Chapter 255 Zhu Mingyue's Revenge

"I didn't!" Zhu Jinzhao stared stubbornly at her, refusing to admit his mistake or back down. "I've never taken advantage of someone and then acted innocent!"

“On your first day back home, I personally came to apologize to you. I told you that if you felt uncomfortable, I could leave immediately and I would never show up in front of you to bother you! You were the one who told me that you didn’t need me to leave and that you hoped I could stay with you!”

"Hmph..." Zhu Mingyue tossed her long, loose hair and let out a disdainful sneer. "Zhu Jinzhao, I was just being polite to you, and you actually took it seriously?"

Zhu Jinzhao glared angrily, her eyes already bloodshot: "But Zhu Mingyue, I've asked you this question more than once! Whenever I sense you're in a bad mood, I immediately ask you if I've upset you. If I've done something wrong, you can tell me so I can change! But you just won't say anything, won't mention anything!"

"We're just waiting for our three older brothers to come back so we can exaggerate the story and complain to them!"

"...Yes." There were no outsiders in the villa, and Zhu Mingyue was unusually candid. "I just love to exaggerate my complaints to them, so what?"

"What do you want?" Zhu Jinzhao threw her question back at her verbatim, "You're tormenting me on one hand, and on the other hand, you want me to stay. What exactly do you want?"

"What exactly do you want me to do to satisfy you?"

Zhu Mingyue spread her palms, leisurely admiring her newly done manicure: "I don't know... Anyway, I just don't want to let you go."

Zhu Jinzhao: "Haven't you had enough revenge yet?"

"You've only been home for a few months, and you've already tormented me to the point of being neither human nor ghost. Can't you get rid of the resentment in your heart?"

"No." Zhu Mingyue uttered these two words lightly, "As long as you are safe for a day, the resentment in my heart will accumulate for another day. I really can't get rid of this anger without taking good revenge on you."

"..."

Zhu Jinzhao looked at her with a complicated expression, and the tension in his heart suddenly dissipated.

"Heh..." She laughed weakly, her tone mocking, "Since you want to get revenge, isn't it too little to only take revenge on me? The nurse who switched us at birth was the culprit behind this feud. You should take revenge on her too."

"And my three older brothers who raised me. Although they were unaware of the truth, they did give all their love to a sinner! They are just like me, they are all wrong, they are all guilty, you should include them in the count."

"You..." Zhu Mingyue was speechless after being rebuked.

"What?" Zhu Jinzhao twitched the corner of his mouth. "Did I say something wrong?"

“…Yes!” Zhu Mingyue nodded with a smile. “You’re right. I should indeed take revenge on them as well, but what can you do to me if I don’t?”

"Zhu Jinzhao, I've set my sights on you. I'm going to specifically target you. What can you do about it?"

Zhu Jinzhao stared at her without saying a word.

She raised her eyebrows triumphantly, silently provoking Zhu Jinzhao with her eyes and expression.

Zhu Jinzhao, however, was too lazy to confront her, and simply turned and left after saying "incomprehensible".

She watched Zhu Jinzhao's retreating figure, then suddenly moved to stand at the top of the stairs.

"Zhu Jinzhao!" she shouted Zhu Jinzhao's name at the perfect moment.

Zhu Jinchao stopped in his tracks, frowned, and looked back at her.

"It's dry again..."

"Aaaaaaah!!!!"

Before she could even ask her impatient question, Zhu Mingyue suddenly started screaming at the top of her lungs.

"What...what are you doing?" Zhu Jinzhao was completely confused.

"Hmph..." Zhu Mingyue smiled with the corners of her lips curving up. As she smiled, she suddenly leaned back and deliberately threw herself down the stairs.

"Aaaaaaah!!!"

A piercing scream echoed throughout the entire villa.

"..." Zhu Jinzhao was stunned for a moment, then ran forward, intending to rush over and grab Zhu Mingyue.

But it was too late; Zhu Mingyue had already rolled down the hill.

And coincidentally, Zhu Xingye and Zhu Ning had just arrived home and witnessed the entire process of Zhu Mingyue rolling down the stairs.

"Bright moon!!!"

Zhu Xingye's face turned deathly pale instantly. He immediately threw off his suit jacket and ran towards Zhu Mingyue.

The stairs were long and the floor was hard. Zhu Mingyue had rolled down them, and her body was covered in bruises. When Zhu Xingye pulled her into his arms, she was already somewhat disoriented.

"Mingyue, what's going on?!" Zhu Xingye's eyes were red with anxiety.

"Big brother..." Zhu Mingyue clutched his sleeve, her lips trembling as she opened them, stained with blood. "Big brother, it hurts so much. Am I going to die...?"

"No, it won't happen!" Zhu Xingye scooped her up in his arms and hurriedly walked out. "Mingyue won't die, I'll take her to the hospital right now!"

"Hmm..." Zhu Mingyue leaned against him, nodded pitifully, and then seemingly unintentionally raised her eyes to look at Zhu Jinzhao upstairs.

Zhu Xingye noticed her gaze, abruptly stopped, and glanced up. When he saw Zhu Jinzhao standing at the top of the stairs, he immediately condemned her in his mind.

The dream spun before Zhu Mingyue's eyes, and her gaze inexplicably drifted to Zhu Ning.

Zhu Ning strode upstairs and slapped Zhu Jinzhao without saying a word.

"Smack!"

A swift and heavy slap made Zhu Jinzhao see stars.

Zhu Jinzhao covered her burning cheeks and opened her mouth to explain something when Zhu Xingye suddenly appeared behind her.

"You're incorrigible!" Zhu Xingye grabbed her arm and forcibly dragged her into the small dark room in the study.

They were locked up for a full four days.

When he came out again, Zhu Jinzhao was so hungry that he couldn't even speak.

Zhu Mingyue felt sorry for her, so she kindly gave her two expired bread rolls. Seeing that she didn't have the strength to eat, she even took the bread rolls out of the packaging bag herself and forcefully stuffed them into Zhu Jinzhao's mouth.

"Is today delicious?"

Zhu Jinzhao lay sprawled on the ground with her eyes closed, her pale and sickly face slowly contorting before her eyes, transforming into a completely different scene.

"Second brother, second brother, my stomach hurts so much!"

In the scene, Zhu Mingyue clutches her stomach and runs into Zhu Qian's study, but before she can even touch Zhu Qian's clothes, she collapses to the ground in agony.

"Bright moon!"

Zhu Qian ran out from behind his desk and scooped up Zhu Mingyue, who was curled up on the ground, into his arms.

"What's wrong, Mingyue? Why does your stomach suddenly hurt?"

Zhu Mingyue was in so much pain that her teeth were chattering and she could barely speak: "I... I don't know. I just took the vitamins my second brother prescribed as usual, but I didn't expect that my stomach would hurt as soon as I took them."

"It hurts so much, I really can't take it anymore..."

"Vitamins?" Zhu Qian frowned, vaguely sensing that something was wrong.

"Zhu Ning! Go and bring me the vitamins from Mingyue's room!"