"Ah…you brat. Can't you stop struggling? I will leave you once we reach inside Elder Sister's courtyard."
The struggling Li Chen in Li Caihong's arms calmed down when he heard Elder Sister from her mouth.
However, on his smooth white forehead, he soon had a frown when he saw that Li Caihong was instead taking him to Li Na's courtyard instead of Li Rui's courtyard.
"Third Elder Sister, why are you taking me to Second Elder Sister's courtyard? I want to go to Jiejie's courtyard."
Jiejie, Jiejie, Jiejie…he doesn't have his own sisters in his eyes.
Li Caihong face was squeezed to form a vicious expression and she almost raised her hand to hit Li Chen in anger but before she could do so, Li Na, who had suddenly come from her behind, caught her hand and signed her not to do any such thing
After that, she came to stand in front of her little brother with a soft smile on her face. However, the smile vanished away from her lips when she saw how Li Caihong was forcefully holding Li Chen.
"Caihong, that's not how you should hold our younger brother."
Saying this, she bent down and then freed Li Chen from Li Caihong's hands. After that, she set her brother's clothes that had become disheveled because of his struggles earlier and said to Li Chen innocently
"Chenchen, sometimes you should visit your Second Elder Sister also. I also miss you a lot."
Li Chen licked his pink lips and felt guilty after hearing Li Na's words.
He never really visited his other sisters except for Li Rui.
"Will you come with me to my courtyard?"
Li Chen wanted to go to his Jiejie's courtyard but after seeing the sad smile on Li Na's lips as if she already knew his answer so he unconsciously nodded his head.
"Yes, Second Elder Sister."
Li Na's smile instantly and then holding Li Chen's arm she took him to her courtyard.
Inside the courtyard, she served Li Chen his favorite sweets. While eating those sweets, Li Chen hummed in content and looked at the exit of the room every few seconds.
Li Caihong breathed deeply as she knew that he just wanted to run away from there to Li Rui's courtyard. However, Li Na warned her with her eyes not to do anything foolish so she could only endure her anger silently.
Sitting in front of Li Chen, Li Na smiled gently as she passed another piece of sweet to Li Chen and asked him casually
"Chechen, did you go to Second Uncle and ask them to train you?"
Li Chen who was looking at the door the room stopped suddenly and his eyes dimmed. Looking back at his second elder sister, he nodded his head.
When he lowered his head, Li Na winked at Li Caihong who was also confused as to what really her sister wanted to do.
"But Second Uncle didn't allow me to train with other children. He said that I am very young."
Li Chen mumbled with his head lowered
"Oh…"
Li Na raised her eyebrows as she rose up from her seat and stood up to go and sit beside Li Chen.
"However, Elder Brother Li Diu had started training at your age and even Second Uncle had allowed him back then."
Li Chen swiftly raised his head and looked at Li Na with wide eyes.
Li Na clenched her fists in excitement when she saw Li Chen's reaction.
It meant that he didn't know anything about this.
Li Diu had actually started to train with young children when he was four. However, he was very healthy at that time compared to Li Chen. Since his birth, Li Chen had been very weak and that's why her father and mother didn't want him to go through hard training at such a young age.
However, since Li Chen didn't know all this she can easily use this thing for her own purpose.
Li Rui likes to gather with her friends, right. Now she will make sure that even a single friend of hers didn't step inside Li Manor to see her face again.
Li Chen had a face full of confusion after he heard Li Na's words and mumbled to himself.
"Then why did Second Uncle not allow me?"
Li Na scoffed and smiled bitterly as she answered his question.
"Of course, because he doesn't want you to become stronger than Li Diu. In fact, everyone in this clan wants that second household to take away everything from us."
Li Chen frowned hearing such words and looked at his sister with probing eyes.
Li Na immediately pinched her thighs and her eyes started to get filled with tears in no less than a minute.
"What? You don't believe me, Chenchen."
Li Na then looked at Li Caihong and said
"Then ask your Third Younger Sister. Even we sisters are allowed to get anything until and unless Li Rui had either discarded it or she had already chosen from it and then we are left to select from her leftovers."
Li Na clenched her fists as she remembered how she had liked a dress for herself but her grandmother gave it to Li Rui saying that Li Rui was elder than her and so it was her first right to get everything before her.
She held Li Chen's shoulder tightly suddenly …so tightly that the young child frowned because of pain and tried to free himself.
However, Li Na held him firmly and told him firmly.
"The same thing will happen to you, Li Chen."
Li Chen stopped struggling and looked at Li Na with a frown but he was hearing her very seriously.
"They will not let you become stronger than Li Diu in the first place. And if accidentally you became stronger than him then no matter how strong you would be, they will still choose Li Diu as the head of this clan…as the next General. You will be left to choose from his leftovers and then this cycle will continue."
"In the end, our household will get nothing but leftovers."
For the next one hour, Li Na filled Li Chen's mind with different things while he sat there with his face squeezed in a frown.
It had only been a few years since he had started recognizing Li Rui but since then he had always given her more importance.
But Li Chen was, in the end, just a child.
The few years of so strong brother-sister love could not defeat the one hour of manipulation.
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