Seeing her unreasonable and irrational behavior, Ye Caiping laughed in anger:

"Jin'er made it clear to Ye Peng yesterday that they have nothing."

"Of course he did! Peng'er told me that he and Jin'er got together even when you were still in the Li family! They were so close. You're the one breaking them up."

Ye Caiping was furious and suddenly looked towards the back of the crowd: "Ye Peng, you tell her!"

Ye Peng, standing at the back of the crowd, froze.

He arrived a while ago; as soon as Mrs. Wei came to make trouble, some of the village children ran to inform him.

He stood there for a while, feeling embarrassed and awkward as he watched Mrs. Wei make a scene over his marriage.

He wanted to step forward to stop them, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.

A sliver of hope still lingered in my heart; maybe it would actually happen...

Unexpectedly, his aunt saw him and pointed him out.

The villagers all turned around and stared at him.

Ye Peng was not only ashamed, but also heartbroken. He stepped forward:

"I... Jin'er and I... we did indeed..."

He wanted to say that they liked each other, but he couldn't bring himself to say it because he remembered Jin'er's rejection yesterday.

Thinking about it, the grievances and resentment of the past two days came crashing down on me like a tidal wave, and my eyes welled up with tears.

"Anyway, I treated her very well when we were in the Li family. Back then, you only had Li Zhiyuan in your heart and didn't treat her well."

“She continued to suffer in the Li family. When she returned to her parents’ home, her eldest brother, second brother, and aunt all disliked her. She was very pitiful at the time... I always treated her well and hid eggs for her to eat.”

“She was very good to me. Knowing that I liked wild strawberries, she would bring them all the way from Lijia Village to me every time she picked them. She would secretly give me one, which my older brothers didn’t have.”

"Later, when my aunt returned to her parents' home, my eldest brother and second eldest brother all gave her a hard time, but I was the only one who treated her well."

"My uncle bought her candy, but she was too shy to eat it and offered it to us. My older brothers didn't appreciate it, and Jinhua even secretly cursed her. Only I ate some, which eased her embarrassment..."

"Anyway... there are so many little things like this... we've always cared for each other. But now... she's asking why I haven't grown up, why I'm not ambitious... she even said she's never liked me. And she's spouting nonsense about cousins ​​marrying and having an idiot child..."

By the end, Ye Peng was sobbing uncontrollably.

The villagers looked at each other, and listening to this, they realized that the two really did have some affection for each other.

Mrs. Wei immediately sat up straight and said urgently, "Did you hear me? Did you hear me!"

“We were so poor before, we had nothing to eat or drink, so we would cling to my Peng’er and ask him for food and things.”

"What? Now that she's rich, she looks down on my Peng'er? If she didn't care about him, why didn't she just tell him clearly in the first place? Why did she keep stringing him along, making him sad and misunderstanding? My poor Peng'er is being played like this by her!"

Ye Caiping was furious and was about to speak when a figure suddenly rushed out—it was Ye Jin'er.

Her eyes were red as she stared intently at Ye Peng and Madam Wei.

"Jin'er..." Ye Peng looked at her and was stunned. He felt angry, aggrieved, and loving.

She heard everything he just said, didn't she? Their past...

But Ye Jin'er said, "Are you saying that I've been keeping you as a backup plan all along, abandoning you after I've served my purpose, and looking for someone better while I'm still with you? Are you a Chen Shimei among women? Toying with your feelings?"

I learned the term "backup plan" from Ye Caiping.

Ye Peng frowned and remained silent.

Wei roared, "Isn't that what you did? When you were poor, you called him 'Third Cousin,' but now that you're rich, you say you don't like him, that he's not good enough for you, and you kick Peng'er to the curb!"

Ye Jin'er said fiercely, "Fine! Today, even if my reputation is ruined! Even if I never marry again, I will make sure everything is clear!"

"Yes, you're absolutely right. From your perspective! Well, let me also speak from my perspective."

"When I was poor and had nothing to eat or drink, you gave me eggs and were kind to me. I was very grateful and thought, 'How could my third cousin be so good to me!'"

“I was just a little girl of eight or nine years old back then. What’s wrong with me thinking my cousin is good to me? He’s so good to me, so what’s wrong with me being closer to him than to others?”

"You give me eggs, and I reciprocate by picking wild strawberries for you. What's wrong with that? Now, all of our interactions have turned into me stringing you along?"

"What? You give me eggs and treat me well, so I have to slap you to prove that I only have brotherly feelings for you?"

"I've always felt that my feelings for you are more like those between siblings. I feel that they're closer than those between my older and younger cousins, so you treat me well, and I'm good to you in return."

"So all these good things are just keeping you hanging on?"

"It wasn't until the day before yesterday, on my birthday, when you suddenly gave me a gold hairpin, that I realized you actually liked me."

"Later, when my mother asked me questions, I found out that I used to have feelings for you."

"Did you hear that? I have feelings for you! I really do! Are you satisfied? Did you understand? I have feelings for you! I have feelings for you! I do!"

"But I didn't know it was romantic love between a man and a woman before. I always thought it was between siblings. It wasn't until you gave me the gold hairpin that I realized what was going on."

"Was it wrong of me to have feelings for you before? Relationships between people are built up little by little through interaction, and everyone tests each other's compatibility step by step."

"I found it wasn't right during the interaction, it changed, does that mean I made a mistake?"

"It's like you see a dress on the street, it catches your eye, but when you take it down, you find a hole in the back. Can't you just not want to buy this dress?"

"I just happened to like this dress, but did I have to buy it? Was it not okay for me not to buy it?"

The villagers nodded in agreement. After hearing Ye Peng's words, they felt that Ye Jin'er was just like Chen Minmei.

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