{"id":18857,"date":"2026-01-23T12:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/?p=18857"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:10:39","slug":"married-at-first-sight-chapter-5154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/married-at-first-sight-chapter-5154\/","title":{"rendered":"Married at First Sight Chapter 5154"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Old Nine grabbed Eighth Brother\u2019s arm, feigning intimacy, and said, \u201cBrother, you\u2019re my real brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGet away!\u201d<\/p>\n

Zhan Yue, unable to bear his whining, pried his hand away. \u201cMy arms are covered in goosebumps! Do you think you\u2019re still a child? You\u2019re over twenty, still acting like a child.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing cute when you\u2019re little is adorable, but now it\u2019s just affected and disgusting,\u201d<\/p>\n

Old Nine chuckled. \u201cAren\u2019t you my real brother? I\u2019m bored, so I come here to drink tea, eat some melon seeds, and keep my dear brother company.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBe serious! You\u2019re over twenty, still acting like a child. You were more mature when you were in school, look at you now, getting more and more childish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zhan Yue said, scolding his brother, but his expression was full of affection.<\/p>\n

He only had one brother, and he loved him more than anyone else.<\/p>\n

Although his older brothers also loved Old Nine, it was he who spent the most time with him.<\/p>\n

When they were little, their parents were busy with their business. Their older brothers were much older and already in school. Their grandparents took care of the two youngest, so he and his younger brother played together, and he\u2019d take his brother everywhere.<\/p>\n

The two brothers had a very deep bond.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn front of my older brother, I\u2019ll always be the younger brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEighth Brother, when are you and Eighth Sister-in-law getting married?\u201d<\/p>\n

the Ninth Brother asked with concern. \u201cSeventh Brother hasn\u2019t come back from his honeymoon yet. Their honeymoons aren\u2019t just a month-long trip; sometimes they last for months. It\u2019s like living in paradise, so enviable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re envious, you can get married, and then you can go on your honeymoon too. You can go for half a year! With your brothers helping you manage the company, the sky won\u2019t fall. You can have a honeymoon as long as you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour Eighth Sister-in-law and I probably won\u2019t get married until next year. I\u2019m enjoying this sweetness, this feeling of being in love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking at his brother\u2019s blissful expression, the Ninth Brother laughed, \u201cLove is just like that, what\u2019s so intoxicating about it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t explain it to a single person.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ninth Brother: \u201c\u2026\u201dAfter a while, Lao Jiu cautiously asked, \u201cEighth Brother, can you lend me some money?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLend me money? Are you broke? Or is your company facing a financial crisis?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lao Jiu had started his own company last year, and his brothers didn\u2019t care how it was doing. As long as their younger brother didn\u2019t ask for help, they considered him a successful entrepreneur.<\/p>\n

Lao Jiu blushed and whispered, \u201cI haven\u2019t received the payments yet, my company\u2019s account is tight, this month\u2019s salaries haven\u2019t been paid, and the suppliers are pressing for settlement.\u201d \u201d<\/p>\n

All my savings have gone into it, and I really can\u2019t come up with that much money now. \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t dare let my older brothers know, I\u2019m afraid they\u2019ll scold me.\u201d<\/p>\n

His brothers had told him he was still young and inexperienced, and to learn and gain experience in their own company before slowly building his own.<\/p>\n

He thought he was capable; he had started his own company last year. He thought, he was also a son of the Zhan family, and all the children of the Zhan family were excellent. If his brothers could succeed, there was no reason why he couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

From last year to the first half of this year, his company was doing well, but the second half went downhill.<\/p>\n

Because the company had performed well last year, his ambitions grew, leading to reckless expansion and several failed investments that resulted in significant losses. Coupled with slow payment collection, this caused a temporary cash shortage.<\/p>\n

Other payments could be delayed, but the workers\u2019 wages couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

After much deliberation, he decided to ask his brothers for help\u2014his closest brother. Even if he got scolded, it would be milder.<\/p>\n

Actually, his brothers might not scold him, but he was afraid of them. They held considerable power; a mere glare from them was enough to make him shrink back, especially his eldest brother.<\/p>\n

If it weren\u2019t for his wives\u2019 powerful connections, he would avoid his brothers like a mouse before a cat.<\/p>\n

Zhan Yan admitted that his brothers loved him dearly, but they were also strict.<\/p>\n

Therefore, he both respected and feared them.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, after his brothers got married, his wives treated him, the youngest brother-in-law, extremely well, loving and protecting him like older sisters, which lessened his fear.<\/p>\n

Alas, outsiders always thought he, Zhan Jiu Shao, had the best life; no one knew the immense pressure he faced.<\/p>\n

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