“My brother is still a child. Even though he has graduated from university and is an adult in terms of age, he is still a child in terms of mindset.”

"Although I started a long-awaited rebellion after graduation, something others had already ended, this level of rebellion is nothing more than disobeying my family's arrangements and running away to hide for a while. What is this level of rebellion... is it just playing house?"

“People who are not mentally strong are easily swayed. They take only a few steps on the path they have chosen, and then they are pulled back down by others. You guessed right, my brother’s trip to Denmark this time… was at the family’s behest.”

Yu Shiyue suddenly said.

Xia Che thought she would continue to change the subject or bring up something else, after all, Xia Che was somewhat used to the other person's unpredictable way of thinking.

"you……"

Xia Che paused for a moment, then subconsciously reached out and touched Yu Shiyue's forehead. "Are you sick?"

He blurted it out.

"What do you mean! Didn't you ask? I've remembered that question. You accompanied me to buy the dress, so of course I have to tell you as promised!"

Yu Shiyue puffed out her cheeks.

What exactly does this guy mean?

Saying it won't work, and not saying it won't work either.

Which country's crown prince?

Why is it so complicated?

"No, no... I just feel that this obedient way of answering questions is, in a way, out of character..."

After realizing what he had done, Xia Che smiled sheepishly, finally understanding what he had subconsciously done.

Because it's really strange...

Based on Yu Shiyue's previous behavior, shouldn't she take this opportunity to make more demands or put herself in a difficult position?

In any case, they would never readily reveal the information they want to know.

Absolutely impossible!

"...What kind of image do I have in your heart? I'm asking you."

Yu Shiyue's lips twitched. Was she the type who liked to cause trouble for others?

I don't know why, but Xia Che's face, which usually looks pleasing to the eye... now looks so repulsive.

I really want to punch him!

"Don't worry about unimportant things, so you mean that Brother Yue hasn't really made up his mind, and his choice of independence is just to escape his own heart, he... is hiding away?"

Xia Che understood.

The man I knew, Brother Yue, named Yu Yue, wasn't actually as strong as I thought.

The so-called rebellion is just moving out of the house; it doesn't mean escaping the control of one's parents.

It's less about rebellion...

Rather, it was his parents who gave Yu Yue a short vacation. Now that the vacation is over, Yu Yue should return to his normal life.

This ability to be summoned and dismissed at will...

How can it be considered rebellious?

Xia Che is willing to guarantee that if Yu Yue hadn't chosen to rebel, but instead had talked to his family properly and acted cute, they would have let him leave to rest for a while.

The outcome will remain unchanged.

But it was precisely this deep-seated contempt, this parents who never respected Yu Yue's thoughts from beginning to end...

"That's the worst, absolutely terrible."

Xia Che let out a long sigh.

The most tragic thing in the world is not even having the right to be an opponent. The other party never saw Yu Yue's shadow from beginning to end, so naturally they did not think that Yu Yue's decision to run away from home was rebellious. They just thought that a child was tired and wanted to rest, so they just let him go.

They never reflected on why Yu Yue had the idea of ​​escaping, or rather, they never cared about Yu Yue.

They were just treating Yu Yue as a pre-programmed robot.

They didn't need him before, so they let him escape. Now that they've remembered him, they've called him back to continue operating according to the program they set up.

This behavior...

Where is the treatment of Yu Yue as a human being?

Do they really think Yu Yue is an emotionless robot?

"I've pretty much told you all the information you wanted. Actually, there's nothing wrong with that. My brother's life is all planned out perfectly. He can easily achieve what countless people dream of. Isn't that great?"

Yu Shiyue shrugged. "That's how parents are. No matter how old their children are or how mature they are... in their eyes, the other person is always a child. This doesn't change with age. Strictly speaking, it's a kind of arrogance ingrained in their bones."

"What do children think... does it matter? They just need to follow the planned path of life and complete it step by step without any deviation."

"Choice? There's no good choice. What kind of good path can a child want to take?"

“They wouldn’t even listen to my brother’s explanation; they rejected his ideas entirely from the beginning.”

Yu Shiyue suddenly gave a self-deprecating laugh: "How pathetic. My brother likes to draw and wants to make it a profession, but in their eyes, it's always something low-class and beneath them."

Looking at Yu Shiyue in front of him, Xia Che suddenly remembered.

There was a joke that circulated a long time ago, when the internet was just starting out.

The story goes that he's a rich kid who ran away from home, and if he doesn't work hard here, he'll have to go back and inherit his family's vast fortune.

This joke was met with ridicule from countless people as soon as it was released.

Everyone thought it was too Versailles.

After all, how could someone who becomes a rich second-generation have to go out and work?

Isn't that ridiculous?

Xia Che was one of those who mocked him before. He shared the same view as the general public and had fantasized more than once that if he were also a second-generation rich kid, he would definitely not have any other thoughts. He would just do whatever his parents told him to do. The vision of the first generation of rich kids is definitely better than that of the second generation. He could just lie back and wait for them to plan his life.

But now...

How ridiculous such a thought is.

It is true that people are incapable of empathizing with others, and even incapable of empathizing with their past selves.

The life that Xia Che envied was exactly what Yu Yue was living now.

It's not as happy as I imagined...

“I know you want to help my brother, but this is not something you can decide. Even if you're doing it for his own good, even if he knows you're doing it for his own good, you can't change it, understand?”

Yu Shiyue clenched her fists slightly as she held the bag. The two thin strings on the bag were now deeply embedded in her flesh, until they made her fair palms red and white. Even though the pain was intense, she did not let go.

Yu Yue couldn't bring herself to say these words about her true identity.

But Yu Shiyue can.

Perhaps wearing a mask is a way to separate oneself from one's original identity.