Yuan Huan like her own son. "Yeah. He allegedly leaked some classified information and is now locked up in some special security bureau."
Father Yuan sat on the couch with his hand pressed between his brows. He looked helpless and seemed to have aged 10 years in an instant.
"What's the situation now?" asked Yuan Xi as she clenched her fists involuntarily.
"Your dad and I used our connections to ask. They said that he committed a very serious crime, and the chances of him being released are very small …"
Yuan Xi didn't pay attention to what the Primordial Mother was saying. At that moment, the only thing that echoed in her ears was that the probability of being released was very small.
Ever since a few years ago, when she accidentally saw Yuan Huan dissecting a living person for an experiment, she could no longer treat him as a normal person.
To this day, she could still remember his emotionless eyes. It was as if human lives were ants to him, and their only value was to be used for his research.
She did not know how Yuan Huan could be so unscrupulous and disregard for life without being punished. She had thought of exposing his mask of hypocrisy, but in the end, she did not dare to do so.
Because she didn't dare to gamble with the lives of her family, she had tried her best to escape from him all these years, but … she couldn't escape no matter what.
Yuan Xi covered her mouth and coughed again. She felt like she was about to cough something out of her throat. It was very uncomfortable, but at this moment, she felt unusually relaxed.
People like her brother should have been arrested a long time ago.
Yuan Xi lowered her head, and the corners of her lips curled into an indescribable expression of relief.
It was good that he couldn't get out … That way, she wouldn't have to be on tenterhooks all the time, afraid that she would suddenly wake up one day and find herself lying on his experiment table.
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