Chapter 260 The Dream Ends
Upon hearing this, Zhu Qian's face instantly darkened.
"An accident?" He lowered his brows slightly, his eyes and expression chillingly cold. "How careless could she have been to let you fall like this?"
Zhu Mingyue kept her head down, not daring to look at Zhu Qian at all.
“She really did it by accident…” she stammered, fiddling with her fingers. “She said my dress was very pretty and wanted to try it on, but she didn’t expect that the hem would be torn unexpectedly as soon as she put it on.”
“I was heartbroken about the dress, so I rushed over to check how badly the hem was torn, but Chaochao didn’t want me to see it because she was worried about me. She was going to gently push me away, but I lost my balance and fell to the ground, scraping my elbow.”
"Second brother, please don't overthink it. It's all my fault for being so stupid that I hurt my elbow like this."
"Heh..." Zhu Qian sneered, clearly already overthinking things. "Mingyue, are you sure Zhu Jinzhao didn't do it on purpose?"
"Yes!" Zhu Mingyue nodded, sincerely defending Zhu Jinchao, "Chaochao really didn't mean to!"
"..." Zhu Qian raised an eyebrow and suddenly fell silent.
He threw the alcohol swabs from the tweezers into the trash can next to him, then leaned down slightly and gently blew cool air onto Zhu Mingyue's wound.
Zhu Mingyue tilted her head, carefully observing his expression.
"...Second Brother?"
"Hmm?" Zhu Qian responded to her.
She asked somewhat nervously, "You're not angry with me, are you?"
Zhu Qian chuckled: "Silly Mingyue, why would I be angry with you? I was just thinking about something."
Zhu Mingyue: "What's the problem?"
Zhu Qian looked up at her: "You mean, Zhu Jinzhao accidentally wore your skirt, accidentally tore your skirt, and then accidentally pushed you to the ground, causing you to fall like this?"
"...Huh?" Zhu Mingyue could tell he was being sarcastic, so she didn't dare to respond.
He reached out and touched Zhu Mingyue's head, his coldness replaced by tenderness.
"Silly Mingyue, look how badly you've fallen! Why are you still trying to cover for Zhu Jinchao? Zhu Jinchao has impure intentions, so stop trying to speak well of her."
"Second Brother..." Zhu Mingyue smiled gently, her eyes clearly showing grievance, yet she still tried to explain for Zhu Jinzhao.
"Chaochao has no impure intentions; she really didn't do it on purpose."
"How can it not be intentional?" Zhu Qian said with a stern face. "She clearly has so many dresses in her closet, why did she have to wear yours? Wearing it is one thing, but to make matters worse, she ruined it. Doesn't she know that dress was a gift from your older brother to you when you came home?"
Zhu Qian's words were sharp and incisive, refuting all of Zhu Mingyue's sophistry.
Zhu Mingyue bit her lip in distress, no longer daring to speak.
Zhu Qian: "She knew perfectly well that the dress was a gift your older brother specially bought for you, she knew perfectly well that you had a hard life since you were a child, and that you had worn less than half the number of pretty dresses she had, yet she still deliberately stole your dress and deliberately damaged it! This is clearly bullying you!"
"Sigh..." Zhu Mingyue sighed with red eyes, looking helpless and disappointed.
Zhu Qian looked at her elbow with heartache, his voice tense: "I never realized before that Zhu Jinzhao was so jealous and ruthless! Not only did she lead the way in isolating you at school, but she also stole your skirt and pushed you down. She has disappointed me so much!"
"No!" Zhu Mingyue, standing to the side, shouted sharply, "No! Zhu Jinzhao didn't do that! Don't listen to this person's nonsense!"
"..."
Zhu Qian couldn't hear her words; his eyes were only on another Zhu Mingyue.
"Mingyue." He looked tenderly into Zhu Mingyue's eyes and promised her with certainty, "Don't be sad, your second brother will help you get justice."
"I must apologize to you today."
Zhu Mingyue: "No, don't!"
Although she didn't know how Zhu Qian would make Zhu Jinzhao apologize, her intuition told her that Zhu Jinzhao would definitely be tortured terribly.
"Don't do this!" She kicked aside the medical kit blocking her way, ran to Zhu Qian's side, and knelt down with a "plop".
"Second brother, please don't do this. Zhu Jinchao has done nothing wrong!"
"Hehe..." Zhu Qian chuckled strangely twice before finally responding to her.
He stiffly turned his head, looking at her with a damp and eerie gaze.
"Zhu Mingyue, isn't this what you wanted to see?"
"...What?" Zhu Mingyue's face went blank.
Zhu Qian grinned, revealing a row of neat, sharp teeth: "Zhu Mingyue, Zhu Jinchao has already been killed by you..."
"I...I didn't!" Zhu Mingyue denied in a panic.
Zhu Qian chuckled twice and then said, "He's dead... Zhu Jinzhao has been killed by you..."
"I didn't!!" Zhu Mingyue shouted at the top of her lungs, her voice cracking, "I didn't!!"
"I don't--"
"Bright moon?"
Zhu Jinzhao shook Zhu Mingyue's shoulder and called out to her anxiously, "Mingyue? Mingyue, wake up! We're at the restaurant."
"ah!!!"
Zhu Mingyue screamed and suddenly opened her eyes.
Zhu Qian's eerie, distorted face was gone. Before him, there was only Zhu Jinzhao and a warm, bright sun.
She stared blankly into Zhu Jinzhao's eyes, only to be unexpectedly met with a gentle look of concern.
"Mingyue?" Zhu Jinzhao placed his hand on her shoulder, the tension and worry on his face still lingering.
"Mingyue, did you have a nightmare?"
"..." Zhu Mingyue stared at her blankly, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.
"Mingyue?" She frowned, and cautiously waved her hand in front of Zhu Mingyue's eyes. "Mingyue, are you awake?"
Zhu Mingyue opened her mouth, but at first she couldn't make a sound.
"...Am I...am I asleep?" She managed to utter a sentence, but her voice was completely hoarse.
“Yeah.” Shi Jing leaned against the car door, raising his eyebrows arrogantly. “You fell asleep as soon as you got in the car, and slept all the way from the airport to the restaurant.”
“…Ah.” Upon hearing this, Zhu Mingyue suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Since she was asleep, that means all those scenes were just her dream, right?
"Mingyue, get off the bus." Zhu Jinzhao took a step back to make room for Zhu Mingyue. "It's already one o'clock in the afternoon, we should have lunch."
“…Okay.” Zhu Mingyue nodded blankly, picked up her bag, and got out of the car.
The sun was shining brightly outside the car, and the golden light was so dazzling that Zhu Mingyue could hardly open her eyes.
She had such a vivid dream that even though she was now standing in the sunlight, she still felt a chill run down her spine.
"Let's go." Zhu Jinzhao took her arm and cheerfully led her towards the restaurant.
She paused for a moment, then turned to look at Zhu Jinzhao, who was beaming with smiles.
Wishing you a gentle demeanor and a radiant smile today, exuding warmth from the inside out, unlike the gloomy mood in my dream.
“…Zhao Zhao.” She suddenly stopped and tentatively called out to Zhu Jinzhao.
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