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Married at First Sight
Chapter 5309 to 5310

York Maverick was speechless, his still-childish face flushing red.

These youngest children were indeed raised by their older brothers.

“Fifteen, have you finished your summer homework? Didn’t you say you wanted to go back to Wiltspoon? If you haven’t finished your homework, you won’t have fun when you go back.”

York Maverick replied, “I’m a graduate now, I’ll be starting junior high in September, no homework.”

His older brother had found his junior high textbooks for him to study on his own, and bought him many practice tests, requiring him to do the corresponding tests after studying each day. His brother would check them when he got home from work. If he

didn’t fully understand something from self-study, his brother would explain it to him, saying that previewing in advance would help him maintain a top ranking in school.

His brothers were all excellent students, as was his older sister.

If you don’t mention studying, York Maverick feels very fortunate to have so many older brothers. But when it comes to studying, York Maverick wishes all his older brothers and sisters would disappear, because they are all top students.

This puts a lot of pressure on the younger ones.

They dare not relax even a little, afraid that if they relax, they will fall behind, and if they don’t study well, they will let down their older brothers and sisters who have tutored them.

“Belle, you said we’d go shopping tonight. Take Shiwu with us to the Xinhua Bookstore and buy him a few sets of practice questions so he won’t be too idle and I’ll get jealous of him.”

York Maverick immediately surrendered, “Brother Meng, I’ll be good, please let me go. I promise I won’t say anything bad about you in front of my sister. You’re my brother-in-law, my only brother-in-law, okay? Please don’t buy me any more practice questions. I’m about to cry from doing so many.”

“My brother, my own brother, he can’t stand seeing me have a carefree summer vacation. He bought me so many practice questions and makes me study on my own every day before doing practice tests. It’s even busier than when I was in school.”

“It’s okay, Brother Meng knows you’re smart and fast. I’ll buy you a few more sets of practice questions. You can finish them all.”

York Maverick immediately said, “Brother Meng, you go for a walk with my sister, okay? I’m going back inside to enjoy the air conditioning. It’s too hot outside. It’s much better to stay inside, enjoy the air conditioning, eat ice cream, and watch TV.”After saying that, York Maverick turned and ran away.

Josh snorted twice, “You’re still too green to mess with me.”

Belle said to him, “You scared Shiwu.”

Josh took her hand, and the two walked side by side. “If I don’t scare him a little, he’ll always talk bad about me, and even say he wants to change my brother-in-law. He’s such a big, blinding light. If I don’t scare him away, I can’t spend any time with you properly.”

“I begged your brother for a long time before he finally approved a few days off. I can’t bear to waste a single minute of those few days. Jasmine is coming soon, and once he arrives, he’ll be your constant companion.”

Josh said, “If he weren’t your little cousin, I wouldn’t let him near you. Every time I see him monopolizing you, I want to drag him out.”

Belle chuckled, “Shijiu is still a kindergarten kid.”

“You seem to dote on him a lot usually.”

“When he’s not monopolizing you, I dote on him a lot. He’s the youngest, and he’s so sweettalking. Who wouldn’t like him?”

“When I was possessing you, I just couldn’t stand him.”

Belle: “…”

She turned her head to look at Josh. Josh was exceptionally handsome, even his profile was striking. In terms of looks, the two of them were a perfect match.

“Brother Meng,”

Belle asked him, “Do you want to try dating someone else? Are you really going to be hung up on me? There must be quite a few girls who like you, right?”Josh stopped and said earnestly, “Belle, since I was six, I’ve told your brother that when you grow up, I’ll marry you and treat you well for the rest of my life.”

“For the past twenty years, I’ve been waiting for you to grow up, taking care of you, and driving away many rivals who admired you.”

“I’ve been single-mindedly doing one thing for twenty years now, and I will continue to do it for the rest of my life.”

“I don’t like vast forests; I only like you, this one tree. I’m willing to hang myself on this tree for a lifetime. I can’t control which girls like me, but my heart only belongs to you, and it belongs only to you.”

Josh gently touched Belle’s face, his eyes softening, and said affectionately, “Belle, do you know what it’s like to wait for a girl to grow up? I’ve waited for you for so many years, and now you’ve graduated from university.”

“Although we’re not getting married yet, I already consider you my wife. I love you more than anything.”

After a moment of eye contact, Belle said, “I’m only twenty-two. I won’t get married so soon. If we really get married, it’ll be at least five or six years. My parents say they want me to stay until I’m twenty-seven or twenty-eight.”

“I might choose to get married when I’m thirty. Are you willing to wait that long?”

Josh laughed. “I’ve waited twenty years. What’s a few more? I’m not asking you to marry me now, even though I dream of marrying you.”

“You still need to pursue your studies and build your career. I know you’ll be very busy for the next few years. I can wait. I’ll be with you. No matter what you do, I’ll be there for you.”

“You don’t need to worry about anything. I’ll hold up the sky for you even if it falls. Just go ahead and do what you want to do. If you’re tired, just lean on me and rest.”

“You’ve rested enough, let’s keep going. I’ll be right here to protect you.”

Belle was still very touched. She took Josh’s hand, and the two continued walking.

“Brother Meng, I didn’t expect you to say such sweet things.”

Josh said, “Those are my true feelings. You can take them as sweet talk if you want.” “Have you ever thought about what you would do if I didn’t accept you and only saw you as a brother?”

“I have. That’s why I’ve always been different from your brothers. I always treat you with a man’s attitude towards a woman, so you see me as both a brother and a man.”

They grew up together as childhood sweethearts, and Josh was indeed afraid that Belle would only see him as a brother.

Therefore, he also had to be different from his childhood friends. His childhood friends were Belle’s biological brothers and cousins; their sibling relationship was obvious. He wanted Belle to know that he was an outsider, a man, a man who liked her and wanted to marry her.

Not just a brother from a prestigious family.

“Brother Meng, you’ve had a hard time all these years,”

Josh said. “I don’t find it difficult. Everything is under my control.”

Having a goal to strive for only made him feel happy, never difficult.

He would continue to do what he had done for Belle, to be good to her, for the rest of his life.

“When I open my first company and it’s stable and developing, Brother Meng, propose to me, and I’ll marry you,”

Belle promised this childhood sweetheart who loved her so much.

“Give me a few years, and I’ll definitely be able to do it.”

Josh said indulgently, “Okay. Three years, five years, or as many years as you want, I’ll wait for you.”

Judging from Belle’s intelligence and talent, he could probably win her heart in three or four years.

The two continued walking along the tree-lined path in the backyard.

While the Ormond family home wasn’t as grand as Youyou Manor, it was still quite large for a typical villa.

The backyard was quiet, with tree-lined paths, streams, and winding corridors—perfect for an afternoon stroll and a gentle breeze.

Talum York ’s two sons, the youngest being twelve, kept the house very quiet.

The wind rustled the leaves, occasionally breaking the tranquility of the Ormond family’s backyard.

“Would you like to sit down?”

Josh asked Belle gently, seeing the gazebo ahead.

“Okay.”

Josh pulled her towards the pavilion. “I remember when you were little, just one or two years old, you would often fall while walking, and you always loved to run after us.”

“We would run around wildly in your old house. If you fell, either I or you would turn around to help you up. If you cried, we would quickly comfort you, afraid that the adults would hear your cries.”

“You were everyone’s precious darling. Every time I came to your house to play, before I left, my parents would repeatedly tell me not to make you cry, to cherish you, love you, and protect you, saying that you were the only girl among all the families.” “

We had to take good care of you, so we were most afraid of you crying, afraid that the adults would blame us for not taking good care of you. Once we comforted you, we would take turns carrying you or carrying you on our backs to continue playing.”

Youyou Manor was very large, with many pavilions for everyone to rest in.

Josh remembered that when they wanted to rest in a pavilion as children, they would rush and run, and Belle would often fall to the ground because her legs were short and she couldn’t run fast, but she was so anxious that she would fall to the ground.

When her parents found out, they doted on Belle even more. Her mother said it was because she was doting on her future daughter-in-law.

Belle laughed; she felt like the luckiest person in the world.

Not only was she born into a wealthy family, but even from an ordinary family, she had so many brothers, and the families on good terms with her all had sons. All the elders in her family doted on her; she was incredibly fortunate.

She was a day student in junior high, but in high school, she had to live at school. On the first day of school, all her elders and brothers drove her to school in over a dozen cars.

She didn’t have to carry anything; her brothers carried everything for her.

Anyone who didn’t know better would think she was going to school to be crowned emperor.

She told them not to bother, that they had a driver, and that the driver could just take her suitcase and bedding to school, but no one listened.

If one person wanted to go, everyone else wanted to go, as if not going would be a huge loss.No one dared to bully her at school. Firstly, she was a top student and the teachers’ darling; secondly, her whole family would escort her to school on the first day, a fact everyone knew.

Who would dare to bully her?

When she was in her first year of high school, her cousins, who were in their second and third years at the same school, could also protect her.

The most frequent disturbance she received was collecting love letters for her brothers. She herself never received any love letters; no one dared to give her any, knowing she had a childhood sweetheart and being afraid of her dozen or so brothers.

So, she always collected love letters for her brothers, receiving so many that not a single one was for herself. She also received quite a few small gifts, some of which were for her.

Girls who wanted to pursue her brothers knew how to please her and would give her, the messenger, some favors when preparing gifts for her brothers.

She even collected love letters for Josh once. When she handed him the love letters that girls wanted to give him, he was furious and tore them up in front of her without even reading them.

Then, for the first time, he snapped at her, warning her never to collect love letters for him again.

It was the first time she’d ever seen Josh angry. She’d always thought this older brother was very good-natured because he was always smiling in front of her, and no matter what she said or did, he never got angry.

Josh told her that he was her childhood friend, and she couldn’t push him away to other girls; he forbade her from collecting love letters and small gifts for him anymore.

Belle just nodded repeatedly, not daring to say a word.

After that, she never collected love letters or gifts for Josh again. She didn’t know what else Josh had done, but no one sent him love letters anymore.

“Aunt Jun and the others really love you two; you’re the real biological children,”

Belle said with a smile.

The two entered the pavilion and chose a spot out of The Caron Familyn to sit down.Before she sat down, Josh took out a tissue and wiped the chair clean. His thoughtfulness had remained unchanged for twenty years.

These habits were ingrained in his very being.

Having a childhood friend who had grown up with him and was so considerate was truly a blessing.

After cleaning the chair, Josh let Belle sit down. He walked to the small trash can in the corner, threw away the tissue, and then returned to sit beside Belle.

“Many times, my brother and I feel like you’re the real son of our parents,”

Josh laughed. “We’re used to it, you know. I often eat and sleep at your house, and go to school with your brother. My parents act like I’m not their son.”

“You stay for a year or two and they don’t even come to pick me up,”

Belle said to him. “I remember Aunt Jun and the others came to pick you up, but you refused to go back. Uncle Su wanted to take you back, but you clung to the pillar in front of my house and absolutely refused to go back.”

Josh chuckled. “Your house is fun, there are lots of people and it’s lively. If I go home, I have to take care of the second and third kids. They’re younger than me, so it’s not fun.”

He just liked playing with Belle and the others.

“So don’t say your parents don’t care about you, it’s just that you don’t want to go home,”

Josh chuckled again.

The childhood sweethearts could talk about the past for three days and three nights without stopping.”Ring ring ring…”

Josh’s phone rang.

He looked at the caller ID and said to Belle, “It’s your brother calling.”

Belle gestured for him to answer his brother’s call.

Josh muttered, “Isn’t my baby busy? He still has time to call me.”

He still answered the call from his future brother-in-law.

“Josh, Jasmine and the others have boarded the plane and will arrive in three hours. Go pick them up at the airport.”

Josh paused for a moment, then said, “Why are you here so fast?”

Belle said, “Fast? Jasmine has been clamoring to come for ages. We had some important guests at home the other day, so we didn’t have time to take them to the airport, which is why it’s been delayed until today.”

“Jasmine keeps saying he wants a sister, he wants a sister, and he even said you didn’t tell him you were coming, making him wait several more days before he can go to my sixth uncle’s house,”

Josh said. “He’s like a tether to Belle. If I bring him along, how can I properly chat and talk to Belle? He’s practically inseparable from her. What I can’t stand the most is that he wants to sleep with Belle.”

He waited twenty years for Belle to grow up and be able to talk and be romantic with him, but he hadn’t even kissed Belle yet, let alone slept with her.

Even though Jasmine is Belle’s youngest cousin, Josh still gets jealous of him.

“Why don’t you help me persuade Nineteen to come a few days later? I only have a few days off, at least let me spend those days with Belle!”

Belle laughed. “Nineteen’s pestering skills are top-notch, what can I do? If I help you, I’ll be driven crazy by his nagging. My Ninth Aunt is so annoyed by him that she wishes she could put him back in her belly and recreate a baby girl.”

“She even scolded my Ninth Uncle for coaxing him into having Nineteen, only to give birth to such a troublesome child.”

“He said that his brothers don’t have time to see him off, so they just need to buy him a plane ticket and see him off at the airport, and he can fly there by himself.”

They were worried about letting their five-year-old take a flight that would take several hours to Sixth Uncle’s house by himself. Josh sighed.

What could he do?

Nineteen was Belle’s youngest brother; they were all grown up, and Nineteen was only five, the apple of everyone’s eye.

“Then I’ll only have three hours alone with Belle. Fifteen was just a third wheel; I bought him practice questions to scare him back inside, so I had time to take a walk and talk to Belle in the backyard.”

“How many people are coming? Brother, who came with Nineteen?”

Belle asked, leaning closer.

Belle replied, “Those who haven’t started work yet have gone.”

“Is Nine coming too?”

Nine Shao was York Wei and Romina ( Lan Ruoruo )’s eldest son, nineteen years old this year.

In previous years, during winter and summer vacations, Nine Shao would work odd jobs at the company, as a learning experience and to earn some pocket money.

They weren’t short of money, but the money they earned from working felt different.

“Nine can’t go because Nine has to work, so nine of them went. You should ask Uncle Liu’s driver to come too; one car can’t fit so many people.”

Belle said, “Okay .”

Nine of her younger cousins came over, plus York Maverick from her sixth uncle’s family, making ten cousins noisy in her ear.

Sigh, her peaceful days were over.

The most troublesome were Eighteen and Nineteen. Eighteen was her eighth uncle’s youngest son, ten years old this year, five years older than Nineteen, but the two brothers still often argued, even fought. Eighteen said that if Nineteen hadn’t been born, he would have been the youngest in the family, and everyone doted on him. He received the exclusive affection for five years. But as soon as Nineteen was born, he took his youngest position and the same affection.

So Eighteen and Nineteen didn’t get along.

Fortunately, Eighteen would still protect Nineteen in public; the brothers’ quarrels were just at home.

“Are they all back?”

Belle said, “Knowing you were at Sixth Uncle’s house, and Nineteen wanted to go see you again, they rushed back to go with Nineteen to Sixth Uncle’s house. Sixth Uncle already knows.”

Talum York knew that several nephews had come again, so he went to buy fresh ingredients, feeling that there weren’t enough ingredients at home to cook so many dishes.

With so many children, meals were lively, and everyone’s appetites became particularly good, eating quite a lot of food in one meal.

Of course, Talum York liked this kind of liveliness, and so did the elders of the Ormond family.

Even though there were many children and they were noisy, they liked it, saying that a house only becomes lively when there are children, just like the old lady when she was alive, who loved a lively home.

“Okay, Belle and I will go to the airport to pick them up later,”

Josh resigned himself to his fate.

He was mentally prepared when he fell for Belle. Belle would have many brothers, and his parents had privately told him that if he truly loved Belle, he had to be faithful, otherwise Belle’s brothers would tear him apart.

His parents were devoted to each other, married for decades, their relationship as strong as a first love.

Having witnessed this and been influenced by his family, he was certain he would be faithful in his relationships.

He wasn’t afraid of Belle having many brothers; the only problem was that it would be difficult for him to be alone with Belle.

And now, nine super-bright light bulbs were on their way.

Even one light bulb was dazzling enough.”Come back when your holiday is over, okay? Don’t delay.”

Belle reminded Josh to hurry back to the company and work like a slave for him after his holiday.

Did he think marrying his sister was so easy? He’d have to work like a slave for years before he could even dream of marrying her.

Josh said, “I know. After my holiday, Belle will also be working at Feng Chen Group. She’ll be working under Sister Yan.”

Belle said, “She’ll only learn if she works under Sister Yan. We all spoil her too much, always worrying she’ll get tired, and that’s why she won’t learn anything.”

Belle knew this, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it. If his sister worked under him, he wanted her to sit and collect her salary, not doing any work.

He knew that way she wouldn’t learn anything or gain experience, but he just couldn’t help it. Even when she went to the break room to get a glass of water, he was afraid she’d burn her hand.

Belle was going to work at Sister Yan’s company. Sister Yan was very principled at work; one thing was one thing, two things were two things, there was no room for personal relationships.

That’s where she could learn.

Even though the elders in the Jun family dote on Belle, they’ll most likely have Sister Yan look after her. However, Sister Yan won’t listen to her elders.

Josh tilted his head and looked at Belle with doting eyes, saying, “Our Belle, you could easily relax, but you insist on working hard to become a strong woman.”

Belle replied, “I don’t want to be a couch potato. I want to learn from Sister Yan. Even if I’m not as capable as her, being self-reliant is good enough.”

Being a couch potato felt like a waste of time to her.

“As long as you work hard, you can definitely be like Sister Yan.”

Josh remembered Belle’s promise: once her first company was established and on track, developing steadily, he would propose to her, and she would marry him.

He now wanted Belle to become a strong woman quickly more than anyone else, so he could win her heart.