Yu Sen couldn't bear to listen any longer. Seeing her look so pitiful and humble, his heart ached.

He raised his hand and gently placed it on her lips, frowning as he moved closer.

"Stop talking."

"I... ..."

He closed his eyes impatiently and quickly sorted out the mess in his heart.

After a moment, he said with some effort: "It's not that I don't want to be close to you."

"It's me... I can't control myself."

Yu Sen sighed heavily, and felt her petite body tremble. He withdrew his hand without saying anything else.

Then he placed his palm on the back of her head and gently rubbed her fluffy hair.

"You always say that I might have married you just to coax you."

"But Shuya, I raised you from childhood. Don't you know what kind of person I am?"

"How could I treat marriage as a joke just to please you?"

Yu Sen smiled bitterly and said, "I admit that all these years my mind has been focused on making money. I'm not interested in love affairs at all."

"But ever since the day you told me you didn't see me as a brother at all, but as a man..."

"I was completely confused."

"...I, I don't know what to do."

Yu Sen rubbed the unconcealable sadness in his eyes, gently kissed the corner of her red and swollen eye, and said, "If it were someone else, perhaps I wouldn't have so many concerns."

"But we've been together for over ten years. What if... what if you're just old enough to mess up your feelings?"

"What should I do if one day you decide you don't like me anymore and want to leave me and this family?"