Chapter 236
“How about today…” Lindbergh traced his fingertip across her arm, “together.”
No, no, her hands and feet turned ice-cold as she thought about what they would do, her pupils contracted sharply... She was wrong, she would never think of escaping again... She would be good, she would be good...
Not knowing how to break free from their strong restraints, she ran out in near collapse.
As I pushed open the door, I instinctively glanced back in a panic.
On the sofa, half of the handsome twins' faces were bathed in the shadow cast by the window. They didn't speak, but slowly raised their eyes, like two lurking venomous snakes suddenly raising their tongues and locking onto her.
The younger brother's smile was dazzling, while the older brother remained expressionless and indifferent.
"Cat catching mouse?" Theodore was surprised for a moment. "I love to play. Brother, whoever catches it first gets to keep it?"
Lindbergh Theodore thought for a second, then nodded slightly: "Okay."
A sense of ease filled the air, yet it weighed heavily on Jiang You, leaving him with no courage to even move.
"Aren't you going to run?"
At that moment, Lindbergh Theodore's golden eyes fell on her again.
An inescapable sense of oppression slowly crept into Jiang You's heart through the air.
Demons, these are all demons.
.........
He's been caught.
Thrown into her room, Jiang You huddled in a corner, hugging his knees and trembling uncontrollably.
Theodore walked toward her.
Jiang You stared in horror at the prop in his hand, repeatedly muttering, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
He kept repeating the words, unable to recall the meaning of 'sorry'.
Suddenly, the school bell rang.
The first-grade teacher asked the children, "What should you say if you do something wrong?"
Xiao Jiangyou and his classmates answered loudly, "Sorry."
I remember now, I remember now. My teacher taught me this in first grade, and I also learned it in college. It's a communication method for maintaining interpersonal relationships and easing conflicts.
The core message is to convey the attitude of "recognizing one's own problems and wanting to mend the other person's feelings."
She had done something wrong, which is why she kept apologizing.
Did she do something wrong?
Was it wrong to want to go home? Was it wrong to want to go back to school...?
Yes, she must have made a mistake, otherwise why would she apologize?
That ring looks so familiar, so familiar.
A thunderbolt flashed through Jiang You's mind; she remembered—it was the one she had woven for Qiu Yun.
They were taken to a small island. She had promised Qiuyun that she would take her back to China and buy her many rings.
Jiang You angrily grabbed the ring.
Theodore had expected Jiang You to attack him, curse him, and beg for mercy, but he never thought of him tearing off the ring. He panicked and tried to stop him, but it was too late.
A grass ring is still just a grass ring, and a very old one at that; it breaks easily with a little force.
The broken piece of the grass ring floated lightly to the ground. Theodore's prop slipped from his hand, and he stared blankly at the lonely grass ring on the ground.
Jiang You was smug, thinking, "You're fast, aren't you? You managed to snag the tickets for Wang Lili."
"Why?" Theodore lowered his eyes, his playful laughter gone. "Why did you break the ring I was given?"
"Yours?" Jiang You rolled his eyes so hard they almost reached the sky: "What do you mean 'yours'? That belongs to Qiu Yun."
"That's mine!" Theodore's voice suddenly rose. "Not Qiu Yun's!!"
“That’s Qiu Yun’s,” Jiang You said, standing up from the ground with absolute certainty. “We were kidnapped together and brought to this island. She likes sweets and would exchange them for her favorite ring. I gave her a grass-woven ring, promising to take her back to China.”
Theodore said vehemently, "That was something we went through together. It was us who were tied up. It was all me, not some Qiu Yun!"
Even as she questioned him, a hint of grievance lingered on her beautiful, delicate face.
Jiang You had a moment of doubt when he saw him like this, but quickly dismissed it: "Qiu Yun is a woman, so what, are you a woman too?"
That's hilarious, absolutely hilarious! Doesn't she even know the difference between men and women? You're seriously underestimating her.
“Derrian Theodore,” Lindbergh Theodore called out sternly.
Theodore remembered what the doctor had said and abruptly stopped talking.
'Her mental state is extremely poor; don't deny the characters she conjures up in her imagination.'
“Brother,” Theodore suddenly burst into tears, hugging Lindbergh Theodore, “Why won’t she stay with us? Why does she always want to run away?”
Why doesn't she listen to me?
Why is she angry with me?
Why don't you want to become our family?
"Brother, I feel so bad. She treated me like this. I feel like I'm going to die."
"That damned Qiu Yun."
"I really, really love her... Brother, I can't accept that she's forgotten me..."
Sensing it, Lindbergh Theodore peered through Theodore's ear towards Jiang You, who was lost in thought.
The sensation of numbness or even pain in the chest.
But it's impossible for them to lower themselves and beg for a girl's love like inferiors.
Their family has continued for a century, with each generation practicing the word "plunder".
This is not an evil that needs to be concealed, but rather a survival rule that their family taught them.
There's no need to pander; just hold onto your interests firmly and stand at the top of the pyramid, and what you want will naturally be delivered to you.
This is their logic for navigating the world.
Arrogance and greed were already intertwined in their blood; they were both greedy for Jiang You's love and arrogantly unwilling to bow down.
Wanting both is the madness of those at the bottom who have nothing.
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