But after searching for a long time, they couldn't find any memory of the lake. They could only look at him in confusion and ask, "Did you remember it wrong again? There are many locations for the palace, so it's not surprising that you got it wrong."
Upon reaching this point, Xu Heyu understood that Qiao Yingying only possessed the memories of this lifetime, and inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief.
"That should be true. I'm sorry, I was just trying to find something to talk about with you, but I kept getting the place names wrong."
Qiao Yingying had initially found it strange that Xu Heyu kept mispronouncing names, but after hearing his explanation, she immediately understood.
Some straight men are prone to saying the wrong thing when they are too nervous; she's probably overthinking it.
But what she was most curious about was why Xu Heyu, who had always ignored her, would suddenly take the initiative to see her and even embarrass herself in order to find topics to talk about with her.
Her intuition told her that something was amiss.
So they subtly inquired about it later.
Xu Heyu had already achieved his goal and had no intention of continuing to fob her off. He lied to her, saying, "I'm at the age where I should be dating, so I was thinking we should give it a try."
"You're the one who contacts me the most and seem to like me a lot, so I was planning to meet you in person to see if I could fall in love with someone who likes me a lot. But now that we've met, I realize that's impossible."
He stood up, his face full of regret, but Qiao Yingying couldn't see any problem at all.
"Is that all? We've only exchanged a few words. Perhaps if we learned more, the outcome might be different?"
Qiao Yingying was unwilling to give up. After all, Xu Heyu had finally taken the initiative once, and if she let this opportunity slip away, she didn't know when the next one would come.
"No need. I feel that if I'm not satisfied with the first meeting, the outcome won't change much. But I'm still very grateful that you came today, and I'm also very grateful for your kindness towards me over the past few days."
After saying that, Xu Heyu took a step and left despite Qiao Yingying's attempts to stop her.
She was left standing alone beside her seat, her brow furrowed, her mind replaying the dreams she had once had.
Something's not right.
In the dream, her real interaction with Xu Heyu began when he first took the initiative to find her.
Why are reality and dreams completely different?
As she was thinking, her smart bracelet vibrated. When she opened it, she saw a photo sent by her adopted brother.
In the photo, a table full of food has been spilled on the floor and is no longer edible.
Sister, I'm sorry, I didn't want to trouble you, but I'm really tired and don't want to redo it.
Just by reading the words, Qiao Yingying could sense her adopted brother's helplessness.
Suppressing her heartache, she quickly replied to his message, telling him not to worry about those things and that she would come to see him right away.
Anyway, there's no progress on Xu Heyu's side right now, and she's made sure to have all her time free today to spend with her adopted brother.
After reading the message Qiao Yingying sent, Qiao Guang walked around the pile of food on the floor and got into bed. He shook his legs, which should have been broken, and muttered, "I knew it. Compared to that Xu Heyu, you still care about me more. See, I just lied to you like this, and you came right away."
As he spoke, Qiao Guang activated the superpowers of his familiars within him, watching as his legs bent and then made a distinct cracking sound.
Throughout the process, his face was deathly pale, but a hint of excited red appeared at the corners of his eyes, making him look quite frightening.
But Qiao Yingying was completely unaware of all this.
After arriving at Qiao Guang's villa at top speed in the aircraft, they found his face as pale as paper.
She assumed he was starving because he hadn't eaten, so she gave him the food she had packed and told him to eat first.
She then went to clean up the mess on the ground.
Although cleaning robots do exist, these dishes contain soup and oil, so if you use them to clean up, you'll need to clean the robot again afterwards.
Qiao Yingying knew that Qiao Guang was always lazy and probably wouldn't bother cleaning again, which was why she hadn't asked him to call a cleaning robot.
Qiao Guang took the still-warm food and noticed that her lips were a little dry, as if she hadn't eaten yet. He asked her, puzzled, "Sister, haven't you eaten yet?"
That shouldn't be the case. Judging from the length of time she was there, she should have eaten by herself by now.
Even if Xu Heyu dislikes her, he couldn't possibly refuse to order food for her, could he?
Qiao Yingying walked to the sink to wash her hands, and said with annoyance without turning her head, "No, it's just that the people I met were too disgusting. We didn't even exchange a few words before the food was fully served and they left. Then you sent me a message, so I came back."
Qiao Guang was a little surprised to hear the annoyance in her tone.
If he remembered correctly, wasn't his sister extremely infatuated with Xu Heyu? She would send him a lot of messages almost every day, and when she announced it to the public, she also said that she liked him.
This incident even caused the Crown Prince's plan to arrange a marriage for her to fall through.
After all, no man can tolerate his future wife having someone else in her heart.
He stared at Qiao Yingying for a while longer and found that she really didn't seem to be faking it. When she came over to eat with him, he tentatively asked her, "Sister, do you not like Xu Heyu? Then why did you tell others that you liked him?"
Qiao Yingying didn't treat Qiao Guang as an outsider. Hearing this, she shook her head helplessly: "I can't tell you the reason right now. When the time is right, I will explain everything to you."
After saying that, she didn't intend to talk about Xu Heyu anymore, but instead asked Qiao Guang if his leg had suddenly started hurting again.
"Or I can buy you some more inhibitors after we finish eating. I see you're sweating from the pain."
Inhibitors are expensive, and given Qiao Yingying's current situation, she doesn't have enough interstellar coins to buy them.
Qiao Guang himself was faking it, so of course he didn't agree.
He shook his head, his eyes flickering, and said, "Actually, it's not just my legs that hurt. I'm just a little scared that one day my sister will really be with someone and won't care about me anymore."
The boy lowered his eyelashes and pursed his lips, his face filled with loneliness.
Qiao Yingying felt like she was a puppy who might be abandoned tomorrow.
She suddenly lost her appetite and asked him what he wanted.
Qiao Guang had been waiting for her to say that. He looked up, his dark eyes filled with longing, "Sister, could you... could you sleep with me one night like you did when we were little? The weather forecast says there will be thunderstorms today, I'm scared..."
It was drizzling when Qiao Yingying came back, and she didn't pay much attention to the weather forecast.
After checking, I realized that a thunderstorm was indeed going to start in half an hour, and I finally relented and agreed.
"But I need to talk to someone about this first."
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