Chapter 274 Sibling Confrontation

"..."

Zhu Mingyue's face turned pale, and she was instantly speechless.

Zhu Xingye sized her up, a hint of mockery creeping into his smile: "Mingyue, you not only helped Chaochao lie, but you also helped Chaochao deceive me. Shouldn't I punish you?"

Zhu Mingyue turned her face away, not wanting to meet his gaze: "You can punish me, but why this way? Brother, you drugged my juice and made me unconscious until now, is that really just to punish me?"

“…Of course not.” Zhu Xingye answered frankly.

Zhu Mingyue didn't beat around the bush and asked directly, "So where did Chaochao go? Where did you hide Chaochao?"

Zhu Xingye raised an eyebrow, and instead of answering, asked, "Mingyue, I'm your own brother, how could you help Chaochao deceive me?"

Zhu Mingyue: "It was wrong of me to lie to you, but is it such a serious matter? Chaochao didn't do anything wrong..."

"She didn't do anything wrong?" Zhu Xingye lowered his eyebrows slightly, and the smile on his face instantly faded by half. "Isn't it a bad thing that she secretly dated? Isn't it a bad thing that she deliberately ran away from her brother to play with other people? Isn't it a bad thing that she kissed and hugged a man without her brother's permission?"

"You even call yourself Chaochao's older sister, yet you allow her to do such a thing!"

"No... what did she do?" Zhu Mingyue raised her eyes again, looking at Zhu Xingye with an incomprehensible gaze. "Chaochao is already twenty years old. What's wrong with her and Shi Jing being in love and dating? What's wrong with her going out to play with her friends? Isn't that normal?"

"Normal?" Zhu Xingye was annoyed by these two words, and his eyes immediately turned cold.

Zhu Mingyue stared directly at him without fear and said confidently, "Yes, that's normal! It's perfectly normal!"

"Chaochao is an adult now. She can have a boyfriend, play with her best friends, and even be affectionate with her boyfriend! This is not a shameful or bad thing!"

"Shi Jing is her legitimate boyfriend, so it's perfectly reasonable for him to kiss and hug her! I don't think it's bad!"

"...Don't you think this is bad?" Zhu Xingye gritted his teeth, his tone sinister. "Since you don't think it's bad, then why did you lie to me? Why didn't you just tell me honestly?"

"You should ask yourself that question, shouldn't you?" Zhu Mingyue curled her lips into a cold, indifferent smile. "Brother, I think you know the answer to that question better than I do."

"..."

Zhu Xingye's eyes turned cold, and he remained silent with a dark expression.

Zhu Mingyue: "Big brother, if you hadn't acted so 'abnormally' towards Chaochao, why would Chaochao and I have deliberately kept it from you!"

"You knew all along that Chaochao and I were lying, didn't you?"

Zhu Mingyue wasn't stupid; the moment she woke up from the drugging, she had already figured everything out.

Zhu Xingye actually knew from the beginning that she and Zhu Jinzhao had lied to him, but he hadn't exposed them because he was waiting for an opportunity.

Waiting for an opportunity to take Zhu Jinzhao away in a legitimate way.

At the same time, it was also a test for Zhu Jinzhao and her. If they behaved themselves, didn't lie to him, and didn't sneak out to play, then he could still pretend.

But if they are not honest and go against him in every way, then he will absolutely not be able to keep up the act any longer.

“That’s right.” He readily admitted, “I knew from the beginning that you were lying. I not only knew you were lying, but I also knew what you had been doing for the past seven days.”

"I know everything: how you persuaded Yang Min, how you tipped off Chaochao, when Chaochao got together with Shi Jing, and when they kissed and hugged each other!"

Zhu Mingyue: "But you just won't tell me."

“Yes.” Zhu Xingye laughed. “I’m just not going to tell you.”

"Because you like Zhu Jinzhao." Zhu Mingyue, unable to bear it any longer, tore Zhu Xingye's fig leaf to shreds.

"Zhu Xingye, you like Zhu Jinzhao, you like your own younger sister."

"..."

Zhu Xingye's smile vanished, and his gaze toward Zhu Mingyue turned cold and ruthless.

Although he was very unhappy that Zhu Mingyue had exposed his disguise, he was not surprised that Zhu Mingyue knew about it.

Zhu Mingyue is a very intelligent and insightful person, so it's perfectly normal for her to be able to see through his thoughts.

"...Zhu Jinzhao isn't my biological sister." He smirked, a hint of smugness in his expression.

"Hmph," Zhu Mingyue sneered, not letting him lead her by the nose at all.

"Big brother, Chaochao is indeed not your biological sister, but when did you find out about her background? And when did you fall in love with her?"

"When you fell in love with her, did you already know that she wasn't related to you by blood?"

Zhu Xingye's smugness froze on his face.

Zhu Mingyue stepped forward, looking at Zhu Xingye with a disappointed and disgusted expression.

"Brother, this isn't just messing around, this is incest."

The word "incest" carried too many thorns, and Zhu Xingye's heart was instantly pierced with several holes.

"Zhu Mingyue!" he shouted sharply, and almost instinctively raised his hand at Zhu Mingyue.

Instead of dodging, Zhu Mingyue proactively offered her face to Zhu Xingye.

"Brother, do you want to hit me?"

"..." Zhu Xingye gritted his teeth, his slightly trembling hand hovering in the air for a moment before he laboriously withdrew it.

Zhu Mingyue smiled, her smile full of sarcasm: "Big brother, are you so angry because you also think incest sounds bad?"

"You can't accept the fact of incest either, can you?"

"..."

Zhu Xingye was breathing rapidly, too angry with Zhu Mingyue to speak.

Zhu Mingyue glared at him resentfully, her clear eyes gradually turning red: "Brother, you should know that I hate people who commit incest the most in my life."

Zhu Xingye remained silent.

Zhu Mingyue clenched her fists, willing to tear open her old scars in an attempt to bring Zhu Xingye to his senses.

“When I was sixteen, I was arrested by the police and taken to the police station. It was the Chen family who called the police.”

"Why did they call the police? Because I almost cut off their precious son's manhood with a pair of scissors!"

“…Stop talking.” Zhu Xingye knew what Zhu Mingyue wanted to say, but he didn’t have the courage to listen.

But Zhu Mingyue insisted on saying, "Before the misunderstanding about my origins was cleared up, I always regarded that man as my own brother. But my own brother tried to rape me after seeing that kind of unclean thing."

"I couldn't stand the disgust, so I picked up a pair of scissors and tried to cut off his thing. But unfortunately, he dodged it, and my scissors only pierced his arm."

"Stop talking!" Zhu Xingye's voice began to tremble.

Zhu Mingyue ignored her and even deliberately raised her voice: "That pair of scissors was huge, and his arm was stabbed with a huge, bloody hole! Blood kept flowing out of that hole and onto me!"