"Don't you know clearly who I want to marry?" Yu Qizhe asked in a questioning tone. He looked deeply at Yu Jiao and said aggressively, "Or do you never take everything between us seriously?"
Yu Jiao instinctively wanted to escape. She pinched her fingers helplessly. When she came to her senses, she felt a little depressed. If Yu Qizhe had not suddenly brought up the idea of brother-sister love, how could the two of them have reached the point where they were both strangers and yet familiar with each other.
Yu Jiao didn't want to bring up the past, as getting to the bottom of it would lead to her eldest brother.
She just wasn't ready yet. When she traveled through time, her original body was already a bride bought by the Yu family for good fortune, and she had no right to choose. But now she was the one who was going to get married.
And there are still many problems between her and Yu Qizhe.
"I'm not clear enough." Yu Jiao looked straight at him, her almond eyes shining brightly, "You always don't want to tell me anything, it was the same then and it's the same now! Do you think that you can just think everything through, and I just need to be an obedient puppet when you make the decision?"
Yu Qizhe took a deep breath, controlled the inexplicable anger in his heart, and said slowly: "I never thought about it this way..." He just didn't want Yu Jiao to face these, and wanted to shield her from the wind and rain as much as possible so that she wouldn't have to be embarrassed and face these troubles. He had arranged everything, and all he needed was for her to nod and agree to marry him.
"You may not have thought about it this way, but you did it." Yu Jiao didn't want to quarrel with Yu Qizhe. She felt that quarrels could never solve problems, but sometimes people's emotions were simply not under their control, especially in front of people they cared about.
"You asked the Emperor to grant me a marriage without giving me the right to choose. You didn't tell me beforehand, nor did you discuss it with me." Yu Jiao's tone faded, as if she was mocking herself. "I'm not a god. You never tell me, so how can I know what you think? When you said that you and I only had a brother-sister relationship, I cried and made a fuss, but you never told me anything, and I believed it."
Yu Jiao felt a sour feeling in her nose. She didn't want to talk about the past anymore, but she still said it. She was really annoying.
Maybe it’s because I always care about it, some knots are just let go without me noticing, but they still exist.
"Then you said you still liked me, Yu Qizhe, should I believe it or not? If something unexpected happens in the future and you suddenly want to divorce me, will I be the last one to know about the divorce like my elder sister?" Yu Jiao turned her eyes away, stubbornly refusing to show a trace of weakness. Looking at the plants beside the rockery, she whispered, "I know you did a lot of things. Yang Xu and his son were imprisoned and executed, and Zhu Yu was deposed. It was all for me, right?"
Yu Jiao asked this question very softly because she was afraid that she was being self-righteous.
Unexpectedly, Yu Qizhe held Yu Jiao's hand with great force. His palm was burning hot, and his hand had already wrapped around Yu Jiao's hand. He looked at Yu Jiao with a burning and deep gaze. He restrained himself and admitted, "Yes, they plotted against you and hurt you, they all deserve to die!"
Yu Jiao was shocked by the cruelty in his words, and a little flustered by his straightforward admission. She couldn't afford such sacrifice from others.
How could he, an official who had just made a name for himself in the officialdom, dare to attack the prince?
"You don't have to do this. They have deep roots. If you offend them like this, have you ever thought about how they will retaliate in the future? You will ruin your career. They failed to harm me and learned their lesson. You don't have to do this for me..."
"Yu Jiao." Yu Qizhe interrupted her. A smile suddenly appeared on his extremely handsome face, but that smile was indescribably crazy. He said in a low voice, "Have you never felt how important you are? Do you not feel how others will love you? Do you not believe that I like you, or are you afraid of being easily abandoned and left behind?"
Yu Qizhe's sharp words were like lifting a fig leaf. Yu Jiao hated being seen through, so she tore off the protective shield on her body and was exposed to her deep thoughts, which she had hidden very deeply. It was as if she was forced to admit that she was not as good as she thought.
Moists came out of her eyes and she wanted to pull her hand away in embarrassment. She pulled at Yu Qizhe's hand in panic, but he refused to let her go. The strength he held on her hand was like a shackle.
"Yu Qizhe... don't assume so much about me. How could I be afraid of being abandoned? I was alone when I came to this world." Yu Jiao didn't even know what she was saying, but just subconsciously denied Yu Qizhe's words.
Only she knows that her strength and composure, her calmness and maturity, are all pretended.
She was originally just a little girl who was spoiled by her grandfather and senior brother. She also loved to act like a spoiled child, but that was because she knew that there were people in this world who could love and spoil her without any bottom line.
After her grandfather passed away, one of the only two people in the world who loved and doted on her was gone, but at that time she still had her senior brother.
But later, my senior brother also left, also because of her.
From that time on, Yu Jiao somehow gradually became afraid of others being nice to her, and she couldn't bear it.
Especially when someone treats her so wholeheartedly, it becomes a burden to her.
If the senior brother had not treated her wholeheartedly, that wouldn't have been the outcome, and he wouldn't have left her alone!
How could she deserve to feel that she was important? Was she going to kill another senior brother?
This was Yu Jiao's heart knot. She thought she had hidden it well, but she didn't expect that it would be seen through.
Yu Qizhe didn't expect that he would make her cry. Looking at the tears on her porcelain-white cheeks, the madness in his eyes faded and was filled with heartache.
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