I Raised My Brother From Childhood, but He Looked Down on Me for Being a Janitor Until the Truth Came Out

Finally noticing the abnormality around him, my brother started to look around. Perhaps he couldn’t stand my brother’s rudeness any longer; a man stepped out from the crowd.

A well-dressed man in a suit, gray-haired and elderly. His social status was obvious.

Seeing this man, my brother started to panic. The man stood beside me and gently placed a hand on my back.

“Dirty? Idiot? Such intolerable slurs. Apologize to her right now!”

“Huh? But she’s my sister. We’re just having a family squabble.”

To my brother, he was flustered and trying to gloss over it. I interjected:

“I thought you said you cut ties with me.”

“Shut up!”

My brother showed his dual nature, acting humble towards the gray-haired man while aggressively addressing me. In response to such exchanges, the man chimed in:

“If it’s a family issue, it concerns me as well.”

“Huh?”

“Pleased to meet you. I’m the gentleman dating your sister.”

“What?”

He was surprised.

“I’m the Executive Vice President of the subsidiary that your company is seconding. I’m also a board member of your company. I’m sorry we didn’t have a chance to introduce ourselves the other day.”

“What? What? What?”

My brother was in a state of panic, completely out of his depth with what was going on. Feeling a bit awkward, I shot my boyfriend a side-eye.

“You didn’t really have to step in just now.”

“If not now, then when?”

Imitating a popular TV MC, he said with a warm smile.

“Hey, sis. Is that really true?”

My little brother was terrified, understandably so, since the man standing in front of him was an executive at his own company.

Indeed, when we were contracted for cleaning this building, I accompanied our CEO. He who was in charge of the contract was interested in me.

“No, that’s a lie!”

“It’s the truth. During the contract signing, I instantly fell for her who was explaining the details on behalf of a CEO who couldn’t do it well, and I asked her out.”

A wave of gasps and murmurs echoed through the lobby. How embarrassing.

“I heard you said he’s no decent man if he’s dating a cleaning lady. I bet he doesn’t even have a solid job.”

“I didn’t say that!”

“Regardless of whether you said that or not, I demand an apology for the insults you said to your sister.”

My brother had no choice but to listen to each weighty word from him, turning pale.

“You’re Michelle’s brother, aren’t you? You shouldn’t worry your sister too much.”

At some point, my senior cleaner had come over, and colleagues from other floors were gathering, too. My brother was utterly cornered.

Looking defeated, my brother could barely stand as he bowed his head towards me.

“I’m sorry.”

He was in despair. His voice was small, filled with despair, devoid of any vigor or emotion.

Afterwards, my brother was transferred to a remote branch of a subsidiary company. For the sake of my boyfriend’s honor, let me clarify that he had no involvement in my brother’s transfer.

My brother panicked when his co-workers heard his repeated insults towards me and his fear of his wife finding out about his mess at the office, causing him to make a series of mistakes at work. It seems like he’s completely dropped off the fast track to promotion.

His wife came crying to me when she found out about his transfer.

“You’re dating an executive from my husband’s company, aren’t you? Why didn’t you tell me earlier? Please bring my husband back to the head office!”

She begged. Of course, my answer was a firm:

“No.”

Her plea fell on deaf ears. Unable to pay the mortgage with his reduced salary after the transfer, it looks like they’ll have to let go of their newly built home.

I have no interest in whatever happens to my brother and his wife afterwards. And I got married to my boyfriend.

We’re living happily in our newly built home. I’m still working as a cleaner, but I’m now less out in the work field because I’ve become the president of the cleaning company.

The company I’ve always been working for, the president retired and I was nominated as a successor.

I couldn’t possibly be a president. I had a lot of worries, but I decided to give it my all for the company I love.

No matter what anyone says, I plan to continue doing the job I love for the company I love with my head held high.