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Zhu Xingye – Zhu Xingye.

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You've worked hard!

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"..."

"Aaaaaaah!!!"

Zhu Jinzhao was terrified. She couldn't answer Zhu Xingye's question and could only scream at the top of her lungs to express her fear.

Zhu Xingye pinched her cheek and asked with a wicked grin, "What? Are you surprised?"

"Did you never imagine that I would fall in love with you? Never imagined that I, Zhu Xingye, would have such feelings for you?"

"...No." Zhu Jinzhao stared at him with wide eyes, her voice trembling as she shook her head. "No...it's not like that, you can't be like that...this is wrong!!"

"Wrong?" Zhu Xingye narrowed his eyes, a hint of mockery creeping into his smile. "Why is it wrong? By what right is it wrong?"

"You are the little girl I watched grow up, and I am your most beloved neighbor brother. We were born to love each other! We were born to be together!"

"No!!" Zhu Jinzhao was completely defeated by his series of outrageous words.

She struggled desperately under his control, kicking him off her with both hands and feet.

"No, that's not it! That's not it!!"

She screamed in a broken and chaotic manner, retreating barefoot: "We can't do this! You can't like me!"

"Why not?" Zhu Xingye glared at her with red eyes, casually lifting his long leg as he approached her.

"Chaochao, why can't I be with you?"

"Because we're friends!" Zhu Jinzhao shouted. "We've grown up together! How can good friends mess around with each other like this? That's wrong!"

"Heh..." Zhu Xingye laughed dismissively, "Wrong? We're just friends, how could that be wrong?"

"I……"

All of Zhu Jinzhao's resentment was dismissed by Zhu Xingye's casual remark, "Just friends."

Yes, they're just friends, childhood friends. Since they're friends, how could that be wrong?

Zhu Jinzhao's thoughts were unconsciously led by Zhu Xingye. In addition, she had only transmigrated a few months ago and did not have much affection for Zhu Xingye. Therefore, she vaguely felt that what Zhu Xingye said made some sense.

Zhu Xingye noticed her wavering and then said, "Chaochao, you are just my friend. We don't have any other closer relationship."

"We are not related by blood at all, so there are no ethical issues. Isn't that right?"

"..."

Zhu Jinzhao stared at him blankly, not knowing how to refute him.

"Chao Chao." Zhu Xingye silently took large strides and, before Zhu Jinchao could react, immediately closed in on her.

“We can be together.” He gently stroked Zhu Jinzhao’s cheek, coaxing her as he said, “If you want, I can immediately change my identity, and then you can be with me legitimately.”

"..." Zhu Jinzhao opened his hand, and his confused eyes were gradually becoming clear.

“But I don’t want to be with you,” she said firmly and clearly.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xingye's smile instantly froze.

Zhu Jinzhao took a few steps back, creating an awkward distance between herself and him, leaving his seductive zone. Then she shook her head vigorously, letting all those confused thoughts roll out of her mind.

She overturned her own conviction and found a fatal flaw in Zhu Xingye's words.

"Zhu Xingye, although we don't have any inappropriate relationship, we've known each other for over twenty years!"

"My true identity only came to light this year. You couldn't have fallen in love with me only after my identity was revealed, could you?"

"..." Zhu Xingye's face was gloomy, and he did not answer.

Zhu Jinzhao carefully calculated the time, and looked at Zhu Xingye with fear and vigilance in her eyes.

"Zhu Xingye, you found Mingyue five months ago. You didn't suddenly fall in love with me the moment you found her, did you?"

"..." Zhu Xingye remained silent.

But silence is the best answer.

Zhu Jinzhao felt a chill in his heart and almost instantly took a big step back.

"So Zhu Xingye, you're still wrong."

"...So what?" Since Zhu Jinzhao had already figured this out, Zhu Xingye simply decided to give up entirely.

Zhu Jinzhao stared intently at him, emphasizing each word clearly: "Zhu Xingye, you can't love me, and I don't want to be with you."

"Let me out. I don't want to stay here with you."

"Hmph..." Zhu Xingye chuckled coldly, ignoring Zhu Jinzhao's other words and focusing only on the phrase "unwilling."

"Chaochao, if you don't want to be with me, then who would you rather be with? Shijing?"

"Yes!" Zhu Jinzhao readily admitted, "I just want to be with Shi Jing, I love Shi Jing!"

The word "love?" pierced a hole in Zhu Xingye's heart. His breath caught in his throat, and the anger he had been suppressing finally burst forth.

"Heh..." He chuckled coldly through gritted teeth, then questioned in a chilling voice, "You love Shi Jing, but how do you love him?"

He reached out and grabbed Zhu Jinzhao's shoulder, pulling him close: "Zhu Jinzhao, how do you love him?"

"I..." Before Zhu Jinzhao could figure out how to answer the question, Zhu Xingye suddenly placed his other hand on her collar.

Immediately afterwards, there was a "rip" sound—

Zhu Xingye grabbed her collar and ripped it open!

A patch of fair and smooth skin was exposed to Zhu Xingye's gaze. Zhu Xingye stared at her, his eyes falling on the mark left by the mirror.

"...Aaaaaah!!!"

Zhu Jinzhao froze for two seconds, then screamed and spread her hands to cover her chest.

Zhu Xingye didn't stop her. He wasn't driven by lust to do anything to her, but rather wanted her to understand that he already knew what Shi Jing had done to her.

"You say you love Shi Jing, but how do you love him? Do you casually and carelessly offer yourself to him and let him bully you?"

"Look down at yourself! What a mess you've made of yourself!!"

"What's it to you?!" Zhu Jinzhao forcefully pushed his hand away, escaping from his control.

"It's my choice, what's it to you?" She desperately clutched her collar, trying her best to cover her exposed skin.

"Shi Jing and I are mutually in love! I'm willing to be close to him, I'm willing to give myself to him, so what?!"

"What's it to you? Is it any of your business?"