She shook her head vigorously, trying to shake off the nauseating memory.
"Yang Yue, are you alright?" Chen Yu asked with concern. He stood up and walked to Yang Yue's side.
"Stop!" Yang Yue quickly reached out to stop Chen Yu. "Don't come any closer, stay away from me."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yu was immediately displeased. "When we were in the cave, you wouldn't leave my side for even a step. Now that we're out, you're starting to look down on me."
They're already acting like this before they're even out of trouble. What will happen once they're actually out of trouble?
Chen Yu originally thought that since he and Yang Yue had become sworn brothers, it would be much easier to get her to join the "Tianyu Base" and work for him after they escaped.
But looking at the current situation, I'm afraid I'm just being delusional. Wouldn't that be a huge mistake?
Thinking of this, Chen Yu's face immediately darkened, and he was about to teach Yang Yue a lesson.
But then Yang Yue’s weak and urgent voice was heard: “Chen Yu, that’s not what I meant. It’s just that the scene just now was too… too shocking. I need some time to adjust.”
Hearing Yang Yue's explanation, Chen Yu temporarily stopped his idea of lecturing Yang Yue, but he was even more puzzled: "What exactly is she talking about?"
Yang Yue had mostly composed herself by this time. She looked at Chen Yu with a complicated expression: "Chen Yu, why did you do this? You gave me your cookies, but you...you..."
Chen Yu was horrified upon hearing this; Yang Yue had indeed seen him eating roasted sweet potatoes!
However, they couldn't admit to this. In this freezing weather, the two of them were trapped in a cave. Where would they have gotten roasted sweet potatoes?
He immediately denied it, saying, "No, that's not it, you must have mistaken me!"
"Chen Yu, why are you so good to me?" Yang Yue didn't directly ask, but looked at Chen Yu with her eyes full of confusion and emotion, her voice carrying a hint of tenderness.
"I..." Chen Yu was speechless. Yang Yue's words had him completely baffled. She was good to him? Where did this come from? Weren't we talking about stealing roasted sweet potatoes?
"I didn't finish these biscuits, you can have them. Don't eat that kind of stuff again." Yang Yue took out some compressed biscuits from her pocket and handed them to Chen Yu.
Chen Yu didn't answer, but frowned. He had a feeling that Yang Yue had misunderstood something, and that some strange things had gotten into her mind.
He noticed that Yang Yue seemed to be staring blankly at his sleeve, so he suspiciously followed her gaze to look at his sleeve.
There was a clump of yellow, frozen solid stuck to it, which must have been left behind when he wiped his mouth with his sleeve in his haste.
Suddenly, Chen Yu realized what was happening, his pupils contracted sharply, and he hurriedly explained to Yang Yue, "No, I didn't! I didn't eat that kind of thing!"
"I understand. This is something only you and I know. No one else will know." Yang Yue's expression was complicated as she pulled up Chen Yu's sleeve to help him clean up.
Chen Yu would naturally not let Yang Yue succeed, as this was evidence to clear his name.
He was the first to act, quickly shoving the yellow block of ice off his head and holding it high, intending to explain to Yang Yue.
As luck would have it, a strong gust of cold wind blew by.
He lost his grip, and the yellow ice block was instantly swept away by the wind and disappeared into the vast snow pit.
Chen Yu was dumbfounded, but in order to prove his innocence, he still forced himself to explain to Yang Yue, "You've really misunderstood. What I ate back then wasn't what you're thinking, but rather..."
“It’s sweet potato, I understand,” Yang Yue interrupted Chen Yu. “It could also be mango.”
Yang Yue looked very serious, as if that was really what she thought.
Seeing this, Chen Yu could easily understand Yang Yue's meaning; she was clearly trying to "comfort" him.
Chen Yu took a deep breath. He felt he had to explain this to Yang Yue, otherwise, wouldn't his lifelong reputation be ruined?
He could tolerate other things, but this was something he had to firmly deny! No, he had to refute it!
But now that the evidence is gone, it's impossible to explain this misunderstanding without concrete proof.
After a moment's hesitation, he finally made up his mind, turned away from Yang Yue, took out a roasted sweet potato from the extradimensional space between his eyebrows, and handed it to Yang Yue: "Take a close look, is this what you saw back then?"
When Yang Yue saw a steaming hot roasted sweet potato suddenly appear in Chen Yu's hand, her eyes widened in surprise, her mouth slightly agape, as if she had paused her breathing for a moment.
So she really misunderstood Chen Yu before? Was what Chen Yu ate not that kind of thing, but really a roasted sweet potato?
Wait a minute, where did Chen Yu get those roasted sweet potatoes in this freezing weather? And it's as if they appeared out of thin air, that's too abnormal!
Thinking of this, Yang Yue felt a chill run down her spine, and she asked in a trembling voice, "You...how did you..."
"Want to know?" Chen Yu's tone was icy. "Telling you isn't impossible, but you'll have to pay a price!"
"Wh...what price?" Yang Yue's face turned deathly pale.
"Your life," Chen Yu said coldly.
He wasn't just saying that; the secret of his alternate dimension was far too important for anyone else to know, especially an outsider like Yang Yue.
Now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up and his reputation has been preserved, the most important thing now is to keep his secret.
"I...I don't want to know anymore, I don't know anything!" Yang Yue suddenly took a few steps back, her hands tightly gripping her clothes, her eyes filled with terror.
Although she had only known Chen Yu for a short time, she had never seen him so cold-hearted, as if he had suddenly become a different person.
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