Yu Qiao swallowed back her words instantly, her charming fox-like eyes filled with tears, looking at Yu Lingze with a mixture of grievance and anger.

Pei Jin took her hand and said, "I was just joking with your brother. It's not like a grown man would feel pain."

Pei Jin's lips were still torn, with some blood seeping out. His face was bruised and swollen, and the wound hadn't been treated yet.

Yu Lingze finally realized something was wrong, and chuckled with his tongue pressed against his back teeth, laughing in exasperation: "So you were waiting for me here?!"

He said, "Why did that bastard Pei Jin put his face so close to let me hit him?"

Scheming man, what a green tea b*tch!

"You're not allowed to speak!" Yu Qiao snapped, then looked at Pei Jin with concern, asking, "Where else did he hit you?"

"On the face."

Yu Qiao didn't believe it and raised her hand to touch Pei Jin's abdomen.

The sudden touch sent a wave of pain through him. Pei Jin was used to getting injured while boxing, but his expression tensed up slightly.

Yu Qiao, who was keeping a close eye on Pei Jin, noticed that when she lifted Pei Jin's clothes, she saw a wound full of bruises and blood, and she immediately became furious.

Yu Qiao kicked Yu Lingze in the shin: "Yu Lingze!"

Yu Lingze: ......

"Yu Qiao, you hit me because of some random man?" Yu Lingze's anger, which had just subsided, flared up again. He had raised this sister for nothing. Did he, her own brother, not even compare to some random man?

It was just a few hits..., right?

He didn't die.

"If I had been with you just now, I would have definitely fought back!" Yu Qiao was so angry that tears streamed down her face.

Pei Jin said calmly, "Qiaoqiao, I'm fine. My brother just slapped me a few times. It didn't hurt at all."

"You damn green tea b*tch! Shut the hell up!" Yu Lingze was so angry he was dizzy. His straight male brother, whom he had known for so long, was using all his scheming on him?!

Yu Lingze raised his hand and showed Yu Qiao his scraped fingers: "Yu Qiao, open your eyes and look. Pei Jin is tough as nails. I got my hand scraped from beating him up."

"You hit someone and you still think you're right?" Yu Qiao slapped Yu Lingze's hand.

Yu Lingze curled his lips and slowly withdrew his hand, which had already healed, and put it in his pocket: "Hehe."

"......"

Yu Qiao took Pei Jin's hand and got into the car: "Let's go to the hospital."

Pei Jin turned his head, his dark eyes filled with tenderness, and said in a deliberately drawn-out tone, "Brother, I'll bring him back later."

Yu Lingze gave a cold laugh.

Before Yu Qiao could quell her anger, she turned and glared at him, saying, "Do you think you're some kind of domineering CEO? Ha! Ha!"

With a "snap," the car door was slammed shut by Yu Qiao.

Seeing this, Pei Jin stepped on the gas and then slammed on the brakes.

Watching the car speed away, Yu Lingze narrowed his fox-like eyes slightly, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out, put it in his mouth, and lit it.

He took a deep drag, and the grayish-white smoke swirled around him, blurring his rather sharp features.

You heartless bastard.

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He returned to Pei Jin's home from the hospital.

Yu Qiao's pretty face was tense. As soon as she opened the door, she threw the medicine on the sofa, sat there with a cold face, and remained silent.

Pei Jin touched the tip of his nose and sat down beside her without saying a word: "Are you angry?"

"Why didn't you dodge?" Yu Qiao asked.

"There's no escaping it."

"Then why don't you fight back?" Yu Qiao stared at Pei Jin's bruised face and asked in a deep voice.

“I’m strong, and I’m afraid you’ll get angry if I hurt him.” Pei Jin clenched his fist. He was used to boxing and didn’t know how to hold back. Although Yu Lingze also worked out regularly, he was still different from professional power boxers like them.

Yu Qiao fell silent for a moment.

After a while, she said "Oh".

Pei Jin chuckled, wrapping his large arm around Yu Qiao's small waist and pulling her onto his lap. His dark eyes were filled with tenderness: "Baby, you're upset because you care about me, right?"