She sighed and was about to look up when she heard a low voice that was particularly clear in the dark night.
"Jiujiu, I'm sorry. I'm in a bad mood tonight and shouldn't have spoken to you so harshly."
"It's okay." Gu Jiujiu just responded in a low voice, her mind was blank now.
"Jiujiu, can you call me Brother Jing like before?"
Gu Jiujiu didn't say anything. She really wanted to know what he meant. Since it was a misunderstanding back then, she also wanted to fight for her own happiness once.
Just like Yingying said, maybe he liked her too, but she had a preconceived notion and thought that he didn't like people younger than him, including her.
"Brother Jing, you said you don't like people younger than you. Does that include me?"
She finally plucked up the courage to ask, and suddenly she felt less depressed.
"Of course not. I brought you, Yingying, and Xiaohe up. It's no exaggeration to say that I raised them since they were young."
When they were young, the three of them often took turns living with four families. They lived with the Lu family the most because the two older brothers in the Lu family would take care of them.
"Jiujiu, what I'm going to say next might scare you." Lu Nanjing deliberately slowed down his pace.
"I don't know when I started to like you. It's not the kind of love a brother has for his sister. Maybe it was on your 16th birthday, or maybe even earlier."
Gu Jiujiu's face was full of astonishment, and all she could think about was Lu Nanjing's words "I'm starting to like you."
"Jiujiu? What's wrong?" Lu Nanjing felt that the girl was not catching up with him, so he stopped and looked at the person standing motionless in the distance, then walked back.
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