Chapter 2664 — I Am Your Brother
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Once the door was shut, Yu Dake was both excited and ill at ease, unsure whether to stand or sit. He glanced around Yu Xiaoke's dormitory: apart from a bed, there was only a desk, and before the desk stood its single chair.
So Yu Dake could either sit on the chair or on the bed—there was nowhere else.
"Please, sit," Yu Xiaoke said, then conjured a folding chair from somewhere as if by magic, opened it, and set it before Yu Dake. She herself took the chair at the desk and fixed her eyes on him. "Are you really my brother?"
"Xiaoke, I really am your brother!" Yu Dake nodded with certainty. "I know you must have doubts, but first, take a look at this photograph."
Yu Dake knew that no words could be as genuine as a photograph. Photoshop was formidable these days, true, but no amount of editing could reconstruct with perfect accuracy what a person had looked like as a child.
Yu Xiaoke watched as Yu Dake drew an old-fashioned pocket watch from his bosom and carefully handed it to her. Such things were rarely seen in modern society anymore. Yu Xiaoke took it at once and opened it—and gave a startled "Oh?"
The little girl in the photograph was Yu Xiaoke herself! Yu Xiaoke did not have this photo, but when she was small, just after the old director had taken her in, he had photographed her. And every child at the orphanage, upon first arriving, had been photographed by the old director—for no other reason than that when they grew up and went searching for their parents, there would be something to prove what they had looked like as children.
Yu Xiaoke had seen her own photograph, and the girl in this picture was identical to her! And the two photos had been taken from completely different angles, so this one could hardly have been photoshopped...
Then there was only one explanation: the man before her really was her brother...
"Is this you and me?" Yu Xiaoke asked after a moment's silence.
"Yes. This is the only photograph of the two of us as children that survives, and it's also the proof I've relied on all these years to find you..." Yu Dake sighed. "Only, for certain special reasons, I dared not search for you openly... I'm sorry..."
"No, that's not your fault... Are you really my brother?" Yu Xiaoke's heart was in turmoil. She had long known she had a brother, but he had existed only deep in her memory, barely even an impression—and now he had suddenly appeared before her, and she found it hard to accept.
"Yes. If you don't believe me, there is a small red birthmark on the sole of your right foot..." Yu Dake said. "I was old enough to remember things by then, though not much—and that's the only thing I remember..."