Yu Jiao didn't expect Cheng Ying to say this to Yu Qizhe. He really had too much of a bad taste.

Yu Jiao explained, "I happened to meet Cheng Zhangyin when I went to Yong'an Lane. This house was originally bought for you..."

"Really?" Yu Qizhe looked at her and smiled bitterly, "If you are not tired of me now, why would you want to buy me a house?"

Yu Jiao turned away awkwardly as he looked at her. "I heard from my eldest brother-in-law that you go to the Hanlin Academy from Kanjing Hutong every day to report for duty. It takes an hour on the road. If that's the case, it must be too tiring to go back and forth every day."

As soon as she finished speaking, a layer of warmth covered the back of her hand. Yu Jiao's heart tightened and she subconsciously tried to break free, but Yu Qizhe held her hand even tighter, "Yu Jiao."

He called her name softly, "I know you still have me in your heart."

Yu Jiao was inexplicably angry. She hated the way Yu Qizhe said in such a confident tone that she still had him in her heart.

Such certainty and confidence made her seem so humble and ridiculous. It was obvious that this person said that he only had a brother-sister relationship with her and wanted to end this relationship by treating her coldly.

But she couldn't help but still missed him and wanted to be nice to him.

"I've said that I'll treat you as my fifth brother and my elder brother from now on." Yu Jiao said coldly, "Sister Fuling is not in the capital. If you don't live well, she, Uncle Mengshan and Aunt Song will be worried. I'm just doing this for their sake..."

Yu Qizhe interrupted her and held her hand tightly. "What I said before was all nonsense. Just pretend you didn't hear it, okay? If you don't like me and are tired of me, how can you remember my birthday? Prepare this jade pendant? Why do you feel sorry for my hard work every day? Buy this house? If you really don't have me in your heart, you won't think about me everywhere and care about me."

Yu Jiao's expression became even uglier. She looked up at his handsome face, her nose slightly sour. "Yu Qizhe, how can you take back what you said? You can do whatever you want. What do you think of me? It was you who said those knife-like words that cut my heart and severed our relationship. Did I ask you what you meant by your words that day? You told me clearly that you and I are just siblings. I am just young and in love. I don't know what it feels like to truly like someone."

As Yu Jiao said this, her eyes slightly reddened and her body trembled a little, "How can you be so self-righteous now that you think I like you?"

Yu Qizhe looked at her eyes which were faintly glistening with tears, and his heart seemed to be tightened, making him feel sore and uncomfortable.

He coaxed her softly, "It's my fault for making you sad." He touched Yu Jiao's hair, "Don't cry, it doesn't matter if you hit me or scold me, just don't cry."

After making Yu Jiao cry that day, he swore that he would never let Yu Jiao shed a tear because of him again.

Yu Qizhe grabbed Yu Jiao's hand and hit himself in the face.

That day, she scolded him for valuing his career over their relationship, and he realized that she actually wanted to slap him.

A loud slapping sound was heard in the room. Yu Jiao was not prepared for him to do this. When she reacted, she was also frightened. Seeing that Yu Qizhe was going to pull her hand for a second slap, Yu Jiao resisted and broke free.

Staring blankly at the red mark on Yu Qizhe's cheek, Yu Jiao curled up her five fingers helplessly, and her palms felt slightly numb.

"Are you crazy?"

Yu Qizhe smiled, a gentle smile, and he stubbornly grabbed Yu Jiao's hand again, "Are you heartbroken?"

He looked at Yu Jiao deeply, "I really deserved to be beaten for what I said that day. If you still don't want to get rid of your hatred, then use your short blade, which is as thin as a cicada's wing, to stab me here, so that I can also taste the piercing pain, okay?"

Yu Jiao looked at Yu Qizhe, who seemed a little sick, with a look of bewilderment and surprise. He made Yu Jiao feel inexplicably scared.

"You...you don't have to be like this..." Yu Jiao stuttered for a moment, but she quickly calmed down, "Don't think that just because you are like this, you can just pretend that what happened never happened."

She didn't understand why Yu Qizhe could treat feelings as a joke. He was the one who completely denied the feelings between them and called them brother and sister. Why could he now go back to the way things were with just a few words?

"You weighed the pros and cons and felt that your own future was more important, so you ignored our relationship." Yu Jiao looked at him quietly, "Do you have true love when you are someone who values ​​profit more than anything else and is good at calculating?"

"I had no choice..." Yu Qizhe didn't know how to explain to Yu Jiao. He was always calm, but at this moment he didn't know how to defend himself. He took a deep breath and said, "Your elder brother forced me to break up with you."

Yu Jiao smiled bitterly after hearing this, "So what? Even if my elder brother forced you, it can't hide the fact that you chose a bright and prosperous future, right?"

She cried so sadly at that time, and Yu Qizhe's words kept repeating in her mind. Of course, she did not ignore what her elder brother said when he talked to her that day.